Star. — London, England, 1822-09-20 00:00:00

. •i '4 • V Z N Ar DANK OF ENGLAND. kthsterday a- Half-yearly General Court of Pro-_ prietors was held at the Bank of England, for the purpose of considering a Dividend. An expectation being very prevalent that other business of importance would be Introduced, the Court was crowded to excess at twelve o'clock ; at that hour the GOVERNOR read the recommendation of the Court of Directors that a Dividend of 5 per Cent. he approved by the Proprietors of Bank Stock, for the half year ending on the 10th of October next, and he submitted to them a Resolution to that effect, which.wisaltirnately agreed to. RORGRRY OF BANE-NOTILS. Mr. SOLLY thought it of great importance to the' Public to know, whether any and what, progress had lately been made in the new plan for the better pre vention of forgeries. Was it still on trial, or had it been abandoned ? The GOVERNOR replied, that as yet no plan had been devised which was likely to have the effect of preventing forgeries: bat it must be ratifying to know that the Bank had, since the circulation of gold, fewer forgeries than on any former occasion. A sh6rt time ago the Bank had all: over England but one person in confinement on a chirge Of forgery. The aurriber was at present very few indeed. Mr. SOLLY said, that the withdrawal of the small notes; and the substitution of gold coin, must neces sarily, by removing the temptation, have diminished the number of Bani-note forgeries. It was, however, possible that the concerns of the country might again compel the Bank, for the public interests, to resort to anew circulation of small Bank-notes—of course he did not mean to anticipate such an event ; but it hap pened before, and might again occur ; and then it wound. be a very inconvenient moment for trying that experiment for the better prevention of forgery, which at present could be so much better attended to. This was tbe time for making the trial, and not when a pee. issue might take place; and be begged to press for a distinct answer to his question, as the plan so much talked of had, he understood, been long on trial. for himself, be confessed he had never been very san guise about that plan, but ether plans might be de vise(' at all events, the present time was the best applicable to such a consideration. Mr. RANDALJACCRON entertained no doubt that the Court of Directors would prosecute every inquiry, and take every step which appeared calculated to prevent forget ies - : but what lie principally rose to observe upon, was an inference raised by the Honour able Proprietor (Mr. Solly) upon an assumption that the Bank might be again called upon to issue small notes—an event which that Honourable Proprietor seemed to anticipate as one of distressing add despe rate necessity. Now he (Mr. Jackson), so far from concurring in that opinion, was one of those who thought that a fresh issue of the smaller Bank notes would be a very great accommodation to the Public —(!pear, hear !).—Su far from anticipating such an event as one which ought to be considered as indicat ing a distressing or desperate necessity, he thought it t% Quid be hailed by the country at large as a measure of the greatest commercial convenience—(Hear). — As the law. stood (and if he was incorrect in his state ment of it, the Governor would correct him), the Bank bad the volition of issuing smaller notes whenever it appeared to them that the public interests or conve nience required such an issue 1.. and he knew that whenever they determined to resort to such a measure, it would he received, not as sheaving any distress or ill management, but as a -manifestation of their desire to says') the wants of the nation—(liter, hear).— lle saw no necessity of reminding his hearers of the calamities which had befallen the Public; owing to the withdiao al of their small notes. With regard to the question of their forgeries, undoubtedly they must fluctuate with the amount and particular nature of the currency in circulation; but respecting them he must say this, that he had anticipated the increase of that species of crime, the moment they had by their mode of proceeding reduced it to a misdemeanour, aad only consigned the offender to the enjoyment of the blasphemous jollity of Newgate, or the still greater jollity 4,1 Botany Bay. Assisted by the Sect etary for the Home Department, or in any other quarter, he still thought that means might be devised, through which the Bank might again resort to an issue of small notes with greater safety, and he was sure that whenever they did to, the convenience, if not abso lute neces s ity of Such a proceeding w ould be gene rally felt—(t/eer). Mr. Soma, in explanation, said that he had Rem stated, nor ever meant to state, that such a re-issue would imply incapacity, distress, or ill management, either on the part cf the Bank or the country. Antic wished to urge was the aptitude of the present moment to make the inquiry toashich he alluded. A Pnorriwroe begged to express his dissent from the Hon. and Learned Gentleman's (Mr. Jackson's) opinion, that a re-issue of small notes would, in the present situation of the country, be of public advan tage. The contrary, in his opinion, would be the result, for the money market was already overflowing for want of an adequate employment of capital; and the evil would necessarily be increased if an issue of Bank-notes were to augment the amount of money sr afloat. Mr. Youxo submitted that this conversation was quite irregular. The question was then put upon the usual dividend, which n as unanimously agreed to, and the Court was then adjourned. The dividend warrants were ordered to be made out on Friday, the 11th of October next. • Tuz Museum, No. XXII.. will be published To moirow, c4lntmning : Reviews of Doblado's Letters from Spahr—Gage's History and Antiquities ot lienvave--Alernoirs of the Life and Trial of James blackcoull—Essays by Father Fitz-Eastace--Mawe's L ess ons on ...iberalogy and Geology—Maws'. Instractiens fir the blaoagrnsvnt of the Blow-pipe, &e_--thissinuit.:—Walks In Londwi— Loddiges Gardens at Hackney—Sastarner Watering n ice s—Letters from Paris-0111a, a Tale--Notices of the les' known Italian Writers.—Porrai :—The Sailor's Dirge, Son nets, &c.—Fors Awn :—Lithography—ileitansthi Dellmeata,&c. Tess :..—Haymarket Theatre.—.Vanterms:--Fac-datilas of the S:guatures of Queen Elizabeth and Oliver Cromwell, with an original Letter ot the latter ; Anecdotes ot Frederick the Great, Alderman Boyden, Ckamillart, Ike. Plagiaristps, Vul garisms, Scientific Discoveries, Literary Announcements, /cc, Published by 3.s ildiassaow, Wisetrareet. every Smarday Morning ; and teay babaii_ 01, and Postmasters. Nee $4. f,ft• ift ."1 6 ,11 111% OVA. by post, • 4 '1 4;Zr.. THe EVEN ti' if . - FRIDAY, SEPTEMnirIIB, 1822. THE FUNDS. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Up to this hour there appears to be a kesvy market, without the least fluctuation. Consols remain steady at ill for the Ac count, and 11l for Money. with Kith business doing. FOILTIGN FUNDL—Tbs business in the above market is , not quite so brisk as yesterday, but Old Spanish, and New Prussian Bonds, are the Stocks most doing in this morning.—Chillan 84i; New Spanish 65; Old 09è f l 70; New Prussian 6.1 i; Old NI 91 ; Danish /19*; Russian 871; Neapolitan 773; Colum bian 861, Scrip 861. HALT-PAST TRUTT O'CLOClL•••••THS•moriment £150,000 Can sob have been sold, which makes the market heavy. Consols /111. STOCK EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK. A large inandty of Stock has been thrown span the Market, and prices are heavy. Foasiciw-bhuuter.—A good deal doing in Old Spanish Bonds, which have been at 70 this morning. PRICES OP STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. per Cent. Cons: 81% 80 1 /s 4 per Cent. New 100% % Imperial S per Cents. 80 3 / 4 —lndia Bonds 481. 495. Exchequer Bills of £l,OOO, Ss. 2s. Ditto small, 6s. Bs. Consols for Account 813/s K. The French Papers of Tuesday have been received. They add little information respecting the affairs of the Greeks in the Morea; and that little cannot be relied on. It seems pretty certain that the Turks have penetrated into the Peloponnesus; but while one account represents - them as having completely anni hilated the Greeks, another account asserts that they have been thrice defeated, and obliged to retire on Corinth, which it hoped they would soon be obliged to evacuate.. , • While the other French Papers are regretting the unfortunate termination of the contest in the Morea, the Courier Francis has revived the story of the de feat of Criourtscuro PACIIA. The author(ty for this new version, is a document which it is pretended has been officially published by the Provisional Govern- ment of Greece, and which is received in Paris from Marseilles. It is stated that the Turks were attacked on their march towards Corinth, and completely routed. From the details which are given, this account appears to be merely a repetition of the former reports. The Austrian Observer of the 6th inst. confirms the report of the plague having made an alarming pro gress in Albania; and adds, that it has extended its ravages to Epirus and the Morea. The intelligence from Spain is not very important. The news from Catalonia announces that the Roy alists arc making sensible progress in that province, and in those of Garonne, Tarragona, and Lerida. ,Brigadier Timms has been obliged to raise the siege of Sot Ranison, near Servera. He alleges that he had not water for his troops. The Royalists sur tc:und MAllleaa and Seßent. They besiege Cortiona, the garrison of which begins to fail in provisions. In Garonne the Royalists are said to possess the whole country, and have 4000 men in arms. The Constitutional forces are unequal to them, notwith standing the prodigious activity of Generals LLOVEKA and BLANCO. General NINA is arrived at Lerida, and the communication with Barcelona is stopped. ROUEN CATHEDR4L The following additional particular* relative to the burning of the Cathedral at Rouen, of which we gave an account in the STAR of yesterday, are from a Rouen Journal: " The 15th of September, 1822, will unfortunately be too celebrated in the annals of the city of Konen. This morning, at a quarter past five o'clock, in the midst of a slight stoma which passed over the town, the lightning fell on the principal tower of the metro politan Church, which it struck at the bottom of the spire. In an instant the wood-work caught fire, and the flames spread with such rapidity that in a quarter of an hour they enveloped the whole tower and reached to its top. The alarm occasioned by such an event brought together the whole population : but no hu man aid could prevent the destruction of the part on fire, and a few minutes before seven the spire fell upon the roof. At this moment the fire inclosed in the tower burst out with augmented fury : and while we write this short notice, nothing more remains of this grand pyramid but its stone base : the upper roofs of the Church are broken through by the fragments fallen lupon them ; and the terrified imagination, considering the vast number of houses adjoining this grand edifice, knows not where the deplorable disaster will stop. The difficulty of collecting facts in the Midst of such a scene of desolation, compels us to postpone details until to-morrow. We content ourselves now with stating, that the greatest activity prevails among the citizens, the firemen, and the soldiers of the gar rison, to alleviate as far as possible the terrible con sequences of this calamity." TOULOUSE. SZ?TEKBER ii. The brotherhood of the White Penitents marched in procession through the streets of this town on last Sunday, in commemoration of the journey made by the ancient brotherhood of our Lady of Garaison, in fulfilment of a vow made by their predecessors in the reign of Louis XIII. to demand of GOD the prosperity of the Bastion family. This is the first time *ace the' 'Revolution that the Whitefeaitems have paraded thy principal stops of the city; and iL it iospire4 with piety, it aired curiosity in a peat many FRISCIII FUNDS, Skil'. 17.--.:rillliptiCentS6 4 at 92E90c. closed at 92f. 25e. Bank Shares, This:forenoon we received Bayonne Paphil 11th inst. The' following are eztradirr —: BAYONNE, SEPTEMBER to. ~t~ The news which we have just received "from *the frontiers, announce the landing, at fit. Sebastian, of the Regiment of active Militia co . from Gallicia, and of two Battalions of the Regiment of the line . of Vittoria, at Bilboa, which embarked at Corunna. Letters from Vittoria of the - 7th; received at 4run by express, mention the arrival, in that city,of eight pieces of cannon and 1500 men, intended for Navarre. Travellers from \lie interior, who have arrived to day at the Lazaretto of Behobie, confirm the ad• vane of troops towards Catalonia, and the provinces adjacent to France: they add, that the Royalists are masters of all Catalonia, where the Constitutional garrisons are closely blockaded, and anxiously waiting for the reinforcements which are on their way. The accounts from Arragon, received by the way of Olesen, represent that province as generally re solved to repulse the Defenders ithe Faith : a Bat talion of the active Militia of Saragossa has volun tarily marched to join the division of Zarco de Valle, who is at Frago. Mina was collecting forces at Lerida Private letters received to-day from S:. Jean Pied de Port, confirm the defeat of General Quesada, in the environs of Biel, between Jaca and Sanguesa The column of Colonel Tabuenca, consisting of 700 infantry and 100 cavalry, and two cannon,sattacked, on the morning of the 7th, General Quesada, who had under his command 3,000 men; and, after having been repulsed from Jaca, hesitated to enter into. Arragon, because the Empecinado was in the, envi rons of Huesca, and Espinosa in. the Roncal. The. Constitutional troops, whose ardour is beyond descrip tion, succeeded in breaking the line of their adver saries, of whom they killed 300, and 'took a_ great' number prisoners; they also took forty mules, loaded with ammunition, the military chest, and the greater part of the baggage. The ranks of the Defenders of the Faith having been thrown into disorder, 500 men went over to the Constitutionalists, and an equal number from the valleys of Erro, Ahescoa, Salazar,l Roncal, Anso, and Echo, returned to their homes,' throwing away their arms. This news is certain. It is also added, but we cannot warrant the truth of the statement, that Ques'ada has been arrested by his own soldiers and taken to Irati to be tried ; some even go so far as to say that helms now been shot: we wait for more authentic accounts. With respect to the fate of this General, he had himself previously expressed his apprehensions and even his repugnance to command a troop without discipline, in which there was a great number of brigands and desperate characters. We are wholly ignorant of the move marts which Espioosa may have made since this battle, ‘.e merely know that on the 7th he was in the valley of Roncal ; that the battalion of the Faith, cantoned at Ochagania and in the environs, bad made a movement towards Irurzun, a village on the high road from Tolosa to Pampeltina, so that in this case Irati would be insulated. The advantages ob rained by the Constitutional troops, though so infetior in number, will not excite surprise, when we are told that fifty youths cf the National School at Vertara, in Guipuscoa, the oldest of whom is not 18, put to flight a few days since, the band of Uranga, consist ing of 250 men. The dispatches lately taken from the express of the house of Basterreche, coming from Madrid, have been forwarded by the Sub-Prefect of our town to the Minister of the Interior, by the ordinary convey ance; which has given rise, in this city, to a thousand idle complaints. It is now known that the bearer was detained because 1:e had not taken a paSsport at the Pas de Behobie, for Bayonne, the distance of which is only four leagues 'and a half, a thing which is never done. The news from Madrid, which is not of a later date than the 6th, represent that city as tranqUil, though the intercepting of the couriers from the northern fron tiers had given the ill•disposed an opportunity to spread various sinister reports of great successes ob tained by the Royalists ; of their having taken Iron, St. Sebastian, and Tolosa; of preparations for war making at Bayonne, and of the march of 25,000 men to the Pyrennees, which greatly inflame the minds of the Liberals, who are more incensed than ever against those who oppose the consolidation of their system— not excepting the King and his family, who ate treated, both in writing and conversation, with the greatest contempt. Amidst the activity and upright proceedings of the new Ministers, it may be perceived that they are not disposed to support the ambitious views of a certain pat ty, having already shewn their repugnance to per mit the opening of the Patriotic Societies. If the situation of the Northern Provinces of Cata lonia (say the Madrid letters) justly excites alarm, that of the Southern Provinces and Galßela is satis factory, there being Only •soma insignificant bands; which are bFaten. ►hen they show themselves, by the Constitutional troops. The loan for $8 millions of reals, just concluded, on better terms than tilt last, 1 with some houses in London—the expected arrival of reiniasaces Emu ) gee M , iaisters—ths ""1 sad ihs good _ spirit and Mehl:ion which animate the majtv'st'i of I the population, give us reason to hope gut our iii, testine dissentions will be extinguished, and that the Gyvernment will then be able to adopt measures to make the Spanish nation and its territory respected by foreigners, and especially to awe France, which fancy to be the declared enemy of their liberties. - The 'siert ivhiclr hos been spread here of a loan of fifty millions of teals, contracted by the King for his (plan accowd, with some foreign house, .is Wholly absurd and ridiculous. Extract of a letter from New York, dated Aug.7l " The yePow fever continues to rage in our city, and we raa not now expert to be relieved from It till the frost sets in. Times are new hard in this country. The number of 'failures in tee city of Boston has been great, Ws. about ninety of the lirst.eare Itontes; and a number of merchants, whose credit and respect-.. Nifty had been hitherto undoubted, are now failing in this city. This wiU have the elect of lowering the price of our Govern. meat securities." Yesterday the whole ot the Foreign Ambassadors and Ministers in town paid visits of congratulation to Mr. Secretary CANNING, at his Office, in Dosvuin. street, on his being appointed Secretary of State Cur the Foreign Departmeni. The nuptials between PHILIP POSEY, Esq. and Lady EMILY Mumma, second daughter of the Earl of CARNARVON, ate expected to be soleoinise.4 next week, at his Lordship's seat in Berks. The Duke of CLA MINOR was expected at Brussels on Sunday last, on his return from Get many to London. The Duke of CirstarmaND arrived on the 29th ult. at Ofen, in Hungary, from Vienna. Lord HARLZY has left England for Franre, on IC count-of the sudden and alskrming'indisposition of hit sister in Paris. Monuments voted by Pailiment to General Foono Bowas and Colonel Catrou'itti, have lately been erected in St. Paul's. The figures in alto rdie'co ,' in front of the Opera House, are rapidly advancirtg. • A grand Mews is building at Pimlico, in the.room of those at. Charing-cross, most of which, owing to the new street' that is to face St. Martin's Church, being obliged to be pulled down. It commences at the stables knewuby the name of the Duke of York's, and will proceed considerably higher than the Itidin7 House, which is to . come down. The termination of the new Mews will be very close to the Palace at Pim lico. A reg space of the garden is requited for it. The following Performers are already engaged for the ensuing Covent-Garden dramatic campaign ; Messrs. MACREAITY, BA RTLEY, T.P. Cooks, and Miss PATON. The following are in treaty with the new . Management :—Mr. YOUNG, and that most excellent actress in certain characters, Miss KELLY. Miss Foote,. of Covent Garden Theatre we :we sorry to say, is in a very declining state of health. Mr. REYNOLDS has a Play, accepted by Mr. Ect.ts- TON, which is to be one of the early novelties at tlt: commenCtment of the season. A fine specimen of that rare British bid the Untk ided gull—the dams crepidaius of LtrrrllEtrs, was shot off Ryehope a few days since, and has been sent to Newcastle for preservation. During the ceremony of laying the first stone of the new Church at Preston, while the'Vicar was en gaged in invoking a blessing upon the undertaking, a woman was endeavouring to extract a watch from the side of another woman in the crowd, and suc ceeded. M gaining posse!,siiin (if it, but being instantly detected she was' apprehended,. and has been com mitted to take her trial for the theft. Last-week, at Spaiton, in Somersetshire, three aged persons viz. John Willis, aged 86, Nm. Cole -an, aged 80, and Betty Thomas, aged 80, fell down sud denly, the same day, and died. They %%ere all the day before enjoying their usual good heAlth. Wednesday te'nnight, a most destructive fire took place at the farm of Savock of Deer, by which the ,greater pirt of the crop in the stack-) ard, and the whole of the farm offices were destroyed. By thi; accident, which was caused by A spark from the ashes carried out of the kitchen, Mr. Brebner, the tenant, has lost about 400 bons of grain; and we arc sorry to hear he was not insured. SHOCKING OUTRAGE.—WEXFORD, SEPT'IMBER 12. —lt has seldom been our task to record a more pre meditated and barbarous outrage than the one we are now about to communicate to our Readers : Bridget Bent, aged eleven years, the only child of poor widow living at Bellevue, returning home be tween nine and ten o'clock on Sunday morning, having been absent but a few minutes, saw a woman, named Margaret Devereus, who lives at Birchgrove, a short distance from Bellevue, sitting upon a stool inside her mother's (the widow Bents) door. When Bridget Bent,. whose mother was at chapel, ap proached, she was asked if she had seen two little pigs upon the road ? to which she replied in the negative. On entering the house, the little girl perceived that it was plundered, and demanded of Margaret Devereux why she had turned up her mother's box, and scat tered her clothes about the floor? The latter im mediately said, "I'll kill you if you say that I touched her clothes !" at the same time taking down a flesh fork,with which, having knocked the unfortunate child down upon a quilt, she continued striking her vio lently upon the head, till her cries were no longer heard. The wretch then listened to ascertain if the had completed her murderous work, and finding the child breathing, again struck her upon the head, tii the fork was nearly doubled. She then took the pitch fork from behind the door, and struck her, using both the handle and iron part, and stabbed her with it irs the side and arms. Having listened a second time, and not hearing the breathing of the child, who, not withstanding this brutal treatment, still lived, and had the address to hold her breath, she imagined she had effected her purpose, and departed with her booty, which consisted of a few yards of calico, two or three caps, some tea and sugar, and four ten pennies 1 In the evening of the same day the offender, who•rs about 23 years of age, was taken in the cabin WA. iholives, and committed to jail, and the inno cent object of her brutality conveyed to the Comity Infirmary. Though her head is in a frightful con dition, covered with wounds, and part of the scalp cut away,•Tat ao fracture was made, and hopes are en tertained of her recovery.