Star.
London, England, 1824-01-28 00:00:00

FROM. TIIE ETOILE OF YESTERDAY.

Extract of a letter from Rio Janeiro, 2,lth November :
—" I was tar from thinking a month ago that we were
so near a change. On the 11th, the Emperor assembled
all his troops around his ►esidence, which is three miles
from the capital. The Deputies declared themselves in
permanent sitting until the Emperor explained en the
above proceedings. The ancient Ministers were dis-
charged. On the 12th, about one o'clock, a detachment
4.400 men, infantry as well as cavalry, with four pieces
of cannon, surrounded the Assembly, and the Com-

manclant, by order of the Emperor, declared that the
Cortes were dissolved : six or eight of the most violent
Members were arrested. Lord Cochrane passed a month
at Rio Janeiro, and he appears disgusted at all that
has passed."
FROM THE MESSENGER OF THE 26TH.

The Directors of the Bank of France have given no-

tice to subscribers for the Loan of twenty-three millions
of rentes, that they are willing to advance for one, two,
or three months, at 4 per cent. per annum, the twen-
tieths to be paid into the Royal Treasury in February,
March, and April.
Lieut.-General Guilleminot is seriously indisposed.

The following is from the Belgic Journal :--‘, If a
rumour afloat in the northern provinces, particularly at
Amsterdam, may be depended upon, it is in contempla-
tion that Prince Frederick should go to Batavia, to re-
side there in quality of Viceroy over the Belgian Pro-
vinces in the East Indies.
AUG6BURG, JANUARY 16.

We have received several letters from St. Peters-1
burgh. It appears to be confidently expected in some
circles in that City, that 'important events will take
place in the Spring, in the North and South of Europe.
It is even believed that the affairs of Greece will be
finally arranged, and that the political independence of,
that country will be recognized by the Powers of the
Holy Alliance; but on the condition, that they shall
themselves propose the Prince who shall reign over
the new State.

Such, it is affirmed, will be the result of the frequent
conferences held at Count Nesselrode's, between the
Ambassador of Austria and the Russian Senator Ta-
tischeff. It is even pretended that Greek agents will
shortly arrive in Petersburgh to discuss in the Russian
Council the interests of their country, It is to be ob-
served that Sir C. Bagot, the British Minister, takes no
part in the abovementioned conferences, whence it is
supposed that the political system of England, with
regard to the Greeks, differs from that of the Conti-
nental Powers.

FROM THE MONITEUR.
BERLIN, JANUARY 15.

It is said there will be several changes in our diplo-
matic relations. Comte de Fleuviag will go to Lisbon,
and General de Valentini, a distinguished author, is
destined for an embassy in the North.

FRANKFORT, JANUARY S.

According to the latest intelligence from Greece, the
Albanians have definitively abandoned the standard of
the Crescent, and declared themselves neuter.

Missolonghi has again become the place where the
Greek arms are concentrating, and has now acquired
more importance than ever.
Lord Byron is at this moment very active. He is oc-
cupied in forming a corps of 800 Europeans, fully
equipped, and who will be ready to enter the campaign
at the commencement of spring. The remains of the
German Legion in Greece will be added to this corps.
This Legion has been for some time with the corps of
General Nikitas.

The Egyptian marine has retired to Alexandria,
where it will pass the winter. The Pacha of Egypt is
occupied with a new project of conquests on the North-
ern frontiers of his Government.
ROME, JANUARY

Prince Gustavus, son of the Ex-King of Sweden,
quitted this capital on the morning of the Bth instant,
with the persons of his suite. His Royal Highness re•
pairs to Naples, whither a courier has been sent to the
Russian Legation, to announce his approaching arrival.

Charleston Papers to the 23d December have been
received. The following are extracts:

CHARLESTON, DECEMBER 22.

By the schooner Sally, arrived from Jamaica and
Havannah, we have files of Kingston Papers to the 18th
November. The Bill to repeal the Regency Act was
brought into the House of Assembly on the 13th, and
met with nearly an unanimous support. General D'Eve-
reux and his suite sailed from Carthagena, for Europe,
on the 9th October, in the British sloop of war Scout.
Commodore Sir Edward Owen was about to return to
return to England, from his command on the Jamaica
station ; and public meetings were to be held to express
the favourable opinion entertained by the inhabitants of
his official conduct.

Letters from Tampico, of the 29th October, received
at New Orleans, state that the fever was raging with
greater violence than ever known.

THE KING.
His MAJESTY, we are happy to announce, was yes-
terday considered in an improved state. To the inqui-
ries of the Nobility and Gentry, which were as numerous
as on the two preceding days, the following answer was
continued to be given to a late hour :
" His MAJESTY has had a more favourable night, and is better to-
day.—Tuesdays January 27, 1824."

KING'S THEATRE.—Rossm's Opera of Zebnira,witn
some curtailments, was last night repeated with the greatest sec-
cess.—.The fine quintetto in the last act was again encored and ex-
cited the highest admiration. In short there is no part of the Opera
which does net even improve upon repetition.
Yesterday, at two o'clock, a Cabinet Council was held
at the Foreign Office, by summons, which was again attended by
all the Cabinet Ministers, who continued in deliberation till about
half-past five, with the exception of two of the Ministers, who left
at half-past four.
Another Cabinet Council was held this day, at one
o'clock, at the Foreign Office, which was attended as numerously as
that of yesterday.
Friday evening, Mr. D►tAFFEN, one of the King's
Messengers, set out from London, with dispatches for Sir Cuatteces
LlAntiv, our Ambassador at the Court of St. Petersburgh.
The Address will be moved in the House of Com-
mons neat Tuesday by ROWLAND HILL, Esq. one of the Members
for the county of Salop, and seconded by JAXES DaLY, Esq. one of
the Members for the county of Galway.
AssessED NEs. GREENWICH. On an appeal
made on Thursday last to the Comn.issioners at the Green Man, on
Blackheath, all the landlords who were charged by Mr.Tirtssm.tou
as occupiers of houses let in distinct ten;:ments, wsre relieved front
the burthens intended to be laid upon them.

SHIP-OWNERS' SOCIETY.

Yesterday the Annual Dinner of this Society took
place at the London Tavern. The company which as-
sembled on the occasion was highly respectable, and in
number exceeded :W. At half-past six o'clock, the
Earl of Liverpool, the President of the Society, took the
Chair ; near him §at the Right Hon. George Canning,
the Right Hon. Wm. Iluskisson, Messrs. Croker, M. P.
E. Ellice, M: P. J. Wells, M. P. A. Robertson, M.l'.,
Aldermen Bridges and Thompson, M. P. Thomas
Wilson, M. P. G.Lyall, Esq. J. Buckle, Esq. and many
other Gentlemen eminent in the commercial world.
The dinner having been disposed of, and the cloth
removed, the Chairman proposed the health of " The
King," which was drank with three times three. The
" Duke of York, and the rest of the Royal Family ;"
" Lord Melville and the Navy ;" and "The Army,"
were likewise drank with similar honours.
The CHAIRMAN said, that he rose to propose a toast
most intimately connected with the object of the meet-
ing—namely, " Prosperity to the Shipping Interest of
the United Kingdom."—(Applause.) In looking at the
company before him, and considering the great in-
terests which were involved in, and connected with the
Society which they were assembled to support, he could
not avoid repeating what he had stated on former oc- I
casions--that the country owed much to the snipping
interest—(Hear, hear.) At the period of the change
from war to peace, when every great interest laboured
more or less under difficulties, no interest had suf-
fered more than the shipping interest of the United
Kingdom. That was the unavoidable result of circum-
stances; but whilst he said that no interest ed
more than the shipping interest by the transition from
war to peace, he was also bound to add, what he
knew to be the fact—that no interest had borne
their sufferings so well.—(Loud applause). .It was
gratifying to know that the shipping interest, like
all the other great interests of the country, was now
emerging from the difficulties under which they had for
many years laboured. On former occasions he had said,
and he would now repeat, that to her maritime interest
and her navy, this country owed its safety and greatness
among the other nations of the world; and that that
maritime interest and navy had been created and sup-
ported by the attention which had been bestowed on the
interests of navigation ; for it was not true, that before
the interests of navigation received the support of Go-
vernment and Parliament, the navy of this country, arc'
consequently its safety, was what it had been since. It
had been often contended, that commercial wealth and
a military spirit were incompatible; but the union of
the navigation and maritime interests in this country
was a proof to the contrary. The seamen who carried
our commerce in time of peace, learned thereby to be
our protectors in time of war. It was no disparagement
to the other interests of the country, to say that they
were all, in some degree, subordinate to those con-
nected with the maritime interest. Such being his opi-
nions, he felt no hesitation in declaring, that the first of
British manufactures was that of British ships, and that
the class of the population which was most worthy of
support was that of British seamen—(Loud approbation).
The Noble Lord then proposed the toast which he had
mentioned at the commencement of his speech, and it
was draidc with great applause.
Mr. LYALL said, that he felt much honoured in hav-
ing been selected to propose the health of the Noble
Chairman. The sentiments which the Noble Earl had
that day uttered, as well as the hereditary predilection
for naval affairs which lie had heard the Noble Lord
avow on a former occasion, fully justified him (Mr.
Lyall) in the conviction which he felt, that their Chair-
man would at all times give that attention and support
to the shipping interest which its great national import-
ance in every respect entitled it to maintain. lie pro-
posed the health of the Earl of Liverpool.
The toast havii,g been drank with three times three,
The CHAIRMAN said, that after what he had before
addressed to the Meeting little remained to say, except
to express his most sinceie thanks ibr the honour which
the company had done him, and to assure them that he
felt it at the bottom of his heart. He might add too,
in consequence of what had fallen from the Honourable
Gentleman who had proposed his health, that he should
be ashamed that any person bearing his name should not
be a friend of the shipping interest—(elpplause).
Mr. BUCKLE, in proposing the health of Mr. Huskis-
son, and the other Members of the Board of Trade,
complimented the Right Honourahe Gentleman for the
' readine.s ith which he at all times listened to any com-
munication which the Ship-owners' Society made on
subjects connected with their interests.
The toast was then drank with much applause.
Mr. HUSKISSON felt much gratified in finding, from
the manner in which the last toast had been received,
that the proceedings of the Board over which he unwor-
thily presided, had not appeared altogether undeserving
of the support of the Ship-owners' Society, and of the
distinguished honour of their enlightened approbation.
It was the special duty of the person who filled the si-
tuation which he had the honour to hold, to watch not
only over the interests which were connected with navi-
gation and commerce, but also over those which were
connected with agriculture and manufactures. He
might perhaps, in the discharge of his duty, pursue a
line of policy which would be considered detrimental
to one particular interest, but it was only because he
was obliged to look with an impartial eye to all the
great interests of the count' y. The complaints of any
particular class, however, always induced him to re-
vise his opinions, and to re-examine the pounds on
which they were founded—(Applause).
Mr. T. WILSON proposed the health of the " Right
Honourable GEORGE CANNING, and the rest of his Ma-
jesty's Ministers; and may they ever be the Guardians
of the Maritime and Commercial Interests of this
Country." The toast Was drank amidst acclamations.
Mr. CANNING rose, and was received with a general
burst of applause. It was, be said, impossible for him
to express his thankfulness for the kind manner in which
the mention of his name had been received. When with
his name was coupled a recommendation that he and the
rest of his Majesty's Ministers should attend to the ma-
ritime interests of the country, it was only saying, in
other words, that they should rememher that they were
Ministers of England. If anything could add to the
satisfaction which he felt at being so kindly received by
such a large body of his countrymen, it was the consi-
deration that they represented an inte: est peculiarly
English. The situation to which this country had raised
itself in the world—a situation far beyond that to which
it was entitled by the extent of is tan itory or tile amount
of its population—was mainly to be situ ibuted to that
which provided in time of peace the means of
vigorous exertion in star. Fur many years past, the com-
manding situation of (heat Britain had entitled it to in
ter fete where its immediate interests %vete not concerned.