Star.
London, England, 1815-02-17 00:00:00

VIENNA, FEBRUARY Q.

We are generally persuaded, that the principal
siness of the Congress is terminated, and that it i
employed at this moment merely in tracing
lines of demarcation. The end of January was WO!
in final results, and particularly in terminating, to Ow
general sati%taction, the uncertainty respecting 6.zon)
Leipsic is, however, still a subject of discussion.

MILAN, FEBRUARY 1.
The Governor-General of Parma has prohibited
the exportation of corn, on account of the general
scarcity which prevails in the Parmesan and neigh•
horning States.
The individuals arrested at Milan have been trans.
(erred, it is said, to the tortress of.Mantue. where the,
commission appointed to try them will assemble.

FRPNCII

VIENNA, FEBRUARY I.

. -
An English courier, who arrived here tin the 29th
of January, hrmi lit directions to Lord Castlereagh
g
to set out for Le radon immediately.after the arrival
of Lord Welling-on.
The greatest tranquillity prevails among the Mi.
tnese, as well as throughout Lombardy, whet's' opi-
ri.,ns are united in favour of Austria: this, how.
ever, ark's solely from the hope of seeing the king.
d,,rn Ittly reestablished, and the iron crown
placed On the head of Francis 11. The Nobles of
1:alv are singularly favourable to this project.
so no result from the Congress.
The marriage of the Prince Royal of Wartern.
I,ertT with the Duchess of Oldenburgh will be tele-
bi.tted at St. Petersbirgh. and not at Vienna.
Spain and Portugal have, it is said, declared at
~ittia that they will consent to abolish the Slave
Ti.ide, in five years.
A considerable robbery has for two days occupied
the public attention and the irigilance of the Police.
'file day before yesterday the Grand Chamberlain,
the Count Rodolph de Ur bina, returning after dinner,
fitind his casket had been plundered. Besides some
ruleans of gold. and 8,000 florins in paper, it eon-
tiined 00,000 florins in jewels. Hitherto the re-
'2
s...A:tiles of the police have been ineffectual: suspicion
is fixed upon his domestic.
Our Exchange continues to fills it was yesterday
at 9f6 to-Jar it is at M.

RONIE, JANUARY 119.
have not penetrated into

The Neapolitan troops yet _
cur city : but they keep it, as it were, in a• state of
blockade, anti the interrupted communications with
Naples are become very difficult....
the kingdom of Na
There are 2.1,000 men about Rome. We are assured'
ellt there are in the number some Austrian batta.
lions: however, we cannot confirm this, as we can
see only Neapolitan bivouacs from our wall. Pa.
voles of lancers have had the audacity to ride even
to the gates of the city s they were open, and we are
with Out defence.
Nothing was more easy than to give us the finish-
ing blow but such is the veneration inspired by the
capital of the Christian world, that it seems that a
Prince who respects nothing else, trembles to place
within it a sacrilegious foot. Nothing is more noble
and interesting than the conduct, of the Holy Father
—he appears to wait in the middle of his sacred col.
lege the destiny which these new scourges of the
church shall reserve for him.

Austria does not appear to have attended to our
eomplaints. Why did she send us 1000 muskets and
gm hems, when she had no invention of defending
' —lt is remarked, that for some days the Austrian
Envoy has ceased to communicate with the Cardinal
secretary of State.

NAPLES, JANUARY SS.
It appears that our Court wished to make reptisals
with regard to the Court of Rome, and to avenge the
insults offered to our Consul Get:feral: but the police
has thrown an air of pleasantry over the business.—
Eght days ago, three persons of a religious order,
sailing themselves missionaries, arrived here. They
sere, in fact, furnished with authority from the
Apostolic Chancery to make collections for the enter.
edionseet and restoration of their order. They et-
h;bited the signatures of the greatest families in
Europe, and of the most illustrious prelates, and
thus got access to the first families of the kingdom.
—The • Police conceived that it saw in them three
atents of the Court of Rome ; it therefore caused
them to be arrested, and made them undergo several
muninations. They spoke equally well the Polish,
the German, and the French. At first, they were
s!esirous of giving great eclat to this affair, when
they discovered that these three priests were in fact
three robbers helonging to the association in the val-
ley of the Bordeggiana, in the Apennines; that all
their papers were mere forgeries. They were con-
sia,ned to the hands of justice, and for this time our
police has not had occas.ion to humiliate the Holy
Father.
Nothing, announces the departure of his Majesty
from Naples. He has been employed in reviews all
the week. They estimate our military force at nearly
100,000 men; but this is an ezaggetation.
GENOA, FEBRUARY 2.

There is great preparation for a fete is our city.
We expect his Majesty the King of Sardinia. We are
iis.ured that he intends to bestow marks of bis bene-
t'leeee en our first citizens, and to alleviate the mi.
mit', of the people. His arrival will cause a great
;,is ition it is a proof of confidence of which we are
,! ly sensible. Our new Sovereign will be sur-
i thideti only by the national guards, and the guards
honour. It to th'ught that his Majesty will remain
among us till the end of the month, and will await
t:e arrival of the Queen. His Majesty has ordered
that an account shall be given to him of the situation
ef the districts, and of the progress of vaccination.
It appears that vaccination has taken place in the
&um pPpottion as formerly.
PARIS, FEBRUARY
On Friday the 10th, the Marquis de Riviere, Am.
bagsador to-Constantinople, bad his audience of leave
of the King.
The Chevalier de la Boullage, First Secretary of
limbassy, had the honour to be presented to the
king by the Doke de Duras.
VIENNA, FEBRUARY I.
(EXTRACT FROM A PRIVATE LETTER.)
711 C Lmperor Francis is much better : but the phy.
Ins do not yet permit him to leave his apartments.
e expect Lout Wellington to-morrow, or the
alter, at the latest. Public curiosity, for a long
cooled, is a little re-animated at the news of his
•••••,v.ii, for which every one assigns a different, and
3 l'l;mes even contradictory reason. The best in-
people think, that his Excellency will find the
important affairs decided. Its truth, how could
"t 1 Castlereagh return to England, unless he was
ILled to reply precisely to the questions that will
Pt to him by Parliament We recollect the cm-
b:ttassment of his colleagues is this respect during
late session.

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THE EVEMNG STAR.

LO N DON.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY It 181 g.

This day the Corn Question comes before the
Commons ; and from all that we have seen we
cannot doubt that it is thk intention of some mess, if
their influence be sufficient, to hurry the House to a
decision favourable to theit own hews and injurious
to the prosperity of the country. The Report op,
the Corn Laws last year, stated that farther informa-
tion would be necessary before the House could with
propriety come to a decision : now, some individuals,
who from their situation might be expected to shew
greater respect to its Reports, affirm that any farther
investigation isunnecessary I We can tell them the reason
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of this opinion. A new examination, even if managed
entirely under the influence of the Landholders, would
prove that the whole assumed basis of last year's Re•
port no longer exists; that all the expenses of Agri-
cultnre are greatly diminished that what would
have been a fair price to the grower, labouring under
the pressure of war taxes, would now be a direct
and shameful toasty of the rest of the community;
that the proposed price, 'if establielted' by hew, lirM
eitntually ruin the manuracterrett
.and (whip!) some
short-sighted politicians may not see) the renews of
the Empire—and even the posterity •of the Land•
holders. All this-would be rendered evident by a
new examination; but some men, like owls, dare not
look at the light, and are so blinded by a mistaken
interest, that they disregard all consequences; they
are afraid even to be convinced of the truth.

We have already declared, that we think the agri-
cultural interests should be protected, but not to an
extent to endanger the general welfare. Some Land.
holders talk of the expenses of the war as having al.
tered their circumstances, and they wish the inference
to be drawn for them, that they were great sufferers.
Now the fact is, that so far from being sufferers, they
were, as a body, highly benefited by tyre war : they
bore none of its burthens, for they more than covered
themselves by doubling their rents; and the value of
their esiates has been increased for their posterity

Compare the situation of the Landholder with that
of the Stockholder. The one has now to sell at 66
what cost him 96 before the war : the other, who
bought at 30, may now sell at 50 years purchase.—
It is nothing to the purpose to tell us that corn is now
too cheap. The Agriculturists, like other traders,
should expect times of depression ; and the law has
already given them a remedy : at 635. the ports are
shut, and they will have the entire monopoly of the
market for three months.

Some men have no shame. At a protecting price

of even 635. it will be found that our bread will soon
be higher than it ought ever to be in England. Let
the effect of shutting the ports be fairly experienced
before you endanger the prosperity and the peace of
the community by a system of quackery Opposed by
the soundest priaciples of political economy.

We have given in other columns various selec-
tions froM French and German Papers received since
yesterday. From Vienna we learn nothing of a
decisive character, and on the side of Italy all is
represented as tolerably tranquil. Neither the Pore
nor MURAT seem disposed to come to blows. Both
shear their prudence in this respect.

In a Second Edition yesterday, we stated the arri•
val of Admiral COCHRANes Expedition off New Or.
leans. The event is now communicated on the au.
thority of the following letter, received at Liverpool
from Pensacola :
" On Sunday, the 6th of November, the advanced guard of
the American army made its appearante before Pensacola, and
was fired upon from the forts above the town. In the evening
an Officer was sent by the Commander with a flag of truce, to
require the immediate and unconditional surrender of the place
to the forces of the United States. The demand was almost in•
atantly rejected by the Governor, when other messengers were
dhpatched, and whit as little effect. On Sunday morning the
shack was commenced, and the town was carried, with the loss,
es the part of the assailants, of et men killed and wounded, the
Spaniards losing only three men. At eleven on Tuesday night
the fun was surrendered, which the General entered at four .the
nest morning, with the espress condition, that the place shed,
still remain under the Spanish Government, and that the leg
his Most Catholic Majesty should not •be removed from Me
ramparts.
6, The Americas tyres, to the whole, eensieted of abet %/VA
• Men,•lncluding maim, usable, and Indians. Tbe sisal detei
anent of English marines and Indians had emanated the fort twii
days prior to the stack,. in emeseeenee of a quarrel with Ills
Spaniards, and were all en based the ships of war at the time it
Americans took possession of the plat*. At that period it ties
generally believed that -hams would give up the town to pl.
lige, and under this apprehemden more than two-thirds of the
inhabitants were also embarked in the different vanish in the
Bay, and the scene was that of confusion and misery. Contrary
to all our expectations, the American troops conducted the
selves, during their short stay, with perfect discipline, and even
with 'unordinary decorum. The reason assigned by General
Jackson for this attack was, that It became necessary that he
should expel the English and the Creek Indians, and that he
should infer= the strictest neutrallrf of the place."

From Pensacola General .Imic6on withdrew with
his troops to Mobile, and inWat situation he conti-
nued on the 10th of December. Our army remained
on that day at Pensacola, but preparations were
making for its advance against the enemy, who, it
was presumed, would not wait its arrival,. but would
proceed westerly to New Orleans by water, destroy.
ing all the craft they could not employ in their
retreat, to impede the pursuit of the British army.
It was supposed that the Governors. of the Haven-

tkah and Penned!, Who hai ntgociAted aid) o►►r
Cottimander in Chief for the defence of the Spanish
k;oioniet, had entered into an .arrangentent tinder
which the Floridan, Which were incompetent to their
own security, should be placed under the guardian-
ship of the British forces.