Star.
London, England, 1822-01-24 00:00:00

BARCELONA, DECEMBER 29.

We do not know whether it is from malice or cre-
dulity that some persons magnify the remains of'
infection which they suppose to be still in Barcelona,
and affirm that a considerable number of persons die
daily, and most of them of the epidemic disease.—
These reports are as false as they are injurious. They
impede business, and delay the presence of the Pro-
vincial Authorities, to the great injury of the public
prosperity. We learn that the Municipality intends
to publish a weekly statement of the burials, as is
done at Cadiz daily. This will undeceive the credu-
lous, and confound the exaggerators. We had writ-
ten this when we received the following statement
from the Municipality. From this statement, which
includes the burials in the whole city for eleven days,
from the 16th to the Cdr inclusive, it appears that
the whole amount is 69, or only an average of about

six daily, at a season when the daily average of other
years has been from fifteen to twenty.
• TARRAGONA, DECEMBER 29.
In the night of the 2lth of this month we had a
most furious tempest, which has done great damage
in the road of this city. Of above 70 vessels, many
of them loaded, which were at anchor in it, only
three ate saved, greatly damaged. The others, with
their cargoes, have been the sad victims of this catas-
trophe. The number of persons who have perished
is considerable, and there are many wounded and
lamed who have had the good fortune to save them-
selves. The work of the Mole is in some places en-
tirely destroyed, in others greatly damaged, by the
fury of the waves. The loss sustained by the mer-
chants and ship-owners is incalculable.

Three Dutch Mails have arrived, bringing Papers
to the 20th instant. The following are extracts :
ULM, JANUARY St.
General Satth is sent to Ragusa as Governor of
that fortress, which is very important at this time on
account of its vicinity to Albania. Numerous con-
signments of arms and ammunition have lately been
made to the Nlorea. Similar consignments have been
made from Malta. The Greek merchants shew much
zeal and attachment to their countrymen. They
have sent some cannon to the Morea.

HAMBURG% JANUARY it.
Our accounts from Constantinople are to the 10th
December. They state that the Porte has delivered
to the British and Austrian Ambassadors a note re-'
specting the Russian ultimatum, which is of a very
pacific nature; it desists from its demand of the im- '
mediate delivery up of the Greek fugitives, and de-
clares its readiness to evacuate Moldavia and Walla-
chia, but not till after the expiration of a certain
time, in order, meanwhile, to put down the insurrec-
tion of the Greeks. This is all the Ambassadors
could obtain.

The Note ends with a wish that the Christian Mo-
narchs may preserve peace, and take care that Russia
does not listen to the Greek Chiefs.

It is not known what impression this Note may
make on the Russian Cabinet, but it is certain, that
if Russia declares war, the Government is too weak
to hinder the people from committing excesses at the
bare idea of which humanity shudders.

This morning we received the French Papers of
Monday. Their contents possess little interest. On
the preceding day the KING, who continues to enjoy
good health, gave audience to the Ministers, Er-
Ministers, Prince TALLEYRAIID, and agreat number of
Peers,Deputies,and Generals. The accounts from Spain
are not of a later date than Papers received direct ft om
Madrid; but they contain details of disturbances in
the Provinces, on which the Spanish Journals are
silent. These, it is known, are always much exag-
gerated in the French Papers.

An article from Berlin states, that Prince EUGENE,
of Wirtemberg, a General iu the service of Russia,
had passed through that capital on his way to St.
Petersburgh.
The Greek Prince, CANTACUEENE, who has takers
so distinguished a share in the insurrection in the
Morea, arrived at Lausanne on the 12th inst. on his
way to Germany.
The French Papers are entirely silent as to the
Turks having accepted the Russian ultimatum, nor do
they cortain any intelligence of the slightest import-
ance relating to either Greece or Italy.

A regular file of American Papers has been re-
ceived this morning to the Slst of December, from
which we copy the following :

KINGSTON, DECEMBER S.

Our readers may recollect that in the abstract we
lately made of the evidence taken before the British
Parliament last winter relative to the timber trade, it
WAS stated that certificates of origin would be re-
quired on shipments from the Colonies, and that all
timber thus shipped, if not proved to be of the growth
of his Majesty's Colonies, would be subject to the
duties exacted on timber imported directly from a
foreign State. Though this regulation has been in
force only during the present season, we understand
that schemes have been already devised to introduce.
timber from the United States into the market of the
Lower Province, and to export it from thence to
England, with certificates declaring it to be the pro-
per growth of Canada. To check this species of fraud
(which, if unmolested, would rapidly increase) it is in
contemplation to form an Association for the puipose
of employing several trusty individuals along the
frontier and elsewhere, whose busine:.s it will be to
watch the introduction of American timber into the
Province, and to detect and punish every person
who may endeavour, by perjury, to procure certifi-
cates that it is of the Canadian origin. This Associa-
tion is, we understand, already numerous; and it will
doubtless prove beneficial in guarding the British
Revenue.

Arrived at New Orleans, nn the Ist of December,
the brig Hannah, Pierson, from Alexandria ; and the
bt ig la Pensee, Lieutenant At mstrong, Pt ize- Master,
with 2.40 slaves. This vessel was captured by the
United States sluop of war Hornet, together with a
Columbian privateer, which had previously caw-al ed
this vessel and several others—the privateer's des•
tined pot is unknown.

HAVANNAIL
Notteout, Dec. 21.—When the Alonzo left Ha-
vanna!), on the 10th inst. there was no political news
of much interest. The castle of San Juan de Ulloa,
at Vera Cruz, was still held by the Royalists; and
.500 troops had sailed front Havannab, about the Gth
instant, to relieve it.