Star.
London, England, 1818-01-31 00:00:00

BRUSSELS, JANUARY 90.

The Directors of the trade of the Levant, and of
the navigation of the Mediterranean, have just an-
nounced, according to a letter from his Majesty's
Consul at Gibraltar, dated December 31, that Vice-
Admiral Van Braam, who is at Madeira, with his
squatb on, has received orders to send some vessels
to cruize between Cape St. Vincent and Cadiz, in
order, if necessary, to protect our Bag against the in-
sults of the Insurgent privateers.

FRANKFORT, JANUARY 20.
It is affirmed that the Diet was employed yester-
day in discussing a proposal made by his Excellency
the Minister President, relative to the military con-
tingent of the German Confederation, and that this
proposition was received ad referendum. The pro-
posed basis of the partition of t)te contingent is two
per Cent. cf the population.

INSPRUCK. JANUARY IS.
The opening of the States of this Principality took
place on the lath.

SWITZERLAND, JANUARY 16.

•
The ex-conventionalist, Lawrence, who was ar-
rested some months ago in France, has just obtained
from his Majesty Louis XVIII. the favour of being
allowed to return to France. He lived near Grenoble,
when the law forced hith to quit his country.

VIENNA, JANUARY so.
The regulations of the Austrian National Bank,
drawn up last year, and approved by his Majesty,
were published on the 10th of January. The whole
forms 162 paragraphs. -TM presents which are an-
nually given by the Contracting Powers upon the
conclusion of treaties of peace, marriages, and other
conventions, which have been accumulating for some
years, havebeen now divided among the Officers of
the Privy, Aulic, and State Chancery.
It is believed that the Diet will not long delay in
fixing the military contingent of the Germanic Con-
federation. They reckon from twenty-eight to twenty
nine millions of persons in the population of the States
forming the Confederation. The military contingent
in time of peace will be 120,000 men, of which
96,000 will be infantry, 18,000 cavalry, and 6,000
artillery, &c.
The report that salt and tobacco are soon to be
paid for in cash, not in paper, is still kept up. The
reports which are revived from time to time in fo-
reign papers, of an approaching meeting of several
European Sovereigns at Prague, are entirely ground-
less. The meeting of these Sovereigns, is to be, it
is said, at Dusseldorf.
JANUA 14.—.. We daily. expect the publication of
new nominations to various offices of State. Count
Chorinsky is to have the place of Chancellor of Bo-
hemia under Count Sanrau. The report of the re-
moval of Baron Stunner from Constantinople to
Trieste, seems to be confirmed. The unhappy death
of his son, who was carried off by the plague, has
so greatly affected him, that he has begged the Em-
peror to recall him from his post as soon as possible.
Counsellor Von Brensur is spoken of as his successor.
The nomination of Baron Bartholomew Strumer, hi-
therto our Commissioner at St. Helena, to the post of
Austrian Ambacw to the United States of Ame-
rica, was announced by an Imperial resolutlbn of the
13th ultimo, and Philadelphia, for the present, as-
signed him for his residence. This nomination has
been announced to the merchants by the Prague Ga-
zette of the 9th instant. It is, however, much to be
doubted, whether M. Von Strumer wjllbe at his new
post before the middle of this year.
The Prague Gazette of the 11th instant contains a
long. article to refute a pretended letter from Bohe-
mia in the new Rhenish Mercury of December 23, in
which the tale of great preparations making
.for the
reception of distinguished visitors at Prague is again
brought forward. At the same time, the silly asser-
tion that the Austrian Observer was the cause of the
disappearance of certain German and other Papers
from the Austrian Post Office lists, is treated as it
deserves ; and it is plainly declared that this measure
has doubtless been caused merely by the tendency
of these Papers themselves. The great number of
other Papers, both German and foreign, which have
remained upon the lists, and the not inconsiderable
number of Newspapers and other periodical Journals
that have been lately added to sufficiently shew
that this determination of the Government must have
had some other ground than the pretended influence
of the Austrian Observer.

AFPAIR OP Ft; ALDEs.—Rhodez,Jan.l7.—Maidame
Manson appears exceedingly depressed since her.arri-
val at Albi. During the last days of her residence at
Rhodez, she applied herself very closely to the pre-
paration of her defence: she, however, suddenly
ceased, as if she had totally abandoned the idea of
defending herself, and now seems to look forward to
the trial with indifference. M. de FAYDEL, who is to
preside at the trial, arrived from Toulouse at Ilhodez
on the 12th instant: he has visited carefully the
house of the deceased, and the places referred to by
the witnesses in their examinations. Bousquier was
brought from the place of his confinement, and,
under the eyes of the President (M. FAYDEL) and the
tiab-Prefect, traced the path taken by the party that
threw the body of the deceased into the water.—
lie pointed out the exact course, and the different
places where the party conveying the body halted.
The residence of licincal has been examined with the
greases'- care, and in fact every possible inquiry made
to promote the ends of justice. The trial will, it is
comitence on the Sd February. The con-
supposed,
duct of the President has obtained the respect and
confidence of all the inhabitants of Rhodez. All the
persons summoned to attend are most zealous in pro-
moting the ends of justice. A detachment of dra-
rionshas been tent to Rhodez, by Lieutenant-Ge-
neral Viscount be BRICIM. The prisoners, it is
said. will be soon t,onveyed to Albi. M. DE FAYDEL
set out from fritodez for Albi, on the morning of
Use l6th.--4Paru roper.)

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LONDON.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1818.
PRICE., STOCKS THIS DAY at TWELV O'CLOCK.
Reduced 79;4—Cons. 79f—Cons. for Feb. 79}
4 per Cent. 98k—Navy Annuiths 104 k 105
India Bonds /07 108 pr.—Exch. Bills 18 27 pr.

The Paris Papers of Tuesday arrived this morning.
The discussion in the Chamber of Deputies on the
Project for Recruiting the Army has at length come
to a close. In a Sitting of the Chamber on Monday,.
after M. Amami., Under-Secretary of State in the
War Department, had been heard, in refutation of
the objections to the Prqject, there was a general call
for the closing of the debate; and on its being put
to the vote, it was almost unanimously carried.—
The Reporter on the Project, Count D'Assattutorao.
then proceeded to make a general reply to the objec-
tions which had been made to the report of the Com-
mission, and was followed by the Minister of War,
Marshal Gouvtox Sr. Cii, who, in a very animated
speech, which called forth this loudest expressions of
applause, enforced the adoption of the Project as es-
sentially conducive to the safety and glory of France.
Te Chamber then adjourned till the following days
when the President will give his summary of the
question, and the Articles of the Project will be voted
upon in succession.

An article from Berlin affects to repel with indig-
nation the charge which has lately been made against
the Prussian Government, of being engaged in a r.ego-
ciation with certain other Powers for the purpose of
limiting the liberty of the press. So contrary, it
seems, is this to the fact, that the Prussian Cabinet
is at present actually engaged in a plan for establish-
ing the liberty of the press throughout all the Prus-
sian States, and the circulation of all foreign periodi-
cal works and journals, even those of countries
where the freedom of the press is most unlimited, is
freely permitted.
Prince Wrt.trete of PRUSSIA, after having passed
seven months with the Imperial Family of Russia,
has returned to Berlin.

French Five per Cents. Monday-66fr. 60c.

We have received this morning Philadelphia Papers
to the Ist of January. It is stated, on the authority
of the Nem York Gazette, that all proceedings relative
to the Floridas have been for the present suspended,
in consequence, it is believed, of orders received by
the Spanish Minister from his Government.—General

Gnixes left Fort Scott on the sth of December, and
has since arrived at Fort Hawkins. It is said that he
contemplates visiting the troops at Point Petre before
he returns to the Indian frontier, and it is presumed
that all offensive operations will be suspended until
he rejoins the army.

We have receiVed Calcutta Gazettes to the 7th of
September, which contain some important intelli-
gent relative to the projected military operations in
that quarter.
The head-quarters of his Excellency the Most
Noble the Governor-General were on the 28th of
August near Mirzapore.
Letters from the Dukhin state, that the Madras
tromps were in march towards the Nerbudda, from
which it was inferred that in the ensuing operations
these troops would take the duty of securing the
ghauts in that quarter, so as to leave the Nagpore
subsidiary force disposable. Sir T. •HISLOP, it was
stated, would proceed direct for Ellichpore. Color.el
WAticeit had been appointed to the command of all
the Cavalry in the Dukhin. The 3d and 6th Regi-
ments of Madras Cavalry had been ordered to the
Nerbudda.
EXTRACT OP A LETTER, DATED strvnur, AUGUST 18.
" The expected military movements remain yet a matter of
conjecture. AU the troops are held in readiness to march, and
could move at a few hours' r.otice, and do not expect to receive
more than a day or two's previous Intimation. The Bazar re-
ports say that Scindeah has at present In his service 70,000 Pin-
darks, whom he has recently entertained. Meer Khan is said
to have not above seven or eight hundred followers that be can
depend upon, the rest of his force being composed of a rabble
that would quit him on the slightest reverse of fortune, or go
over to whoeler would give them higher pay. The Rajah of
Burtpoor has been busily employed for some time past. strength..
clung his Fort, by widening and deepening the ditch, and hn-
proving the works, and building bomb-proof magazines, which
the fate of Ilatrass taught the necessity of. He has been dis-
charging such of his troops as he cannot dep.:nd upon, and enter-
taining those of his own cast."

The General Mourning ceases to-morrnsr.
Yesterday the Duke and Duchess of GiorcrsTra
had a select party to dinner.

The Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace, will open
to-morrow, for Divine Service, after having been shut
up for six months, to be repaired and beautified.
Yesterday die CHANCELLOR cf the EXCHEQ-:en had
a consultation with the Earl of LIVERPOOL, at Fl 2
House. for upwards of four hours, from eleven o'clock
till half-past three.
in his route to France, his Grace the Duke of Wm.-
LINGTON was accompanied by Colonel FR/LEMANTLE
and Lord ART/IVR HILL.

Lord HAMILTON, the only son of the late Marquis
of ABERCOAN, died some years ago, leaving an infant
son, who is now alive, and who of course succeeds to
the estates and honours of his Grandfather. Besides
the Scots estates in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh,
the ABERCOIN property in Ireland is very extensive.
Lady HAMILTON is now married to the Earl of ABER-
DEEN, and is his second wife. Her Ladyship has also
had the good fortune to produce a am, and heir to
that Noble Family. Lord ABIRDEEN's first wife was
the sister of Lord HAMILTO.