Star.
London, England, 1822-12-07 00:00:00

NRAPOLITAN LOAN.

The Dividends due on Wednesday, January 1, Oil the 'cope.
litan Loan, will be paid by Mr. N. bh ROTNOCIRICA, Stock
negotiated by him, and according to the current rate o' es.
change, on that and every succeeding day, Sundays zze
between the hours of ten and two.—N. B. The Dividend
rants must be left one day for inspection, viz. those presetit,d Cr.
the 31st of December will therefore be paid on the Ist of January,
and so in continuance.
PRICES OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 243 1/2-3 per Cent. Red. 7814 34
31,4 per Cent. 905/8 YB-4 per Cent. 961/8 14
Bank Long Annuities 19 15-16 7/11 20
India Bonds 30s. 32.,
Each. Bills (4 1,000) 25..55. pr.
Consols loi Acct. 79% 80 79fi 80.

Nothing can sbew more strongly the dread with
which the French merchants anticipate the possi-
bility of a war with Spain, than ;he anxiety they ma-
nifest, at this moment, to have their mating com-
merce re-insured in London. Already a great m.ny
of their ships, particularly their homeward-bound
East and West Indiamen, have been re-insured .zt
' Lloyd's. The former were, two days since, done at
15 guineas per cent. some of which very ships were
insured, six weeks or two months ago, at three guineas
and a half per cent. The premiums upon their
homeward-bound West Indiamen have risen to ten
guineas per cent. while English vessels, of the sane
'description, are done at six guineas. The next French
Mail is expected to bring a great many orders for
insurances ; and it is supposed that premiums aill
then experience a still further advance.

The belief that the counsels of the Ultras in Fiance
will, in opposition to the general voice of the nation,
bring on a war with Spain, is not confined to Pat is.—
The price of ships has already advanced in Londcn
and the principal Out-ports, not merely of such as
are best adapted for privateering, but of such as can
be at all employed, as it is expected that the nu•
merous letters of marque which the Spanish Govern-
ment will issue, cannot but soon sweep the French
commerce from the face of the seas.

The French Papers of Wednesday are rather of in•
terest, as correcting some of the mistatements of those
of the preceding day, than as to adding to our in-
information respecting the policy or impolicy of the
French Cabinet. In a preceding column we have
given extracts from these papers, by which it will be
seen that the report of the Due d'ANGOULEME setting
out for the Army of the South is contradicted. Re
detention of the Mails on Monday night, as stated in
the STAR of yesterday, is also satisfactorily accounted
for.—lt was not in consequence of any new arrivals,
or for the purpose of sending off new dispatches, that
the horses were unyoked and the Mails taken back
to the Offices—no, it was to seize such copies of the
Constitutionnel of that day as were going into the
Departments: these being intercepted, the Mails
were suffered to proceed.

The Constitationnel of Monday, which had thus
become obnoxious to the Ft ench Ministers, contained
a spirited, yet temperate exposure of the views ri
the Holy Alliance, which it declared have for their
object 46 the design of destroying everywhere the
germs of liberty, ef*paralyzing, if not of tot•tlly
suppressing all liberal institutions, and of re•establi_l:-
ing absolute monarchy, by subjugating all the ntid,!le
and enlightened classes of society to a powerful
Clergy and a privileged Aristocracy."
Such is the principal paragraph in the obnoxious
article, which we inserted in the STAR of Thursday,
The Editor only denounces what all the world knows,
that the Holy Allies have formed a league against
liberty. " The head and front of his offending !lath
this extent, no more." And for this several thou-
sands of the Paper have been seized, the subscribers
of the Journal disappointed, and the Editor sub-
jected to a new prosecution—unless, indeed, their te-
cent defeat may prevent the French Ministers fare
plunging further in the odium which their arbitrary
conduct draws upon them.
About two months ago, the French Ministers, bY,
their agents, the police, seized on a Number of the
Consiitutionnei, which contained an article by M. de
PRADT, entitled" My Congress." A prosecution wcs
commenced, the result of which has been, that all t! c
Numbers of that Journal are to be immediately re-
stored. This is one, and almost a solitary instance,

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, wlikh the Court imiivet essistruied oppyystiv;
•1 the Ministers. ; • •
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1% ith iespect to the question Of peace Cir'Viiii;*".*
in slate quo; or if there is any change, it is,
ai,s, that the bravado of the French Ministers has
mewliat abated. Though preparations of At warlike
,:lracter are making,, yet they are not to the extent
.at might be expected,. if France really Meditated
subjugation of Spain. BONAPARTE, itied by
j,entions quite as serious as those of the present day,
an..l befriended more by intrigue than Louts XVIII.
on be, never thought of entering Spain with less
t,titi 100,000 men; and though directed by consum-
mate leaders, yet ample employment was found even
:hat number. The Spaniards, too, had been so
iorttl debased by the odious tyranny under which
titer laboured, that they had become enfeebled.
:.;ince that a political, a moral, and we might per-
Nrs add, a physical regeneration has taken place
i:: Spain. Since that time, as General Ritmo says,
c ►my -
has become very different from what it
It was then commanded by Generals who
were destitute of knowledge• and talents, and who
committed the most glaring errors.~ Now they have
expetiencei leaders—young and patriotic Officers—
ard, above al, a cause worth fighting for.
It his hem said that, ',for a nation to love liberty
i: is sufficient that she know it; and to be free, it is
► ,11;1) that she will it In Though the preset A
mart of Spain may be far behind our own, yet it,
.i% the people have chosen, and as compared
that under which they formerly groaned, is per-

:,..6lssoLuzioN OF THE CONGRESS.
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VERONA, NOVEMBER 26 —Tvm o'Orrek,
The Congress is formally diisolved. After the.fete
on Sunday, the Ministers met in conference it the'
house of Prince Metternich, and agreed to Close the
proceedings without waiting the return of the King
of Prussia. They assembled again yesterday, and
continued sitting for some time. At the late hour of
twelve o'clock last night, an important communica-
tion was made by the Duke of Wellington to Prtnce
Metternith. The final result is, that the Greeks will
be left to the good faith of Turkey, who has given to
Lord Strangford a conditional pledge of future mo-
deration towards them. Naples and Piedmont will
be left to . pay an Austrian army for three years
longer; and as to Spain, all that is known for certain
is, that the Powers who are most impatient for war
with that country have consented to try the effect of
negotiation, before they commence their grand cru-
sade against the liberties of a people who had too
long groaned under insufferable despotism.
An official Remonstrance either has already, or will
immediately be dispatched to the Cabinet of Madrid,
demanding such an alteration in the Constitutional
system as will at least render it analogous to that of
Portugal, and place the Crown beyond the reach of
popular controul. In case of refusal, Russia, Austria,
and Prussia will give their fullest sanction to the
hostilities which the Ultras of France are so anxious
to commence, and there is no doubt that the Army
of Observation will soon cross the frontier. England,
however, will not, under such circumstances, become
a pasty to the measure, for she sanctions the principle
of an armed intervention only in case of the Constitu-
tionalists being determined to put the King to death,
or to invade other countries. The high Contracting
Powers—the Loan Gentlemen, are looking forward
with anxious expectation to .the answer which the
Cortes will return to the diplomatic Remonstrance.
Teo o'Clock at Night.
The Duke of Wellington will positively set out for
England the day after to-morrow (Thursday, 28th),
if not to-morrow night. . The Russian Mission has
already broken up, and Count Poszo di Borgo took
his departure this morning on his return to Paris,
where he is to resume his functions as Ambassador,
and will, no doubt, urge on the zeal of the Ultra's to
the utmost degree of incitement. This appears to be
aprincipal feature in the policy of the Russian Cabinet.

trer2om.

If ‘Ne may judge from the feeling manifested in
and in se• eral other parts of Spain, the Go-
v.;:wreitt not only has the determination, but p 05.....
..... •; me ins to make a powerful resistance ; and
:otty or fifty thousand men, of which the
'A.:el:6 Army of Observation now consistr,would soon
anuilalated if it dared to invade Spain—an event
cl means certain,notwithstanding the marry covert
acts of hostility, and even open threats, of the French
Guyer nmerrt.

The speculating stock-btokers have been so awls-
t.sin:d to receive expresses every day from Paris,
t::.it in consequence of none having arrived this
nmt-ning, at twelve o'clock a report prevailed on
.G.inge that the French Government had stopped
tile a4tercourse by expresses, and had taken away the
licenses granted for that purpose; also, that an ex-
re,s boat had been lost at sea in coming over.—
W,,.-informed persons, however, attribute the non-
arrival of expresses to the dreadful galeon Thursday
and to the known fact that at Calais there is a
:rat swell of sea a day or two after every storm.

-I*.tis morning we received a Dutch Mail, with Pa-
p. is to the sth inst. and liamburgh Papers to the
TJal uit. One of them states, that a merchant of
to;l::antinople bas proposed a loan to the Ottoman
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Mr. ATTORNEY GENERAL.-" Yes, it is a storm
which I am afraid they will not be able to weather!"

Mr. HEA LO.—" Yes we shill, for, like most storm,,
ir will blow over."

The LORD CHANCELLOR." I have nothing to say
about them, whether they be storms or not, but I am
quite dear this is a case which does require to be de
tided; if that be possible, before we separate, parti-
cularly when the question is, whether this Noble
Lord requires that protection which one party allege
should be thrown around him? But it is a question
which involves considerations of delicacy, of feelings
of a kind so peculiar, that it is not right to let it
hang up in indecision longer than► it is possible to
dispose of it."
Mr. HEALD—" Yes, my Lord.—What these affi-
davits are Ido not know, for I have not seen one of
them, and, for the sake of consistency, we must read
them, and argue on them hereafter as to their state-
ment of
.facts ; but, as to matter of elucidation,
Gentlemen on the other side have taken care to make
it impossible for us to meet them otherwise than by
a counter elucidation ; for w hich purpose all I can
say is, that between this time and the time of discus-
sing this business in Court, I shall read nothing but
these affidavits."
The LORD CHANCELLOR.—" It will be necessary
for you to read them. all, and I will appoint as early
a day as possible for hearing the discussion, after you
shall have read them; for a case of this kind ought
to be heard as early as it can be, and without any
interruption."
Mr. HEALD.—" I feel the force of that, my Lord ;
and I will begin to read them immediately after
Church-time to .morrow."
Here the matter ended for the present.

DUBLIN. Dec. 4.—Tefe Ex-CtitEF-JUSTICE.—His
MAJESTY has been pleased to honour our late excel-
lent Chief Justice (the Right Hon.WILLIAtti Dowses)
with the rank and dignity of Baron of the United
Kingdom, in token of his MAJESTY S approbation of
his services as Chief Judge in Irelan.l.
COUNTY OF SLIGO ELECTlON.—Saturday last, the
numbers were—For Colonel KING, 810; for C.,lonel
PERCEVAL, 699; majority for Colonel KING, I 11.--
On Monday Colonel KING improved his majority by
one, making it 112.
Sunday, a man fell down and died, on his return
from the Chapel in Fislie:ton jail. About 12 years
ago he was in a state of affinence, since which he has
been reduced to poverty. He owed a debt of 50s.
and within two months has been taken in judgment
upon this suit, and the 50s. increased to nearly £25.
The deceased has left a widow and four children.
The law's delay has been often complained of.
The following is an exception :—A man of the name
of James Warner was detected on Wednesday even-
ing picking the pocket of JAMES H. CODNER,
in Lombard-street, just at the time of the mails quit-
ting the Post Office. Brown, the City O.
ficer, being then on duty, took him into custody.
On Thursday he was brought before the Lo ftDMA vote,
and fully committed for trial. In the evening a true
bill was found against bim by the Grand Jury. He
was tried the same evening at the Old Bailey, found
guilty, and received sentence to be transported fur life.
A fresh supply of horses has been found necessary
on the Dover toad, in consequence of the great num-
ber of couriers with expresses, who pass daily between
London and Paris, fur stockbrokers. - The hors, s are
kept ready saddled at all hours, and the riders travel
at the rate of thirteen miles an hour. An express
arrived this. week in London from Paris in three and
twenty hours!
The contract for supplying the troops at Plymouth
Dock with meat, is taken at 16s. per cwt. and the
contract for Torbay, to the Navy, with beef, for less
than 215.

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LORD PORTSMOUTH'S CASE. i'PORT7NG• razirrbick
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• Viscount Anson, with tarp Or three of his friends, on a dial-
, COURT OF CII4NCZRZ PRCRMBRR
lng ezeul.4l,* at n tvitnn, Ttie.-sdAy last, shot 98 pheasants, 61
The "Man enkNOULML; seeing Messrs. Horne, hares, 24 waodrozks, and 14 rahltits.
Heald, and Shadavell. Court, ' took the opportn- MATCH Volt ONE HUNDRED GUINEAS
nitre of mentioning the case of Lord Portsmouth. It The match for One Hund::.d Guineas on Barham Downs, on
bad been understood that it would be mentioned thi. Wednesday last, hetwten Mr. Ta,sr.a.t.'s ch snot mire Scotch
Jay. A great many affidavits had been sent to him EP'', anfd,ukir.TWRICII.T'S ir
-.LW.. pony Noyeau, was decided in
succeeding heats.
the first best by those who opposed the motion, a few days ago. ease, but boltedr
on tikletillwdart:u• "atm.:
He was given to understand, that a great many affi- I were two to one' in favour •or scon.t7Lass, *and after the first
davits had been filed on or before Saturday last, I Lead, ten to one in favour of Noyesu.
support of the. application, but he had not seen theo% I HUNT(
Mr. SHADIVELL said, there were a great many—
The Earl of T/trliy.'s Stag-hourds meet on Tuesday, at Rose
pushes ; Friday., at Purley.
85 and 2.2; 57 altogether. 1-I—leliffe, Esq.'s. Fox-hounds meet on Wednesday, at Leigh
The LORD CHANCELLOR.—I heard there were fifty. village Saturday, at Chequers Harley.
They ought to be sent to me without delay. The cwt. The Surrey Fox-hounds meet on Mond* at Farley Green;
ought to be heard as soon as possible, for many rea- Thursday, at Riddlesdown ; Saturday, at Erman.
The Harriers meet on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday, at
sons. There were reflections 'against individuals, Kennel. :
which ought not to remain long undecided. The Warwickshire For-hounds meet on Monday, at•
Mr. SHADWELL said, they would be sent imenedi. hill; Tuesday, at Alcot House; Thursday, at Whichford Vll-
ately to his Lordship. lager Friday, at Irchington Heath.
The Gransden Hounds meet on Tuesday, at Childerley Gate;
The LORD CHANCELLOR.—I will 'read them the Friday, at Patton Wood.
first evening after they shall be .sent. I have got no Earl Fitzwilliam's Fox-hounds meet on Monday, at Ashton
affidavit on the part of those who have made the al). Wad; Tuesday, at Norwood; Thursday, at Holme Wood; Sa.
plication, except one from Mr. Hamilton. turday, at Hilly Wood.
Mr. HEALD said, he had heard that they had an The Epping Hunt meet on Monday, at Forest Hall; Satur-
day, at Takely Turnpike.
agent in Scotland getting affidavits, and that the die- The Cottesniore Hounds meet on Monday, at Wissendine;
tance was the reason assigned for not having filed Wednesday, at Stricken; Thursday, at Foster 's Bridge.
their affidavits sooner. Lord. Yarborough's Hounds meet on Monday, at Bradley;
Wednesday, at Klrmington Vale; Friday, at Elkington Cow
After a short interval, Mr. Sum:matt said, he Pasture; Saturday, at Thornton College.
had ascertained that there were nearly sixty aflida- BeRTON HUNT.--sir It. Sutton's Hounds meet on Monday, at
vi:s filed, and that they would be seat to his Lord. Stainfield Hall; Tuesday, at Mansion Wood; Thursday, at
ship to-morrow. Hangram Goss; Saturday, at Gate Burton.
The Gillingham Fox-bounds meet on Tuesday, at the Tower
Mr. HEALD.—Your case must have been originally on the Moor ; Thursday, at Welton MW; Saturday, at Ken.
a good one, when you found it necessary to file sixty wick Bar.
additional affidavits.
The LORD CHANCELLOR.—Let them be handed to
me to-morrow, and I will read them immediately.
DECEMBER 7.—THIS DAY.
A few minutes before twelve o'clock, the LORD
CHANCELLOR said that the parties in this case had
sent to him about fifty additional affidavits !
• Mr. HEALD said, that neither himself nor any of
the Counsel with him, had seen any one of them.
The LORD CH ANcELLott said it was essential they
should—it was proper they should all be read, and
by all the Counsel on both sides, and that they should
have copies of them.
Mr. HEALD.—" Yes, my Lord, they multiply upon
us very much as we go on, in point of time ; for the
last shower of these Affidavits, or, rather as my
learned friend behind me calls it, the last storm of
these Affidavits, came upon us by surprize."

N0..16,522, drawn yesterday a Grand Money Prize
of Twenty Thousand Pounds ! was sold in Shares by
CARROLL, Stock-broker, 19, Cornhill, and 26, Oz.

ford-street.—Undrawn Tickets and Shares are selling
for the Last Day hut One, 17th DECEMBER, when
the Great Capitals now in the Wheel may be all
drawn, including Twe of £20,000, Two of .RlO,OOO,
Two of 1:5,C03; &c. &e.

Saturday last sonic incendiary set fire to three
large hay-ticks, the property of Mr. BENNETT, near
Ampthilt,Beifordshire, which were entirely de-

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strayed. Ne.tr the spot were found a tinder•buz and
other destructive implements. .

NISET/I-STREVT.—Yesterd.ty, a Surgeon in the neighbour-
hood wes examined on a charge of having put a quantity of
powder, supposed to be deleterious, into some broth, at the Immo
of Mr. Hussey, an innkeeper, In Mile end-road. Another Gen-
tleman was charged with being an accomplice. As no portion
of the broth was produced to ascertain what it really c nitained,
the Surgeon was held to bail, and his friend discharged.
MAesios-House —Ter-rte.—Dr. Owen, Rector of the parish
of St. Botolple Aldgate, ant applied upon the subject of his
claim for Tithe, under the 37th of henry VIII.
The LORD ALIVOR, who ha: received innumerable letters
horn all parts of the country retnive to his conduct when the
question was first submitted to his decision, stated that he had
not yet been able to obtain the advice of Counsel, as suggested
' by the Act alluded to ; but that when he had done so, for which
be was allowed by the Act two months, he would do his duty
according to the law. His Lordsbip took the opportunity of
saying, that he had been mi-understood in what he had said
when this subject cum last before him. He had given no opi-
inion whatever on the system of Tithes in general, a discussion
upon which was not at all adapted to the place in which the
question came before him, even if he objected to that system,
which he had not done. lie had merely referred to the Act of
Henry VII I. which was brought before him, and which ap-
plied exclusively to certain of the city parishes, and under which
he was called upon to enforce a clause which would have the
effect of committing to prison a citizen of London. He said,
indeed, that before he took such a step under an obsolete Act,
against which the city had petitioned Parliament, and which had
so much affected property by unexpectedly augmenting the
Tithes of some small parishes from a few hundreds to as many
thousands per annum, lie would take the time allowed by the •
Act to consider whether there was not (as he understood there
was) some other jurisdiction pointed out by the law; besides that
of the Chief Magistrate of the city, by which this claim would .
be enforced. But whatever height be his own opinion of the
-original intention of the Act of Henry VIII. he should not he-
sitate to sio what he found to be his duty, at the proper time.
Bow-seam:T.—J. Wil:is, who was stopped when about to de-
camp with the sheets off the bed in which he had slept at the
Russell Coffee-house, and on whose person were found 341. in
sovereigns and notes and nearly sixty duplicates,was re-examined.
The tracing of nearly all the latter had led to the discovery of a
new rolthery, every day successively for five weeks. Only one
new case was entered into. The prisoner said he had moved in
a respectable sphere; bur his conduct for the last ten months had
covered him with shame. He was fully committed, and the
pawnbrokers who attended were bound over to prosecute on the
numerous detainers that will be lodged against him.
Mrs. Seal, at whose house in Rosemary-lane property to the
amount of 1,0001. was found, which had been stolen from a
warehouse in Watling-street, was, after sonic conversation be-
tween Messrs. ANonEWS and Ann:Titus, admitted to bail
Thirteen Publicans were fined for keeping their houses open
after eleven o'clock at night, and others for serving during sera
vice time on the Sabbath-slay.
Was. Hatlersley, a hackney-coachman, was fined 51. under the
late Act for punishing the doers of wilful damage, for runr.ing
the pole of his coach into the b...ek of Miss Kidney's carriage, at
the door of Drury-lane Theatre.
Harroe-GARDEN.— Yesterday afternoon were brought to this
Office, Mrs. Bacon alias Wilson, and her son, charged with rob-
bing the house of their employer, Mr. Feddon, schoolmaster.—
Upon William Read's searching the woman, no less than fifty
duplicates were found upon her, of jewellery, books, and linen,
which she had pawned, the property of Mr. Feddon, to whom
she acted in the capacity of a servant. They were both com-
mitted for another examination, and in the evening her hut-
band, a man of the name of Bacon, who hawks about pictures at
public-houses, was taken, and also committed on the.same charge.
WORSHIP-STREET.—ANOTHER PRIVATE THEATRE.—In conse-
quence of Garton and Armstrong, jun. having visited a Theatre
in the Hackney-road on Thursday night, Mr. Jacques and Mr.
Ritchie!, two of the amateurs of theatrical representation, ap-
peared yesterday before SAMUEL. Twermite, Esq. the presiding
Magistrate. They stated, that they and others had this private
Theatre, where no money was paid, and no person could be ad-
mitted without a ticket ; that it was frequented by their friends,
who were respectable merchants, and others, who resided at.
Hackney, or in town, and they were anxious to know whether
by law they were forbidden to entertain their friends by such a
theatrical representation?
Mr.Twv FORD said that the Magistrates having received letters
intimating that apprentices and servants had been induced by this
institution to quit their homes and be detained till late hours of
the night, it was thought requisite to send the officers for the
purpose of ascertaining the nature of the representation. By the
:ad Geo. IV. c. 40, S. 3, all common stage-players, not authorized
by law, are deemed rogues and vagabonds ; but it appearing that
no money was taken, ..nd that the admission was o stricted by
tickets, he thought it did not call fur the interference of a Ma-
gistrate's authority. It was at the same time necessary to keep a
watchful eye over them, for if, at any time, they should admit
prostitutes or disordetly persons, or throw their doors open to
the public in general, although Ito money was taken at the door,
he was inclined to believe they weldd come within the meaning
of the statute be had mentioned. lf, however, they allowed of
the occasional visits of an officer to see their proceedings, It would
sbew the principle upon which they conducted these exhibitions.
Mr. BENese said it was painful for him to interfere with such
institutions, nor could he have any object but that of public duty.
—lt such representations were in a private house, where a kw
friends assembled for their entertainment, it certainly would be
wholly different from having a theatre frequented by n -say 100
persons. Ile would not pledge anything upon this subject, but
he recommends.-d these gentlemen to :educe the Dumber of tht t
audience and tilt times of their kerformance.

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