Star.
London, England, 1823-10-18 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF CAPTAIN PARRY.

We have the satisfaction to announce the safe return
TA' Captain PARRY and his adventurous companions
from their attempt to. effect the North Polar Passage,
which has been again.found to defy every effort of hu-

man enterprise. About eleven o'clock on Thursday
the Hzaut and FURY, in company, made their appear-
ance off Whitby. In half an hour after, Captain PARRY,
and the Rev. GEORGE FISHER, the Astronomer and
Chaplain to the Expedition, landed, and set off in a
post-chaise and four for London, where they arrived at
nine o'clock this morning. _

Both Gentlemen, we are happy to say, appear in
good health ; and they report of the crews of the two
vessels, that, considering the hardships they have under- -
gone, and a residence of two winters in the severest cli-
mate in rho world, their state of health it also remark-
ably good.
The course pursued by Captain PARRY on the pre-
sent occasion, as our Readers are probably aware, was
to coast northwards from Hudson's Bay into the Great
Icy Sea, while Captain FRANKLIN was to endeavour
to reach the same sea overland, taking the Coppermine
River, which falls into it, as his guide.
The point to which Captain PARRY penetrated, on this
occasi n,wasnot,we understand, nearly so far to the north
as the spot where he formerly wintered, nor much farther
indeed than Captain FRANKLIN was able to reach by
land. The ships, alter leaving Hudson's Bay,were carried
along by an immense current of drift ice for about two
hunched and fifty miles, in imminent danger every mo-
ment of being crushed to pieces, and then stuck fast
amid the solid waste. Here they have ever'since re-
mained immovably locked up, and almost despairing
of again revisiting Old England, till exactly a month
, ago, when the ice broke up, and they were enabled to
effect their escape. No sooner, however, did the ships
I again plough the deep than new dangers awaited them.
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injured by being so long locked up in the ice, had
nearly perished ; and during their whole passage home
they have encountered the most tempestuous weather.
While locked up in the ice the ships were visited by
some parties of Esquimaux, who remained with them a
long time, residing in snow houses, which they con-
structed for themselves in the vicinity.
On one occasion these people brought to the ship two
barrel-staves, which they gave Captain PARRY to ur...
derstand they had procured from two vessels which
were on their beam-ends at about •160 miles distant.
Captain PARRY (as we understood our informant)
sent out a party in search of those wrecks, who re-'
ported that the vessels were' English whaleri, of the
crews of which they could find no trace.
Although the expedition- has proved abortive, as
far as regards its main object, yet, from the intelli-
gence of its Commander and the Officers, and other
Gentlemen employed under him, we have no doubt that
science will be considerably benefitted by the many in-

teresting observations which they must have made
,during their long stay in the Polar Regions.

Our Merchants will learn with pleasure that the Mi-
nisters have not been inattentive to,their interests; and
that the first moment in which it could, with propriety,
be done, Consular Agents have been appointed to all
the ports and places in South America where British

have thrown off their allegiance to the Crown of Spain,
time and the course of events appear to have substan-
tially decided their separation from the mother country,
although the formal recognition of those Pro►inces as
Independent States by his Majesty, may be hastened or
retarded by various external circumstances, as well as
by the more or less satisfactory progress in each State,,
towards a regular and settled form of government.
Spain has long been apprised of his Majesty's opinions
upon tins subject."
The next passage in the letter may serve to allay the
fears of some of our grumbling politicians, as to the
views of France. Mr. CANNING says—

" Disclaiming in the most solemn manner any inten-
tion of appropriating to herself the smallest portion of
the late Spanish possessions in America, his Majesty is
satisfied, that no attempt will be made by France to
bring under her dominion any of those possessions, either
by conquest, or by cession from Spain."
The following is a copy of the letter officially announc-
ing the appointment of Consuls in South America:

" FOREIGN OFFICE, OCTOBER 17, 1823.

it GENTLEMEN-I am directed by Mr. Secretary Can
ning to acquaint you, in reference to your application
for protection to the trade of his Majesty's subjects with
the Provinces of Spanish America, that his Majesty's
Government have determined to send out forthwith
Consular Agents to the several ports and places in those
Provinces in which, as they have learned from the best
inquiry, British interests are at present most extensively
concerned.—l subjoin a list of these ports and places.
" I have the honour to be, &c.
(Signed) " JOSEPH PLANTA, Jun.
" Messrs. Josh. Marryatt and Son, &c. &c. &c."
Mum° ... Mexico Consul General.
Vera Crux Consul
Acapulco Ditto.
COLON:KA ... Santa Fe de Bogota Consul General.
La Guyra Consul.
Maraczybo Ditto.
Carthagena Ditto.
Panama Ditto.
Rio DX LA PLATA Buenos Ayres Consul General.
Ditto Vice Consul.
Monte Video Consul.
Valparaiso Consul General.
Vise Consul.
Ditto.
Consul General.
Vice Consul.
Ditto.

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The Etoile of Thursday, and the Pilate of yesterday,
reached us this morning, by Express. They contain
some curious statements respecting RIM() and BAL..
LAiTEROS. That the KING should receive the latter ith
great coolness is natural enough; but we do not know
what revelations Elmo had to make, since he bore the
King's commission, and fought for a Government de
facto and de jure. The following are extracts :

FROM THR ETOILE OF THURSDAY.
XERES, OCTOBER 5.

The Junta of this town gave last night, in the Man-
sion House, a brilliant ball, in which were assembled
persons of the highest distinction.
The following morning, after Mass, his Majesty, the
Princes, and
,the Royal Family went to the Church of
St. Dominique.

There will.taday be a general illumination,
LEBRIJA, OCTOBER 6.
His Majesty, with his children, who left Xeres at
seven o'clock in the morning, arrived within our walls
at eleven o'clock the same day.

GRACIA (PLAIN OP BARCELONA), OCTOBER 5.
Within these few days a French Colonel was sent with
a flag of truce to Barcelona, taking with him more than
200 letters, written by the prisoners at lelets to their
friends at Barcelona; he also informed them of the
taking of Figueras.

interview took place before the order was given to are
rest 11411astetos, which was acted upon by the codes.
sion of Riego. This is the report."
L' I►►dicateur of Bourdeaux gives also a letter from
Madrid of the same date, which gives the Decree sj
Ferdinand VII. of the Ist October, published a Pon
St. Marie, and aUds,—" The King declares besides, din
all the loans contracted by the Constitutional Govern.
ment are regarded as void, and of no value."
The ft igate Jean d' Arc left Martinique on the 2O
of August, with a convoy GC ten sail, and entered Bret
the 91h of October. A Telegraphic Dispatch announces
the arrival in that port of the frigate Thetis, which is
one of the division stationed at the Antilles.
MADRID, OCTOBER 9. •

Riego has been condemned to the punishment °idea&
lie was to undergo the sentence to-klay, but its exe.
cution has been postponed, in consequence of the
portant di closures he Las made, and is yet to make.
More than SOO persons are compromised, it is said, by
the disclosures whiel he has already made; but what
excites tbp most lively curiosity is, that some name'
-which have obtained a tort of celebrity in France, are
likely to make a sufficiently conspicuous figure in the
criminal processes.

Eighteen indiv irals, principally of the higher classes,
have been ordered to quit Madrid, by a Decree of h;1
Majesty.
A report prevailed to-day, that Quiroga was arrested
at the moment that he was endeavouring to effect his.
escape in the disguise of a seaman.

This morning we received the following speculations,
for they can scarcely be called intelligence,from Bayonne.

BAYONNE, OCTOBER 9.

A person from Madrid says, it was believed there,
that King Ferdinand would make some stop at Seville,
on his way to Madrid.
The trial of Riego has commenced before the civil
tribunal, notwithstanding his milittry rank; and this
circumstance makes it believed, that he will be saaificed..

No troops now remain at Pampeluna, except the ne••
cessary garrison ; all the rest are gone against Lerida,
the siege of which is to be vigorously pushed notwith-
standing the events at Cadiz.
It is said that the King will publish a Declaration re.
sembling that of St. Ouen. A treaty is spoken of, by
which 60,000 French are to occupy Spain for four years;
and the English, intervening as guarantees, will hold
Cadiz for the same period.

The disorder at Passages is neatly over : the physi.
clans, who had been sent there, have come back. A
part of the 41st regiment, however, remains as a cot.
don ; the 52d returns. The armed trincasiores wen
corning back to bur port t o be laid up, but were forced
by a gale into Socoa.

This morning we received Lisbon Papers to the it
inst. The Gazette of the preceding day announces tbs

liberation of the King of SPAIN, and the entrance yids.
Duc d'ANoormshra into' Cadiz, which is erroneously
stated to have taken place on the 28th ult. It wou
appear by an article from Oporto, that symptoms d
discontent had been manifested in that town. The fol.
lowing are extracts: