Star.
London, England, 1825-11-01 00:00:00

TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 1. 1985.

Au.

CITY, TWICLItIi O'CLOCK.
This beteg a elate Holiday at the Dank, Stock &change, all
Foote Market, meet at the Ikehers have amenbtat en the Kepet‘
Beehaege, bet very nub Whim is defog. Case* are sookoll
et
all boyar&
PAN et Fronk Beata ea Priday 99,110,70; Three per Cons..
71, 10.
The mania for speculating Ow Shares of. Joint
Stoelt•Companies having attained its highest access, and
gratiabllp-mbsided, is now shewitig its effects on the
exhatiiiiikframe of thepetient. The sufferers are lciudly
complainiag of having been made the dupes of artful
knavery ; and they ate told by the Loan Mayon, with
that exceeding good sense and knowledge of the world
which is creditable to his high office, that there is little
doubt they, the conipleinets, +in,. Willing accessories
to the fraud of whiihibet now feel the effects, in the
equally dishonest intention of profiting by the delusion
at the expense of ethers still more ignorant and not
a .whit more upright in design than •themselves—
In short, all parties, with reference to the !treat mar,
jnrity of the schemes, whether Projectors, Pitroris,pi;
rectors, or Sharers, appear to be equally tainted Witli••
one and the same infection a rage for individual
profit by means very questionable in point of .probity 4.!
That this madness has brought disgrace Ms the ehif.
ratter of our country is deeply to be regretteity, chit it
has also produced rain and distress to many innocent.
families is as undeniable as it is lamentable; and that
it bas now begun to draw suspicion On the high re.
speetability of several individuals eminent by birth
and station among us, cannot be questioned. To this
last view of the subject, we would for the present con-
fine our remarks--and we do think that the character
of Parliament is deeply involved in the question—and
that it is incumbent on that body, no less than on the
distinguished persons whose names are perhaps falsely
-and unjustly dragged before the public, to wipe away
the reproach. But this is not to be done by a daring
and staunch denial—the mere assertion of those indi-
viduals in words of equivocal import. If they would
have their characters stand unsullied, as heretofore, we
would implore them to press for a Parliamentary En-
quiry. Let a Committee of either House be selected to
examine into the origin and progress of every scheme
which has recently sprung up. Let them trace the
authors, the shareholders, the sums collected, and to
what purpose applied ; and then let the censure of Par-
liament fall heavy on the dishonoured patron, no less
than on the knavish projector.
There is no want of precedent for such a measure.
Nearly a century ago a joint stock Pawn-broking Com-
pany arose, which after cheating many thousands of
innocent people, to raise funds for its support,
suddenly disappeared. Those funds were auda-
ciously embezzled, and suspicion fell on many
Members of Parliament for conniving at the fraud.
An inquiry took ',lace, the result of which was the ex-
pulsion of four or five individuals, who, without such
• inquiry, would have probably defied or evaded the
rigour of the law.
We now hear, with shame and with sorrow, that
indictments are talked of against Noblemen and Mem-
bers of Parliament,for conspiring to commit petty frauds,
by giving the sanction of their respectable names as a
decoy to the unwary : nay, more, we hear with lucre-
, delity and indignation, that those and many other
eminent persons are accused of deriving individual
• profit from these inicilKtons practices. So many
names are, indeed, as we hope falsely, bandied about
in the months of the vulgar, that we intreat the per-
sons thus alluded to, id compassion to their relatives
and families, to gall for a public investigation before a
tribunal unshackled in its powers of inquiry. We have
no question that the result would be honourable to them,
• and at the same time beneficial to the country, by ex-
posing a system of delusion, which, except the tulip
mania of Holland, is, we think, unexampled in burope.

• By the arrival of a German mail we this day re-
crived the Austrian Observer to the a2Oth, and Frank.
fort Papers to the 25th ult. They state that the Capitan
Pasha had left Ale:amid-with the Egyptian fleet, and
arrtved off Candia. These 'papers copy from the Orimmi
Spectator an account, exaggerated no doubt, of some
• piracies by Greek mistics on two French vessels. libe
following are extracts :
VIENNA, °MEER 19.
Field Marshal Count liellegarde, President of the
Aulic Council, having repainted to his Majesty that
the great decay of his sight wilt not' allow him to attend
• to the extensive bugs of the Aulic Council, his
Majesty is with grearikgret obliged to pirenit him to
retire from a post which be has filled in so honourable
• a manner, to his Majesty's prticular satisfaction and
the good of the service. Al, the same time, his Majesty
• has been pleased to app6int the Prince of Hobensol.
tern-Heckingen, General of Cavalry, and Commander-
, . in-Chief in Inner Austria and Tyrol, on atteellt of his
distinguished services in a long military tamer, and his
• approved fidelity to the Imperial family and to the
,State, to be President of the Aulic Council.
CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPTEMBER
The Captain Pasha has left Alexandria together with
the Egyptian leer, and has appeared of Candia. The
Greeks here affirm, that he bat already been attacked
and defeated by Mianlis ; but his arrival at Candle
seems very tustly to be accounted for just now, when
an insurrection has broken out in the island. It is pro-
bible that he will land in Candia a part of the troops

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TRIESTE, OCTOBER 17.

OurJouraal contains the following article :—We
learn by • ship that has arrived here, that the Greeks
were busy in fortifying Hydra. where they apprehended
an attack from the new expedition that has sailed from
Alexandria. A Captain who arrived here on the 12th,
heard a cautioned, from Napoli di Romania, which he
imagined to be a salute in honour of the American
squadron.

AUGSBURG, OCTOBER a.
The Wirtemberktescial Jourxat of 20th October
contains a royal declaration relative to the poli-
tical rights of the fear branches of the House
of Hohenlohe, in the kingdom of Wirtemberg. These
Princes have represented that some parts of the first
'and second Royal Edicts of 18th November, 1817,
compelling them to alienate certain rights, as in-
compatible with Article 14 of the Act of the Ger-
man Confederation, which secured to them the pre-
servatiotiof the same rights, his Majesty has resolved
that the question, 44 Whether the principle of she,
compel lted alienation of these rights, to be confirmed by
to law passed according to the Constitution, with the
tioneurrence of the Estates, is incompatible with the said
14th Article r shall be submitted to the Diet. His
Majesty engages before hand to recognise such deci-
sion as binding on him, in the same manner as the
Princes who will have to submit to it.
FRANKFORT, OCTOBER 24.
The &kaki Spectator (Smyrna, September 14) gives
accounts of various acts of piracy committed by the
Greeks. The French Captain, Provençal, from Con-
stantinople, was plundered near Mitylene, by a mistic,
the crew of which told him, that if he had attempted to
escape, they would have cut him and his crew to pieces,
as they were at war with the French and the Austrians.
Having carried off all the goods on board, they hit the
ship, which arrived at Smyrna es the 10th.

The French Papers of Friday and Saturday have
arrived this morning. The Moniteur has published
several regulations regarding the Marine.
The Indicate:it. of Bordeaux states, that the Jesuits
are by degrees re-establishing themselves in Spain, and
are purchasing lands.
They write from the frontiers of Spain, 21st October,
that at Bilboa disturbances still continue, caused by the

intrigues of several agents ; the town of Tolosa is the
theatre of commotion:.
Count de Mamma, Chamberlain to the Emperor of
Roma, has arrived at Paris with dispatches.
They write from Constantinople, that the defeat of
the Captain Pacha's fleet, in the waters of Candia, is
unfounded.
The following is an extract of an original letter from
Charleston. dated 96th Septerber:
«I have been off and on Pr nearly thirty years is
Charleston, and such a general distress was never
known before ; embargoes, non-intercourses, and even
war, never caused so general a calamity as the odor-
tunate speculations in Cotton has done. Savannah and
all the shipping ports will suffer ; indeed yon may call
it a calamity, or a universal mercantile distress through-
out the United Scam."

The last advice: from Mexico contain the speech of -
the PRESIDENT of that Republic, on opening the Ex-
traordinary Session of the Congress, and the Report of
the Secretary of the Treasury. who states that 1,256,338
dollars would be sufficient to meet the expenses of the
Government in the different departments of war, foreign
Irelations, justice and ecclesiastical affairs, and the trea-
sury. Among the extraordinary expenses are 50,000
dollars to be disposed of by Sr. MICHELEAriD London ; '
32,000 dollars stipulated to be paid to the crews of the
ship Asia and brig Constantine, for their surrender to
the Mexican Government ; and 10,000 dollars (beyond
the previous estimate of 16,000), which will be required
for the Legation of Rome. We mentioned yesterday,
that the State of Yucatan had sent its Deputies to the
General Congress. Its Constitution had been pro-
claimed and sworn to by the public functionaries.—J.
T. LOPEZ has been proclaimed Governor. An Agent
from London had arrived at Mexico, from the Loudon
Pearl Fishery Company to be established in the Gulf of
California. The amount of duties paid to the Custom-
house at Alvarado, daring the month of June, was
541,586 dollars; of May, 304,482; and of April.
dollars.

A Gentleman who, though engaged in military ope-
rations in India, has viewed the country with an eye to
more peaceful pursititi; suggests the re-estalatthm`ent
of the independent kiegdoms of Arracan on the North
of Ava, and of Siam and Pegu on the South. which may
, perhaps merit serious'consideration. It would be singular
if, after having beaten down the vast military des-
potism of the Continent of Europe, and restored there
the principle of national i we should be
called by Pnownanci to the MUM great and
ennobling task .in the of India beyond the
Ganges. The predecessor of dr vague King of Av.*
was the 11•1--111APAILTE of his day, said the kingtisens of
Arracan and Pegu are held by the Goverment of
ITmseerapoora in the same forced and unnatural sub-
jection in which the NAPOLSON held' Holland pad
Rome. Should it, however, consist with our eventual
policy to re•establish the thrones which the Burmese
have overthrown, we shall still have the further task
of protecting the indepeadsoce that we restore,
The Duke of Coliseum,. took leave of his MA.. _
aim

at Windsor, au Tbursday iste, prepuratory to his num to
Germany. The Loos Clumsiest amid witb the Kos sod bit
party at Wieder, as Widow*/ heti shier a long Coons. to.
credos tbs young Prise..[ Oweaski;am, &e. It may be OM,
that &Alloy the Motor sad ....wire, his Masson satutisel Ora
most marked aueottos and roma fo the Loss Czaitessuso.
We learn, on the best authority, that advises hail
been received by Sir W. A'Conas, at Lisbon, that st:
though nothing has •as yet been definitiveli
_arranged
between Sir C. STUART and the Brazilian cabinet, be
' had every reason to believe that the negociation would
be speedily and satisfactorily concluded.—British Prat.,

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