Star.
London, England, 1824-09-25 00:00:00

SWITZERLAND, SEPTEMBER 13.

On the 6th of this month the Commissioners of t 1 e
Government signed at Lucerne the renewed Capitula-
tion for the Papal Swiss Guard, which is reduced to its
original number of 200 men. On the other hand, there
seems to be but little hope of the acceptance of the pro-
posal to furnish 2,ooo'men for the Papal service. Cap-
tain Pfyffer, of the Guard, is going to return to Rome.

Count Capo d'lstria, the Ituisian Minister, of State,
whose residence is at Geneva, paid a visit, at the begin-
ning of this month, to Hofwyl, where he stopped some
days.—The Great Council of the Canton of Berne, in
its monthly sitting of the 6th and 7th September, rati-
fied the decisions of the Diet relative to the revocation
of the Commercial Convention (prohibiting certain
French articles, in retaliation for the prohibitory system
of France), and fixed the duties on consumption of cer-
tain gcods on the .ame footing as before the Conven-
tion, it; continue till the public debt was paid. A pro-
posal was made to lay the consumption duty ow fo-
reign wines; but this was rejected, it being resolved no
longer to impose taxes for the benefit of the neighbour-
ing wine Cantons, and, by an artificial rise in the price
of wines, oblige the labouring classes to have recourse
.to spiritous liquors. A wish that, for the promotion of
trade, measures may be adopted that goods which pay
the consumption duty on importation, may be allowed
the same, as a drawback, on re-exportation, was recom-
mended as worthy attention, to the examination of the
Little *Council.

FROM THE MAINE, SEPTEMBER tz
The Journal des Debats and other papers have lately
stateJ, in articles dated from Helsingborg and`Stock-
holm, that an agreement had been made between the
Swedish Government and the Russian Ambassador at
Stockholm, respecting the giving up of the property of
the former Royal Family, and the discharge of an
annual income. All this seems to be founded on a mis-
take, since, according to authentic accounts, nothing
more was in question than the giving ap of sums of
money, the private property of the family; and her
Majesty Queen Frederica entirely renounced any
ermsai allowance, and desired only her ewn private
property, which was detained in Sweden ever since the
Revolution. It is farther affirmed, that Prince Gustavus
had no concern whatever in these negotiations, having•
previously given up to the Queen, his mother, the share
of this property which belonged to him.

STUTGARD, SEPTEMBER 13.
Their Highnessses Prince Alexander and Peter of
Holstein Oldenburgh, sons of her late Majesty the
Queen of Wurtentburg, arrived here yesterday, on a
visit to their Majesties.

in the remittance of al) large a sum, au equally gratify-
jog with the accession to the funds of the Imperial
Treasury. The Empress of BRAZIL gave birth to a
daughter on the 2dof August. There is as yet no male
heir, we believe, to the Throne of Braiil.

We have received a. file of Mexican Papers, but
they are not of i later date than those previously
received ; 'they are principally filled with an account of
the proceedings in the Mexican Congress. The Extra-
ordinary Gazette, announcing the execution of ITun-
BMX, w*bave alrtady given.

MR. SECRETARY CANNING.

DUBLIN, SEPTEMBER 22.
MT. CANNINe having spent Monday and yesterday
forenoon in the county .of Wicklow, arrived in town
yesterday to dine with Mr. Secretary GouLauan. The'
Right Hon. Gentleman will be present at a Review of
the troops composing the garrison of Dublin, this day,
at the Phenix Park, and will afterwards dine ith his
Excellency. It is generally understood that he will em-
bark on Friday, en his return to London.
The dinner party at Old Connaught, to meet Mr.
CANNING, consisted of the Lord Chief Justice Boatel,'
Lord BINOHA.M, Lord HOWARD DS WALDEN, Lord
CLANRICARDI, the Earl of MEATH, MI. DOH RIM, Mr.
NORTH, Mr. Justice Moons, Mr. GM/LIMED, Mr.
PLUNKST, jun. Colonel SIIAWS, and Mr. BLAKE, with
many other persons of the first distinction.
His Excellency the LORD Lt IttI.TENA NT entertained the
following distinguished personages at Dinner, at the
Viceregal Lodge on the respective days mentioned :
Serf. 15.-3--Mr. Secretary Canning, Lord Howard do Walden,
Mr. Stapleton, Lord Duncannon, the Attorney-General, the Soli-
citor-General, the Bishop of Raphoe, Mr. Goulburn, Mr. Gregory,
Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald, M.P. Mr. Doherty, M.P. r. North, M.P.
Mr. Carroll, Colonel Shawe, Sir S. Bruce, Sir Georgt. Rich, Colonel
Gore, Colonel D'Arcy, Major Brewnlow, Captain Lindsay, Captain
Wood, Captain \Nooks, &c.
16.—Mr. Secretary Canning, Lerd Howard de Walden,
Mr. Staple:on, the Lord Mayor, Lord Meath, Lord Leitrim, Lord
Clanricarde, Lord Alias, Lord Barnard, the Bishop of Raphoe,
Judge Moore, Serjeant Geoid, Mr. V. Fitzgerald, General Sir C.
Grant, Colonel Talbot, Colonel Pakenbam, Colonel Mey lick, Sir C.
Campbell, SITS. Bruce, Dr. Hunter, M.D. Colonel D'Arcy, Captain
De Roos, Captain Vignoles, &c.
&wrongs 17.—Mr. Secretary Canning, Lord Howard de
Walden, Mr. Stapleton, Lord Nurbury, Lord Palmerston, Mr.
Goulburo,Judge Vandeleur, Serjeant Lefroy, Mr. Ellis, M.P. Mr.
Soeyd, the Surgeon-General, Colonel Blacker, Sir John Mort.
Jock, Mr. Blake, Doctor Rainy, Colonel Latouche, M.P. Mr.
Bowles, Mr. Montague, Colonel Clitherow, Sir J. Hope, Sir C.
Campbell, Doctor Hunter, bid.). COlonel Ditray, Captain Skinner,
Captain Vignales, &c.
Serreamen 18.—Mr. Secretary Canning, Lord Howard de
Walden, Mr. Stapleton, Lord Bingham, Mr. Gregory, the Dean of
St. Patrick's, Mr. Hutchinson, Mr. Spring Rice, Mr. Doherty,M.P.
Mr. Grattan, M.P. Colonel White, M.P. Colonel Howard, Sir Ed-
ward O'Brien, Me. O'Brien, Captain Le Poer Trench, Mr. Blake,
Mr. burrowes, Colonel Shawe, Sir C. Campbell. Sir S. Bruce,
Captain Malcolm, R.N. Captain Lindsay, Captain Vignoles, &c.
We have been favour ed, says the Oxford Herald, w ith
as extract of a letter from a distinguished It isle gentle-
man to his friend in London, on the subject of Mr. Se-
cretary CAtisyscis brief visit to the Sister Island. The
passage the confided to us contains so just and so
el..quently expressed a tribute to the merits of Mr.
CANNING, and so faithful, yet so saddening a repre-
, .sentat.tpitokke unhappy state of Leland, that we hasten
to lay tbiteßract before our readers:
"i i always heartily disapproved of Mr. Canning's visit to this
coantry. Alas! alas! he does not know us! Where, indeed, but
in Ireland, could he learn the extreme degradation to which a peo-
ple may be reduced by the bitterness and rancour of religious ha-
tred and political dissetisiun, mutually irritating and inflaming each
other? George Canning the popular, the generous, the all-accom-
plished, the successful statennati,t unrivalled orator, the admiration
of foreioers, the pride of the age, comes in the fulness of his fame
to the country of his ancestors, and is received with open insult and
derision by one party, and with sullen and contemptuous indiffer-,
ence by the other! You speak of another effort of his genius to be
put forth, in the native land of Grattan and Burke, but there gra
be none. No address will be presented ; no public meeting will be
convened ; no invitation from any body of Irishmen will be given
to the illustrious visitor. In the Cr rporation the propriety of an
address was just mentioned, that the determination to refuse it
might be the Marked and observable. In the Orange papers
Dlr. Canning inatnounced as unprincipled, corrupt, and superticiaL
In truth, you can form no proper estimate of the state of parties
here, if you judge frotd your recollections of 1812 or 1815. It is
the Jacubinism of Protestant stupidity striving with the Jacobinism
of Popish rage. Whatever honoured or adorned the country, is
discountenanced in retirement, in exile or despair."

SUSPENSIO.V OF MR. FLETCHER.
. It will be remembered that, some time since, an action was tried
in the Court of King's Bench, in which the Rev. Alexander Fletcher,
Minister of Albion Chapel, London, was defendant, for a breach of
promise of marriage. The proceedings that took place on that oc-
casion produced divisions In the congregation of the Rev. Gentle-
man, and irregularities in the government of his March. The case
was ultimately seferred to the Synod, who summoned the accused
Minister before them. This summons, however, he did not obey ;
and the result has been, a suspension float the exercise of his office,
and from the fellowship of his Church, until the next meeting of the
Synod, at which he Is required to appear, in order to. defend his
condi:et, and receive the final sentence of the Court.
The Synod Stumbled on Wednesday, in the Rev. Dr. Hall's
Chutch, Broughton-place, Edinburgh, and after reading the ducts-
menu, a long discussion tool place on the subject.
The following is the decision of the Synod on the whole matter:
61 Find it proved by Mr. Fletcher's letter, and by his confession,
particularly in the Court of King's Bench, that he has IsPeti silky of
the breach of promise of marriage, aggravated by the duplicity of
his conduct, and by assertions of innocence, which, in direct opposi-
tion to his confession, he has frequently repeated, and by the ca-
lumnious charges he has preferred against the family of which the
Lady is a member, and against others who took a most friendly in-
serest in this business; and that in dispensing the Loan's Supper in
opposition to the deed of the Session, he has acted in a manner sub-
Nettles of the order of the Presbyterian Church; and that his of-
fence in this case is aggravated by the charges which he preferred
against the Members of his Session ; and that for these offences he
is liable to censure." The Synod then proceeded to give judgment
with respect to the censure which should he inflicted, and after long
reasoning. agreed, " that for the offences of which be has been
fount guilty, he shall be suspended from the exercise of his office,
aid from Church fellowship, until next Meeting of Synod, and that
he shall be summoned to attend said Meeting, in order that he may
be rebuked at the bar of this Court, and that he may be farther
dealt with as they shall see cause, according to the rules of the
chords; and the Synod hereby suspends Mr. Fletcher, and appoints
accordingly, with certification."
The Court were occupied with this case till.half-past twelve p.n.

The Duchess of KENT, and her daughter the Princess
ALIXANDRINA, who are now residing at Ramsgate, make constant
eacurCons to Margate, with the bustle of which both the Duchess
and the Princess seem highly delighted.
Lord Viscount SIDMOUTII is now at New Park, near
Devizes, on a visit to his nephew, T. G. B. ESTCOUST, Esq. M.P.
His Lordship is on his return home from the West, where he has
been for the benefit of his health. The moment it was known that
he had passed through Devizes, the bells of the different churches
commenced a merry peal, and have continued, occasionally,
throughout the morning.
Sunday, Colonel and Lady AvetrsTA FITZCLARENCR
and suiie, arrived at Belfast from Glasgow.
The Paris Pspers were not to be published on Thurs•
day, in consequence of that being the day appointed for the re-
moval of the body of his late DiArrorr from the Tuileries to the
Church of St. Denis.
Lord LORTON has declined being one of the Com-
rnittce of the Orange Association.
The total number of assessments in the parish rate-
book of Liverpool this year is 25,586 ; the amount, .E 492,025 ; be-
log an increase in the farmer of 609, in the latter of £11,667.

THE ARMY.

•
Tuesday se.nnight, the Right Hon. the Commander of the Forces
in Ireland (Lord Communise), and suite, arrived in Tralee, from
Limerick, and immediately proceeded to the New Barracks, to in.
aspect the 29th Regiment, forming that garrison, and commanded
by Colonel Sir J. Buena/4. The School and every department of
the Regimental Establishment were inspected, and much approved.
His Lordship partook of an elegant entertainment, and immediately
afterwards proceeded to enjoy, for some days, the enchanting scenery
of the Lakes of Killarney.
Thursday se'nnight, Lord Commutes inspected the troops in
the neighbourhood of Mallow; and thence to the hospitable seat of
J. Lose:lrmo, of Longueville, Esq. and afterwards to Lord Vis-
count DOMICRAILI.S.

The 10th Regiment of Foot were inspected on Saturday, by
Lord COMIWIIkIII, at Fermoy.
The first division of the 84th Regiment left Richmond Barracks
on Wednesday se'nnight, the second on Thursday, and the last on
Friday, for Waterford, Duncannon, Ste.
Major-General Sir J. Lamour has arrived in Ireland, from Chel-
tenham, and resumed his command at Cork.
Two waggons, from the Conimissariat Department in Dublin,
arriyed in Lintel ick, under an escort of the 6!d Regiment, on 'Chore-
day le'nnight, with a second supply of new silver coinage for the
Mops in that district; and next morning they proceeded on for
Zonis, under a guard of the 19th Regiment.
The 7.9 th Regiment will march from Limerick, for Buttevant,
es Monday next.
The 15th Regiment of Infantry will arrive in timerick, from
Waterford, on Thursday neit.
The last division of the 57th embarked on Friday se'nnight, at
Cove, for Chatham.
The 81st Regiment has left Halifax, for Bermuda ; and a detach-
ment, under the command of Major Coin, is gone to Cape Breton.
The 11th (North Devon) Regiment of Infantry, has moved from
Belfast to Templemore.
Friday se'nnight, the imposing ceremony of the presentation of
new colours to the 86th regiment, stationed in Newry, took place in
the barrack square. Their Colonel, Lieutenant-General the Earl
of KILMORZT, accompanied by the Ladies NIEEDHAN, arrived in
front of the regiment soon after twelve o'clock, and were received
with presented arms. After his Lordship had inspected the men,
passing along the front and rear ranks, the old colours were marched
to the front, escorted by the grenadier company, and were there
cued up with the honours of war. The new colours, which bear,
in addition to the former regimental badges, " birlia"and Booboo,'
were then presented, in the most graceful .ad condescending man-
ner, by Lady Emily Nusbaum. •
Tuesday, the members of the Grenadier Company of the late Re-
giment of Oxford Volunteer I tifantry dined together at the house of
their comrade, Mr. Lucas, the Lamb and Flag, in St. Thomas's
parish, in that city. About 60 sat down to an excellent plain dinner,
and the day was spent with conviviality and scaldier-like propriety.
PROMOTION, EXCHANOIt, AND ItESIGNAItION OF