Star. — London, England, 1823-10-28 00:00:00

THE NORTHERN EXPEDITION. !' At two o'clock yesterday, Admiralty orders were re ceived on board the Hecla and Fury, North Pole ships, to dismantle, and return the remaining supplies of food, the spars, and moveable ship-materials, to the Dock yard at Deptford. At the same time the very neeessai y and welcome order arrived fur permitting the officers and crews to land the different objects of cariosity which they had acquired .during their sojourn in the Arctic Regions. The principal objects of curiosity were landed , yesterday evening at Deptford. Several parcels ad efeessed for Captain Parry were directed to the care of the Admiralty. The long canoe, which was suspended be tween the decks of the flecla, was not of Esquimaux ma nufacture. The natives refused to part with their canoes, as they were about to require their use at the time of the breaking up of the ice, when our ships were quitting the Arctic Regions. Captain Lynn had.this canoe made by the carpenter of the Hecla (Mr. Puffer) from a native's model ; it is of whalebone covered with seal-skin, pre pared and supplied by the Esquimaux ; the skin is cut iu long slips, and the process of tannin , * obtained by a sort of mastication which the natives per form t in a rapid manner. There are several specimens of birds brought over, and some of the duck species are varied and beau tiful, with all the brilliancy of South American plumage. Those birds which have white plumage, - and the arctic . fox, have a slate coloured lam at the root of the hair, which at certain seasons predominates, and supplants the white: It was observed that in the stomach of the ymis and other fish which were in the winter season , caught under the ice, there was a considerable portion of shell-sand, as if they had been compelled to live al together on the shell-fish, which adhei ed to the sub marine soil. It may possibly lead to some trace of the whale-ships which were described by the Esquimaux as having been wrecked 150 miles from the winter station of the expedition, to state that on one of the stones which was brought by the natives, were the letters BRA. Scme idea is entertained that a further experiment in northern navigation is contemplated, from the fact that in the orders for dismantling, which arrived yesterday, it was directed that no part of the fixtures or heating apparatus of the ships should be separated from their present position on board. A number of visitors were yesterday on board. The dates.of the voyagers are brief and simple. On the Bth of October, 1821, the ships an chored in Winter Island, as it was called, in lat 66.12. N. long. 82. 53. W. They were released from their icy barrier on the Ist of July, 1822. On the 10th of Sep tember of that year, the ships reached 69. 48. N. lat. 83. 37. W. long. the farthest point north reached by the expedition. In the second winter the ships were frozen up on the '24th of September, 1822, in lat. 69. 24. long. 81. 45. and they drove w ith the ice four miles to the . southward during the winter. On the Bth of August they were enabled to extricate themselves, and return homeward, finding al further pursuit of the object of the expedition unattainable. • One of the greatest iuconveniencies suffered by the crews last voyage arose from the vapour with which the air in the between-deck was loaded, being constantly cooled into water at the sides of the ships, owing to the external cold, and then forming all along the decks, close to the side, great masses of ice. By putting an additional inside lining to the ship, and filling sup the space between it and the common side with cork and cotton, and by doubling the decks, filling the space be tween them in the same way, the evil above- described was effectually prevented,,,and the men's births and the whole inside of the ship kept at a comfortable tempera ture, with a much less expense of fuel than the voyage .• before. If the object be worth pursuing, there is in this circumstance encouragement to attempt another voyage. Among the curiosities, that which most attracted our attention, if it did nut gratify our palate, was some of the tripe de mat (a species of lichen), on which Captain Franklin and his companions subsisted for several days. The fur coat of the Esquimaux, possessed by Captain Lyon, would become the most dashing buck at the West End, and we shall not be surprised, if, a want of some thing else to imitate, our dandies should this winter all be clothed in Esquimaux coats. The cap worn by the same people, we can recommend to Ladies who are bathers; they will find the sort of ears which stick up both comfortable and becoming. There are still on board some very curious spears, knives, and bows, which are readily shewn to visitors; but we observed that Captain Parry has taker,* the greater part of his accps,S. sitions away. Up to the month of August, we have seen and felt too, in our time, a great many musquitoes, but we never saw any so very large as those preserved on board the Hecla. If these were the kind of mon sters which tortured Captain Franklin and his compa nions, they merit our commiseration, but, most assuredly, we will not quit our desk to tread in their steps. The dogs on board are large limbed, and appear very strong, but, so little accustomed to heat, that they are now panting as if it were the height of summer. Though some of them were very useful on more than one occa sion, their howling drew large bodies of wolves to the ships, which were with difficulty prevented from board ing them. During the time the ships were ill the ice, fourteen were killed. We recommend the phrenologists also to make haste on board, for we saw two skulls of the Esquimaux, both well formed, and as far as. we understand the doctrine, of these Gentlemen, indicating nothing very particular, but a considerable love for murder. The organ of de titructiverress was prominent in these otherwise well formed heads. We have heard seine persons hint that the extreme cold and the long seclusion had benumbed the faculties of ail the voyagers ; but if this were the case, it is no longer so ; we found the people commu nicative, and had the pleasure of hearing Captain Lyon utter very audible commands. Up to the month of August last we were told the ships remained 6sed in the ice; they the* got extricated, but after being afloat a few days, they again stock fast. Five weeks they re mained in this situation, the crew almost fearing to be a . ;ain locked up for another %k inter ; but after great ex ertions, they succeeded in cutting through the ice, and forcing the ships out, and then madesail for England. Oa leaving their friends the Esquimaux, w•e are told, one of the women who had lost her husband, was very anxious to be taken on board, and followed the ships fur a long distance, imploring, iu vain, for this favour. We have no wish to urge men on to perilous, and at the same time profitless undertakings; and had 110 attempts ever been made to penetrate by the North riga bi I het' Log Oos the Tor k 61 ~i ---, . W All AU iv licuc who) t h e GoveM rio atrcroprs CYCI UPVCII Wiwi; tsivc .• I L.,. ......•••• copy or IL. init./VIVI WilAU.gia we isi•vii 411.1%;5V us um us iced throughout the Peninsul a: ts.iyit mitiyu 45 flowing: our. Ving. ow .--- pines of the nation to the Tinto, 1 1 Pole into the Pacific, we should iir,t now encourage any from Corfu, on the Greeks ; and t h e Frankfort Journa l __.-.... m ........_ Letters dated the 2444 uit. were received yesterday ment is to be abused! I . s,ich attempts. But as the country has done so much, copies the following intelligence from the Oriental_ A n appears rather humiliating to allow this lam el to be from Constantinople, by way tel Odessa, which state alm;aznamp=a= - . i rillered by another nation, possessing the advantage of Spectator : SMYRNA, AUGUST 29. that the long pending differences between Turkey and Accounts from Aleppo state .that the cholera 101 ' 14 il' vicinity, but no other. From what we have seen of the has appeared in a village near that City, 1, V admirable condition in which the Hecla and Fury have The Pacha has delivered to the English Consul the Russia had at length been finally and amicably adjusted. possible Utend'n . t () measure was taken to.preveut its 0 1 V scturned, we are persuaded, that no people are more four Ipsariots who fell into the hands of the Turks at It is said that the basis of this adjustment is that laid Aleppo itself, ~ V ; V V .1 I ,1 it I Ili where eve r y capable, by a combination of ingenuity and patesasK! ranee, of accomplishing this voyage, supposing a pos tage, to eoist, than those who have just returned from attempting it. GREECE. TRIESTE, OCTOBER 14. According to news re c eived from Corfu, the import ant Ottoman expedition, announced with so much pomp, has been confined only to the following exploits: The Captain Pacha, on arriving at Negropont, only was able to I.) . tovide the Turks besieged by the Greeks ) with bad bread and bad olives, and to burn the villages abandoned by the Greeks long since. It then entered Missolon4hi and Patras, and soon after possessed itself of some European vessels in the Roads. They, after a long examination, found but %ix Greeks on board. They hanged them immediately, and bastinadoed the Cap .rains of the ships for having secreted them on board.— The Pacha then disembarked same troops at Pasto Pirgo, neat the mouth of Lepanto, who were cut- in pieces immediately by the Gi'eeks. As a consequence of this tt Mug faihrre, he set sail for the Gulf of Corinth, to reinforce that fortress with men and ammunition, in expectation of assistance on the land side from the Al banians, The Greeks defeated the troops who disem barked, and possessed themselves of ;Al the ammuni. lion. Four different attempts at landing, made by the Captain Pacha to relieve the besieged, were defeated with great loss. The Gulf of Corinth was covered with the floating carcases of 'forks slain by the Greeks, or dying by the plague on board. The inhabitants of Missolonghi were obliged to iaterdict fishing; through apprehension that it might communicate the infection. These are the mighty results of this celebrated expedi- q [ion in the Roads-of the Morea. For three months tbq expedition waited fur the arrival of the Albanians; whilst, in fact, these troops had left the Turkish ranks.. In despair the Captain Paclra set sail, leaving behindl4 vessels unmanned at Patras, the remaining sailorsheing scarcely sufficient to navigate the fleet thus reduced in numbers, and sailed in the direction of the Dardanelles about the end of August. The Constitutionnel of Saturday gives the following', article on the negotiations between Turkey and Russia; NUREMBERG, OCTOBER 17. The two Emperors arrived at Czernowitz on the sth. Prince Metternich left Leopold the 7th, to go to the former town, where apartments have been prepared for a Turkish Plenipotentiary. The arrival of a Turkish Minister seems the more certain, as, the Spanish Revo lution being destroyed, the Porte must know that the Sovereigns composing the Holy Alliance can turn all their attention towards the East, to establish there that order which is agreeable to their principles and their views. Propositions are to be made to the Porte in the name of Russia, Austria, and Prussia, of the follow ing nature: 1, The Greeks dull have freedom of worship ; their churches which have been destroyed shall be rebuilt. 2. The Greeks shall be tried by Judges taken from among their own countrymen. 3. The taxes on the Greeks shall be regulated by a fixed system ; Greek receivers shall levy them, and pay them over into the Tree. sury at Constantinople by means of the Greek agents living there. 4. In consequence of these guarantees the Greek Provinces will again submit to the Turkish Sovereignty. 5. Russia shall recover the tuperinrity over the Provinces of , Moldavia and Wallachia, which shall be governed by Greek Hoe podars as in dices passed. 6. The navigation of the Black Sea shall be free for all the Powers which sign this Convention. It is added, that Russia wished to keep away the English Ambassador from the negotiations which are to be opened at Czernowitz, on the subject of these pro positions. The motives for this request are not known, which, however, is not very probable; but it is supposed that England, fearing the extension of Russian influence over the Ottoman Cabinet, may insist on the total eman cipation of the Greek insurgents; who, out of gratitude, would help the English to oppose the Russians; and this opposition would undoubtedly becrime stronger if Russia, as it is said, should desire to increase its power on the right bank of the Rimrick. SPANISH LOANS OF 1821 AND 1822. THE DIVIDEND payable in London on the Ist November next, on the Spanish Five per Centi Consolidated Annuities, now in circulatiop, nt the Loans of 1821 and 1822, no gociated by Messrs. Ardoin, Hubbard; and Co. and. countersigneil by them and Messrs. J. Laffitte and Co. of Paris, will be paid at the house of A. F. lIALDDIAND and SUNS, No. 24, Cateaten-street, on that and every succeeding day (Sundays excepted), between the hours of Ten and Two. _ . _ It will be necessary to have the Dividend Warrants, with Lists thereof, in numerical order, distinguishing the different classes, for examination, at least two days previous to the application for payment. SPANISH CERTIFICATES of RENTES delivered to the Holders of protested Bills and Orders in favour of Bri tish Claims on Messrs. Bernales and Nephews. The DIVIDEND payable in London on the Ist Nevember next on the above Spanish Five per Cent. Consolidated /Dimities, now in circulation, and countersigned by James Campbell and Co. will be paid at their House, No. 2, Bank-street, on thatand every 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 Classes, for examination, at least two days previous to the application for pay ment.—London, 6th Oetober,lB23. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 18:!3. Sr. Swop aim 6r. Just—Holiday at the Bank. THE FUNDS STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Although this is a holiday at the Bank, the Stock Exchange is open, as well as the Foreign Market, and. in the early part of the morning, there was a good deal of business doin Consols opened at 821, to 83, and, up to this hour, they are 8 j to I. FOREIGN FUNDS. Tt was thought, in the early part of the morning, that the report of the French Ministry going to remonstrate with the King of SPAIN on the recognition of the Spanish Loan, would have operated considerably on the Spanish Market, butt seems the ,Bulls of Spa nish Stock have been disappointed, for Spanish Bonds left off yes terday at 21}, and opened this morning at-28, after which they fell to 271, at which price they remain steady. Current Prices :—New Spanish 21 e, Old 271, Colombian 55, Russian 83, Old Poyais l 0), New 9, Chili= 68i, French Scrip mss,_ _ Frankfort Papers to the22d inst. reached us this morn ing. They state that the Municipality of Warsaw has published the Tariff of Custom-House Duties for goods manufactured in the kingdom of Poland with foreign materials and exported to Russia, but do not give a copy of it. In another column we have given an article ,0e time of the catastrophe of Sanderli, that they may serve to make an exchange. We have spoken of on arrangement made by an Aus trian Captain, by which it was said that 4,000 Greeks bad beery conveyed from Candia to Rhodes. The fact seems to be false, at least as far as concerns Rhodes, for the last letters we have received from that island do not mention it. Accounts from Ipsara of the 23d of August say, " The same spirit of enthu s iasm continues to prevail here in favour of independence, and relatively to any attack which might be made on the island by the Turk ish fleet, the inhabitants are perfectly easy, and have persuaded themselves that the island is impregnable.— The only four points of Ipsara, which were rather weak, haye been strongly fortified by art; and we may judge of the confidence of the people in their strength, from the fact that they still ardently wish that the Ottoman fleet would come and attack them. " Fdurteen brigs have sailed from this island to join the Greek flotilla assembled at Hydra, as had been agreed upbn. But since their departure, an Envoy from Hydra has arrived here, and has excited new ardour by speaking, like one inspired, of glorious prospects on the eve of being realised, and asking for fresh assistance to achieve the most brilliant success at sea. In conse quence six or eight additional vessels are fitting out with all speed to be sent to Hydra. " A thing which will excite surprise,, if anything can do so in these times, is, that our Wand has sent four vessels to blockade Samos. K The Government of Greece has appointed an Ip sariot to the office of Eparch of Samos. The latter not being able to repair to his post on account of indispo sition, the Ipsariots have chosen in , his room, the famous commander of the fire ships, who repaired to Samos, with two others who had been associated with him.— , But the Samiots drove them away, telling them they did not want anybody, nor any assistance from the Ip sariots or from Greece, to defend themselves against all the attacks of Turkey ; that they were resolved to be independent, and did not recognise any superior autho rity. The Eparch was therefore obliged to return to Ipsara, where he has informed the Senate of the reso lution of the haughty Samians, whom it has been de termined to blockade in their island, till orders are re ceived from the Supreme Government." The Bairam bas passed at Smyrna in the most satis factory manner: not 'the slightest accident interrupted the tranquillity which the city and neighbouring vil lages have long enjoyed. The Pacha resolved that on the first day of the Bairam all the bazaars should be open, as usual, which is unprecedented. Unfortunately, the day after the Bairam, a drunken Turk wounded a Greek child; and a Turk, whom the guard endeavoured to arrest, having attempted to fire on it, was killed by a pistol-shot. The first was immediately put in irons.— Many persons waited on the Pacha to request his par don, but he was inflexible: -he caused him to be exe cuted in a manner that would strike terror, and his body has been exposed to public view with that of the second. Tie orders of the Sultan in favour of the Greeks were never more precise, more rigorous, and more formidable than they now are. The following is an Extract of a Private Letter from Madrid : MADRID, OCTOBER 17. The 30,000 French who are to occupy the Peninsula will be distributed through the Provinces according to a new territorial division. There will be in Madrid a Marshal of France to command in chief, but not Ou dinot, who appears extremely disgusted with all that takes place here. It is believed that this important place will be sonfided to Lauriston. You 'will hear of the repugnance which the French shew .tor the extreme Oleawres of Ferdinand. It is a fable. When the Decree of the ist of October came to be known here, the Libe rals were insulted, outraged, stoned, and beaten in the streets. The French did not oppose these excesses, with the exception of the gens d'armes, who snatched a few unfortunate men from the fury of the populace, and who next day received orders to quit Madrid. Riego has been tried and condemned to death. He will be transferred one of these days to the Town Prison. Cavia was his Judge, the nephew of the Bishop of Osma, one of the Regents, and the crime in the Act of Accu sation is the having voted, as a Deputy of the Cortes, 'the - deposition of the King, during his translation to Cadiz, and the nomination of a Regency. It is it to form 'an idea of the horrible treatment to wirich this unfortunate man has been subjected. By a refinement of cruelty worthy of the Serviles, the custody of his person was confided to Zuluaga, one of the chiefs of the rebellion of the 7th of July, who took a pleasure in tormenting the prisoner in every possible manner. The populace were permitted, on the first/ day, to approach the dungeon in which Riego was confined, and to load him with insults. Letters from Alicant and Carthagena state, that se veral detachments of these garrisons, as well as the National Militia of these two towns, and of Murcia, Orihuela, and several others, have gone to join the army of Ballasteros. In fact, all those who are compromised in the Constitutional party, have everything to fear from the re-action which is manifesting itself, in conse quence of the famous Decree of the Ist of October. Exposed to become victims of the populace excited by the Monks, they will everywhere embrace the resolu tion of joining the different focuses of resistance scat. -red throughout the Penn 1 down at the Congress of Verona, and that all ae Na t i for which, in the letter of Count NESSELRODE, U r i STRANGFOnD was requested to contend, have been et ,. ceded by the Turkish Government. The navigatj the BLick Sea is rendered free, not only for Rut % ships, but for those of all European countries ; an d ke Porte is also understood to have given way in the cp ti. tion respecting the interchange of shipments at e l. stantinople. ' This arrangement between the two coil. tries had obtained implicit credit at Oassa, and 4 01 , given increased activity to commercial operations, In the STAR of yesterday we inserted a letter f ru4 our Correspondent in Paris, announcing the imp ortatt intelligence, that the representations of the French nisters and the Due d'Aernout.ENlE had been successf u l in suspending the sanguinary sentences of the Xisbi4 Regency, and the terror-striking Decreestof Fut:gu ll VII. and although we have not received any prezei Papers of a more recent date than those of Saturday, }ut we find our intelligence fully confirmed by Privatek, ters from the French capital, It appears, that after the Marquis de TALAau h a d been empowered to remonstrate with the King of 4 4111 , on the fatal consequences to be apprehended from hi l decrees, the French Ministers deemed a more direct terference necessary, and a Council was held for th at purpose on Saturday, which continued until four o'clock, The decrees of FearourAND had justly alarmed the French Ministers. The indiscriminate proscription of so many thousands of individuals was likely to awake the dormant character of the Spaniard; and the Term. tioa of every act of a Government of three years, nu e ,. sarily involving a refusal to recognise the Spanish loa ns , threatened to indict a very serious loss on many Fren4 capitalists, to say nothing of the opprobrium such 'breach of faith must cast on the Klock, and on thaa ho sanctioned it. The subject was amply discussed in the Council ofit, nisters at Paris, on Saturday, when it was resolved send immediate orders to the Marquis de T4SLARO, state in the most positive terms the determination of tim French Cabinet not to sanction a system of terrorizm. but to remind the KING, that if he expected the support of France, it must be in an endeavour to conciliate tbs various parties into which Spain is divided, and that restore tranquillity to the country. A wish was altais. timated to the KING, that the loans contracted forleT the Cortes should in some measure be recognized; but, we understand,"this point was not positively insisterlos, from some fears that such a declaration might Me too great a fluctuation in the price of Spanish Stock, This measure, we understa n d, was adopted with the full concurrence of the British Government, which determined on insisting on the fulfilment of all man; entered into between this Country and Spain. One of our contemporaries states that another pint has been settled by the Fiench Cabinet, that of aban, doning the project of reconquering the Spanish Colo* in South America. We have great doubts that any such idea was ever entertained ; but if it had, we Are sure the first intimation of it would have met with* very prompt declaration on the part of the British Os, vernment to prevent any interference with Spanish Atop rica on the part of France. It is said that FERDINAND VII. will, however, retain the title of King of " the two Spain: and the Indies; and that an attempt will be made to compel the Colonies to pay a sum annually to Spain, as the price of Euro. pean forbearance. As for the tine, it is of little con. sequence, whether the 'Cleo retains it or 'tot. Greg Britain furnished an instance how long a title could ba retained after the power and territory had passed into other hands; but it is ridiculous to think of demandiags subsidy from the colonies, unless the mother cotatuy / had the power td enforce it, It is further said, that some commercial privileges are to be secured for Spanish subjects ; among which are mentioned an exemption from the tonnage.duty on shipping, and that no commercial advantages shall be conceded except to the mother country, and that all other nations shall be on a perfectly equal footing. But all these conjectures are founded on the supPo• sition that the South American States are still cologn Of Spain. Commercial intercourse must depend on ye. ciprocal interests; and the Republics of Saudi Anut• rica are as little likely to bind themselves by disadvri tageous treaties as the Governments of Zurope. The Times has found an auxiliary in its condemn* tion of the conduct of the British Ministers, in an obscure Parisian Journal, which perhaps some of our Readers may have heard of, called the Orryantme, Ewen*. sometimes meet," says the proverb; and the Times, whicil condemns the British Cabinet for not aisistiat the Constitutionalists, joins the Oriflamme, which abasesigf°r not joining France in exterminating them, Of the iota rectness of the reasoning of the Orifiamme, it is Daly nog cessary to state that the Editor asserts, that if the Coo, stitutionalists had succeeded in Spain, the Oover n ° ment of England would have passed into the hands of HUNT and BURDETT." How well _the Ulm' 'knows English policy, and English politics; but Mg this ignorance is more excusable than. the rot" perversion of the Times, which asserts, Chet b 7 serving this country from war, our Cabinet sf has AP quired nothing by its feebleness, but the contempt of those whom it feared to contradict, and.the distrust and hatred of those to whims it refused protection,' The Editor of course reckon; the approbation ancl !wont% of the British nation as nothing: but what is the hap,