Star.
London, England, 1822-02-02 00:00:00

ST. PETERSRURGH, JANUARY D.

On Chi istmas Day the deliverance of the Empire
float the invasion of the French and of 20 nations in
71!iance with them, was celebrated in th4Capital and
throughout the Empire. This city was illuminated
a the evening.
The ship Wellington, bound from Petersburgh to
Liverpool, with a cargo of hemp, iron, and tallow,
}as been wrecked on the Island of Oesel. Several
v-,hing vessels have also been lost in these parts
'::ring a violent storm, in which 22 persons perished.
Winter has at length set in, with little snow. The
ll'errni,ineter is from seven to ten degrees (Iteaumur)
telow zero. It is said here that the Porte has made
Icace ith the Persians. Some persons add, that
2atording to a recatt article, the Persian Mtge, who,

commenced hbuilities is to.receive £20,000 sterling
for withdrawing. Bat all thii i.s.mere report.
The Paris Paps ofVednesday bring us another
day's discussion In the Chamber of beputies OR the
• Law for regulating the Press. The debite in'Tues-
day Was more storthy and tumultuous 'the any of
the preceding ones.
The debate commenced on •the fifth article, some
Amendments on which, proposed by General For,
were rejected ; and it was finally carried with tlie
Amendment of the Committee, which makes the pe-
nalties for defamation or insult of Courts, Tribunals,
Constituted Bodies, Authorities, or Administrations,
an imprisonment of not less than 15 days, or mote
than two years, and a fine of from 150 to 5000 francs.
The 6th article, which relates to insults to persons
on account of their official functions or stations, and
to priests, &c. was put paragraph by paragraph, and
gave rise to a long and warm debate.
General Fox proposed as an Amendment that in-
stead of the words " a Minister of Religion," should
be substituted, " a Functionary of the Religion of the
State ;" he also proposed that the fine and imprison-
ment should be reduced. The General, in the course
of his speech, which met with many uncourteous in-
terruptions, vindicated the party to which he is at-
tached, as having been always faithful to their oaths,
because the first of all oaths, that which is more sa-
cred than any other, " fidelity to the country," had
never been broken by them. The country was neither
at Coblentz nor at Ghent. He was asked who had
produced the 20th of March ? (the return of Bona-
parte). To which he answered, that that event was
the consequence of perfidious counsels given to the
King, and that his Majesty had himself acknow-
ledged the faults committed by his Government, in
his Proclamation dated from Cambray. The King's
Government, be observed, ceased when be crossed the
frontiers. The oaths taken to his Government then
ceased to be binding.
The General's Amendment was negatived, and the
article as proposed adopted.
The remaining intelligence in the French Papers
possesses very little interest. They contain the re-
sult of the votes in the Electoral College of the Seine,
to which General Fox alluded in the Chamber of
Deputies on Monday.
The Government candidate, M. LAPAtiODZE, the
President of the College, is opposed by General
GIRARD, who is supported by the Liberal party.
The state of the voting on Monday was, for General
GIRARD, 551 ; for M. LAPA Noun, 48+. The whole
number of voters in the College is 1,102; but as the
law requires that the successful candidate should
have' a majority greater than half the votes, and as
General GIRARD wanted one of that number, the
proceedings in the scrutiny were postponed until the
following day.
A private letter from Augsburg, of the 23d inst.
contains the following passage :—" We can state,
without the fear of contradiction, that the Divan has
not as yet come to any decision respecting the ulti-
matum of the Cabinet of Petersburgh. The last Note
of the Reis Effendi addressed to the English and
Austrian Ministers, is not of a nature to satisfy the
Russian Government. Notwithstanding the state-
ments published in the Ausirian Observer, we are cre-
dibly informed that tranquillity has not been restored
at Constantinople, and that many excesses are com-
mitted there.

Private letters from Paris, on Wednesday, state
that a Courier arrived there on that day, to the Rus-
sian Embassy, from St. Petersburgh, with dispatches
essentially pacific : but in what manner the Russians
and Turks have terminated their disputes, or whether
they are terminated at all, has not transpired.
French Funds, Tuesday, 5 per Cents. 87fr. 30c.—
Wednesday, Mfr. 93c.

A Mail from Germany, bringing a variety of Con-
tinental Journals, arrived last night. The accounts
from Constantinople are of the 29th ult. at which time
great preparations were making, in the Arsenals of the
Navy and the Artillery, to fit out ships for provision-
ing the garrisons in the Morea.
Nothing had lately occurred to disturb the tran-
quillity of the capital ; everybody, whether Nfussul-
man or Christian, followed his business. There was
a report of the Greeks being in possession of Athens.
The Madrid Gazette has published the Articles of
the Military Convention between Austria and Naples.
By this Convention it appears that the unfortunate
kingdom of the Two Sicilies is obliged to pay the
damage occasioned by the Austrian army from its
passing the Po ; it is obliged to bear all the burthen
of immense contributions for the maintenance of its
enemies; it is under the hard necessity of taking its
'law from the victor, to weep in silence over its suffer-
ings, and to lament in secret that the fruits of its
labour should be taken to feed its oppressors. An
example so calamitous for the inhabitants of the
kingdom of Naples, ought to be a warning to the
other nations of Europe to remain firm and unyield-
ing in the decisions they have taken or may take;,
and not to suffer themselves to be betrayed, by the
weakness of their Sovereigns, to the mercy of a
foreign Power.

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by !Ibis Rader tftif inparintentimis at the Secfetaiy of *Si,
upon pimples of etpdty and justice; or td iwovide otherwise
for the disposition fit so& claims, in such manlier as shall be just
to the claimants, and late to the United Staff' and that
have leave to report, by BM or otherwise."
The Resolution was laid on the table. •
CHARLESTON, DECEMBER 09.
UNITE; STATES' CIRCUIT COURI'.-111e.eight sea-
men belonging to the smack Hiram, convicted of
piracy on the 20th inst. were this miming brought bc4l
fore Judge Johnson, to teteive their sentence. They
are to be executed on the first Wednesday in April.
Recent letters from New York state, that the Bank
of the United States have remitted two millions of dol-
lars, in the Stock of that institution, to England, for
sale; upon the strength of which they are now draw-
ing bills of exchange at a premium of 12i per cent.'
JANUARY 1:--FROM
.HAVANNAU.--By the trading
schooner Jane we yesterday received a the of the
Noticioto Mercantik of Havannah, to the 19th ult.
The Elections in Havannah. for Deputies to the
National Cortes and for Members of the Colonial
Government of Cuba, have terminated, it would ap-
pear, in favour of the party friendly to the Constitu-
tional system and in opposition to the wishes of the
Creoles of that Island. The Havannah Paper abounds
in extracts from the Mazican Gazettes of dates to
the 11th October. The independence of that interest-
ing section of Spanish America, appears fixed upon
a firm foundation. The Cities of Guatemala and
Ciudad Real, in the Province of Cheapa, were
among the last in which the declaration of inde-
pendence was promulgated, they also furnish a corn-
plete list of the Mexican Cortes.

Extract of a letter from the Agent to Lloyd's at
Buenos Ayres, dated 7th November :

" Advice' are received from Chili to the 15th ult. and from
Lima to the 13th September. The fortress of Callao was still
in possession of the Royalists when the last accounts, brought by
his Majesty's ship Creole, left, and they are likely to maintain it
some time."

THE ARMY.

The three Royal Veteran Battalions are now formed in Tre.
land. • The first is commanded by Colonel Ross; the second by
Colonel Twtoo, and the third by Colonel Hoorn..
A detachment of about eighty men of the Royal Dragoons
marched from Radipole barracks to Warminster and Frome on
the 24th ult.

Tuesday morning the 78th Regiment marched from Dublin
for the south. The detachment of the ?Bth, which took duty on
Monday morning at the Castle, was relieved in the evening, and
the regiment unexpectedly received a route for Cork, at a notice
of twelve hours.

The detachment of the 39th Regiment which were quartered
at Curran,s amounting to 20 men, together with ten men of the
detachment quartered at Castleisland, have marched for Bally-
vourney, in the County of Cork. The Curran, party marched
a few days since to Milistrecat and have reinforced for a few
days the 30 men of the 30th who were previously quartered in
the latter town.

(Clacusa a.) War Office, January 22, 1822.
Referring to the Circular Letter from this department, dated
29th October, 1819, lam directed by the Secretary at sir to
acquaint you, that a contract has been entered into with Mr.
Joseph Adams, of the Leith and Glasgow Wharf, East Smith-
field, for the passage of soldiers and their families from the River
Thames to certain ports in North Britain, for one year, ending
24th October, 1822 at the rates undermentioned, viz.
goldiers and Children, from Children
their wives, 1 to 14 years of in
each. age, each. arms.
Inverness so. 40s.
Dundee and Aberdeen 90s.
Leith
Berwick
I am, &c. (Signed) W. MERRY.
Addressed to Regimental Agents. 1

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