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therefore oppose the Amendment, so far i as it tended to deprive this Officer of his situation. MI. ming raid be should be sorry to lose the 4 0te • • , Hon. Friend, and therefore would reduce hi s proposition to €1 , 293. thus leaving out the gal lant Officer's salary. The House then divided, when the numbers were, For the original motion - - 110 Against it Majority - - . 63 - -•-.57 The Order of the Day for the house going into a Committee 05 die Bankrupt Laws was postponed to Thursday. Th e further cousideration of the Poor Laws Amendment Bill was postponed tu this day se'nnight. The Home then resumed, the Chairman reported progress, sod obtained leave to sit again on Wednesday. Ilse other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and at taw o'Clock the House adjourned. E EVENING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1821. TUE FUNDS. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK : 3pe ent. Reduced 73 7314 3 per Ct. Cons. 74 73/8 71-3 1 / 2 per Ct. 83 1 4 83 4 per Cent. 9116 3 / 9 gper Cent. Navy 109 108%8 109% 109 Long Ann... 18 5 / 8 % India Bonds 425.455.pre. Exchequer Bills ls. 4s. pre. par Cons. for Acct. 74 73% 74%. We have received the Paris Papers of Saturday. They continue to be chiefly occupied with the pro ceedin.z. of the Chamber of Peers, as a judicial body, in the trial of the persons accused of being engaged in the conspiracy of August last. The interrogato- ries are conducted in a manner somewhat shocking' to English habits and feelings. The prisoners have ; no protection : there is no definition of legal and il legal evidence: everything is received: the witnesses and prisoners are examined and cross-examined currently by the Judge and Advocates, and some times they are called upon to answer and examine! each other. When the witness states any material fact, the Judge asks the prisoner—" What have you to say to that?" It is a mere sifting out of the truth with fairness, but without any of those rules or limits. provided in this country by the humanity as well as policy of our law. The principal witness is a ser jeant, who, from an accomplice, soon became a spy. His stulidity and ignorance are such, that he mis applies one word in ten; such as saying he " hoped," for he " feared:" and a question matzrial to the lives of the prisoners turned upon the point, whether this witness remembered certain words spoken to have been " a change Ville Government," or " a change is the GOvernsnent."—The proceedings were further adjourned. The Royal Court of Grenoble (Chamber of Accu sation) has passed judgment on the affair relative to the troubles in that City on the 20th of March last. It has sent Marc Calombat, student of law ; Joseph Faulquien ; Charles Renauldon, advocate ; Hyppolite Cecilion, student; Claude Reviere, manufacturer; Bayoude, jun. Antone Dussert, journeyman printer; Etienne Finet, journeyman glover; Anguite Dumas, an officer out of service, to be tried by the Court of Assize, for crimes provided against by the Articles 1,3, 5, and 6, of 17th May, 1789. The Court has liberated three other persons who were in confinement. A printed paper has been distributed in the Court of the Peer., signed by' Messrs. DELAMOTTE, Des CORDES, PAQUET, BRICES, PEQULU, and RENEY, Captain, Lieutenants, and Sub-Lieutenants in the Ex-Legion of the Seine, who complain of having been arrested at Mons, in the Netherlands, and of baring been delivered up to 0.4 e French Authorities. They protest against the delivering up (extradition) of their persons by a Government which they had not offended, and whose laws they had not violated. French Five per Cents. Friday, 83 fr. GO c. We have received to-day a series of German , Papers of recent dates, from which we.have selected the following extracts. The probable success of the Greek insurrection continues to be a subject of .spe culation ; but of matter of fact there is little added that is new. We have received accounts from Madrid to the sth of May. Their contents, we regret to say, are of very melancholy interest. The country seems on the eve of becoming a prey to civil dissensions. Arrests `and prosecutions are multiplied, and the laws more and more set at defiance. The Canon VnquasA, who was lately implicated in some counter-revolutionary movements, was, on the 4th instant, the victim of popular fury: he was massacred in prison, by an out rageous mob, who broke open the doors in spite of the resistance of the National Guard then on duty. The following is the account of this unfortunate affair, given in the Journals in the interestof the Government : " The Canon Vinuesa was, on the evening of the 3 d, sentenced by Arias, the Judge of the Court of Premiere Instance, to ten years of labour on board the galleys at one of the strong forts on the coast of Africa, and his two nephews were merely reprimanded, on the ground that the imprisonment which they had undergone was a sufficient punishment for their crime. On the morning of the 4th, the news of this sentence began to circulate through Madrid : great agitation "sued, and groups of people were formed who dis played the greatest discontent at the sentence, the Populace thinking that he deserved death. The dis turbance gradually increased till three o'clock in the afternoon: the people then went to the prison with the intention of seizing the person of the Canon. The detachment of the National Militia appointed to guard birn opposed this attempt; but these troops being obliged to give way to the force against them, shut themselves up in the prison, and commenced a brisk I and that, far from taking any s h are i n t h e trou bl es , fire on the multitude from the windoWs. they only wait for a favourable opportunity to with . " In the meantime, the people took possession draw again. How little even the Chiefs of the Re of the town magazine, which is situated near the volution believe in the success of their enterprise, prison, and with the implements which'they procured appears from the fact, that they ton seek to put their forced the pi incipal gate, and, notwithstanding all v suable effects in a place ot security ; and even those the resistance made by the National Guards, pone- of the Prince are brought to the frontiers. crated to the prisoner's apartment. From Galacz we learn, that the Turks in the for " The remaining circumstances of the event are tresses are continually receiving reinforcements, but related in different ways, which induces us to post- that they had received orders to be passive fur the pone details of them. We merely know that, from .present, and not to pass the frontiers till further or the marks on the body of the deceased, death appears ders. According to all appearance, they mean to to have been inflicted by the same instruments which advance with a very superior force, and to put an served to force the doors of the prison. It is said, end to these troubles at once. that all the men composing the detachment of the BELGRADE, APRIL la. National Guard on duty at the prison have been put Accounts from Constantinople say, that the Turk under arrest, and that an inquiry is to be instituted ish Agents had spread a report of a great victory to ascertain whether they acted on their defence con- obtained by the Sultan's troops over Ali Pacha, but formably to the regulation. It is said that Vinuesa it was afterwards known that Ali had surprised the was killed by the blow of a hatchet on the head, and camp of Pacha Hey, who narrowly escaped being that he expired under the hands of the assassin."- made prisoner. Ali is said to have advanced to Pre- While these excesses are committing in the Capital, visa, and that 6000 Albanians had returned to the every day brings an account of some new Guerilla standard of their former master. band which is formed in hostility to the Constitutional NUREMBERG, MAY 3. System. In a Sitting of the Cortes on the 27th of A loan of two millions is negotiating in a town of April, the Minister of the Interior announced, that Switzerland for the King of Sardinia. a body of rebels had been defeated at Ochandiano, A well known Swiss writer and statesman is said one Pinero, their Chief, killed, and seventy prisoners to have lately communicated to the Minister of a taken; and that the Militia of Logrono had in like foreign Prince possessing great influence a list of all manner beaten, at Campezur, the rebels commanded the Swiss who, in his opinion, are Carbonari. We bk an Advocate, D. Gregoire, who also fell in the need not, therefore, wonder if English and other Mi action.a--At Toledo, the National Guards have with nisters talk of Swiss Carbonari, when Swiss them difficulty kept the contending parties in order: the selves are not ashamed, either from mistaken con- Archbishop has fled to Madrid ; and on his arrival viction or from the h o p e o f b e i ng rewar d e d w i t h there, a battalion of the Guards, and a strong de- Orders and Pensions, of such base calumnies on tachment of Cavalry was immediately sent off to as- their fellow-citizen s a n d on t h e w h o l e country , in sist in keeping down the spirit of discontent prevailing juring both, contrary to their oath and duty. The among the Toledians. Government of or.e of the greatest Cantons lately pro- Several motions have been submitted to the Cortes, posed to another to send out of Switzerland all the in which the Clergy are accused of being the chief foreign emigrants suspected of being Carbonari, a instigators to the revolt, and a Committee has been measure which was then to have been put into exe appr.inted to examine and report on their conduct cation, in other parts of Switzerland. The proposal generally. was rejected by a great majority. The Government meanwhile is making great ef- The Mayence Gazette says, respecting the insur forts ; and has recently made a purchase of 60,000 rection of the Greeks, " We remember the insurtet muskets ; it i, not said in what country. Lion in 1771, when the aid o f the R uss i ans was not re - The Count de CARTIMORNA (General MORILLO) fused, but given, though to an inconsiderable extent. has been appointed Captain General of New Castile, At that time, they assembled a considerable corps in the Morea, took Patzas and Misi s t r a, a n d w e re , ap in the place of 1). Ramou VILLALBA, who has been dismissed. proaching the isthmus of Corinth ; but on the bare report of the approach of the Albanese in the Turkish pay, they shamefully took flight, and left to the Rus sians the honour of falling fighting on the field of Mantinea. Whether their present enterprise will be more fortunate depends upon their courage, which we are inclined to suspect from their murdering the Turks. The truly brave de not butcher defenceless persons. The Spirit of the Times, which is well known as the origin of all evil, cannot inspire courage, but only fanaticism. He seems to be more a braggart than a hero. We shall see what he will do in Greece, for this cradle of civilization is as unknown to us as Ethiopia was to the Greeks. If their posterity should succumb in this struggle, the Spirit of the Times will have some more bitter pills to swallow. He will be told that he ought to have waited till the Sultan and his Divan should be led, of their own accord, to treat the Greeks as citizens. It would be observed that the Turkish Government was already in a fair way, for that in the late proceedings against the Arme nians, it did not, as formerly, cut off the people's heads first, and seize their property afterwards, but this time had first confiscated their property, and then cut off their heads. At all events, we think that the Greeks will fail, without foreign support." ST. PETERSBURGH, APRIL 17. The following Decree has been received from Lay bach, dated February 10: With the view of giving further encouragement to the in dustry of our faithful subjects who work in cotton and silk, and wishing to favour the cultivation of the vine in the southern Pro vinces of the Empire, as well as the distillation of liquors from grapes and other fruits, we have thought fit to raise the Duties of consumption, which are collected in the interior, on these ar ticles. We have, besides, resolved on a moderate augmentation of the Tax on Sugar and Coffee; and we order that the Con sumption Duties on the said articles be collected by the Cus toms, conformably to the subjoined regulation, " ALEXANDER." Advices have been received from Rio de Janeiro, dated March 10th, which is five days later than the last dispatches. It appears that the KING, after a long deliberation, has abandoned his intention of re turning. to Portrgal. On the 9th, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs had a long interview with the KING.; in the course of which he submitted to him various arguments to shew the impolicy of quit ting Brazil ; and she same evening, at a Council of Ministers, the Royal intention of remaining was announced. A conspiracy is said, in one of the letters receiveA, to have been detected, the object of which was to form a new Revolution on Republican principles; se veral arrests have in consequence taken place. TA rt- GINI (Baron de SAN LORENZO), Ex-Treasurer, and the Judge of the Custom-house, are among the num ber. They were both committed to the fortress of Santa Cruz. Yesterday Count MuneTaa had an audience of his MAJESTY. Yesterday the Duchess of GLOUCESTER, the Princess AUGUSTA, the Princess SoPHIA, and the Duchess of KENr, accompanied by the infant Princess VITTORIA, visited the Duchess of CLARENCIL AUGSBURG, MAY 4. Accounts from Naples of the 20th April state that the disarming of the country proceeded rapidly after the establishment of the military tribunals. The four Juntas had commenced their inquiries into the late conduct of individuals. Some persons had been condemned in their absence, but none of them had fallen into the hands of justice. One Paolo Ruggiero was sentenced to death by a Court Martial on the 18th of April, for concealment of arms; and executed. 'Four persons who were taken as they were going to escape on board a Spanish ship, were to be tried on the 23d of April. It was thought that only one of them, who had his certificate as :a Carbonari about him, would be shot. FRANKFORT, MAY 3. According to letters from Rome, King Fer dinand will not return to Naples but with a Consti tution in his hand, to be proclaimed immediately.— It is added, that it is at the desire of Russia that Prince Ruffo, who has returned to Laybach, has been removed from the King's person, because that Mi nister, who is extremely in the interest of Austria, has always loudly declared against the establishment of any Constitution whatever. It is affirmed that the Allied Cabinets are very unfavourably disposed to wards the Duke of Calabria, but that they protect his brother, the Prince of Salerno, who continues to reside at Laybach. LECIT, APRIL 28. Private letters mention a new Convention said to be concluded between Austria and the Government of Naples, according to which only 30,000 men are to remain in the latter kingdom. It is stated that General Frimont was the first to propose the reduc tion of his army, as the great majority of the inhabit ants of all classes, without exception, have declared against the revolutionary system, and that the whole ..population is animated by an excellent spirit. Thus the maintenance of tranquillity can be guaranteed. l It is said, that in consequence of this Convention the corps of General Stutterheim returns to Lombardy, and is actually in march for that destination. Five thousand men belonging to that corps passed by the way of Rome; and the Holy Father has been pleased to give them his apostolic benediction. The corps of General Lederer, it is stated, will quickly follow that of Stutterheim. The King of Naples had not left Rome at the de parture of the last courier from that city. His Ma jesty had had a long interview with his Holiness. LEMBEItO, APRIL is. The Boyars had received orders to remain in the country, and not to leave it on any pretext whatever; in fact, many of those who emigrated have teturned. It is, however, evident from all their proceedings, that they obey this order rawly from compulsion ; SIMKING VESSELS. The Friends, DUNCAN, from Glasgow to Ham burgh, was sunk off Jutland, in June, 1816; andfbe Mary, M.LActuasx, from Glasgow to Gibraltar and Leghorn, was sunk off Tuskar in June last. • JOHN 1%1 4 1)0m/tu g of Glasgow, was part owner of both those vessels, and on Wednesday last was put upon his trial for the offence of wilfully causing the Friends to be destroyed, and thereby defrauding the owners of the cargo and the Underwriters. The trial lasted till two o'clock on Saturday after noon, when he received sentence of transportation far life. M'LACHLAN, Master of the Mary, was then tried for sinking that vessel, and he was sentenced to be tra,nsported for fourteen years. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Commerce, CovganaLLsailed from Greenock on the 11th instant, for Quebec, with jour hundred and gives: tv-two passengers, male and female, of all ages. Extract of a letter from Lloyd's Agent at Madras, dated the 13th of January :—" We have lately had a great deal of blowing weather, indeed more severe gales than have occurred at the same season for many years past." The Bulmer, Baacuir, from Bengal to London, sailed from Madras on the 28th of December, and, having encountered a severe hurricane, put into Sadrass Roads on the 6th of January. The whole of the sugar and saltpetre was pumped out, and the rest of the cargo being much drinaged, was to be landed there. DEAL, MAT 4.—Wind W.—Put back, last evening, the Thomas Grenville, Alsroasc, for Madras, &c. and Eclipse, CAILICW, for St. Domingo. Arrived last night, and remain, the Katharine, STZWA as ; and Forbes, Lama, from Samarang ; sailed 30th December; passed the Cape Ist March, and spoke the Por tuguese ships Gram Para and Canoa, from Bengal for Rio Janeiro ; passed St. Helena 13th March ; spoke his Majesty's ship SURAILWATIII, all well, 30th March, in Ist. 2. 17. N. loss. 21. W.; spoke the Princess Charlotte, of Whitehaven, from Liverpool for Bengal, 34 April; spoke the American ship Ben gal, of Salem for Batavia; and, same night, in lat. 3. N. long. 22. W. spoke the Hon. Company's ship Charles Grant. The prices of coffee and sugar were rapidly advancing at Batavia, and coffee very scarce. Arrived and sailed for the River, the Salisbury, Honors, from the South Seas. Came down from the River and remain, the Eclipse, NLwTON, for Naples. Passed by the Mary Ellen, DONALD, from Jamaica for London. FALMOUTH, MAY 12.—Wind W.—Sailed, the Stammer packet, with a Mall for Lisbon. WHITENAVIIN ' Mev 14.—Arrived, the Lancaster, THOMPION. from Liverpool for North America, with her mainmast sprung. PORISMOVI If, MAT 14.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the Ed. gar, Swierv, from London for Jamaica.—Passed by the Etnilie, HAttsox, from St. Thomas's for flamburgh. PLTMOIITII, May 13.—Wind W. N.W.—Arrived the Mar shal Wellington Gassy; from Sierra Leone ; and S overe i gn , Wicus, from London for Quebec.—Arrived off this port the Simpson, SIMPSON, from London for 'Virginia. LYMINOPON, Mar 14.—The Purser of the ship Thomas Coutts landed here this day; left China the 12th January, and St. Lidera the 29th March. CUSTO3I-HOUSE, blov 14.—Ships Entered Inwards :—The Active, from Jamaica; Tilson, from Dominica; Lord Hun gerford, from Calcutta; Kron Prins ' from Worcurn ; Fly, from St. Michael's; Filen, from Odessa; Dove, front the South Seas; Vittoria, from Jamaica • Fortitude, from liarbadoes ; Oak, from Marseilles; Singleton, from Stangate Creek; Nettle, from Rot terdam; Mars, from Montserrat; Princess Amelia, from Can ton ; Active, from Dublin ; and llowortb, from Demerara.— Entered Outwards: The Copia, from Odessa; Palmira. for Ha- I vanna.h ; Regent, for Limerick; Lapwing, for Jamaica; Lord Cochrane, for Naples; Flying Fish, for Ostend; Arethusa, for Jamaica; Magnet, for Limerick; Voyager. for the Cape of Good Hope; Lively, for Riga; David, for Havre; Dauphine, for Madras; Captain Glodwad. for Elsineur ; Matilda, for Ant werp; Jane, fur Genoa; and Kerswell, fo r Archangel. Captain PARRY'S Journal of his Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage, will be published TO-MORROW. Prince LEoeotes Gi and Party took place last night at Marlborough-House, previous to which the Duchebs of KENT dined with hiS Royal Highness. Mr. and Mrs. BAILING and family are arrived at their haus, in Berkeley-square, from Paris. Arrivals at Grillon's Hotel, Albemarle-street—Le Marquis dip COMMIX, from Paris; and Sir THOMAS, Lady, and Miss Lrna.- sautca, from a tour. Arrivals at the Clarendon Hotel, Bond-street:—Earl Dam lICH and Lady natant°, from Southampton Departure from ditto :—CHAIIIin TAYLOR, F.K. U.Y. and family, fur their seat in Sussex. Arrived at the Grosvenor Hotel, Eood•street, Captain Gas. F. STACK. We copy the following article from Farleys Bris tol .Journal, in which it is displayed in a most stril• ing and prominent manner : " We have much pleasure in giving currency to the following gratifying intelligence, which we have reason to believe is per fectly authentic : " The King has been pleased to write a letter to his royal sis ter, the Duche's of Gloucester, in which he talus an opporti . nity of expressing his gratification at the claims of the Roman Catholics having been rejected by the good, correct, and consti. tutional feeling of the House of Lords, and most especially at the energetic and mahly declaration of his royal brother, the Duke of York, presumptive heir to the crown of this united kintdorn." We have reason to believe that there is not one word of truth in the statement. A likely thing, truly, that his MAJESTY should be writing politics to his sister ; and still more so, that he should be so in delicate as to express an opinion which would have been censure in disguise on her rm., illustrious bus. band, whose friendship to Catholic Emancipation is as avowed as is the Heir Presum ptive's hoaility ! The late Report of the Committee mi Foreign Trade has already produced activity in, some of the Swedish ports. From Gottenburgh we learn, by the last Mail, the arrival of twenty-five English vessels there, for loading timber—a speculation attributed to the diminution which has been recommended of the Duties en that article. REMENLBER! that CARROLL Sold No. 46, a Prize of £21,000 Consols in the Last Lottery. Do NOT FORGET! that the last Prize of 1:$0,000 ever drawn was Sold by CARROLL: and RECOLLECT! that Fottn Prizes of-1:30.000, and Stx of £20,000, have also been Sold by him in recent Lotteries. IVill not this justify the anticipation that he will cell the Two Prizes of 1:21 1 ,000 Consols, which must be drawn Neer THURSDAY? It is confidently expected that his OFF; ces, No. 19, Cornhill ; and 26, Oxford -street, w!11 then again be visited by Dame Fortune. Wst.sise Olt tits Warta!—Friday, a prodigious crowd as.. Related on the banks of the Clyde, to whom the performance of Mr. Kerry, whit had announced his intention of riding on Ws Aquatic Velocipede, from Rutherglen.bridge to the Wooden Bridge. lie started precisely at a quarter before three o'clock, and reached the Wooden Bridge at a quarter past three. Ile was somewhat assisted by the river being partially swollen by the rains. lie amused himself with loading and discharging a fowling-piece as he sailed along. Several porters were sea. tioned at the different entrances of the Green with suhscetp, tion-boxes. It is computed that above 50,000 people were pre sect. The machine, as formerly noticed, consists of three ern tin eases united by iron rods to support a sort of saddle, upoq which the artist sits, at such a height as is suitable for using his feet to give the requisite impulse. According to the inventor, the weight of the whole does not exceed 14 lbs. '