Star. — London, England, 1822-05-02 00:00:00

DUEL IN HIGH LIFE. 1,1 Yesterday afternoon a meeting took place, in Ken sington Gardens, between the Noble Dukes of BUCK INGHAM and BEDFORD; the former attended by Sir NV. W. Wysm, and the latter by Lord LYNEDOCK. The cause of this event was certain expressions said to have been used by the D&k,e of BEDFORD at a late County Meeting. The parties took their station in a gravel pit, at the distance of ten paces. The Duke of BUCKINGHAM having fired without effect, his Noble antagonist fired in the air, OR which the Duke of BUCKINGHAM said ...." My Lord Duke, you are the last man whom I wished to quarrel with; hut your Grace must be aware, that a public man's life is not worth preserving, unless with honour.'—The Duke of BEDFORD then " declared, upon his honour, that he meant no per sonal offence to the Duke of BUCKINGHAM, nor to impute to him any had or corrupt motive whatever." We have received letters from Odessa this morning to the 6th ult. They state, that much distress was experienced by merchants owing to the continued uncertainty in which affairs remained. The dis franchisement of Odessa as a free port has destroyed all commerce, and money is particularly scarce. A number of letters have been received in town this morning, which have been saved from the wreck of the American ship Albion. The French Papers of Monday have arrived ; bat they contain very little intelligence of interest. The following arc extracts r_ it The Fren they contair . . JOilow.ing ~•; 1.6 4 A report many broug r , dc Lutzow, nople, arriv stated, that on the 19th, Genes al corps in Fra .44 iirthe night PARIS, APRIL 29. A report is in circulation that a courier from Ger many brought on Saturday the intelligence, that M. do Lutzow, the Austrian Internuncio at Constanti lved at Vienna on the 21st inst. It is also t M. de Tati.xlieff cp,itted t!ie latter city 1, to return to the Emperor of Russia. Woronzow, who commanded the Itus,iaii trance, during the occupation, went to Va. 'lt of the '2:3d inst. He proceeds from Pail: WS - T' * - • to Vienna, where he is to levee his family, - and to continue his route towards the Path, to put himself at the head of an army. AIX-LA-CHAPELLE , APRIL 24. - EXTRACT Or A PRIVATE LETTER. By the courier who arrived from Vienna this day, we learn that the Austrian Cabinet has received new dispatches from Constantinople of the highest import ance, and that they were instantly laid before the Emperor, when dispatches were immediately sent off to London, Paris, and Berlin. It was reported in Vienna that all negotiation with the Porte was at an end, and that war was decided upon. We await with impatience further news on the important events which are approaching in the East of Europe. ST. PETERSBURGII, APRIL 1. All the Governments continue to send considerable sums for the relief of the Greeks who have taken re-. fuge in Russia. The Councillor Warwatz has offered his necessitous fellow-countrymen 500,000 roubles ; besides this sum, 900,000 have been sent to the Mi nister of Worship, the Prince Gallitzin. As soon as this money arrived, it was remitted to the Governor- General of Cherson, the Count Langeron, and to the Commandant of Bessarabia, Lieutenant-General Im hoff, to be distributed. CORINTH, FEBRUARY 7. Our city has been declared by a law, the residence of the Provisional Government. The National Con gress, which commenced its labours at the end of last autumn, assembled then at Argos, but pressed by the necessity of having more frequent communications with all the points of Greece, and especially with the Archipelago, it removed in the beginning of January to Epidaurus, in the Gulf of Salonica. It was in that town that the Provisional Constitu tion of Greece was promulgated, on the 12th of Ja nuary. There were remarked in that organic law, amongst other things, two articles importing that the heaviest responsibility rested upon every negotiator who should enter into a negociation which might in the least involve the political independence of the nation. If the Executive Council set on foot such a negociation, it is by this alone set aside. The Congress, on the 27th of January, published the Act of Independence of the Nation, and of the I LONDON. TO CDR RFSPONDENTS. - t ~_~~ ~; +, . e wheat front abroad may be admitted, upon the payment of the • like duty. The trade in foreign corn shall thenceforth be permanently free; but subject to the following duties upon importation, or • when taken out of warehouse for home consumption :-we heat 155... quarter, when the price shall not exceed 801. and when above that price, bs. and above 85s. one shilling,-rye, peas, and beans, 9s. 6d. a quarter, when the price shall not exceed 555. and when above 535. one shilling;-barley, bear or bigg, 7s• 6d. a quarter, up to 40s. and when above that price ls.-oats ss. quarter, up to 285. and when above that price is. (Mr. RICARDO.) That the foreign Corn may he taken •ut for home consumption, whenever the average price of wheat shall exceed 655. per quarter, upon the payment of the following duties, viz.-Wheat, 15s. per quarter ; rye, peas, and beans, 9s. 6d. per quarter : barley, bear, or bigg. 7s. 6d. per quarter; oats, 55. per quarter. Whenever the average price of wheat shall exceed 70s. per quarter, the trade in cern shall he permanently free, but subject to the following duties upon importation, viz :-Wheat, Cas. per qtiartur ; rye, peas, nod beans, 13s. 34. per quarter; barley, bear, or bigg, 10s. per quarter; oats, 6s. stl. per quarter. At the expiration of one year from the time at which the above duties on corn imported shall be in operation, they be re duced as follows, viz :-On wheat, is. per quarter;" rye, peas, and be .its, Bd. per quarter; barley, bear, or bigg, 64.1. per quar ter; oats, 4d. per quarter. A like reduction of duties he made in every subseeptcnt year, until the duty on the importation of wheat be 10s. per quarter; rye, peas, and beans, 6s. 7d. per quarter; barley, bear, or bigg, Ls. per quarter ; oats, 3s. 4tl. per quarter, at which rates they shail thence orth be fixed. A dr.wb. ck, or bounty, be allowed on the exportation of corn to foreign countries : on wheat, 75. per quarter; rye, yeas, mud beans, 4s. 64. per quarter; barley, bear, or bigg, ss. 6d. per quarter ; oats, VA. 4d. per quarter. lIE bVENING STAB- A CONSTANT READER at Puth fi most respectfully informed CIA the price of India Stock is inserted in the Swiss ofien as tac rcturu is made, which is only twice a week. THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1822. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. business of any consequence has taken place in the market this morning, all arc anxious to ascertain the result of the meet ,g at the Bank. Various o?inions are formed in regard to the c :use ; by some it is %apposed that the new Government plan of the Naval and Militray Pensions will come into discussion ; by others it is imagined, that it will regard the Specie system. The appointed hour of meeting is twelve o'clock. Consols are up to this hour 7Si for the Account o and for Money 73e. Persons who pretend to be in the Cabinet secrets attribute the cause of the Funds rising yesterday to the messenger which was dispatched to St. Petershergh on Tuesday evening. Report says, our Cabinet is decidedly in favour of the propositions which Russia has made to the Turks, which, when known by the Ottoman Forte, will have great weight in their Councils, and ultimately cause them to make peace. FOREIGN FENT/S.—The business in the foreign securities this morning is not of material consequence. By private accounts it appears that Spain is perfectly tranquil.—Spanish Old 631 1 ; Now 654 1; Prussian 861; Danish 341 83 ; Neapolitan 681; Columbian 110; New BCI. STOCK EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK. Expectation is on tiptoe to know the object of the Meeting at the Bank ; a material :Iteration in prices is expected. Nothing has transpired up to this hour, and the prices continue the same. CURRENT PRICES : Bank Stock 235 1 / 2 237 3 per Cent. Reduced 77% 3 / 4 3 per Ct. Cells. 78% Vs 3 / 4 - 21 / 2 . per Ct. 8354 34 4 per Ct. 91 1 4 s/3-5 per Ct. Navy Anns. 102 1 / 4 1 / 3 Bank Long Annuities 19% Vs Y 4. India lids. 55 53—lirch. Rills (0,000) Is. pr. par Ditto Small ls. ss. pr.—Bank for Acct. 231 Consols for Acct. 78% 5 / 8 • STOCK EXCIIANGE—IIALF-PAST ONE. The object of the Meeting at the Bank has just transpired. The only subject. brought forward was, that Government has proposed to allow all Banks, not Within sixty-five miles of Loudon, to be upon the same footing and principle as the Scotch Batiki; and for this concession the Bank is to receive an extension of its Charter for ten years. This proposition has been acceded to by a very crowded Court of Proprietors. Not a word was mentioned about the reduction of the rate of Interest. nstallation of the Provisional Government. French Funds, April 29—Five per Cent. Consols, opened at 88E—Highest 88 f. 20 c.—Closed at 871. 75 c. A private letter from Paris, of Monday evening, states that the French Government had received an account from St. Petersburgh, by a French courier, that the answer of the Porte had reached that capital, and had cliffiv-ed great gloom there throughout some circles ; but that when the courier came off, no one knew the deternsnation of the EMPEROR positively, though every one expected an immediate Declara tion of War. The Journal des Liebats contains a letter from Suit gard, giving an account of an appalling sentence lately pronounced at Wirtemberg. A M. LIST, an Opposition Member, having drawn up a Petition from his Constituents, which contained unpleasant animadversions on the conduct of persons in office, was prosecuted criminally for it. It was generally believed, that, if not absolutely acquitted, he would, at most be slightly reprimanded. The Criminal Tri bunal of Esslingen has, however, condemned this Re presentative to ten months' labour in a fortress—a degrading punishment, which would deprive him not merely of his place as Deputy, but render him unfit for any public employment. At a late hour this forenoon we received a Flanders Mail, bringing Brussels Papers - to the 50th ult. The following are extracts : AUGSBURG, APRIL 22. The Allgemeine Zeitutag has the following article— " Letters from Vienna, of the 18th April, say, that M. de Tatischeff was to have his final audience of the Emperor on the following day, and set out on the 20th for St. Petersburgh." The latest accounts from Italy say that the Neapo litan Government has succeeded in discovering, in a town in Sicily, a concealed depot of above 100,000 muskets. Numerous arrests continue to take place at Palermo. • . Accounts from Ancona say, that 63 Greek fugi tives from Misolunghi have arrived at that port, in the most wretched condition. His Holiner.s, with his accustomed beneficence, immediately sent assistance to those unfortunate persons. VIENNA, APRIL is. Several of the first merchants of this city hare for mally contradicted the report of a new loan to be contracted for by our Government. IVe learn from a respectable source, that the question of a new loan is entirely subordinate to that of war or peace ; c.r to that of the participation of our Government in the war, if it should take place. Up to this moment there is no movement of any importance among the troops. The measures of the Council of War have hitherto been limited to orders to the Commanders of several corps to have their re giments ready to march a;: the first notice. These orders have been given to about 28 regiments which, in case of need, will reinforce our Army of Obs.erva tion on the frontiers of Turkey. The ussian Minister at our Court lately had a long interview with Pri n ce Mette rn i c h, a f ter w hi c h he dispatched a courier to Berlin. BRUSSELS, APRIL 27. Letters horn Trieste, of the most recent date, make no mention of the report spread at Marseilles of the 'p • - • petal. tasurrectsflit ,p act so the Lonian Islauda. • ,' • • • ' VIENNA, - APRIL 19. . We are authorised to declare that the airticle dated from the, Danube, 12th April," inserted in the Allgemeine Zeilling, of the 15th inst. is, from the beginning to the end, nothing more than an stn. Jimmied .fiction, both with re pest to shat is said in it of the present disposition of the Porte, and of the pretended subject of the negociations of lt-de frtrs cheff, at Vienna.—Austrian Observer, April 20. Ft:lms —April 17, Metalliques, 74A—Bank, 662 18, Metalliques, 74&—Bank, 661 19, Nletalliques, 743-le-13ml, WO. lENNA, APRIL 21. Accounts from Prague say that his Majesty the Emperorwill shortly set out for Verona, and that several distinguished Sovereigns will join him there. Vasis Berlin Gazette affirms that M. de Tatis cheff has sent a new modified ultimatum to the Reis Effendi. Hamburgh Papers to the 27th ult. have been re ceived. The following are extracts : HANOVER, APRIL 23. This being the day on which his Majesty's Birth day is kept, it has been observel with every demon stration of joy. His Royal Highness the Governor- General was plea!ed to receive at his Palace the con ,ratulations Of a nume►ous and brilliant Court. This evening there will bean Assembly, Bali. and Supper, at Herrenhatisen. The Duke and Duchess of Cam bridge took up their residence at the Summer Palace, Nlonbrillant, last Saturday. By a Royal Rescript of the 25th ult. the use of torture, which is prescribed by the penal code of the Emperor Charles V. in cases where the proofs are deficient, is formally abolished, though it has not been practised in this kingdom for many years. The proof by circumstantial evidence is allowed, but the sufficiency must be recognizei by at least two-thirds of the Judges. Only when the accused is considered to be clnvicted on sufficient evidence, but persists in denying, he cannot be sentenced to death, hard labour for life, or loss of honour. In such cases, twenty years hard labour, or public work for ten or twelve years, are substituted ; and, for loss of honour, a proportional penalty by labour or imprisonment. We received a Spanish Mail this forenoon, bring ing Madrid Papers to the . 19th ult. The Kmc's health is said to be improving. An article from Cadiz, dated the 9th April, states, that official intel ligence from Vera Cruz and the Ilavannah confirms the account of the victory gained by the Spanish troops over the Insurgents in the plains of Guachi, on the 12th of September. It adds that, "By the armistice concluded at Babaryo between Colonel TALIA, commanding the Spanish troops of Quito, and General SUCRE those of Guayaquil, another was to be concluded on the same terms by the Spanish General commanding the troops that occupied the Province of Popayan, and the General of the troops of Coltimbia. It appears from this armistice, re quested by the Insurgents of Columbia and Guaya quil, that our troops occupy the whole of the Pro vinces of Quito, Cuenca, and Popayan." THE ARMY. An order has been issued from the War-Office, declaring that no Soldier enlisting into the Army subsequently to the 24th of April, 1$ 2, shall be entitled to any Pension for Service alone, until he shall have completed Twenty-one years In the Infantry, or TWer.ty-!our years in the Cavalry. Tuesday, the first division of the 12th Royal Lancers left Dublin fur 13alliiirobe : they are to be succeeded by the Ist Dragoon Guards. ('owns, APRIL ;O.—There were embarked here yesterday ten Officers, 107 men, ten women, and four children, of different Regiments, on their route to Chatham, for Bombay; also ar rived a number of recruits front Southampton, for Albany Barracks. NIAIDSTONE, May I.—Three Officers and about forty men of the 13th Light Dragoons, at present at our Cavalry Depot, will leave here for Madras on the 10th instant. They will em bark at Gravesend, on board the East India Company's ship Astel. About 1;,0 men of the 11th Light Dragoons will also leave this Depot, on the 30th instant, for Bengal. An order has been received at the Cavalry Depot for the detachment of the 17th Light Dragoons, stationed here, to be in readiness to repair to Roinford, to take charge of upwards of 100 horses be longing to the lab Lancers, under orders for embarkation to India. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The fine brig Palladium, Ca tss, which sailed from Aberdeen on the 9th ult. for Riga, has not since been heard of ; and, as her boats were found on the Jutland coast, near Robsnaut, about the 11th ult. there is reason to fear that the vessel,with allon board, met a melancholy fate in the tremendous gale of that clay,which proved so destructive to the shipping on that dangerous coast, as appears by the number of vessels missing, and the great quantity of wreck cast on shore. _ _ _ Yesterday, a Court of Directors was held at the East India house, when Captain JOHN INmes, of the ship Prince Regent, took leave, of the Court, previous to departing for Madras and Bengal. Tuesday sennight, the Albion arrived at Berwick from Bergen, with ice. The same vessel sailed again on Sunday, fur another cargo of that precious and valuable article—a circum stance unprecedented in the history of salmon-fishing in the river Tweed. Kkostourn, Aran 30.—Arrived the Nymph, Hamm, from Campeachy, in ten weeks, for London; Marquis of Salisbury packet, from the Mediterranean—sailed from Corfu 2t.th March, Malta 31st, and Gibraltar 17th April ; end the Danish brig Haalits Anchor, roes, from Longsound. Sailed the Minerva, BELL, for New South Wales; and Anna, EIFKLY, for Quebec. PLYMOUTH, A extrt. 30.—Arrived off this port. the Lord Ski mouth, Mcnot.st, from the Isle of France, •for Louden. Sailed the Good Friend, Triostas, for the South Seas; tinderneming, MAKER, for Liverpool ; Hope, Brtiens, for Quebec; Paragon, S.MITII, for Piton ; and Jane, for Newfoundland. 11cat., Ni - I.—Wind KN. E.—Came down from the River and sailed last night, the Lady Melvillt., Cory roan, and Marquis of Huntley, Vnas:Lx, for China. Came down from the River this afternoon and sailed, the Princess Amelia, WILLIAMS, for China; Sisters, WINSLOW, for the South Seas; Lark, Oareeft, f o r Cadiz; William Shand, KFAIINS, for Van Dieman's Land; and Mary and Jane, TuostesoN, fur Miramichi. Arrived yes terday and remains, the Countess of I larcourt, Lola, front Ba tavia for Rotterdam. Poitzsr_ourn, MAT I.—Wind r..x.r..—Passed by yesterday, the Onyx, WELLER, from Honduras for. London; .Regent, Nouror., for China; and to-day, the Marquis of Huntley, Faasna, and Lady Melville, Cnirroan, fur Minx. Sail:A yes terday, the Moira, HORYSLOW, for Madras and Calcutta. Cesvosi-lionsr, Mar I.—Ships Entered itiward3: Rambler and Perseverance, frum Han:bur:li ; Atalanta and Walter Mathews, from llarlingen ; Nonsuch, from Stangate Creek ; Lavinia, Harmony, George, and liar:let, from Memel ; New Blossom and Four Brothers from Celais ; Union, from Leghorn ; Brilliant, from Blogadure ; Louisa, from Bremen ; Thames from Odessa ; Peggy, from Dunkirk. Cleared Outwards : Albino, for Algiers; Staines, for Bremen ; Ocean. for Cork; the Grace: and Britannia, fur Ilarnhurgh ; Vruw Elizabeth, fur Ostend ; Ancona ; I lope, fur Genoa; Ceres, fur Quebec; and Comun.rze, for Norway. •••••.. • • , . . nisrittss rg IRELAND. t5 .....„ E. Apia • TRA L eS. " In consequence of the great scarcity of potatoes : 1 this neighbourhood, a Petition was yesterday f e: i vear s ded from the Magistrates lo Governirunn, thro ug r; Serjeant MiCanns as!, praying that three hundred tons of potatoes might be sent forthwith from En g . land to this port, to be sold for seed to the peasantri, at reduced prices. It is supposed that not more tha n one-fointh of the usual quantity of ground has bee t sown in this county, the great scarcity of po taz " having obliged the poor landholders to consume wh at 'Was r.ecessary for seed: The large quantity of oat s in the country has as.yet prevented actual starvitti el among the peasantry in general. Fever cases arc very frequent in this town at present. The scarcity o f hay has produced a great mortality among the cattle. We have heard of one Gentleman who has soff.red a loss of N cows within a short time back. GALWAY. • The aspect of our town at present must alr-n every thinking man. The fruits of the earth peen rendered scarce by the severity of the season, and every part of the crop that has escaped tr , ,,d d e . struction, has been rendered not only useless, bitt ruinous tg health and life. Potatoes, the only sup. port of our miserable lower orders, exceed in r're anything the reader can well conceive; and whey purchased by the half-starved room keeper, at tile exot bitant demand of 7d. per stone, instead of impart. ing relief or comfort, convey to his frame and co:isti tution a train of diseases, violent and infections. —While we are giving this picture of the state things, there are, at this moment, in our unfurnished Fever Hospital, twelve or thirteen cases•of a mo t malignant nature—not typhus, we hear, but of a description bordering on utrid !—The reader wit',, no doubt, shudder at the assertion—but he must also believe us when we say, that the Ministers of Itch. gion are almost constantly employed in administerir , the rites of their Churches to the poor miserable cre.,• tures who were brought to their death-beds, r.ot by fever and disease, but by starvation !—Mri • sec not then do something to check the progress of —or shall we tamely look on, while a des,lativr plague spreads its influence amongst us? One torte! Imagine that the example of 1817, should have effect upon us; and that the awful triumph of on that occasion, should induce and oblige u. now to snatch from its grasp ourselves and our chiluren, and the very best. ornaments of society. We are riot in the habit of giving a high colour to circums.mices that do not deserve it—and we appeal for the truth of what we here state, to the professional Gentlemen, both Clergymen and PhysiCians, who, at the risk p: their lives (and we are here reluctantly oblige to state, one of them, Dr. M‘Hugh, has fallen a victim to his humanity), wait on and attend the sick beds of these creatures.—Connaught Journal. Friday, Mr. Farrell, chief peace u ffi csr, was sent to the COUri of Monag han to arrest seven men, on a charge of treasonabll practices. This active officer executed his commission with promptitude, and brought these men to town on Saturday even ing, but as they seemed to belong to the lower orders, it that they are implicated in nothing else than mere Ribbonism.— Dublias .IJurtird. We are happy to learn that the state of the suffer ing peasantry in eland is at length arresting attcn tion ; and w•e trust that a Public Meeting will be im mediately held, for the purpose of raising such subscription as may afford ample and instant relief We have received letters from two benevolent viduals, mentioning several bankers where subscrip• tions will now be 3 ecei red ; but an object so desirable, and of such magnitude, should not lack the sanctiva of those whose rank and fortunes alone can give it due effect. It is stared from !run, that General Berthon, and five or six other French insurgents, are in that ne4:;1:- bourbood. Intelligence from Barcelona, of April i 2, state:, that " in the night of the 7th, there was some disturbance in the Patriotic Club. Vie have herd various accounts of the affair, but it seems certain, that an individual having uttered some expresskis relative to the affair of Colonel Costa, a number et persons fell upon him, among whom, a mili:Limait drew his sword, and wounded him. The tunit;it c;- casionecl by this circumstance spread to the neig!l - streets. The other particulars, of which we are ignorant, will appear from the proceedings now instituted:: THE DUKE OF YORE.- -The inquiries of the Nebi lity and Gentry at York House yesterday, were e , .- tremely numerous, and the:answer given ss as, that 1::s Royal Highness was much better, and more free from pain, than on the preceding day. Aaavu,Roosts.—Mr. PUTNAM ' whose entertainment, enrs':r ing of Recitations of a moral and instructive nature, we lately noticed, resumed that entertainment on Tuesday ni s hi Rooms, and was very well attended. Mr. Prrsast his subjects with taste, varies them with judgment, and delivers them, whether grave or gay, with appropriate expr,ssion.— I lis Recitations were divided into three portions, as bef.::: ; ' were selected from some of our best authors, and Mr. l'er>ais was greeted throughout with well-merited approbaerel. BROOK-GREEN FAIR.— Yesterday being Alay-Wr the annual amusements at the above Fair took pla.: At an early hour the road from Hyde-Park-Corner was lined with equestrians and pedestrians of all de nominations. Owing to the fineness of the weather, the crowds of well-dressed persons flocking towards Hammersmith were greater than remembered for some years. At four o'clock in the after noon J; and jollity was at the highest pitch. In the c(iiie:t! of the evening, many persons of distinction, snugly seated in their carriage-, visited the bustling Scene, and seemed highly to enjoy the rustic /reds of their humble, though no less happy fellow-mortal F— . to the judicious area igements c f the strates, the utmost decotum prevailed. Panerrawnsac—Blakesley, the Yorkshire pedestrian, who started front London on Tuesday toga to Exeter by a eject! '.`l: 4 route, making 380 miles in six days, reached through Ant:L.ver. three miles over kis day's gmund, at half -1 a t ten o'ch ck on t 1 fiest day., After resting four hour, be pursued his was... through Salisbury, at six in the morning, and finished his arced day's work at Gladstone, la miles, at eleven at eight. lie v. 3 *. proceeding to Exeter at eleven o ' clock yesterelay mornirg. M 4 match is for Ego guineas, and the pedestrian is backed at t; ta Mr. Topping, a farmer, who started from Oakirghan: Monday morning, to go 75 miles a day for four successive o.l"'s for a bet of 110 guineas, - resigned his task after doing 47 tr , l' on Wednesday. lie performed very well the firs: two d3r, b en the third his legs got uneasy, and he at length was too lame 0 proceed. BIRTII. On the 26th ult. at Yester-House, the Marchloses: of Two dale, of a sou and heir. LONDON Printed and published by Loren. Kusar, P•acU' - ••• -•- pLAcc, I'anrplr-liar. •