Star.
London, England, 1822-06-26 00:00:00

STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The Slatket opened this morning at 81 j, but in consequence
of mune Stock being brought to market, they lowered to 81a I
for the Account, at which price they remain up to this hour.—
Reduced 80a.
STOCK K.XCIIAIsTGE—ONE O'CLOCK.
There has been much business done within the last hour, and,
owing to a large quantity of Stock being thrown upon the Mar-
ket, Consols have declined to 811 a.
Ike favourable news from China has caused a rise of five per
cent. in East India Stock.
The whole of the Foreign Stocks are heavy.
PRICES OF STOCKS AT ONE 0 CLOCK.
3 per Cent. Reduced 805/. ys
314 per Cents. 911/4-4 per Cents. 931/4 98
4 per Cent. New Anns. 9834 tifi
Bank Long Anns. '2O 7.16 i/2 5/. 7.16
Imperial 3 per Cents. 793/4
India Bonds 555. Vs. •
Etcbeq. Bills of I:1,000. Is. pre. par, Ss. pre.
Do. Small ss. Ss. pr.—Do. Commercial, Su dis.
Consols for Acct. 81 ys 1/2 5/..

Mr. Sim, Purser of the Hon. East India Company's
ship itep;:isc, arrived in town this morning, from
Lymington, where he landed yesterday evening.—
The Repulse left China on the Bth of February. Be-
fore she sailed the Chinese Government had sent a
Mandarine on board the TO?AZC to see the men that
had been wounded in the affray at Linton, from
which an amicable adjustment of the dispute was
anticipated. The cor.fide.nce that this circumstance
has inspired on 'Cbange, has caused an advance of
Five per Cent. on India Stock.

Such an exposure of the Government Press of Scot-
land, such an unmasking of the hired libellers, and
traducers of personal character who have, for the last
eighteen months, deluged that part of the United
Kingdom with the most foul and atrocious attacks on
all who differed with them in opinion, was made last
night in the House of Commons, as must make every
man of common sense and common honesty, view
it with disgust and indignation. It had been long
known that the first Law Officer of the Crown—the
LORD ADVOCATE Of SCOTLAND, had been a party to
a bond for supporting one of the most libelous News-
papers that ever was commenced—the Beacon; and
it now appears that he lent his name and his influence
to its precursor in the career of infamy, the Cyies-
dale Journal, since called the Glasgow Sentinel.—
It was this Journal, which has not changed its cha-
racter, though it has changed its name, that con-
tained the wanton and unprovoked libels which led
to the late fatal duel ; and which the LORD JUSTICE
CLERK, in the trial of Mr. STUART, branded as dis-
graccialy licentious! It was this Journal, which was
set on foot by a set of persons, many of whom are
connected with the Law Officers of the Crown, and
which, when it was on the point of expiring, was
recommended by the LORD ADVOCATE, " on the ex-
perience already had of it," to the patronage of such
Gentlemen as had not already given it their support.
Had this been the act of an ordinary individual, un-
connected with Government or with place, how much.
we might have regretted that any person assuming
the rank and character of a Gentleman, should lend
his supio.t to an avowedly libellous publication,
yet it would not have been matter of public concern.
But it was the LORD ADVOCATE Of SCOTLAND, the
public prosecutor, whose duty it was to take cogni-
sance of all libels, that lent his influence and his name
to this publication : not previous to its commence-
ment,—not before its character or principles were
known—but when it had stood forth in all its defor-
mity, and was actually on the point of expiring for
want of support: it was then .that the LORD Avvo-
CATS raised it up by his influence, and gave it new
vigour to proceed in its disgraceful career. What
that influence is, we may judge from the single cir•
cumstance, that he has the patronage of about eighty
places, which he can distribute among the favoured
of some 150 or 200 practitioners. Well might Mr.
ASBECIIOII3Y, who brought his Lordship's conduct
last night before the House, say, if the Loan An.
VOCATE " exerted such inflame in a bad direction,
what a curse did he not thereby inflict on the coun-
try ! and if he gave it to the Press for the encourage.

went of calumny and slander, he could not conceive
a greater misfortune or a heavier reproach
Ia the affair of the Clydesdale Journal, we have
seen that though the LORD ADVOCATR gave it lus
support when it otherwise must have sunk, yet it
does not appear that he had any share in the corn
mencement: This, however, was not the case with its
twin brother in iniquity, the Beacon, the bond for the
support of which was honoured with the following
goodly names, "all honourable ram," and all holding
official situations, to wit :
Sir Witue.x Rare Lord Advocate; Mr. Wicrinsaaumn, Soli-
citor-General; Mr. Foams, Advocate and Sheriff's Depute for
Perth, a judicial situation; Mr. J. Horn, Deputy under the
Lord Advocate; Sir %Wass Scram Clerk of the Peace and
Sheriff's Depute ; Mr. H. Damson% Advocate and Deputy
under the Lord Advocate; the Right Hon. R. Astaurnsov, also
holding a high official situation. •
This was not an ordinary bond, but a bond of cre-'
dit, which legally constituted those who signed it as
Proprietors. But it may be thought that the parties
never contemplated the libellous character of the
Paper; but be this as it may, they kept in unholy
compact together until their names were exposed,
and that they were so beset with personal responsi-
bility, and pressed by the urgent claims of those who
had been libelled, that they were compelled to aban-
don the Paper, which scarcely survived the discovery
of the names of its Pmprieters. It is true that the
LORD ADVOCATE, in the memorable correspondence
*which ensued between him and Mr. STUART on the
subject, disclaimed all knowledge of attack on pri-
vate character; but it is also true that his Lordship
knew the character of the alidesdale Journal be-
fore be gave it his support; that he knew the Beacon
was to be, and was, similarly conducted; and that
he never disavowed it, until personally called upon
to answer for his conduct. It is also true that he,
the first Law Officer of the Crown, who had the
Beacon completely in his power, and could have ex-
tinguished it whenever he pliased, never took any
steps to put down the libellous- system of the &aeon ;
but, on the contrary, that his. Lordship's patronage
created and kept it alive ; that. be had given it his
money and his countenance, under which it flourished;
ani that it ceased only when the nale'of its patron.
was exposed.
The object of Mr. AssicaoNtav's motion, which
was supported by facts the most indisputable, and
arguments the most irrefragable, 'was for an inquiry
into the conduct of the LORD ADVOCATE and the
other Law Officers of the Crown in Scotland, re-
specting the public Press.
The Loan ADVOCATE defended himself, no doubt,
in the best way he could, and as we do not wish to
weaken that defence by any remarks, but to let his
Lordship have the full benefit of-all that it can do for
him, we shall merely refer our Readers to it in our
report of this memorable debate. Indeed we would
only require any one of the speeches in the House
last night, either for or against the Loan ADVOCATE,
to prove that a more disgraceful exercise of official
influence was never made than in the recent support
of the Government Press of Scotland, which, to use
the forcible language of Sir JAMES MACK INTOSII,
the Public Prosecutor had suffered as " a battery to
play unceasingly for six months against every man
and every woman whose views did not precisely co-
incide with the Government."

The French Papers of Sunday have been received.
They confirm the accounts received direct from Con-
stantinople, of the atrocities committed in that capi-
tal on the Greek hostages, ten of whose lives had
been guaranteed by Lord STRANGFORD. Private
letters from the Turkish capital detail this horrible
transaction, which has scarcely a parallel in history,
and which we should almost doubt if related as an
occurrence of the savage ages.
This sanguinary deed is nothing else than the decd.
pitation, by the Government of the Porte, of 72 Greek
merchants, some of them the most respectable in
the Levant, and all of them of consequence among
theii countrymen—without alleged crime—m ith-
out the form of trial—without an insinuation of
misconduct—but merely because out of compassion
for their brethren in the Isle of Scio, they offered
themselves as hostages for their good behaviour, and
interposed between them and the-Turkish cimeter.—
The islanders, driven at length to revolt, by the in-
tolerable cruelties and humiliations to which they
were subjected, have been massacred and extermi-
nated ; and the barbarous despot, not satisfied with
the blood and torture of the principles who rebelled,
has sacrificed, " at one fell swoop," likewise, their
generous, unoffending securities.
Letters from Constantinople state, that four thou-
sand Asiatic troops 'had arrived therefrom Moldavia
and Wallachia; but that the Turkish Government,
immediately after their arrival, declared publicly that
they would not evacuate any of the Principalities, and
messengers were immediately dispatched with orders
to prevent any further evacuation. •
New York Papers to the 24th of May reached us
this morning. Accounts from La Guira.aird Caraccas
to the 21st April state, that General MORALES had
been surprised by three divisions of the Patriot Army,
and his return to Porto Bello being cut off, there was
little doubt of his speeedy capture.

Yesterday, the Duke of YORK held a Levee at his
Office in the Horse Guards, as Commander-in-Chief,
which was attended hy—
mn Marquis of Huh, Marquis Cosyogham, Lord Elgin, Lord
William Thyme' Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Nightingale,
Liaistanant-General Thomas, Lientanant.Gefieral Boavllk, Lisa-
tenant-General Browne, ands number of others.
Saturday his Majesty's Letters Patent were received at Dub-
in Coedit appeintiog the R ht Hon. lard Joan Gutzon Ds
La lads.
and
Lard
and Lard of Dublin.
al to
Ireland ;be Lord 1
s. cnt Atonosh, of l
the Wit Ire. I. Wawa Moon, Lord Bishop of Raphoe,
to hi Arukhiship of Dublin ; tad the Very arr. Archdeacon
Bssaarr, Chaplain to his Excellaney tint Marquis Warp
nem, to be Lard Mho? of Rsphoes

•

tifE ARM F.
• Orders have been issued by the Lone TALTTIPIATt
that the Yeonsanerof the North be forthwith dilcutnitiukA fro
serving on peetnietsent duty.
Commission in the 9d Somerset Regiment of Militia, sighed by
the Lord Lieutenant of the County tof Somerset.
Honourable Frederick Xallmarke to be Insign.
Commissionsin the Penishire Yeomanry Cavalry, sigma ty
the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Perth.
Ueutenant John Rashes lobe Captain, vice Sharp, resigned ;
Cornet John Grant to be Lieutenmt, vice Belbhes, promeed
Lawience Cr sigie, Gent. to be Cornet, vice' rant, promoted ;
Witliam Maleom,,M.D. to be Surgeon.
Commissions in the West Rent Regiment of Yeomanry Ca.
'dry, signed by thi Lord Lieutenant of the county of Kew,
Tunbridge Troop—Lieutenant George Charles Earl of Bred_
Dock to be Captain, vice Not:silk, resigned; Willem,Latb
bard. Gent. to be Lieutenant, vice the Earl of iirecknock.
pranoted.

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AUL INTELLIGENCE'

FROM THZ AGINT TO LLOYD'S, AT LT181)107011.
" immune* Juxe 25.—The Purser of the Monourable
Company's ship Repulse, Paimasox, landed here this afternom
from China—left oth February last, on which day his Majesty's
ship Torus also sailed. The Chinese Government had sett a
Mandarins on board the Torn; to see the men who were
wounded, and it was judged lions this circumstance that the
late differences would soon be amicably settled. The Cor:-
pany's ship Kent had about two-thirds of her loading on bnat‘t,
and would sail as soon as a conuntualcation should be recelvcd
front Pekin."

The East-India Company's outward•bound skip Regent p..t
into Funchall on the 12th May, and was wapected toproceed es
her voyage on the 15th.
Ptruovisr, Jowa24.—Wind E.—Arrived the Delight, DLArt,
and Mars, FLIMISCI. from Teneriffe ; and Twelve Brothers,
from Dram to Fowey. Passed up Channel, the Orient, Wan.
us, from Bengal to London.
Fatuourn, Juae 124.—Wind W.—Arrived the Urania, Le
Cocr, from Rotterdam for Dublin; and Mr_ncheiw packs.,
Sten:worms, from America, sailed from New York the lath of
'hlay. • The Princess Elizabeth packet arrived at New York
the 23d of April, and Fox packet at Halifax the 20th May, rad
sailed the 25th for New York. L'A frkaine Frtneh frigate, ti
44 guns, was lost in a fog 16th May, on Sable Island,and
twelve of the crew drowned: she was from 'Martinique,
to St. Pierre.

Poursmoutu, Jowl 41.—Wind W. S. W.--Riled, his Dlzievo:s
ship TILIXUNZ. for Chatham; and ittlyal Raton, I%.urzEir,
Archangel.
Dear., Jews 421—Wind 9.W.—Came down front the Ei7c:
last night, the Charles, SALIM, for Rouen ; Fanny, Goma, fcz
Charente ; Arethusa, Plait°, for Virginia, and ,ailed this ni,r
ing with the rest of the outward-bonr.d. Arriled and sailed
the River, the Eliza, WARD, from Calcutta ; William
too, Sacttanz, front St. Kitt's ; Lavinia, Stars, from Ikladc!?:,;
Nymph, liurcuelsom, from Tarragona; an .1 Faiza, ri
FayaL Caine down from the River this mortrizg, Cue EcTia.
Sovrozwu yacht, and remains.

PREROGATIVE• COURT-THIg

OLIVE, SOI-DISANT PRINCESS OP CUMEERLArD.
JUDGMENT.

DC EWE GOODS Or SILS LATE MAJESTY ZINO OTOT.OO TOY -r.3.1%.

The Court this morning was crowded to exeess, in consec:ence
of this being tbeappcinted day by the Learned Judge, Sir Jona
neaten., fcr delivering his nation en the argument s addace.l
in the suit of OLIVE, PEINCESS or Cirmaintasn, calling on ha
present MAJESTY for £15,0003 said to be willed be: by hit irc
most gracious Mammy.
Sir Join; NICHOL began by stating the allegations which
had been made by the learned advocates for the applicant, and
read the prayer which has so frequently been before the pub@:.
Lie then made scone allusions to the argnmcnts ad .ticed ny the
advocates of the person seeking the laterf..rence of the Coen
upon her affidavit, when she swore that, Etas. of WAAVH.T
did, about the menth of 31ay,181 5, send to her residence at Ne.
74, Seymour-pLce, a cert?in pared various dot a.
ments, amongst them the will in question, the th.lre of Kuse
that time being present. The learned Jukit7e commented at rut
length on this letter, and deolared it to be a subject of extrer.:
delicacy, and went on to shew that no Kiso had made a win
since Henry IV. and on that his executors had refused to act,
and Henry V. took the estate by appraisement.
The only Win ever lodged in that Court was that of Henry
the Bth, and that was only a copy, on which probate w:.s no:
granted.. By the Vol's of Parliament, of the 24th Henry the
Bth, the reigning Sovereign was considered the supreme Ooee.--
nor of all, and the head of the Church ; and it has been since
held, a King could not constitutionally do wrong, think wrong, or
act with injustice! The question, he said, before the Court wac,
.whether it had jurisdiction over the reining Sovereignty ? It
was in law considered an analogy, he could not be a defendant,
neither could he appear in any other Court. 'fhe Leanied Jul*
concluded by stating, that it did not come within the cogniee'ce
of that Court; and without prejudice to what might take
elsewhere, he felt himself bound to resist the appL.ltion.
The claim is now once again set at rest.