Star.
London, England, 1823-04-25 00:00:00

THE KING.

We are happy to announce that his MAJESTY is
fast recovering from his late severe and sudden at-
tack of the gout. '
The following answer was given to the inquiries
at Carlton Palace at Two &Clock this day :
"The KING has passed a favourable night, and is
more free from pain, and greatly improved in his
health this morning." '

The policy of the British Cabinet in the late nego-
ciations came last night under general discussion in
the House of Lords.
Lord ELLENNOROVGII moved that it should be re-
presented, in an Address to his MAJESTY, that " the
course of negotiation pursued by his Majesty's Mi-
nisters was not calculated to support the honour and
just interests of the British People, or to afford any
reasonable expectation of averting the war which is
now commenced."—What better course could have
been followed the Noble Lord did not, 'however,
specifically suggest; for on this point he proposed
merely that the House should declare it to be their
opinion that " a more prompt, decisive, and unequi-
vocal policy would have afforded the best hopes," &c.
His Lordship was supported by Lords HOLLAND
and KING, in speeches which were equally condem-
natory of Ministers, and equally vague as to the sort of
conduct which they would hate had them to pursue.

Earl GRIM at last entered the lists, and removed
ali doubt as to the real point for which the Noble
Earl and his party were contending. He declared
openly and boldly that Ministers should have backed
their remonstrance to France by a threat that, if she
did not take our advice and let the Spaniards alone,
we would go to war against her ; and have done so
too with the perfect determination of commencing

hostilities the moment that threat was disregarded.
How rash and foolish such a line of conduct waWid
have been; how truly Ministers have consulted the
honour and interests of their country, by the opposite
course which they have pursued, our Readers will
see most ably and triumphantly demonstrated by the
speeches of the Duke of WELLINGTON and the Earls
of LIVERPOOL and HARROWBY. So satisfactory was
the case which they made out, that the House, on
the motion of Lord GRANVILLE, agreed, by an im-
mense majority, to an amended Address to his MA-
JESTY, in which they applaud, in the strongest terms,
the conduct•of Ministers throughout the late nego-
ciations, and the system which they are steadily put.-
suing, of endeavouring, by every fair and hnnourable
means, to preserve to the country the blessings of
peace.

The Courier is pursuing a course of hostility to-
wards Mr. CANNING, from which some people idly
deduce a proof of disunion among Ministers."
That it is 6, in the pay;" as alleged, of any part of
the British Ministry, it would be libellous to
suppose. The foreign interests which it has lately
advocated, and the hired zeal with which it has
been vindicating the policy of foreign Cabinets, in
opposition to that of England, make it abundantly
manifest that it can have no countenance whatever
from any Member of the , English Cabinet. We
are convinced that in the enmity which it expresses
to Mr. CANNING, it does not speak the sentiment: of
a single individual with whom the Right Honourable
Secretary is associated. The Cabinet, as the Presi-
dent of the Council declared last night, is or one
mind as to the line of policy which has been pur-
sued in the management gf our foreign relations.
—The enmity, of which the Courier is the vehicle,
is the enmity of M. CHATEAUBRIAND and M.
VlLLatz ; an enmity which it is honourable to
have provoked, for it arises from the able manner in
which Mr. CANNING has assisted to expose the flagi-
tiousness and folly of the Government over which
these Ministers preside. _

The Stock Exchange was this morning very fertile
in rumours. One Broker shook his head, and whis-
pered disastrous news from France, and a fall of two
and a half per cent. in the French funds ; another
made the Russians very active in hiring transports in
Holland, to fetch the 100,000 men the Morning
Chronicle bas in ambush.at Dantzick ! A third had a
Wapping rumour, that press warrants have been
granted ; a fourth rumour, and certainly the most
probable, was, th*t MINA had approached the French,
frontier : but even this could not be traced to any;
authentic source.
We have to add to the preceding rumours another
which hits reached us as we are going to press. An
insurrection is said to have taken place in Madrid, in
favour of the French. It is an improbable story, and

• comes td us wholly unvOuched. It is illesea to baste
been brought by a vessel which has arrived froM Cadiz.
Accounts from Paris of Wedoeiday state the. French
funds on that day, ate3f. 6.5 c. It is said, that all fo-
reign funds have fallen two per cent. at Amsterdam.

Bayonne papers to the 18th inst. reached us this
forenoon; but they contain no news of particular in-
terest. It appears that the plan of excluding the
Army of the Faith from the vanguard has been re-
laxed in regard to QUEISADA, who issued a procla-
mation to the inhabitants of Bilboa, announcing that
he would soon enter the city, followed by the French
army, whose discipline and liberality he aises
highly. He calls on the inhabitants to remain tran-
quil at home—to provide provisions for both armies,
as the' French army pays ready, money for every
thing that it uses ;" though he does not promise so
much for the Army of the Faith. Ile urges them to
restore the municipality which existed before the year
1820; and " ?hove all, to let the stone of the Con-
stitution be temoved."

Letters from Bilboa and Vittoria of the 13th inst.
state that QUESADA entered both these cities before
the French.

It has been stated as certain, that the Ist Corps
was going to march in the direction of Pampeltma,
in order to join the third, and endeavour to repulse
the Spanish troops which are uniting between Ta-
faillat and Tudela, and which are composed of the
corps of BALLASTZROS, 'the Pastor, and all the Pa-
triots who have voluntarily quitted the connu-y at
present occupied by the French and the Army of
the Faith. But this movement seems not to have
been effected; for an Officer who left Vittoria on the
16th, says, that the vanguard of the Ist Corps bad
taken up its position the same day on the Ebro.—
Those whose hopes of success are sanguine, will have
it that Pampeluna is ready to be delivered up to the
French troops; and that, in a few days, the town,
and even the citadel, will be evacuated, without firing
a shot, and without capitulation.

Jamaica Papers to a late date have reached us.
One of them states that Iruaistraa, the Emperor of
Mexico, has been stabbed. The following is the
statement on the subject, in the Royal Gazette:

" Letters of the 2d ult. (February) have been received in this
city from La Yen Crus, which state that the 10,000 men who
'were besieging that city, bad declared for the Congress, and had
guaranteed the life of Immune, till that body should assemble.
He however was afterwards, It seeins,stabbed on the public parade.
The Congress would meet without delay, in order to re-establish
the Constitution which existed previous to the usurpation."

Santa Fe Gazettes to the 20th of February, con-
tain a dispatch from BOLL VA R, dated Pasto, 9th
January. He had just heard of the succcesses of
MoaaLzs, and was on his march to conduct the
campaign against him.

The transports which left Rio de Janeiro on the
13th of November in fast year, for Monte Video, for
the purpose of embarking the Portuguese troops there
for Portugal, were detained in the harbour, and the
rudders unshipped. Logo, the naval commander,
had joined General Lacoa. The Portuguese troops
were united with those of Buenos Ayres, and acting
against Licoa. The Conception had left the Tagus,
for Bahia, with provisions, and two more transports
were to sail for the same destination on the 10th inst.
The Angola expedition, of 800 men, would reach Ba-
hia about the end of February, and the second expe-
dition, of 1,800 men, would arrive there abbut the
end of March, when it was thought MADEIRA would
commence, more active operations.