Star. — London, England, 1823-02-25 00:00:00

THE EVEI, ING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1825. THE FUN D& STOCK EXCHANGE, HALF-PAST TWELVE. The rumour of the Royal Family of Spain having left Madrid for Corunna, has caused great surprise in the City this morning, which is attributed to the interference of the British Government; who may now say to the French Government, and the other Continental Powers, that the Kum of Seam is placed in security, and under the eye and protection of England, lithlakteusc do away with the pretext of the French Cabinet to ether Spain. Consols opened this morning at 732 1 I, at .'which 'rice they are up to this hour, with little business doing. We have no price this morning of the French Funds, owing to its being Sunday when the post left Paris. To-morrow being settling-day at the Stock Exchange, very little fluctuation is petted until after the Account is settled, as most of the parties are preparing their _Accounts for to-morrow. 70R1101 1 FUNDS. There has been some fluctuation in the above market this morning. New Spanish opened at 321 4,31 321, with little do ing, as most people are waiting for the confirmation of the intel ligence from Spain. Chilian, 691 70; New Spanish, 321 1 33; Old 44 45; New Prussian, 751; Old, 79; Russian, 721; Da nish, 781; Colombian, nothing done; Spanish Scrip, 341. RUSSIAN FIVE PER CENT. STOCK OF 1822. • . INTELIiIi TATANLZ IN LONDON. The DIVIDEND on the above STOCK, which becomes DUE on the Ist of MARCH next, will be PAID by Mr. N. M. ROTHSCHILD on that and every succeeding day, Sun, days excepted, between the hours of Ten and Two o'Clock, and the Holders are accordingly desired to leave their Coupons, with Lists thereof, in numerical order, at Mr. Rcrruscutto's Count ing-house, No. 2, New-court, on the 28th instant, as one day , will be required to intervene in all cases, for the purpose of exa snination.—Londou, New-court, 7th February, 1823. PRICES OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. B:tnk Stock 236 1 / 4 236 237 236 1 / 2 3 per Cent. Reduced 74 Vs 1 / 2 3 per Cent. Consols 73A IA % 3 1 A per Cts. 86 3 / 4 %-4 per Cts. Old 93% IA 1 / 4 4 per Cents. New 93 3 / 4 y i 1/, Bank Long Annuities 19 9-16 3 / 4 India Bonds 21i. 255. 20s. Exchequer Bills of L:1,000, 12s. Bs. • Consols for Acct. 73 3 /% 78 ,5/8. The expectation generally excited, that the ques tions which the Marquis of LANSDOWN was to put last night to Lord LIVERPOOL would elicit from him some more specific information than the Public at present possess relative to war or peace, has been dis. appointed. The questions have been put, and the result is, that there is more obscurity and doubt on the matter than before. The news from France yes terday was all warlike. Lord LIVERPOOL, however, " deprecated all further discussion till it was evident that peace could not be preserved." Mr. Secretary sNING stated, that " =relations were still pend ing," and be also deprecated discussion " while a hope remains of averting hostilities." Thus the intelligence from France, atathe worth .and conduct of his MA. JESTY'S Ministers, lead to diametrically opposite conclusions. We observe that the hope entertained by Ministers, so contrary to the intelligence from France, is stated immediately after the arrival of a courier from Ma drid. The negOciaticitis therefore alluded to are pro bably going on there: • At present we have no less than three Diplomatic Agents of some importance in that capital; and it is of consequence to remark, that the Gentleman last sent (Lord W 4. BENTINCK) is a particular friend of Mr. CANNING, and a stre nuous supporter of the principles of anti-interference. We cannot suppose, therefore, that the object of the negotiations pending at Madrid is to persuade the Spaniards to sacrifice, for the sake of peace, one iota of their independence. This, as Lord ELLENBOROUGH stated last night in the house of Lords, would be as objectionable con. duct on our part, as the interference of the Allied Powers. The wish of Ministers to preserve peace hai always been evident and avow ed ; and they have never given the Public reason to suppose that they should be unable to.succeed. Although France and Spain are the parties to the contest, the war is, in troth, urged on principally by Russia. The Cossack Chief desires to see the flames of war kindled in the West to light him to triumph and conquest in the East. The actual struggle is between the influence and power of Russia and of England. We fear the event will chew that England does not possess that commanding in fluence in Europe which, from her position and her wealth, she ought to possess. For this we are in debted to the policy pursued at, and since the Con gress of Vienna by our late Minister for Foreign' . Affairs. His measures gave consistency and strength to that Power, whose influence now overshadows our own, and have placed his successor in a situation which. is more like the bed of Procrustes than a bed of roses. Mr. BROUGHAM seemed to consider the declara tion of Mr. CANNING as so satisfactory, that in postponing, in the name of Lord ALTHORPE, the Motion relative to the Foreign Enlistment Bill, he postponed it " generally for the present." Among other important proceedings in the House of Commons, last night, Mr. BROWNLOW moved for, some papers connected with the late outrage and trial at Dublin; and, at the same time, gave notice that he should bring forward further proceedings on the subject before Mr. PLUNWIITT'S motion relative to the Catholics came before the House. It. is extremely curious to hear Members of Parlia ment, Irish Members of course, talk of this outrage and these proceedings, as. the Game of heated party - ' spirit and violent disteosiods, ,which can only be al layed by enquiring into the outrage and the trial Ireland would indeed be fortunate if such an inquiry could still the tumults of faction. But the miseries of that unhappy country, arising from ages of mis government, cannot be cured by the partial relief of one of the most unimportant symptoms of her, we fear, incurable diseases. THE PROSPECTS OF EUROPE. CieNTINORD IRONS THE STAR OF WEDNESDAY. We proceed now to inquire—and we would do it with due reverence,—whether any, or what, informa tion is afforded by the Holpfscriptures respecting an alliance of a nature of which history furnishes no example—Sovereigns leagued against their own people. We were the more induced to believe that in this quarter our search would nut prbve fruitless, from the circumstance of the men who are engaged in the wicked conspiracy having yet the impudence to Pro fane the name of Holiness, by attaching it to their impious league. As "the Man of Sid'—‘ , the Son of Perdition"—" Antichrist"—is depicted in such lively colours in the Scriptures, it appeared to us not un reasonable to believe, that probably something equally explicit might be found in the Sacred Volume respecting a set of men every way worthy to be consi dered as his coadjutors—if we may judge from the work in which they are engaged, and from the public documents by which they have made their purposes (as far as suited themselves) known to mankind. Our Readers must be 'aware that, in the limits to which we are confined, our re . ma . rks must necessarily be brief, on a subject which would require volumes for its full discussion. We shall, however, endeavour to be perspiCuous; and we doubt not that the picture, of which we can offer only a faint outline, will be filled up, in most of its details, by many of our Readers., In the IGth chapter of the heveia tious, we have a prophetic history of the pouring out of seven vials' of wrath apol the earth—that is, as appears from the context, upon the men of the world who are found in any way countenancing or upholding Antichrist. .These vials are considered by many divines and com mentators as forming the contents of the last of seren trumpets, of which much is s tid in the Sth and 9th chapters of the •Revelations ; bat by other expositors they are considered as having reference to the same judgments as the seven trumpets, and to synchronize with diem throughout the whole of their different periods, but with the addition of certain particulars not detailed under the trumpets. The latter we con sider as the more correct opinion of the two. We do not hold, indeed, that each vial, throughout, an- swers precisely, in commencement 'and termination, to each trumpet ; but we consider them, generally, as nearly coincident—and some of them as entirely so. We have no intention, however, to nmice each of them in our columns: it will be quite sufficient that we attend to such of them as have reference, directly or indirectly, to the period that concerns our inquiry. Taking this view of the trumpets and vials, the four Angel.; which had been bound at the great river Euphrates, and which, by the sixth trumpet, were emu:aided to be lct loose with their armies (in chap. ix. 13), in order to slay the third part of men—that is, to slay men belonging to what is called the third part ; viz. Europe—must be considered as indicating the same personages, or leaders, that are spoken of in ch. xvi. 12, when by the sixth vial poured out upon the great river Euphrates, the water thereof was dried , that the way of the Kings of the East might be prepared ; that is, that the obstacles which had hitherto kept these Angels —these Kings—in the East, and pre- vented them from invading and punishing the men of Europe, for their idolatries, might be removed. These obstacles were cothpletely removed by the capture of Constantinople, in the year 1453, by the ' 'finks, who thenceforward became a grievous scourge to the people of Europe—and particularly to such parts of it as had the misfortune to fall under their yoke; witness the present sufferings of the Greeks.— On this topic, however, we must not dwell at pre sent: our only object in referring to the Euphratenn horsemen, or Eastern Kings, being, that we might thereby be enabled to ascertain a period allotted to certain occurrences, of which we are about to take notice.—Observe, then,—this scourge was brought upon Europe to . punish the people for their Antichrip tian practices, and, consequently, was inflicted during die flux of the 1260 years reign of Antichrist, and of the ten Kings (or Kingdoms) that gave their power and strength to the beast—that is, employed their au thorit_y in establishing and maintaining the dominion of Antichrist in their respective jurisdictions. Now this plague of the Turkish Power having gained a. footing in Europe by the capture of Constantinople in 1453, as almdy noticed, we have next to ascer tain what farther punishments were brought on the men of Europe and their rulers; for, notwithstanding their having been visited with tbis and . withprecedihg inflictions, we learn from the ApoCalypse, that " the rest of the men, which were not killed by these plagues, yet repented not of the tvorks of their hands, that they should not worship &mons, and idols of gad and sil ver, and brass, and stone, and of Waedr wither Ye'. pented they of their murders," &a. Now-if the- pro phetic history be examined, from ,the appearance of the Turkish power in Europe till the seirendt Angel sounds his trumpet, and CHRIST shall enter on bis eternal reign (Rev. xi. 15). certain events will be found very briefly, but plainly, declared (in chap. xi), which appear to us to have bad their accomplishment in the Ftinch Revoletion—namely, a IDdli against the lure witnesses of MoD [the Old and the New Testament, as we believe], which hid power to prophesy is sack cloth only, during the 1260 years reign of Antichrist;. their testimony being despised and rejected by the adherents of Antichrist; and, which were at last put to death—entirely silenced, in a certain streetEnance: of the great (ity [;Europe], spiritually called Sodo►u and Egypt ; but the rest of Europe, though it saw the witnessed thus dead for three days and a half Cthat is three years and a half], would not stjer then( to be buried, notwithstanding that many men rejoiced at the contempt that had been thrown on the Scrip. tures in France, because of the handle it afforded them to cry out against every kind of reform of Go vetnment in other countries, and for receiving or paying subsidies for carrying on the war against France.—But we must be brief:—We have been led to refer all this to the French Revolution, principally by what is detailed in the ISth verse of the 11th chapter," In the same hour [while this was trans acted respecting the Bible] there was a great earth quake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were stain of men seven thousand;"—but, in the Greek—" seven thousand names [or titles] of men."—The city of which a tenth part is said to fall is the same mentioned before—namely, Europe, viewed as one community uphokling Antichrist; — not upholding the Pope merely, but corrupt reli gious establishMents'derived from Rome. From this corrupt communion France separated herself. This tenth part of the city. fell away from her adherence to such a corrupt system,' . and at length established the rights ef e,nscience. ' It iN no °answer to this,. to tell us of the reign of infidelity during the Revo lution. Infidelity was as prevalent before, and is tit this moment as ptevalent in France, as it ever was dining the Revolution ! Fiance and Eutoi:e owes the infidelity that pervades them, not to the Revolu tion, but td Antichrist—to their owri Govet nments lending their power and strength to uphold exclusive persecuting systems of religion, as pasts and portions of their State machines. Nor will the correctness of the application be at all affected by the fact that, titles have since been restored in France, and even the Roman Catholic religion been re-established. The event is sufficiently marked by the mention of these occurrences, which is probably what was chiefly in tended .by the description, that the attention of man kind. Might be turned to this wonderful revolution, and, by marking its progress, be led to see, prospec tively, how it is to fare with all the Antichristian Governments of Europe.—They will all be levelled in the dust by the insulted, robbed, abused, and enraged people. They may form leagues, and prepare the means of war ; but as a Mill-stone cast into the sea shall great Babylon be thrown down—not peaceably and quietly, but—" tvith violence" (Rev. xviii. 21), and shall be found no more at.ait--nOt merely one or two streets [kingdoms] . but the entire cityihall be" subverted, or—however much some men may dis like the term—" Revolutionized," so effectually that nothing whatever shall i emain of the villainies' which their rulers are now practising :against mankind, under the abused and undefined name of Legitimacy, , which they are continually dinning in their ears. These remarks must suffice at present on the lead. ing and most prominent events predicted in the 11th chapter of the Revelations, as occurring subseqeent , to the letting loose of the four Angels and their ar rnies against Europe. Another most remarkable oc, curtence, however, is predicted in the' 16th chapter, as being also subsequent to the appearance of the Kings of the East—namely, „Three unclean spirits, like frogs,going forth from the =nth of the dragon, and , the n:ouilt of the beast, and the tnouth of the false pro phet, to gather the Kings of the - earth to the battle of the great day of GOD ALarrafirr.—ln our next, or as soon as we can find room, .we shall bring this most important subject before our Readers. By the Flanders Mail arrived this morning we have received German and other Papers. The fol lowing ate extracts : BERLIN, FP,BRUART It is stated that Count Lamm will succeed M. de Voss, in the fanctions of Minister of State. His offi cial nomination is expected to nice place immedi ately, as well as some other changes. BRUSSELS, FEBRUARY The Journal of the Province of Liege says, that in the Secret Sittings of the Second Chamber of the 'Stator-General it has been decided, that every person has a right to kill game on the land of which he is the proprietor or tenant ; and that the existing tithes shall be redeemable. VISNNA, Fu.lo.—Metalliques, 77 5 6—Bank Shares, 882. A Jamaica Mail arrived this morning in 33 days. FROM THE JAMAICA ROYAL GAZETTE OF JAL 11. We learn by the Hope, that Santa Martha was taken possession of by the Royalists on the Sd inst. after a spirited resistance: property of every kind was confiscated, uncl every messel got away that could. JANUARY 18:—We understand that, on the Roy alists taking possession of Sinta Martha, and on Captain Purcell, of Majesty's . ship Falmouth, de- manding an assurance 'from M. Xefe, Political Go vernor,..that British merchants and their property should be respettedi the following reply was received : " Banta Martha, January 9. ".In reply to your letter of yesterday, which I have received, I feel pleasure in Informing you, that this go►ernment will preserve the most perfect harmony with the British nation and all its subjects, agreeably to the evgigements altered into by both countries (Spain and England), from the tenor of which I shall not deviate. • (Signed) " VINCENTE PUSAL3.4 LORD PORTSMOUTH:9 cAsE—rnis D4v., Dr. Ainslie was examined at greet Msgth. He regarded Lord Portsmouth as a very weak man, and u remarkably ignorant, bnt not as possessing an unsowsd mind. Latterly he had ads. taken his friends for enemies, which was a symptom sozhetintes met with in mad people. Efforts had been used to mile Lord Portsmouth comprehend the distinction between an inquiry as to his own lunacy, and a trial to pool* the Hanoses..-- Lord Portsmouth understood that this Commission had biers issued. Witness bad not inquired into He fact of Lord Ports. mouth's impotency personally; but Dr. Bayley had, and - front Dr. Bayley's evidence witness was satisfied Lord Ports mouth was wholly impotent; that be Lad no knowledge whatever of sexual intercourse. But Lord Portsmouth be lieved himself to be the father of Lady Portsmouth's child ; and asserted that he had repeatedly had sexual inter course both with the late and the present Lady Portsmouth. Lord Portsmouth was sometimes subject to prodigious con fusion of mind, so great as to render him quite incomprehensible. He was a very great coward; cowardice predominated over weakness in his mind; he was so greats coward, and so wrak as to be afraid to complain, even to his friends, of the usage be had received. He was so entirely subdued, by repeated ill treatment, that his Lordship dared-not offer any complaint.-- Witness could not say if Lord Portsmouth was fit for a trades man, but be was competent to manage same of his own affairs. lie was a most ignorant man. Under the Dean.of Exeter be • had received sonic instruction, but he had never since opened a book or acquired any information of any kind but what he might have picked up in his mixed society; bad inquired if he was made a lunatic would he not have aright to marry again ? Lora Portsmouth's weakness was of a very paiticular kind, be could deceive people both as to his rationality and his irrationa‘ lity. It was of no use fur medical men to judge of bite under states of extraordinary excitement, the condition of filo mind could be as well known, from seeing hint under ordinary circumstances and occurrences. When witness last saw Lord Par tunoutlr,fie was under some deception ; is at present deramed, and In a state of Insanity. He was always a weak man, but his journey up to London, from glinlntrgh,in forty:eiglit flours, had singularly flurried his mind ; and, since then,Orieneutimegist he had nut been kept under that cool regimen which was news sary. This-journey, and the 11l usage of scandalous, shameless people, had caused insanity in Lord Portsmouth, -which would not (witness thought) have occurred had he been kindly trea te d. Witness saw Lord Portsmouth at th e time of the gotten 's trial; then' thought him the same man be had alivays known bins; thought him in a sane state of mind. Any cruel treatment he might have received befare this had not ef feated his state of mind, as far as witness could perceive, in the few moments he saw Lord Portsmoutft.-When he saw Lord Portsmouth at Hanover-square, he' was' lab3var ing under a deception. He believed the Hansons were to he tried. Witness did not think jumping on the bed in wisidia eve was lying with a broken leg, and breaking it again, even when the person doing this expressed satisfaction at it, a proof of insanity. Lord Portsmouth did not probably know what a brokenleg was. It might be from revenge. He was extremely revengeful, and anxious that anybody who bad offended him should Meet with punishment. When our Paper was going to press, Dr. Ainslie was under going a very severe cross-examination, both from Counsel aid some members of the Jury. • • . NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Yesterday the dispatches for Madras and China, by the ship Keßic Castle, were closed at the East India House, and deli vered to the Purser of that ship. The hlargaretta, from Newfoundland, has arrived at Ka. ,rush. leaky, and part of her cargo thrown overboard. The Perseverance, Diann:a, from Faro to Liverpool; -war driven on shore near Bootleon the 18th inst. and it was feared would be wrecked. - •^ • Estatotrru, Fen. 23.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Asia, Darr. front London for Gibraltar; Osborn packet, from Janta sailed the 23d January. l'ut back the Grace, for St. Michaees. Ptysiouva, Frs. 23.—Wind W. blowing a gale.—Arrived. the Jupiter, Vassaa, from New Orleans, out sixty days, with low of mainmast, sails, .!itc. and very leaky. POIITSIIOIIIII, Faa. 24.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived the Fa vourite, Paovinwre, from the Downs far Davannah. DZAL, Fin. 24.—Wind W. N.W.—Came down from. the River for theOld Maid, Tutty, for Havannah ; A rno , R ostare sex, for G enoa; Elizabeth, DA IrME, frlr Van Dleman's Land; London Packet; Culus, for Boston, and remain with the rest of the ottrward-bound. Arrived the Dutch frigate Diana, from Lisbon. Cusrom-Hocsx, Frs. 23.—Ships Entered Inwards: Lyme Packet, from Havre; Richard, from Demerara; Sprightly, from St. Michael's ; Mary, from St. Vincent's ; Agnes, 'from Lime rick; Ann, from Cork; Rebecca, from Waterford; Marchio ness of Bundy, from Dublin.—F.ntered Outwards: Hope, fur Dublin ; Hopeful and Hope, for Lisbon ; Robert, for Bilboa; Nimble, for Malaga; Catherine and Marianne, for Rotterdam; John, for Hamburgh ; James, for Antwerp; S a m ue l an d S ara h , for Lima ; Economy, for Bahia; Vansittart, for China; Amide, for Buenos Ayres, PIRACY OFF ST. DOMINGO. Extract of a letter from Aus Cayes, dared Jan. 1 : " Tester day I arrived from Jame!. The day before we sailed the Master and crew of the brig Two Brothers, of Newbury Port, arrived in their long-boat, their vessel having been captured the day pre viola, not above 12 miles from the harbour. The mode of cap ture is rather novel, and should be made known, as, should the pirates be driven away from Cuba, this neighbourhood offers great shelter as well as plunder. The vessel was a schooner, of about 80 toni burtben ; she sent her boat with four men to the brig, stating they were is want of water, and as a matter at course they were supplied - during which they rec onno i tre d oaf ficieutly to satisfy themselves that .the brig would be an easy capture. The boat soon returned, and the brig was again Ixrardt-4 by armed men, who droye the crew below, and fastened down the hatches, and the poor fellows were kept in this situation 12 hours. The Master was then ordered on deck, and was desired to deliver all his money, or they would hang him. He gave them 500 dollars, saying he had no more; they were not satisfied; but being anxious to get off into ar.me bay or other, they ordered the Master and crew off in their boat with only the clothes they had on." Extract of a letter from the Agent to LLOYD'S at Lisbon, dated February 8 : " The Rebecca, TitosasoN, of and from Li verpool to Genoa and Leghorn, was lost the lst inst. near Sines, the Master and one of the crew drowned. The survivors * say that they saw seven or eight wrecks on the coast as they came along, and on the stern of one they perceived the word ' Lott. don.' It is reported thet between Cape Espichel and the Taps five vessels were lost, with all their crews. To the Northward the effects of the bad weather had also been felt ; it is said dad two English brigs have been lost at Penicho—one reported to be from Liverpool, with nnanufaetured goods, and the other front Havre to this place, in ballast. The St. 'Man, which was ed shore at the entrance of this harbour, is knocked to pieces bf the sea." The number of Land Forces to be provided foil In ail jut 1612,aecording to the Army Estimates, just published, amientit to 69,144, including Officers. Of these, 20,522 are to ruin Great Britain, including reliefs; 28,196 are for station/ Wad, exclusive of India, and 20,426 for Ireland. For the last week, and again yesterday, not less than 1T046111 of musquet gun barrels, and musqueta complete, with steamiest' bayonets, have been brought into the basin of the 'Begettl's Canal, City-road, and immense quantities are hourly writings land a daily succession is coming, supposed all for foreign service. • Ott Saturday we copied from a Weekly Journal, a notice ens. corning Captain PARRY'S Expedition.. •We are sorry to Weds,: a Morning Paper of yesteAlay positively ceotradistn, . 4 en • men unquestionable autbotity," this pleasing inforniation. • • LONDON: Printed and published by Liivas Ht, place, Teasple-Ver. IMM.I . ' 7• 7 4 ~, MIT~.. . :.:.:~~ Tnnte( ILI. Front I rented A lei Oh [nth price Mr. 31 This d AC' in the . Secretm of the I the Not of the I for the Printed DO Printed An I Conant The I the Tim £1 Is. 1 Also j The fand's I. 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