Star.
London, England, 1824-08-24 00:00:00

FROM THE COURIER FRANCAIS.

We have received several letters from Saragossa, all
of which give the same account of the disorders which
have just taken place in that city. It appears that some
of those fanatics who enjoy there a great popularity,
and who had thought it prudent to abandon the place
when a French garrison entered, emboldened by the
impunity ss !rich has accompanied their crimes, have
audaciously re-entered Saragossa, and agaia inflamed
the zeal of their partisans. They seized adroitly, as
pretexts for this purpose, the disarming of the division
del Royo, and an order of the Captain-General, which
prohibits the Royalist volunteers from wearing their
swords when off duty. They succeeded in raising a
body of 3,000 men, chiefly volunteers, a part of which
force appeared before the hotel of the Count d'Espana,
insulting him grossly, and shouting, " Down with the
police !" " Death to the French !" Another body pro-
ceeded to the house of the Intendant of Police, and in-
sulted him in a similar manner. The Captain-General,
accompanied by only one person, rushed from his
house among the crowd, and with drawn sabres, laying
right and left, drove the cowardly wretches to the very
gates of the city—shouting, however, in their flight
44 Matarle matatle ! quc va so :o !"—(kill him, kill him,
he is atone.) At one of the extremities of the city
they were joined by a great number of their friends,
but they dispersed at the sight of the French troops,
who, at the solicitation of the Count of. Espana, had
arrived with their artillery. At the departure of the cou-
rier, several of the ringleaders had been arrested ;
among theme >ti man who is called Cita() Anos (five
years), and who has acquired great celebrity by his
crimes. The Captain-General has published an order
against the assembly.of persons in the streets beyoncilhe
number of four.

We save received a file of Bombay papers to the
24th of April, inclusive. They contain no local intelligence, but
bring down the news from Calcutta to the Bth of April. Vigorous
preparations were making both there and at Madras for the contest
with the Burmese. Letters had arrived from the camp of Briga-
dier Mac Morino. on the Burmese frontier, announcing that that
Officer was continuing his advance towardi Goahatty, as diligently
as circumstances would permit; but that lie expected some deten-
tion, in consequence of the non-arrival of 'part of his force, espe-
cially the boudoirs aid some regular infantry. Goahatty wee
Mid to be tho• attgulleet post possessed by the enemy in Western
Aatar‘and Uhl*, Almiefore' to be defended with proportionate re-
soludan. Tbe swum elf the enuntry on the Burmese border is de-
WO)" as atilisisas to datop thi ardour of the bravest troops.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1824.
ST. BMITHOLOXZW.—HoIiday at the Bank.
THE FUNDS.

STOCK EXCHANGE. TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Consols opened this morning at 931 for the Aecoun4, with some
business doing, but to no great extent; and up to this hour they
are 931, ;•

It was reported at Paris, on Saturday evening, that the Kness
was much indisposed, in consequence of which, it is said, the
French Rentes lowered a little.

Thursday will be Settling-day in Consols, and it is generally be-
lieved that it is a Bell Account.

This is a Holiday at the Bank, and Consols are, for next time,
93i.—We have neit►er reports nor news on 'Change.
FOREIGN FUNDS.
In the Foreign Market this morning the most done was in Mexi-
can and Colombian Securities.

Current Prices:—New Spanish 17i, Old 221 1, Alliance Shares
111 121, Russian 961, Mexican 481 to 1, Colombian Scrip 81 die.
Colombian 77, Chilian nothing doing, New Prussian 971, Old
981, Portuguese 871, Brazilian 11 disc. French Scrip 121, Aus.
trian 951 1.

It was reported in the City this morning, that the
King of FRANCE was dangerously illtand that the news
had depressed the French rentes on Saturday. This is
not true, and we are enabled to state, on the best au-
thority, that the King of FRANCE was, on Saturday, in
better health than he had been for some time.

At a late hour this forenoon we received, by Express,
the Second Edition of M. de CHATEA ÜBRI A ND*3 Pam-
phlet, entitled, La Censure que ton yield d'etohlis en vertu
de CArticle dc la Loi du 17 Mars, 1822. We learn
from our Correspondent, that 5,000 copies of the first
edition were sold in three hours, although the Censor-
ship prevented the brochure from being advertised in
the Journals. " The Censorship," says M. CHATEAU-
BRIAND, in his Preface, " would not allow this brochure
to be announced in the Journals, although the title cer-
tainly contains nothing seditious. Is there anything in
it against the KING or the Law? Does the title state
whether the author is for or against the Censorship ?
What instinct in the Censors ! What marvellous saga-
city ! But I shall say no mere; my name is printed in
the title-page of the brochure. Is it possible to believe
that we are under the Ministry of Messrs. CORBIERZ
and De VILLELE ? "

In the preface to the second edition, N. de CHATZAU•
ERIAND alludes to the rapid sale of the first, which he
says was sold in less time than it was written, notwith-
standing the Censors would not let it be advertised, and
the post refused to transmit copies to the Departments
as usual. " This," he observes, 44 says nothing in fa-
vour of the work, but k shews how far public opinion
is in favour of the tribunals, and with what ardour it
demands the liberties of the public, in opposition to the
present Ministerial system."
In a preceding page we have given some curious
anecdotes respecting the French Censorship, but these
are nothing to those which M. de CHATEAUBRIAND'S
pamphlet supplies. Among the articles struck out of
the Journal des Debate of last Tuesday, the 17th, was
Ist, A second article taking a retrospective view of the
business of the last Session of the Chamber of Deputies;
2d, The advertisement of M. CHATEAUBRIAND'S pam-
phlet; and, 3dly, Some lines on the sensibility of the
Duc d'OaLEANs, on hearing that his son, the Duc de
CHARTRES, had obtained a prize!

Against the Constitutionnel the Censors were still
more severe, and that Journal was even precluded from
mentioning the Duc d'Anootmeme as engaged in a
cause much more honourable to humanity than lead-
ing a French army in Spain to restore FERDINAND VII.
t.. his absolute authority. Indeed M. de CIIATRAU.
BRIAND says, the thing seemed so improbable, that he
could not believe it was suppressed until he saw the
article. It was merely a notice sent from the Duc
d'ANGOULEME, inviting the Members of the Royal
Society for Prison Discipline to'meet his Royal High-
ness at a Sitting of the Society on Thursday ; accom-
panied by a fe►v remarks of the Editor, expressing a
wish that all the abuses which exist in the prisons, and
give so much pain to the true friends of humanity and
religion, could be made known to his Royal Highness;
that he might be well informed on a subject so worthy
of his beneficence and humanity.
Well may M. de CHATEAUBRIAND ask if there is
anything in such an article that could excite the wrath
of the Censors, those "rogueurs de phrases," as he
terms them. He continues—" It is, then, no longer
permitted to speak of humanity nor of religion; and
thus the name of a Prince, the restorer of our army
—a name that Europe respects, and France has in-
scribed among the great actions (fasces) of her glory
—is blotted out by some obscure Censors in a police
office. It is true that the Prince, though a Chris-
tian, is suspected of being attached to the Charter.
It is true that all parties in Spain have found their only
shelter in his sword ; that be has inculcated concord in
the midst of divisions; that he has repressed the ram-
blings of liberty, as well as the vagaries of arbitrary
power; that he is opposed to re-actions and vengeance;
that he has not suffered proscriptions to dishonour his
atmy, and that the piles of the Inquisition have given
way to the altars raised to his victories."

In the pamphlet, M.de CHATEAUERIAND commences
by alluding to a speech he made in the Chamber of
Peers on the 13th of March, 1823, in which, in re-
plying to a previcus speaker, he said, 44 A Noble
Baron anticipates that France will be invaded and
all our liberties destroyed by Spain. As to the in-
vasion of France and the loss of /Air public liberties, one
thing shall console me, that these events shall never
take place while I and my colleagues are Ministers.

—The NoWe Ba.roh, who possesses to much talent, and,
such generous sentiments, will parClon this assertion.".
—These words, and the iiitablialment of the Censor-
ship, M. de CHATEAUBRIAND sari, explain why lie•
is no longer Minister, and the Muse 'of ise treat-
ment he has experienced from his colleagues; but he
says he will leave persons, and speak only of France.

" I need not repeat," he says, " what I have said a
hundred times in the tribune, and what I have printed
a hundred times in my works, that there can be no Re-
presentative Government without the Liberty of the
Press. With the Censorship of the Journals, the Con-
stitutional Monarchy will become either more weak or
more violent than Absolute Monarchy. It is a weak
or unruly machine, which interrupts by the complexity
of its wheels, or breaks by the force of its motion."
The Ex-Minister then proceeds to notice the fourth
article in the law of the 17th of March, 1822, which
provides for the revival of the Censorship, and contends
that according to the spirit of that law, no event or cir-
cumstance has occurred to justify its revival. The
article says, "if in the interval of the Sessions of the
Chambers, serious circumstances should render ineffec-
tual for the moment, the measures of guarantee and re-
pression established, the Censorship may be again put in
force." " I demand," says M. de CHATILAUERIAND, "if
the case provided for by the lag► has occurred ? Are fo-
reign armies at our gates ? Is there any conspiracy in
the interior ? Is the throne menaced ? Has one of our
beloved Princes fallen under the dagger of a new
Louvel? No—happily not. What, then, has hap-
pened ? Why, the Minister has committed some
faults : he has lost a majority in the Chamber of Peers ;
he is detected before the tribunals of shameful nego-
ciations, in order to purchase opinions—he has dissi-
pated the advantageous results of. the expedition
in Spain; that he has separated front the Royalists; in
one word, that he appears incapable of his offices.—
These are the serious circumstances which compel us to
violate the fundamental liberty of institutions which
we owe to the wisdom of the KING. If the circum-
stances are serious he has made them so, and it is against
himself that he has established the Censorship."
M. de CHATBAUBRIAND then proceeds to an exposé of
the circumstances which have led to the revival of
the Censorship, against which he ably contends; he
speaks with great bitterness against his rival, M. de
VILLELE, though not by name, and contends that the
country is endangered by the measures he pursues. In
conclusion, he says," The remedy is easy if the malady is'
taken in time; if it is suffered togo on,it becomes incurable.
I cannot develope all my thoughts in this little pamphlet,
the rapid work of a few hours, which I publish in a
hurry on account of the importance of the subject. It is
hard for me, that am so far advanced in my career, to
reengage in struggles which have consumed my life;
but aPeer of France and a Magistrate, I cannot see public
liberty perish. I could not see the tribunals attacked
without raising my voice, without giving my support,
feeble as it may be, to the institutions that were endan-
gered. That the throne of our wise Monarch may re-
main unassailable—that Fra.nce may be free and happy
is my prayer—and as to my own destiny, let it be as
Gon pleases."

M. de CIIATEAUBRIAND'S Preface to the second edi-
tion is only dated on Friday, and had not our Corres-
pondent procured an early copy, and sent it by Express,
we could not thus have given even a hasty outline of a
document so interesting.
Our Correspondent, in a private letter, says--« M.
de CHATEAUBRIAND leaves Paris on Wednesday, for
Switzerland, but returns in three weeks to Paris. Par-
ties are at the highest pitch. A few days will probab}y
contain important Ministerial intelligence."

The Paris Papers of Saturday, which we have received,
are still barren of interesting intelligence, except as
to the late insurrection in Spain, on which, notwith-
standing the Censorship, they are permitted to speak
pretty freely. Even the Moniteur, in its unofficial part,
contains a statement which shrews that the rising had
excited some alarm. The following is the account of
the affair in the French Official Journal:
" Authentic news from Cadiz, dated the 6th of August, state
that a party of fifty Revolutionists, who came out of Gibraltar, sur-
prised the town of Tarifa on the morning of the 3d. The Governor
was at Algesiras, and the Spanish garrison had nut time to defend
itself. The Revolutionists killed an Officer who attempted to de-
fend the island, and immediately armed sjsme malefactors who were
confined in the prisons. On the first news of this event, the Spa-
nish General O'Donnel, who commands the camp at St. Roch, sent
a detachment against the place. As soon as this affair was known
at Cadiz, Lieut.-General Foissac Latour gave orders to Colonel
d'Astorg to proceed to Tarifa with a battalion of infantry and a
squadron of cavalry, and to retake the place. His Majesty's cor-
vettes Diana and Pomona have sailed from Cadiz to support the
attack, and to hinder the Revolutionists from escaping. There Is
every reason to believe that the simultaneous employment of these
forces will have sufficed to chastise the authors of this mad attempt,
which is said to be conducted by a Colonel Valdes, or by Ordinziez.
A similar attempt was made upon the little town of Cotapona, near
Malaga; but the inhabitants having timely notice, took arms and
repulsed the Revolutionists:*

None of the other Papers say anything respecting the
surprise of Tarifa. They confine themselves to copying
the article in the Etoile, which we quoted in our lag.
The Quotidknne alludes to subjects of a different kind,
in a letter from Madrid, dated August 9, in which it is
stated that the hastening the expedition against America
is more than ever agitated ; that for this purpose a
*Libor Quavano is to purchase two frigates and seve-
ral other vessels in England. QURVIIDO, by the bye, is
a good name for the leader in so visionary a. project as
that of Spain attempting to regain the New World,
when she cannot preserve her authority in Europe with-
out the assistance of 40 or 50,000 foreign bayonets.
The Moniteur contains is its official columns some
Ordonnances, the object of one of which is the revising
and new modelling of decrees which existed previously

to the BourbOn restoration. The principal ankles are
in these terms:

41 Art. 1. There shall be formed a Committee of Revision, for the
purse of collecting and verifying the arrites, decrees, and other
regulatory decisions, issued previously to the re-establishment of
our authority in our kingdom.
se 2. The Committee of Revision shall prepare successively, ac-
cording to the order of the subjects, projects of Ordonnances A
pro-
tiog especially and definitively such of those decisions as it shall
judge ought not to be maintained. It shall also prepare, and in the
same order, projects of ordonnances destined to replace such of the le
dispositions as shall have been found useful, and which ought to be
preserr
" S.
t
e Committee shall be composed of 12 Members and a
Secretary : the latter functions shall be. exercised by a Maitre Go
iteguetes in the Council of State."
This foretiOon we received Frankfort Papers to Vie
14th instant. An article from Berlin, of the premu.
day, states that the negotiations of the Court of st.
tersburgh with the principal i'owers of Western Europe
continue to be carried On with unabated activity._
Another Russian Cabinet Messenger had just passed
through, on his way from Paris to St. Petersburgh.
The following are extracts :
•

MUNICH, AUGUST 11.
Great attention was excited here by a pistoral letter
issued by the Archbishop, under the date of the 9th
of June this year, against the prevalent want of zeal in
the exercises of religion, and the increasing licentious-
ness of morals. The letter concludes with a notice,
that according to directions which have already been
sent to all the French priests of the diocese, those pa-
rishioners who shall be guilty of illicit intercourse wat,
the other sex, both the seducer and the seduced shall
not only be held to a more frequent use of the religion,'
means of salvation, according to a certain gradation,
but shall, on the first offence, be reproved in presence
of their parents ; on the second, in that of some respect-
able members of the congregation ; and on the third,
before the whole congregation ; but on the 4th, be ea-
chided for a time from the congregation.
This pastoral letter has given occasion to a Roy al
Declaration, in which, after recognizing the saltuaiy
views that may have actuated the Archbishop, di;ap-
proves the promulgation of this letter without the It )y:.6
consent ; declares null and void the regulations threat-
ening punishment for repeated misdemeanours in the
commerce of the sexes, from consideration of the nu-
merous difficulties in the execution ; the consequences
that would ensue endangering the honour and tran-
quillity of families, as well as the respect due to the
Clergy themselves, and because they evidently exceed
the limits of the spiritual authority. The Magistrates are
directed in general to employ all proper and legal
means in their jurisdiction, in order, with the active
co-operation of the Clergy, to check the progress
of immorality, and gradually to restore a better
state of things; but at the same time to keep strictly
within the bounds of their authority.

The accounts from South America are by no means
of a decisive character. Yesterday afternoon a report
prevailed, that BRAVO, the Mexican General, had de-
dared in favour of ITUnBIDE, but it was a mere
Stock-jobbing rumour—and rumour, with its thousand
tongues, was never more busy than it has been lately
on the affairs of South America. Even forged letters are
resorted to, in order to influence the money market.

Private accounts from Madrid state, that it is in agi-
tation to send a Spanish nines at the head of the expe-
dition to South America. A Prince will certainly be
more easily procured than an army.

We have received the Royal Jamaica Gazette of
the 3d of July, with a Supplement, giving a detailed
account of the recent disturbances at Hanover,
which appear to have been much exaggerated. Tran-
quillity was perfectly restored. Accounts from Spanish
Town state, that all the suspected persons belonging
to the neighbouring estates had been examined, and
nothing whatever that was improper was proved
against them.

In a preceding column we have given some interest-
ing intelligence from Greece, by which it will be seen
that the conquest of Ipsara haS not had the advan-.
tageous" result the Turks would anticipate, that of de-
pressing the ardour of the Greeks; on the contrary, it
has shewn the necessity of increased exertion, and as
soon as the disasters at Ipsara were known in the Ar-
chipelago, every island sent out its little fleet to harass
the Tulllcs. The Frankfort and Dutch Papers received
this morning are also favourable to the Greek cause.
The Fran fort Journal of the 13th, says—" We have no
authentic accounts respecting the operations of the Greek
flotilla; but it is known that that of Ipsita joined those
of Hydra and Spezaia in the month of June, and con-
sequently could not fall into the hands of the Turks on
the taking of the island."
The Amsterdam Courant of the 21st, says—" In a let-
ter from Odessa of the 20th (31st) of July, which is of a
later date than the Mail from Constantinople of the
25th July, which must arrive in a day or two at Am-
sterdam, it is reported that the Turks who landed at
Ipsara, all found their graves there ; that the Turkish
fleet, after considerable loss, which, however, could not
yet be estimated, had left the island and sailed to Mity-
lene ; that the Ipsariots, not judging themselves strong
enough to defend the Island against a second attack of
the great Turkish force, had resolved to embark, with
their families and all the property they could take with
them, and were gone to Napoli di Romania to settle
there and to contribute farther, by their heroic bravery,
to consolidate their independence."
An Edict has been issued, forbidding the Students of
the Kingdom of Bavaria to study in any University ex-
cept that of Erlangen, his Majesty having taken such
measures that Protestant Divines shall have all neces-
sary instruction in that University.

The Duke of GLOUCESTER arrived at his residence in
Puk.ligne, yesterday morning, from Bagsbot.
Mr. Secr tary CANNING transacted business yesterday
at the Foreign Office. In the evening, the Right Hon. Secretary
had a grand dinner party at Gloucester Lodge.
Prince ESTERHARY entertained Prince SAPIENS and
a distinguished party at dinner yesterday, at Chandos House, C 3"
vendish.square.
The Marchioness Dowager of HERTFORD, and a very
select circle of her most esteemed friends, arc at present sojourais4
on Mount Zion, Tunbridge Wells.

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