Star.
London, England, 1818-11-13 00:00:00

ZWOLL, OCTOBER W.

Between Valte and Exloo, in the Veere, (or marsh.)
in the district of Drenthe, a bridge has been disco-
vered four feet under ground, which has been uncu.
vered for a length of a league and a half, and the 4nd
of which is not yet known. The following Are some
particulars :
" The bridge, of which more is daily discovered,
runs from the Weerdingerlout throne: the marsh, past
the Hanr, and the convent Ter Apel, a distance of about
three full leagues. It consists principally of ropes
firs, of the length of 12 feet, heady laid together.
When the marsh ground is carefully taken up, no in.
terval is to be seen between these stems, which are
on an average three or four inches in diameter. Hero
and there,lnstead of stems, there are split planks of
the above length, and various (I'm:eters. There zee
no nails, and all is hewn with the axe. It is geze;
believed that this is the bridge of Gerrnanices, me...
tioned in Tacitus, and which was laid Arm ti!'s
place by 40 Roman cohorts, on occasion of .t :tatty
retreat, 15 years after the birth of CHRIS r.".

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

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FRIDAY', NOV4MBER Is, 1818.
THE FUND&

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O.CLOZIC:
3 per Cent. Reduced 76. 77--i per Ct. Cons. 7714
Cons. for Ac. 7 Ili —s* per Ct. 8874 per Ct. 95 95i
5 per Navy 108i-I—lndia Bonds 82 pre.
-Ontnitun a dis.—Exchequer Bills 19 20 pre.

The Paris Papers of Tuesday arrived this forenoon.
The Funds had fallen on. Monday even lower than

the private accounts received yesterday *presented.
The Five per Cents. opened at 69 fr. and closed at
69 fr. 10 c. From a wivate source we learn, that /a
great sensation had been. produced by the failure of
one of the principal speculators, who was of high
respectabilitr'and much relied on, but had found
himself unable to fulfil his engagements. The tssist-
ance afforded the holders of the rester, it appeared,
had not proved so effectual as was expected. Com-
pulsory sales were still very numerous, and produced
a corresponding effect on the market.
. The baptism of the young son of the Duke of
ORLEANS was solemnized at Neuilly on Sunday.
The Duke of BERRY, and the Duke of Cumtrnrsi
as representing the Heir Apparent of Naples, were
the sponsors.
The Grand Duke CONSTANTINE still remains at
Paris. His Highness was present on Sunday at the
baptismal fete of the ORLEANS family; and on Mon-
day at a grand ball given by Count DzcAzzs, the
Minister of Police.
The Duke of ANGOULSME has been received
throughout his, tour of inspection along the northern
frontiers with the greatest marks of loyalty and de-
votion : on the sth and 6th he was occupied in visit-
ing the military establishments at Metz and its vici-
nity; and on the 7th set out, accompanied only by
a single Aid-de-Camp and valet, with the intention,
it was understood, of paying a visit to the Royal and
personages assembled at Aix-1;-Chapelle.
While the men of science of Britain and France,
have been engaged in combining the two trigono-
metrical operations by which an arc of the meridian
of mote than twenty degrees in extent has been mea-
suted, we are happy to learn that the Governments
of Denmark and of Hanover, have ordered two new
terrestrial measurements to be executed, which will
be equally connected together. The King of DEN-
MARK has appointed M. ScnUMACIIER, Astronomer

of Copenhagen, to measure the four degrees of me-
ridian► and the four degrees of longitude which em-
brace the Danish territory; and this operation will
be connected with a measurement of three degrees
of the meridian in Hanover, which has been entrusted
to M.Gauss, a geometrician of considerable celebrity.,

A Joint Prussian and Hanoverian Commission has
issued a decree of date the 10th of October, by which
measures are ordered to be taken for immediately
rendering the Ems navigable.
The Austrian division of the Army .f Occupation,
consisting of 21,677 men, and 7,560 horses, com-
menced its route home on the Ist instant. It marches
in ten columns, by the bridge of Sponeck. The last
column, it is expected, will have passed through
Fribourg, in the Brisgau, on the 14th.

An article from Vienna states, that official news
have been received there from Wallachia and Mol-
davia, that many persons have been attacked with
the plague, not only at Jassy, but even at Focksan
and Iberaila. The Anstrinn Government has in con-
sequence ordered the Authorities of Health of Bucko-
wine, Bonnat, and Transylvania, to put the quaran-
tine laws into the most rigorous execution.

The genuineness of the Commercial Treaty which
we published some days ago as having been con-
cluded between General ARTIGAS, the Chief of the
Orientals, and Commodore BOWLES, on the part of
this country, is, we find, rather doubted among cam-
raerctal men, and it is quite true, that beyond its
appearance in the American papers, there is nothing
else to warrant a belief that such a Treaty has been
actually concluded. A very false notion, however,
seems to prevail with respect to the political impor-
tance of the territory which goes under the name of
the Otientals; and nothing can be farther from the
truth than any argument against the genuineness of
this Treaty, founded on the supposed insignificance
of the patties with whom it bears to have been con-
tracted.

An intelligent reader does not require a geogra-
phical or minute description of that part of South
America usually denominated the eastern side of the
river Plate. It may suffice to state that, the extent
is from the sea to the City of Corrientes, inclusive,
and from the Portuguese frontiers to the river, in-
cluding a track of land called "Entre Rios," or be.
tween the rivers, it being situated between the Parana
and Uruguay. The capital of the whole is Monte-
video, now in the hands of the Portuguese. The
other towns and villages are also of some considera-
tion. The principal ones are Maldonada, Rio Negro,
San Carlos, Colonia, Capilla de Mercedes, Capilla
Nuevo, San Salvador, Paysandu, Concepcion del
Uruguay, Gualeguay, Cualeguaycbu, and the Parana,
besi les a number of others too numerous to mention ;
and in addition to the population of the above-men-
tioned places, it is to be observed that the country is

divided into large estates, called Estancias, the em-
ployment of whose numtroor pouessOrs, was, before
thb present destrnctive war, the feeding of cattle, for

their hides and tallow.
Don Jose ARtIQAS was elected Protector of the
People, in the TOflowing manner :—The different
Commandants or Territorial Divisions convened the
inhabitants of their respective I)istricts,-4or the pur-
pose of establishing a Government best adapted to
circumstances, and this not once, but many times
and their general determination has been, that they
place implicit confidence in the exertions of their Ge-
neral, Don Jose, to sustain that freedom so dearly
bought, not only by the destruction of all their pro-
perty, but by the sacrifice of an incredible number
of their fellow citizens.

He has placed his Head-quarters, " Purification,"
in the centre of the country ander his protection.—
Love of his country must be the magnet which at-
tracts him to the spot, for a mort forlorn and desti-
tute residence cannot be imagined. His pecuniary
resources of enjoying the benefit and exalted pleasure
arising from an intercourse with cultivated society,
could be considerable; but he, sacrifices his peace,
health, and comfort, in endeavouring to accomplish
the grand and praiseworthy undertaking of protoict-
ing, as far Ost,in him lies, his fellow-countrymen,
against the machinations of a Tyrant's slaves. Ills
soldiers (if they may be so termed) are objects of

_.....—suoject to the strictest discipline, al-
though not receiving pay. The soldier gratefully
accepts of his ration of flesh, not unfrequently that
of horses, a small portion of tobacco and yerva, an
infnsion of which is indispensable to South Americans.
--With-this miserable subsistence he endures the
most incredible hardships, his naked body exposed
to all the variety of the seasons, and inclemency of
the weather. Not a word of complaint passes his
lips. The orders of attack he receives with incite.'
eribable satisfaction. He presents his hardy bosons
to the balls of his enemy; and generally his nobly
spirit will not allow him to receive quarters from that
hands of those who would enslave his county-4#
dies—his last breath expresses his warm and baulk.
felt wishes for his beloved natal soil.
In his camps no pomp or parade is seen—no miws
tial bands are employed to raist a transient courage,
in his soldiers—no brilliant uniform to please the eye
or create an attachment to the service —the General
and the soldier uses the dress best adapted to his
ideas and circumstances. He asks no foreign aid ;
for what supplies he has received from strangers,
ample compensation has been given ; he receives all
nations with open arms ; allowing all his ports to be
free for the introduction of all classes of goods, and
for.the extraction of the produce of the country.--
But all his good intentions have been blasted by the
ambitious attempts of his unfriendly neighbours ;
and yet they are but attempts. Before the Portuguese
can possibly obtain possession of this valuable coon- I
try, they must exterminate its true owners ; for one
and all declare, that perhapi misfortunes might in-,
duce them to submit to Moors or barbarians, but
death is to be preferred to an acknowledgment of a
Government so odious to them.

It is a well-attested fact, that the Protector }Cis
ordered schools to be erected hl the different districts
of his Government, for the instruction of the oriental
youth—that he dispenses justice impartially and
promptly, notwithstanding his most active life.
It may be observed, that the generality of the na-
tives are in an unimaginable state of ignorance, that
the state of religion and morality is most deplorable,
that no attention on the part of Government is paid
to ameliorating their situation as to their personal
comforts, or as to a due observance of the obligations
of religion ; but, as the worthy General answers,
when spoken to on the subject, " Let us secure our
freedom, repel the attack of our enemies, and crown
our country with peace ; then, and then only, can we
banish from amongst us that ignorance of which you
complain t then, and then only, can we pay the
adoration due to our GOD."

Sir CHARLES. MoRGAI.I, Bart. has kft town for his
seat, Tredegar House, Monmouthshire.

The Earl and Countess of HARRO*RT and family
arrived yesterday in Grosvenor-square, from their
seat, Saftdon Hall, Staffordshire.
The karl of DARNLEY and Lotd Ctlrrox arrived-
on Wednesday at his Lordship's house in Berkeley.
square, from Cobham Hall, Kent.

Lord EDWARD Someaser arrived yesterday at his
father's, the Duke of BRAUFORT'S house in Grosvenor-
square, from France.

The Honourable Captain PAGET has left town for
his brother's, the Marquis of ANGLZSIA'S seat, Beau
Desert, Staffordshire.
Lady GEORGINA LENNOX has left town on a visit
to the Earl and Countess of MARCH, at their seat,
Malcolm, Sussex.

Viscount and Viscountess Asuanook and family
are arrived at their house in Mansfield-street, from
their seat, Beaumont Lodge, Berks.
Mr. C. J. ASHLEY, who has, during the summer,
been giving concerts in almost all the principal towns
in England, had one last week at Boston, in Lincoln-
shire, which attracted the musical amateurs for miles
round that place.
The dramatic veteran " Gentleman Smirir," who
is now in the 90th year of his age, is still living at
his favourite residence, near Bury, in Suffolk, and
enjoys, tolerable health and good spirits, but has not
visited the Theatre for some time past. During Miss
O'NEILL% last professional trip to Bury, he erpiessed
a wish to be personally introduced to her, which he
was by Mr: BELLAMY, the Manager, and the inter-
view was highly pleasitag to both parties.

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