Star.
London, England, 1824-10-26 00:00:00

COLOMBIAN LOAN.—The HALT YEARLY DI-
. VI DF.N D, due on the Ist Noiember next, on the Bonds'
is.eed by the Hon. Manuel Jose Hutted°, will be PAID on that
and every succeeding depot the Counting-house of Messrs. Herring,
Graham, and Powles, 3, Freeman's-court, Cornhill, between the
bows of Ten and Three &Clock. The Dividend Warrants, with a
List thereof in numerical order, are to be left one day previous for
examination.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.
TUESDAY. OCTOBER 26, 1824.
THE FUNDS.

STOCK F.XCIIANG R. TWELVK O'CLOCK.

Consols opened this morning st 96h to for the Account. In
the early part of the morning a good deal of business was doing.
The Markot afterwards lowered. to 96 for the Account, and 93
fJr 3lonvy.

FOREIGN FUNDS.
The chief business doing is in Mexican Bonds, of which a grea
deal has been sold.
Curient Prices : New Spanish 15% I, Old 20% ;, Russian 96,
Mexican 62k, Colombian- Old 80%, New 79, French Scrip 1.1% pre.
Austrian 98% k, Chilian 74%,• New Prussian 100, Old 99, Portu-
guese 923, Brazilian I I pre. Buenos Ayres 2 disc. Alliance Shares
10% I pre. Greek 4 31 disc. Peruvian 66%.

PNICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.

Bank Stcck 231% 233% 234
3 per tent. Red. 95% 951/8
3 per Cent. Cons. 96 Vs 95% 778
3} per Cent. lied. 101% 1,4
4 per Cent. New 103% 107 A
Long Ann. 23 1-16 Vs—lndia Bonds 101 100
Old Annuities 951/3-3 per Cent. 1751. 91%
£l.OOO Bill, W.) 55 4 ; (11/4d.) 55 4,3.
£5OO ditto (1112 d.) 56 4
£1 00 and 1:200 ditto (11,(2d.) 55 4 6
Con,. for Acct. 96 YI 95% 96

Much as has been written on the law of libel, and
frequently as it has been defined in our Courts of
Justice, yet it appears by an article in the Times of this
morning, that there is one species of libel that has hi-
therto e.caped all notice—it is no less than the accusing
a Sovereign of humanity and tenderness! The charge
is, however, a distinct one, and we must give it in the
specific terms of the writer, who, in an article com-
plaining that the REconnaa of London does not
make his reports of the prisoners snider sentence of
death so frequently as he ought to do, says—
" The question naturally is asked, to what cause is
this lamented delay to be traced ? Will it be credited
that it has been insinuated by those in office, that it is
to be found in the humanity and tenderness of the Royal
mind;-so insuperable is the repugnance of hiaMAJESTY

to receive the report, that he cannot be prevailed upon
to appoint a Council to be held for the purpose of de-
liberating upon a subject so disagreeable ? It cannot be
possible that the Ministers are possessed of sufficient
effrontery thus to libel their Master."
It appears by this accurate logician's inference, that
humanity and tenderness in a KING are not only crimes,
but that to accuse Majesty of being guilty of either is
in itself a libel!
Of all the charges ever preferred against a KING or
his Ministers, this is the racist extraordinary. But, with
regard to the delay complained of, we consider it as
having its advantages as well as disadvantages; and
are inclined to think that the former do more than
counterbalance the latter.
The criminal records of the Old Bailey, during the

last few years, present many instances in which a hasty

execution of a sentence would have been nothing short
of a legal murder; and it is a paramount advantage of
delay, that it affords an opportunity for the discovery
of extei.uating circumstances arising on behalf of the
%%retched convict.
The blood-money conspiracy, detected about six or
seven years ago, is fresh in the recollection of the public :
had there not been a reasonable delay between the
conviction and the carrying the sentence into effect,
innocent men, who had been entrapped into an act which
they were unconscious of being a crime, would have suf.-
fered,and the wretches by whom theywere betrayedwould
!Hoe been revelling in the price of blood, instead of hying
brought to condign punishment. This is a striking,
but by no means a solitary instance of the advantage
of delay ; and we shoeld like to know of any equiva-
lent to it, in the precipitancy for which our contempo-
po: ary so lustily contends.

We understand, from the best authority, that Capt.
FRANKLIN sets out on his next expedition the first week
in February ; and tllat`tbe ioute which the Expedition is t
Like on the present occasion will be different from the
former, as it is to land at New York, and proceed from
thence to the nouthward across the country, in canoes.

We have received Gibs altar Papers to the sth inst.
The only important part of their intents is a commu-
nication from the Dutch Admiral in the Mediterranean
to the Dutch Consul at Minorca, stating that he had
received orders from his Government to confine himself
in future to the protection of his own commerce and
shipping, and requesting him to transmit the intelli-
gence to the Spanish Authorities, in order that they
might take the necessary measures for the security of
their trade and vessels, and to guard against any unex-
pected attack from the Algerines.

Letters have been receive—J, via Liverpool, from the
Havannah, of the 11th of September, but they do not
bring any news of importance, except that the convoy,
which sailed from that port for Vera Cruz, has arrived
there safe, and relieved the fort of San Juan d'Ulloa.
We have no late arrivals from South America; but it
is reported, that the last accounts received there from
the Main state, that the Armies remained in the same
voiition. Everything was going on well in Mexico.

This morning we received-the Allgemeine Zeitung to
the 19th of October. It contains another account of
the teteptioit Sir FREDERICK ADAM met With at Napoli