Star.
London, England, 1818-12-04 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1818.
-THE PUP' 113.
TRICE 07 STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK:
5 per Cent. Reduced 78.11—`1 per Cent. Cons. 78{ 79
Cons. for Account, 79}l—Sp ter Cent. 87i 88
4 per Ct. 96 96i-5 per Cent. Navy shut
India Bonds 83 84 pre.--Omnium 1 prem.
Exchequer Bills 19 20 pre.

This day Consols shut for the payment of Divi-
dends. Consols began at 79t for the Account, and
went to 791 f. The Market looks exceedingly well,
and much business has been transacted. No de-
faulters were declared at one o'clock. The Commis-
sioners gave for Consols 79 money, and were served
generally by the Jobbers.

We lately announced that the Duke of Wettaro-
TON is to succeed the Earl of MuLoßAve as Master-
General of the OrdnAnce. His GRACE is shortly ex-
pected in Town to enter upon the duties of his new
office. His late Aid-de-Camp, Colonel Sir F. B.
HER VET, Bart. is to be the new Surveyor-General of,

the Ordnance, in place of Achtdral Sir Rom=
IVICURSOM ; and Major-General Lord EDWARD So-
ttitii.Ar to be his Grace's Private Secretary as Mas-
ter-General.

We received the Paris Papers of Tuesday this fore-
noon. The Duke of WELLINGTON arrived, as was
expect... 1, in the French capital on Sunday night.
The Russian Ministers, Count YESSELRODE and Count
LIEVEN, haire also arrived there from Aix-la-Chapelle.
General LAM ARQUE, M. DEFertmoNr, and M.
COURTIN, comprehended in the second list of the
Ordinance of the 21th of Jul!, and who are among
the number of French exiles who have received per-
mission to return to France, have lateV made their
re-appearance in Paris.
The L:npress of RuasrA, accompanied by the
Prince and Prince.ss of ORANGE, the Grand Dukes
. CON:iT A Rim and MICHAEL, with a numerous suite,
arrived on the 21st ult. at Liege. The Prince and
Princess of ORANGE here took an affectionate leave
of [heir illustrious relatives, ho afterwards took the
Toad_ of Ais-la-Cliapelle for Cologne.

The Emperor of Russia, after some stay at Stut-,
gard, is-to proceed by Weimar and Naumburg to
Prague, and thence to Vienna. The two Empresses
of RUSSIA do not intend to join the Emperor at
Vienna, but propose to pass some time at Berlin, and
to return by Mittau, Riga, and Revel, to Petersburgh.
The Emperor of AUSTRIA arrived on the 221 at
Munich, where he is expected to remain for about
a week.

The Archduke Palatine of HUNGARY has set out
from Vienna for Sicily, wkere he is to pass the winter.
His Highness returns afterwards to Florence, to meet
there his broths the Emitßon, with whom he wili
visit Yaples and Rome.
A levy of recruits has been ordered throughout
the Austrian dominions ; but it is limiled to 32,000
men, and is merely intended to reinforce the infantry
of the line.
The Austrian Government is stated to have made
very considerable purchases every day, during the late
sudden depression of stock, to prevent the fall from
being still greater. The rate of discount had mounted
from 15 to 20 per Lent. and the stagnation iu every
branch of trade was daily augmenting.
According w letters from Constantinople, the
PORT]; has remitted to the RUSCIAN Emennou, his
answer in respect to the contested boundaries on the
banks of the Phasis.

In Prussia a recruitment fix the army is going on,
sins tr to that in Austria. The contingent for Iler•
lin amounting to 2,000 men, has been supplied by
voluntary enrolments, and it is said, that throughout
the whole of the Prussian Provinces, an equal avidity
for the military service prevails.
A letter from Aix-la-Chapelle says, that the pro-
jects of exchange which have been so much talked of,
have dwindled to an arrangement respecting a small
district, which has been hitherto in dilute between
Prussia and the Netherlands.
French 5 per Cents. Monday, 69 fr.

• A Mail from Flanders arrived this forenoon, with
Papers to the ht instant.
The following arc given as the reports in circula-
tion respecting the persons lately arrested in the
Netherlands: