Star.
London, England, 1824-03-15 00:00:00

CHILE LOAN.

The FOURTH HALF-PEARL] DIVIDEND on the
above LoAN, which becomes due on the :ist inst. will be PAID
by Messrs. Hewerv, BICOTIIEM, and Co. at their Counting-house,
No. 104, Leadenhall-street, on that and every succeeding Day (Sun-
days excepted), between the hours of Ten and Two o'Clock. The
Dividend Warrants, with a List thereof, in numerical order, must
be left for examination one day previous to the application for Poy-
ment.—London, March 10, 19x4.

PRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCN.
$ per Cent. Cons. 931/4 :A
4 I:er Cents. New 106%s 1071/8 107
India Builds 755. 7.7,—South Sea Stock 103'/8
(xc Leg. Bill, .0,;0) 48s. 50s.—Srnall 48s: 4Us. 503.
India 101 Acct. i. 082 983—, tor do. 931/8 4.

We are happy to learn that the Swedish Government
is following the example set by England, -of relieving
trade from the many absurd regulations by which it bas
been so long hampered. The experiment, though of
recent standing, has been already attended with the most
beneficial effects, Swedish commerce having materially!
improved in consequence. This successful essay will
probably be an inducement to other Powers, notwith-
standing their piesent prejudices, and their horror of
every kind of innovation, to imitate the same enlight-
ened pi •
One of the new regulations of the Swedish Govern-
ment for the improvement of the trade of its subjects, is
a Project of Law w hich has been laid before the
Storthing, proposing the repeal of the ancient laws re-
lative to the duties of Customs, &c. According to this
new plan, the Ordonnances prohibiting the importation
of French, Spanish, and Portuguese wines, except im-
mediately from the respective countries, would be abo-
lished ; and rum, which has beers hitherto subjected to
the same restrictions, is to be- allowed to be imported
direct from England. After the expiration of a certain.,
period, coffee is not to be imported in bales or packages
that do not. exceed a cwt. and French brandy and rum
in catks containing above 120 pots. The plan further
Dv:poses to reduce the import duties on certain goods,
and to ant-ir.eat them on others; amongst the latter are
ctifee, s,lgar, and tobacco. ,

Tl. e advices of the dispersion of the Independents un-.
der General SANTA Cnuz, near the river Desaguadero,
and their subsequent evacuation of Upper Pe.n, first
received by the way of Gibraltar, have been confirmed
by accounts bra nght by the last Brazil packet. The
pat ticula:s reacaed Buenos Ayres from the interior, and
mere published in the Argos of that place. It will be
remembered that when the Royalists, in. the mooth of
la.,t Jnly, came down from the high lands and occupied
Lima, a Patriotic expedition was fitted out and sent to
the Intermedios, or the pons between Lima and Chile.
The command of this force was confided to General
SANTA CRUZ, and with it he rapidly advanced to La
Paz, Oruro, &c. and, in the absence of the Royalists,
made himself master of all Upper Peru. The Royalist
Chief VALDtz advanced along the coast, then SANTA
CRUZ took up a strong position on the river Desagua-
der°, in which it seems he was attacked last September
and dislodged. The particulars of this action are con-
tainsd in the following Report, horn which, although
great allowances are to be made fur the interested feel-
ings of the writer, who is one of the Royalist Com-1
it is very clear that the sett eat of General
SANTA CRUZ to Mocregua on the coast, where he now
is, mu-t have been extremely disastrous, and the moral
effect of this loss must have been great in the minds of,
the inhabitants.