Star.
London, England, 1824-12-06 00:00:00

FROM THE AUSTRIAN OBSERVER.

On the first declaration of the British Government.
respecting the Greek Manifesto, of the 27th of May,
against neutral ships having on board troops, arms,
ammunition, or provisions for Turkish or Greek (doubt•
less an error of the press for Egyptian) account, a
Decree was issued at Napoli di Romania on the 16th
(2,7 th August,) as was clearly and positively stated in
the Austrian observer, which Decree made some essen-
tial modifications in the Manifesto, but did not revoke
it. In rhis Decree it was said that the Greek Govern•
ment was now convinced that the neutral ships con•
veyed no troops for the enemy; a conviction, the con-
trary of which was announced in their Journals daily
and in the bitterest terms!—and, therefore, only neutral
ships freighted with arms, horses, military stores, pro-
visions, &c. should be treated according to the usual
rules of the law of nations.

Not much was gained by this half-revocation, because
the words, according to the usual. rules of the law of
nations, admitted of ♦arious interpretations; and espe-
cially, because the authors of the Decree revoked only
in appearance their preceding Ordonnance, according to
which, neutral ships having ti cops on board woe to be
immediately sunk, for they alleged as a pretext, that
they had been misinformed; and consequently still
tacitly reserved the right of heating, neutral ships that
really had troops on board, according mate tetras of
the first Decree.

When Admiral' Neale appeared. before Napoli di
Romania, the decree of the 07th August was %hewn
him as proofs the demands of the British Government
were already complied with. But the Admiral• dc,
claret that nothing but an unconditional revocation of
the Manifesto of the 27111 May could be considered as
satisfactory ; and in a few hours 'atter this categorical
declaration a second Decree appeared, dated the 3d
(15th) of September, which, for the better infotmatiim
of the Cusrsiitationnel, and to put an, end. to all- further:
doubts and cavils, we annex in the original Greek, from.,
No. 5'2 of the Friend of the Law of the 12th (2-144-
September this }ear.
(Here the Decree is given in Gret k.)
(TRANSLATION.)

"•THI PROVI9I.OWAL GOVERIOUNT OV GRIOT&
4' The President of the Executive (Power) promulgates
"'lle Greek Government reVoltes and annuls to-day the notke
which it published or. the 27th May this year relative to thy emu•
mercial ships of Neutral Powers.
" The preient shall be printed•also in a Preach translatinn and.
lolivered to all Vice.Cousids and Agents in the Archipelago,
Signed in the absence of the President,
" P. 13011'AJSf, Vice-Presitl.erit.
" P. G. 11+1001i0S, Pmvialottal S et* ary Olota'ait
" Napoli, 3d (tsth) Sept. 1824."

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THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 182+.
THE FUND& -
STOCK X CHAN du. TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Commis opened this morning at 9.5 f for the Account, and after-
wards got op to 951, at which price they remain steady up to this
hoar, with little doing, accept In the earlier part of the morning.
FOREIGN FUNDS.

There is little doing in the Foreign Market.
Current Prices: New Spanish 161 1, Old 231, Russian 956 1,
Mexican 6611, Old 221, Chilian 77, French Scrip 131 1 pre. Por-
tuguese 881 1, Alliance Shares 91 10 pre. Marine Alliance 21 pre.
Colombian Mines 19 20 pre.

FOREIGN EXCHANGES.
BANSUROII, Nov. 26.—0 n London, 36. 2; 2 Us. 35. 11k.
Preessaugon, Nov. 12.—0 n London, 9 23-32.
AMSTMIDAMI, Dec. 3.—On London, 39. 6. 2 M. 39. 4.
PRICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
S per Cent. Red: 943/4 sit
per Cent. Cons. shut.
Si per Cent. Red. 100% %
4 per Cent. New shut.
India Stack shut
eq. Bills (2d.) 55 6; (1%d.) 56 4
£5OO ditto (2d.) 55 6; (1%d.) 56 4
£lOO and £2OO ditto (2.1.) 55 6; (1 %d.) 56 4
Advertised (21) 54
Cons. for Acct. 953/4 3/4

This forenoon we receive d the ilioniteur of Saturday
aid the EioPe of yesterday, by Express. They are
very barren of intelligence. The KING transacted bu•
siness with the Minister for Fweign Affairs on Friday,
and reviewed the Hussars of the Royal Guard in the
Place du Carousel. The accounts from Spain in the
Monileur are to the 23d ult. The Criminal Tribunal
of Madrid was ordering new arrests. At Cameros, a
Constitutional band of 260 foot and sixty horse had
been formed, against which some Royalist Volunteers
were sent.

The French Papers of Friday are barren. The
I.4oniteur contains two Royal Ordonnances. The first
fixes the number of General Officers of the Land Forces
to 150 Lieutenant-Generals and 300 Major-Generals,
The second article states what General Officers are ad-
mitted to half-pay. The Second Ordonnance relates to
the organization of the Royal School, created by an or-
donnance of the 20th of August, 1824.; the purpose ef
which is to bring up young men (24 in number) to a
knowledge of the management, cultivation,Stc. of forests.
This school is to be called L'Ecok Royale Foretiere.
The parties in Paris are struggling hard for the
ascendant in the approaching Session of the Chambers,
)1. DE CIIATEAUBRIAND has let off a second epistle
against the Ministers. It recommends an indemnity to
the emigrants for their property confiscated in the
Revolution.
According to the Monileur, FERDINAND VII. has
contrived to get tovtlier the funds for the payment of
the half year's intere.t due next month on Guebhard's
Loan. It is candidly acknowledged that this payment
would hardly have been made if the Spanish Govern-
ment had not considered it " as leading to further finan-
cial of erations." The evacuation of Spain seems to be
no longer doubtful. All the preparatory steps are
taken. The Etoile, however, stoutly denies that the
Infants intend to go abroad, though the Opposition
Journals persist in affirming it ; and adds, what we long
ago stated, that there will be no Congress at Petersburg)).
The Aristtrque states, that the merchants of Paris
arc about to petition the Government against the viola-
tion of co..fidence in the French Post-office, practised in
the opening of private letters. We trust that CHARLES X.
may be induced to number the abolition of this scanda-
lous custom among the just and beneficent acts of his
reign. It is so infamous that we hope it has only to be
pointed out to insure its abolition.
Pt iv ate letters from Paris state the Rentes of Saturday
at 102 1. 10 c. but the Etoilc gives them at the opening
at 101, 60, 70, 65; and at half-past three o'clock,
at 101 f. S 5 c.

Dutch Papers to the sth inst. reached us this forenoon.
The only article of intelligence they contain is the gra-
tifying news that the waters of the several livers which
broke their banks and committed tach devastation, ate
gradually subsiding.

This morning we received Hamburgh Papers to the
27th tilt. On St. Martin's Day, which, since time im-
memorial, 'lei been the day for fixing, at Coblentz, the
average price of corn, it appeared that rye was at two
rix dollars five groschen for the Coblents bushel. It has
not been so cheap for these 84 years as it now is; the
highest price was in 1816, when the average price of rye
at Coblentz was 11 rix dollars 15 groschen per bushel,
The General Diet of Mecklenburg Schwerin was
opened on the llth ult. It was but spar ingly attended,
and is expected not to sit above three weeks. According
to the second proposal laid before the Diet, it is the
Grand Duke's intention to levy, for the year 1825, one
extraordinary contribution less, and that to make
good the deficiency that will be thus caused in
the receipt by indirect taxes, it is intended it seems
to impose an import duty on many articles, for instance
wine, salt, wood for fuel, planks, linen, woollen cloths;
and woollen goods in general ; cattle, horses, glass ware,
tar, &c. It is not known how the States will receive
this proposal of the Government.
The intended causeway, by way of Boitzenburg, ati
to the Prussian frontiers is to be made entirely at the
expense of the Prince, and completed in five years.—
The States are only applied to to fix the toll, and the
indemnity to be given to the land-owners through whose
grounds the new road will pass. There is,it is said, no
doubt that the States will decide conformably to the
wish of the Government, especially as the Prussian Go-

vernment is said to have declared its resolution to seal
the Prussian Mail to Hamburgh through Hanover, un-
less a new road is made.
The mere report that the tolls anti duties are to be le-
vied in Mecklenburgh with more strictness, has induced,
of late, many can lets, with goods from Prussia to
Hamburgh or back, to deprive theMecklenburgers of the
real profit of toll and consumption, by the Elbe at the
frontier, and to avoid their territory entirely. They
indeed go three or four miles out of their way (12 or 16
English), but then they have only one toll to pay,
whereas, in Mecklenburg they would have four to pass.
Though they take a day longer in their journey they
must find their account in it; the bad state of the
toads may be another cause.
A general meeting of the Danish Asiatic Company
cock place, on the 18th ultimo, at Copenhagen, when a
warm debate ensued on the question, whether a ship
should be sent to China in the Spring? u hich was decided
in the negative, by 81 votes to 49. At Odensee .and
Nyburg there was a dreadful storm, on the night of the
14th ultimo, and some persons thought they felt a
shock of an earthquake, at half-past five A.M. on the 15th.

An Aggregate Meeting of the Roman Catholics took
place in Dublin on Thus sday last, and was numerouslY
attended. A long discussion took place, or raper a
series of violent harangues were delivered 4 Mr.

HUGH O'CONNER. Mr. SIIIEL, and that miracle of a
man" Mr. O'CoNNELL, as his friend Mr. O'GORMAN

calls him. Mr. OtosNun beg in by asserting that
Catholic Emancipation was their bole object, and con-
cluded by an attack on the Bank of luland. Mr.
Sum levelled his shafts at the Castle and the Corpora-

don, and that in terms not the most delic4te ; speaking

of the latter, he said, " but let the Alderman pass,
he thanked GOD he was not immortal—his eve,-

throw may yet be effected by gnut, indigestion,

or the rot."

Mr. O'CONNELL followed, and com-

menced by congratulating his auditors, that they t.ere
really to be emancipated at last. Ile indulged in coarse
invectives against the English Press and Protestants
generally : and in the course of his intemperate hal angue
threatened the British Government. The Roman Ca-
tholics, be said, " offered Parliament their seven millions
—they may be required—the nations of Europe were

augmenting their forces." -
The insinuation is obvious enough; and GOD forbid
that England should ever need the assistance of any

of her subjects over whom Mr. O'CONNELL possesses
influence ; for let this Gentleman assert as he will that

the Roman Catholic Association has no other object

than to procure emancipation, no man of common sense
who has watched its proceedings can believe it. More
than one of its members have openly avowed, that they
will not be satisfied with anything less than a repeal of
the Union, while the conduct of othess clearly proves
11 that the extinctio❑ of Protestantism in Ireland is looked
forward to as at no great distance.
While the Association is proceeding in a manner which
must alarm the best fi iends to Catholic emancipation,
the Priests are stimulating the people to acts of intole•
ranee and bigotry. It is assertei in an Irish Paper,
that at a confirmation in the county of Waterford, " a
Roman Catholic Bishop, addressed the congregation
(consisting of many thousands) and in the most earnest
terms exhorted every tine who heard him to abstain for At
future as much as possible from holding any communica-
tion with their Heretic neighbours.' He also observed,
"that for many years they bad been obliged to be under,
a compliment to the Protestant Clergy for permission
to bury in their church-yards; but that, thank GOD
measures were now in progress, which would wine

,hem burying-places of their own, without their beaDig
compelled to tningk the ashes of their relatives with
those of Heretics !II"
We have already alluded to the Catholic Asshciation
having appointed an Agent to watch over the Press in
London; it-appears that the Continental Press is also
not only to be watched, but to be made the advocate of
the Association. At a late meeting of this body, Mr.
O'CoNNELL read a letter from a Mr. GEORGE PARKER
IVER, dated Pads, Nov. 14, in which he urges the
S' necessity of employing the foreign Press in favour of
Catholic Emancipation," and states that he can, " obtain
insertion for anything he wishes in at least five Paris
Journals"—nay further, that he will shortly be in regu-
lar communication with Journalists in Madrid, Vienna,
St. Petersburgh and Rome," without the possibility of
his letters being intercepted. Mr. Ivan, who we almost
suspect to be some wag who is hoaxing Mr.O'CoNNELL,
suggests that " it would be better if the fact of the
Catholics having an agent in Paris were concealed," as
"the support of the foreign press would have more effect
if it were thought spontaneous."
If this letter is genuine, which we confess we doubt, it
wouM appear that fresh parties are to be brought into
the dispute between the English Catholics and Protest-
ants, and that foreign Governments are to be excited to
interfere. If the power of doing mischief were as
great as the disposition on the part of such men
AS Mr. O'CoNNELL seems to be, we might expect
soon to see Europe engaged in a new war, not so much
of State against State, as subject against subject—Pro-
testant against Catholic Europe; we know no other
object Mr. limes propositiun can have, but we confess,
we have no fears of its being effected.
:c.

A Cabinet Council was held this day, at the Foreign
Office, D4wning-street.
His MAJESTY, who, we are happy to learn, remains in
good health, continues in town, but is expected to leave Carlton
Palace to-morrow fur Windsor, and from thence proceed to Brighton.
The LORI MAYOR, on SaturdAy afternoon, had a long
interview with the Right Honourable Mr. Pm, Secretary of State
for the Home Department, Whitehall; the purport of his Lord-
ship's audience has nut transpired.