Star.
London, England, 1822-02-08 00:00:00

feet above the usual higb . water mark ; °tele° „,,
-several streets, and penetrated into the hnuse, an;
cellars. .At Memel the dykes were much injured.
HAOUR, FP.BRIJARY s.

' The English Presbyterian congregation, which hi,
existed here ever since 1591, that is 227 years, ha;
divine service for the last time on Sunday last, n „ hicF
occasion, the Rev. M. Mackey, who has been for twl
years assistant to the late. Rev. lir. Cash, preac ed 4
fine sermon on St. Paul to the Hebrews, sit. 21, 22.

This morning we received the. French Papers or
Tuesday. The proceedings of the Chamber of 1)!u.
ties still occupy. them almost exclusively. On I,lm,
day the new law on the Press was further discussed.
Some amendments were proposed on the 14th Article,
and the debate was adjourned to the following jay.
• The Gazette de France repeats what we stntls in
the STAR of yesterday, as reported in Paris, via-.
Spanish Cortes had acknowledged the independ -etiZt
of the Colonies in S.)tith America. We 4.i:dourly
wait for accounts from Madrid, before we can
e
this important intelligence full credit.
The same Paper, ou the authority of advises
Madrid of the 24th ult. states the following
in the Spauish Ministry :—M- Osoato to he
of Marine, a place which he occupied in 1811—%
BALLASTEROB, Ex-Director of the Public Re, 1.,
is ;tamed Minister of .Finances.--.M. VALLEJO. L..
Minister of Finances, is gone to Catalonia, :L:
character of Political Chief.

It is said that some popular movements have tak.:3
place in Cadiz, and that the new Civil and Milita-:(
Authorities have been compelled to relinquish
places to individuals appointed by the People.
An article from Nuremberg, of the 27th ult. sta,.•,,
that on the 10th of December the Reis Effendi co:::.
municated to the and Austrian Arnbassatit.:,
the Anv.ver of the Ottoman Porte to the Russi
Ultimatum, in which his Sublime Highness gave a
general consent to the Ilu,sian propositions, hut tLat
he required them to be moditiel in several pint,
The Censorship on the F. each Press has Lerrainatel
before the Ministers have been able to obtain any
new law for its regulation. Only some of the
notice the circumstance. The Journal de Paris
that its contemporaries will so conduct theareives,
now that they are emancipated, as to refute ail
the calumnies heaped upon them.

The Drnpenu Blanc commences its article
occasion with a significant excla•nation, expre,,ive
a feeling somewhat similar to that of being su.idvt,3r
relieved from an oppressive bunien. The eloir.itiNt
of the Censorship, in the same paper, is thus aa-
nounced The Committee of Censorship ce.:;el
its functions at elevea ,)'clock on Sin .lay
The Covtitutionnrl expressed its gratificao.,a at
some length, and hopes that the new law, t‘lt;csi
have neither been p.is,e.t by the Peers nor timed
by the KING. wiil receive many salutary modific:tion;.
French Funds.—Tuesday, Five per Cents. 89:: Sic.

We received this morning a Quebec Paper to ti e
let January, front wlich the following is an extract:.
" Captain Toupin, of the schooner Annabella,
arrived from below ; his ..ch:tone:. is totally lost; taw
the masts of a brig out of watet, a little belos Le;
\lagdeleine, on the sontli shore; and another sc !lora cr.
deserted, w hich he heard had been bound to
michi: the Indians had found the bodies of three
men, supposed to belong to the schooner. /t triin:.,
and some barrels of fl ur, part of the cargo of
Prompt, had been found ashore near Father l'oint:
_ _

The British Comrnissiooers at Siena Leo:le ark
nounce a sensible diminution in the Slave Trade, and
add, that it is ascribed in a large degree, to the el.-
fcrts of the public vessels of the United S:a:c;
cruizing in that quarter.