Star. — London, England, 1822-03-22 00:00:00

Tll 1i; EVEN' NG STAR. lA)NDON. FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1822. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Owing to the reports from Paris, of War having been declared between the Russians and Turks, considerable filICtU44lOll/ took place in the market this morning. Consols opened at 80k, fell tit SOL and rose again to SQ. This moment another report prevails on 'Change, that all the differences between the Russians and - Turks have been amicably • settled, in consequence of which the market has changed its ap pearance, and Consuls are now 8O to if, with much badness transacting. There seems to be a general disappointment felt, in the Rank Directors not having given a positive answer, in regard to their discounting at 4 per Cent. ONE O'CLOCK. The chief business doing within the last hour bas been in the 5 per Cents. which have imprcved. The reports seem to have originated for Stock-jobbing purposes, and are not at all cre dited by the parties most likely to receive the earliest intelli gence upon so important a subject. CURRENT PRICES: 3 per Cent. Consols 80 1 / 4 80 3 / 8 1/ s 5 per Cent. 103 h 104% Imperial 3 per Cents. 80 3 /s India Bonds 545. 553. pre. Exchequer Bills of £l,OOO, 2s. 4s. pre. Ditto Small, 3s. 7s. pre. Consols for Acct. SOIA I/4 s/s. FOREIGN MARKET—ROYAL. EXCHANGE. A great deal of business is now transacting in the above mar ket. Although Spanish Bonds have somewhat declined since yesterday, there is a great demand for them this morning, gad the brokers are eager to purchase them; and it is expected that before the close of the market they willbe done at the same print they left off at yesterday. Old Spanish Prussian ]Knish Nearolitan - - 671 buyers - - 911 - 861 - - - - - 7I The French Funds come 29 cents higher. ROYAL EXCIIANGE This is the day appointed fur paying the Dividends upon the Columbian Old ilunds, and a good deal of business has been done in those Securities. A further Dividend of 5 per ct.ut. r be paid, it is understood, on the 22d of April. Pursitax Lois or £5,000,000, CONTRACTED sr Ms. N. M. ROTWiL:HIIII IN LONDON.—The half-yearly Dividend of this Loan failing due on Monday, the Ist of April next, will be paid as u , ual on that and every succeeding day, between the hours of Tca ard Two, at the Counting-house of the aforesaid, in New court, St. Swithites-lane. The Paris Journals of Tuesday have been received. Their contents a.e not of much importance, except the report that Russia has declared war against Turkey. Whether this may have already beer the case or not, a short time will-determine ; but we have never been among those who thought that the nego ciation between those two Powers was likely to be terminated amicably. Russia is too intently fixed on possessing the provinces of Wallachia and Moldavia as a preliminary step to her getting the whole of European Turkey, to be easily diverted friar: it by ' any temporising expedients; and if she has procrasti nated the negotiation, it has been for the double pur poie of deceiving the Powers of Europe, and suf. fering the Turks to be weakened by the warfare of , the Greeks : indeed their mutual extermination to a considerable extent. would perhaps be the most gra tifying to Russia. If the war on Turkey by the Persians had been carried on, the Porte might have felt so closely pressed as to accede to the terms proposed by Russia, and re linquish the two Principalities without a struggle:— but that not being the case, there is not the slightest probability of an adjustment of the difference be tween these two Powers; indeed private letters from Constantinople, dated the I 1 th ult. state, that the Austrian Intenruncio at Constantinople bad presented a Note to the Divan, requesting another interview ; but this is said to have been postponed from day to day, although Lord Srn A NGFORD had also requested, in form, theft both he and the official representative of the Court of Vienna might obtain an interview with the GRAND SCIGNIOR and his Ministers.' This cir cumstance shews that the Porte is little inclined to terminate, in an amicable way, those negotiations with Russia in which the British and Austrian Am bassadors have been such anxious mediators. Just as we were writing this we-received a Flan ders Mail ; and though the intelligence it brings adds little to our information on the subject, yet it is de cidedly warlike. The Brussels Papers contain a va riety of speculations on the reported death of Am PACD A ; and, notwithstanding the various versions of it which have appeared, we still doubt the fact: and, for the cause of the Greeks,' to whom he has lately been p powerful auxiliary, we should regret to find that he has fallen. The accounts from Corfu are very positive as to the death of Act ; and state, that CilounsciuD PAcISA, into whose hands he had fallen, had cut off his head, and transmitted it to Constan tinople: but letters from that capital, so late as the 12th of February, are entirely silent on the subject ; the head of Au had not then arrived, nor even the report of his death; but a story was in circulation, that ALl's wife, a Greek Lady, had promised to give him up, dead or alive, to the Turks. Could anything be more improbable Greek Lady give up the most powerful ally of her oppressed countrymen to their tyrannous rulers—and that Greek Lady a wife, too, giving up her husband! The thing is impossible, and cannot for a moment be credited. It i 5 repotted that letters have been received from • NAVA,. INTELLIGENCE.. . Aka..Genceal Meeting of the %hemlines to Lloyd% held en Wesinesday, a .sOns.was voted for the purpose of cutting caves and steps in the cliffs in the vicinity of Beachydllead, for afford. lag prOtection to the crews and passengers of vessels which may be =fortunately wrecketorl that dangerous coast, until they can be relieved from theledistrmeed situation; and it was %mita that the Lords or the Manors bad given their consent to so Ludable a plan, which will no doubt, when carried into effect, be the means of saving many valuable lives. 'lle following votes from the fund s of that establishment were at the same time passed, viz. XlOO in aid of a subscription at Aberdeen, for eight widows and twenty...three children of pilots and• boatmen, who were drowned in endeavouring to save the crew of the Mary, of Gar. denstown, on the 23d of January. 4'90 to the widow and children of a Deal boatman, a n d t , ave. Deal boatmen, -for endeavouring to.save the crew of the Hoffmang, from llamburgh to St. Thomas's, wrecked on t h e Goodwin Sand. .C5O to the father of a Midshipman in the Royal Navy, who lost his life on the 34 ult. in going off to - the Thames East fain. man when on shore near Eastbourne. • ser,o to the parents and widow of two seamen of Montrose, who were drowned after taking three people from a wreck. ,C 25 to the crew of the Eugenie, of Nantes, for saving the crew of the John and Risbert, from New Brunswick to Liverpool. Several smaller sums for the encouragement of such disin.o. rested and meritorious ccnd act were agreed to; as well as acne votes for the establishment of life-boats on different i arts of the coast. Extract of a letter from Lloyd's Agent at 'Malaga, _daterl the 2d inst.—J. By a Decree of the Cortes, sanctioned by-the a duty of one dollar per ton is imposed on all foreign yr... , (without exception) that may enter any port in the Pcnir.sula Spain, whether they discharge or not. The brig Iberselia, Sitervirtu, of New Landon ; and Oer2r, of Boston, have been captured by pirates, and carried into .1 and were burnt by the Royalists previous to the Patriots saki:: ; ; possession of that place. The Curlew, WiIfELSR, for Port-au-Prince; Remzee, At /MIMIC, for the liavannah ; and Amazon, llAmmt, for ; were wrecked on Abaco, in June. Dew Mmecti, 21.—'Find S.W.—Arrived and sailed for th, ! Iliver,the Orpheus, FINDLAY,from the Mauritius and the Cape; sailed from the Isle of France on the 13th December, from the Cape on the 14th January, and from St. Helena on the 29th January; on the gth February :roke the Globe UrzeNs, front London to the Isle of France, crossing the ' Line—all well. Came down from the River and remains, the Economy : l'aorrar, for Demerara. :he ilecolutinn, .-. MARCH THORPE, from London for Jimaica ; alio, the :' , Lnulei, from London for Cork and New Sow() Wal:•s. FALMOUTH,. MARCH 20.—Wind variable.—Arrived :he Nimble. GALE, from Cork. • Cane. \Wien 20.—The Charlotte, on shore near Hiller!• burgh, has not yet been got off; the Angelina has gone into dock, and has sustained little damage, but part of her cargo (99 bests of linen) is considerably damaged. Custox-House, MARCH 2L—Ships Entered Inwards: Ntot Harmony, from Harlingen; Rambler, from Smyrna; from Hamburgh i Marie Anne, front Caen ; Tectcrdrn, fr,,r n Lisbon ; Sarah, from Waterford ; Latona, from Demerara ; Ruby and Sarah, from St. Michael's; Accord, from Rouen; Prin ce Regent, from Ross; Comet, from New York. Entered Out wards: Alexandrine, for Rouen; Alfred, for Marseilles; Flora, for Antwerp ; Rachael, for Ilantburgh ; Good Intent, for Rot terdam. Cleared Outwards True Blue, fur Limerick ; Maria, for St. Michael's ; Ann, for Dantzic ; Active, for C. laic ; liam, for Naples; Telemachus, for Rotterdam ; .Lan, for Lisbon; Cybele, for :Thramichi ; Mars, for 'renerille ; George, for Rot terdam; Venelia, for Sumatra; Blucher, for Perit.mbezu ; Hughina Jean, for Jamaica. A Kim En--At St. !!elem.., the Acasta (whaler). At Jamaica, Matilda, Jones, front Liverpool. At Leghorn, fortune, Down. ing, from Yarmouth; and John Baker, Anleby, from London. At Dublin, Eliza, Knightly, from Cadiz. At Liverpool, Liddell, Liddell. from Berbice. At Cowes, Eliza, —, front Virgittir. At Dover, Ruby, —, from St. Michael's. Accounts from Kerry, in the Dublin Papers of Ti.e -, day het state that the peasantry in that County are retuming t,) habits oi peace and industry. Fot r more persons, charged with th-.. mur der of Mr. BucrrioN, were committed to the jail of Kilk.;n.y on the 12th instant. ENGEM* OPERA horse.—The yet-Fort/Ince of Mr. MATrrrr; last night went off with increase 1 t ffect. The [louse diq!ayeti a crowded and fashionable audience. The noise and buqie GE their carriages and servants rendered the Strand in the (nu t of the Theatre a most 4nimated scene until a late hour. In:mem—An inquest was held at the Golden Anchor, in Leadenhall-street, on the body of T. Vi * ii.on. It appeared that the deceased went to Messrs. Moore and Jones, ch. mists in Leadenhall-street, for some salts; when the porter, a boy, gave him oxalic acid instead, which the deceased took, and soon after expired. Thomas Wheatley (the foreman to Messrs [Aiwall and Mollin, in whose service the deceased was), went to the shop, accompanied by Dr. Pugh; when the boy, who could tut read, pointed out a drawer, whence he had taken the FA,lnous drug, which was marked " oxalic acid ;" and whir there, a Gentleman came in who had suffered, but in a mitiga:ed de gree, from a like cause. The antidotes Dr. I ugh gave ta the latter saved his life, but were ineffectual with regard to the de ceased. John Richardson, the boy, was then examined; hc had never been authorized to serve, and bad only been engaged a fortnight. Ile sold the two parcels alleged; his master and the apprentice were in the house, but he served because the latter did not answer the bell. The master and apprentice also de clared they had never authorized the porter to serve.—The Co roner and Jury were satisfied the death was the effect of acci dent, and gave a verdict accordingly. FATAL BOXING. Wednesday evening, two labourers having quarrelled at a public-house in Blackfriar's-road, they agreed to decide it by boxing. They accordingly met yesterday morning in a firld ar New-Cross Turnpike, when, after an unscientific fight of an hi ur and a half, one of them, named Coxhead, was thrown a heavy fall, and Ulan on the spot, by the rupture of a vessel on the brair. Corfu, which mention that the Turkish fleet had, might lead us to presume that the report of his death landed le,ooo men at Prevesa, in Epirus, who, joinedrater! l 7 been spread by The Tartish General, in with the army there, made a force of S:SAOO, and despair of suctess ; and we knew that the -Porte has had marched against the Greeks in the Morea. This long since announced this terrible Satrap as on the defeat of the Grecian fleet must I point of being subdued. is not probable : the first be accomplished. Letters from Semlin, of the 26th of February, cor- roborate these doubts. They say that letters from Constantinople, pp to the 11th, received at Belgrade, say very little of the difficulties to which Ali is re duced, and nothing at all of the catastrophe said to have terminated his life. They therefore began to think at Semlin that the report spread by the Tartar the day before, who pretended to have seen with his own eyes Ali's head carried about Constantinople, was prematufe. Yet it is remarkable that accounts of the death of the tyrant arrive from different quar ters; but this very circumstante excites the more doubt, and makes it supposed that the report of his death is but a new stratagem of the old toff to de feat the plans of his enemy, as he had done before with complete success. However, we shall probably learn the truth by the arrival of the next accounts from Constantinople, which will be of a later date than the 13th of February. BRUSSELS, MARCH 16. Lucien Bonaparte arrived here yesterday afternoon. MARC!! 17.—Frojn the Report of the proceedings of the Second Chamber of the States-General, it ap pears that several Petitions have been presented to the Chamber, asking for measures to relieve the dis tress of the agriculturists. Some wish the importa tion of grain to be prohibited or restricted, others de sire some modification of the salt duty. We give the following extracts from American Papers received to the 26th February : NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 25. FROM HAVANNAH.—We ate indebted to Captain Hopkins, of the brig Otter, from Havannah, for the following :—The Otter sailed in company with a fleet of American vessels, under convoy of the United States sloop of war Hornet, and arrived at Ilavannah on the 3d, from Pensacola. Three piratical boats sailed from Havannah on the Ist instant, and returned on the 4th, laden with goods, and were taken pus• session of by the Government. One of the Captains and one man were put in confinement.—The brig Leander, of New York, had arrived at llavannah, from Teneriffe; she was boarded, about three league, east of the Moro, by a piratical boat. A French Gentleman, passenger, was treated in the most shame ful manner. The following are extracts from the French Papers of Tuesday : PARTS, MARCH ie. A letter from Frankfort on the Main, dated the 14th of March, states, that a commercial traveller, who had arrived that morning, brought intelligence that the Russian Ambassador at Vienna, had, on the 10th instant, officially informed the Austrian Govern ment of the declaration of war against the Porte by Russia. It was announced yesterday afternoon on 'Change, that a great Banking-house had received an express, announcing the declaration of war between Russia and the Ottoman Porte. Yesterday the Chamber of Deputies were still en gaged in discussing the Budget. On Sunday, about five o'clock, a Commissary of Police repaired to the house, No. 36, Rue Chautereine, where Mr. Williams, an English merchant, lodged, i land proceeded to examine his papers, in which he occupied himself nearly five hours. Mr. Williams, was just on the point of returning to England with his wife, and all his trunks were already sealed up. He was, however, seized and conducted to the Pre. fecture of Police, as were an English Major Daltivlin (Baldwin we presume), and an English domestic of the name of Morgan. • . It is said that the British Ambassador has remon strated against this extraordinary conduct of the po lice to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. The mo tives for arresting these Gentlemen,- or seizing their papers, are unknown. It is said, that there being reason to suppose that General Berthon and his accomplices have taken refuge in the forest of Parthenay, numerous divisions of troops and gendarmerie have been ordered to pe netrate into it in various directions. Every Com mander has received orders to employ all the means in his power to take the Chief of this revolt alive. A momeetary alarm has been excited at Chauay (Aisne), by the sound oldie tocsin. The people went to the Church, where they arre,ted a person, who said he was a dancing-master, just arrived - from Pa ris, and that he had sounded the tocsin to assemble his comrades. In fact, they perceived out of the town several men, meanly dcessed, who, being pursued by the National Guards, fled into the woods. A detach ment of cuirassiers at,:lgendarmCrie is in pursuit of them. His Majesty got into his carriage at three o'clock, and drove to Choisy. Ills Majesty was ac companied by the Due de Duras, the Duc de Gram mont, and the Due d'Auoray His Majesty was every where received with acclamations of joy, FRANKFORT, MARCH 0. A letter from Constantinople, of 11th February, states that that city was surrounded with troops that continued to arrive from Asia. Large corps' were assembling about Adrianople. The Porte has, fur the third time, offered an amnesty to the insur gents of the Archipelago. Many persons think that the Turkish Government, as soon - as it has distri buted part of the Janissaries along the Danube, will endeavour to effect the 'reform which it has loos pro• jetted in the Ortas at Constantinople, which are very ill disposed. French Funds, March 18.—Five per Cents. opened at 89 f. 55 c.—Ckned, 39 f. 70 c. This forenoon we received a Flanders Mail, bring ing Brussels Papers to the 20th inst. The following arc extracts: FRANKFORT, MARCH The different mercantile letters which we receive from Vienna, Petersburgh, Odessa, and Constanti nople, are all of a warlike tendency. But it is easy to see that these are mere reports circulated on 'Change, which are soon put down by succeeding accounts.— We, however, think that war is at hand. AUGSBURO, MARCH Is. A letter from Vienna states, that the latest news . from Constantinople, of the date of 12th February, make no mention of the arrival and exposure of the head of Ali Pacha in that capital.—Aligemeine Zeitung, March 10. The Tartar courier, who, according to a letter from Semlin of the 25th of February, related all the circumstances of which he pretended to have been an eye-witness, left the Turkish capital on the 13th of February, a day later than the above. This is another proof of the difficulty of obtaining certain information. Among the many reports which have already been circulated on the fate of Ali, the following is quite a new one, given by the same Paper (the Allgemeine Zeitung) to-day, 12th March, under the date of Con stantinople, 10th February : gi Chourschid Pacha has announced to the Sultan, that the wife of Ali Pacha (a Greek of Larissa) had promised him to deliver up her husband, dead or alive ; on which Chourschid had promised pardon to all persons belonging to Ali. We, therefore, expect every hour to hear that he is really given Ur." The difference of all these reports, which some times declare Ali to have been delivered up alive, sometimes to have been assassinated in his palace, sometimes say his head has been carried about in triumph at Constantinople, and which from day to day leave us in doubt whether he it alive or dead, " ORDER OF THE DAY. "JEAN PIERRE BOYER, PRESIDENT OF HAYTI. " Our compatriots in the territory formerly subject to Spain, having percJved their true interests, have addressed to me that adhesion to the laws of the Republic, and claiming the sacred rights of proxclon, upon which tiny may count with confi dence ; men %%Ise and experienced are placed at the head of a force wl ich may be necessary to maintain order, and ebout to enter that territory. " Dining the march of these troops, should any of those evil disposed persons, who, under an affected zeal for the public ser vice, be guilty of depredations or traher acts injurious to the mili tary character, it is declared here that the said individual who shall be guilty of any acts of pillage, shall be delivered for trial ea the field to a Military Commission, and tried, and if con deuund, punished with death as a traitor. (Signed) " BOYER, President." The late advices from China state, that the reign ing Emperor has issued several Edicts, restraining and forbidding the admission of Missionaries from Europe, who have arrived in that Empire with a view to propagate the Christian religion. It will be seen from our daily Police Reports that the Parish Committee are very active in endeavouring to discover the per petrators of the atrocious murder of Mrs. Dotrarry ; but, while we give them every credit for their zeal and honest intentions, we cannot but question their discretion, and even doubt that the means they resort to are calculated to further the ends of justice. Since the murder was committed, there has scarcely a day passed in which persons have not been taken up on suspicion.— The whole of them have, indeed, been readily discharged, with the exception of those examined yesterday; but this is a very poor atonement for the reproach they must endure with their censorious neighbours, of having for a moment been suspected capable of such a crime as murder. Another objection we have to the proceedings of this Committee is, that the Gentlemen are not content with seeking to discover the murderers by the most rigorous examination, but resort to those silly superstitions which we hoped were only left to figure in a romance, or to be mentioned as 'hewing the ignorance of former ages. It will be recollected that previous to the funeral of Mts. Domorre, some of the members of her family were asked to touch the body, and we were told that they did so without ex hibiting any signs of emotion. Whether the Gentlemen sup posed that the touch of the murderer would cause the mortal wound to bleed afresh or that they only sought evidence of guilt iu the expression of the countenance, we know not. Yesterday we find the prisoners examined were subjected to a new ordeal. One of the Gentlemen of the Committee shewed the finger of Mrs. Donatty, preserved in spirits, to the prisoners, and watched their countenances very closely to see what effec t it had on them. We repeat that every praise is due to the Com mittee for their zeal and exertions; and we hope that they will be crowned with success—that of bringing to justice the authors of a most atrocious crime ; but we cannot but think that two or three active and skilful police officers would have been better calculated to manage the business than a Committee of Gentle men or tradesmen. Accounts from Norfolk and Suffolk state, that the refractory disposition of the labourers In these two caunties has been con siderably subdued by the proceedings of the Magistracy, aided by the Yeomanry. Saturday last, at Framllngbam, several persons who had been active in breaking and burning threshing-machines, &c. were con victed under a new Act, the first of the King," fur the summary purisbment, in certain cases, of persons wilfully sr maliciously damaging or committing trespasses on public or private pro perty ;" and being unable to pay the penalties, costs, and charges, they were severally committed to the jail of Ipswicl. for three months bard labour; besides twelve persons scut to the Jail Its take their trials at the ensuing Assizes. PEDESTRIANISM. Wednesday morning, Mr. RATHIY, a gentleman of fortune, residing at the west end of the town, started to run ten miles in fifty-six minutes, for a stake of 200 sovereigns. TMie was the favourite, at od ds of six and seven to four. The spot of ground chosen was two miles on the Edgware-road, and the pe4cstrian started at seven o'clock, performing the distance in 55 minutes and 50 seconds. BETTING AT TATTERSALL'S, MARCH 2t. Gi to 1 agst Sycorax 7 to 1 agst Whalebone 15 to 9 agst Muley 12 to 1 apt Midsummer 13 to 1 agst Antonio 14 to 1 agst Landscape 14 to 1 agst Mystic lu to 1 agst Stamford 20 to 1 agst any other 30 to 1 agst Niobe. Se to 1 agst Pastille ti to 1 agst Cat Rimultswoarii-6 to 4 agst Midsummer. MARKETS. 7 to 1 agst Rosalind Coax FACHANOt, MARX-LANZ, MAROS 22.—Although the sup ply of Wheat since Monday has been small, yet it has been more than adequate to the demand, and only the finest qualities could be got off at that day's prices ; the inferior descriptions remain on hand, for want of buyers. Fine malting Barley is Is. per quarter dearer than on Monday, and met ready sale at that ad vance; but there is not the least amendment in the price of the ordinary samples. Oats were dull sale, and rather cheaper.--. In Beans and Peas there is no alteration. SIUTHVIILD 111 A RIC ET, MARCH 22.—There was a good market this morning of all descriptions of Cattle, in consequence of which the various prices of all kinds of Meat are lower than on last market-day. Nothing but prime Beet obtained last market lday's price. Hay, Straw, and Clover as per last.—Curreucy Beef, 24. Od. to 3s. 81. per stone of Sibs.; Mutton, 2s. 01. to ss. 6d. Veal, 4s. Od. to Ss. Od. Pork, 2s. Od. to 3s. 80. Cattle at Market : Beasts, 520; Calves, 120; Sheep and Lambs, 4,600; Pigs, 169.—Uay and Straw per load, Hay, 31. 105. to 41. 4a. Clover, 4/. Os. to 41. 15s. Straw, I/. Bs. to It 16s. HIGH•W ATER at LONDON BRIDGIE TO- ?A 011 It o‘t hic Wag • - 30 minutes after 2 Afternoon , LONDON : Printed and published by Lieu tm,.l'iskt tt Plate, Temple-Bar. ~~ ~~, ♦'