Star. — London, England, 1823-01-15 00:00:00

• ' 0 SA ' AtUrrlONs At the Cu4tonrilyetae. FAVEOSTIA %le nt,di WiraNt'AiTi January 2144823, it. Elmo, p'porh In the Forenoon, THE UND'ERMENTLON.ED GOODS, BSI Gallons Ilrartrly roof. "eve P 174; Ditto Oki 2 Pieces of Fir ricahes 7 • 451 Malf-ankelfa (s*o l Y:bleN . 4 Aichori add rgfctripfs. 54 Fir Oars. •: • May be yletveatia the innl i niniiif fiti day of Sale. A deposit of X 0 per Cent. *ill be required. ve:. •! • roars. '. i', PARI 7 S,ThICtrAnYiti Lord Fitzroy SernersetnrriVed oh tiday in Paris, and set on; son Saturday *riming for Madrid. It is' Said that he has tin particular missinn from his Go: vernment ; but that he is merely attached to the Le-. Ration of Sir Wm. A'Court. The precise knowledge, which Lord Fitzroy Somerset acquired daring his long residence in Spain, respecting the men et.pres sent at the head of affairs in that country, may in the present circumstances he of great utility to Sir Wm. A'Conrt.—,lourned des Dards. Though Lard Fitzroy Somerset only stopped a few hours at Paris, that diplomatist had a conference with the Spanish Ambassador, and took with him dis patches from his Eicellency.—C'oe tier Franca is. • FROM THE QUOTIbIZENE. The Liberal Journals assert, with a confidence which might deceive some persons, that the French territory has not been violated by the Spanish soldiers f the Constitutional Army: We have received the following details from our correspondent at Bayonne, which set the question at rests—An armed column entered the `commune of Aldudes on the 29th of De cember last ; it was composed of Spanish soldiers of the Constitutional Army, .and revenue officers and Militiamen of the valley of Bastan. The Quarter:. master of the Gendarmerie endeavoured to lupul* the band, but, as he bad only a very few men, his efforts were Unavailing. The Mayor of Aldudes was absent, and his . Depaty not: 064 erdtibited weakness unworthy of a Public Functionary, bet fiimislted the, leader of the Spanish detachMent with guides to sliest' . him the most.secure road by which to return. The Prefect of the LoweePyrenees having been in formed of these circumstances, issued the following , Decree : Whereas we have received information from the frontieno by which it appears, that a detachment of the Spanish Cons& tutioual Army, under arms, has t • sed, the French Comment of Aldutics, and that it has been furnished with guides by the Depot, Mayor of that Commune; " Whereas this functionary has acted in contravention'of dig) orders of the Government, directing the exputsion - trent tile French territory of every armed band, withoue roper , to tine• cause which it may support ; "We decree-1. That M. Sarochandy, the Deputy Marro( Aldudes, is provisionally suspended from the exercise of his functions. " S. That the Sub-Prefect of Mauleon, to whom the execu tion of the present Decree is confided, shall institute an inqUiry into the events which have taken place . in Aldudes on the 29th of December last. (Signed) " DESSOLE. 14 Pau, Jan. 1, 1E23." Tilk is not the first attempt which the Constitu tionalists have made. They presented themselves at the same place on the night of the 28th of December, but fearing that there was a superior force there, they , retired. Their object in crossing this village was to surprise that of Vakarlos, which contaioe,a hospital appropriated to the reception of the wounded soldiers. of the Army of the Fail). On the following morn ing, however, their enterprise was crowned with a dreadful success. The Royalist Spaniards, who were, without the means of defence, were not able to op pose the unexpected attack, and were almost all put to the sword. Those who still possessed some little strength, after having attempted to defend themselves, fled into the French commune of Uhart, whose inha bitants have lavished every kind of attention and as sistance upon them. FROM TIM CONSTITUTIONNEL. In the first weeks of December, Sir W. A'Court, English Minister at Madrid, was charged by his Go vernment to claim an indemnity in favour of English' subjects for •the damages which they had .sustained from pirates under the Spanish Hag. This indemnity, claimed again on each new instance, was constantly refused by the Spanish Government; and England, without doubt, would have had, under ordinary cir cumstances, as much difficulty in obtaining her de mand, as she experienced in causing Austria to pay the debt which the latter bad contracted, and to the payment of which Austria opposed every year some new delay ; but the policy of the Continental Powers having put Spain to the necessity of finesse in treating with those who remained attached to her, , England expected this to produce the juncture most favourable for displaying her pretensions, when she might insist with more obstinacy upon their accomplishment as the first and necessary condition of alliance... It >vas embarrassing, doubtless, to the Spanish Mi rister to find himself compelled to accept conditions which seemed hard, and which he bad at first re... fused, both as to indemnities for the past, and gua rantees for the future, although the Minister wh . o r tr e e s ; ceded him had engaged to grant everything. guarantees were, as we announced more than three months ago, the occupation of Cuba; and the Na tional Intelligencer, a Government Journal of the United States, has held Out.this'occupatien on the part of England as an event which was to be ex pected. After the refusal of the Minister San Miguel to adhere to the demands of the English Minister, the Litter announced that an order would be expe dited by his Court to seize the Spanish vessels, until concurrence was obtained to the indelanity de manded ; and he intimated; that as everything seemed to announce a rupture Kith' France, it became ling land to pursue her own measures, however disad vantageous they might•tie for the credit of Spain.— This measure occasioned the letter of M. Gasco, Mi nister of the Interior, to the Consuls; whom he in formed of the older; dispatched by the EngliSh Mi nister. The Spanish Minister always conceived that these events, badly explained, nsie,bt cause it to be believed that the commercial difficulties with Eng. land extended further than , they really did, and that his friends might, under that pretence, desert him. However painlul it %%as to accede to demands which did not appear .to be perfectly well flunded, it was' arranged at last, and the orders of the Ambassador for the seizure of the vessels was revoked, the gua rantees being in part accorded, insomuch that not the least difficulty now remains as CD this secondary ub- liiiilllMinemo . If, in the moment when the cause of diseussiop between the tro Ministers was Wit well knovi.44, tteerewaiiroitetilatett, it is easy to believe that it-atust for severckl days have injure-1 the Spaaish credit. BUt the tilscuseionvis now old : it kiiteen terminated. more then twelve days, ainieably te t teihated, and to' the mutual satisfaction of the parties. Let the fanitle journals again produce their suspicions, and 'seek to fortify them—nothing more simple; but then the good sense if the public will not be Mkt doped. • n - We may affirm, that there has never been stronger r • hition between England and Spain, and that the commercial ditßculties raised were by no means et. tended to a great political question, on which Portugal, and England, are altogether agreed. FROM THE DRAPEALI,AII.4I4ie. • %%e have seen with disgust, biewttliont surprise, the Liberal journals flatter the English 6overninent, basely endeavour to conciliate that whom they for merly called cowardly and perfidious islanders, and •prostitute the pure ardour of their patriotism, so tar as to praise the old enemies of France and Earoio as arbiters of the destinies of the warld. These same worthrrepresentatives of the French nation, par ex. cellence, dared; in 1815, to hawk about the Crown of France, and offer it to whomsoever would accept it, provided he was not a Bourbon. This unworthy traffic of adulation, exchanged for hopes, continued only as long as the Liberals be lieved, what they alone were sufficiently simple to believe, that the English Cabinet would become the gratuitous friends and disinterested allies of the revo lutionary Government of Spain. The tone was altered when the Cabinet of London recovered its memory at the same moment with the Dey of Algiers, • and made a claim of 200 millions against the Spanish Government, in lieu of which sum it obligingly con sented to accept of the Isle of Cuba, at the same time addressing to the Spaniards that passage so celebrated in their history —" All that we do is for your benefit." • The Liberal Journals now direct reproaches against l England, the complicated expression of which may be 'said to amount to this- 6, Fie! it does not look well to be so interested, and.not to have the generosity to elio wrong for nothing." • The Pilots, thesopinions of . which are known, an: flounces that M. de Chateatibriand was yesterday to give a diplomatic dinner,' o,which the Ambassador of the Cortes, the Duke of Lorenzo, and the Portu .guesOMinister, are invited. If this,news should be confirmed,, it may.be supposedthat this rtmatkable invitation has had-for its object to console the two I.t gations of the Revolutionary Peninsula, for their ea•:. clasion from the last diplomatic gala given by the Russian Ambassador. It was on the 2d of January that the Ambassadors , :tithe three great Northern Power's delivereclthe - Notes, groin Verona to. the Spanish Minister, with :a'slecht;' ration that if, within ten days, the King was not itstebliahed in: his power, and the Cortes, dissolved; they would • leave, Madrid. • It is added, that Count: Lagar& has received orders, by a dispatch posterior to M. de Villeles Note; to leave Spain in a few days after - the other Ministers; but this last report requires confirmation. • . SPAIN. MADRID, JANUARY 6. In the Sitting of the Cortes of this day, no pro seeding of interest took place except the appoint• ment of a Committee on the Petition which Moreno Guerra, a Deputy is a former C c ortes, presented yes terday. He complains that he had been made to appear' before a Constitutional Alcalde for expres sions spoken in his character of Deputy in the Cortes for 1820. The Cortes, in a Secret Sitting, have takeis into consideration the complaints made by the English Government in the name of several merthants of that nation whose vessels have been captured by Spanish cruizers on the coast of Terra Firma. The report made by the Diplomatic Committee on this subject shews that the negotiation had been indiscreetly ma naged by the Secretary of State, San Miguel. The Committee recommended that justice should be done to the claims, and that after they are verified by a mixed commission ' English and Spanish, the amount should be made good by the Treasurer. The Cortesl approved of the Report. The greatest activity prevails in enrolling and equipping troops for the army. lit another secret sitting, the Minister of the War Department assured the Coites that in less than two months an army of forty thousand men would be assembled at the foot Of the Pyrenees. Yesterday evening, Morena Guerra appeared in the Landabutian Society. He spoke for two hours, and entered into a detailed commentary on M. deVillele's Note, which, has been published in all our Journals. His speech was received with great applause. The Report of a Committee of the Cortes on a proposition of the Government, for augmenting the militia, was discussed in the Sitting of the 29th of December. According to articles 6 and 7of the orsanic law, respecting the militia, the active national militia is to be completely renewed in six years, by new drawings for a sixth part each y ear. TheGo vernmeat had proposed an alteration in these articles to accelerate the recruiting. The Committee wea l further titan the Government desired, and recon:- . mended that two-thirds of the force u ltimatel y re- ' quired by the law should be immediately raised. The Committee afterwards presented the detailed plan . of a decree for coming this measure into effect. The articles were successively discussed in the Sittings of the 2d and 3d, and approved. The most remarkable trait occurred towards the end of the debate. Arguelles wishing to support t.be opinion be had given, put the following question : •••=r 4 t I wish to be informed as to a fact u hick can in no way coMpromise the :Government, and which it is in the power of the Secretary of War to satisfy—ls the materiel of the 'French Army Of Obs.ertittion on our frontiers, greater than the proportion required for its force ? According to my pritareinformation t . it greatly exceeds that proportion." The Secretary at War.—The materiel of the-french. Army of Observation does not correspond with its force." • Arguelles.—" Is it, greater or lesi?' The better.ary.-- 4 ,1t is greater." Arguelles.—“ Theo thersecaii be only' two objects in view—either to assik tie faciioui, or to &dirt war against us." The Universal of this day *refers to an article in . • • ': • • ... Ll t he - 101tralt,def mats, in which It is--said--f' ffl Spain *do not lecipt the declaretiona 'of .t.lse, /1414 Alliance, the Ambaselidors Of llessia, &Wks Prossia have orders to leave MtdricV.untiiitOtialegte following note:—. . • • ic:-.,.,: 63,, ,is.._.. Z 13 '1 . .,? ...;1.1 41 The Ministerial credit whiehlliiiiieMaillinPf i . hats has for some time obtainedon thik.subjer4f - smell *certain character of importance to-this nOtificattOo,l though certainly - no journal is. Ministerial in,,evill thing it states ;' nevertheless we do not wwell knew what the Journalist means by accepting doxhirations. A proposition is-accepted, and a declaratiOn is heard.. We believe that our Government will listen very de corously to as many declarations as the Holy Alliance may choose to make; and if they contain proposi tions, it vi,ill first be necessary for the Government to consider whether it have the power to accept them." ' In addition to what is stated above, there is little of importance to be found in the Sittings of the Cones. On New-year's Jay, as part of the grand, civic ceremony in commemoration of the transactions of the 7th of July, the Ayuntamiento, sired different Corporations and Officers of the city of Madrid, were admitted to the bar of the Cortes. The President ad dressed them in approbation of to patriotic efforts they had made for the cause of liberty at that memo rable crisis. The Political Chief, Don Juan Palarea, and the Commandant of the District, Don Demetrio O'Dali, made speeches in reply. The Decree for granting honours to the persons who assisted in sup pressing the mutiny of the Guards (ot which an ac count was given when it was under discussion in the i s Cortes) was officially published on the same day. • ii ,~.'lu re • : PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE, ~ PARTS, JANUARY 11. ig Two points connected with Spanish affairs are much talked of here—the Duke of San Lorenzo not being invited to M. Pozzo de Borgo's diplomatic dinner ; and the process against Hardouin and Rouge mont for the humbug loan' to the Rebel Regency of Urge!. As to the latter, I chink I may predict that it will end in nothing; for I know that every quibble of law will be seconded by every rut and influence of power to nullify the proceedings. We shall see. As to the slight offered by Russia to Spain in the person of one Ambassador, and 'ay the agency of the other, what does it signify ? let me ask. When insult precedes in ory it may be important, but not so when it follo w s i t . 1 leave that to the logicians ; and if the Duke's not dining with M. Pozzo de Bongo is a proof of Russian liostility to Spain, we must suppose by analogy that his cutting Sir Charles Stuart's mutton, a day or two before, is decisive of the friendship of England.— ,Ah, there's the rub ! Assure Spain on that point, and all is_well. Quiet •the apprehensions• of every lover .of.liberty with regard to the policy of yourMinisten. :Convince us that a generous and noble sympathy is excited in the. Cabinet as well as in the Natioti—and that the* ghoit Of Castlereagh is not beginning• to stalk in the Council-rooM." 2rra4cr oi , Astortia Lama OP THE SAME DATE. 4 To the deep - reit-40f all the fair hostesses who 'Hue by the profits of di& soirEes, (and there are .rriany)d,to the eonfusfeas of the tankers ides Salome) --to the stnioas Joss of all the proprietors of hotels .and .Apartemens darnie in the North of Paris (which, be it known to you, is the west end); immense num bers of your wise and patriotic countrymen are on ,the wing—(although all pretty well plucked). Some return as poor as French economy, the griping of mercenary French Women, could make them, assisted as they were by those favoured children of this most Christian liovernment--Ahe bankers of the Rouged , Noir,. Roulette and Hazard tables. Others return to . fell old timber, or to squeeze new wax'—all to curse their unlucky stars for having led them on . to Paris. In short, it has been a disastrous campaign , ~ Most Christian! How deserving of this appella tion is :hat Monarch, who, on the birth-day of the liansaman, directed the drawing of the Paris Lot tery, by which hundreds of his subjects .must have been made wretched! Who, on last Sun day, at the very hour when 4 the Reliques of Saint Genevieve were exposed to the view of the faithful, on the altar of that magnificent church which bears her name,'—at. the very hour when 4 the King heard Mass in his apartments'—at the very moment when g' the Royal Family connnuni caged in the Chapel Royal,'—and at the same instant when i the officiating Prelate invoked the blessings, of Heaven on the lather of his People !"--at that very crisis, not only was the Paris Lottery agil . n . drawn, but the Police of the said Monarch , hy, i paternal command, threw open the doors of all 4* '- gaming-houses in Paris! For what motire? y 4 : base lucre. " You ask what is all - this to us?—A Vial deal.: By the means of this infamous coalition, between jbe Government and the keepers of those hells,haruiri4 of British subjects are yearly.ruitted—millions of 11,i1= tish money yearly lost. $y - object in stating thqe facts, so dishonourable, so disgraiefil to in Go- . vernment, is to shame it into a dissOlutiou ot'the in• famous partnership that subsists between 'Wand. the bankers of the hells. In the same instant money is disbursed for re-edifying Churches; and a proportion of the iniquitous profits of the gamin ta bles passes into the Royal treasury! What vretcned mockery ! , I We are all confident that liar will take place in March. The emissaries of a cert a in party are active en the froVtier, and it 'will not be their fault shoald' ;lie territory of France remain inviujita. Nobody, believes the story of the murders conitnitterl by; the Spanish Constitutional troops on French soil, which you had last night in the 444 and whic h was, , as ' is his custom,' produced upoti ,the Ex= change early in the evening by. a swam perskin.. , It is a weak invention of the enemy: . War is.xle termined do, and every effort is making to produce incidents likely to give it a popular turn. Nothing . could be better imagined for the purpose, than the Violation of i the sacred tenitory,! as. Napoleon used to call it. French egotism is well known, but the Spaniards will not fall into the snare. It is believed , by every body, and denied .by none, that General Lagairde 'is recalled from Paris. If so—cost jini. 4 , I have only time to add, that an attempt tri thange the law relative to the Rectuitalent of the , !.is my -isr.49 be made neat Session. Instead of draw lug frona•ille.pvplp iodiscriririucelt new soldiers,,' thetOnscriptinnA to s .be,.abalished, and nterce narieaj to be enlisted by bouniy. lathe 'ocient tempet of the public mind in France, no respetiglileyonit mat would voluutaiily enter into the raulot:' `•;-• ~r VEATNN!sta -.;frAtt. n(1 LtIINO(:),)1.?. • vas' • - 01EirroOdb.1.-* ' • . WRONIESDAVirdIeNLAART 15. leglik;: - . I": , !.t 19311:1 ' l ' THE PIMP& • . • , ""i • Irf*CitliXCHANGli, IIiALF•PASTYNYttint. Cchseili oPened.this otaesb,pt-}Oj ; to.81, at which price they femme. An aye's .f"broo, brings the French Funds tit Midday at StaM,. " 5114 atl4 • Owing to the severity aT te Weathei;but very felt versant . vrete on 'Outage this miteldfilit, and Sfrielludiatiss doing, • digint•pth* si...Chtliati74; New Spantili SW% Q l l4 Si* Menlo 811, Malik 80, 1 1 8800 . 111.786 Pertihfini 7S, Ceihnoblan t Spanish Scrip ill. STOCK EXCHANGE, ONE actod We understand that moot of the accounts are already math/ up for next Friday, which is settling day in the above market:: • - An eminent Banker in the City has taken over, for the ensuing account, upwards of two millions of Stock, on amount of the Hebrew party, who are to pay. 44 per cent. Interest ; and in case of a fall of the Funds during the period, they are to pay five per cent. more, which makes a difference of seven per cent. under the price of Stocks.. This accommodation, it is thought, will cause the Funds to ripe, owing to the Market being greatly relieved. A good deal <Whininess was doing this morning in Spanish Bonds and other Fureign Securitifs. • Consols up to this hour 804 I, nest account 81 to I.....Spabt. Bonds 51i, with a very heavy market. • POYAIS LOAN OF TWO HUNl4tti ;11btffirAND - POUNDS: " * • - - Mr. JOHN LOWF., tl order of SIR ORFGOR MiGRE GOR, gives notice, that such HOLDERS of SCRIP of this LOAN as may not be desirous of paying the Instalment of 33 per cent. fixed for the 17th instant, may pay 10 per cent. on the 10th of February next, with Interest from the 17th January s and the remainder as will be hereafter advertised. PRICES OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 245 244% 245 '3 per Cent. Reduced 80 1 / 8 797 i S per Cent. Consols 79 3 /s A 3 1 / 2 per Cent. 92 3 / 4 -4 per Cents. Old, 98% '4 3,4 4 per Cents. New 99 3 /s 1 / 4 Bank Long Annuities 20V 2 9,16 Imperial S per Cts. 79—India Bonds 38s. Exchequer Bills of 1:1,000, 12s. 10s. Consols for Account 804 81 80% A. .4 ••••MIM.•••••• The French Papers of Sunday have reached us by . the ordinary conveyance. The only articles of any importance they contain will be found in another .column. The Ultra Journals still assert that the French territory hai been violated by a column of the Constitetional Army, who, with some Revenue • Officers and Militiamen, are represented as having surprised the village of Valcarios, and massacred some wounded soldiers of the Army of the Faith, in oe hospital there. ThellePuty Mayor of Aldudes 'has been suspended from his functions, for having famished the Spanish detachment- with, a guide—a bad sign this for France, when her Public Function- ...' aries thus exhibit their partialities for a cause which the-Ooverntnent cOsidemni.: This affair has, how., • ever, illtS understands -been satisfactorily arranged. The ht . :taunts from Madrid are not of a liter date tan 06se'wl. gave yesterday ; they will, bcorever, .be readmieli ;Merest. ' Some days must yet elapse . Infect we can have the reply of the Spanish Nation, - foe di* Ministry will only be -the organs..through which it will be conveyed, to the Notes of France and the three Sovereigns. That the answer will be , temperate but firm, we are persuaded. It will, we doubt not, shew that while Spain wishes to avoid war, she does-not fear it. ' - • There are some who think that the Note—the audacious. Note of the Holy Allies to Spain—mast . be followed by a declaration of war. It argues great ignorance of-the parties to suppose this as a necessary consequence; for the Emperors of At/STRIA and RUSSIA, and the King of PRUSSIA, 4 $ can turn and turn, and turn ;gain." We have seen them kissing. the cheek of BO*APARTI, calling him their geisa" -brother, and struggling who should hook him isms , . :-sitatrimonial alliance with their- families;, anal (*. Mit months, afterwards denouncing him - as,a wild ‘ blihcs,„ sehe ought eihse hunted down ai hazardss.elser 'heee again -turned, Viknowledged iris just title :sovereignty, and entered into negoelations with hire. But to come to a more recent instance: it - is now. - twelve months at least since Russia pteieneed whet she called her ultimatum to Turkey ; this has'beeri, followed by mcrtielgetatesse-- , ,i mote hit werds 4 .— . ' 'and still we have no declaration of war, 'Ai:inky/at between Russia and Turkey we consider as inevitable. It is, howeveryconsolatory to reflect, that whatever may be the determination of Holy Alliance, Spain • is equally determined to resist all interference - with her internal affairs; aidthAt •tbe Spanish MinisWt WO acting en *re greunds'Whei they erepiakinrilt question a national one ; apdliesimieely the •• , • ~•1 'of the Cabinet. • UsiOnne Papers to the 6th inst. have /leashed We An article from Madrid of the effect produced by the pacific to be received, appeared io auto CultattA lately said in• the via.—“ that, without war, Spain, intestine factions, and tumid. •••••! Lentil received from Seim*, ber, confirm the account Oven ; as to the death of Campmate Vat.v . Bktf lake* been &EN:4444k wriecticiiii the linistatitii,‘ also been put to dcatb. Mr. IT . . iff)tiVtitli at tla vines which • confirm yihat1110011 . • be LandelNicialitSl 4 , paio,woold be tomti I ialirjeTo/7 ;,14 c.. 1 :via; Jund: t 41». • I 'et: is • • rti,' oftite4tii Dam/ n reeemiyjeAfe 'pa ;nib Natftd. .lilt h 144i4, ,,.1 .1040 4 0f CuTriga:;;;Metirelkilleit