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duties on all property existing in their stores, and this
was to be the established duty 'on all importationsei—
Admiral Guise, with the frigate Prueba, and a schooner,
was blockading Callao, and had cut out several vessels
which the black fellows had detained in port. General
Bolivar had retired from Patavilca to Trusillo, and had
his troops distributed in such towns or villages as could
'supply sustenance. The number of his effective force in
Peru is said to be from tea to 12,000, principally Co-
lombians, whilst that of the Spaniards is variously esti-
mated at ten to 14,000. General Bolivar is said to hold
very strong positions. He appears desirous to avoid an
action till hereceives further resources from Colombia ;
but I think it not improbable the Spaniards will make
an attack, and in a very few months something decisive
or of moment will take place. Things cannot remain
in their present state long."

ii GUAYAQUIL, A2llll. 3, 1824.

it Late reports from Peru state, that the Spaniards
bad their advances as far as Huacho, and were expected
to make an attack on General Bolivar very shortly.
This department, as well as that of Quito, have been
put under martial law, and preparations are making to
send a reinforcement of 6,000 men."

E EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

FRIDAY, JULY 9, 1824.
TIIE.FUNDS..
STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Consols opened this morning at 943, soon afterwards they were
done at 941 for the Account, with no bUsinvss of consequence
doing; but up to this hour they are 911, and for next Accoan3
94i to 95.
It is reported that a great capitalist has received ,V 25,000 for the
put and call of One Million of Consols for the August Account
for the call, at 96, and for the put, at 95.
FOILEIGN FUNDS
There is very little doing in the Foreign Market. All. South
American Securities are very heavy.
Current Prices :—Old Spanish 201 to 21, Russian 94i 4, Al-
liance Shares 14, Mexican Scrip t dis. Colombian Scrip 36 dis.
French 12, Austrian 94, Chilian 754, New Prussian 961, Old 976
Portuguese 616, IluenosAyres 13 prem.

By a Mail from the Leeward Islands we have re-1
ceived letters of the 13th of June from St.Thomas's, and'
of corresponding dates from the other islands. Very re-
cent accounts had been received at St. Thomas's from
Maracaibo, and from Valencia, by which it was ascer-
tained that that part of the Colombian Main was per.
fectly tranquil. AtLaguayra there had been a conspiracy
formed among the blacks, but General PAEZ, who
commanded there, having received timely intimation
of it, made himself acquainted by means of his emissa-
ries with their plan of proceeding, and arrested the
principal persons engaged in it, several of whom he
caused to be put to death. His measures were so judi-
cious and decisive, that the inhabitants knew nothing of
the conspiracy until they saw its authors punished.
On consulting the numbers of the Colondriano,a paper
published at Caraccas, to the 26th of May, we find little
worthy of note respecting the internal situation of the
Republic. It is stated that General SouaLETTE had
been appointed at Bogota as Envoy to Great Britain.
Of the falsehoods respecting Colombia in particular,
and South America in general, which are unblushingly
circulated by the Mad; id Gazette, the chief source is
now ascertained to be the island of Porto Rico, from
whence they spread through the West India Islands and
to Europe. The Colo►nbi.ino of the 26th of May gives
a specimen of this species of manufacture, which is too
curious not to be copied, as exhibiting perhaps the
greatest confusion ~f time and space, as well as of utter
ignorance of geography, ever combined in the limits of
a single paragraph. It is as follows.
" ST. THOMAS'S, MAT VI

" The news from Porto Rico is, that Canterac is in Bogota ; Bo-
livar iu Carthagena ; the Congress in Cuadalita ; Maracaibo threat-
ened by eeo men who have revolted in Zulia ; and Caraccas by
Cisneros. It sums also, that Sucre, who was in Arequipa, bad re-
queAtcol a supply of troops from Vinezuria."
Every one of these facts is 'nosed to be totally false
and absurd ; arid if, as the Editor of the Colombiano
says, such statements ate put posely circulated by the
enemies of the Republic, in order to deter Great Britain
from acknowledging its independence, it is a subject of
congratulation that they are so destitute of common
sense and probability as to impose on no one.
The papers we have received fa om Barbadoes, Anti-
gua, and other islands, communicate no event of im-
portance.

This morning we received ilsmburgh Papers to the
2d instant. One of them contains the following account

of some new regulations of the I'rotestant Church in

the Prussian Duchy of Saxony :
41 One of the most important events in the affairs of
the Evangelic Choi ches of the kingdom, and in the his-
tory of the Protestant religion in general, is undoubtedly
the new CoMmon Prayer Kook, which oziginated with
his Majesty himself. The King has lately caused a new
edition of this Prayer Book to be puhli,lied, in which
some passages are altered from the former edition ; it
is also tendered more complete by the addition of a
greater number of verses from the Bible, and prayers
which may be used alternately with the formulary in
the Liturgy. The King has also had au extract made
from the Liturgy, for those Clergymen in town or coun-
try who have to preach on a Sunday in several
Churches, or who have no choirs to sing, that it may
be used at least when they are straitened for time.
" The limitation of Divine Service to an hour is ex-
plained to include only the reading of the Liturgy, the
Hymns sung by the congregation between that and the
Sermon, and the Sermon itself, but not the Hymn or
Psalm before the Liturgy ; and that after the Sermon,
with respect to which the wishes of the congregation, if
decidedly expressed, are to be complied with, it follows
of course, that when the Sacrament is administered after
the Sermon, the limitation of the time has no reference
to that ceremony.
" The Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs has notified
these changes and explanations of the new Common
Prayer Book, to the Consistory of the Duchy of Saxony,
and at the same time acquainted it with his Majesty's plea-
sure respecting the introduction of the new Prayer Book.
" It appears," says the Minister, " that a great part
of the Clergy, especially in the country, have rejected•
the Liturgy, fearing that the continual repetition of the
same prayers, and the length of the Liturgy, would tire.
the attention ; that the Clergy would not have time or
strength to go through the Liturgy, and that the con-
gregations accustomed to sing several Hymns, would be
much dissatisfied at having the singing reduced to a few
verses. As these objections are removed by the alterations
that have been made, it is expected that the Clergy who
objected on the above grounds will not hesitate to in-
troduce the new Prayer Book, especially as his Majesty
has shewn, by this new edition, how well disposed he is
to attend to proposals and wishes the object of which
is the more perfect attainment of the wholesome end in
view. His Majesty being informed that the introduc-
tion of the Liturgy has been hindered, not by the
congregations, but by the Clergy, who have dis-
suaded their flocks, his Majesty cannot refrain from
expressing his just displeasure ; and the Consis-
tory is instructed to state this to the Evangelic Clergy
within its jurisdiction, and to intimate to them that his
Majesty will not suffer such conduct to pass unnoticed."

Dutch Papers to the Bth of July were received this
morning. The following are extracts :
ST. PETEItSBURGH, JUNE 19.

The departure of his Majesty the Emperor will pro-
bably take place at the beginning of August.
After the reviews are over, the Grand Duke Nicholas
and his consort will make a voyage to Doberan, in
Mecklenburgh, on board a ship of the line.
On the 10th of March, an Ukase was issued to the
following effect : 44 No public functionary in the Rus-
sian service shall, without special permission of his su-
perior, compose writings in any language whatever,