Star.
London, England, 1824-06-18 00:00:00

STOCK EXCHANGE. TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Consols opened this morning at 95 to g for the Account, but
the arrival df a private Express from Paris, with an account of the
improvement of the French Reuter to 103 f. for Money, caused a
trifling rise in Consols, which are, up to this hour, 05*, with but
little doing.

FOREIGN FUNDS.
There is little doing in the Market, ncept in Spanish,
sad Colombian Scrip.
Current Prices :—Old Spanish 204 to 1, Russian 244 4, Alliance
Sharesl64, Chilian 764 to 77, Mexican Scrip 41, Portuguese 904,
French 154, Austrian 944 4, Colombian Scrip 14 pre. Colombian
ash New Prussian 994 I, 011954 4, Greek 94 disc. Danish
101 4 102.

PRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.

Bank 'Stock 2373 A-3 per Cent. Reduced 943/8 1/4
8 per Cent. Cons. shut-1-8i per Cents. 1011/8
4 per Cents. Assented looy.
4 per Cents. New -shut
Bank Long Anns. 22% 9-16—India Bonds 77 80
Exclie. Bills of £l,OOO (2d.) 25 31 24; (1%d.) 22 25
Do. Small (2d.) 25 27 ; (11,04 25 27
Consols for Acct. 951/8 %.

We find by the last accounts from the West India:
Islands, that Proclamations bare been issued in the
name of the KI:410, for the purpose of counteracting
the erroneous impression known to exist among the
slaves, that orders had been sent out for their emancipa-
tion, declaring such impression to be erroneous, and en-
joining to the slaves submission to the laws and obe-
dience to their masters.

At Barbadoes advices had been received from Deme-
rara of the 26th of April. These supply one very re-
markable fact, taken in connexion with the late pro-
ceedings in Parliament, relative to the case of the un-
fortunate Mr. Seurtt, the Missionary ; which is, that
the Rev. Mr. AUSTIN, a Clergyman of the Established
Church, and Mr. ARRINDSLL, the prisoner's Counsel,
had had the boldness to circulate letter: in the Colony
itself, after the proceedings had closed, expressing their
belief of Mr. Smith's entire innocence. The general
interest excited here by the case will justify our giving
the extracts from the letters alluded to:
" Extract from a letter of the Rev. NV. S. AUSTIN:

" `.l feel no hesitation in declaring, from the intimate knowledge
which my most anxious inquiries Wee obtained, that, in the late
leaurge which the hand of an All-wise CREATOS has inflicted on this
=natty, nothing bat those religious impressions which, ur-

der Pannarice, Dlr. Snitch has been instrumental in fining--non
thing but those principles oldie Gospel of Peace which be has been
proclaiming—could have prevented a dreadful effusion of blood
here, and saved the lives of those very persons who ate dOW (I
shudder to write it) seeking hi,.'

" Extract from a letter of WILLIAM ARRINDELL, Esq.
of Demerara, Mr. SMITH'S Counsel, addressed to Mrs-
&urn, after the proceedings of the Court-martial
were closed :

" his almost prestimptuous in me to differ from the sentence
of a Court; but, before Gan, I do believe Mr. Sum to be inno-
cent. Nay, I will go further, and defy any Minister, of any sect
whatever, to have shewn a more faithful attention to his sacred
duties, than he has been proved, by the eridence en kis trial, to have
done.' "

A meeting was held on the 3d of May of the inhabi-
tants of Barbadoes, for the purpose of preparing a peti-
ticia against the Alien Act as in force in that island.—
His Majesty's ships EDEN and Scour had returned to
Barbadoes from Para, which they left in a state of trap-
quillity. It was said that the Scour had been fired at
by the fort in passing up the river, but silenced the
batteries by a couple of broadsides.

We have received the French Papers of Tuesday, but
they contain no intelligence of any material interest.
The proposal for indemnifying the emigrants, pro-
posed by Count de la BOURDONNAYE, has been rejected
in the Chamber of Deputies. These Papers contain the
conclusion of Lord Sranncronn's Not Ito the Govern-
ment of the Sublime Porte, of which we took notice yes-
terday. The following passage of that document con-
tains everything in it which deserves any attention:

" After fulfilling the orders of the King, his master, the under-
signed (Lord &rangford) has the honour to inform the Sublime
Porte. that he is authorized by the Emperor of all the Russias, to
make known that the tab and immediate evacuation V the
Principalities is at present the only and see condition on which his
Imperial Majesty binges the re-establishment of his diplomatic re-
lations with the Ottoman Government; that this condition, at all
times the first, is likewise the last; and that as soon as the Sublime
Porte shall fulfil on this essential point what Treaties prescribe, the
new Minister of his Imperial Majesty will leave Petersburgb to
proceed to Constantinople, and will renew the relations of friend-
ship so long interrupted, and prove to the Divan, by a conduct al-
ways frank and loyal, the disposition of the Russian Cabinet to
bury all its former differences in profound oblivion. This declaration,
which is as noble as it is friendly, constitutes a new epoch in the
importar.t negotiation which now occupies the attention of Europe.
It reduces the question to its simplest elements. The Sublime
Porte is now officially informed, that the return of a Russian mis-
sion depends only on one condition—that of executing its treaties :
its other words, the condition of doing that which is just, useful,
and indispensable."

The Portuguese Prince, Nitouni, has arrived at Paris.

The Rolle of Wednesday is filled with extracts from
the Madrid Gazette, which consist, as usual, of pretended
reports from the emancipated Colonies. According to
these fabrications, the Royalists have nearly triumphed
in every State of the South American Continent, and
the longing after a participation in the blessings now
enjoyed by Spain is so great, " that the appearance of
some Spanish vessels would suffice to make 700 leagues'
of coast rise in favour of the Kum!"

By the last Leeward Ids Mail we have letters
from St. Thomas's to the 17th of May. One letter,
dated the 13th,contains a vague account from Laguayra
of an action having taken place in Peru between Bora-
VAR and CANTARAC, in which the latter was victo-
rious, and in consequence gained possession of Lima.
No dates are given, nor is any place assigned for this
battle. The circuitous route by which the news has
travelled, renders it barely possible that the advice:
from Peru can have been brought down to a date so
recent as has been previously received by way of Ja-
maica, when it was known that a negotiation had been
set on foot between the President and the Royalist Ge-
nerals. That there should be an engagement at all, at
least while the negotiation was proceeding, is a most
unlikely event; but the credit of the story is perhaps
more completely destroyed than by any reasoning on
its improbability, by the silence of all the other letters
from St. Thomas's, some of which are dated two days)
later than that in which the account of the battle is
contained. Some occurrences of an unpleasant nature
are stated to have taken place at Maracaibo, where the
irregularity in paying the troops had led to a mutiny,
the result of which was not known, as no vessel had
arrived from thence for more than a month.