Star.
London, England, 1824-09-07 00:00:00

CARACCAS, JUNE 16.

On the Bth inst. General Escalons took possession of
the Intendancy of this department, with the accustomed
formalities. Our readers will perceive, in this day's
paper, a proclamation that has been lately issued by
his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief of Venezuela,
enjoining all persons within the department under his
command, who have held military rank in the Spanish
army, to present themselves at the head-quarters within
eight days after the publication of the order.

Norfolk (United States) Papers have reached us to
the lit ult. but they do not contain any news.

This morning we received the Frankfort Journal to
the Ist inst. The only article it contains worth quoting
is an Ukase of the Emperor of RUSSIA, permitting the
importation of fine plain calicoes, duty-free, for the
period of four years ensuing; a measure, the policy of
which is unquestionable. The following is the article
to which we allude :

PETERSBURGII, AUGUST 17.
The Senate has promulgated, by two Ukases, dated
the 22d and 23d of July last, two supreme resolutions,
of which the following are the chief heads :
1. In consequence of a petition to the Board of Fi-
nance, by which many of the principal manufacturers
of printed calicoes solicit an exemption from import
duties for the white calicoes which they print in their
establishments ; and on a representation of the Minister
of FinanCe, his Majesty the Emperor his been pleased to
order, that not only the manufacturers who are the
authors of the petition, but all others who shall pro-

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dace the certificate* requited by the legulatiaiti bf
1820 on this subject, provided their machines are of
the same kind as thole of the former, may, fol. the space
of four years from this time, import, free of duty, the
finest white calicoes, on condition that each piece, one
arsheen broad and 36 long, shall not weigh above four
pounds and three-quarters. For this purpose, as well
as for the importation, duty free, of cambric:, muslin!,
and jaconots, which is also authorized, for the same
time and on the same conditions, permits shall be deli-
vered to them, conformably to the regulation on the
liberty granted in 1820, for one year, to the same ma-
nufacturers, and prolonged for another year by a su-
preme decision of the Ist July, 1821.
The number of pieces of plain calico which etch ma-
nufacturer may receive annually, duty free, is filed at
6,000 per machine, and at 25 per table. This immu-
nity may be revoked, if circumstances shall make it

seem necessary.

The manufacturers are at liberty either to order their
calicoes directly from abroad, or to purchase on the
Exchange of st. Petersburgh, those which have not yet
paid the duties, provided they answer to the conditions
above stated.

On receiving the calicoes duty free, each manufac-
turer must deposit at the Custom House, a bond in
writing, to produce at the end of the year authentic
certificates, sheaving that the whole of what they have
received has been actually printed. If the manufac-
turer has not printed them at the end of the year, he
shall within two weeks pay the whole import duty
fixed by the tariff, without being therefore exempt from
printing them, which he shall be obliged to do imme-
diately. He shall not be allowed to receive any more
duty free, till he has paid those duties ; and if it is proved
that he has sold plain calicoes, he shall not only be irre-
vocably deprived of the immunity, but also proceeded
against by law, as guilty of a fraud on the Customs.
2. On the application of the Merchants of St. Peters-
burgh, and the recommendation of the Minister of
Finance, his Imperial Majesty has been pleased to per-
mit that the import duty, which by the supplement to
the Tariff of 1822, promulgated last year, was raised
to one ruble 25 copecs silver per pood, gross weight, on
oil in barrels, shall be taken henceforth on the net
weight, deducting 17 per cent. for tare.

A Mail has arrived from Buenos Ayres, with letters
to the 26th of June. By this packet has come passenger
M. RILVADAVIA, through whose wise administration for
the last four years that State has been enabled to make
such rapid advances in prosperity. He was in fact at
the head of the Government, though he bore only the
title of Principal Secretary of State. It is said that M.
RIVADAVIA has entirely closed his political career with
his resignation of his late office, and that he intends to
retire to private life; but it is obvious that his residence
here or in any part of Europe may, by the very general
knowledge of, and confidence in, his character, be made
productive of great good to Buenos Ayres, as well as to
the great cause itself of South American independence.
An extraordinary improvement has taken place at
Buenos Ayres in the value of six per cent. Govern-
ment Stock circulating there, in consequence of the

communications from this country, respecting the high
state of credit enjoyed here by the South American
Governments, and the prospect, since realized, of
raising money on equally favourable terms for Buenos
Ayres. This security rose from 50 to 82 per cent. and
a still greater advance occurred in the shares of the
.new
Bank, which from par rose to a premium of 70 per cent•
The following is an extract from the Buenos Ayres
paper entitled The Argos, of the 23d of June, which
came by the same conveyance:—" Among the various
articles of intelligence communicated from Salta by the
last courier, who arrived at the end of the preceding
week, is the report that in Cabija, a port of Atacama,
had disembarked General MILLER, belonging to the
Army of Independence, with the title of General of the
Vanguard. In this army were expected 2,500 destined to
act against the Royalist General OLANETA. It is posi-
tively stated, likewise, that Brigadier ESPARTERO, the
particular friend of General LA SERNA, and much com-
promised in the plans of command in which that General
insists, under condition of playing the principal pact,
had embarked under pretext of proceeding to Spain,
but with the real object of going to another quarter to
combine plans of importance. By the Fame convoy it
is communicated, that the Constitutional General VAL..
Du, having been much weakened in Mora, had been
conducted to La Par., where he died in a few days,
If this news be true, OLANETA 14s lost one of his
principal rivals, FERDINAND VII. one of his greatest
enemies, and the cause of independence one of its most
zealous supporters."
It appears by letters which have been received from
Rio de Janeiro, dated the 22d of June, that the alarm
of an armament from Lisbon still pervaded the Brazi-
lian Capital and had the effect of almost paralysing
commercial operations. The Emezaort and his Minis-
ters manifested unceasing activity to place the city and
harbour in the most complete state of defence. An or-
der had been issued to put in requisition every fifth
slave ter the service of the Government, to be employed
in the repair of the fortifications. This state of things
had had the effect of provoking great animosity on the
part of the Brazilians against the native Portuguese re-
sident in Rio de Janeiro, many of whom felt so insecure
on that account, that they were endeavouring to con-
vert their property into money or bills, in order to re-
tire to Europe.
The General Assembly of Deputies from the Brazi-
lian provinces held their first sitting at Rio de Janeiro
on the 21st of June, but the EMPEROR did not attend
on that occasion. His proceedings, or rather those of
his Ministers, for Don PEDRO himself has credit for

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honest intatiam, *ere witChed wiazsoma (11 stitist,
source of which it is difficult to.tollect from the events
that transpire publicly. the only circumstance alleged,
at all bearing a suspicious character, was his unceasing
endeavours to create among the ranks of the army a
strong attachment to his person, which is more easily
explained by his fears of the ascendancy of the Repub-
lican party, than by any treacherous intercourse with
Portugal, the danger of which was every day becoming
greater. A considerable number of the troops had
been embarked for Praya Grande, on the opposite
side of the bay, where the Officers and men were gra-

tified by splendid entertainments, at which the EaP
vaitoa assisted in person. Whatever his secret views
may be, it is not difficult to foresee that the future his-
tory of the heir apparent to the throne of Portugal is
pregnant with great events.
Accounts from Bahia, of the 4th of July, state that a
French frigate and a brig had left that port for Pernam-
buco, on account of the murder of five natives of
France during the late disturbances.
The following is an extract of a private letter, ad-
dressed to a commercial house of the first respectability:

" Rio DI JANUPLO, Jogs 22.

11 Since the 18th inst. all the energies of the Govern-
ment have been put in activity for placing this capital
and its suburbs in the best possible posture of defence,
in case the expected attack from Lisbon should be made
in this neighbourhood. Nothing is now going on but
military movements, pressings, recruiting:, and forti-
lying the Bay and neighbouring coast. The Town
Militia is on constant duty, and for the last few days
the Officers have been incessantly occupied from house
to house collecting household slaves, in virtue of an
official order to lend one in every five,' as labourers
for thirty days on the surrounding fortifications, with
peremptory directions to seize them by force if necessary.
—Those Negroes sent out by the proprietors as street
porters with baskets, trunks, &c. are all demanded by
the Government for the same term, as well as the slaves
of certain mechanics, such as carpenters, smiths, &c.
Bomb and gun-boats and fire-vessels are ordered to be
got ready. We further understand that measures are
provided for removing the Bank, the Treasury, and the
Imperial Family, in case of need, into the interior of
the Minas: but this, like various reports, needs confir-
mation. A general pardon has been issued in favour of
all deserters who shall return within a given time ; an
extensive promotion in the Army and Navy has been
gazetted, and out Official Edicts breathe nothing to-
wards the inhabitants but conciliation, rewards, excite-
ment, and amor patriot. All the launches and lighters
usually employed in transporting cargoes on shore or
on board are this morning put in requisition, and
some of the Trapiches are shut up, under pretence of
thus having nothing to do, but more likely for the pur-
pose of concealing their wot king Negroes f:om seizure.
—Thus every operation is totally suspended in shipping,

in the Custom House, and in our stores. Net withstand.

ing the commercial interest must materially suffer
during this state of things, we can but contemplate with
some satisfaction these symptoms of energy se apparent

in the recent measures of the Government ; and they

are doing all in their power, by example and exhosta-
don in appeal to the patriotism of the country, to come
forward with devotion and spirit in lending all pos-
sible aid,, so as to enable the Government to save the
country in general, and this city in particular. In short,
we are assuming throughout a warlike and imposing
attitude; and you will naturally conclude that these
strong and alarming measures have in no small degree
panic-struck for the moment the peaceable inhabitants,
and so paralysed every branch of business, that while
such state of preparation and suspense continues, we
expect having little mote to do comparatively than to
look on, watch, and report passing events.
41 With regard to the Emperor, there can be but one
lopinion, that he will be found at the post of honour
should the day of trial come. His personal courage is
no more doubtful than his unceasing activity, vigilance,
and attention, even to the lowest details of every de-
partment; and such a personage must and w ill be, as
he certainly now is, most popular with the army; and
we must hope that SQ brillitnt an example will create
a contagion of feeling amongst his civilian subjects, if
they are not entirely lost to all such noble feelings as
inspired our country when the B'itish soil was insulted
with a similar hostile menace of invasion and conquest.
" Business continues languid beyond description, aid
likely to remain so for some time; for, independent of
the stagnation occasioned by political events, our stocks
of European goods are so large, and supplies so con-
stant, in spite of the bad accounts which must have
long since reached Europe, that nothing short of a
miracle can cause a brisk demand at fair prices."

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- THE LATE IfR. MOATTEFrORE. I
Mr. Mtiniefiore possessed a wane dui generous heart, ur..itea
with a sensibility of feeling unusually acute; the effects of this be.
nign temperament stone conspicuously in all his actions, and dix.
trey and misery were never known to plead In vain. in his do.
mitotic character hie conduct was above all praise, but the generosity
of his disposition more particularly developed itself at a very im.
portant crisis of his life. Born and bred a Gentleman, and gifted
by nature with a person remarkably handsome, he very early en.
gaged the affection of his first wife, a young Lady of consult:cable
charms and endowments : she loved him to distraction, nor was his
affection less ardent; but many obstacles were presented to their
union. At this juncture, with a nobleness of feeling which did him
infinite credit, he sacrificed every selfish consideration to reward
her devoted attachment ; and, rising above the exclusive tendency
of his men religion, and the opposite interests of his family, united
his fate'svith bees; and the tender solicitude with which be rubie-
rlingering consumption, can ouiy
was amply rewarded,
by the Indefatigable, and it
bqteen equalled,tly svat catedit over her during
may be termed, heroic services of his now disconsolate widow, du-
ring his late protracted and fatal illness. His conduct to the rel.,_
titres and friends of his first wife was marked with unchang,al,,,
kindness, and be continued to the day of his death their nitiniLtiit
patron and kind friend.

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FETE CHAMPETRE.

For some time past a ball to the Ladies of Hertfordshire has been
in the contemplation of the Cricket Club at St. Alban's ; and the Mar-
quis of SALISBURY proposed that It should be a fete of no ordinary
description. The motion was seconded by Lord Hann:roe, and the
day fixed was the :.oth of August ( Monday se'nnight.) On the 28th
a hollow square on the plain was marked out and fenced in, occupy.
lug several acres. In the centre a temporary room was erected,
eighty feet in length by twenty-five. The interior was lined and
decorated with the hnest flowers, brought from the hot and succes-
sion houses of all the Nobles in the vicinity, and the whole were
illuminated by a profusion of small globular lamps in purple and
white, thus shedding a mild radiance around. At the upper end of
the room was a noble transparency, representing the insignia of the
club, first established in the year 1668—namely, two bats, crossed,
resting against the stumps, and the ball in the air, oak and laurel
leaves. This was the ball-room. There were stars and festoons
on the grounds ; and the trees were illuminated also. It was, in
short,* littleVauxhall, far above 20,000 variegated lamps were used,
amd they produced an effect quite novel in that part of the coon.
try. At half-past eight the Nobility and Gentry began to arrive in
carriages drawn by four horses with outriders in rich liveries. lu
a fanciful marquee, at the entrance, the band of the Hertford
Militia struck up a variety of enlivening strains. About half-past
nine o'clock, the dancing commenced on the platform, when three
sets of quadrillers appeared, mostly all aspirants, and among them
were the young Marquis of Aszacoast and his brother. The music
was excellent, and sent from London. About midnight it was a
very gay scene. The Ladies were magnificently attired. At one
o'clock supper was announced in an adjoining room; covers were
laid for 250. The banquet consisted of everything superexcelleor.
The ices, fruits, confectionary, sad Roman punch, were alike ad-
rAtrable. It was not a supper at side-tables, for seats were pro-
vided for all (about 800), and the wines were of fourteen different
sorts, all foreign, and equally good iu their way. The dancing o
kept up with great spirit till half-past four o'clock. As the day
broke, the carriages were returning. All were delighted with the
managers of thefeie. A number of Nobility and Gentry were present.

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PREVENTIO.V OF CRIME,

*ND PROTECTION TO THE INDIGENT.

A Public Meeting was this day held at the City of London T.,
Tern, Ludgate-bill, fur the purpose of forming a Society, to administer
temporary pecuniary relief, &e. to those unfortunate persons who
may be charged with Felonies and Misdemeanours, aUeged to !rive
been committed within the City of London and County of Middle-
sea, and whose Dills of Indictment were afterwards ignored by the
Grand Jurors—Sir rETIR Lamar, Knt. ice. in the Chair.
The objects which this Society will have in view are, to adminis.
ter pecuniary or such other assistance as circumstances may require,
to enable discharged prisoners to proceed to their homes and Ml-
low their lawful avocations, or otherwise provide them with situa.
lions in life suited to their capacities and characters, in order that,
by not being thrown on the world, they may be prevented from a
recurrence of offence.

By twelve o'clock a considerable number of Gentlemen of emi-
nence were in attendance ; in addition to which we were gratified
with the presence of a number of Ladles, who kindly came forward
in aid of so humane aud laudable an Ir.stitution. It is also worthy
of remark, that Mr. Clarke, the proprietor of the tavern, gave the
use of the room gratuitously on the occasion.
The worthy Knight haying taken the Chair, briefiy addressed
the Meeting, and set birth the great benefits that would doubtlesply
follow the formation of the intended Society.
Several Gentlemen addressed the Meeting, in the course of which
a number of communications, from different Societies and persons,
were read. The Resolutions having been read, were agreed to, a
Committee appointed to carry them into effect, and a liberal Sub-
scription entered into by those present. It was also resolved, that
the proceedings of this day should be inserted in the Daily and
Evening Papers ; and that the Association should be called—" The
Society for the Prevention of Crime, and Protection of the Indigent.
And that the Committee should Report their Proceedings to a
General Meeting, to be called for the purpose."

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