Star. — London, England, 1823-10-13 00:00:00

AUCtielle ...... • wee. ••• •• • Beer Bricks sad Tiles ...., Candles Wes sadCoooa. Cider, Perry, sod Verjuics Glass Hides sod Skins— • Hops Licenses Malt Paper • Pepper Printed Goods ........... Salt . Soap i 1 .! Spirit c British ' 3P-- i Foreign. l Starch Stone Braes Sweeta..i Tea Tobacco & Snuff Vinegar 4. Wine Wire An ACCOUNTof the PRODUCRof October 18g2 a THE Rt.VENUE. Um:MCCUE DUTIES of GREAT BRIT ka4 1525, sbewhig the Isar* Ow Demme I scam mai ccf:l4, 1822. 278,241 40,60. . . -• 4,266 - I M 7. . 5,857 - - 1 140,092 36,574 - 6,457 - 56,233 ,- 1 230, acrease. : DM. 2, 37 I=l, 0 .... 31,05 S.. 0 .... 22,1 .- 43,36 216,011 - 9,4 37,670 - - 792 46,404 - - 4,953 178,089 1 .-- ..—. I 610,292 40,909, ... 9,691,7) 313,91 341,9: 339,7! 152,51 684,'L .301,851 165,148 566,861 1,464;500 1,046.9011 1,087,81 1 3,052,01 , 2,2139P8 1,G91 63, 0 05 67:261 3,599 2,936 5,101 -.10.958 3,458,819 3,318,127 2,499,268 2,535,842 41,744 48,181 965,567 991,800 8,168 1 7,928 215.4011 -6 11 143,0981 5,061; 150,1! 1M11ME.......... 1 ••• •...m 25,846,3231 14,401,2341 647,827 2,282,915 1 7 1 Deduct Increase .. 647,8271 LORD NUGENT AND MORILLO. Lord Nugent, on his way out to Spain, touched at Vigo ; he found the place in possession of Morillo and the French : and was surprised to receive a letter from that person couched in the most civil terms, begging the honour of an interview, and expressing a desire to know what the people of England thought of the Spa niel contest. Lord Nugent, with that disdain which is natural to every manly and honest mind, at the contem. plation of baseness and treachery, refused the interview in the following note : " The name of Morillo is only known in England as that of the a man who was the persecutor of liberty in America, and a traitor to its cause in Spain. Never with my own will shall Ibe uudyr the sable root with Morino." " So much for Buckingham!" Lord Nugent left Cadiz on the 17th in a small yach:, which was able to effect her escape from Cadiz with very little trouble. It is hoped that those of the Corms who are most committed will find their way to Eng land with equal facility. The wretched want of skill of the French marine gives great hopes on this point. Sir R. Wilson, we believe. was still in Cadiz when the last accounts came away : he had been very actively ex erting hiniself in the deielice of Cadiz, but had no regu lar command or commission : his chief occupation had been the fortification of the Cortadura. Decrease on the Year X 1,44.5,088 1 6,834,11 , Decrease on '2'01,801 Increase ... 737,680 291,801 constant labour for several days, and had not had the proper reliefs, became completely exhausted, and it is believed fell asleep. About two in the morning, it being exceedingly dark, the French crossed the canal, having their allies, the Spanish Ultras, in their front. The noise, in some degree inseparable from the move ment of so large a body of men, just served to arouse a little the attention of the sleepy garrison; but their alarm subsided when they beard themselves carelessly addressed in the Spanish tongue w ith the ph rase of " Don't disturb yourselves; we are all friends. " So re assured, they laid themselves down, and it was not till after some time that they saw a body of men in the garrison far outnumbering themselves. They now took the alarm ; the bugle sounded to arms ; and present') a body of their friends came up and fired, but being addressed in Spanish by their opponents, who asked them in affected astonishment how they could fire on their comrades? they became ea.ha:rass•d: and in aa instant the contusion was rt ndered inedrable by the ar rival of a large body of French troops. Thus in the confusion resistance was impossible, and the.Ft enchos ith scarcely any loss, took possession of the fortress. . When the snob met the next day before Caiatravis ; house, he told them this story, adding that the Liente inint, through whose neglig ence this fatal event had happened, had been killed ' 'by the first shot ; the mob then quietly dispersed. 13esides, the good disposition of the inhabitants of Cadiz, of the militia of Madrid, which were staunch to a man, and of the regular troops, who had given no ground for suspicion, there were other circumstances which, to outward appearance, gave hope' that Cadiz woujd hold out, at least for a month or two. The town was amply supplied wilt provisions; befote the taking of Santi Petri, the passage from Gibraltar to, Cadiz was performed ssith such ease and with so little tisk, that the rate of insurance seldom exceeded two and tt quarter and never three F ee cent. Even alter the taking of Sant; Petri, oss jag )tartly to a change in the winds, and chiefly to the extremely bad beanvanship of the French, vessels could go in and out of the harbour , of Cadiz with scarcely any tisk. -And yet, with all these advantages, Cadiz has fallen without a blow I To what is this to be asct ibed ? To no want of courage, as we have shcwn, in the People ; to no want of courage or of honesty in their Governmspt : for 'slaver and honester men than Calatrava, Valtffz, and Alava, do not exist ; but to the utter ignorance of all neces,saq details of business, to sluggishness t f character, to want of fore cast, and, what will appear incredible, but which was the consequence of the foregoing defects, their absolute want of information as to the events daily haepening in every part of Spain. In another part of our Paper we have given an account of alleged conspiracies in the nava:malt and St. Lucia; these are, however, to be received with caution, since from all that we can learn the state ments are exaggerated from the fear.; of the Colonists. The Washington National Gazette. of the 6th of Septem ber, received this morning, positively asserts that the statements in the Baltimore papers, relating to the con• spiracy at the 1-lavannah, are much exaggerated, and that the futile attempt at insurrection has only strength ened the hands of Government. We have received a file of United States Papers to the 19th ult;by which we learn that sickness to an alarming extent prevails, particularly in the Western States. The following article on the subject of the Colombian Loan we quote from the Baltimore Ameri can of the 18th September. 66 We learn by letters from Colombia, received at New Yoi k, that the Congress of that Republic adjourned on the 7th of July, after having ratified the Loan con tracted in England by Mr. Zea, and authorised a nego elation for a new Loan of thirty millions of dollars. The letters state that the Senaterefused to confirm the no mination of Mr. Rasenga as Minister to England, and at present acting these as the agent for the Government.' Philadelphia Papers to the 21st ult. reached us this morning. They contain accounts from Batavia of the 26th May, stating that the Dutch Expedition to Pedang has been dreadfully cut up by a warlike tribe inhabiting the mountains; and that considerable force will be re- Squired to enable the Dutch to extend their territories,or even maintain their authority in that part of the island. Imam. HERVIT, Esq. has been appointed Envoy on a special mission to Mexico. The following appoint ments have also taken place s CHARM TUADDItaI O'GoamAN Esq. to be Consul-General to Mexico; CHARLIMI kACltatrala. Esq. Consul at Vera Cruse JAMES HaNDEILSON Esq. Consul -G eneral at Castha. gena ; WOODlllat itatall s )1311. Ek. COUSUI•CTOGeraI at , tens Ayres. The evening of the 29th ultimo, the carpenter of his Majesty's sloop . GoLartssen, was unfortunately drowned to attempting to swim co board. RECENT EVENTS AT CADIZ. We have been made acquainted with some interesting facts, which throw tq.on the late proceedings at Ca diz and the Trocadero. The date of these facts is by s :vet al days cat lier than the capture of Cadiz ; but they serve to abate our astonishment at that unfortunate event. It seems that even the treachery of those Ge nerals who had been entro,fed ‘,itit important corn. !minds, has not been so ruinous to the cause of liberty, as the want of energy and talent in those who were un questionably faithful. The inhabitants of Cadiz. the militia. and the troops of the-line, were all well disposed to the Constitution—all brave, and pet fectly ready to defend it even to death : but the want of sagacity, the negligence, and even apathy of their leaders, precluded all chance of success. As an illustration at once of the courage and negligence of the Spanish, we will re late what passed before and at the taking of the Tro cadero. Our account comet from an eye-witness. Two days before the surprise of the fort, it was observed that the French irere rapidly crossing the canal in two co lumns, each nearly two thousand strong. The Spaniards betrayed no kind of alarm, but put themselves in rea diness to meet the attack. Some English Officers who were there advised them to reserve their fire till the French should begin to mount the glacis. The troops of the garrison, consisting of the Madrid m ilitia and the regiment San Martial, implicitly followed this advice— they waited till the French ascended the crest of the glacis : they theta poured upon them a fire of grape and st.wketry, which made them give way ; and then, as sisted by their English friends, they dashed into the ca nal after them, and repulsed the two columns with the bayonet, wading up to their necks in water. It might be supposed that with such defenders the Trocadero was safe; yet two nights after it was taken almost without resistance, under circumstances the most humiliating. On the night, or rather morning, of its capture, about balf-past two, a loud shrieking was heard in the streets of Cadiz, and women with children in their arms were running about, exclaiming, " that they were sold, be trayed:" that " the French were at the gates." This ex traordinary alarm arose from the circumstance of seve ral boats having been seen to approach the Isla, clme to Puntales, while by the light of the fire from the batteries and some gun-brigs, soldiers were seen disembarking in great numbers. A cry was at the same time heard, that the Trocadero was taken. An immense mob immedi ately collected, and beset the Government-house, where the Prime Minister Calatrava, and his colleague, Man zioares, were in deliberation. The Ministers soon ap peared at the windows, and a spokesman was appointed by the mob, who all remained perfectly silent while he stated the object of their assembling. He said they did Lat come to disturb or frighten the Ministers: they ume solely for justice; they had heard that the 'f cadero was taken : they wanted to know whether its crpture was owing to treachery, cowardice, or neglect? —lf it was owing to any of these causes, they de n.anded the punishment of the offenders. The Minister Camara answered, that all he knew at present was the fact which they all knew from report, that the Troca dero was taken; but the cause of that deplorable catas trophe he did net know. He would, however, immedi ately institute an inquiry among the soldiers who were arriving front that garrison, and would in the morning acquaint them witK the result. For the present be bade them, in the name of the law, depart to their homes. The mob cheered him, and immediately disper,sed.-- Calatrava and Manzanares then began their incitiiry among the soldiers who had escaped; and after an in. vestigation which lasted all night, they collected the following facts.: It appeared that a guard, consisting of a Lieutenant and about forty tnen,itad been appointed to keep watch an that part of the fortress which was most accessible from the Canal. The men, who had beea harassed with r ►m in the Yuan and Qaadera Da eae► bead ebereef. 411Linsiis maws act. 11 11142. I 1{43. , 161,57b1 101,2 - 93,1 73,17 1,696,1 172,157 38,711 187,411 59.144 300,83:1 1 480,470 522,190 17,033 1,340 8%9,74 651,0 62,7 . 27,1 6,169 27 11 1514 12161 1,743,404 147,174 601 22,'..1/3 1,12. 3,110 69.5,273 704,732 13,790 POYALB LOAN. NOTICE is hereby given, that the HALF YEARLY DIVIDEND of thls LOAN will be paid to the Bond holders, on the Ist day of NOVEMBER next, and any subsequent day (Sundays excepted), between the hours of Ten and Two o'Clock. The Dividend Warrants to be left fbr-esuiraination at the Count ins-house of the Subscriber, one day previous to receiving the Divi. dead. HERMAN HENDRIK& 7, Totenhouse-yard, 11th October, 1823. SPANISH LOANS OF 1821 AND 1822. HE DIVIDEND payable in London on the I st T November nest, on the Spanish Five per Cent. Consolidated Annuities, now in circulation, of the Loans of 1821 and 18 , 22, ne gociated by Messrs. Ardoln, Hubbard, and Co. and countersigned by them and Messrs. J. LaMtte and Co. of Paris, will be paid at the house of A. F. Hausmann and Sons, No. 24, CAteatomstreet, on that and 'very succeeding day (Sundays excepted), between the hours of Ten and Two. It will be necessary to leave the Dividend Warrants, with Lists thereof, in numerical order, distinguishing the different claw', for examinatiun. at least Iwo days previous to the application for payment. SIANIhI - 1 CERTIFICATES of RENTES delivered to the Mitten, of protested Bills and Orders in favour of Bri tish Claims on Messrs. I3ernales and Nephews. The DIV 1 DLIND payable in London on the Ist November next on the above Spanish Five per Cent. Consolidated At.nuities, now In circulation, and countersigned *by James Campbell and Co. wiil be paid at their House, No. 2, Bank-street, on that and every succeeding day (Sundays excepted), between the hours of Ten and Two. It s ill be necessary to !cave the Dividend Warrants, with Usts thereof, in numerical order, distinguishing the different Classeq, for eiamisation, at least two days previous to the application for pay ment.—London, 6th Ottober,l62.l. THE 14.:1` EN LNG Sl'A It. LONDON. MONDAY, OCTOBER 13; 13 1 23. THE FUNDS. STOCK EXCIIANGB. TWIET.VE O'CLOCK. ' Consols opr.•::1 this mottling at WI, fot the Account, at which price they remain steady. The Fspresses from Paris have brcight the French Funds of Saurtlay at 90f. GUc. Spanish 45. A good deal doing in snaking up the accounts. FOREIGN FUNDS. Iu Colombian Bonds there is a brisk Market. Spanish opened at 34k, is is 35i; New Spanish :7j* ; Old .T.:10, ; BUISi4II 64i ; Old Poyais 171. New Puy. has been done at 18, and is now 11 4. Plt ICE 01: STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. 3 rer (ent. Reduced 83 ex. div. 3 re- Cent. Cons. 83% Vs S'k pet Cents. 96 1 4 ye ec. div. 4 per Cent. Old 100 1 / 4 3 / 8 ex. div. 4 per Cents. New 101 1 / 4 Bank Long Atin.. 21 ex. div.—lndia onds 70s. 71s. Ntcl . equer Bills (CI,)) t10 395. 38s. 405. Do. POO) 395. 38s. 403.—(£100 and £200) 41s 40s. t.oti,ols toi Acct. 83%.. It would be unreasonable to expect that the Public should have in recollection anything which so loose•a -talking Journal as the A imes can have said three month& back; but those who do, must, we think, have been struck with equal astonishment and disgust, on reading an article which appears in that Journal this moining on tl:e subject of the Revenue. In remarking on the returns for tie Midsummer Qitarter, the Tiones4ofJoly litl4 frankly acknowledged that they presented " a very cheering aspect of affairs," and that we were now " endeavouring to rectify our concerns in Me way of honest men, and by Mc marines of common sense." Since this honest acknowledgment was made the aspect of affairs has in no respect changed; except it be Boni " rery clieetine I t o still more cheer ing ;" and yet, what do we read in the Times of to-day? " The usual annual and quartet I y setuins of the Revenue of Great Britain, to be found in this day's Journal, pre. sent matter Jrir rrjbection." Them is clear pool " that the country is not yet come to a wholesome state as to its internal lazation" ! ! According, then, to the Times, as interpreted by the - I lines, in proportion as the aspect of arrairs becomes more cheering they present matter for painful refec tion;" and when people begin to" rectify their concerns in the way of honest men and by the maxims of com mon sense," they are clearly not in a wholesome state!!! But may not the Times have been deceived in the first instance, and correct in the second ? And are peo. ple to be prevented from recanting when they find they are in the wrong? We shall see presently how it can avail itself of this very 'limes-like apology. The Reve nue for this last Quarter presents, we are told, matter for painful reflection, because eg there is a decrease in the Revenue of the year to the amount of more than a million, and in that of the last Quarter to the amount la upwarcrs of 158,0001. True there is,—but how did matters stand when they were in this very cheering state? On the 6th of July the decrease in the Revenue of the. year preceding was but a few thou sands short of taro millions (1,959,7164, and on the Quarter then ending nearly three times more, (438,6931.) than the decrease on the present Quar ter (158,0001.) It is clear, then,. that it is on the same progressive state of matters that the Times has founded its two opposite opinions. When the decrease was considerable, it saw cause to be joyful ; now that the decrease is not half so much, most painful are its reflections! How are we to explain such monstrous inconsistency ?—How, indeed, if. any regard at all is to be paid to its observations on public measures (to pay none would be the best way probably), except by the supposition that it is a source of real pain to the Tinos ivisee the decrease in the Reveaue decreasing, and the prosperity of the country under the administration of the present Ministers! rapidly augmenting. The Times knows Nil well, that though compared with fonder times and seasons, there is less Revenue drawn now from the people; it is not because they are less able to pay, but because there is less required, and because vast redactions have been made both in ow expenditure and in our taxes. Talk of a decrease of £l5B on the Quarter! Why the abatement in the Salt Tax alone is about eqoivalent to the whole sum. The Times knows too that, tcgapared with former pe. riods a the diffeteat Taxes still subsisting pr alma Indy More than they did ; and that it is because of this cessary consequence of a dithinished pre-sure on theta. clonal industry that. notwithstanding the great diminue tion in the number and rate of our tames, the decrease in the total product is becoming every day less and less. The Times insists that " the people have never y et made a spring from the comparative ease afoideilthetn, by the remission of a Tax to consume the article let loose up to the full of their necessities and desires."—.. Compared with facts, this assertion will be found as groundless as any we have yet noticed. In another part we have given a fuller account tbao we were able to give on Saturday of the produce of each of the Excise Duties, in which doris ment, as our Readers are aware, the chief deduct',:., have taken place. From this account it will be seer., that on Beer the increase is no less than 62,7671. ; that on Printed Goods is still more remarkable, being a n advance of 71,733/. on 115,6781. a circumstance highly gratify ing with reference to our manufacturing interests. The increase of 21,4051. on Soap is not to be overlooked, for snap enters so much into the operations of the woollen and other manufactures that this advance is manifestly connected with a prosperous state of trade. Wine exhibits an improvement of 29,4031.; Bricks and 'flies r , f 1227,105; and tr.ffec and Cocoa of £27,343; ail these may be said to plove that the higher and mid. die ranks feel an improvement in the stare of their cumstances; as the augmeircd consumplion of Beer lainly shews an improved comumption among th e nower4asses. 149,050 29,193 5,168 FRONT TILE MORMS3 HERALD. " In summing up these statements it is only right to point out to our readers the mite that was wanted this last Quarter for the King, the rest of the Royal Fatni:y, the Judges. Ambassadors, F c. —not si much as a quarter of a million out of the eight millions, and the Pensioners not one.eighth of a million out of the eight; and the Debt wares us in the face as six millions out of the eight. This ought to be particularly borne in mind by all who read the speeches of the Whigs, who are eternally railing against the extravagance of the Crown and the borthen of the: Pension List, tho:.gh for this In ; , Quarter it wily appears to be tkree-eighths of a million out of dan eight, and those Whigs never utter a word about the Debt of six millions, though it forms so great It propeetion out of tiki All their eloquence is displayed about the vartier of a Million, nd the half of a quarter of a million; the great tieing of six millions they say nothing about. Such as cannot comprehend how this should be, ought to know that the larger expense. or the Debt, the Whigs, in common with the Tories, are more or less interested hi, and therefore they say nothing about it ; but the other item of three. eighths of a million out of the eight they are not interested in, inas much as they are not in power, and therefore cannot be in the re ceipt of any part of that which belongs to power. This we attain those to bear in Mind who go to hear speeches made at the Crown and Anchor, at Inns In Glasgow, ISTottingham, or anywhere else." The Public will learn, wi:hout surprise, that Cadiz has surrendered to the French. This event, for which the recent events had fully prepared us, is announced officially in the Monikur of Saturday, which we have . received by Express. Cadiz, which by its natural po sition, is almost impregnable, and which with a brave and united garri)on might be maintained against any force, until its provisicms or its ammunition was exhausted, has surrendered to an army of about twenty thousand men, and that too before they had been able 'to possess themselves of the outworks sufficiently near to fire a shot into the " heroic city." The fact, however, is, that the parties in Spain are pretty equally balanced ; and that the Government has been deficient in talent and energy. SAN Mut= and his colleagues were lulled into a fancied belief that France would never go to war, and took no essential measures to defend the country. Indeed, until the French army had crossed the Bidassoa, they scarcely thought it necessary. The Ministry that succeeded did not display more vigour, and the Sum was hurried from Madrid to Seville, and from Seville to Cadiz, as the enemy advanced, without any attempt to make a decisive stand, or to avert the evil of uncoulitiocal subjugation by negociations. Previous to the commencement of hostilities, we be lieve the Spanish Ministry relied much on a defogials in the French army, and on the diversion which' the French and Italian refugees, under Colonel FA3VIIII, I might create. The Bidassoa was passed without any resistance but an attempt to seduce the French soldiers; and the first blood that was spilt was that of some of • the alien sons of France. That the defection of the Spanish leaders paved the way for French conquest cannot be denied ; but it most be confessed, that had they remained faithful to their oaths and their:honour, it is doubtful that they could Ws, done more than retard the result, unless the slug population could have been roused to rally round the Constitution, and of this there did not ippear the slightest prospect. With the exception of Catalonia, the Spaniards have seemed quite ir,different wheiher their towns were occupied by the Royalists, the Coned. tutionalists, or the French; or if a preference was give it was in favour of the latter, because they paid the bed. In another part of our paper we have given an late' resting account of the events at Cadiz, previous to they liberation of the KING ; and the French papers, frol li Which we subjoin extracts, merely announce thl surrender of this city, which would seem to bail been unconditional. As the Cortes and the Govers• I pent do not seem to have been able to obtain any puP .i tee, it is probable that the Duc d'Azaontzles cow '. ved at their escape, aad that Gibraltar has liten lll l ved to them a rock of safety. n v - the How far Spain may be the gainer or the loser by L. overturning the Constitutional system, we do not ra tend to determine ; but it would seem that she ifs scarcely ptcpared for a Government so liberal. Sheem now, however, no doubt, forgive from Fsantuese those institutions which say s hisßrother ofirrance can oaf estimate from him. We however are far from thinkisS that trat.quality will be permanently restored tv4491 137,47, 8741' 115,671 :549,r51 288,42', 629,521 13,93: 271.45: 2,01. 71,; 21, 21 3,13 184 29,403 10th 30,394 37.101 70,227 8,145 47,213 11,577 55.491 55.196 as Cl Wel Stu 1111 J m« 4 gab I •fee Inf Arl