Star.
London, England, 1828-01-16 00:00:00

'engaging cull:We:4nm incali#catiusis. A rumour
was in circulation it Paris', -that count de Fatabx.
,
lis:lbi niw ' • •
misled his purgpse of resigning; and- that, ail: the other
Ministers -were' about to follow J 4 exact le, except
MM. PORTALIS and Rot, a 1.0 woild forth the nucleus
of a new Cabinet.

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typed. M1C1141111411 ut Arnpiyur WA)
called the King of Kippsn.
Th- late Mr,.ip4u tiogristarmer at A rnes, near Alloa, ~'
amon2many anecaotes received from his grandfath.l.
4 reg , • i the battle of Shetiffmuir, used to take math
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dO i. iabt- relsting ake. follewing :—The day aver this
memo, able . event, Mr.. Cowie's grandfather 'Sad the
curiosity to pity a visit to the field of battle. Among
tiiivntrawerons relies of war with which the plain was
strewed, the only thing that attracted young Cowles
fancy, as worthy of being carried away, -was a drum
which he found lying beside the pale and lifeless body
of its former youthtul possessor. Without farther ce-
temony, he immediately flung the noisy instrument
•Over his shoulder, and turned his face homewards—
tittle suspecting the danger to• which he exposed him-
self by carrying an appendage so warlike. Fortunately
few ham, just as he was leaving the field, he met with a
dragoon, whose horse had been shot the previous day,
Mid lie was thus left to act the part of. humble pedertrian.
After a little conversatimi, it was agreed that they
should accompany each other to Cowiestiome. They had
not, however, got more than half way down Menstry
'Brie. when they heard elite behind them, which; on
turning roond, they discovered procteded from three
Highlant!ers, who were straining every nerve to over-
take them. The ch tracter of the dragoon, had he been
alone, might have been doubtft.l, but accompanied by
Cowie, and the warlike appendage which graced his
shoulders, the Highlandets at once concluded they were
in pursuit of at least a setjeant and his drummer. The
deadly vengeance depicted in the countenances of tbe
mountaineers, as they thew near, produced such a fit
of terror in Cowie, .that he shook from head to foot;
his companion, the dragoon, on the contrary, saw the
rap;d approach of the enemy with a, much firmness a,
if it had heen that if A friend. Pc rceiving, however,
the trepidation of C,,,, ie, he t,ild him to tear nothing—
and drawing his sword with one hand, and taking a
pistol hom his belt with the other, he cooly awaited
the onset. The Highlanders came up, sword in hand.
The foremost commenced the attack—his career was a
short one ;—the first blow from the dragoon literally
clave his head in two—the next was laid prostrate by
the well directed contents of the pistol ;--and the third,'
seeing the fate of his companions, turned about and
fled. Cowie, having row an opportuniti of adding ano.
ther relic to that which had already threatened his de.
sti action, begged he might be allowed to carry off one
of the.swords which belonged to the Highlanders, lying
at his feet. The request was readily granted ; and the
relic has ever since remained in the family.—Stir-
lire; Advertiser. _
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ar Alp* Wal ds

A Leeward Island Mail has arrived this worn7ng—
left St. Tnomas on the 11th of December—by which
the following private letter has been received:
" LaoutitA, Nov. 24.—The Government.hain boated
a debt, under the name of a FloatingDebtAr the set-
tlement of -all unadjusted claims, the -payget of the
citmmissary department, and debts contracted' by the
at my, as uell as for protested bills."—OnaelOth of the
revenue of the Custom-house is to be sit aside for the
redempti-n of the debts; but (the writer of the above
adds) It is all moonshine; and so En from their being
able to discharge the capital, it will not ply 'the interest.
And as for the' Engli.h Loan, he considers: it a dead
letter, and is sty priseJ to hear that it even bea*rprice ;
and states, that the radical cure mustr tie the recrorlion
of the army, which, at present, is quite "Coresary to,
Bolivar's feeling and interest. His conveoFtaire re-
duced the effective force to 9,000 Inca i 'tut hi. present
view is to inctease it heyond this force. Zit country
is swarming with General Officers; and a law has given
him the power of the nomination of niter Grades. There
is nothing but contradiction and incoOstenty.

We have perused with coniderable attention the An.
oual Financial Repoli of the Secretary of the Tteasury
of the United States, v. hick-. has sithiss'theie few days
been laiJ bef,re the public. Although Mr. leugH may
disregard the conciseness we ate accustontird to ad/trite
in England, his reasoning is that of a sound politician,
and of a disinterested ft iend of his country.
The great object dwelt on in the Report, and urged
upon the Legislature by arguments drawn from the
experience of the gtwth of the Eurofean Posers, and
particularly of Great Britain, is the encouragement of
manufactures in the United States.
It is wily remarked, that the value of the landed
property of a' State; and the well doing of the land
owners, must ever mainly depend on the numbers and
prosperity of its manufacturing population.W.thout.such
consumers it is idle to invest capital in agriculture; the
cultivation of the soil must take placefor the subsistence
of the cultivators, and not as a business yielding profit ;
and, simple as this tooth is, we 4o think it cannot-he too
frequently repetted to the landed interest of this coun-
try. Two-thirds of our population are employed in
trade and manufactures; and can we then wonder, says
the Report, that agriculture has yielded so large Returns
to the capitalists of Great Britain t
A fertile soil, cheap labour, and light tatation, are
Doing much for the Amer:can farmers, but it is easy to
pet (rive that a steady home market will do much more.
And accordingly Mr. Russ recommends the adoption
~1 measures suited to foster the gross th of manufactures
to invite artisans from Europe with some such encour
agemems as England formerly gave to seduce them
mom the Continent. It is also hinted that a prohibition,
or at all events a lim'ted check to the importation of

CONTRACT FOR TILES.
• NAVY OFFICE, January 16, 1828.
.11 HE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS wed COMMIS
SIONERS of kis MAJESTY'S NAVY do kereby give Nwint.
-That the CONTRACT for TILES for bib Majesty's Dock
'Yards at Deptford and Woolwich, advertised for THURSDAY, tilt
'i7.11 instant, is deferred until further Notice.

THE Ey ENI NG STAR.

-LONDON.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 18.-8.

STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. .
The Prorogation of Parliament, as well as the seeming delay in
the appointment of the new Ministry, has some effect on ilk
Coosa market. Consols opened this morning at 864, and remain
at tilt above price up to the present time, with little doing.
CITY. HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK.
• Cassels may be quoted at present at 86, alternately buyers and
.optlers fur the Account.
MI ICE OF STOCKS AT TWO o-cLoCK.
Bank Smell t.'o9 114 India Stock 2474
$ per Cent. lied. &SI 4 a Ditto Bonds 93
iper Ct. Cans. 641 a ea die. South Sea Stock
jil per Cent. 924 4 New Annuities, ex. die.
$4 per Cent. lied. 924 4 £looo•Excheq. MU. 61 62 60
'4 per Ct. New 101 100} ex die. £5OO
alto 60 63
4 per Cent. Scrip £l9O £2oo Ditto 60 62
4 per Ceta. 1826, 1023 a 1.44 for Acct.
. Long Anss.l9 S-16-4 5.16 Consuls for Acct.ll64 6
frOltEltiN FUNDS, TWO O'CLot K.
Buenos Ayr.s lials.6p C. 42 Russ. Ms. 1822, 5 per Ct. 924 1
Do. Acct. 412 Do Acct. 923
• flint* lids. 3 p Ct. @Oa 4 a Spanish Ads Sp Ct 104 1
Net. Ads, 1825.8 p Ct Fr. Raines. 5 p C. 103125 e
Do. Acc..46j 6 I Exchange, 251 25c
BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO O'CLOCK.
MA St. FA ID.
Colombian 100 . £24 234
United Mexican 40 .35 15
Guardian Fire Ass: 100 10 201
"British Rock and Patent Salt 10 T 5

•orcign fabrics might not be inexpedient.
-However this may be, with reference to the infancy
of the United Stat. b, one thing is certain—that Great
Britain will not command the American market for
many years longer'. Factories are rising rapidly in
every State, particularly in New England; and though
the complaint be now true, that the cotton wool sent
to Liverpool does not return to its native land, but is
der.ined for manufactures for the Continent of Europe,
while goods of an inferior plant supply its place in
America, yet those who 'have the remedy in their own
hands will hardly endure the grievance much longer,
when they can keep the genuine plant, and manufac-
ture it. at home.
Tbis subject is hackneyed enough ; we allude to it not
as a new theory, but we do think that it is dr ing our
aristocr.tical aid lar-deJ countrymen a real se►vice, to
present before they eyes the instances that daily occur
to shew the gnawing tendency of the world in general,
to become independent of the manufacturing monopoly
of Great Britain, and to reiterate to them ti e truth, that
with the stability and prosperily of those manufactures,
the owners and cu tiv at rs of the sr il, must build or fall.

At the Council held yesterday at Windsor, Par.
liaatent wasprorogued for a week, in order to give time
for the Ministerial arrangements. The Prorogation
be found in our extracts from The (.4zeite.
meat, therefore; does not meet tillTuestlay, the 29th in. t
This judicious and necessary measure will afford
sufficient time not only for the full completion of tl e
new Ministerial Arringements, but for the due con-
sideration of the measures proper to be recommeLded
.‘ by his MAJESTY on opening the Session of the Great
Council of the Nation.
After the Council yesterday at Windsor, the Duke of
WILLLINGTON set off for Strathsfieldsaye, from which
he is expected in town this evening.
The Messenger who was sent off to Edinburgh last
week for Lord MaLvir.r..a, returned to town last night.
'His Lordship is therefore hourly expected.

TI e sub cri;tion to the proposed Monument to the
Memory or Mr. Cavramo is said to amount aimed), to 9,00n1. Arad
there is every appear Awe tlut a 'von will be raised &tandem for the
erection of a very splendid mark of individual and national esteem.
DispAti.h s were received, werday mon tog, at the
Colonial Department, from th.: L eutenant Governot,
Major General Boogies, at the C ape ~f Good 1-1 ,p..,
As a proof that the intercom se with Constantinople
and this country is nut interrupted, yesterday several
Bills of Exchange w, re received froos the, above capital
and negotiated on 'Change.
A file of Ca'cutta Papers, to the 13th of July, came
to hand last night. They contan no politic4l news.—
We received last night the l'aris Papers of Sunday,
A meeting was held on the 9th, to consider of the best
and the Uazette de Frame of Monday; the latter. con. means of paying a public tribute of respect to the me-
tains an important communication from Vienna, an• mory of the Marquis of HASTINGS, Sir CHAR. GREY in
flouncing the strived in that capital of a courier from the Chair. A resolution was passed twaise a structure
for the purpose of placing in it the statue already voted
St. Petersbergh, who had brought with him a new
by the people of India, and a Commi,tee to carry. the
declaration of the Emperor NICHOLAS to the Allied
resolution into effect was appointed accordingly.
Courts, dated Dec 24, in which his IMPERIAL 'MAJESTY The LORD Mayon held, a Court if Aldermen at
declares, that notwithstanding the last refusal of the Guildhall yesterday. A petition from several poor
8111.TAIr to accept the intervention of the Allied P.wers, fish:men of Milton, who have been proceeded against
a t the Quarter. Sessions for the county of Kent kr -fish.
nnd the determination of the Ambassadors to retire, he
in g .tn where have been accustomed t,
desires ." to maintain the peace of the Continent, and to. fish for rimesituatsons rorme,„„rial,they was hod before the Coors.i
wait for the further proceedings of the two other Courts.' who directed tl.e City Sulicitor to defend them in their
It was inferred from this, at Vienne, that the Russian rights.
troops would not cross the Pruth immediately after the Three are fitting out in the river Thames six ships
for the conveyance of conv.c,s
departure of the Allied Ministers, and that the whole of about 500 loos each,
to New South Wales and Van Diernitn's Land; and it
winter would be passed in negociations, and the hope is it said that the Government have, determined on send-
aeteratiy entertainedsthat all may yet be arranged with., in all the prisoners whose Prue-her is transportation to
out the necessity of having recourse to further hostilities those colonies, where the demand foi lab ur lute in in.
especially 'for agricultural purposes, that the
Accounts hem Corns state, that IhrtAtillig PACHA creased,
had heat eitwallipl by Isis father, and was preparing to numbers are taken off the Government charge immi di.
ately on their arrival from Europe. he no period could
eiriatigarike %left a, which would thuds be restored at
the expense attending their transport be less; the G.
o=4 to Pellss44"4"rding " "el aPilug."4o dull sterament have taken up the late dlips.et not eteeedinf
. law Maim' IA FMCS Will slot' Sated withoutex-144 175.-per tn. micas. .

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