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) i I , ; • THKEVENING STAR. _ LONDON. 0 . I . • = . • = ml lib TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 198 wit '1 • THE FUND& - STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE VOLOCIL ISete 11,but littlehudeses deign ht the smite thh teeedeg. Ohm* foe the &mutt hi', with every heavy market. maw mazer. Ali frig , marbles this morning are very heavy, and on the Seam We understand that a respectable Banker In the City holds a eafilion and a half of foreign securities, by which he h i sinus at least £54,000. The above market is but thinly at- 1 tended this morning, and at an .early hour, we obierved Ilevesni Malin °limn on the Royal Exchange in waiting for alseir prey. It Is well known that the rich people In the Stock Ex change have been buying most of the Spanish Bonds for mew, and selling them again, for the 30th instant, to several deafer. on the Royal Exchange. Great fears are entertained that the parties will net be able to take the Steck on the above day, and it is evident now, that the confidence which existed in the mar het, has totally vanished within these few days. ' Current Prices :—Chilian 79k, New Spanish 601, Old 721, New Prussian net, Old 87, ItussiAn 871, Danish 91, Neapolitan Colom. nOk, Peruvian 80, New Spanish Scrip ni to 4 dis. STOCK EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK. The principal business doing is in making up accounts ; public besieges is very dull. Consols are.Blti. TOLIIGt NASICIAT. Colombian Bonds have fallen one per lent. within the last, boar, and a general gloom prevails over the Market. There are no leas than seven lists for the ensuing Spanish Loan. PRICES OP STOCKS AT ONE O'CUICK. Bank Stock 249% 3 per Cent. Reduced 81 1 / 8 81 1 / 8 3 per Cent. Consols 81 % % Vie per Cent. 93 1 / 8 V 4 93 4 per Cent. 98% 5 / 8 -4 per Ct. New 1023 8 14 Bank Long Annuities 20 11-16 3 4 , India Stock 257 256 1 /-Bondi 445. 455. Exchequer Bills (1 1.000) di. Is. Bs.--Small 6s. 9s. Cos. for Account 81% Ys. this forenoon we received Oporto Papers to the 10th instant. They contain the Speech of the PRE MIMI! to the KING on closing the Session of the Constitutional Cortes. The fgllowing are extracts: LISBON, NOVEMBER I. On the 27th of October a Deputation of the Cortes was introduced to his Islajety to aequaint him with the intended close of the Session of the General Ex traordinary Ccnstitutional Cortes of the Portuguese Nation. The following is the Speech of the Presi dent of the Deputation: Stns—The General `Extraordinary and Consti tutional Cortes of the Portuguese Nation, scud this Deputation to acquaint your Majesty that the Ses sion, having concluded and the end of their career arrived, they have resolved to clo:e their Session on the 4th of November next, and desire to know whe ther your Majesty will please to be present at the ceremony ? When the Constitution surrounds your Majesty's throne with the Representatives of the People, it is not only to give splendour to the political regard due to the highest National Dignity, but likewise to in culcate on the People that the interests of the country and of the Crown depend on s sincere and strict anion between the Throne and the Representatives of the Nation. This is the first basis of the Government Which we have established. Happily, Sire, we adopted it ; and, happily, we are now all convinced that the best form of Government which suits Portu gal is that which conciliates the prerogatives of the Crown with the unalienable rights of the People— that 'which binds in an indissoluble chain the security of the Throne with the political rights of the Nation. 44 You, Sire, who are the firmest support of this forts of Government, by your formal and public ac ceptance of it, by your spontaneous and solemn oath, by your open mad sincere declarations—you, Sire, merit the applause of the people, and the highest tes timonies of their gratitude and respect. The revolu tion is finished, because you, Sire, set limits to it ; all divisions and partici cease ; general harmony of desires arises; the union of 'stir ateinterests with those of the public, is accomplished ; foreign nations re spect out political changes, and cone now venture to contest our independence. If some of our fellow-citi zens are not entirely satisfied with the changes in our political system, your Majesty has imposed silence on them ; your Majesty removes all our dif ficulties, aid the co-operation of your Majesty has a complete syaem of the most useful and wise Administration. 4g These, Sire, are the happy results of your accept ance of your oath, of your faithful and magnanimous adherence to the same which the People adopted. This happy conformity of our principles and senti ments must necessarily promote and secure (so we all hope) the glory and happiness of this brave and loyal nation. Deign, Sire, to receive from the hands of us, the interpreters of itrwishes, the most sincere tribute of its gratitude, its:confidence, and its love— the love and confidence of the People are the real treasures of good Kings. Enjoy, Sire, this treasure, which you will find inexhaustible; the Representatives of the Portuguese nation. faithful auxiliaries of the Qmstitutional Monarchy, Congratulate you, Sire, on this rood fortune; and this faithcal declaration of your contemporaries secures to your memory the 131essine of posterity. al You have already began, Sire, to receive the re ward of sockgrest virtues, and of such elevated pa triotism. aincryos have enjoyed more then own the sgeetiug right of the public joy, aad of the ardent ..' egheiparof the grotto &e arid loge of the Portuguese tlag the greets of this tapitel Sp to the steps of brosle, whets 700, in the Midatof us, went to pelesireise upon it the spontaneous declarations of four Wen sentiments of adherence tie the Coast - Ito: don't cause. We have new, sire, nothing more to dare, but that the SUPaIKS RIGULATOR and Mo- Deltatoa of.friustan Arsatas may consolidate this dtsjestic.work ; may inspire wisdom into our public and private Councils; may promote the interest and prosperity of this nation, Ifibich deserves to be happy ; may preserve *fume order and tranquillity which lie havep - itht:rto happily enjoyed, to fill up the mea• sure of Ear goad fortune; and may prolong for many years the precious life of your Majesty, which is and always will be one of the first sources of the public happiness of the united Kingdom ; and for this reason is and always will be one of the first prayers of the Nation and its Representatives." His Majesty exprested his satisfaction at this Mes sage, and accepted the invitation ; saying, that when ever the Constitution permits, he will always be happy to find himself in the midst of the National Repre sentation. OPORTO, NOVEMBER s. We can assure our readers, that the French Charg‘ d'Affaires has orders from his Government to assure our Ministry, that France never had any idea of in vading Spain, and much less Portugal ; and that-the army in the Pyvennees was solely for the security of France. Mr. Canning has also officially given a si milar assurance., This morning we received a Dutch Mail, with Papers up to Saturday last inclusive. There is no news frem Greece that can be relied upon. They contain another instance of those convulsions of na ture which litay have been so trequent. Latakia, the Laodicea of Biblical geography, has been visited' with an earthquake, which has destroyed a third part 'of the city, and with it a considerable number of the inhabitants. Latakia h a.Considerable town in Syria, 245 miles north of Jerusalem. 'and 75 miles S.W. of Aleppo, •which, it will be recollected, has lately suffered much by an earthquake. The follow ing are extracts : LATAKIA (IN SYRIA), AUGUST 2a. The city of Latakia, and its environs also, have suffered severely by a dreadful earthquake in the night of the 13:h of this month. A shock had been felt on the 12th, and it was imagined that all was over, when, on the 13th, about 20 minutes past nine in the evening, a slight trembling was the harbinger' of most , violent shocks that immediately followed. They began from north to south, and then took a direction from east to west. The shock continued for forty seconds. The quarter in which the houses of the Consuls are situated has suffered the most Several houses are thrown down ; those of the Consuls of France and Austria, and the Convent of the Fathers of the Holy Land, are very much damaged. A third part of the city lies in ruins. Though many persons have beep killed and wounded, the number would have been much greater, had not a great part of the inhabitants been abroad or not yet gone to bed. Several vil lages in the environs are wholly destroyed. Of the little town of Gibelette three-fourths are destroyed. Its harbour is chocked' up by the ruins of the houses that have fallen into it. Three hundred persons have lost their lives on this occasion. On St. Louis's day, M. Guys, the French Consul, with all his countrymen here, went to the Church to return thanks to Heaven for their preservation,. and to put up prayers for the life of their august Sovereign. FRANKFORT, NOVEMBER 10. The epidemic disorder which manifested itself in a part of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, and which at first excited some alarm, appears to be a nervous fever, against which the proper remedies have already been applied with success. The Government of Hesse, %%id) the laudable desire to satisfy the Public on this subject, has issued a Proclamation, stating the cir cumstances of the case, and promising that, if there should be at any tittle reasons for serious apprehen sions of contagion, not only the necessary precautions shall be immediately adopted, but the Public shall be informed, without reserve, of every particular. AatotonsAn, Nov. 15.—Niehange on London 39-11, Ditto Two Slontld 39-9, Hansburgh 34e, Paris 863. The French Papers of Saturday add little to our information on any of the :subjects which at this time. occupy the public attention. In the North of Spain everything goes on favourably; the Army of the Faith has not been able to rally since its recent de feat, and the seat of its rebel government has been transferred from See d'Urgel to Paycerda ; it will soon be annihilated, or its members obliged to sake , refuge in France. The Loan attempted to be nego tiated in Paris fur the Spanish Insurgents appears to have completely failed ; evein their agent is ashamed of the transaction. The accounts from the Mona are still favourable to the Greeks. Clime:glum PACHA is at Terneve. A part of his suite, baggage, and precious effects, has been sent to Bitoglia. He has offered to conclede an armistice with the Greeks. ODYSSEII3 is with his corps at Zeitouny. Prince MALTROCONDATO, Gene ral NORMANN, and Bosseam, still occupy the post of the Five Fountains. The choicest of the Suliet warriors have come in at the first appeal of 14AUR000RDATO, to the number of meg thoassnd men, and are at pre. seat attached to his army'. It is eatraordlaary that - , there is no stet of mention of the tatintfr ileqinction of the town of Soli, announced in softie loornals\ on ilte faith of let** frog i Trigste; but what ii Certain is, that therf has bees no Capitulation or sub-, mission offered by the brave Suliot isatlori to the Mils- sulrnans. It is repotted that the Turks have again experienced a most complete defeat in Epirus: The elections are proceedingly rapidly in trance, but it is difficult at present to say on which side they incline. The veteran LA FAIIITTE has been re-elected at Meaux, after a hard contest, in which he was op posed by all the influence and all the artifice that the Court and the Ministers could bring against him.. After a silence of a fortnight, during which -thug the most alarming reports of war have been suffered to circulate without the slightest contradiction, the Moniteur has ventured a laboured and cautious-ar ticle on the subject, which, however, is sufficiently pacific, contending only for the right of Fiance to interfere, if she considers her dignity or her interests exposed by her vicinage to the disordered prOvinces of Spain. PARIS, NOVEMBER 16. We learn by letters from Puycerda that the Re gency has removed the seat of Government to that town. It is probable that this resolution will have been adopted in consequence of the movements of Mixe's army, which has for some time past been endeavouring to surround the Seo d'Urgel. We hasten, however; t 7 affirm that no military event has &e'en occasion to this change. Urgel is not aban doned by the Army of the Faith, and that place is not even threatened by the Constitutionali _sts.—Jour pull du Seir. La Quotidienne of to-day says, that the, Duke del PARQUE was a courtier of King JOSEPH'S; this as- sertion is false. The Duke commanded, in 1809, a corps d'armee, of 30,000'men, in the environs of Sa lamanca, against the French. The following is from Bayonne, November 9 : " The Members of the Insurrectionary Junto of Irati have arrived in our city. Letters from St. Sebastian of the Bth instant, Jay, that since the defection of the band of Quesada, no more factious persons are to be seen." The Constilutionnel says, we have just received from' a Frenchman at Geneva, the copy of a letter he has re ceived from Verona, in which are some curious details concerning the Co►igress. They agree in some mea -1 sure with the reports in circulation since , yesterday : " VII/ONA, )to•LYIER 4. " At this moment there is a report that the instruc• dons of the Ambassador of a certain Power agree with those of the Duke of Wellington. M. le Comte Achille speaks very lightly of this policy. It is sus pected, if he has received instructions, that they do not come fiom your Ministry. He boasts on all oc , casions of possessing great influence, and does what he can to promote war against Spain. Nothing is easier, according to him, than to pass the Pyrenees, over-run the Peninsula, acquire Madrid, dissolve the Cortes,and make the Spaniards cry Vive k Roi Akelu! I ought not to conceal from you that Austria has also shewn considerable repugnance to an armed inter ference. For several days it hat been remarked that . Lord Wellington and Prince Nletternich had frequent interviews. I will inform you of everything which passes interesting." Colonels Fabvier and Dentzel, confined in the pri son of La Force, received an order yesterday to appear on Teesday next before the Tribunal of Correctional Police, as being accused of having endeavoured to corrupt, by promises or gifts, the jailor of the Bicetre, to procure the escape of the four individuals con demned to death, who were in his custody. Madame the Marchioness de Villette, the adopted daughter of Voltaire, who was called by him the bentaiJal and good, died yesterday in Paris. The evening Ministerial Journal announces that the pretended Regency of Urgel, fearing to be sur rounded by the Constitutional Army of General Mina, had taken refuge at Puycerda, and had thus ap proached the frontiers of France, which it is probable it will soqn enter. The Loan opened at Paris by the pretended Re gency of Urgel, which some now go so far as to call the Regency of Spain, has attracted the notice of the Spanish Ambassador to the Court of France. The Duke of St. Lorenzo, recently recognized in that character, has applied to M. Rougemont de Lowen berg, to ascertain whence he derives his powers, and Lto the Minister of Foreign Affairs to obtain redress for the injury done to the. King of Spain. M. de Rouge ment replied, that he was only the agent of M. Our rard ; that he would not implicate either his name or his fortune in this loan, none of the consequences of which, moral, political, or financial, he guarantee& —As to the diplomatic part, M. de Rougemont re ferred to other sources for the explanations required of him, and expressed himself,with respect to the bud ness, in a manner so little favourable, that it is sur prising he should have consented to become the agent. The temptation of a good commission does no t seem sufficient to justify such a transaction. All this, however, spews what we ought to think of the ne ,geciations carried on in the name of the Regency of Urgel. Not one respectable man in the commercial world has consented to associate his name with it, still less to promote it by becoming a guarantee.—Cour. Franc. Fonds at Pads on Saturday . —lrtve per Cents. opened at oaf. fell to Ut. and closed at asE cos. a Leeward Island Mail we have littera from St. Thomas's to the fist irOctober. They eoatain tie same actOrni of the taVng 61'itaricaybo which previously arrived bt way of New York, and which ;event has subsequently, by the same channel, been plated in doubt. No:hing certain, we apirAenti, cdn at preseat be affirmed on that subject. The Bar. badoes Globs of the 16th of Septerhber, contains a notice for a Meeting . of the inhabitants to take iftto consideration a' Petition to Sir HsNliir WAnne, the Governor, for_the ietnoval of Judge LUCAS, Chief of the Common Pleas of the island, and of his assi,tantsi fur some •alleged unconttitational proceedings on a trial which took . place in that Court in the preced iug week.; Eiiract of a letter from Curacoa, dated Oct. 1: Itis Catholic Majesty's brig Hercules, Captain CarAm, ard the Constitution schooner, arrived yesterday from off th e Bar of Maracaybo, which place they left on the 3d of September • By which arrival we.areinformed of the recent movement s ttf General Morales. The fleet having landed at Lo* Tagues, pro. ceeded for their destination, twenty-flve leagues to the lem of the Bar of Maracaybo, where they arrived on the 30th of August, on which day 1800 effective men were disembarked, and hospitably received, by the Indians, who brought thent provisions in abundance. "On the 31st the army was put in motion, Germ, We; declaring that the rallying ward should be Victoryor Death —that he was determined to take ➢iaracaybo, or perish in the a , ten.r. On the ad of September six feluccas, and three flechera,, armed, having 200 troops on board, went over the 13.. r, safe into Lagoon, without injury from the fort. ,4 The veuelg.detained by Morales have been all releasee, and the Spanish schooner, Concha, forty days from Vigo, arrived Thurslay, by which we learn that she sailed from that p:ac, in company with the corvette Diana, brig of war, and several merchantmen, with 700 men on board—destination unknown." EXPEDITION AGAINST PORTO RICO. ANTIGUA, OCTOBER 1. In the early part of the last month a pilot-boat-built: schooner, under Amei lean colours, from Baltimore, owned or commanded by one Goold, an Irishman by birth, arrived at S. Bartholomew's, fiorn Baltimore. This vessel was shortly after followed by a big and two schooners, also under American colours, and from Baltimore, under the immediate control of the said Gould, who purchased an hermaphrodite bilg• at St. Bat tholomew's, from a Mr.Chayter,which was captured and sent into that island by one of th e Venezue!e in p iva . .eers, but seized and sold by order of the Governor of St. Bartholomew's. T hfs „,„ 0 , was under Dutch colours. On board the brig from Baltimore were several coloured and white men,amonp, whom was a General Louis Villaume Ducoudray, Frenchman, and an American named B. Irvine. In consequence of the suspicious appearance of the,.e vessels, together with its beii;g well ascertained that they came to the West Indies with the intention ei making a descent on some island, by their having bee:! joined by several white and coloured men in 6t. Bai tholomew's, the Governor of that island ordered them off, and they consequently left there, then sailing undcr American colours, and came to anchor at a so.al place called Five Islands. The .south-east part ‘lf Porto Rico was currently spoken of as being the Fla: of their destination. EXTRACT OF A LETTER PROMS ST. EA RTEIOLONIEVI DATED SEPTE:pIBER 16% 14 The secret expedition sailed on the 14th, and stood apparently for St. Thomas's—it is more gene rally believed for Porto Rico. lam much it portends no good for the West India Islands, final the number of St. Domingo characters, apparently principals, in the business. Although attempted to be cloaked, sufficient was ascertained to excite suli don. The rest are republican Frenchmen and fo reigners, but not a single Spaniard among them. They were joined here by about ten bad charactor+, who can well be spared." EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM PORTO RICO, SEPT. 2. ' The Spanish naval force in the South Seas consists of two 44-gun frigates and the corvette Alexander of 22 guns, which had been delivered up by their Commanders to the Independent Government of Guayaquil. Lord Cochrane arrived in the river of Guayaquil with his two ships, and immediately de manded the delivery of the frigates, notwithstanding, they had the Patriot flag flying, at the same time intimating it to be his determination to captor: all vessels of war bearing the Chilian flag. .Aftei some hesitation on the part of the Commanders of t!7e frigates, his Lordship succeeded in taking posses , :io3 of them, .and proceeded to sea with his prizes. CONGRESS OF CHILL The following is an extract of a letter from an En: , - lish merchant, dated Santiago de Chili, Aug. 2, lb`•:: " The meeting of the Congress took place on tl ~ 23cl ult. at which most of the English, as well .:3 myself; attended, having received an invitation fr.%) the Supreme Director so to do. The procesbi sa formed at the Palace, and from thence proceeded to r the Consulado, where each Member delivered 1119 ' opinion upon the nature of the business for which they had assembled ; after which they elected D.:a Fraircisco Tagle as President of the Congress. " From the Consulado they returned to the .tf dienee Chamber in the Palace, and when the Dirc: tor had taken his seat, the Members again addres , CJ him, stating the great and beneficial results likely ::" arise fromlso important an occasion as the pretcrt. From the Palace they again proceeded to the C. sulado, when the Supreme Director addressed , z Members, and delivered, in an appropriate a:J es cellent speech, the resignation of the Directorsiur : upon the conclusion of his speech, the President itil mediately rose, and in the name of the Congress r::' stinted, in an elegant and complimentary speech! t',.. 3 office of Director to him, which was most g ractitt- . accepted by his Excellency. The day on which ve Congress met, as well as the following iwo, rec.: holydays, and at the conclusion of each day, suc ceeded in the evening brilliant illuminations and gran , ' displays of fire-works. Yesterday arrived, by way of Panama, the plea • ing and important intelligence of the acknowle4' meat of the Independence of this Government by tol of the United States, which was received with genc:;u demonstrations of joy. 44 During the illuminations there was a tranl rency exhibited at the Consulado. In the centre oi l the arms of Chili ; on the right a likeness of the St' promo Director ; and on the left, one of Lord C oef- ; _m n; at, with the following in irtions t uncler that s I N