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i 1 , THE EVENING STAR.- LONDON. SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1821. TUE FUNDS. ?MC' ES 07 STOCKS THIS DAY AT ON O . CLOCK Dank Stock 223 1 / 2 ‘22:: Y 4-3 per Cent. Reduced 71 1 4 3 per Cent.Cons.7 2l / 4 Y I -4 per Cent. 89% 3 / 4 sper Ct. Navy 107 3 A 3 / 4 —Long Anns. 18 3 / 4 Eschequer Bills 6s. 4s. ss. pr.—Cons. for Acct. 725. The Paris Papers of Wednesday arrived this fore noon. The Journal des Debals quotes a Royal Or dnance, which has been just issued, by which 40,000 men of the class of 1820 are to be called out. The distribution of these 40,000 men among the Depart ments is established by a table annexed to the De me. The commencement of the operations of the Councils will take place on the 25th June, and the elesing of the list of the contingent on the Ist Sep tember. It ill be decided subsequently at what period the 40,000 men called out from the class of 1820 will be brought into actual service, as well as the mode of their distribution among the Corps of the A rmy. A private letter from Perpignan, of the 9th April, contains the following interesting intelligence from S pa i n The news of the issue of the affairs of Naples, which arrived on the 2.1 of this month at Barcelona, has caused in Catalonia the liveliest agi tation. It appears that this news, brought by a Nea politan Colonel and by a Member of the Ex-Parlia ment of Naples, was soon made public, through' the medium of the Journals. Those who affect for the new order of things a sort of enthusiasm, were, all of a sudden, seized with a panic, and decided, that to save the Constitutional system in Spain, it was ne cessary to make themselves masters of all who had shown themselves its enemies. A list of individuals, designated uncle:. the name of Serviles, was pre . pared, and their arrest was earnestly demanded from the Local Authorities. This arbitrary, illegal, unconsti ritional proposition, was at first rejected ; but the fermentation becoming extreme, the Nlagistrates . were obliged to yield ; and, during the night of the 3d and 4th inst. the domicile of several inhabitants was violated. More than twenty persons w ere arrested.— The most considerable were General Baron D'Eitotes, General FARFIELD, the Bishop of BARCELONA, the FIRST VICAR-GENERAL, several Canons of the Su perior of the Capuchins, Generals FOURNES, CAMP DELL, Roxa, and many distinguished inhabitants of the city. Several have been afterwards transported. to Majorca. General FOURNA.S alone was autho rized to retire to France. He arrived to-day in safety at Perpignan. The fermentation is not calmed at Barcelona, and there is every reason to believe that it will extend to the other Provinces, and even to Ma drid. It is said also that the Bishops of TARRAGONA, ToßrosA, and Vacu, have been arrested." According to letters from Milan, a Corps of Aus trian troops had entered Salerno, a town twelve leagues distant from Naples. Their total loss in the campaign against Naples is stated not to have ex ceeded seven killed, and 50 wounded ! In the Mi lanese all was tranquil. The Archduke REVNIER, Viceroy, passes successively in review the troops which arrive from the Hereditary States. On the sth April, his Royal Highness inspected a Corps of 15,000 men, destined to make a part of the Army of Observation of Piedmont. The insurrection of the Greeks continues to be re presented as of a very serious character. Psince YPSILANTI has consecrated all his fortune to the promotion of the Revolution, and the Greeks of Odessa have offered him an aid of 300,000 rubles. A Vienna article of the 7th states, that according to the most recent news from Constantinople, 4 , a formi dable re-action appeared preparing against that in surrection and against the cruelties exercised to wards the Mussulmans at Jassy, Galitz, &c. The Dragoman, or Interpreter of the Porte, JAUXO CALLIMACIII, who was dismissed from his situation on the 6th, has been since beheaded, and several Greeks of the first rank have shared the same fate." If this be all the "formidable re-action" which has taken place, the Greeks will not probably be very much alarmed by it. It is an easy matter for the Turks to decapitate a few helpless individuals who have the misfortune to be in their hands, but what effect can that have on the progress of the general revolt?—French 5 per cents. Tuesday, 81fr. 80c. We publish a long and melancholy narrative of the Massacre at Manila, in October last. The ins- Puted origin of this butchery is, we trust, quite false, that savages should be excited by men of such a na tional character as the Spaniards, to murder in cold blood, and then plunder the resident Europeans of every other nation! the thing is incredible. The con duct of the Captain-General, however, and of the Authorities under him, will, we suppose, be formally investigated. We have given in another part, an Appeal made by the Duchy of Anhalt to the German Confedera. Lion, against certain aggressions, of a fiscal nature, committed by the Court of Berlin. The decision of that Tribunal, if it should ever be made on this sub ject, will determine how far it is able or willing to protect its weaker against its stronger members. I • MISSION OF THE PRINCE RATAFE. We mentioned' yesterday the arrival of Prince RATAre, of Madagascar, on a mission to this Go. vernment respecting the abolition of the Slave Trade. We now subjoin an extract of a letter from the Mau ritius, containing some interesting info: mation on the object with which his Highness has visited this coun try. The letter is dated Nov. 18(20. " I gate you an account in my letters, as far back as the rear 1817. of the efforts of this Government to put a stop to the Slave Trade, by a Treaty for that purpose with RAI/AMA, King of Ovals. This Chieftain was at that time the principal Sove reign in Madagascar, and, from what I can learn, has since extended his dominions, which now comprise the larger half of that country, independent of the authority and influence which he exercises over the petty Chiefs of the Eastern and Western coasts. The population of Madagascar is composed of various tribes, differing greatly amoegst themselves in character and dis position. Among the tribes to be found on the coast, some there are perhaps of a vindictive and treacherous disposition; but the great mass of the interior population, and more especially the Ovals people, are a quiet, inoffensive, pains-taking race, exhi biting in a variety of instances no inconsiderable portion of talent and ingenuity in various branches of manufacture. " They who imagine that the Island of Madagascar is peopled by ferocious and barbarous savages are strangely mistaken.— Though they have not made that progress which entitles them to rank with civilised nations, the advancement to which they have attained in many of the useful arts, is of itself a sufficient proof of the aptitude of their disposition to receive and retain the best lessons of civilisation ; and I am fully convinced, that if the British Government avail itself of the present opening fur cementing a friendly alliance with the principal Power on that Island, millions now living (for the population of Madagascar is estimated at four millions), and millions yet unborn, will owe the blessings of religion, and the incteasing comforts of civilisa tion to that alliance, whilst the more immediate effect will be to shut up at once and for ever one of the principal sources from whence has been derived the largest supply of human victims for those nefarious slave markets in this hemisphere. " RADADIA, Yang of the Ovahs, though an unlettered man, appears to possess a sound and discriminating judgment, and might hold out useful lessons to many Sovereigns better skilled than himself in what are termed the arta ingenua , , upon the soundest principles of Government for the happiness of his sub jects. The character of this Chief, and his mode of governing his people, was well known from the frequent resort of traders to his capital ; and from the sources of information it was not difficolt to calculate the extent of the traffic in Slaves carried on directly with his and the States tributary to him. " The absolute inspossibility of opposing any adequate check to the Slave Trade its these Seas, where we were left without any sufficient practical means of capturing the smugglers, deter, mined the Governor (Mr. FAIMI'MAII) to attempt a negotiation with the King of OVAH, in the hope that it might be possible to impress upon the mind of this Chief, that the services of his people might be rendered more advantageous to him than the sale of their persons. With this view, a correspondence was sopened with Raroista, in which, without holding out any specific purpose, an offer of friendly intercourse and mutual good will was tendered and accepted. Some trifling presents were sent and accepted; and RADAMA, the whole bent of whose mind ap pears to be directed to the improvement of his people, readily accepted an invitation from the Governor to send two of his brothers to the Mauritius, with a view to their attaining the first rudiments of education. " The youths arrived in August, 1816, at which time they appeared to be about twelve and thirteen years of age ; they wen , taken by the Gevernpr into his family, and every neces sary means adopted to give them the benefit of Mr. FARQUHAR ' SI intentic•ns. RADAMA desired their return at the end of twelve months, and it was upon this occasion that the first treaty with him was entered into for suppressing the exportation of slaves from Aladagascar. • There is no doubt but that the treatment of these boys, who bad been constantly under the Governor's eye like his children, and the reports which they would make of I that treatment, must have greatly influenced the mind of ItAnAmA, and disposed him to that full, I may fairly say, affec tionate confidence in the English Government under Mr. FAR QUHAR'S administration, which, though checked for a time by the measures adopted on his departure for England, has, I am convinced from recent events, revived again in all its force upon Mr. FARQUHAR ' S return here. " This Treaty Was made in October, 1817, and its leading fea ture was, that for certain supplies, which we undertook to fur nish, the exportation of Slaves from his dominions, or any of the' territories tributary to him, was made a capital offence. I t would seem that RADAMA effected this change of system, not without opposition, and his sincerity and good faith upon the subject was certainly put to a very sufficient test, when he ordered the exe cution of individuals of near alliance with himself, for opposing him in the faithful performance of the contract he had entered into ; and it is a well-known and well-ascertained fact, that fur twelve months after the signing of this Treaty? not an individual of his country was carried into slavery, and that the practice in Ovate only recommenced, when the non-performatlce of the sti- pulations of this Government released hint from the tie by which, to that time, ItAnASIA considered himself religiously bound ; nay, so unwilling was he to believe that it was not Intended to fullll the Treaty, that the prohibition was only withdrawn upon the sending back to him of six boys, who had been sent up here to learn music, in order to qualify them as a band for a regiment, which he had bad drilled after the English fashion. " The unhappy effects of this Measure may be estimated from the following facts, which I have from an eye-witness, who, passing from Ovals to the Mauritius, seven months after the Treaty was concluded, found only four traders at Tamatare: while he was there, vessels arrived from the Mauritius, bringing the news that the Government of the Mauritius would not exe cute the Treaty, and having on board more than twenty traders, hturning to their old employment ; and I have it from the same person, and from anothes of equal credit, that when they returned to Tamatare upon a public mission, in September last, they found upwards of one hundred and twenty of these miscreants establish ed there. Madagascar and its concerns have, I believe, occupied the public attention so little, that I much doubt if it has ever given rise to discussion or observation in any way before the Public; but now that, happily, the same good effects have been reproduced by the prompt and vigorous measures which have been adopted by Governor FAZQUHAII, on his return, I sincerely hope that no future difficultie► will occur, and that as the measure has been once approved by the Ministers, so its beneficial re-establishmefit will be so decisively supported by the% a► to leave no room for future doubts or cavils, as to the policy of the proceeding, or of their intentions. RADA MA, though an unlettered man, has within him principles of integrity and good faith which might adorn the highest situation, and add grace to the most polished education ; and thr difficulty of re viving his confidence, I may say so injudiciously destroyed, was rendered doubly difficult from R.►vasss's natives unsophisticated notions of good faith, coupled with a less chivalrous feeling of the same deseription amongst his people, sharpened 14 the mirk don on their part, that the alliance with England, fur the de clared purposes of it, was at variance with their personal interests. " It appears, however, that the anxiety for the improvement of his subjects, so predominant in HABANA'S mind over every other object, had even communicated itself to his People, and every opposition vanished before the engagement of the British Agent, that a certain number of children should be placed under the protection of the British Government-at the Mauritius, and in England, to be instructed in religion and morals, and in the most useful mechanical arts. Mumma, however, has a difficulty in believing that a Government, which has once broken the Treaty, may not break it again. Such, however, is his anxiety and his determination to bi satisfied on this point, that he sends one of his brothers-in-law to England, as an Ambassador, to learn from the ►ips . of the Korn himself, that his MAJESTY fully approves of the compact which has been made with him. " How this will be looked on in England I know not : coupled with any minor object it might be a subject for joke and deri sion ; but persuaded as I am that it offers easy and successful mean; of stopping a large portion of the Slave Trade, and of civilising three or four millions of the most intelligent and indus trious of the African race. I earnestly hope that it will be treated as such an excellent purpose aught to be, and that our wise men of the West will not look down upon these foreigners, because they are willing to co-operate with us in the most praiseworthy of our undertakings; asking no other reward than that assist ance which we can afford them without trouble or expense, for putting them on a level with ourselves, by raising them in the scale of thinking beings." CoLusrstAN REPUBLIC.—( From the Baltimore Te legraph of March 23).—" Among the facts derived from our private correspondence, we learn, that the Venezuelian Revolutionary Government has promul gated aDecree, farbidding thenceforth the engagement of any foreign troops, the resources of the Republic being found competent to the maintenance of its in dependence without the aid of foreign troops ; and the troops already in the service of the Republic will have their option to retire or continue la service, upon the same conditions as the natives. Emigrants from all countries, bringing' with them the know. ledge of any useful art, will obtain land and protec- Lion , and enjoy equal rights." Yesterday being Good Friday, the Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE attended Divine Service at the Chapel Royal, and heard a sermon by the Dean of WESTMINSTER. The sublime Air, "Ha was despised," was sung by Mr. KN YVETT.—Divine Service was per formed in the King's Palace, Pall Mall, by the Rev. F. W. BLONI BERG, and the Rev. Dr. STANIEIt C LAIII E. Yesterday the Duchess of CLARENCE visited the Duchess of KENT, at her apartments in the King's Palace, Kensington. The Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE, and the Duchess of GLOUCESTER, visited Princess AUGUSTA yesterday. Thursday, the Duke of YORK visited the Princess AUGUSTA. The Princess AUGUSTA. visited the Duchess of GLOUCESTER, on Thursday. Thursday, the Princess AUGUSTA had a small party to dinner. We understand that Mr. PATMOR6 has intimated his intention of appearing to take his trial, for his share in the late Duel at Chalk Farm, cn Friday next. He would have surrendered yesterday had it not been a dies non. CATHOLIC QUESTION.—It is recommended to all interested in this question to read Bishop Lavington's Expose of the PAPISTS and METHODISTS. The au thor's design is to compare, by way of caution to all Protestants, the pernicious enthusiasms of some of the most eminent Popish Saints and those of the Methodists in our country, whom he calls pretended Reformers. A new Edition is just published, by Mr. POLWHELE, price •lls. • FASHIONABLE MOVEMENTS. The Marquis of BUCKINGHAM, and the Earl and Countess TEMPLE, left town, on Saturday, for Avington, Hams, for the Holidays. The Marquis CAMHIN has left town, for his seat, Bayham Abbey, Sussex. Earl CATHCART has left Warren's Hotel, Regent-street, for his seat in Berks. The Earl of Essex has left town, for his seat, Cashiobury Park, Herts. The Earl of ABINGDON left town yesterday, for his seat in Oxfordshire. _ _ The Earl of MANZI' left Fenton's Hotel, St. James's -street, yesterday, for his seat, Hatfield Park, Kent, for a few days, pre vious to his leaving England fur Paris. The Countess Da Gast has left town, for her seat, Putney Heath, Surrey. . Lord EMIDLEY left town yesterday, for his seat, Belvidere, Kent, for the Ho!Whys. Lord Svpisze has left town, for his seat, Frognall, Kent. Lord Ganz has left Grillion's Hotel, In Albemarle -street, for Ilants. Lord Hawke is arrived at Fladong's Hotel, Oxford -street, from his seat in Yorkshire. Lord ELLENHOROUGH has left town, for his seat at Richmond, for the Holidays. Lord and Lady GitexvuLc have left town, for their scat, Dropmorc Lodge, Bucks. Lord and. Lady Newsier left town this day, for their seat, Lillcys, Budts. Lady and Misses STAPLETON are arrived at the London Hotel, Albemarle-street, from their seat, Henley-upon-Thatnes. Sir GEORGE liosuison, Bart. M.P. left town yesterday, for his seat, Cranford, Northamptonshire. Sir Cnmitcs and Lady Lone have left town, for their seat, Bromley-hill, Kent, for the Holidays. The Right Hon. Tinimas GRENVILLE left town yesterday, on a visit to Lord and Lady GRENvu.tit, for the Holidays. Colonel Jonssoat has left town, for his seat, Lincolnshire. Savts.t.a I-lAurax, Esq. and family, have left town, for their seat, Waltkam Lodge, near Chelmsford. Mr. and Mrs. GEOZOIC Ityuct left their house, in St. James's. square, yesterday, for their seat, Wroth am Park. Friday sennight, Mr. COLLTT, of Orgrave, near Allewas, went out into a held, with his gun, for the purpose of shooting rooks, and was found dead about an hour afterwards. It appears that the gua went off by accident, and the contents passing through his body, caused his death. Perhaps no volume was ever published of greater interest and utility, than the Chronology ?f the last Filly Years; of which a new Edition has just ap peared, brought down to January of the present year. It is truly called the Chronicle of the Times. All the newspapers serve but as its Day-book, it being in effect their arranged Ledger, during the interesting period from 1771 to 1821. NATURAL CURIOSITY.—The Lady BaleTTas East Indianian, lately arrived from Madras, has brought home a serpent alive, twenty-eight feet in leug It, and fourteen inches in diameter. It guy be ap proached with perfect safety, and is said not to be venomous. Its food is a live fowl once a month! ~,, : :•.. THE ARMY. It was intended to review the 6th Dragoon Guards, lately quartered in Birmingham, on Mostly Wake Green, on Friday, the 13th in-tant, but the extreme wetness of the weather prevented it. The Regiment was inspected at the Barracks, on Saturday, by Ma jor. General Lord E. SOMERSET, and marched On Monday morning, by different routes, for Bristol, to embark for Ireland. Two troops of the 7th tight Dragoons marched into Birmingham on Tuesday. Two troops of the 16th Lancers passed through Worcester on Tnesday, on their way to Manchester. A detachment of the Royal Marines, under the command of Captain OWEN, marched from Chatham on Monday morning, on their rote to Portsmouth. The proposed alterations in the dress and equips ent of the Royal Marines, which have been submitted to ills MAJESTY, having been graciously approved of, the Corps will appear in their new unifo; m on Mon day, the Biath-day of our most gracious Sovereign. /1 7 11 VAL INTELLIGENCE. FALMOUTH, Antic 18.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the City of Edinburgh, Goose, from St. John's (New Brunswick), and Scilly, under jury -masts; and Sylph, MIL/Is, from London foe Naples. PORTSMOUTH, A PRIL 20.—Wind ESE —The wholewof the outward-bound are now under weigh, with a light breeze. Pm. -MOUTH, APRIL 19.—The Wilding, BOTLR, which arrived yesterday, after a passage of 66 days, from Sierra Leone, re• ports, that the Dawson, Findlay, Henry Harrison, and Wotton, , were at that place when she left. His Majesty's ship Tanta,. had sailed from Sierra Leone. On the 23d Feb. in lat. 9. 53. long. 20. 11. she spoke the Helen, Grasotr, from Sierra Leone for Cork, out 17 days. On the 7th March, in lat. 22. 45. long. 7;2. 49. spoke the Valleria, KINSMAN, from Shields for Deme rara. April 4th, in lat. 40. 10. long. 22. 45. spoke the John, LoTnyosscixo:, from New Brunswick. Lieut.-Colonel Buser, Ensign Sezarez, and Lieutenants Smut' and Pawn' (R.N.), came passengers in her. The Colony was healthy when she eft.-- During a violent gale from the westward, which continued on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday last, upwards of twenty sail of vessels lay under shelter of the Breakwater, in perfect safety, the greater part having had no occasion to let go a second anchor. No damage whatever was sustained in any part of the harbour. HEAL Aram 20. Wind N.E.— Arrived and sailed for the River, the Eclipse, New Tort, from St. Michael's ; Louisa, Sow- LER, from Smyrna ; Amelia, Num from Oporto;_ and the Swedish frigate Freya, Captain CRONSTA DT, from CarISCTOIIa for Havre : the latter remains. Came down from the River, the Elizabeth, Tuomeson, for Halifax, and sailed, with the whole of the outward-bound, except the William Miles, Ease Indiaman. Came down from the River and remain, the Hythe, %Laos., for China ; Plrnix, Ways:sox, fur Bombay; and se veral others, names not known. HARWICH, APRIL 20.--Arrived the Freeling packet, with Mails from Holland. • Meager', Aran. CO.—Sailed the Netherlands frigate Melam pus (not Ceres, as stated yesterday), for Batavia. Cowes, Aran. CO.—Sailed the Grace, Lrrmettmor, for Nett South Wales. VLSSELS !roam wren—The Amazon, from Falmenith ; and ()cep, M.Neiktge, from Londe,n—both for Jamaica, on the 19th nit. in lat. 18. 20. long. 57.; Middlesex, Thompson, front the Clyde to Jamaica, on the :',Oth, in lat. 39. hair. 11. 25. ; Mary, Monteith, from New Orleans to Ilavre, in ht. 59. 20. long. 47. with her rudder damaged, and proceeding for Fayal ; Telema chus, of Poole, for S!. John's, in lat. 44. long. 40. 17. A document has been received from Paris, which professes to be a letter addressed to the Neapolitan nation, by General PEPE, before his departure. Whe ther it be genuine or not, we have not the means of ascertaining. He first refers to the ingratitude with which his patriotic exertions had been rewarded: " Neapelitans—l am almost ashamed to call you countrymen, after all you have done and all I have suffered. I have no Lan guage to express the detestation In which I hold the conduct of those who have guided your Councils in the late eventful period, or the disgust I feel at the baseness of your conduct on ever" occasion when the enemy made his appearance. You fled, you deserted, you submitted; and submitted upon the terms of the conqueror; and this, too, in the face of all your protestations, of all yourwretended enthusiasm for liberty and independence. " He dwells for some time on this subject, entering into particular details of the disasters in the Abruzzi, and after alluding to what might have been per formed there, proceeds thus : " had you made a stand when resistance was so possible, and ♦ictory so probable, how different would have been your situa tion and mine—how different the situation of the civilized world! The flame of Liberty would have spread from the peninsula of Italy into the North, and those very Governments that were the means of your subjugation, might themselves have been com pelled to grant a Constitution to their subjects. It is not I only who am disappointed, it is all mankind—all men who have a spark of generosity in their bosoms: and let me add, that even among yourselves, I know there are many who bitterly grieve • over past events, that never can be remedied or recalled. The opportunity is past, and all Europe thrown a century back in the acquisition of freedom, by your treachery and pusillanimity." With regard to himself, he observes: " That lum an exile, is nothing. lam content to suffer, and would gladly suffer much min.e, could I benefit the land in which I was born. I have done my duty, and that is alone the conso lation that is left me." _ Yesterday an Inquest Was taken at the Red Lion, Chiswick, on the body of R. Pearse, a fisherman's son. R. Pearse, a fisherman, deposed, he is father to the clect..scd, was only 13 years of age. Last Monday fortnight, about five o'clock in the morning, be was at Strand-en-the-Green, standing on the edge of the wharf, and the deceased was in a boat, where he usually slept. Witness told hint to bsing the boat; he said that the little boat was sunk, and proposed to bring in Sir. Jeffrey's wherry ; he proceeded to haul up the stone, when the chain broke, and he fell into the water, 40 yards from the shore, and imme diately sunk, to rise no more. Witness could get no boat to go to his assistance; but he gave the alarm to Lis brother, who was in a boat at a distance, who came immediately, but the body could not be found. Verdict—Accidentally Drowned. RELEASF. OF BAGULEY, DRUMMOND, AND JOHN. , STON:--Just before the conclusion of the Chester Spring Assizes, on Saturday, Eag,ulry, Drummond, and Johnston, who rendered thenvelves so conspi cuous about two years ago at the Reform Meetings in Manchester, Stockport, Macclesfield, &c. were brought up to the Bar, to enter into personal secu rity of £5OO each, in addition to sureties in £lOO each, for their good behaviour for.two years.--They• were respectably dressed, and did not appear to have suffered, at least in health, by their imprisonment. They bowed respectfully to the Court, and con ducted themselves with great propriety. They were discharged on Thursday:—Baguley still retains his beard, which appears to be about six or eight inches in length. It is said this luxuriant ornament to the chin is*to be distributed by the Patriot to some of the most favoured gadicals, as a precious relic of what he has undergone in forwarding the cause of Reform ! LAsv.—Sittings before the LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE of the Court of King's Bench, Easter Term. IN TERM. IMOLESEX. soraoe. Saturday - May 12 Tuescl7y - - May 15 Friday 18 Monday - 21 ThuraLlay - - 24 Monday - -—2 B Friday - - - June 5 Saturday - - June AFTER TERM. Tuetday - Juke - I W:4lneed: y - June ' 6 ~, - -