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London, England, 1822-12-20 00:00:00

for Ile c‘,
pliment paid to his father.
The CHAIRMAN then proposed" The heals -or MT.
Alderman Wood."
Mr. Alderman WOOD returned thanks. •
Mr. FDA RON proposed "the health of Mr. Deputy
Reeves and fourteen other Common Councilmen of
the Ward of Farringdon Without, Who did their duty."
Some conversation then took place with regard to
four of the Representatives of the Ward having te•
commended the lion. Mr. Law (son of the late Lord
Ellenborongh) to the vacant office of Common Pleader.
No, definitive resolution, however, was.cotne to on
the subject.
The health of the fifteen Cemmon Councilmen
of Farringdon Without having been given with three
times three, and the Members of that Body present
having returned thanks, the bealths of the Pi esident
and Vice. President were drank; and the Chairman
left his seat soon after nine o'clock.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1522.
THE FUNDS. .

STOCK EXCHANGE, HALF-PAST TWELVE.

Yesterday was a day fertile in reports and fluctuations in the
Funds, but this morning appears the reverse. Although two
Expresses arrived this morning from Paris, we have not any
political information by them except the prices of the French
Funds, which were 88f. 20c. the last price, but in the course of
Wednesday, they were as high as 88f. 50c. Consols opened this
morning at 79i, went up to 80 j, and 80, at which price they
remain steady up to this hour.

FOREIGN MM.

Very little business is doing in the market this morning.—
Current Prices :—Chilian 741, New Spanish 351, Old 65, New
Prussian 86, Old Bsl, Russian 831, Danish 91, Neapolitan
Scrip 771, Colombian 69, Peruvian 78, New Spanish Scrip 9
to dis.-61 per emit. will be paid to-day—the second instal-
ment of New Spanish Scrip.
PRUSSIAN LOAN OF 1822, CONTRACTED BY MR.
N. M. ROTHSCHILD, IN LONDON.

The Half-yearly Dividend of this Loan falling due on Wed
nesday, the Ist of January next, will be paid on that and every
succeeding day, between the hours of ten and tisk.), at the Count-
ing-house of 111r.N.M. Rornsciat.n, in New-court, St. Swithin's-
lane.—N.B. The Dividend Warrants must be left one day for
inspection, viz. those presented on the 31st December will there-
fore be paid on the lit January, and so in continuance.

?rinciple is resisted Its sdestioctive oyal
rity." Louis XVI. did not' think this when' he ants.
the Americans to establish their Government. which
is distinctly founded on the principle of the Som.'
ieignty of the People ; nor have any of the Legiti.
Mates of Europe disdained to form alliances with the
Government so founded:. " It is nut war which.**
demand, but peace," says the Etoile—but we will let.
the Journalist speak for himself, and he will say
more against his own argument than we can do
" It is not then war which we demand, but peaces
we demand that the triumph of legitimacy may bei
for Europe what it has been for France—a pledge of
reconciliation among all groaned heads. During SO
years we carried desolation beyond our frontiers; no
peace was possible with us; scarcely was one signed
when war renewed its horrors, and we realized what
PITT had said Under whatever form the revolu-
tion presents itself, you can never treat with it. Its
principles are destructive, its actions subversive:
whatever power comes in contact with it, is dragged
into its vortex, and beconies in its turn revolutionary.
Safety alone can be found in flying from it.' Expe-
rience has every day demonstrated the truth of these
words; and the moment the legitimate throne was
restored in France, upon the ruins of the revolution,
peace was at once possible and easy. Since that
, memorable period, it has not been for one instant
disturbed. Let us, then, snatch from revolution her
latest conquest, and humanity will recover all her
rights. Then alone peace will be what it ought to
be—a sincere alliance between two Powers, and not
a truce between two hostile constitutions."

Such are the ravings of the Eta*, the organ of a
party not in the Cabinet, for its official character has
been denied, but of a party who, while they thus call
out for war, would be the first to fly from its dan-
gers and its consequences; for be it remembered,
that the men who now, by way of spewing their at-
tachment to the BouaßoNa, seek to involve them in
a war that would be fatal to them, are not the men
who fought and bled in their cause during the Revo-
lution—they are the Noblesse who, in the first moment
of alarm and danger, abandoned their King and their
country, to live paupers on the charity of this coun-
try, which they were afterwards the first to insult.—
It was the tyranny and the obstinacy of such men

indeed that caused the Revolution ; it was their
cowardice that paved the way for its triumphant
march ; and it is the leaven of the old despotism that
still works in them, and which, if not put down, will
soon again precipitate the BOURBONS from the Throne.

But the fall of the French Funds cannot be attri-
buted to the article in the Etoile, since it has lost all
character either for the correctness of its intelligence
or its remarks. Numerous reports were in circula-
tion in Paris ; an Ultra Journal, the Drapeau Blanc,
stated that an affair had taken place on the frontiers,
in which three soldiers of the Army of Observation
were killed, and two wounded. This was followed
by a report that two, some said five, of the French
regiments had joined MINA. Another rumour was,
that a conference had taken place between the Duke
of WELLINGTON and the Duke de SAN LORENZO,
during which the former told the latter, that unless
Spain acquiesced in the demands of France, the Bri-
tish Government would feel itself compelled to enter
the lists against her.
Then the ultimatum, that undefinable something or
nothing in diplomacy, was the subject of a dozen
rumours; one was, that Spain indignantly rejected the
ultimatum of France, as she most assuredly will if the
latter Power dares to dictate to her a form of govern-
ment ; another report was, that the ultimatum which
France sent to Verona for the signature of the Holy
Allies, had received that important addition, and
had reached Paris. This rumour, however, bears on
the face of it some striking improbabilities. If the
discretion set forth in the Moniteur—of "terminating
.the affairs of Spain," was really vested by the Con-
gress in the French Government, what necessity was'
there to remit back to Verona the ultimatum to be'
sent to Madrid ? What necessity—or rather would,
it not be an informality—that it should bear the sig.
natures of the other Powers, after it had been declared
and decreed the exclusive business of one particular
Power ? Again, during the interval from the sup-j
posed transmission of this document to Verona, and
its alleged return to Paris, what could have been the
subject of the negotiations actively and notoriously
going on at Paris ? We must therefore look to some
other cause for the depression of the French Funds
on Tuesday. It is however worthy of remark, that
they had been on the decline for some days previous.
By an express which left Paris at a late hour on
Tuesday evening, some facts have transpired tending
to elucidate the fall of the public securities on that day,
and the actual state of the relations, hitherto involved
in so much obscurity, between France and Spain.—
It is• now understood in the best political circles at
Paris, that France, availing herself of the permission
obtained at Verona, has taken the first step in her pro•
posed interference with Spain, in demanding certain
changes in her Constitution and interior organization;
and that this step has not, as might indeed have been

attended with the desired result, or
The Spanish answer is de.
irritating or disrespectful,
resolute. We Understand that,
answer, France has. called on
their Ministers at Path,
,ces at Verona, to perform
_ , and teltstify theit sense of
the refractory eondu et of Spain,hjwithdrawing jointly
with her their Ambassadors. This is nit meant, how.
over, by any of the Powers coneerned,•to carry with it
the threat, endear:it le.s the intention, of actual hostili.
ties. That is reserved, wt suppose they wish to have it
believed, for:the extreme cases of danger to the Royal
Family of Spain, or aggressions on the French terri.
tory—neither of which, perhaps, in the present tent.
per of the Spaniards, there is any just cause to ap.
prebend. But the French Ministers expect to gain
by their present proceeding a joint demonstration on
the part of the Allied Powers, which they conceive
will be one of the most certain efficacy for preventing
a war. In order to avert this suspension of diplo.
matic intercourse, which, with whatever motive
adopted, could not fail to create serious alarm in
Europe, the Duke of WELLINGroN, whose health it
is now said will not permit his repairing in person to
Spain, has dispatched a Gentleman of s,•me
diplo-
matic standing, and well acquainted with that coun-
try, on a confidential mission to Madrid ; and on the
success of that mission depends, we believe, whether
the Ministers of the Continental Powers lately assem-
bled in Congress, will continue to reside at M.ldrid.
So feverish is the condition of the monied interest,
that the little that has been allowed to transpire on
this subject created at Paris the most lively alarm.
The threat of actual war is, however, reserved for a
more serious occasion.

There is nothing of much interest in the French
Journals of Tuesday. The Congress was expected
to close its deliberations about the 10th or 11th in-
stant; nothing, however, transpired as to what had
been decided respecting Greece and Turkey; and
indeed it is most probable that the consideration of
this subject will be resumed at Vienna.
One of the French Journals, the quotidieune, seems
to apprehend more danger from the fraternizing of
the French and Spanish soldiers than from war, and
gives the following details in a letter from Perpignan :
" It is astonishing that those who command on the
frontier should permit the communications which
have taken place between the Constitutional troops
and ours. Under the pretext that war is not declared,
Mina's soldiers are allowed to advance to our canton-
ments. It is even said that Mina sent his Aide-de-
Camp to compliment the Viscount V • • 1*; and the
latter having seen him one day at some distance, in
the principal street of Bourg-Madame, said to an
Officer of his suite—' This is not the moment for re-
turning General Mina the compliments he sent me
the day before yesterday.' Another time Bourg-
Madame was inundated the whole day, not merely
with crowds of Spaniards, but with all the Officers
of the Constitutional Army, well or ill disguised ;
even Mina himself was there, wrapped up in a cloak,
and la earing a Polish schakos. In the evening a great
part of the army came down to the bank of the river,
with music playing, and singing patriotic hymns.
" This Revolutionary parade lasted three hours.
Our scenes of 1792 were aped. There were dances,
with cries of Liberty,' and Death to Me Serviles.
The soldiers afterwards sat down to a fraternal
banquet, prepared by Sieur Vol, innkeeper, in Bourg-
Madame, and their officers waited on them. This
orgie being finished, an harangue was pronounced by
a superior officer. It is evident that this revolutionary
melo.drame was dedicated to our soldiers. The place
chosen for the representation incontestibly proves
this; for the little river Segre, on the banks of which
the actors performed their parts, flows under the walls
of Bourg-Madame, where the main body of our
troops is stationed, and is only half a league distant
from Pnycerda, in which Mina has a garrison."

FRENCH FUNDS. TUZSDAY.—.-Five per Cents. opened at 891.
70c. and closed at 891. 15c.

Private letters horn Paris of Wednesday are m holly
silent as to the rumours which prevailed on the pre-
ceding day, and the French Funds were somewhat
higher. Nothing had transpired to render the pre-
servation of peace more doubtful.

This morning we received a Dutch Mail, with P.t-
pets to the 19th inst. An article from Vienna states
the cause of the Lill of the Austrian Funds. Tile
following are extracts:

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,g ran lkeithman, meet which is founded4on, Wed dglich eoptisess to in COnsequence of this answ
the upright and consistenixtleticate of the rights of inert, the principle of the Sovitteignty of the People' the Allied Powers, through
his fellow-citizens: and the other Governments of Europe where this who assisted at the conferene
Mr. J. WA I rumhN returned thanks for the corn-
nrincinle is resisted Its destructive of Royal autho. their part of the compact, at