Star. — London, England, 1823-05-20 00:00:00

'PAPBBt . itfiTURIL =TRACT& NEW YORK, APRIL is. Intelligence from various quarters indicate. preach of an important emu in our national and particularly in our foreign relations. one hand, the occurrence which has lately taken place at Porto Rico, in Commodore Porter's squadron, may involve the United States in difficulty with Spain. The death of Lieutenant Coate cannot and will not pass unavengedi In the prevarkating letter of Torre, we find no satisfactory palliation of the insult offered to the American flag, and the deliberate murder of a gallant Anteriean - Officer. On the other hand, the violation of our commercial rights by Russia, upon the Noith-west coast, will probably lead to a comm. itersy with that Power. The Ukase of the Czar, which was supposed to be too absurd in its pretensions to be carried into execution, has ceased to be a dead letter, and a system of depredations has been com menced, which cannot be tamely submitted to by our Government : but, armed with justice and possessing posier, the United States have nothing to fear ; and our Cabinet will doubtless be prepared to meet the crisis with a becoming spirit of firmness and moderation. Aran. 15.—Lave PROM LAGUAYIRA.-By the ar rival last evening of the schooner General Soublette, in 16 days from Laguayra, ave have received a file of the Venixitela Iris, printed at Caraccas, to the 20th of March ; and the following letter, which will put the reader in possession of accurate information of the. state of things in that quarter of the Colombian Re public.—Evcning Post. " Sandy Hook, April 13, on board the schooner General Soublette. • 4 4 We sailed from Laguayra on the 28th ult. The fleet under Commodore Daniels were lying in Barba. ; recta Bay, intercepting every vessel bound in..andilit.l of Porto Cabello. Their force consisted of the Boli-1 var (flag ship), of 25 guns; Constitution, 23 ditto; *aria Francisco, 22 ditto ; Patriota, 18 ditto ; and El Vencedor, 14 ditto. The Constitution has lately been detached to cruize in the West Indies, and, from one of her prizes sent into Laguayra, we learn that she has made several captures, principally of pri vateers. The extraordinary and unexpected acquittal of the Panchita, has given a., , jew impulse to those, privateering, or rather (to use more appropriate lan.. guage) buccaneering gentry, and increased as well, their numbers as their activity. " From deserters arrived a short time ago in the camp of General Paez, there exist very great hopes of the speedy surrender of Porto Cabello on account of the want of provisions ; the troops are on short al lowance, and evince a strong disposition to mutiny ;, ff therefore depends greatly on the vigilance of Com modore Daniels (who acts in concert with the land fcrces), by intercepting all supplies, to ensure full and complete success. A frigate of 44 guns, con tracted for by this Government, is daily looked for. from England; she will be immediately attached to t . :e blockading squadron in Barbarecta Bay. " General Paez, a few weeks since, received pri. Irate orders from Pi esident Bolivar to leave his army under the command of General Soublette, and repair forthwith to Apure, to aid in quelling an insurrection which threatened to be se: ious and alarming. General Paee's character is that of a bold, efficient, and intel ligent Officer—his an ival was most opportune—he succeeded in restoring order and tranquillity by exe cuting 25 of the ringleaders. Ile had arrived on the 26th ult. at Caraccas, or. his return to resume the command of his army in the vicinity of Porto Cabello. " The town and fortresssof Maracaibo remain in the possession of Morales; who is eagerly and closely watched by General Montillo, with a select corps of seven thousand men, in connexion with the fleet under Commodore Belouche. The situation of Morales is considered extremely critical." By an official statement in the Caraccas paper of 13th March, which we received this morning, it ap pears that the amount of duties received at the Cus tom-house of the port of Laguayra, in the month of January, 1523, was 69,173 dollars. The New York Eeening Post of the 21st April contains a lung correspondence between the Ameri can Commodore Porter, and the Commandant of Porto Rico, on the subject of the death of Lieutenant Cccke, commanding the American schooner Fes,, who, as was announced some time ago, was killed by a discharge of a cannon born Fort Moro, in conse quence of persisting to enter the port after a previous discharge with a blank cartridge to prevent him. The Commandant,. who was absent, attributes the rigorous execution of a positive order by the second in command, to the alarms excited by the previous buccaneering expedition against the island, from. an American port, under the command of the adveri- Inter Ducodray Holstein, as well as to rumours of other intended designs against Porto Rico. Com modore Pot ter is very lofty in his expostulation, and the eSpanish Commander very deprecatory. It is satisfactory to read a letter of thanks from the officers of the American to those of the British squadron, off the same island, gratefully acknowledging their kind ness and sympathy in the occurrence of the forego. ing melancholy mistake. comedian, received some injury, and Mr. Price, the 'manager of the New York Theatre, had his leg broken. Those Gentlemen were going from Philadelphia to New York in a private carriage. We copy the above for the purpose of correcting the mistake which the Editor of the Philadelphia Gazette has made, and as suring the friends of Mr. Mathews and Mr. Price, that no such accident had happened to them. They 'were in a private carriage, a short distance behind the Union coach,_on which a tree fell, and crushed to fir a Mr.Burslern of the Circus, and not Mr. Tat loll, as has been stated. Mr. Mathews and Mr. Price are both now in this city perfectly well. Mr.Mathewi Plaices his appearance to-morrow evening at our theatre, in the characters of Bailie Nicol Jarvie, Ca k6 Qaotem, and John Lamp." LIEUTENANT CocKE.—ln the Spanish account of the circumstances which led to the death of this Offi cer, it is stated that the Captain-General was absent at the time of the arrival of the squadron off Porto- Rico, and the Lieutenant who commanded in his ab sence was of opinion that it would be improper that the squadron should be permitted to enter until his return, and give orders accordingly. At six o'clock in the morning he sent an Adjutant to one of the sloops that had entered the harbour on the preceding evening, to request her Captain to go to the Go. vernment and arrange measures by which the squa dron could be inforined that they should not enter. An attention to this request was, however, omitted till late in the day. In the meantime Lieut. Coots got under way, and was entering the harbour, when a on was fired at her without ball, to deter her from advancing. This being disregarded, another gun, loaded with ball, but aimed aloft, was discharged. But as this also failed to produce the intended effect, several shots were directed at her, one of which killed the Captain. When the Captain-General arrived, orders were given to permit all the vessels• of the squadron to enter which might desire it ; and suitable demonstrations of regret were made on account of the circumstance which had occurred. —lt is an unfortunate circumstance, but it is possible that Lieut. COCKE may have been more resolute than prudent. Prudence is as important as any of the car dinal virtues L but we have seen men who appeared to consider an attention to its wholesome suggestions as an evidence of extreme weakness. We are appre hensive that while the Spaniards were too pertinacious, the Lieutenant was a little too rash. ; Thomas Maklaid, before-his depat. with 4 1 r Graham Mow, sent 'is the Cambrian rrisateletheAtelg were thin relive 4, an 4 political .were assigned to this relssitau tptaio Hamilton had orders to claim of an English merchantman which had been taken by Hydriot corsairs; and the last let ters from Zante say that, on their refusal to deliver up the vessel, he had burned three Hydriot vessels. Hitherto the greatest tranquillity prevails on the opposite coast, as well as in all Albania, Thessaly, and Epirus. Since the retreat of the Turkish troops I.om Mitsolunghi the insurgents have not attempted and we do hear of an- any new enterprise, . not , iy prepa rations for defence. They seem to be wholly occu pied with their divisions. Maurocordatp, it is true, has gone to the Morea to take the place of President, which has been given him ; but k is certain that he ieft Missolunghi with the intent of speedily re 'turning to Italy. 44 Several letters affirm that the plague has broken out at Napoli di Romania ; but some persons say that the Senate, residing there, has purposely spread this report, in order to keep away visitors whose presence would be unwelcome. At all events, the sitar ion of that place, and of the whole surrounding country, is deplorable. The citadels of Corinth, Coron, and Mo don, as well as Patras and the forts on the Gulf of Lepanto, are in the possession of the Turks. Accord ing to the last aceounts, the greater part of the Turkish troops that left the city of Corinth for want of sub sistence, escaped the massacre at Vostizza, are said to have arrived at Patras. 44 From Patras we learn that the Pacha of Scutari has now declared that he is really ready to act in the service of the Porte with a considerable army of Al banians. Notwithstanding all that has been related for some months past of the defection of some iso lated tribes, of new movements among the Sußots, &c. nothing of the kind has yet happened ; and it is certain that the majority of these warlike tribes has no inclination whatever to combat for the Greeks, whose sentiments they have never participated.— But if it is desired that they should serve well, the first thing necessary is to pay them well—Point cr Ar gent, point d'Arnantes. Some persons make the number of these troops enrolled by the Pacha of Scu tari amount to 25,000; others state that it is much greater. The number will chiefly depend on the pe cuniary means which the Porte may place at the dis posal of the Pacha. It is said that great preparations are also making at Larissa." CONSTANTINOPLE, APRIL 10. It is generally asserted here, that the Greeks will not negotiate with the Porte except on the basis of their entire independence. Lord Strangford appears to endeavour to effect an arrangement. The nego tiations with Persia are not near to a termination. The Porte is said even to have declined the medii tion of Lord Strangford.. The new Finnan, regu lating the trade of the Black Sea, is very disagreeable to the Franks, as it is nearly equivalent to a toll on the passage of the Dardanelles, and is likely to be a vast hindrance to the commerce of all foreign nations. It is stated, in a ps ivate letter from the neighbour hood of St. Sebastian's, dated the 9th inst. that the French,_ having found it necessary to give farther protection to the communications along the greit road from Irun to Vittoria, had for that purpose withdrawn part of the force employed in the blockade of St. Sebastian's. On the night of the Bth the gar rison made a sortie, repulsed the besiegers, and took some prisoners. Several new leaders of Constitu tional guerillas have begun to distinguish themielves in this part of Spain. Mendoza, formerly the aid de-camp of Porlier, is one of these commanders. Colonel Pablo, otherwise named Chapalangara, is another. He makes excursions along the road which leads from Pampeluna to Vittoria, by the way of Salvatierra. One of the sons of the Conde de Espe letta, formerly Viceroy of Navarre, has also put him self at the head of a guerilla. An article in the Dutch Papers, dated Vienna, May 3, says—" It is affirmed, that his Majesty the Emperor, on the repeated representations of the Mi nister of Finance, has determined on a still further and considerable reduction of the army, by which the hopes of peace are of course con&rmed." Mr. MUFFIN, King's Messenger, arrived last night about twelve o'clock, with Dispatches from Sir CUARLRS STUART, our Ambassador at Paris, which Mr. DamPim left on Sunday evening. Yesterday the KING received a visit from the Duke of CLAanics. His MAJESTY is going on very well. Last night the Duke and Duchess of CLARZECE left town for Bushey Park. Yesterday, at one o'clock, Prince Leopous received visits from the Duke and Duchess of cLARENC% the Duchess of Kul?, accompanied by the Princesses IFityroate and FgoDost. The Royal party partook of .a dejeune. Yesterday Prince LEOPOLD had .a numerous grind dinner party, to meet their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Yoax and Duchess of KENT. Among the "company were— Ms Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Hertford, Mr. and Mrs. Canning, Lord and Lady Gwydyr, the Duke of Wellington, Lord Lowther, &c. &c. Their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of CLARRNCE and gm= yesterday visited the Exhibition of ►' Espinoza hedians, in Piccadilly. sword from his cane and stabbed the mate in may s to say remit. Sir *4 l ' , • -'. b"? .. iltriAmos." 7• . • litsaillton with the places—it is not gated vtileter iste \ taily or net. to o t coacert w i i We imps a* pie in consinunicating the fol! : Tt .. - o id - reports II , liiing from die Philactelskialtlaiette of the icates the sp.'. eth,a/A e t 5 e e ng to ous , f ig n ;O t i w m ATHaws: __ jetts of all kinds .1 e k tional affairs, " We regret to learn, that b_r_a fall of a tree s near l it seems that Cap Ms. On the New Brunswick . on Sinn fir litsc-ficr. Ma th ews; the 1 the restitution of LOSS OF ANOTIIER STEAM-BOAT ON THE MISSISSIPPI. The steam-boat Alexandria, bound up the Missis sippi, with 40 cabin-passengers, and 30 or 40 slaves, besides a valuable cargo of merchandise, encountered a quantity of drift-wood on the night of the Ist of February, which knocked off three of her boards on the larboard side under the first birth next to ths wheel, and caused her to leak so badly, that the Cap tAin, for the safety of the passengers, put about and let her drive down the stream, with the intention of running on a sand-bar, about eight miles below. She gained the sand-bar in a sinking condition, and it is supposed that had she been five minutes later she must have gone down, without any hope of escape for those on board, two of the passengers having, for their own security, taken possession of the long-boat and quitted the vessel in it. The passengers were all however safely landed, though very little of the cargo was preserved. An unfortunate circumstance occurred before the vessel was completely abandoned: one of the passengers, who remained behind to attend to some property he had on board, remarked to the mate that the vessel ought to be secured by a cable ; to which the mate replied, that it was none of his (the passengen) business. Some irritating words on both sides followed, till at last the passenger drew a THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, MAY 20, i S2S. Wait-Tussoar.—Holiday at the Bank. TEM FUNDS. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The Stock Exchange and Foreign Market are open; but, up to this hour, very little business is doing. Consols opened at 781 to 79, at which price they rennin steady, with a heavy Market. It is reported that one dour principal Papers has been prohi bited at Paris. FOREIGN FUNDS. Current Prices :—Spantsh Bonds opened at 361 to 361, lowered to 35e i 36, Chili= 661, New Spanish 36, New Prussian 82•1, Russian 78% to 781, Danish 90 to 901, Colombian 66/, Nea politan 741. Visalia, Mar s..—:lletalliques 81 3-16—Bank Shares 694.. N 6.--Metalliques 81 7-16—Bank Shares 895 44. We have all along discredited the rumours which s-ere set afloat respecting the determination of the Allied Powers to aid the designs of France on Spain by means of an armed force. It may, as we stated yesterday, have been a subject of deliberation with them whether they would do so; but we are satisfied that no resolution to that effect has yet been come to, and do not think it likely that. there ever will. With respect to Austria and Prussia at least, we have as surances, from a quarter of the highest authority, that whatever may be the course which events may take in Spain, these Powers are resolved to go along with England in the line of policy which it may be deemed proper to observe. Frankfort Papers to the 13th inst. reached us this forenoon. The only intelligence of interest they con tain relates to the Greeks. The following are extracts : VIENNA, MAY 6. The latest reports from Constantinople do not bring anything very remarkable. A short time before the departure of the Courier, the Porte had recei►ed in formation of the armaments of the Pacha of Scutari. The preceding days, several frigates and Corvettes had been launched. The Sultan personally stewed the greatest activity, and often passed several hours with the Captain Pacha. Oa the 10th, he unexpectedly appeared in the Council of Ministers, *here he re mained four hours. This excited the more surprise; as be had lost the night before his youngest sop. Prince Achmed. He has now only one son, who is ten years of age: An account from Corfu, of the Ilth Apnl, 00.2- 4 , When Sir Thomas Maitland arrived at Zante, where he stopped two days, he found an agent fn. Missolunghi, who was said to be sent on an import ant mission by the principal Chiefs of the Insurgents. Sir Thomas Maitland appointed Captain Hamilton to confer with him. The next day a report was spread that the English Government had promised special protection to the Insurgents. But it was soon found that these reports were without foundation, and we here know positively that these interviews did not lead • ;teitir . ~. ,2. . _ . ij . Cleopatr , the • _ stated a private letter from Paris tha t CHAPPE, director of the telegraph, the son oldie i s ., ventor, has been displaced because he refused no r m hiename to some dispatches which were intended te be published, but which were not trausmitted in the form which it plca , ed the Ministry they should asturoe. MINA is now in the scene of his frrmex exploits. Surrounded by hostile armies during the last war, -his deeds were but known in part. How often %rem corps of 15 and 20.000 men rapidly formed by th e French, in order to overwhelm him! They never could bring him to action. They covered ?Inane and Arragon, too, with castles, as they did the rest of Spain, on the system of the Moors. Mix* reduced them by regular siege; he opened trenches; made breaches; stormed and carried their forts. Huta had his battering-guns too, in the last war. They trere buried in the mountainswhen in danger; they were disinterred when wanted. A terrible volcanic eruption took place inJanuari last in the island of Java. Four villages were burnt, and two buried in the ashes. Sunday last, a scene of a peculiarly interesting de scription presented itself at Sheepshead, neat Ser. field, when a sermon was preached by the side oft small rivulet, near that town, and the solemn ordi. nance of believers baptism was administered to eight persons, on their profession of faith in the &noes SAvioun. The concourse of spectators was beyond precedent in that neighbourhood, being estimated et nearly four thousand. The Society Arti S4utifera, of Amsterdam, mg on the 14th inst. to celebrate-dre anniversary el do discovery of Vaccination by the immortal Junta M. Van der Breggen, President of the Society, made an animated address, in which he did merited justice to the illustrious deceased, whose bust, covered with a veil, stood before him. In the middle of his dis course, he took off the veil, and placed on the bask the Civic Crown. The American Society for ameliorating the condi.' lion of the Jews have advertised for 15 or 20,001 acres of land, for the purpose of forming a settle ment of such Jews as will renounce their ancient faith, and adopt that of the New Testament. A batch of new Peers having just been made, a Lady of rank was not sure whether she was in the habit of visiting (that is, exchanging cards) with one .of the new Peeresses ; and she referred to the footman in waiting, who was accustomed to deliver such earth. " Do I visit Lady H. r was the question ; to which the servant replied, " Your Grace has not visited her since the Creation r Tan SEDATR COMMONIR.--A Member of Parrim ment never spoke in the House of Commons btu once, when, in the middle of a debate, a certain noisy Mem ber, looking accidentally at him, bellowed, 0 Beer, bear, hear r to which he calmly replied," Inner do anything else, Sit." The answer immediately got the applause of the House. The celebrated Mr. DUNNING having once to et amine an unfortunate gentleman, who by unexpected losses had suffered imprisonment for his debts is ela King's Bench, ventured to ask him, in a tone badge i ng, as the gentleman thought, upon contempt,W he went to prison ? a To avoid, said the wine* gravely, a the well-known impertinence of Dal% STRONG REASONS AGAINST MARRIAGE.--gg Sir, do you ever intend to marry r-.. No, I camel say I do, as I never was accustomed to a wife. I ant not much inclined to matrimony ; for, throegh ita whole course of my life, I have never found anytime agree with me but what I am accustomed to.* The New Edition, just published, of Maillal . Ad* CAMTAN'S very interesting Memoirs of Marie nette is 'embellished with an additional Portrait, and very striking Likeness of that unfortunate Qum The Sketches of the Irish Bar, Four of which here appeared in the New Monthly Magnine, buret:cited. an extraordinary interest in Dublin: the Fifth Sketch. which will appear in the Number for June I, Will contain, we understand, a Memoir of the SolicitaP General, Mr. Joy. The merchants of the City who have had proper seized in South America, by the different Insures Governments, to an immense amount, and from the various changes which have taken place, were env ble to obtain any redress, are put into the higbeit spirits, by the orders which have been transmitted te the - British Admiral, Sir THOMAS HARDY, which VS to demand restitution of all property seiaad, any exception, provided it can be proved so Irbil; to British subjects.—/'sfelic Lzdger. , From a Parliamentary Return respecting Balk' ' refits, fi appears that, on an average of the du alt years, the debts of English bankrupts amounted. the amazing SUM of 43,4564112 a-year. The diet. dends fell short of £4500, little more than bail' crown the hundred pounds. The dead Jessie VW than 15 per cent. upon the income ham traded inerl sort, which was assessed for the Property Tsai. • • ILd ter al • : tt SIEGE OF BAHIA. The following was this morning posted at t.ton,', l 111 iXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM BREST, DATED VAT 1171 I arrived here this day in the French frigate Cleopatra, from Bahia, in 53 days. When I lei; Fr the siege of that city was still continued*bv the B r a. y zilians, under the comm a nd o f G eneral Labetat, and its defence by the Portuguese, under General Madeira; o r dd A Brazilian squadron h a d sa il e d from Rio Janeir o , tth un and a Portuguese one from Bahia, and both were • Tt the neighbourhood of the latter place, Fresh prisvi. o rd d sions of every kind were ver y d ear at Bahia, which, added to the stagnation of trade, was producing gr eat Dr misery and want among the lower classes of society." T "%irk A letter from Mr. BIRKBECE, of a recent iateol i t t trMil presents his settlement in the Illinois as continuin im I be favoured with health, and in a thriving conditiott, ton A letter, dated Marseilles, the 6th instant, Say ; len . ; according to accounts recently received from Tuni c 1 the Bey had given orders for two Ambassadors t o s 'embark immediately—the o ne f or L on d on, wad t h e 'F; t rs other for Copenhagen. 0 Letters received from Seville, dated the Bth i v , she state that end to theallwas contracttranquil twhcitirei, , A tl i n i t c h w e N C A o t r u tes for il rstt put a n loan, and had given fresh powers t o agents M E q . tr Yt land to negociate for a new loan on the best term s which can be obtained. It is stated in a private letter from Paris tn.. r. I'i' 77 0.100 1 at•