Star.
London, England, 1823-04-21 00:00:00

FROM MONTE VIDEO.

By the schooner Swan, from Monte Video, infor-
nation is received that the embargo which had been
imposed upon vessels at the latter place for these last
three weeks, was raised on the SOth of that month.
The Imperial squadron, under Jewett, with 600
(rpm on board, sailed the 29th of January, supposed
for Bahia; and the news from Bahia is to the 25th of
January, and continued to be favourable to the. Im-
perialists. The City was closely besieged by them.
At Rio aairs were settled, and the Government was
wily engaged in regulating the naval and military
departments. SeverAl huge vessels of war were un-
dergoing repairs.

room LA GUYRA.

A letter dated La Guyra, of 28th February states
follows:—The political state -of the country, we
are happy to say, is of the most pleasing kind; Mo-
rales has sent a flag of truce to this place, with pr i
suers to exchange, from Maracaibo, by which we
earn that place is cl,),ely blockaded by sea and land,
and that General Montilla was about to advance on
it with a very considerable force, against which the
Spanish General had but very inferior numbers to
oppose. There is but little doubt that the result will
be favourable to the Republic.
A decree was issued by the Colombian Government
at Bogota, on the 20th of January, prohibiting the in-
troduction into the Republic, by neutral vessel, of
the products of Spain or her colonies, condemning all
vessels that •iolate this prohibition, and ordering the
cargoes to be destroyed. Letters of the 18th of Feb.
from Puerto Cabello, received at Curacoa, announce
that the siege by the Colombians was proceeding
without any prospect of a speedy surrender. General
Paez had marched for Valencia.

A Mail from Jamaica arrived to-day. It brings
lasers and papers to the 19th March. The follow-
ing is an extract of a letter from Martinique, dated
Tamar, 24:

"The accounts from various parts of the colony
an dieting. Many estates in the Quarters of Ma-
caba, Bosse Point, Grand Arne, Ttinite, and others,
hare bad their plantations destroyed and their build-
ings thrown down by the hurricanes."

In another column we have inserted the letter of a
Correspondent on the subject of letters of marque
against Spain having been refused by the French
Charge des Affaires to some individuals who had ap-
pliedfor them. Our Correspondent doubts the fact,
aed we,confess, for the sake of our countrymen, we
aid: it bad not been true; but we were well aware
of the correctness of tote statement before we gave it
publicity; and St will be seen by our esti-Acts from
tklrench Papers that they'confirm this (perhaps the
aii) honourable feature in the attack on Spain.

The reserve for which the Times contends. on the I
nAtiect of the personal bickerings in the House of
Commons on Thunday last, appears to us extremely!,
out ofillace. We entertain not the least desire to!
" rekindle the broil nor do we accuse any one of •
bitting come out of it personally with his hOnour
milierwise than grbigh,and untainted;" but as public
journalists, we conceive. diet when the public inte-
te4s have been injured by et certain course of conduct,
went entitled to state our opinion of that conduct,
in the hope that by doing so we may help to save the
Public from any repetition of it. How the pubiic
interests were injured on this occasion must be
bundantly manifest. The cause of Catholic Email-
.cifation, which it is of so much importance to bring
to a happy conclusion, and whiel would. in All
Pr liability, have been advanced another stage this
Session, was, .by the censurable conduct of cer-
tain of its advocates, passed .over, or rather kicked
aide in a way that it has never seen beore, and I
Which must infallibly retard its triumpt Mr.
.CANNING and Mr. FLU/4Kitr have both shewn
.them,eivei friedds of the cause; we know them to
tave done eoential service to i:, •and, for ourse:vcs,

have no cbubt whatever of theli iiitinued '421 fisr
its success ; but even admitting that their zeal were
diminished in the proportion that their opponenti
suspect (for it is all suspicion merely), we can con-
ceive nothing more impolitic, or more inexcusable,
than the resolution which appears to have been formed
I.y certain other friends of the cause—fira to vilify
these Gentlemen as much as possible for their sup-
posed tendencies; and then, in all the dignity of pet-
tishness, to refuse to have anything more to do with
them, in bringir7, about the common purpose for.
which they were heretofore associated. We repeat,
that the interests of the Catholics, and in these the
interests of the Public, have been sacrificed by this
t line of conduct; and we hold it to be but fair anti
ieasonable, that the Public should be left in no igno-
It :lace of the parties With whom all the blame lies.

The :risk Papers which have arrived this day con-
: t;:,, we are sorry to see, the usual quantity of out-
age.. A private letter, howe,er, state,, which is
very probable, that the accounts of these are much
exaggerated; and it is certain that every robbery is
held up as an act of rebellion. If every affair of this
kind which is committed in England was blazoned
forth in large letters, and called "The State of the
Counts y," every man would stare with astc6shment.
We are far from denying that Ireland is is a wretched
state; but at present it is the fashion to magnify thesa•
outrages even beyond their own horrid name.
The foilnwing is an extract from the Dublin Journal
of Friday:
o We are extremely sorry to state, that Prospect Hill,
the seat of Henry James Loughnan, Esq. not two
miles ciistaat from Leinster, between the kells and
Thomastown roads, was entered, and robbed of pro-
perty to the amount Of between 601. and 60/. va-
lue, on Sunday evening last. Suspecting no evil in
his peaceful neighbourhood, and at that early hour,
Mr. Loughnan was sitting with his amiable Lady,
unprepared for resistance; on hearing an unusual
noi,e in the house, he left tne parlotir to proceed to
his chamber for his arms, but was immediately col-
lared by two men, while a third .held a pistol before
him. They instantly demanded his arms.. They
also demanded his money. He replied he had blit
little in ,he house, and gave them .51: The rubbers
were seven in number, disguised with bandages about
the face. They carried off one double-barrelled gun,
one single ditto, one blunderbuss, a case of duelling-
pistols, one brass-barrel ditto. The guns and blun-
derbuLs, apparently unused, were found in an ad-
joining field in the morning, but the two cues of.pis-
tols have been kept by the robbers. Excepting col-
laring Mr. Loughran, and securing the servants, no
personal injury was inflicted; and they repeatedly
endeavoured to tranquillize Mrs. Loughnan, by as-
suring her that neither she nor her husband would
be ill-used, as they had taken good care that no mis-
chief should befal themselves."

At an early hour on Saturday morning the Duke
of YORK arrived in -town from Newmarket. His
Royal Highness afterwards rode out on horseback,
and waited upon the KING for a considerable time.
Yesterday Divine Service was performed at the
Kt NG's Palace, Pall-mall, by the Rev. Dr.lhomnince.
The Dukes of Ironic and Ctwattoca visited his
MAJESTY yesterday morning.
Yesterday the LORD CHANCELLOR had an audience
of the KING.
Saturday evening the Duke and Duchess of CLA•
RENCE arrived in town from Bushy Park.
The Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE and Prince
LEOPOLD dined with the Duchess of Ksor yesterday.
Yesterday the Duchess of GLorcasTan, the Prin-
cess SoPota,*the Duchess of KENT, and the Princess
Feonon, visited the Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE.
Yesterday Prince LEOPOLD, 'accompanied by Sir
ROBERT GARDINER, attended :Divine.Service at St.
Phillip's Chapel, Waterlotrplact..' -
Saturday morning the Princess SOPHIA honoured
Lady CALTUORPE with a visit. •
Saturday the Duke of Moaraoai Nad a numerous
party of distinguished characteri to dinner.
Yesterday afternoon, at four o'clock, a Cabinet
Council was held at the Foreign Office, which)Was
attended by all the Cabinet Ministers.
Captain HILL, of the Polygon, was detained at Havre by the
difficulty in getting permission to etubark his horses for Hoglund.
Sastistuotpton "pr.
Sir Commas BANIFYLDI died on Saturday night
at ten O'clock. We recollect ito instance, of late
years, wherein the loss of a private-individual will be
more deeply deplored. He was the life and soul of
every social circle.—The body has been opened, and
the following is the report of the Medical Gentlemen:l

The ball entered oa the right side, -between the eleventh and
twelfth ribs, fracturing the articulation of the former with the ,
spine, and the* passed across, voting the diaphragm or.floor of
the chest, bar notinjurkig the lungs, and lodged an the inside of
the anterior part of the cavity between the ninth sod tenth ribs,
a part of the ball being oneavered, and visiMe from the inside.
• (Signed) N. Maws, M.D. P. blainsamea.
J. kJ:avows. J. flowage".
,13. J. Gowan.
April 20th, ls!s. •
Saturday, a large party of the patrons and ama-
-1 teurs of the Fine Arts visited the Exhibition of the
Society of Painters in Water Colours, in Pall-mill
most,, previously to its being opened to the Public.
• Among the most distinguished, besides their Royal
Highnesses the Duchess of Kiwi., the Princess So-
,Pil I A of Gt.oucarraa,-and Prince LiopoLo, were—
The Duke and Duchess of Argyll. the Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Siagrord, the Marchioness of Exeter, the Marquis of
Lansdowne, the Earl (kcy, the Earl of Essex, Sr Charles and
Lady Long, Sir George Beaumont, Sir Abraham Home. Sr
Thomas Lawrence, and Mr. Lister Parker.
Saturday the Glee Club held their last Meeting for
the season, at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, which
was very numerously attended both by professors and
amateurs. The performance was considered the best
of the season. The Glees and. Madrigals were of the
i finest and best composition, both modern ana ancient.
1 A Madrigal composed by WYl.lilti about two hun-
dred years old, was a fine treat.
lAt the Old Bailey, ort 'Saturday; Georgllmggeti,
R young man of genteel .appearance, who had I eld
i for some years a confidential situation in the estab-
lishtnent of the EA.S halal Company, was found
guilty.of soaling.a quantity of pepper, the property '
1,, of the said Company. The RECOR MIA iIT medi .r.ql y
sentenced him.to be well whipped irithe Docks, and
' House of Cic
1 confined for twelve months in the oef.,
~
:1011, ar.d there kept to hard labour. •

- --THE Alt:ll'Y.'

Vi'vdneschy a detacTlment of Abe, 754) Tte;frent
patty of Ford S.lppc.s and lqincis embarked ;..g,wes in L
transport Alp Lot tor Gibra.tar.

'MILITARY PROMOTIONS.
Ist &tense= a LW-, Guards-- .ielitenint Charle.sr.or, from
the .17th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenenr, vice Lord -Fran-
cis Coirghtun, who exchanges, receiving the ilifLrenc:; Cot-
net and 84114.':utennit Edward Charles Fletcher to he Lieu.
tenant, by pureiret vice Gore, who retires.
To he Corners and Suh-LLit:e!.lstits, by purchase—Cornet the
liunourab.e Keiry Telloot Leeson, front haltir.:y of the Is:
Drroous, vice Hall, promoted ; the 11,onourablar Henry
err I.•.•;rr, wee Fletcher, pronliged. •
Les r.rgimest Drago:irt Gut rds-4.".rutenant John Grath
(Quartermaster) to he Adjoirsnt and Lieutenant.; vice Jackson.
prcoo,sted ; Iterimental Serjeant-MAjor Thomas *Libman to
be Regimental Quarternwster, -v!ce Grifs:s, ap:rointetl to tax
Acjutancy.
5d Regiment of Light. Do-agoons—Lieutenant Arthur Ater,
from the hAf-pay of the sth Dragoon Guards, to be Liecte•
nant, vice George Crabtree, who exchanges, receiving the
dinrcace ; Lieu:est.:aft Arthur Baker ro be iit.yutz.v:, vire
Crabtree, who resigr.s Aej,tanry oniy.
17A icutenr• it Lod Ftericis Cony:is:tam, the :s:
• Peg:inent of I.ife Guards, to be Limiter:Rat, vice ILU, who
ershanges.

.31st Regiment of Pcnt—To be Captains—Cap: •!t1 James Vialict.
&min .tVai!er,f,:nr.: tit!: Ist veteran Br„ttaiion, vice VI-
ward •Kncx, who rcii s ution the half-pay of the Sd Cara-
son Francis Hawksley Hal:, from :salt- i
pay of rite 55:4 ?Oct, vice IVriliam, Dicke. Miilcs, who ex-
cha-„ges, revering the ("Ifecenee.
4901 'aitto—l;eutcaant 1ler.:1 Maxwell to he Captain, by per
caarr, vice Willioms, w`o retircs.
Honcura'sle Charles Grey, from
:hr !tine d•o, to he Lleutecant, by purchase, vice Br*
tow, promot%d in the 66th 7oot.
69;11 ICary to be Assistant-Si:.
geon, vice Brown, d teei.sed.
83d Dittu--Litu.enanz Aleza::l-..r.Greig, from ig;.e ball-pay of
the Slat Foot, to be Paymaster, 'rice Harrison, deer...sed.
Rifle Brigade—Gentleman Cadet Horatio Stewart, ;roan the
Royal Military College, to be &cord Lieu:l:ran:, by pur-
chase, vice Grey, primoted in the 5.34 Foot.
Cape Co.ys Cavalry—John Jervis, Gent. to be Cc:net, by pur-
chase, vice Heathcote, promozed.
Cape COI pa of Infratry—Captaln Honourable
tan, front the half-;ay of the 45th foot, to be Captail,
Charles Ward, who exchanges.
Ist Pula! Veteran Battalion—Captain David King Fowcett,
from Cie half-774 of the.P.d Garrison 13attaIion, to be Coptain,
v:ce Waller, appointed to the 31st Fuet.