Star. — London, England, 1823-05-14 00:00:00

FRENCH FINANCE. The lifoniteur of Monday contains, in the official part, the law relative to the fixing of the budget of receipt and expenditure for 1824. ? Section I. The credits voted foe the service of 1824. I.—The expenses of the vonsolidated debt, snd of the antoWittement, are fixed at 237,086,308 francs. Sect.2.—The general expenses of the service are— Francs. General expenses _ - - - 523,952,859 Collecting, management, deficiencies, &c. - 126,704,489 Reimbursements, &c. . 6,089,000 Total - 658,776,348 Chapter 11. enumerates the taxes authorized for the service of 1894. Chapter 111. states the amount of the revenue for 1824 to be estimated at the sum of 896,334,190 francs. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1823. THE FUNDS. STOCK EXCHANGE. TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols opened this morning at ? lsl, f, went down again to I, a, at which price they remain steady. FOREIGN FUNDS. Spanish Bonds opened at 35i, j, but lowered again to 34i, with a heavy Market, and but little doing. Current Prices:—Chilian 67*, New Spanish 34135, Old nothing, New Prussian 821, Old 84, Russian 78*, Danish 90*, Neapolitan 74, Colombian 661 67. PRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 216% %-3 per Cent. Redu. 77% 78 3 per Cent. Cons. 78 1 / 2 3 / 4 -3% per Cents. 90 1 / 4 4 per Cents. Old 955 96 1 / 4 4 per Cents. New 985 99 985 Bank Long Anns. 195 15-16 Imperial 3 per Cents. 76 5 India ponds Ms. 40s. pre.—Old Annuities 77% Exchequer Rills of £l,OOO, 17s. I9s. Small 17s. 19s.—Bank for Payt.2l6% Cousols tot Payment 78V8 % 54. We have received this forenoon, by expvess, the Moniteur of Monday. It brings scarcely any addi tional news from the French army in Spain ; but among some articles of foreign intelligence, it con tains one which to this country is of very serious im portance. We trust that the'calamity which is said to have befallen our East Indian possessions will p:ovc to be greatly exaggerated, if at all of the mag nitude here represented. The article (which we have placed first in the subjoined extracts) is not, it v, ill be observed, of very recent date : BAGDAD, JANUARY 9. The last letters from Bussora announce that recent advice's from Bombay bring the melancholy intelli gence that extraordinary floods have caused ravages almost universal throughout the East Indies. They have destroyed at Surat and its environs twro thou sand houses ; reduced to nothing the City of Chitta, nearly the whole of Calcutta in Bengal; and destroyed almost ail the manufactures of inciigo in that country. TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCH, TRANSMITTED FROM BAYONNE ON THE 11 TII RAY, AT 4 T.K. BURGOS, MAY 10, A.M. THE MAJOR GENERAL TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE MINISTER OF WAR. The head-quarters have been here since yesterday. • The re ception given to his Royal Highness the Duke of Angoulemc was very brilliant: The first corps has commenced its on Valladolid. EXTRACT OF A LETTRR FROM VITTORIA, OF MAY 4. Everything is perfectly arranged for the arrival, from different points, of 60,000 men at Madrid. We are nearly masters along the whole line of the Ebro. The corps of General Molitor occupies the southern part of Catalonia; so that it is almost certain that Mina, pressed by the corps of Marshal Moncey, will find it impossible to escape With bis army. He may still, indeed, shut himself up in Barcelona, if he suc• coeds in escaping a rencontre with our troops." VIENNA, APRIL 21. Colonel Scheffer has arrived here from Rio Janeiro, on a special mission from the Court of Brazil to his Imperial Majesty. He was also the bearer of auto graph letters from the Archduchess Leopoldine, who styles herself Empress of Brazil, addressed to her' father, the Emperor of Austria. The object of Colonel Schcffer's mission was to prevail on the Court of Austria to recognize the legitimacy of the new order of things established at Brazil, and to take upon itsZlf the initiative of disposing the other Courts of Europe to a similar recognition. The Brazilian Envoy obtained a private audience of the Emperor Francis, who gave him a most distinguished recep tion, and assured him, that, being personally dis posed in favour of his son-in-law, he wished it were in his power to accede to his wishes; but that he could not take the initiative in an affair which could only be treated of in concert with the Allies of Aus tria, and to whom it ought besides to be forthwith proposed. His Imperial Majesty added, that what ever were his private sentiments in favour of Don Pedro, he could not applaud his resolution of taking the title of Emperor. advisable to return within their entrenchments with out any loss on either side. • - Idizooli has bean' latelttaimed Governor of Hydra aad Admiral in Chief of the Greek squadron. Forty-eight Ipsariot Chiefs, tad thirty-five Hy drints, are re4sly'for the approaching campaign. The Greeks sint already the song of victory ; 'they will have nothing to combat but frigates of secondary rP- 'rank." TINA, MARCH is. According to letters from Hydra, dated the 26th of February, Prince Maurocordato has, after a smart action, obliged Omer Virione to fall Lack on Thessaly. The same letters announce, that the troops who were in garrison in the Castle of Corinth had endea voured to force a passage to Patras, but their attempt was unsuccessful. They were stopped in their march by the Greeks, in superior numbers, and thought it • TRIESTE, APRIL 27. Our advices from Epirus confirm the disgrace of Omer Vrioue and several other Turkish Military Chiefs :who have hitherto commanded in that pro vince. They are very discontented at their removal, after allthe zeal and activity which they have displayed- It is by no means improbable that they may unite themselves with the Albaitian Turks, and set up in opposition to the Porte. In fact, anarchy is at its l height throughout Albania and Epirus. The Porte can no longer reckon on any of its agents. It has confided the supreme command of Epirus to the Pacha of Scodra ; but we are assured that he has de clined the dangerous honour. Private letters from Paris, dated Monday evening, state, that the Funds left off that day at 87f. SOc. and Spanish Bonds at ssi, but that they fell much lower after the closing of the Market. Private letters from Seville of the 26th express much doubt whether the Ministry last named by the KING will enter on their functions, inasmuch as Cat:. LATRAVA and ZOIRRAQUIN, the leading members of the new Cabinet, were—the former at Madtid, and the latter with MINA'S army. Some propositions on the part of France were expected at Seville ; but if an accommodation should not take place, it was un derstood to be theintention of the leading members of the Cortes to remove the ICING to Cadit, being desirous above an things to gain time, and to pro tract the contest as long as possible. We beg to direct the attention of our Readers to a Letter from a Correspondent,. in another part of our Paper, on the necessity of forming a regular Eccles' siastical Establithment in the West Indies, for the benefit not only of the white colonists, but mare par ticularly of the slave part of the population. It seems to us deserving of every attention. • Yesterday, at half-past two o'clock, his MAJESTY held a Court, at his Palace in Pall-mall, which was attended by The Lord Chancellor, the Lord Presideni of the Council, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Lord Privy Seal, the Secretary of State for the Home Department, the Master-6mMl of the' Ordnance, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the President• of the Board of Controul, the Master of the Mint, Viscount Sid month, Lord Bexley, the Lord Chamberlain, the Lord Stewed, the Groom of the Stole, the Vice Chamberlain, Earl Cathcart, Gold Stick in Waiting, the Treasurer of the Huttsehold, the , Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, the Recorder of London, Earl de la Warre and Colonel Watley were the 160fd ‘ and Groom in Waiting. i • His MAJESTY held a Privy Council, at winch the - Clerk of the Council attended; after which the Re corder of LONDON was admitted, and made his Re port of the convicts capitally convicted at the last , Sessions at Justice Hall; in the Old Bailey: His MAJESTY gave audiences to Earl iIARROWEIE and Mr. Secretary Pau,. The Court broke up at half-past four. Yesterday being his Most FAITHFUL MAJlarleS Birth-day; according to the custom observr,d at the Portuguese Legation, a solemn High Mass and Te Deem were performed at the Royal Portuguese Cha pel, in South-street, South Audley-street, at which were present M. de MORAVA SAILDIENT•O and Suite, dressed in their Court uniforms. The musk of the Mass was a selection from MozART, and the T Dann was the composition of the famous Portuguese Musi cian, MARCOS ANTONIO PORTUGAL, both which were very ably performed, to the great delightofn large and respectable congregation. - • KING'S THEATRE.—The Opera of Ott& was per formed last night, Madame CAtIPOREak having re. covered from her recent indisposition; and the Piece went off well till towards the last scene, the effect of which was destroyed by some accident which hap pened over the great ch at idelier,f ro In whence a copious shower of dirty water fell upon the well-drelsed (semi pants of the centre of the pit, to their great discomfi ture, and to the no slight disturbance of the House. DRURY-LANI.--The Operatic Drama of the Tra vellers; or, Alusids Fascination, was revived at this Theatre last night, with the aid of new:and beautiful scenery, and the transcendant abilitka of BRAHAN and Miss STEPH LENS. The formetwao encored in the two popular songs of " Beware of Love," and " The Trumpet sounds a Vidory," which be gave with one common energy and effeCtl and Miss Srarnana was no less successful in all the songs allotted to her part. It was received throughout with considerable ap- plause by a crowded audience. Extract of a private letter, dated Rochefort, Mare: —o The frigate la Flom sailed qn the 4th instant from the roads of the Isle of. Ai:, having under i ts. care eleven merchantmen, bound to the Antilles s thorwill there find other vessels of the Royal/level/J*4mill; bring them back to France. The gaiseoe„bi Pan there sailed at the same time as the corteoy, ! lc con• veys to the Isle of Garet, M.Hugon, Captekkeht fri gate, who is anted to thagovernment ofthat island: At the end bast month. the_bvig of war la Vigi lante, having been seothont la Rochelle, to convey to Bayonne 16 merchantmen, met IQ: on the wag! other vessels, bound to the same ports she added to her convoy s and after conducting them to lagy none, took charge of six vessels.that sailed froth: that port. She arrived in the roads of Ma yesterday.— The Vigilante did net soe a single privateer. She suet with a great number of ear merchantmen going, Bayonne and coming from that ports their all pro ceeded on the voyage with the greatest secnrity."— Afoxitenr. A letter from Lisbon; ..4ateti.tho lsibeatant, Stattl e that General Itioo livad lbeen recafecle.:..in coon quenee of his conduct in the affair of - AataaAnta, and that he was to be succeeded' by General Noon. THE, ARMY. , • lieutenant of Doverlea-sblre. Newell Maxwell. itaq. to be -- -4 by =.llSigned f the Lord LOcal blilitia—W3ite~ . Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant; vice De Peyote,. &email. Ansuridale•and Fskdale Local Militia—blejor John Carruthers to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Murray. deceased. . Comnaindons In the North Western Oxfordshire Regiment. George Lovell, Charles Hall, and John ChurcLill, Gents. to be Lieutenants; Samuel Field, Gent. to be Cornet. The New York Papers inform us, that, on the 20th of March, the British King's cutter GRECIAN de stroyed, off the Isle of Pines, the famous piratical schooner la Cata, after an action of twenty minutes. The piratical crew, with the exception of the killed and three taken, escaped on shore. The GRECIAN had two men wounded. These Papers contain se veral horrible instances of piracy. We copy the following article from the Glasgow CAronick,, but attach no credit whatever to the state ment: GREENOCK, MAY 9. —By the arrival of the Louisa, Captain Attics, from Trinidad, we have re ceived papers from thence to the , 23d of March. The Trinidad Gazette of the 19th contains the fol lowing article:—" By the arrival of the schooner, Sector, in &x days, from Porto Rico, on Tues day last, we learn fiat on the 4th instant ten ships of war and five transports attired at San Juan, the capital, direct from England, with the necessary credentials from the Spanish Government for the delivery of that important Colony over to Britain, which was accordingly done, and the British flag substituted for that of the Spanish. This, we under stand, was not suffered to take place without consi deration on the part of the Spanish Authorities, three or four days having elapsed before permission was given for the entry of the whole of the armament into the port, notwithstanding the authority produced on the -part of the . British. This squadron, no doubt, must have beep the 'sante as was reported to have passed Antigua , some time since; but so secret has the affair been conducted on the part of the Government at home, that not a hint has transpired of any such measure' being in contemplation as that of sending out a force in addition to the one under Commodore Owen, which was generally supposed intended for this purpose.* Rise or PRICKS.—Our Agricultural Readers will see by our Mark-lane Corn-Market account, that wheat is again on the start in 'price. Whether it be Mr. Connerv's friends, the Quakers, that are again speculating and getting up the price, we know not ; but certain it is, that this- May, it is not likely that the very best wheat will be so low as four shillings the bushel, or thirty-two shillings the quarter, as Mr. Con serr prognosticated it would be, except" PEEL's Bill were repealed." And yet " Pest's Bill" is not repealed; but on the. contrary, is in full operation, and there is no *ant of gold in England, as is proved by the high rata of exchange in favour of this country. ..—Mut then Mr. COBBETT says, the backward season is all against the fulfilment of his prognostications. If, says Mr. Cornier; the season had not - been so back ward my prophecies would have come to pass; but Us the season is so backward, as all the turnips have been comparatively destroyed, and as'all the grass has been put so backward in consequence of the snow, wet, &c. &c.—why, then, we cannot this year expect , the same sort of over-production that there war the last year, or that there' was for the three or four' years preceding The last year. Well, ups will, for ar ument sake, admit, that in this case Mr. Cttltat ay back out from his assertion with an if—but - thin if he be let off with an if, what , becomes of all l hfeuttedtpts to ridicule Lord LIVRIt• root, who itraiedly said that the late low prices ; might in a rat respect be accounted for from an' siverroduelsosArismg from the increased quantity of land in a stati of cultivation, together with the four sefive years of such seasons as England had not seen ] for 20 or 30 years yreceding. Did not Mr. CORBETT endeavour to fix on Lord Ltvsaroot and his pro selytes the nickname of " over-productionists?"— And yet now, when Mr. Conaerr finds that neither his prophecy with regard to Wheat, nor his prophecy irespecting Mr. Evil:: Bill is fulfilled, or likely to be fulfilled this year; he gets out of the scrape, by adopt ing the very same principle, as it respects a non-suffi cient production, or an Aver-production, that he at tertipted to ridicule in Lord LIVERPOOL and others.' " If," says Mr. CORBETT, "the season this year is not propitious, and there should be an under production, Wheat must rise, but if the season should be favour able, and we have as excellent crops as we have had for this • last four or five years, then Wheat will tum -Ible, and I shall have brave laughing at those who doubted of the infallibility of my writings. We remember the celebrated 'RICHARD BROTHERS for i several years prognosticated that his rod would, when he cast it down on a certain day in May, be turned into a serpent,• which was to precede all the Jews to Jerusalem; bat one May after another May arrived, aad still Mr. BROTHERS' prophecy was not fulfilled, He got away from the business, by say ing,' that the time was put off. And, as we men tioned the other day, JOHANNA SOUTHCOTT said for alsall/ years that her Ssitto was to come in May ; loit JOHANNA died, and her SHILO never appeared. So also Mr. CORBETT has put off the price of four shillings the bushel, or thirty-two shillings the quar gee for the tip-top wheat, till May 1824, except there should be an over productive season, when, if that should be the case, then he is to have some fine laugh jog, but it cannot be at Lord LIVERPOOL, for, by is:'ciwn admission, he has evidently come round so tiLord LIVERPOOL'S principle of oeer-prodiretioe 1414r41111111TT, therefore, may now be safely called of Lutslikwisemooes party of " over-productionists." If .(tonse ihttkponw n's Won rite word) corn and meat, • II . • ,kcsAlsooldicostinue to rise in price, or even remain at their present, prices, what will such landlords pet *tam think of having been frightened out of *sr corn and. bay-ricks, their cattle, butter, cheese, Aka. .in consequence of . implicitly believing in tiakrs of Mr. Cosine ? Will any of them we that there shoild be such a trade as writing, and publishing, i n order to amuse , and there- 1 p.40,5e11? But it is almost as hard to turn from air opinions those whom Mr. COBB S?? has got bold ieas.it is to make JOHANNA. "SOUTHCOTT'II disciples . e that her Sumo is not eveenow in existence; arid that, in due time, and on one of the days in May, :be twill, as jonnywa said in some of her sub lime retry, is In Mai appear, aid . joke all things cltar..—Morning Herald. " :t eJ NAVAL INTELLT6ZNCL The Lion, Bucafoacc, from Slakinham to Bahia, hai put back and been condemned. • - The Apollo, Una., of Whitby, foundered on Sunday nie r after scouring over the Gunfleet Sand. Crew saved. • • DA RTMOU TN, 'MA V 12.—Arrived the Clementine, Torso, frill Gibraltar, with loss of beats and tither damage r• the briny cm, vernment dispatches, and an ecaunt that the Marquis uf HA MA bad arrived there on the 29th ult. in the Gi.aunosarigu e , Calcutta, on his way to Genna. FALMOUTH, AIAT 12.—Wind S.W....Arereeil th e Di vite i l • ii Datum, from Cephalonia. ParmooTH, bIAT is.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the .X,:np4 4 WATtraps, from Messina. PoSTSWINITH, MAYI3.---Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the bee. pendent. CASTE*, from Malta. Dana, Mar 13.—Wind S.W.—Arrived last night and trik4 for the River, the Upton Castle, froni ; BAUM, from Calcutta; Rase, Constar, front 1161/0,Z..; v i j this afternoon, the Asia, from Gibraltar. Came down t;• en l e River this morning, the Princess atarlotce-of um! and Marquis of Wellington, linassumus. for Madre, a9d gal; George Home, Younc, for Batavia, Sineaport, Sze., Mi r a, for Tobago; Aurora, Musa, for Gibraltar; St. Ol tn i ris Yovso ' fur St. Domingo ; and Harleston, GuLuvra„ f ; a m t h e South Seas. The Bengal Merchant broke her anchor while weighing this morning, and hal. been supplied With anather. th e still remains. PASSBNCERS TftO)i BVICOAL, raa Tilt Parma Rrcon—Dr.J.ll. M' Whirter, Mrs. M' Whiner, two Niisses M' Whiner, and Master M'Whirter • Mrs. H. Hope. Miss Hope, and Mader Hope; 'Miss Plow den, and Master Plowden ; Mr. W. Croxford; U r . W. Bladen Taylor ; Mr. Atkins, Bengal pilot service; fire El ropean female servants, two native ditto, and one Native nine ditto; Master Robert Nighland died at sea. I'ASSIINGERS ran TUN Qawitt—Mr. W. Bathurst, from MS. gal; and Miss Kennedy, from St. Helena. The Pyramus. BILOOII, from London to Madras, was-spokes with by the Castle Huntly on the Line, all well . . CAPS or Goon More, filmiest O.—The Ganges, arrived from Dental, reports that the Dutch ship Sophia Cornelia, - front ar t:aria, was working into Port Louis, with loss of foremast and bowsprit, and other considerable damage, sustained during a heavy gale on the 26th of January. In a strong 'soutli-easter, on the 28th ult. the Ganges, limes, and :Mary, Svcissait„ parted from their anchors, and drove to sea, and have not yet snat/e their appearance, the wind having continued with peat iinience till the 3d inst. On the 2d, the sloop Success was also blown to sea. The Ganges arrived at St. Helena on the 224 Carross-House, MAT 13.—Ship. Entered tatiards:—The Express, from Gibraltar; St. Vincent's Planter, front• St. Vin egar's ; Juno, from Nassau; Delight, from Lisbon; Aurora. from Rouen ; Bee, from Waterford ; and Elizabeth, from ditto. Entered Outwards t—The Prince Saxe Coburg, for Rottenlatu; Elizabeth, for Malta; Nassau, for Gibraltar ; Ocean, fur Ham. burgh; Marshal Blucher, for Itotterdim ; Sir William Canis, for Calais; and Rockingham, for Calcutta.—Cleared Outwards: The Pilot, for St. Mary's ; Hawk, for Newfoondlatad ; Nimrod, for Quebec; Viscountess Down, for Hamhursh; Sir William Curtis, fur Calais; Trois Ames, for Antwerp; Hoffnung, for Stettin; Tamerlane, for Genoa; Catherine, fur Archangtl; and Astrea, for New Orleans. Durratsystrox or Parse-Moan.—The Margin a, for the Regis, on the nd of June; for the Centro, on the nth of June; and for the E.peranza, on the 16th of Jane; at No. 10, Lyon's Ins, Strand ; and recalled Mondays turd Thursdays. A' TAMS APPEAL TO MR. HUME. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. SlX—Permit a sailor, through the medium of your very respectable Paper, to address a few words 'to Mr. Hume. It appears, the Honourable Member intends let• curing my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, on the subject of Naval Promotions, on the 14th; and, from his being the very champion of Economy, little doubt can be entertained but that his arguments will be intended to shew that their Lordships, on this score, are not confined within sufficiendy UMW bounds. I am, unfortunately, with some others, an existing proof to the contrary; and can assure the Honourable Member, that there are several of the class of Midshipmen now serving their country, who have, by passing 'their examination, been qualified for Lieutenants these eight or nine years and upwards, and who have consequently been in the service four teen or fifteen years and more, and who have arrived at a time of life when the idea of still remaining on advanced is not a little harrowing to their feelings; when, probably, on entesing the service, they hail calculated on being, in the natural course demists, a Captain in the same lapse of time. Considering these simple facts, can it be-pcomisle the Honourable Member will permit Maisel/ orbs ' the organ of sentiments, the severity of which must prevent their Lordships from doing even tardy justice to this class of the Public's servants, their own fed hiss, and those of the country at large ?--I am, Sir, A wt. WESt INDIAN PIRACIES. It appears that the atrocities of the pirates in the West Indies, which had been partially suspended ing the sitting of Congress, have recommenterfunda circumstances of greater cruelty and rapacity, and ts a greater extent than ever, so as to threaten wadi& tion to the peaceful pursuits of commerce in that quarter. It has now become a frequent practice 10 murder the crews of the vessels captured, in orders prevent detection. All the vigilance of Con:modem PORTER'S squadron, consisting of steam-boats, ani other vessels constructed for ascending the rivers is pursuit of the pirates, has proved, inadequate to the cure of the evil. Matanzas,in Cuba, is the principal depot for the plundered merchandise, where a rep lar 4 , piratical price-current" is said to be Pohliabot and in which, to tempt purchasers, prices are simnel not one-third of the reel value. The population Matanzas are described as a lawlessset, pertain d the habits and character of the pirates themselves, Ea prepared to defend their ill-gotten property bt do most desperate actions. They boasted opsely having stoned the boat's crew of the Spark (an Aye rican vessel), which had the misfortune to fall in* their hands, and avowed their determinatio* 4 00 sinating Commodore PORTER or any of his Ofican should they venture to land in Cuba. At Porto . Rico, on the Bth of March, durieg tke stay of Commodore P9arza's squadrcuint that I an unfortunate event occurred. A vessel, named * Fox, was standing into the harbourof St. John's, who in consequence of having misunderstood the vrarsig to keep off, a shot was fired froni the Moro Cards which- killed, the Captain, Wm. Comte, and nwall sunk the vessel. The Governor of the fort, who 0 absent, threw the blame on the Commanding O and great pains were taken to represent t. 44 atairla an accident, which was probably the case, thouglo w Anserisan Commodore .expressed great indigos"' on the occasion. The object of his visit was 1 .2 1. mire into the character and description of th e PO' 'teas fitted out at Porto Rico.