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London, England, 1819-08-04 00:00:00

EVENING STAR

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LONDON.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1819.
THE FUNDS.
PRICE OF STOCKS Tms DAY AT ONE O'CLCCK
Bank Stock. 232
3 per Cent. Reduced 7111 i
-3 per Cent. Consols 71t 71 t 71
3 per Cent. 81-4 per Cent. 90iif
5 per Cent. Navy 1041 i
Bank Loi.g. Annuities 191 3-16
India Bonds 10 9 11 pre.
- Exchequer Pills (2d.) 2 3 1 pre.
Commercial 24 22 discount
~nnium 4 n pre.
msols for Acct. 71it f 71 t.

,sre are happy to find that we are not left without
sorters in the efforts we have been making to
:arise the public attention to the present distresses of
the working classes, and the remedies called for by
the citcumstances in which the whole community has
for some time been placed. Veg.:3-day a respectable
Daily Paper (the Morning Post) inserted in its co.
lumps the observations we had offered on Monday,
•on the propriety and necessity of a Public Meeting
being called in the City, to lay the foundation of a well
digested plan for establishing a NATIONAL FUND, for
the immediate aid of the unemplo:.ed, to be aided
by Collections and Charity Sermons throughout the
Kingdom : and tin; mot ning, another Paper of great
respectability (Tito limes), has inserted from our
columns of yesterday, the letter signed " A Ma-
niffezctitrer," ca the injustice and impolicy of forcing
goods into the market at prices unich rob the
workmen et ..he wages necessary even for their bare
sustenance. The public press can do much to rectify
the mistaken views which have too long been main-
tained by some who would yet pass fur economists
of the first character ; and we doubt not that the dif-
ferent Editors will shew the same honest zeal which
has actuated them generally on every occasion that
concerns the cause of humanity, and the vital inte-
rests of the most industriaas and best informed work-
ing population upon the face of the earth : for such
we hold to be that important class by whose manual
industry the manufacturing superiority of this king-
dom has been icarc„. and upheld.

We are hal.py to laarn, by accounts which have
been received frc.n Prince of Wales' Island, dated
Ist March, 1819, that Sir STAMFORD RAFFLES, Go-
vernor of 13en,:oolen, had succeeded in making en-
gagements with the Native Authorities for the estab-
iv.ment of a British Factory at Singapore, the ancient
iti.ne capital of the Malays.
Our Readers are aware of the strenuous exertions
made by the Dutch, since their recent restoration to
power in the Indian Seas, not only to exclude us from
all commerce in the Malayan Archipelago, but even
to obstruct our China trade. They had already made
the most sapid strides in a system of territorial ac-
quisition from the Native Powers; and not satisfied
with declaring themselves sovereigns of all Borneo
and the whole of the Islands, were about to become
complete masters of the Indian Seas, when Sir STAM-
FORD RAFFLES, with a provident vigilance for Bri-
tish interests which deserves the highest praise, called
the attention of the Government at home to the ne-
cessity of counteracting their designs, and, under the
sanction, as we presiune, of Government, proceeded
to open negotiations with such of the Native Powers
as yet maintained their independence, for permission
to establish Factories at such points as might prevent
the Dutch from effecting, by their territorial in-
fluence, our utter exclusion from the trade of these seas.
The Settlement which he has now succeeded in
negotiating is one which cannot be long in develop-
ing its great importance. Singapore is situated at the
South end of the Peninsula of Malacca, opposite to
the Island of Sumatra, and to the Eastward of the
Port of Malacca. It possesses one of the finest har-
bours in the Archipelago, and its 'relative situation is
such as to combine the greatest maritime advantages.
It will be a commercial station for communication
with the China ships passing either through the
Straits of Sunda or Malacca, completely outflank
Malacca, and intercept its trade, in the same manner
as Malacca has already intercepted that of Prince
Edward's Island. In short, unless the natural course
of things is greatly thwarted by want of adequate
and liberal encouragement from home, of which we
cannot permit ourselves to entertain any apprehen-
sion, there can be little doubt of Singapore becoming
ere long as general an emporium for the Eastern
trade as either Malacca or Prince of Wales's Island
have ever yet been.
The Dutch never had any factory at Singapore,
but they had formerly one at Rhio, a port in the ad-
jacent island or Bintang, at the extremity of the
Malay Peninsula. This factory was destroyed in
1795, and, ever since, Rhio has been under the inde-
pendent Sovereignty of the Sultan of Lingen.
The Dutch are stated to be greatly annoyed at the
success which has attended Sir STAMFORD RAFFLES
in this negotiation ; and will, no doubt, use every
effort to obstruct the projected Settlement. if British
enterprise, however, is only allowed fair play in the
competition, and that it is amply in the power of the
'..British Government to secure for it, we have no fears
whatever for the rank.
Sir STAMPORD RAFFLES had been absent from his

Government on the business of this Treaty about six
months, and' at the date of these advices had again
taken his leave of Bencoolen, intending to proceed.to
'Acheen, on the northern side of Sumatra, to arrange
our political affairs and interests in that quarter.

Accounts from Buenos Ayres to the middle of
May reached us this morning. The following relates
to the operations of Lord COCHRANE
BUENOS AYRES, MAY 14.

4, We have accounts by way of Chili that a South-
Sea whaler had arrived at Charabuco, from Callao
de Lima, bringing the intelligence of Vice-Admiral
Lord Cochrane having entered the latter port on the
23d of February, during a dense fog, with the squa-
dron under his cofnmanit, and immediately opened
a brisk fire against the shipping and batteries, which
was returned and kept up for a couple of hours. The
result was Lord Cochrane's carrying off a gun-boat,
and doing great damage to the shipping which he
was unable to cut out, owing to the chain fastenings.
He afterwards cuptAted the Spanish merchant-ship
Vittoria, from-Chili tar pima, laden with timber."

Accounts have been received from Venezuela, con-
firming the defeat of a Spanish forte by a leader of
the Independents, named Soriiitroxß. A letter
from that Officer to General BOLIVAR, dated Sart-
tiago de Pore, April 15, 'says—
" I have just completed the destruction of the
Royalist army, which, in number 3,500 men, came
from Santa Fe, for the purpose of joining MORILLO
in Achaguas. None of them have escaped our arms.
All are either dead or prisoners. To the cry of—
, Veneer o' motir,' our troops, much inferior in num-
ber, charged with such firmness, that nothing could
resist them. The artillery which they had in Salinas,
and all their arms, baggage, and munitions, have
fallen into our hands."

A despatch from the Secretary of State of the Re-
public of Venezuela to the Plenipotentiary from that
State in London, dated Angustura, May 28, which
was received with the accounts of the above victory,
contains the following particulars:
At no period has the state of our cause been so
flattering as at present : doubtless within this present
year the terrible struggle between despotism and
liberty will be terminated. By the accompanying
manuscript and printed papers, you will learn the
complete triumph of SANTANDER over the Spanish
army which was marching from Santa Fe. A divi-
sion of 2,500 men, under General URDANETA, which
composes part of the auxiliary English army, will
disembark on the coast at the beginning of June, to
proceed to Caraccas, while our President BOLIVAR
marches from Varinas, in the direction of that ca-
lpital; and General PAEZ watches Montt.Lo, who is
in Achaguas, on the Apure. The cities of Socorro,
Tunja, and Pamplona, have sent to SANTANDIR
their congratulations on the victory of Pore. That
Commander now marches to occupy Santa Fe de
Bogota. Wherever his army passes, it is received
with enthusiasm. In a short while I expect to send
you most satisfactory accounts of the happy progress
of the arms of our Republic. The British who are
in our service do much honour to our cause."

American Papers, to the 6th July, arrived this
morning. The following are extracts:

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FROM TDE COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER, JUNE 29.

Captain Canaway, of the schooner Thomas Tenant,
from St. Thomas's, states, that a short time before
he sailed, a small privateer schooner, commanded
by one Masser, belonging to Baltimore, had been
taken by •an English 50 gun ship, and carried into
Barbadoes. The First Lieutenant of the privateer•,
after he was carried on board the ship, was tucked
up, and had 50 lashes on his bare back, in conse-
quence of the depredations of these piratical cruizers
upon the commerce of the Island.
A Danish ship of war, hearing of the success of
the English man of war, went out in pursuit of a
small schooner which lay off Tortola, and took pos-
session of her by stratagem, and carried her into St.
Thomas. They took the crew into safe keeping, and,
not to be out-done by the English, they took the se-
cond in command within six miles of the place, and
inflicted summary punishment on him.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM MONTE-VIDEO,
DATED APRIL 26.

" General Aguir, one of General Artigas's prinei*
pal Officers, who had been made prisoner by the.
Portuguese, has made his escape from Monte-Video,
collected a number to join him, and is committing
all kind of depredations. It is expected the new Con-
stitution would be promulgated the 25th of May.—.
As Artigas's friends were to share in the Govern-
ment, a declaration of war against Portugal would
be immediately made, and the conquest of Monte-
Video was expected."

The failure of one of the greatest commercial
houses at Baltimore (for £300,000) which has re-
cently taken place, has spread considerable uneasi-
ness among the manufacturers of the West Riding
of Yorkshire, as well as at Manchester and other
parts of L.lacashire, many of whom will be Consi-
derable losers by the event.

Not a letter arrives from America that does not
bring the most gloomy accounts of the state of trade,
and the consequent distress experienced by the great
body of the people throughout the Union.. The
wages of labourers, and likewise of the MARVA

employed in- -the various handicraft businesses, ha.
experienced a reduction of nearly one half, yet even
at this reduction, more than one-third of the work-
ing population are out of employment, and their
numbers are daily augment-ed by the shoals of emi-
grants from all parts of Europe, but more particu-
larly from England and the sister kingdom. We
have been favoured with the inspection of two letters
from Philadelphia, of the Bth ult. one from New
York of the 6th, and one from Charleston of an an-
tecedent date. These all breathe the same gloomy
spirit as to the present unlooked-for and unexampled
distress experienced by all ranks in America. The
snfferings of the lower orders (in a country where no
poor-rates are levied, 'and but few establishments
provided fur their relief) are represented as most
heart-rending; and many hundreds (the writer of
one of the letters says thousands) of our unfortunate
countrymen, who had disposed of their little all of
property in this country, to enable them to cross the
Atlantic, are now pennyless and unprotected, aad
enduring the worst of privations in a strange land,
subsisting on casual charity ; sighing and imploring
to be sent back to their native land, but utterly de-
stitute of the means to accomplish their wishes. The
change with respect to the state of affairs in America,
seems greater than in any other quarter of the globe.
Formerly it was the proud boast of the American-,
" Bankrupts we have few ; and Beggars we have
none." But, alas ! the scene is strangely reversed ;
their streets are crowded with mendicants, and their
principal commercial houses sinking rapidly to ruin.
As a set-off to these dismal accounts, the letters above
noticed, state the crops of all descriptions to be un-
usually large and fine—and the season, so far, to
have been extremely healthy.

Letters have been received from Rio Janeiro,
reaching to the 29th of May. Matters are not quite
so bad in that quarter as in North America and Eu-
rope; yet trade there is at present extremely dell,
owing to an overstocked market, and the unsettled
state of the country, on account of the uncertain
issue of the eventful contest now carrying on. The
Exchange, which had been at 69, 70, had fallen to
62i, but was again looking up to 63.

Letters from Martinique and Guadaloupe repre-
sent the commerce of these islands to be in a state of
extreme difficulty and embarrassment. The princi-
pal part of their specie had been shipped for France;
and the payment of debts, in a great number of in-
stances, was considered entirely out of the question.
Of the merchants residing in Martinique, not more
than two or three were held to be really solvent. The
trade of the islands, it was expected, would be thrown
open, as the only means of saving the commercial
interest from ruin.

Advices from the Cape of Good Hope, dated May
10, were received yesterday. They communicate in-
formation of another irruption of the Caffres, who,
by the last accounts, were suppposed to be com-
pletely repulsed, to the number of 30,000 men. They
had crossed the river which divides their territory
from that of the Cape, and were committing the most
extensive depredations. Orders had been issued to
compel the military service of the inhabitants of the
adjoining district, and all the horses had been put
into requisition, in order to equip a portion of them
as cavalry, the species of force best calculated to repel
the attacks of these dastardly but mischievous invaders

The following is an extract of a letter, dated Irun,
July 18:
" Within the last two days there have passed through this
city numerous Couriers from Madrid, proceeding to Paris and
London. It is from them that we received the first intelligence
of the insurrection which has broken out in a part of the army
for the expedition assembled in the neighbourhood of Cadiz
The particulars which have been rcceved from 31adrid on this
subject draw a deplorable picture of the state of things, from
which we are led to believe most t nhappy consequences will
ensue. On the 13th instant, the followii g placard s‘ as stuck up
in the square of the Sun, at Madrid A million of piastres is
promised to any one who can find out what I as la.r:ome of the
Viceroy of Peru, and the army of General Morino.' This paper
was soon torn down, and the police was busily engaged in en-
' deavouring to find out the author of it, which will be extremely
difficult."

The Paris Papers of Tuesday arrived this forenoon.
The Duke of RICIIELIEU had on the preceding day
a private audience of the KING, which lasted half an
hour. The cause against Professor BAvAttx, of the
School of Law, come on for trial on Saturday morn-
ing, and, after some preliminary proceedings, was
adjourned till Monday. The Court was crowded to
excess.—Five per Cents. Saturday, 71fr. 60c.

Yesterday the PRINCE RECENT arrived at Carlton
House from Hampton Court, and afterwards gave
an audience to Viscount CASTLEREAUIt.

Monday morning, Dr. WILsoN, Domestic Physi-
cian to the Duke and Duchess of KENT; and Mr.
PETTIGREW, Surgeon to their Royal Highnesses, at-
tended at Kensington Palace, to Vaccinate the infant
Princess. . _ .

Wednesday, Earl FITZ WILLIAM arrived in York, in
perfect health.
WILTSHIRE ELECTION FOURTEENTH
DAY.-
1 Vhen the Post left Salisbury yesterday, the final
date of the Poll had not been decl tred, owing to the
Sheriff having prolonged the time of closing to a later
hour than usual. Mr. LONG ‘VELLESLEY, the Steward
of the Salisbury faces for this year, has issued a
notice, stating, that in consequence of the probabi-
Jity of the Poll not closing thr.:e o'clock this day,
the Races will not commence till four o'clock.