Star.
London, England, 1824-06-16 00:00:00

STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

There was a great bustle this morning, both at the Stock Ex-
change and Foreign Market, owing to Mr. Caanrnso's speech on
the Recognition of South America.
Consols opened this morning at 941 to 95, but soon after were
done at 95 to for the Account, at which price they remain steady
up to this hour, with little doing.
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Little doing in the above Market, except in Colombian and
Mexican Scrip.
Current Prices :—OW Spanish 201 to I, Russian 94%, Chilian 764
to 77, Mexican Scrip * to 1 dis. Alliance Shares 16, Austrian
941 to a, French Scrip 15/ to 16, Colombian Sctip I prem. New
Prussian 99%, Old 981, Portuguese 901 to 4.
PRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
3 per Cent. Reduced 94 933' 94.1/2 94 '/8
per Cent. Cons. shut-3b per Cents. 101
4 per Cents. Old 101-4 per Cents. New shut
4 per Cents. Assented 1003A1 1 %
Bank Long Anns. 223/s 7.16-Ind:a Bonds 73
Exchequer Bills (E 1,000) 2d. 32 33 29; 11/, d. 26 3
Do Small 2d. 39 SO 33 ; 11/2d. 28 9 5 7
Consols for Acct. 95 9178 95% 1/s.

Official accounts have been received at the Earl
BATIIURET'S ofliCC, in Downirg•street, confirming the
melancholy intelligence of the death of Sir CHARLES
NIICARTIIY. But the dicpatches cbntaining the details
of the late unfortunate operations against the Ashantees
have not yet reached his Majesty's Government.

In the STAR of yesterday, we stated that intelligence
had been received by the Pitt, confirming the account
of the death of Sir CHARLES M'CARTHY, and the de-
feat of our troops by the Ashantees. The Borodino
transport, which arrived at Portsmouth, has brought
similar news. The latest dates are the:i9th March, at
uhich time we do not learn that any new events had oc-
curred. The body of C. M•C A RIM( had not been found.
Preparations were making at Cape Coast Castle for an
attack upon the A.hantees, who were understood to be
collected between Dixcove and the Dutch Settlement
of Elmina. A Mr. ‘VILLIAms, who was believed to be
the only English Officer who escaped after the attack,
had taken refuge at Elinina. The following is an ex-
tract from one of the letters by the latest arrival:

CAPE COAST CASTLE, MA REll 29.

" Although Cape Coast is perfectly safe, yet the disastrous affair
with the Ashantees had thrown us into alarm, until the arrival of
the Ann transport, with one hundred and fifty troops on board.
Poor Sir Charles Id‘Carthy, who was as humane as he w•as
brave, has fallen in a battle with the savage Ashantees.
fbe
particulars of this fatal event have not been allowed fully to
transpite! It is however said, that not only the Governor, but the
whole of :he whites, Officers and men, with the exception of one,
have been tilled, and we feat the calamity is too true."

We have received the !;toile and other Park jour-
nah of Sunday, but they contain no intelligence of any

ibterest beyond the squabbles of the several journalists,
occasioned by the dismissal of M. de CHATEMISRIAND.
This event has not only occasioned a schism among
different journals, but it has led to a kind of domestic
war between the proprietors of the same journal. The
misfortunes and troubles of the Quotidienne, from this
latter cause, are not a little singular, and, as happening
to the parties concerned, abundantly ridiculous. One
of. their paymasters is turned out, and it was difficult,
between the hotel of Foreign Affairs and that of Ft-
nance, to choose with security another. The Ministers
who remain in place, however, bought over the respon-
sible Editor with five-twelfths of the property, leaving
all the writers and the other proprietors to support the
ex-Minister. The first day after the latter's disgrace, a
violent at ticle was written in praise of his talents and ser-
vices, and in abuse of his colleagues. The Editeur re-
sponsaisle did not on the emergency see which way the
wind blew, and therefore gave his sanction to the inser-
tion of this article. Next day he was sure that the blast
did not come from the right way, and therefore would
not put his name to another article of the same tendency.
—The remedy naturally suggested to the other party
was to dismiss this scape-goat of libels, and to place
one of themselves in his responsible situation. This was
accordingly done, and the consequence was, that two
Quotidiennes appeared in one day. The agents of po-

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lice seized one of them—namely, that which had a self-
dubbed responsible editor, instead of their own friend,
M. SIMON. On the following night all the contending
parties were again on the ground. The founder of the
journal and its political chief, M. MimiAtm, his chief
redacteur, M. Som.' z, all his other redacteurs and assistant
writers, took possession of the printing-office, and stood
in their defence against M. Ststox, their man of straw,
whom they had hired only for the purpose of going to
prison, if need was.
M. MICHAUD, with his phalanx, determined to see
his doctrines fairly inserted, and his Journal securely
issued, and being too infirm to support a night's bi-
voNacking, brought his bed to the office., He had just
gone to take the benefit of reposing, surrounded, like
SOCRATES, by his powerful friends, when, about two
o'clock in the morning, in came the responsible Editor,
with a Commissary of Police, and a party of gens-
d'armes. It was in vain for M. MICHAUD, supported
only by his assistants of the quill, to contend against
his own agent, supported by assistants with bayonets.
After drawing up a minute of the transaction, there-,
fore, and writing an ineffectual letter to the Prefect of
Police, the real Editor and Proprietor of the Quotidienne
was obliged to leave the premises of his own paper, and
condemned to see it conducted on principles against
which he protests. So stands the matter, till the law
decides the controversy.

In the Chamber of Deputies nothing curious occurred,
if we except the presentation of several Petitions which
excited the merriment of that assembly.
A Parisian, of the name of DUPORTi presenting one
beseeching the Chamber to enact the punishment of in.
famy on the venders of adulterated wine, a wiseacre
deputy, called PUTAIAURIN, who holds a place in the
Mint, supported the Petition, and gravely informed the
Assembly that we, in England, have often the misfor-

tune to be poisoned by our wine-merchants, and that a
great dealer, in London, had lately, on his death-bed,
confessed that he had sent all his customers before him
who had partaken of his Rhenish ! Another Petitioner
presented an address in which he submitted to the
Chamber only sixty fourprojects of law, mentioning that
he would reserve his other legislative plans to a future
opportunity.

These Projects related to the Louvre, the Tuileries,
dogs without masters, women of the tcwn, gaming-
houses, and a long list of et externs. But it was
against bachelors that his patriotic ire was peculiarly
excited. He proposed that after thirty years of age
they should be condemned to fine and imprisonment ;
that if guilty of seduction, they should ride upon an
ass on market-days—that, in shot t, they should be driven
out of the city and left to their fate!

The Kent packet arrived at Falmouth, on Sunday, in
fourteen days from Lisbon. At the time of her depar-
ture all was quiet; the QUEEN was still residing at the
country palace of Queluz. The Marquis of AIRANTES,
who was supposed to be implicated in the death of the
Marquis of LOULE, had been arrested in his flight, at
Mertola, and confined in a castle on the Tagus. The,
French Admiral had given a grand fete on board his
ship, the San Pedro, of 80 guns, then in the Tagus.

New York Papers to the 26th May, and Philadelphia
and other Papers to the 25th, have been received, bring-
ing intelligence from the Caraccas to the 28th of April.
Unfavourable intelligence is said to have been brought
from Peru, but the particulars are not stated. The
Congress of Colombia had not assembled, in conse-
quence of the absence of two Members of the Senate,
who were necessary to form the Constitutional quorum.
ICommodore DANIELS has refused to accept pay for his
Iservices to he Republic.
The Baltimore American, on the authority of a Cap-
tain KELLY, states that it was reported at St. Thomas's
that twenty-one sail of men of war had arrived at Mar.
tinique, from France : the Captain, however, on passing
Fort Royal, only saw seven sail, of which three or four
were frigates. At St. Thomas's there were a French
frigate and two Danish sloops of war.
Recent accounts from Tampico state, that on the 4th
of April part of that town was destroyed by fire, owing,
it was suspected, to some political incendiaries.

Lust night Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH, as promised,
presented a Petition signed by 117 respectable Mer-
chants of London, in favour of recognizing the inde-
pendence of the South American States, We do not

mention -the number invidiously, although we conre.,s'
we were surprised that it was not more numerously
signed, when we consider the usual eagerness of the
mercantile world, and the number of persons who have
a collateral interest in an avowed recognition of those
States by Great Britain.
It is known that our Government very distinctly de-
clared to Spain, that no other Power should aid her in
reconquering her late Trans-Atlantic Colonies, without
our interfering to prevent it. It is known also that we
stated to France, that time and events having substan-
tially decided the separation of those States from the
Mother Country, we felt ourselves perfectly at liberty
to recognize their independence, though we wished
to afford Spain the opportunity of first relinquish-
ing aclaim over them which she'was unable to enforce.
—lt is also equally known, that to the invitation on
the part of some of the Powers of Europe, that Great
Britain should send a representative to a Congress to
be held on the affairs of South America, our Govern-
ment gave a decisive refusal.
So much, we say, was already known ; and we repeat

it, because a Morning Paper calculated on some new
declarations on the part of Ministers last night, when

in fact there was little to declare : that little, however,
was by no means unimportant. It will be seen from the
speech of Mr. Secretary CANNING—a speech wlikh, as
a Morning contemporary (the Press) well ob-
serves, is " marked by coniumtnate ability, and a policy
the most enlightened and liberal,"—that some progress
has even been made towards that " consummation so
devoutly wished," by the Merchants who petitioned the
House of Commons.

We first, out of delicacy, with to afford Spain the
opportunity of precedency, in recognising the indepen-
dency of the South American States.—That condition
and that delicacy exist no longer, and the British
Government is now at full liberty to act upon its
own decision, without further reference to Spain.—
It will also be seen that our Government has again
refused a new application on the part of some of the
Continental Powers, to assist at a Congress for set ding
the affairs of South America. If, therefore, our
Ministers do not formally recognize the indepen-
dence of the South American States (for virtually
they have long possessed nearly all the advantages
of the most unqualified recognition), it is from con-
siderations of domestic, and not of foreign policy ; in

short, in order to give us time ;to learn from our
own Commissioners the real condition of those States,
that we may act safely, as well as honourably in those
measures, which, while they will secure for ever the in-
dependence of a large portion of the new world, will lead
to a still further extension of our political and com-
mercial relations in that quarter of the globe.