Star.
London, England, 1822-12-28 00:00:00

N. M. ROTIISCHILD, IN LONDON.

The Halt-yearly Dividend of this Loan falling due on Wed_
nesday, the Ist of January next, will be paid on that and every
succeeding day, between the bouts of ten and two, at the Count-
ing-house of IloinscHnn, in New-court, St. Sw•ichin'.s-
lane.—N.B. The Dividend Warrants must be left one day for
inspection, viz. those presented on the 31st December will there-
fore be paid on the Ist January, and so in continuance.

those dissensions which unhappily prevail in that
country. That Prance has seen her true policy in
witheli awing from the threatened contest wkh Spain,
every person of .common,sense will readily acknow.
%We suspect, hoirever, that fear °ldle conse-
quence, rather t!lan a sense of the injustice of attack-
ing Spain,. has been the principal cause of the change
in the Fi each Cabinet ; and that France had just
cause to fear, no person who knows the feelings 01
the French military will deny.

It is true that LOWS XVIII. is endeavouring to get
an army entirely composed of Royalists; but. the
thing is impo,sible. Ile may pursue his plan of dis-
missing forty thousand men of the regular army
every year, and replacing them by young conscripts;
but the sons have the same feelings as their fathers,
and the present generation of Frenchmen know nothing
of the I3ounnoss, but as the former oppressors of
their country—as a family whom they had driven
from the throne, and who have since len forced
upon them by foreign bayonets.
A Gentleman, who has just returned from Ike South
of France, where be has been for some months, a,stires
us that the French were decidedly for war; not that
they had any enmity against Spain, but that they
lodked upon it as affording them a chance of effect-
ing that revolution in the Governthent which they.
still look forward to. And it was generally believed
that the moment a French army pasted the Spanish
frontier, Mi NA would have entered France, and hoist-
ing tire tri-coloured flag, have rallied all the enemies
of the BounsoNs round his banner. It is now need-
less to speculate on what would have been the result,
since the French Government, by its pacific deter.
ruination, has avoided the quicksand on which it had
so nearly been driven.

In noticing this subject, we cannot forbear express-
ing our approbation of the firmness displayed by the
British Cabinet, for to our remonstrance against all
interference with Spain is the pacific decision of the
French Governsnent.to be attributed. It proves that
we have not, as some of our contemporaries have re-
presented, lost our influence ; but it thews what is of,
infinitely more importance, that we will -no longer
support or countenance the Holy Alliance in its sys-
tem of foreign aggression and inte:forence with in-
dependent States. We trust that this i.s an earliest
of a better policy than has hitherto guided our Cabi-
' net, and that the same firmnes which has distiu-
guished it in the affairs of Spain and France, will be
displayed whenever the Holy Allies meditate an at-
tack on the liberties of any neighboming State.
The French Papers of Wednesday, though losing
much of their importance by the more recent Express,
possess several articles of interest, which will be
found in another part of this day's Paper.

This forenoon we received a German Mail, with
Papers to the 22d inst. The following arc the only
articles worth quoting :
FRANKFORT, DECEMBER 2.0.

The Allgenwine Zeitung, of the 18th December,'
speaks of a new Austrian Loan, but in so incorrect a I
manner, that it were to be wilted that the Editor de-
rived his information front more authentic sources—, .
We know from good authority, that the Minister
of Finance, at Vienna, has not applied to the mer-
chants of Frankfort for this operation. After a tt
ans-
action which he has made with the National Bank of
Austria, relative to the repayment cf the paper cur-
rency called Einlosungs Schcine, a transaction which
must tend to raise the value of the Bank Shares, the
Minister invited Messrs. Frees and Co. Geymuller
and Co. Arnstein and Eskelis, and Baron Solomon
Rothschild, residing at Vienna, to submit proposals,
on the 31st December, to take upon them, at a fixed
rate, 36 millions of Bonds, in Metalliques, at 5 I'er
cent. to be delivered and paid in the years 1823, 1824,
182.5, and 1826, at d,terminecl periods.
Till it is known that the Minister of Finance finds
the proposals acceptable, it cannot he said that the
loan will take place, and it is very pdsible Nit the
wants of the Imperial Treasury may be provided fot
in another manner. But if the above sum should be
really issued, it cannot sensibly affect the price of
the Austrian 5 per Cent. Metalliques, since only six
millions of florins will be put into circulation in
1823, twelve millions in 1824, and the same sum
in 1826.
M. W. Lefebres, a German Officer, returned from
the chorea, has printed at Marseilles a " Narrative of
several Military Actions of Me Greeks." The fol-
lowing is the Postscript which concludes it:—
t. Imbued with illusions, on my departure from the Pelopon-
nesus, my surprise was great whenever austere reality undeceived
me; but I confess that I can compare nothing to the astsnish-
ment I felt when I saw, a few days since, a crowd of generous
enthusiasts arrive at Marseilles, who are sent to the abyss in
which I was so nearly swallowed up with many others.
" Allow me, my dear fellow-countrymen, to give you a salu—
tury warning, which is dictated to me by hard experience which