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London, England, 1822-08-31 00:00:00


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en which t tidal' tee4so# Mt, led have fife peasunsed
threat myself Or &Woo= Cooke& euggisthq;
coarse to be pursued forgivias thestrest West die
I have Dot the means, even% BV/ )81101181K oqual
decision, of aseeetainittg the Ism rayon:ll*Se +salacious
of seconding the noble effoiti.of tbe Greek' for
An iramediate invasion, by combined acres; for she ea,
of the Turks from Europe. might be attended witk digit
which I cannot correctly estimate, and will** the home,
consequences of that sanguinary conflict, cyniabt. he injurbeis to
the great object of bloodless iiberadon ; **its, jr,sirmak„
ain
rain to be quite indispensable, is to coital Ivaiii;el„,loa
by- the Turbo of an dominion over the ipbjects, and
to guarantie theft. independence by ail vehich should
engage in their support ; with such extent of territory as might
be thought 'last, considering their growing population and their
former condition, which has ,been overthpyo. Nothing short
of this (if it can be brought about by our cot tiding Councils)
can deliver our country froth universal teptrdailt,'oe .secure us
against cobsequences which might he fatal in the sea tribe best
interests of our country."

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

SATURDAY, AUGUST Si, 1322.

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STOCK EXCHANSIE, ONE O'CLOCK.!
Very little has been done in the Market this morning. Con-
sols remain steady at 80j for the Account, and 801 for Memel;
Reduced 81i. Notice has been posted at the Stock Exchange,
that Exchequer Bills of October, November, and December,
1821, will be paid off or exchanged.
Fosuax FUNDS.—There is some bustle in the above Market
this morning, in consequence of its being pay day for all the dif-
ferences in Foreign Securities, and up to one o'clock we do not
hear of any defaulters. Some business is doing this morning in
Milian and Spanish Bonds, which maintain their prices.—
Chillan 83/ 84, New Spanish 64, Old 85f, New Prussian 87e,
Old 90, Russian 85f, Danish SO, Neapolitan 77, Colombian 87,
Scrip 87 to 87f.
PRICES OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
3 per Ct. Reduced 81 A 1/4-11 per Ct. Cons. 801/2 14 3/$
314 per Cents. 925/s 4 per Cents. 99% 14
4. per Ct. New 99% 1/2—Bank Long Ann. 21 20 15-16
India Stock, 250 251—India Bonds 48s.
Exchequer Bills of El,OOO, 3s. 4s. 2s.
Ditto Small, 7s. ss. 6s.—Cons. for Acct. 80% 3/4.

STOCK EXCHANGE, HALF-PAST ONE.
Consols are rather heavy within the last half hour, and are 801
fur the Account ; sOj for Sloney.—Money is scarce in the City.

We have received the French Papers of Wednesday.
Their intelligence is almost exclusively of a domestic
nature. On-Tuesday the KING presided at an Ex-
traordinary C.aaneil of Ministers, which lasted nearly
three hours. It is said to have been held in conse-
quence of news received by the Government from
Madrid, and that the question was discussed whether
the new Spanish Ambassador should be received or
not. A report was current at Bourdeaux, that the
last Messenger from the Spanish Cabinet who passed
through that city was the bearer of dispatches of the
highest importance.
There can be little doubt but that these important
dispatches were a demand, on the part of Spain, that
the French Government should explain itself on the
subject of the Sanitary Cordon, and cease to afford
a refuge to Spanish insurgents.
In a letter dated from the frontiers of Spain, the
20th instant, it is stated, that the corps of the Army
of the Faith, -commanded by QuISADA, consisting
of about 2000 men, was completely defeated on the
17th, by about 1500 troops, who arrived from the'
interior. It is said that only 400 men remain, and
they are in full retreat on Frati. MINA is stated to
have arrived at Pampeluna, and to have spread con-
sternation among the Army of the Faith. The Echo
du Midi, on the other hand, announces that the Mar-
quis of MATA-FLORIDA, ci•clevaut Spanish Minister,
had arrived at Urgel on the 13th instant, where he
became President of the Junta calling itself Royalist.
This Junta, it is added, is desirous of constituting
itself a Regency for the kingdom.
Commercial letters from Vienna, of the 17th, an-
nounce, that the Austrian Cabinet is less than ever
disposed in favour of the new order of things in Spain.
It is also mentioned in these letters, that the Con-
gress will first meet in that capital, and, after fixing
preliminaries, adjourn to Verona, whither orders have
been sent to prepare lodgings for the reception of the
Sovereigns. The Kings of NAPLES and SARDINIA
will, it is said, be invited to this august assembly.—
The other Italian Princes may likewise be admitted
to have a sight of their masters. The conferences,
it is supposed, will begin at Vienna about the middle
of September, and at Verona about the beginning of
October. Our Ambassador from Constantinople is
expected to attend when the affairs of the Greeks
come under discussion.

The trial of the alleged conspiracy of Rochelle is
drawing to a close. The examination of the witnesses
(fifty-two in number) is concluded, and the speeches
of Counsel were to commence on Wednesday. It
would be superfluous to quote any more of those in-
terrogatories which are called 'evidence. A more ri-
diculous charge, supported on mere ridiculous testi-
mony, and developing during its investigation more
imbecility and folly in the Public Prosecutor, was
never before made the subject of judicial inquiry. It
has, however, been ;livening, and that the French
public may not have to regret its termination, from
the amusement.which it afforded, the Journals are
to have an admirable substitute for it, in the pro-
ceedings of the Court of Assizes of Poitiers, where
the trial of Ban TOM and his associates commenced on
the 26th inst. These plots appear to be fired off as
regularly as minute guns.:
The situation of Baavos, the leader of the attack
on Saumur, seems to be perfectly distinct from that
of the persons tried at Colmar, and under trial at
Paris. The evidence will likewise be of a different
character.. If, then, the Government have a good
case again* the Gensul, wily subject him to those

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BarSigker ,whom be might select ? Why refuse a free
-communisation between him and his Counsel ; and
why subject him to hardships and indignities when
the evidence may lead him to the scaffold? Oa the
116th nothing was done but settling points of form
rfiding theindictment, and hearing the opening speech
of the PkoCurtaua-Geastat.
COURT OF ASSIZES AT POITIERS. Am se:
TRIAL OF THE CONSPIRATORS OF THOUARS
AND OF SAUMUR. i •
• The accused (SS of whom were present-18 ahenitt).
on being conducted into Court, had places assipat
to them according to the nature of their crime. lei
-ton was on the left hand, and nearest the Bar; his
appearance was animated, and not in the least cast
down. He frequently spoke with the accused who
were nearest him. The other prisoners appeared
generally to be of the lowest class of the people:—
their clothes and countenances indicated men seduced
by want or the hope of pillage: they appeared calm,
and troubled themselves very little with the business.
The principal part of the time was occupied selecting
and swearing Jurymen, and- in hearing the prisoner
Berton state objections to the Advocate whom the
Court had named, and urge his claim to the right of
choosing M. Mesnard for his defender. His protest
was substantially the same as the letter-tu the Presi-
dent of the Court. The Court refused his request, as
well as an application of his Advocate, M. Drault, that
the case should be remitted to the Chamber of Peers. k
The PROCURATOR-GINZIAL first stated the case
for the prosecution, and said, that he was about to
charge with different crimes against t 4 safety of the
State, Jean Baptiste Berton, an Ex-Major-General,
Officer of the Legion of Honour, a .hevalier de St.
Louis; and 55 other individuals, who were now to be
tried according to law. He said there had been a
conspiracy, of which the object was to overturn the
King's Government, to excite the citizens to take up
arms against the Royal Authority, to stir up civil
war, to take the cities and fortresses of the kingdom.
This conspiracy was discovered in the month of Fe-
bruary last, in the Departments of Deux-Sevres, and
of the Maine and Loire. Its embers were in the towns
of Saumur, Thonars, and Parthena. At the head of 'I
it were the Ex-General Berton, and his principal as-
sociates—the Members of a Secret Society called the
Knights of Liberty, or Carbonari, formed with the de-
sign of overturning the King's Government.
The witnesses, to the number of 163 were in at-
tendance, bat the Court adjourned to the next day.
It was observed that General Berton, as indeed all
the other prisoners, appeared calm and perfectly easy.
There was great difficulty in preserving order.—
The Palace, the prisons, and the neighbouring streets,
were filled with soldiers.
FAIDICH F 1111.24 Awn:sr 48.—FIve per Cents. opened at 93f•
70c.—Cl used at 931. 60c.

This forenoon we received a Lisbon Mail, bringing
Papers to the 18th inst.
The moment for the breaking up of the Cortes
being near at hand, the Assembly has been much
engaged in terminating the discussion of the Consti-
tution, particularly in reference to the Brazils. In
discussing the third chapter of the Constitution, on
the legislative power in the Cortes, M. VILMA pro-
posed to add to Article 33d, which enumerates the
persons who shall be ineligible, the following—

,f Slaves who have been made free (Liiertos) shall be
absolutely ineligible." A great debate ensued, which
was carried on with much warmth.

M. BARROZA said—Though so many*Honourable
Members spoke in favour of freedmen, and that they
.might be chosen Deputies, he could not but differ
from them. Respecting the two principles of philan_
thropy and reason, and abhorring that unjust preju-
dice which would make distinction among men, as
men, merely on account of their caste, or race, or co-
lour, he thought the question one which should be
decided on the grounds of propriety and policy ; and
he asked the Assembly if it would be decorous for a
man marked with the strokes of the whip to come
and take his seat there ? He would not object to the
election of a freedman, if merit was to be the ground
of his election; but it should be remembered, that
there are 20 or 30,000 freedmen at Rio, who, if they
were allowed to choose freedmen, would never elect
any other. The melancholy consequences were very
evident. If Bishops cannot be chosen by their Dio-
ceses, Clergymen by their Parishes, nor Officers by
their `soldiers, where is the injustice of prohibiting
freed slaves from being elected by those of their own
body ?—The proposed addition was rejected. '
In the Sittings of the 14th and 16th, the Articles
of the Constitution to N 0.99 inclusive, were approved.
The Portuguese galley Sacramento, having arrived
from Pernambuco, the Captain being asked if there.
were any news, replied in writing, " All goes well
without anything new. On the 2d of June, the troops
assembled, except the 3d battalion of Yagers, and
again took the oath to the. King and the Cortes, and
to the Prince Regent, as Chief of the Executive Go-
vernment at Pernambuco, independently of that of
Lisbon. I have no, more to say ; my occupation not
allowing me to obtain more paiticalar information.",
—The passengers declared, drat what tht Capiaia

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corrects that Pernambeco wale a
=way ; that the true Portuguese
order were insoked by a band of fats
seemed to be protected by the pte&
mt of the province; that the troops did
any suloordiassims sevravde•theielhabi,
malasrse• and moved whelsept*lP they piellaffites

, . .
—7An official note from the Minister and iecratart
for Foreign Affairs in the Breath, to the British Coe
sal-General at Rio Janeiro, on the subject of wow
'rnerce, states, " That the British vessels which WI
arrive at the ports in the Brazils, which now are or
may hereafter become subject to the command and
regency of the said Prince, shall-be admitted inch=
pendent of, and although unprovided with, the clear:
ance of the said Portuguese Consul in London, as
long as the other customary formalities are complied
with, and they bring with them their papers in other
respects in proper order, and until his Royal Highs
ness himself shall be pleased to appoint a Coon&
General in England ; k being equally declared, as a
consequence of what is above stated, that no qaval
and military stores thus imported from Great Britain
shall be stopped or seized, or the parties interested
herein punished, for the simple want of a permission
from' he Government of Portugal."

Madrid Papers to the 4th instant Save been re.
ceived by express. Their contents are only important
as they shew the tranquil state of the capitil, and the
active measures of the new Ministry to put down the
faction which seeks to overturn the Constitution,—

They contain numerous reports from the Provinces,
stating the marauding depredations of bands of the
Army of the Faith, but they are none of them cf
much consequence. Wherever they have come in
contact with the Constitutional forces they have been
defeated. As an instance of the conduct of the parti-
, sans of this " Army of the Faith," we give the fol-
lowing article from St. Sebastian's, dated August 15 :
" The insurgents increase in their fanatic atrocities.
Not content with exacting contributions by violence,
from those who are pointed out to them as Liberals,
they murder with the most refined barbarity. In the
mountains of Guercino, they have assassinated nine
soldiers and four volunteers of Durengn, hacking their
bodies, and tearing out their eyes and tongues.

A letter from Malta, dated July 25, says—" The
plague has made its appearance on the coasts oppo.
site, and within a few miles of Corfu."

Letters have been received from Grenada to the
16th of July last, which affirm that the Royalist,
Spanish seventy-four, and the brig Hercules, raised
the blockade of Porto Cavello on the 15th of June;
and, after defeating the Patriotic force, succeeded in
taking in six months' supplies.

We were in hopes that the odious combination, the
Bridge-street Association, was annihilated; but it ap-
pears that the liberal part of the Press, which, to
its honour, has never ceased to oppose this uncon-
stitutional Society, hasonly “ scotched the snake, not
killed it r' It will be seen in our Report of the pro.
ceedings at the Lancaster Assizes last Thursday,
that the Agents of this Society are determined to
make the last acts of its power as oppressive as
any that have distinguished its career.—Rinowar,
a poor, ignorant, country bookseller, who being
less capable of defence than many of its victims,
has long had the whole weight of the Society upon
him, is still in its fangs. His trial was to have
come on last Wednesday ; and he was in attendance,
with twenty witnesses, ready to meet his accusers.
The prosecutors, however, begged that it might be
put off until the next day, in consequence of the ab-
sence of a material witness. This, however inconve-
nient, was agreed to; but when all the parties were
in attendance on the following morning, the proceed-
ings were suddenly stopped, not on account of the
absence of a witness—not in order to abandon the pro-
secution—but because there was a certiorari prepared
to have the case removed into the Court of King's
Bench. Why, unless for the mere purpose of oppres-
sion—why, we would ask, was not the action brought
in the Court of King's Bench in the first instance, in-
stead of keeping it so long suspended over the head
of the poor fellow, putting him to the expense of con-
veying 20 witnesses to Lancaster and keeping them
for several days, and then putting off the trial and
transferring it to another Court, where the expenses
will be so augmented as to render it almost impos-
sible that the poor man can make the necessary de-
fence? If we may judge by the conduct of the
Counsel for the prosecution, they were ashamed of
their clients, and of the 'action for which they were
retained; and well they might.

Yesterday afternoon arrived at Doverthe Chichester
Post-Office Packet, having on beard his Royal High-
ness the Duke of CmosiuDGE and Suite. His Royal
Highness landed in the Custom House barge, and
proceeded to WRIGHT'S Hotel,where preparations had
been for some days making. for his reception. The
, Royal Duke appears to be in the enjoyment of the
best health and spirits, and bowed very familiarly to
the crowds assembled to witness his arrival. His
Royal Highness passed the night at the Hotel, and
proceeded this morning on his way to the metropolis.
The Loan Maxon has ordered out all the City
state barges and watermen to be in attendance on
Sunday at Blackwall, in their stabs liveries, and his
Lordship will there await the arrival., his MAJESTI
and conduct-him back to the metropolis.
The Duke of Yon& centimes in the happiest
.en-
joyment of good health, at the Pavilion) Brighton.

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