Star.
London, England, 1823-01-03 00:00:00

of 12479,000 dollars, which wire int
/heist day ofionuary last.
,
014, sum eaceeding 4,128,000 d?llarst besidesl
discharging all demands for the co* rtent service of the,
year, including the interest and reimburse, /tent of the
Public Debt, the Bizper Cent. Stocii:ofeiNX amount•
lag to 80,000 dollars, has been redeemed.
" It is with great !egret I have to state, that a se-
rious malady has deprived ;A of many valuable citi-
zens at Pensacola, and checked the progress of some
of those arrangements which are important in that
territory.
" From the best information I have been able to
obtain, it appears that our manufactures, though de-
pressed immediately after the Peace, have consider-
ably increased, and are still increasing, under the
encouragement of the Tariff of 1816, and by subse-
quent laws. It appears that our commercial differ-
ences with France and Great Britain have been
placed in a train of amicable arrangement, on
conditions fair and honourable, in both instances, to
each party ; that our finances are in a very produc=
tive state, our revenue being fully-adequate to all the
demands upon it ; and our military force well or-
ganised in all its branches, and capable of rendering
the most important services in case of emergency.
41 A strong hope was entertained that peace would,
ere this, have been concluded between Spain and the
Independent Governments south of the United States;
we still cherish the hope that this result will not long
be postponed. Europe is still unsettled, and although
the war, long menaced between Russia and Turkey,
has not broken out, there is no certainty that the
differences between those Powers will be amicably
adjusted. " JAMES MONROE.
44 Washington, Dee. 3."

This forenoon we received a Lisbon Mail, with
papers to the 24th ult. Those from the 14th to the
19th inclusive are still wanting. The Papers are
principally filled with the proceedings in the Cones.
The Committee appointed by the Cortes to draw
up a Criminal Code, have made their report to the
tortes, in which they state that they have divided
the code of crimes and punishment into three parts,
treating in the first, of the principal basis of criminal
law; in the second, of public wrongs; in the third,
of private wrongs ; that the first and second were
nearly concluded, and that they should be able to con-
clude the third in the second year of the present
Legislature; and then they will treat with all pos-
sible brevity the project of the Code of Criminal
'Procedure. The Report having been read, M.
BASTO proposed that other Portuguese 'lawyers be•
incited to concur in the Code, in the same manner as
was determined for the Civil Cbde, by the Decree of
the 16th of September, offering in the same manner
a premium and accessit.

In the Sitting of the 19th, the Members of the Spe-
cial Tribunal for the Protection of the Liberty of the
Press were elected.

In the Sitting of the 21st, various Projects of Law
were read for the second time, among them were,
one for the relief of the Inhabitants df the Provinces
of Piauhy and Maranham from certain oppressive
regulations and imposts; another for establishing
Elementary Schools in various towns of Brazil ;
another proposing the establishment of two Char-
tered Companies for trading with the possessions in
Asia and those in Africa. 'Thiilalst was referred to
the Committee of the Constitution.

The project of the Decree for designating those
persons who should be exempt from being taken as
recruits to serve in the army :

1. All persons shall be exempt who shall be lawfully married
before the Ist of January, 1823, whatever may be their age.
A long. debate arose on this Article, which, how-
ever, was agreed to, with the following amendment :
" Who shall be lawfully married before the promul-
gation-of this Decree."
A Deputation was sent to present to his Majesty
some laws for his sanction. The Deputation on their
return stated, that they had been most graciously re-
ceived, and that his Majesty had replied, that he
would sanction those laws in a short time.—a A na-
tion," concluded the speaker, a which has the hap-
piness to have so good a King, need not fear the
threatening clouds which have been spoken of in'this
Assembly."

Such of the French Journals of Tuesday as did not
reach us yesterday, by express; have since been re-
ceived. In the Journal des Debats there is an article
on which the advocates for war with Spain rest some
hopes that the idea is not wholly relinquished by the
French Ministers. Its principal is to assure us
that there a very trifling dice of opinion
between M. de MONTMORENCY and M. de VILLELS
and thus to conciliate or disarm the Ultras, who are
quite enraged at their Minister being no longer in
the Cabinet.
The Chambers are to meet on the 28th inst. when
we shall get some More intelligible information as to
the real designs of the French Cabinet, which will be
influenced by the proceedings and feelings of the two
Chambers on the question of peace or war.
•

Letters from Malta state, that aTitrkish squadron
cruized off Cephalonia for several days, and :only
confusion arose in Corfu, where preparations. of a
hostile nature had been made, supposing that ,ehe4
Turks had been in search .of the property of Ast'
Nous, but the fleet departed. Thee purport the,
voyage was known by theAleadi or,Cnoußromp,
PAVE' A, itnd the'Bitlf-uf*lltiruti,svtartarceeftscation of,
their property ttitherorre. Y'llbeie'appears greatdisl
content among the Maltese, where the Governor has
, not been for sixteen months.