Star.
London, England, 1824-05-07 00:00:00

PRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.

Bunk Stock 20-3 per t. ent. Reduced 95%. s/8
per Cent:Consols 903/4 1/ :',/8-13i per Cents. 1021/2
4 per Cents. Assented 101% -/8
4 per Cents. New 108% 1/2
India Stock 299%—India Bonds 83s. 85s.
ELclieq. Bills (1:1,000 495. 50s. 485.. 595.
Ditto Small 51s. 48s. 50s.
Consols for Acct. 98 Vg

The Alarmists, who see in every harbour a fleet for
invasion, and in every State a plot to overturn it, might
lung ago have received their quietus as to the French
naval armaments, but that

a Ile who is convinced against his will,

Is of the saint (Thaw still."
'e were too well convinced of the pacific disposition
of the French Court, the necessity France has for tran-
quillity, and the vigilance of our own Government, to
suppose for a moment, that a French fleet of any force
could be secretly gliding front the ports of France to
that of Rio de Janeiro. A few evenings ago, SirJANtEs
MACKINTOSH put a question to Mr. Secretary CANNING,
which was answered very satisfactorily. Last night
the !tight Honourable Gentleman again adverted to
the subject, and set it at rest completely.—The
eighteen French ships of war with which our con-
temporaries crowded the harbour of 11:o de Janeiro,
have 44 vanished into air—thin nir." It will be seen, in
referring to the debate, that no time had been lost on
the part of Ministers to obtain an explanation from the
French Government, which was equally prompt in re-
futing the ridiculous reports. The French Minhter of
Marine has supplied our Government with an au-
thentic and accurate Statement not only of their force
at Rio de Janeiro, but of every ship of war in the
French Navy, by which it apyears, that at the date of
the last accounts from Rio de Janeiro, there were but
two in that harbour, and that one of these is now on her
say home: so that the formidable fleet th7.t was to re-
store Brazil to Portugal, and to armillilate our corn-
merce with the New World, consists of a single French
ship of the line. The Honourable Secretary for Foreign
Affairs further assured the House that, without the
slightest appreheilsion of our armed ships being called
into action, cur naval force on every station outnumbers
tliat of France or any other country.

Thi; forenoon we received the itoniteur of Wednes-
day, and the Einiir (dated yesterday), with private
let ers from Paris of Wednesday evening, by Express.
The latter announce that the new financial tneasure fur
reducing the French Rottil passed the Chamber of
Deputies on Wednesday by a majority of 147; the

numbers being, for the project 333, against it 238:
The discussion, which had been continued on Tuesday,
was not concluded until half-past five o'clock on Wed-
nesday, too late to have any effect on 'Change.
Our private Correspondent speaks in terms of great
commendation of the conduct of M. Vlmime and the
Pieced Ministry, in persevering in a measure which is
so well calculated to benefit the finances of Pi ante;
and we can scarcely help feeling flattered at the compli-
ment thus paid to England, in imitating the policy of
our own Government.

The Etude of yesterday does not contain the decision
of the Chamber of Deputies on the plan of Finance, and
is otherwise very barren of intelligence.
The French Papers seem equally anxious with the
Government to refute the rumours respecting the French
fleet at the Brazils. The Moniteur of Wednesday, which
we received this morning by Express, quotes from the
Journal des Debuts an article on the subject, though,
after what has been already said, another contra-
dictory statement may appear the labour of "slaying
the slain," the importance of the subject may be
some apoleu for quoting what in this case must be
looked upon as the official explanation of the French
Government. " The most absurd reports," says that
Journal, are circulated in London respecting a pre-
I tended fleet of eighteen ships, great and small, which
have all at once cast anchor is the port of Rio Janeiro.
Our naval force at Brazil is composed in all of five
vessels: viz. the Jean Vint, of 71. guns, the frigate La
Magic:enne, the corvette L'Echo, and the brigs L'ln-
constant and Le Faune. It may be that the ftigates La
Marie Therese and La Diligente, which are dispatched
to the South Seas to replace L'Amazone and La
Clorinde, and the corvette La Pomone, which Ad-
miral ROUSSIN brought home last year—it may
be, u e say, that these frigates, on their passage, have
touched for a moment at Rio Janeiro. La Thetis,
which goes to China and the Indian Seas ; L'Astree,
which returns to France, and which has been replaced
'at Brazil by the Jean Bart ; La Circe, which carried out
M. de GESTAS, and which also returns to France, may
have also appeared together for a few days in the waters
of Brazil; and thence all this trash of afleet that never
existed. We repeat it, we have only five vessels on the
coast of Brazil, and they are-Japt too many to protect
our trade and our countrymen' on coasts infested by
privateers and pirates, and on which internal revolu-
tions threaten daily the property and the lives of his
sMajesties subjects."
General SAN Ma tarn sifils remains at Havre, waiting
passports for England.
FILINCII reran,. MAY s.—Rentes opened at4pr Money, 104 f.—
End of the month,losf. 10c.—Ducats, 95f.-4inisb, 14i.
This forenoon we received. a file of the Austrian Ob.
'server to the 24,th ult. inclusive, containing intelligence
,from Constantinople of the 26th of March, which fully
confirms our statement in the STAR of Monday, that
the negotiations between Russia and the Porte were
proceeding amicably. The news from the Morea was
principally anticipated by the letter we gave yesterday,
exclusively, from Prevesa, for the correctness of which
we vouched. The following are extracts