Star.
London, England, 1822-08-20 00:00:00

FROM THE EDINBURGH PAPERS OF SATURDAY.

His MAJESTY expressed his great delight at his
reception, and at the appearance of the city and peo-
ple, to several persons to whom we have spoken. We
yesterday heard, horn the very best authority, that
his MAJESTY was quite confounded with delight at
the first appearance of Leith.
At Holyrood House his MAJESTY said, that "he
had often been told the Scotch were proud : and well
they might be," added he, " they seem to me to be a
nation of Gentlemen."
One circumstance we are proud to mention, as it
gives a better idea of the characteristics of the Scot-
tish people than volumes written on the same subject
could convey ; there is not one single record on the
Police books of this metropolis, of any offence com-
mitted against the laws since his MAJESTY has been
in Scotland. An immense crowd, and no viola-
tion of the laws ! Hear this, proud England, and
learn of us !

His MAJESTY heard the intelligence of the melan-
choly event from North Cray,when be was off Dunbar.

Stirling, says the respectable Journal of that place,
h left almost entirely to the keeping of old men, and
women and boys. The streets, at mid. day, have the
deserted appearance ola S.,bbath-day during Divine
Service. For the last eight days the steamboats
have been inczssautly plying between that and New-
haven ; and the facility and easy rate which this
means of conveyance affords to our townsmen' pre-
cluded the necessity of resortiag to the more irksome
and tedious one of being transported by gigs, carts,
sad waggons.

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.
•• EDINBURGH, AUGUST 17, Sax P.N.
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•t Never was there an assembly for splendour and
tank more distinguished than that which met at
Halyrood this day, where the KING, as you already
knew, held his first Levee. It is not that a Scotsman
utters the assertion or that it is meant as a false

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LONDON.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1822.
STOCK EXCHANGE, ONE O'CT.OOK.
The Contra inners have purchased in Reduced at 80e; Con-
sols 801--wit ii a fiat Market.
CURRENT PRICES:
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3 per Ct. Cons. 803/8 1,6 3/8— Sl4 per Ctc. 921/8 1/4
4 per Cents. 99% %-4 per Ct. New 99% Vs

Bank Long Annuities 21 20 15-16
India Bonds 675. 695. 665.
Exchequer Bills of El,OOO, 7s. ss. 6s. pre.
Ditto Sal:1116s. 7s.—Consols for Acct. 130% 34.

The death of the Marquis of LONDONDERRY has
once more set our speculating politicians, of 'all par-
ties, actively at work. The Ministers, whose love of
office is notorious, are anxiously seeking for a suc-
cessor to supply, as far as possible, that support so
essential to their preservation, and which they have
lest by the death of one of the most efficient of their
members. Intrigue is, however, at work here; and more
than one individual is looking forward to mount a
step higher in the ladder of Ministerial patronage.
—The Whigs, who, whatever hostility they may have
had to the measures ofthe Marquis of LONDONDERRY,
are sensible of his talents, and of his importance, even
entertain the hope that the Administration is so
shaken by his death as not to be cemented again; and
that they may yet have no distant chance of power.
They are, however, so subdivided that we believe they
are sensible of the difficulty of forming an able Mi-
nistry among themselves without taking in the Minis-
terial make-weight the Grenville party, to which they
have great aversion.
To us it appears that, whatever temporary appoint.
ment may take place, the Ministry must be entirely
new n.oielled before the next Session of Parliament.
The situation of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
may easily be supplied, as well as a fit Representative
for the approaching Congress, since, though the Mi-
nisters were sensible that Lord LONDONDERRY was
deranged, yet they did not consider it any disqnalifi-
cation for the diplomatic mission. But the greatest
difficulty will be found in getting a Leader in the
House of Commons. That Mr. CANNING possesses
eloquence, genius, and even versatility of talent
enough for the office, will be readily admitted; het
he is wanting in that steadiness and solidity, that
calmness of tempef and deliberation essential for the
avowed advocate and defender of the measures of
Ministers in the House of Commons.

It is, however, extremely probable, almost certain,
that the duties of Foreign Secretary, Leader of the
House of Commons, and Representative at the ap-
proaching Congress, will devolve on three different
individuals. The Duke of WELLINGTON, assisted by
Lord CLANWILLIAM, it is reported, will be entrusted
with the office of attending Congress ; and though
the busy tongue of rumour has already fixed on in-
dividuals for the other offices, yet nothing is yet po-
sitively known on the subject..

The French Papers of Saturday have reached us.
The accounts from Spain in these papers do not come
down lacer than the intelligence we gave last Wed-
nesday from the Madrid Journals.

The Oriental Spectator states, on the authority of a
letter from Tauris, that the English Ambassador at
the Court of Persia had, after a warm discussion with
the SCHAH, demanded his passports and left that re-
sidence with the Consuls of his nation. Such a pro-
ceeding would, doubtless, be the strongest mark of,
an alliance with the Porte which the British Cabinet
could give; but it is very doubtful whether it has
taken place. The English have interests of too great
importance in Asia thus to sacrifice them to the cause
of the Turks. 1

A letter written by a French merchant, and dated
Pera, July 15, gives some interesting details respect-
ing the late massacre in Constantinople.
The mutiny of the Janissaries, by whom the atro-
cities were perpetrated, took place towards the close
of the Ramadan, or Turkish Lent. Preparations
were making for the celebration of the grand festival
of the Byram, "glen the Mnuulmans usually indem—
nify themselves by great messes for their privations
during the preceding month. The mutineers took ad-

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vantage of the security in which the Government ap-
peared to beplunged. Five Ortas, or Regiments of
IJanissaries, revolted. Numerous parties of them
i ranged throirgh the different streets of the capital, pil-
lased the houses, 'particularly those belonging to
Greeks and Franks, and massacred even Mussulmans
whom they suspected not to be of their party. A party
proceeded to the quarter of the Jews, where they com-
mitted the greatest excesses. Paying no respect to
customs held sacred in the East, the Turkish baths
were broken open, and the females violated. All
the Christian women the banditti could discover
were dragged to the Slaves' Bazaar and sold to the
highest bidder.
The plan of the rebels was to gain possession of the
Grand Vizier's Palace, and afterwards to proceed to
the Seraglio. At first, the most laudable efforts were
in vain made by Hadschi-Salih, the Grand Vizier, to
appease the mutineers. He went among them in dis-
guise, and encountered the greatest risks. Finally,
not daring to trust the remaining Ortas of the Janis-
saries, which had taken no part in the revolt, he re-
solved to oppose another description of troops to the
rebels, and called to his assistance Ibrahim Pashaw,
Commandant of the Asiatic troops encamped at Bu-
jukdere. After distributing considerable sums among
these troops, Ibrahim put himself at their head and
atttacked the Janissaries. The streets of Constanti-
nople became then the scene of a dreadful carnage,
but the Asiatic troops at last obtained the victt ry.—
More than 200 Janissaries were killed, and some thou-
sands have since been executed. The usual mode of
cutting off the head took up too much time, and they
were dispatched by tying several together and throw-
ing them into the sea. Some thousands of the less
guilty have been embarked for the coast of Asia; all
the prisons, the arsenal, the lazaretto, and a number
of ships in the harbour, are filled with prisoners who
await their sentence. " Tranquillity (says the writer
of this letter) has thus been established, and the crisis
is for the moment past ; but unfortunately it may
soon rise again. The Janissaries are convinced that
the Sultan and his favourite, Haleb Effendi, wish to
destroy their corps, and that the private Councils of
the Grand Seignior have eften under consideration
their suppression, at least the abolition of their most
important privileges. They besides believe that this
plan is strongly supported by Lord Strangford and
the other European Ministers. Their animosity against
the Franks and the inhabitants of Pera is therefore

extreme."

The Journal des Debats contains the following
article from Pamplona, dated August 7:—" An
action of importance took place this morning at day-
break, and lasted till noon, between the Army of the
Faith and the Constitutionalists, at the distance of
two leagues from here; we heard the musketry dis-
tinctly. The Army of the Faith amounted, it is said,
to more than 2,000 men ; that of their opponents to
800 or 900. The latter had the advantage at the
commencement, and broke through the first line of
the soldiers of the Faith ; but they brought up their
reserve, and at the end repulsed the Constitutionalists
as far as our walls. The loss on both sides was equal.
If Quesada had had 400 cavalry he might have en-
tered Pamplona."
An article quoted by the Journal des Debats from
the C'ontervator of Petersburgh, is remarkable for the
manner in which it speaks of the affairs of Spain.
The terms rebels, insurgents, banditti, brigands,"
&c. given to the Servile party, is strongly condemned
by the Russian journal, which observes, such were
the names which the French Jacobins gave to the
Royalists of La Vendee. It then goes on to say—
" The factious chiefs and their subalterns may be called
Communeros, Exaltados, Descamisados, or Anarchists.
They are not even entitled to be called Constitu-
tionalists, because they have not been constituted,
and because so long as they persist in an absurd and ,
monstrous cumulation of usurped powers, they will ,
never have a Constitution. The opposite party may
justly take the title of Royalist, Army of flee Faith,'
&c. for that party defends the altar, the throne, the
liberties, the institutions of its country, and endea-
yours to annihilate or repress the efforts and the au-1
dacity of a class of men who, having nothing to lose,'
but everything to gain, in troubles, are always ready
to subvert social order, of which they are always and
everywhere the avowed enemies.'"
Fascism FUNDS, Auo. 17.—Five per Cents. opened at 93f. 40e.
closed at 93f. 50c.

This forenoon we received a Dutch Mail, bringing
Papers to the 18th inst. The following are extract::

HABIBURGH, AUGUST 13.

It is affirmed on good authority, say our Journals,
that the Emperor of Russia will set out from St. Pe-
tersburgh on the 15th, to arrive at Vienna on the 6th
or 7th of September. With respect to the Congress
to be held in Italy, it is involved in obscurity. It is
not believed that the King of Prussia will come to
Vienna. It is asserted that the negcciation for a
marriage between the Crown Prince of Sweden and a
daughter of the Duke of Leuchtenburg is broken off.

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the 28th of May, and tooic a largo• quantity of pro-
visions for the garrison of Puerto Cabello.

The fort Veliga, situated on an eminence ti:at
commands Puerto Cabello, has capitulated : the Spa-
nish garrison has arrived at La Guira. The Colom-
bians, being now master's of .the heights that com-
mand Puerto Cabello, bombard the place from them.

The accounts from Curacoa give long details-of
the expedition of General Morales, of which the fol-
lowing is a summary : '
The inhabitants of the province of Coro, who have
been always much inclined to the Spaniards, did their
utmost to assist Morales, whose force being iocreascd
by the junction of many fugitives from 'Maracaibo,
where the Spaniards have many adherents among the
people of colour, he collected with great difficulty
some light ceOsels, and by favour of the night eluded
the strong naval forte of the Colombiars, and crossej
the Lagoon of Maracaibii With 800 men. Meantime
the Colombians had sent a corps, eonsi ring almost
entirely of veteran troops, under Pinongo, against
Coro ; and the Caraccas Gaze!tc affirmed that Morales
would not possibly escape, either by sea or 1and.....
The Colombian force proceeding from Corona had a
most fatiguing march through a desert wholly desti-
tute of water, but took Fossession of Coro, which was
deserted. Another division of the ColoMhians, under
Regos Vargas, was to attack Mt•rales on ti:e south
side, and Pinongo on the north ; but Morales, who
possesses extraordinary courage, attacked Var_
gas, defeated his division, and proceeded by a rapd
march to Coro.

Pinongo, surprised, retreated to Comm but ;.;:
troops, which suffered severely on their advai:ce.,
nearly all perished in their retreat through the desert.
When they were mustered at Corora, 700 were miss•
ing, and the remainder in the most wretched condi-
tion. The Columbians lament this loss of their best
and oldest troops. Morales, after this advantage,
would doubtless have taken Maracaibo, and thus re-
covered a great part of the coast for the Spaniards,
had not the troops that had been embarked, consist-
ing chiefly of natives of Maracaibo, made a prema-
ture attack, without waiting for Morales. They pene-
trated into the town, and sheweJ great bravery, but
their number was too unequal, and they were com-
pelled to retreat, after losing two or 300 men : the

loss of the enemy was equal, and included the Go-
vernor of Maracaibo, Don Eres.
The town, having been so long threatened, had a
strong garrison, including many British troops, and
the assailants were ill armed. The Columbian Co-
vernment at Maracaibo then sent a flag of truce to
Morillo (nephew of the celebrated General), per-
suading him that Morales had bee., wally defeated
by Pinongo—that he himself was killed—that the
little corps of Morillo (about 500 men) could not
escape—and that, to spare the effusion of blood, they
offered to convey his ticreps, with their arms, on board
Columbian vessels, to the Havanna!). The capitula-
tion was signed, and Morillo's troops were to be em•
barked. The latest accounts from Coro say, that
they were in fact put on board ; but that, when they
were at sea, Morillo and all his Officers were thrown
overboard, and only the privates who were not na-
tives of Coro or Maracaibo, saved alive. The situa-
tion of Morales is thus made very desperate, as be is
in want of provisions, and has lost his last vessels by
the capitulation of Morillo.
Later accounts state, that Morales, having per-
sued the corps of Pinongo, attacked and dispersed it,
on the 7th of June, near Davajuro ; and that Pi-
nongo himself, and seven of his Officers, fell into the
hands of the Spaniards.
Viss*A, Aro. 6.—Metalliques, 80 5-16--Bank Shares, 794 1-3.

The latest intelligence from Rio Janeiro tends
shew that nothing short of absolute independence
will satisfy the Brazilians; indeed one of the private
letters states that the PRINCE REGENT had declared
that the Brazils should be independent. This report,
we believe, is premature, though that the PniNc7
must yield to the public wishes, if he hopes to kceo
the sovereignty in his family, is pretty evident.
In a Proclamation of the Ist of June the PRINCE
REGENT directs that the Cotincil of Representatives
of the Provinces c'f Brazil, created by his Decree o
the 16th of February last, shall meet on the 2d of
June. Two days afterwards he issued another De-
cfee, in which he says—s" I have thought fit, with the
advice of my Council of State, to order the convoca-
tion of a General Constituent and Legislative .Iseirf-.
bly, consisting of the Deputies of the Provinces or
Brazil, newly elected according to the form cf the
instructions agreed to in Council, and which shalt
published without delay."
According to the form of the oath prepted
the Representatives, they are to swear on the Gov ell
to defend the Roman Catholic religion, the dynasty
of the Royal House of BRACANZA, the Regency c,f
his Royal Highness the perpetual defender of Brazil,
and to maintain the sovereignty and integt icy
of Brazil.
The Ministers and Secretaries of State swear that
they will, with truth, conscientiousness, and frank-
ness, advise his MAJESTY in all atEtirs, and on ail oc-
casions when convoked for that purpose.
When the Council of Representatives met, a num-
ber of the Representatives presented an Address
the PnINcE REGENT, calling on him to convoke a
General Assembly of Representatives of the Pr: -
via:cm of Brazil. This Address contains the fallow-
ing passage:

“ Brasil possesses the indefeasible right of ebtablishillg it► (;4.