Star.
London, England, 1824-04-20 00:00:00

Sept. 40
from 12th July next.

Aug. 18

With interest at four per cent.

13} Oa. 15 3
The Loan bears a premium in the market of 4i 5
per cent.

TI I 14-: EVENING STARS.

LONDON.

TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1824.
BASTia TUISDAY.—HoIiday at the Bank.
THE FUNDS.

CI ry, Tw EINE O'CLOCK,

This is a Close Holiday in the City. The Bank, Stock Exchange,
. and Foreign l‘larket, are all shut. Some few respectable Brokers
have assembled on the Royal Exchange, and bargains have been
made for to-morrow, in Consols, at 96, which is much the same as
. they left off yesterday (for Money). AS yet there does not seem
to be any business of consequence going forward in either the Na-
tional or Foreign Securities. Columbian Scrip has just been done
at four premium.

AUSTRIAN FUNDS.
VIENNA, APRIL 6.—Five per Cent. Metalliques 97. 7-16. 13k. Sh.
1051. 9-10.

This morning we received the Arabian Observer to
the Bth instant. It contains no intelligence, hut gives

the follov.ing obet vations on the French El& c!ivirs,
which the Editor states has been " sent lot inset Lion":
" A Parisian correspondent of the Allgcmcine 2ci-
Lung (No. S 4, of 24th March) endeavours toexplain the
brilliant result of the late Elections for the Chamber of

Deputies, by the bolditerrs with which the Ministry dis
regarded the political consciences of these electors, who
at the same time held offices under Government, and
to whom nn alternative was left but either to declare in
favour of the Royalist candidates, or to lose their places.
—While any Minister that should act otherwise, and
really allow the tender political conscience of a servant
of the King, to decide in favour of Messrs. Manuel,
Lafayette, and Co. must be accused, to speak in the
gentlest terms, of a treasonable negligeace ; this Cor-
respondent of the Allg,emeine Zeitung endeavours to
represent this conduct of the Ministry as a sliilfally
executed matazuvre of the predominant corruption, and
even to put into the mouth of a French Minister the
foolish words—'When the business is but accomplished,
success makes everything forgotten:
" We should have paid no attention to these expres-
sions of a sit:gle discontented straggler in the train of
the Revolution, were it not worth while, on this occa-
sion, to call to mind that, with the other political dis-
crders in Ent ope, the difference has ceased which had
crept in between the service of the State and that of the
Sovereign, by which it was allowed to serve the King
with the hand, and at the same time the King's bit-
terest enemies with heart and lips ; and that, besides the
- religious conscience, there is henceforth no distinct ten-
der political conscience, the freedom of which Go-
vernments have to respect in their servants. Even the
British Ministers themselves, however free they may be
in the exercise of their functions, mast make innume-
rable sacrifices and concessions of their private opinions
before they enter on their office; how, then, should an
unctaiditional liberty of political opinion be admis.ible
in the monarchically constituted States of the Continent?
4, In times when moral and honourable sentiments
predominate, a man who had taken an oath to serve
his master, would think it an in,ult to his honour if a
second were required of him, by which he should bind,
himself to serve, Or to pay any imaginary being, whether
it were called state, vitas publica, or public opinion,
Rather than his master. But we were so dishonoured
and deluded by the equivocation of the revolutionary
kloctrines,that the dignity of the public servant appealed
precisely to consist in that double dealing. Ni) reproach
can be trade to the French Ministry, except that it did
not by a Royal ordonnance at once proclaim, as of ge-
neral application, the important principle on which it par-
tially acted in the Elections that have just terminated."

We have received the Paris Papers of Sdturday, with

the Erode,. dated on Sunday. In the Chamber of De.
puties ou Satur lay, the only subject of interest was the
Report of the Commission appointed to inquire into the
project for reducing the interest of the National Debt.
his of no interest to the English reader. The conclu-
sion ist that " the Commission propose the adoption of

the project without amendment." A letter was read b) '
the PRESIDENT from M. BENJAMIN CONSTANT, stating
that he was compelled to be absent from the Chamber
for.three weeks, for the purpose of procuring the neces-
sary documents to prove the validity of his election.

It is announced that Lieutenant-General KmAtm DE
LA RAFFINIERE having refused the command of the
Army of Occupation, it is the Viscount DIJEON who
will replace M. DE BOURNIONT. It is also said that
General MouToN will take the command at Cadiz of
the second brigade of the Army of Occupation. Ge-

neral DESPERAMONS has the command in Madrid at
this moment. General CLOUET, who spitted the capital
a shot t time since, is gone to Valencia with his brigade;
a battalion of Swiss troops and artillery are gone to
Toledo, where his MAJESTY was to pass the Passion
Week, and then return to Aranjuez. Five hundred
horses are to be sent to Xeres.

The first division of Spanish prisoners passed through
Perpignan on the ith instant, on their way to Spain.
The Marquis of MATArLoiIiDA, President of the lte•
gene), of Urgel, quitted Burgos on the Gth, on his way
to Tunis, where he is appointed Ambassador.
It appears that the Spanish Government has not

thought it sufficient for one Agent of Finances to go to
Paris; therefore it has sent M. BURGOS, whose principal
mission is to examine what means of credit the Spanish
Government can obtain there. The following are er-