Star.
London, England, 1822-12-13 00:00:00

rim XING'S COURT.

Wednesday evening, soon after 'six o'clock, his
MAJESTY held a Court at his Palace at Brighton,
which was attended by the Secretary of State for the
Home Department, the Lord Chamberlain, the Lard
Steward of the Household, the Earl of Antenna;
Sir CHARLES Lose, Lord JOHN TOVINSHEND, ACC. &c.,
The KING held a Privy Council, at which Mr. Gu-
ys LLE attended as Clerk of the Council. The meet_
ing of Parliament was taken into considerition, when
it was finally agreed to summon Parliament to meet
for the dispatch of business on the 4th of February.
next. His MAJESTY signed a Proclamation, which
is to be issued, and it will appear in to-morrow night's
Gazelle. Mr. Secretary PEEL officiated for the Lord
President, in the absence of the Noble Earl, and had
an audience of the Kura previous to the assembling
of the Privy Council. After the Council, his :VA.
JESTY entertained the Lords of the Council, and A
party of distinguished characters, amounting ;0
twenty-one, to a sumptuous dinner. There was aho
an evening party, when the music•room was lighted
for the first time this season with gas.

Letters from Dunkirk say, that orders have hf.en
given to load artillery and ammunition, and warhicl
stores of every description, on board several ves,c:a
in that port: the whole is destined for Bayonne.
The French Ultra Journals still persist that :he
Queen of PORTUGAL has refused to swear obedience
t. the Constitution. The following (says the Dla-
peau Blanc) is a literal transcript of the letter written
by the Chancellor of his Most Faithful Majesty, by
order of that Princess, to the President of the Cortes,
at Lisbon : '

" SlR—Dona Caroline Joachime, Queen of Portu-
gal, the Algarves and the Colonies, my Soverei,4d
Lady and Mistress, does not cos sent to take the oath
of obedience to the Constitution, from nr Lives which
have their source in her conscience and her dignity.
She would rather abandon the territory of this ur,.
happy country than accede, by oath, to Iswi which
her Majesty deems neither rational n'r even inlo.
cent. She hol es, in this case, that her last dower
will be returned to her, in order that she may go
and live and die as a Royal Personage, in a piack:
safety, independent of foreign aid ;in peace ith leer
religion, which she prefers to the Crown; and with t:;e
well known loyalty which u ill influence her until
death.—GOD preserve you, Sir.—By order of her
Most Faithful Majesty," &c.
Letters were on Friday, the 6th instant, received at
Liverpool from the port of Maracaibo, in the pro.
vince of Venezuela, which give a most terrific ac-
count of she pestilential fever now raging in that
place. A man belonging to the crew of a Liverpool
vessel, then lying in the port, happened ui.foita•
nately to be seized with this horrible contagion, s‘hicn
instantly spread through the ship with such devasta-
tion that only one individual escaped. Other vescls
had also suffered most severely, though not in as
equal degree.

According to a letter from Corfu, a Journal is
about to be printed at the seat of the Greek Govern-
ment, under the extravagant title of " 7he Triorpet
of Christendom, or the /fish of Nature."
A letter was yesterday posted at LLOYD'S from tN7a'.-
paraiso, dated on the 31st July, stating that the ner...s
received there from Peru were of an unfavourable na-
ture, for the lloyali.ts had increased so consiJerably
in power, that expectations were entertained of shortly
hearing that General SAN MARTIN had abandoned
Lima. This intelligence is probably not correct, be-
cause letters dated on the 16th August, make no-
mention of an event so important.
The mercantile information received by the mail
yesterday from the Brazils, h not very gratifying to
the consigners of British Manufactures, for in general
every town was overstocked, particularly with linens,
and none of the late consignments were expected to
render anything like prime cost.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM RIO DE JANEIRO,

DATED OCTOBER 16, 1E22.

" The squadron which was some time ago sent
from hence to Bahia, has returned in consequence of
an attempt on the part of the crews, which consisted
chiefly of European Portuguese, to murder the Offi-
cers, and deliver the ships up to the Portuguese Com-
mander at Bahia. The plot was made known by the
crew of one of the small vessels of the squadron, who
had refused to join in it, and a body of Neapolitan
Lazaroni, who, in character of galley slaves, had been
the subject of a bargain, a year or two ago, between
their august Monarch and his Most Faithful Majesty,
and who had been put on board this squadron in aid
of the crews, indignant at having been denied parti-
cipation in the plot, offered to assist the Officers, upon
condition that they should be allowed to exchange
their condition of galley slaves for that of soldiers in
the Brazil army. With their aid the mutineers were
subdued, and now await their punishment here.
" An American adventurer of the name of Jewet,
who commanded a privateer, under the Buenos Ayres
flag, and arrived here recently in a fine brig of his
own, the produce of his plunder, has been taken into
the service, to the disgust of all the naval officers—
placed in command of the finest frigate they hav:
—and has hoisted his flag in her as Commodore ct
the squadron, which he is manning with people of all
nations and languages.
" Military preparations of all sorts go on briskly-,
and a considerable hostile force is expected from Per-
tugal. A new flag has been fabricated, the field ( f
which is green, but it is not hoisted to-day, because the.
ceremony of consecration has not yet been perfoi
EXTRACT OF ANOTHER LETTER, DATED RIO DE
JANEIRO, OCT. 3. _ _

et The troops which entered into the service from
the last expedition from Lisbon have made a re, ,e-
-sentation to Government, that when entering into t! c
service they understood the union between the t" 0
countries was to continue; but as a separation is new
intended, they look upon themselves as freeJ from
their engagements, and finish by requiring their pass-
ports to Europe. So soon as this was made known
to the Prince, he ordered the drums to beat to arms,
and when assembled, he called for the first upon
list to step out of the ranks, and ordered him to be
smartly flogged. Thus he continued to proceed call-
ing out the names himself; as the men were wanted,
to the number of 208. Sure never Prince was so cm'
ployed before, and sure never was there. such a flog-
ging before! The men have since been disperbeJ,
amongst the different forts, to be kept to hard labour.