Star.
London, England, 1822-12-09 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

PARIS, DECEMBER 4.
Yesterday, before the Council, the King trans•
acted business with the Minister of War, and the
Duke of Angouleme with the Minister of the Marine.
Tuesday evening a Cabinet Courier was dispatched
for Madrid by the Duke of San Lorenzo, the Spanish
Ambassador in Paris.
M. Villanueva, appointed Minister from Spain to
the Cout t of Rome, and who lately passed through
Paris on his way to his destination, was, on his pas-
sage through Turin, officially informed by the Pope's
Nuncio at that Court of a Decree passed by his Ho-
liness, according to which, M. Villanueva would not
be received in his quality of Minister to the Holy
See. M. Villanueva then determined to proceed to
Genoa, whence he dispatched one of the persons of his
suite as a courier to Madrid, to give an account to.
the Government of the Pope's Decree, and to ask in-
structions for his future conduct.
The Constitutionnel announced that the Prussian
Chancellor, Prince Hardenberg, died on his journey
to Venice. It was not at Venice, but at Genoa, where
he arrived on the 14th, that this Minister terminated
his long and memorable career. His death will per-
haps lead to great changes in the Prussian Cabinet,
of which he was the chief, with an extremely exten-
sive power; but fur two years past he made no use
of his power, as his great age prevented him from
applying to business.
A letter from Munich, dated the 26th ult. states
that on the preceding day the marriage contract be-
tween the Pt ince Royal of Sweden anti the Princess
Josephine of Leuchtenberg was signed on the part of
the King of Sweden by Count Wetterstedt, and on
the part of his Bavarian Maje.ty by Count Rechberg.
M. Pozr.) DI BORGO arrived in Paris on Wed-
nesday, and on Thurcday had a conference with the
French Minister for Foreign Affairs. The Courier
Fronpis states that the Duke of WELLINGTON ar-
rived on Thursday.
A letter from Fuji, dated 27th, mentions the
arrival there of the Marquis de NI ATAYLORIDA, and
that the Baron D'EROLES was every moment ex-
pected.
Intelligence from Guayaquil to the Bth of Septem-
ber, received at New Yni k by way of Panama, states
that 400 J troops, dispatched by General Bouva
from Guayaquil, at the solicitation of SAN MARTIN.
had arrived at Callao, to aid in the expedition that
was al;out to sail against the Royalist Spaniards in
Upper Peru.
EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER FROM PERPIGNA N.

" Just as it was expected, the Baron LiTroles, not
being in force at Belvar, retreated. and left na that
point only a weak corps, which did not holdout half
an hour.

" Mina entered Poycerda on the 29th of Novem.
ber, at nine in the newning. The soldiers of the
At my of the Faith fell back on Bourg-Madame, and
took a position under the walls of the gardens, where,
on an iiaintation from M. Lavit, Chief of llatttalion
of the Light lufautry, who commanded the French
troops at that point, they laid down their arms.—
Mina's troops immediately ceased firing. They in•
qui red for the French Commander, and info' med him
that they would respect the frontier of Ft ance.
" The trooi:s of the same Genet al (Mina) pursued
those of the Baron d'Eroles in the mountaias on the
left of Puycerda, as far as nearly to the sil:age of Cr.
The latter also defended themselves on the extreme
frontier, and laid do., n !hell arms on being desired
so to do, by the Chief of B ittaiion Lift:Mile.
" The dilfereut parties of the Army of the Faith
have taken refuge in France. Those who penetrated
into the vaiiey of Andore, evacuated it on the first
order of the Syndic. Mina slimed a great respect to
the privileges of that valley.
" The French troops were under arms and in po-
sition on all the points whet e these actions took place."
NADRfp, NOVEMBER 16.
An article in the Universal of yesterday contains
the following passages:
" It impossible that the judicious men of Spain
should not feel, that if At the moment of the present
crisis we should consent to touch a single article of
the Constitution, fear and discouragement would
take possession of every mind, and that the social
edifiLe would fall in ruins, by opening a passage for
despotism to come and execute, without being re-
sisted. the atrocious vengeance that it meditates.
" The harmony winch exists between the Public
Authorities in Spain, and the concert with which we
see vigorous measures are adopted for the defence of
liberty, tranquillize, with respect to this point, all
those persons in Europe who are interested in the
fate of Spain ; and we believe that all the artifices
which the French Government makes use of to weaken
and divide us, will prove ineffectual.
" Let the Cabinet of the Thoilleries place the di-
rection of public affairs in the hands of the fanatical
zealots, and without delay they will openly declare
war against Spain. To speak candidly, it must be
acknowledged, that web a frank and straight for-
ward course of conduct would carry with it an ap-
pearance of greatness which might give a more fa-
vourable colour to the blind fury of our enemies.—
They would not, perhaps, attain their end, but pru-
dence requires that Spain should fear the worst, that
it may not experience the dreadful misfortuue of
being surprised.
" The friends of Spain and of liberty behold with
satisfaction the choice which the Government has
made of Generals Mina, Torrijos, and Velasco; and
they hope soon to hear that the factious have aban-
doned the three posts of Itati, Mequinenza, and Seo
d'Urgel. But these advantages are not sufficient. It
is necessary that an army of reserve,should be orga-
nized, which may act as the safety of the State shall
require. The friends of liberty would desire to see
the illustrious and valiant General Ballasteros at the
Bead of this army. His former services would be his
recommendation to all Europe, and particularly to
the French watriors,who are enthusiastic admirers of
glory and military talents.
" Finally, let the Spanish people do what the French
people and its national representation did at the me-
morable period when the Manifesto of the Duke of
Brunswick made its appearance."
TUE FUNDS.
TnuasnAY.—Five per Cents. opened at 88. 25 ;
hi hest price 88. 30. ; closed at 87.95,
MAT.- Five per Cents. opened at 87. 60. ;
closed at 87. 70.

THE EVESIN(i STAR.

LONDON.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1822.
THE FUNDS.
STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Consols opened this morning at 804, and went up to 4 ; and,
up to this hoar, are 804. In the early -part of the morning, a
good deal of business was done. Three Expresses arrived this
morning from Path, with the closing price of the French Funds
on Funds on Saturday evening, which was 88—Neapolitan 77,
Spanish 554 4. .

IFORZIGN lIITXDS.

Little doing except in Spanish fonds, which opened this
morning at 54, and are now 53. The information from Paris
is of a very pacific nature. The prices of foreign securities are
the same as on Saturday, up to this hour—Spanish Scrip 11 dis.
New Spanish Bonds 53.
STOCK EXCHANGE,46NE O'CLOCK.
The Funds are rather worse within the last hour. Consols
for Account are 801.

TOSUCX MASKS'''.

Little business is doing except in Spanish Stock, which is at
524 i, and the Scrip Ile discount; Neapolitan 77i. Nothing
doing in any other Stocks. •
PRICES OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
3 per Cent. Reduced 79% % 1/8
31/2 per Cent. 911h-4 per Cent. 971/4 9674
Bank Long Annuities 201/4 1-16
India Bonds 345.
Each. Bills (01,000) 3s. ss.—Small 3s. 6s. pr.
Consols for Acct. 801,4 3/8 % 1/4 3/e.

The French Papers of Thursday and Friday are as

pacific as the best friends of peace could wish them,
Notwithstanding all the bullying, the French Govern.
meat appears now to

" Start back,
" E'en from the sound itself bath made !"
And we shall probably, ere long, have to record the
fate of the military preparations of Lours XVIII. in
a Parody of an Epigram on his ancestor, Louis Lic
GRAND, and thus sum lip " the big wars that were
to make ambitions glorious," with stating, that

" The King of France, with forty thousand men,
blarcli'd to the l'yrennees, and then—marcled back again !"
The 3loniteur—even the Moniteur, the Frenci

Journal, in an article from Perpignan, con-
firms the complete rout and dissolution of the Army
of the Faith. And thus this boasted army, which was
to reduce Spain to a new tyranny, has been chased
from post to post, and at last driven to seek refuge in
France, and all this effected with a mere handful of
men, the forces of MINA being only stated at three
thousand men.

The 411oniteur too, which represented MIRA a
a mere savage, ready to violate the laws of neutra
lity, and to spread sedition and revolution in the

provinces of France, is compelled to bear official

testimony to the good conduct of that army, and to
record the moderation of its chief. It appears that

he military authorities on both sides of the frontier
ue stuJiously careful to avoid any act which might

appear of a hostile character. When the rebels of
the Faith arc driven out of their native land, the
French officcrs make them lay down their arm ; and
when the Si,ani%h troops, in the heat of the pursuit,
approach the French territory, they cease firing, and
declare that they will respect the frontier line.
Such an acknowledgment in the French official
Journal ii strong proof that the Government is not
quite so eager or so prepared for war as it wished
the wort.' to believe, and in consequence we find the
public funds in Paris recovering from the panic
which the dread of a disa.trous war (and to France
it could not be otherwise) had occasioned.
There are, hoWever, in France, Journals devoted to
a fanatical party which, though professing the most
unbounded attachment to the Throne, is its worst
enemy : and on more than one occasion the French
Government has been compelled to disavow the state-
ments of the Ultra faction by more temperate avowals.
Thus while these Ultra Journals have been boasting

of the strength of the Army of the Faith, the Mani-
tear tells us that this army exists no longer, that, in
fact, " rebellion has had ill luck ," and that the in-