Star.
London, England, 1824-08-17 00:00:00

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TUESDAY, AUGUST IT, 1824.
THR FUNDS.
.STOCK EXCHANGE. TWELVE O'CLOCK.
This is a very idle day in the City. We have no news, or reports
of any description. Consols opened this morning.at 431, /, fir the
Account ; but there is little or no business doing. The chief object

of speculation is the New Brazilian Loan, of which the letters
were given nut this morning. It is taken by WlLsoi and Co. at
the rate of 75, bearing an interest of five per tent. the first pay-
ment being ten per cent. 40th August, and it bears a premium of
one to per cent—amount one million.
FOREIGN FUND&

The Foreign Market is also very dun this morning, and scarcely
anything doing.
Current Prices:—New Spanish 161 to 17, Old 221 6, Russian
961 I, Alliance Shares 12 to 1, Mexican 521 1, Colombian Scrip
5 41, Chilian 781 79, French Scrip 131 1, Austrian 951, New
Prussian 97/, Old 981 994 Portuguese 871, Buenos Ayres 1 11,
Brazilian 1 to 1 pre.
PRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.

bank Stock 237% 237-3 per Ct. Redu. 941% 54 14
11 per Ct. Cons. 93 7A) 54-1 per Ct. Assented 101% 54
4 per Cent. New 1061,4 %
Long Ann.. 23 S-I6 14—India Stock 287
£l,OOO Ekclie.lls (2d.) 40 2 38 9; (I %d.) 40 38
£5OO Do. (2d.) 43 38 ; (1%d.) 40 •
4:100 and 4:200 no. (2d.) 43 38; (1 1/21) 40 3
India for Acc.2B7%—comols for Acct. 93% %.

Dispatches were received this forenoon at the Colonial
Office, from Sierra Leone, dated 26th June. His Majesty's
ship the THETIS, Sir Jonw Pntwmottz, had arrived at
Sierra Leone on the 18th of that month, with a de-
tachment of the Royal African Colonial Corps.—
As soon as the THETIS had completed her refreshments
she sailed, on the 17th, for Cape Coast Castle.

This forenoon we received a file of the Indepersdente
Constitucione4 of Bahia to the 19th ultimo. The dread
of an attack on Brazil by Portugal still prevails; and
these Papers contain many long articles on the subject.
In the Number of June 7, is a Proclamation from
Senhor FRANCISCO VICENTE VIANNA, President of the
Province of Bahia, in which he says—
" I announce to all the inhabitants of this province,
that though the news from England, of the 3d of April,
contradicts the reports brought by an American ship
from Lisbon, and though the weakness of Portugal and

its convulsed state are insufficient to allay our apprehen-
sions of an attack on this province, or other parts of
Brazil, yet, as it isbetter to have troops well disciplined,
and arms in our hands, till the conclusion of the treaty
of recognition, independence, and peace, to negotiate
which there are Portuguese Envoys in London waiting
for the Envoys of the Empire of Brazil ; and as it is
advisable to animate by these preparations those timid
persons who, instead of defending their houses as
it is their duty, already begin to leave them ; I
call, therefore, upon all the inhabitants of this pro-
vince, from the age of fifteen to that of forty, to appear
at the palace of the Government, to be enrolled in the
troops of the Ist and 2nd line."
In the Number of the 14th, there is a second Prods-
mati( n, in which the Governor states that a suffi-
cient number of persons not having appeared in answer
to his first summons, he declares that it is absolutely
necessary for the defence of the country that his invi-
tation be attended to; and he promises that those who
appear within eight days shall receive a certificate ex-
empting them from military service as soon as the inde-
pendence of Brazil shall be recognised. These who do
not come of their own accord, are liable to the usual
regulations for recruiting the army.

It appears, by private letters from Spain, that the
" Junta of Purification of Civil Officers," as a sort of
new Inquisition is called, is prosecuting its labours with
so much rigour, that none of the persons suspected of
Liberalism have passed the ordeal which is considered
as the test of loyalty, and even some that were gene-
rally known for their devoted attachment to the Royal
cause, have been unable to prove themselves sufficiently
immaculate; indeed the scrutiny is so rigid, that it will
be as difficult, we presume, to find as many persons in
any town of Spain deemed righteous by this Junta, as
would have saved the city where Lot resided of old.
We have seen a copy of a Circular issued by the
Junta of Purification of the Principality of Catalonia
at Barcelona, to certain agents, who are charged with
the duty of making " secret, individual, certain, and
exact reports, without using palliatives or generalities,
of the political conduct of such employes, and to say
what was the public opinion with regard to them in
those towns where they were employed, or where they
resided during the continuance of the Constitutional
system." The points on which these agents are to in-
quire are fifteen in number, and many of them vague
and indefinite. For instance, the Inquisitor, for such
the agent really is, is to report, not only how long the
person whose character is doubted has filled a public
situation, but if, " in the exercise of his functions, he
has done any injury to the partizans of the KING, or
the just cause of the nation." Another point of in-
quiry is, if the functionary had " in any manner of-
fended the defenders of the knit and his legitimate
Gosernment ?" There is another crime of which he
must purify himself, and this, we doubt not, is consi-
dered the most heinous offence by the Junta—the func-
tionary must prove that he never " shewed any aversion
towards the Priesthood !" and that the Priesthood of
S,,ain too, who are the principal authors of all the evils
u id. which the country is afflicted, and whose insolent,
and bigotry even disgust many whose attachment to the,
KING is as unquestionable as that of the Junta itself. In
older that the Agents may feel no hesitation, fear, of

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