Star. — London, England, 1822-09-19 00:00:00

,w. E\,l\( 1 ; STA It. LONDON. THURSI)Av, SEPTEMBER 19. Ws: STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The market remains stadonary up to this hour, with little or :robustness transacting. Consols for the Account el 3, and for :stoney Si. FOREIGN Emma—The market up this hour is rather slack, with little doing. Chiliau 841, New Spanish 65 to 1 1, Obi 69 to t, New Prussian 84 I, dam, Russian 37i 1, Danish 89, Neapolitan 771, Colombian MI, So ip 661. Private letters from Paris state, that Spanish Bonds had risen there to 691. Lut the next day fell again to 681. STOCK EXCHANGE., ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock has advanced one per cent. in consequence of the meeting of the Directors this forenoon. Pli I.CES OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. 3 per Cent. Cons. 81 1 / 8 81 78 81 1 81 + per Cent. New 102 1 4 A txchequer Bills of El .(:0), 4s. 2s. Ditto small, 4s. 55.-13ank for Acct.24B 25134 Consols for Act. 81 3 / 4 34 3/4. Considerable anxiety was felt in the City for the last few days, respecting the result of the Quarterly fleeting of the Bank Directors, fixed for this day, as it was expected that a reduction in the Interest of Bank Stock, in future, would be announced. The Meeting,, however, took place this forenoon,when the Bank Directors declared the Interest to be the same as before, viz. 5 per Cent. the half-yearly dividend. A Gentleman asked whether the Bank had sustained any lwsb by the reduction,of their discount? and also whether the present dividend of five pet cent. arose from the present profits of ,the Bank ?—The CHAIA .I4 A N replied, that they had examined the affairs, and could answer in the affirmative.—This reply gave general satisfaction. It is reported that the deficiency in the Quarter's Revenue up to the 1-ttli inst. compared vvith'the cor responding Quarter of last year, is £260,000. We have received the Paris Journals of Monday. The foreign intelligence they contain is of little inte test, for we attach no importance to the malicious insi nuations and false assertions of the Austrian Observer, that the cause of Grecian liberty is at an end. Ever since the Greeks fit st drew the sword against their op.. pressors, this Austrian Journal has laboured to throw discredit on their cause, and to represent it as hopeless or abandoned. Victories have been fabricated for the Turks where battles never were fought; while, on the contrary, every instance of the success of the Greeks has either been suppressed or misrepresented. It is nor, we think, improbable that the Turks may have gained some advantage in the Morea, but we have seen, in the cases of France and Spain, as well as South and North America, during their respective ftevolutions, how many defeats a people burning for liberty are able to sustain; in all these instances we have seen them bear revel se., and overcome diffitul ties, which appeared insurmountable; and we repeat what we have more than once asserted, that the Greeks have more to fear from :he Congress at Verona, than from the Divan at Constantinople, and the horde of savages that the Ottoman Porte can let loose upon them. This official organ of the Court of Vienna now contradicts its former assertion that CIIOURSCHID PACIIA had returned to Thessaly, and places him at the head of his principal corps at Corinth, the town and citadel of which, we fear there is little doubt, have been treacherously delivered into the hands of the Turks. The war in Epirus is said to have also been brought to an end by the capture of the town of Suli and of its defender, the grandson of ALI PA CHA, who was made prisoner. This important place is also represented to have been acquired by trea chery. Other accounts, however,,state, that instead of having been defeated, the Suliots had gained some decisive advantages over their enemies. According to the Austrian Observer the case is different, and ONIER BRIONI4 the Turkish Commander in Albania, had nothing tut ther to do than to restore tranquillity and order in that province, which bad ceased to be the seat of hostilities. The domestic news in the French Journals is of a character very unfavourable to the permanence of the misguided Government in that country. Public opinion drove the last French Ministry from power, and it remains to be seen whether their successors, who are more dating in their attacks on public liberty, will be able to keep their seats under such aggravated insults and oppressions as they are guilty of. We have already alluded t . ) the manner in which reason and justice have been violated in the late trials for conspiracy in France. We now learn that M. DRAULT, who :tad been appointed Advocate for General BER-. TON, but who refused to plead because he had not the confidence of his client, and was ignorant of the line of defence he wished_to adopt, has, by the Court at Poitiers, been struck off the list of Advocates. It appears that M. DRAULT was summoned to ap pear before the Cow L CU the 15th instant, but that he did not appear. M. LABADI E, the Advocate-General, restated the circumstances which bad occurt ed, and attributed to M. DRAULT the design of bringing the Court into co:I -nc refereed to the Article of the Decree of of December, Igl4, which declares that 'mate officially appointed to defend a per ' cannot refuse his services, unless the rea being excused or prevented arc approved." i tempt. He 11 the 14th of " the AJvoc son accu se, sous fur hi 4 L The excuses assigaed by M. DaArLT were, however►' not only not approved, bdt forikagy rejected, by se'' veral (lecisious of t tbe Court. Shalt it be said that M. DRAULT did not wish to deprive Munoz; of a pre' tended ground of nullity, which in his opinion might be established inconsequenceof the refusal mallow him the assistance of M. M INA Ra, Advocate of Rochefort, —Suppose that such a nullity exists, an Advocate. officially appointed, pleading against the consent of the accused, and solely in submission to the order of the Coutt, cannot make the accused lose the advan tage of it. Were it not so, it would always be in the power of the Court, in similar circumstances, to destroy, by insidious means, the effect of an pliection of nullity. The Advocate-General concluded by moving that the name cf M.DaAuLr should be erased from the list of Advocates. The COURT, after a long- deliberation, pronounced a very detailed judgment, in which, among other groundsof decision, it is stated that at the first audience M. DRAULT, after the rejection of the excuse which he alleged, had read the conclusions relied on by BERTON, and that, in the course of the proceedings, he had made observations on the depositions of the witnesses, and thus formally announced the intention of obeying the Court; that the conduct since held by M. DRAULT had evidently, and still has, no cther object than that of occasioning scandal; that he had been wanting in that respect which is due to the Judges, and had neglected the duties imposed on him by his profession and the oath he had sworn. The Court, therefore, in pursuance of the application of the ADVOCATE-GENERAL, orders that the name of M. DRAULT be erased from the list of the Advocates of the Royal Court of Poitiers, and condemns him to pay the expense of the citation issued against him.— The proceedings of the French Government against the Public Journals become every day more tyran nical. The Government compelled the Newspapers to . insert the falsehoods of M. de CABRERE, the Sub- Prefect of Sall mUr, against M. BEWSAMIN CONSTANT, but no sooner did that Gentleman contradict the ca lumnies on his character, than the Police seizes on every Journal that dares to insert his letter. On Sun day the Constitutionnd, the Courier. Francais, the Journal du Commerce, and the Pilots were teized at their respective offices. The same spirit pervades the dipartments. The Court of Assize at Boutdeauz has just sentenced a bookseller of that town to one year's imprisonment and a fine of 500 francs, for selling a Life of Bona park, in one pact of which was an extract froin ,a journal called the Independent, which was published during the hundred days. The affair was pleaded with closed doors. It is stated that a memorial on the Decree of the Court of Assize, against the four Journals condemned for the account given of the proceedings on the Ro chelle conspiracy, is in the course of preparation, and will be signed by the principal Lawyers of the Paris bar. The appeal in Cassation was notified on Satur day last to the Clerk of the Court. A letter from Poitiers, dated the 13th, mentions that Berton, Caffe, Sauge, Henri Fredin, Senechault, and Jaglin, have suffered two of the three days al. lowed them for making an appeal to the Court of Cassation to pass away, without observing that km • mality ; but it was expected they would appeal the next day. These six convicts were first confined in the same prison, with the necessary precautions for preventing any of them from committing an act of desperation. The incessant lamentation of Sene chault made it necessary to remove him to a separate apartment. Berton maintains his tranquillity. Ricque, Ledier, Alix, and the others, found guilty of misprision, appeared determined not to appeal.— The three former were allowed to see their wives. FUNDS AT PARIS, SEPT. 16.—. Five per Cents. opened at 92 f. 35 c. closed At 92 f. 25 c. This forenoon we received Frankfort Papers to the Bth instant. The following are extracts : VIENNA, SEPTEMBER 5. We mentioned yesterday the alarming progress which the plague was making latterly in Turkish Albania. Letters which we have received to-day from the frontiers of Dalmatia contain the melan choly confirmation of this intelligence, and add, that the contagion had spread also in Epirus and the Merea. All the inhabitants of Joannina bad left that city, and dispersed themselves about the surrounding country. This has probably given rise to the report that all the inhabitants of that city had been swept away by the contagion., Two of the fugitives who came to Delving), where they died the day after their arrival, brought the plague to that town. All the lonian Islands are placed under a fifteen days quarantine with respect to Corfu. In all the ports of the Adriatic the quarantine regulations are enforced with the more rigour in proportion as the' danger of infection is greater from the fugitives, who crowd from all parts of the Greek Continent to the lonian Islands, and especially to Zante. Meru►, Sett'. 4.—lletalliques,S3i—Bank Sharp, 1177 e. gun. &—Metalliques,B3l—Bank Shares. SM. FRANKFORT. IMPTESIBEIt 10. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Clstrence arrived to-day. Their Highnesses the. Land• grave and Landgravine of Hesse Homburg bad cone here to receive them. • - Hih Serene Highness Prince William of Brunswick Oels arrived on the 9th. The Allgeoncine Zeitung, which has 'litho's° given .ity such favourable - net; from the. Greeks, father's house," o#'tbat while « ignorance is bliss 'tis rromietters from Samlin, Sem, and Ititoglia, folly to be wise." We wonder it has not occurred to now publishes accoents of A very diterent nature, this magnanimous Monarch to have a cordon (a sani w►hich sonfitm in a great degree the stateinonts of sari cordon, if he likes so to call it) along his frog ' the Austrian Observer, in it Number's of the 4th and tier, to prevent contraband opinions as well as con.; sth, respecting the Almost unresisted advance of the trab4nd goods from entering his dominions. , rksrthe dissolution and Sight of the Greek Senate,' : ?Turks, ... &c.—A letter from Trieste, of the-Ist September, in the Allgemeine Zeitung, says—(4 The disasters of the Greeks are confirmed :.their cause appears to be lost : they fly on all sides to escape slaughter. Theletters from Coats, of the 19th August, comtaiu details which make one shudder." At a late hour this forenoon we received Dutch and Flanders Mails, bringing Papers to the 18th instant. The Russian Minister, Count NRSSELRODE, arrived. at Vienna on the 4th instant. Letters from Cambray state, that several regiments of Infantry as well as some Artillery were on their way from French Flan ders for the line of the Pyrennees. An article from Aix-la-Chapelle, of the Bth instant, says—" It is re ported that the attention of foreign Powers has been attractedby the existence in some of the Swiss Can tons of secret associations of different denominations, especially of that called The Soci:ty of Regenera tion: It was added that similar associations were also organized on the frontiers of the Milanese." DOVER, SEPTEMBER 18. His Grace the Duke of WELLINGTON, who tai been appointed to attend the apploaching Congres , , arrived here, on his way to Vienna, about half pas: eight yesterday evening: He was saluted at day break this morning by the guns of the Citadel ; and about eleven o'clock embarked on board the Arrow, Government steam-packet, for Boulogne, under like salute. Great numbers of persons had a-serribied to witness his Grace's departure, who cheered hns when the vessel left the Quay, and again when 1!:e shot out of the Port. We learn, by private letters from Vienna, that the Emperor ALEXANDER Peached that capital on the 6th instant, and that, on the following day, he sewed himself in public, in company with the Emperor of AUITRIA. His Imperial Majesty of Russtis had, previously to quitting St. Petersburg!), given his sub jects one or two remarkable proofs of his anxiety for their welfare ; the first was in interdicting Freemasorts Ledges (as has been already stated), causing their innocent paraphernalia to be sold or kept in secret, and making every person in the public service sign a written declaration that he does not, nor will in future, belong to any Freemasons' Lodge or Secret Society whatever; and all persons refusing to sign such de claration are to be dismissed from the public service. —The Imperial Rescript, which is too remarkable a document, and too characteristic of the liberal minded head of the Holy Alliance, not to be put upon record, is as follows : si UKASE, LODOESAND OTHES SICSET sr lug ntrillUAL MIJINITT TO TNT XINISTZ " Prrranuncn, Atm= 13. E Corner Prrza Ninowtrsar--The troubles and disorders arising in oeveral States from the existence of certain Secret So cieties, ene of which, under the name of Freemasons, had at lira the appearance of being established for benevolent purposes, and others of which have always covertly been occupied with folitical affairs, have induced somb Governments to keep a watchful eye on their proceedings, and finally to prohibit them altogether. As my earnest attention, constantly devoted to the effectual preservation of the Empire from everything which might tend to injure it, is more particularly directed to that object at a time like the present, when unfortunately so many States rre sent to us the melancholy example of most mischievous conse quences still experienced from the prevailing philosophic absur dities, I have thought fit, for the public welfare, to order, with resiect to the beforementioned Secret Societies, what follows; 1. AU Secret Societies, as well as Freemason Lodges, under whatever names they may subsist, shall be shut up, and their future re-establishment is prohibited. 2. All Members of the said &Kitties are required, as soon as the present Ukase shall come to their kbowledge, to bind them selves, by a written declaration, never hereafter, under any pre- text, to connect themselves, either within the empire or abroad, with any Secret Society, however plausible may be the name assumed b y such Society. 3. As it does not become Officers in service to bind themselves by any other oaths besides that which the laws require them to take, the Ministers and Heads of Departments in both residences are desired to call upon all persons under their jurisdiction, to make a sincere declaration, as to whether they belong to any Freemason Lodge or other Secret Society within or without the empire, and to state expressly that to which they do belong. 4. A particular written document must be required from all who are members of the before-mentioned societies, declaring that they will discontinue all connexion with the same; and those who refuse to subscribe such a declaration shall be dis missed the service. 5. The Commanders-in-Chief In the different Governments, and the Civil Governors, are required to take especial care-1, That under no pretext whatever any Lodges or Secret Societies be established or allowed to subsist; 2. That all Officers on enter ing on service shall pledge themselves in writing, according to the terms of Articles 5 and 4, that they belong to no Lodges or Secret Societies, and will belong to none. If this pledge be not given, they cannot be employed in our service. I am persuaded that you will neglect nothing that may tend to the complete execution of my orders, and that you will com niunicate this Ukase to the other Ministers, in order that they may all co-operate in the accomplishment of the same object. (Signed) ALEXANDER. Another instance of the paternal regard of the Au tocrat of all the Russias is an order prohibiting the No. bility of Podolia and Ukrania from travelling abroad. Those to whom passports had been delivered before the order was issued, are to return them, and the en forcement of this decree is to be retroactive even with regard to passports granted in the month of July.— Now this is really the most singular decree we almost ever met with. In England our Tories have a toast, " The land we live in; those who. do nse.like it may I:ave it !" but the Emperor of RUSSIA. will not afford his sub jects this privilege; he will riot even suffer them to go in quest of some Canaan, but is determined that they shall live and die under his own paternal domi nation. But what need he fear a few Noble:nen from Podolia or Ukrania travelling as far as himself? unless, indeed, he is of opinion with the Turks, that " he who never saw the world thinks it. like his " #ok ?If! SUPORIPSION or SoCirrizfl, AMOR or TIS mum& THE ARMY. APPOINTMENT A N/1 REMOVAL, (Mitre= sr Or.rvt) OF STAFF OFFICERS. An Officer •hall not be alla.t•ed to fill any Staff appointment (that of Aide-de-Camp excepted), until he has been four years in the service. A SubAhern Officer shall not he considered efigible to hail the appvirtment of Aide-de-Comp, until he has been present with his Regiment at least one year. Aides-de-Camp (excepting those attending. his MADE TT 3nd the COMMANDZIFIN-CISIEO must not be elf, ctive Field Mean' of Regiments. The appointments of Assistants Adjutant-General, and As sistants Qnartermaster•Gineral, shall he held exclu•ivcly by Of ficers having the rank of Field Officer; the appointments of De puty Assistants Adjutant-General, and Deputy Assistants Quir termaster-General, shall he held by ()dicers having the tank of Captain ; or by Subaltern Officers, who havii,g been four years iu the Army, 'and having a perfect knowledge of their Regimen tal Duties, may be specially recommended for such appointments.. An Officer under the rank of Captai is not eligi!)lr to hold the situation of Major of Brigade; nor must effiTtiv- Of ficers of Regiments be employed as Majors of lhigade, or as Fort or Town Majors. Officers for the Staff of the Army are to be selzcted mom. sively from the Regular Foi - ct.=, ;Intl no Regioodat or ii i i ta k„, l shall be required to furnish more tl.an two Captains and two Subalterns fur Staff situations. An appointments of A itlefi.de- Camp, BrigAe-M tjors, anti other Staff Officers, are to be notified in Orders. General Officers in command are expected to he extrenielr circumspect in their recommendation of Of for Staff ap pointments of any kind ; and are respon.ilile that th-: Offs s, in whose behalf they intereA thenttelves, are, by their previous personal services, as well at by their acquirement,' and cha racter, qualified to discharge, with advantage to the S. rvi..te, the duties attached to the st-tion for which they are recommended. Officers in the command 4:f Regiment.; or Battalions are re sponsible that no Offi:er Is permitted to he absent from his gimental duty for the purpose of holding a titu.;Sil upon the Staff of the Army. until he shall have attaii.ed a complete kaow ledge of bis duty as a Regimental Officer. Officers holding taff situations in Great Britai...a !reknit (those only excepted who are appninted by his NlArrsie s spe cial authority) shall, on their regiments being ised k ; e d in , f ore i gn service, relinquish their situations on the Staff, in ortler to em bark with their regiments._ Officers holding Staff situations in foreign gar sons (there only excepted who are appointed by hi, Alsa.:s•n•'s special authority) shall, on their regimcnis.qiiitting tlie station, relin quish their situations on the Staff, in order to accompany their regimens. Officers serving unrin the Staff of the Army at home are not to be removed without the authority of the Comminder-in- Chief. Those serving upon the Staff of foreign stitions are not to be removed without the previous 4utholity of the General Officers conurianding. The latest intelligence from the Arctic. °dean, which is to the 15th of August, states, that a firth and impenetrable barrier of ice prevented the Davis's Straits fishing-ships from going t ) the westward, which is perhaps the cane why we have heard no thing of the Discovery Ships. Flom the accumula tion of ice,. however, in the mouth of the Straits, there is a greater probability, nay, almost the cer tainty, of the sea being open towards Lancaster S bond, and to the westward. It is pro;iab!e that by t ;is time the barrier k broken up, and tliT ice floated into the Atlantk. The appearance of such a Tian tity augurs a severe winter last season in these part , , but an open spring and summer, which had broken up the ice to the westward and in the bottom of the bee. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of KENT, who has for some time enjoyed the salubrious air of Rams gate, is daily endearing herself to the inhabitants by her condescension and kindness. Her Royal High ness was graciously pleased, last week, to permit Mr. PERRY, the proprietor of the elegant new Hot and Cold Baths, to place the arms of her Royal Highness upon, and to designate his Establishment the Royal Kent Baths. Mrs. Courrs, with her usual benevolence, has, it seems, settled a comfortable annuity on the veteran WEWITZER, seho had but a very small income from the Theatrical Fund, the claims upon which are ex tensive. WEWITZER was au excellent actor in suitable characters, and always respected by the theatrical community ; who, of course, will rejoice to hear that he has obtained such a liberal provision, to cheer his advanced period of life. RICHMOND THRATRE.—Wednesday evening, Mr. KL A NERT and Miss SYDNEY appeared in the charac ters of Lord and Lady Townley, in the favourite Co medy of the Provoked Husband, and sustained the characters with the most excellent effect. The enter tainments of theevening concluded with the humorous Farce of Monsieur Tonson, which afforded infinite entertainment. This Piece, our Readers know, is founded on a famous tale, often recited, some years since, by Mr. FAWCETT, of Covent-Garden Theatre, and was written by Jo►l ).1 TAYLOR, Esq. Propi ietor of the Sun Newspaper. The House was crowded. The Duke of PORTLAND has arrived at his scat, Welbeck, Notts, from Scotland. Earl Wu firwonni and the Duchess of DORSET have left Knowle, Kent, for their seat, Backhurst, Susses. The Marquis and Marchioness of CORNwALLIS have left Swindle-i Lodge, Berks, for Broom Hall, Suffolk. Yesterday, a little girl, three years of age, the danghter of Mr. GUY, Pond -court, Commercial-road, dui ing the temporary absence of her mother, drank some boiling water out of a tea-kettle, which scalded it in the throat - in a most dreadful manner. The pew child lingered till this Wining, and expired is great agony. 1 I „