Star.
London, England, 1826-02-16 00:00:00

MESSRS. GOLDSCHMIDT AND CO.

Some idea may be formed of the magnitude of the
transactions of Messrs. Goldlchnsidt, and Co. who we
yesterday announced had suspended their payments, by
the following enumeration of the contracts undertaken
by them within the last two years:—
I. A loan to the Porto uese ,Government for 1,500,0001. at $7
per Cent.
a. A loan to the Mexican Government of 3,400,0001. at 54 pet
cent. bearing 5 per cent. interest.
4. A loan to the Colombian Government of 4,750,0001. at 09
per cent. beating 6 per cent. interest.
4. A loan to the Mexican Government of 3,200,0001. et $64-
let. bearing 6 per cent. interest.
. Of agencies fat" the payment of 'dividends, &c. shits
hattse poiseessed that foe the. fret loan to the Danish
Government, bearing five per cent. interest, but which
has since been converted to a three per-goof. stock, and
die agency transferred to another house. The agency
for the Portuguese and Colombian loans remained in
their hands up to the time of suspending payments.—
They have also, we believe, the management of the
dividends for the first Mexican loan, but the amount ie
not remitted to them till the time of payment arrives
The principal cause of the stoppage of this house is cow
sidered to be the efforts made to support the credit
the different Governments on whose behalf they had
entered into contracts fOr loans,' and the depreciation of
that description of property has been so great, that at,
this moment Portuguese stock is at a -discount of 22;1
Mexican .5 per cent. of 16 ; Mexican 6 per cent. of SS ;,
and Colombian of 49 per cent. below the contract price.
As the agencies for Foreign Governments are gene-
rally considered as a source both of honour and of
profit to those merchants by whom they are conducted,
the succession to those which are thus likely to become
vacant, has been a matter of much interest and curiosity.
Count Palmella, the Portuguese Ambassador, and M.
Hurtado, the Colombian Ambassador, were both in the
City yesterday, and had interviews with some leading
capitalists on the subject; so that those to whom it
may be of importance to learn the arrangements
respecting the payment of the dividends on the Foreign
Loans before mentioned, may feel assured that matters
are in train for giving them the requisite information
as early as possible. It is said the money assigned by
the two Governments is not placed in the hands of the
agents until the.dividends become payable, but that it
is lodged in the Bank intermediately, in the joint names
of the Minister and the agent—a mode of security
against loss from failures, which; if not generally
adopted; cannot fail to become so in consequence of
the present calamity.
Independently of their transactions in loans, Messrs.
B. A. Guldschmidt and Co. carried on a very extensive
business as merchants, trading with France, Holland,
most parts of Germany, Hamburgh, Itassia, but partial
cularly with North and South America. On all those
places, should the arrangements for resuming business
be frustrated, the-shock will necessatily fall with great
violence. All acieptances presented up to Tuesday
night have been honoured, so that the suspension of
payments did not take pl ice till yesterday morning.—
Tenders of assistance have been made to the house from
quarters of the highest resist ctability, the acceptance of
which will of course depend on an investigation of the
affairs of the firm; and we uaderstand that a stateMAst,
is preparing to be submitted to the Directors of the
Bank, as a groui'd for obtaining assistance from tbatt
corporation. The house of Guldschmidt and Co.
supposed to have realised during the yell: lOU a clear:
profit of half a million. One Gentleman retired hob'
the pat tnirship, about a year ago, with a very consider.
able lot tune.

Frankfort Papers to the 10th instant reacbfd us this
forenoon, but they contain no political intelligence.
Sunday last a girl of nine years of age, at Tradeston,
Glasgow, drank three gills of whisky, in consequence
of which she died about five hours aster.
BISUOP is sti:l at work upon Aladdin, which the.
great popularity of Alfeivina that neon to fill the Theatre entry
readmit is acted, !us gee:shined to be deferred. ' •

*Hi AR f?:

_ .:..

. .
•
.
.. • - •
The 10th Foot bas been cideted to Marais from TempleraMe td
Castlebar, whore forty recruits have isty {Rely joined the Wad-
•
quartira of the Regiment.
Forty-See recruits have been inlieted at the head-quaners of
the 66th Foot, Dublin, since the 13th of Decembee.
Forty rrcrblti were enlisted at the head quarters of tie depot
of the .inth not, at Glasgovi, during the la-t week.
Hit Majesty's ship Ramat took on board 200 men at Porte-
mouth, on Friday last, belonging to the Royal African Colonial
Corps, under the Ationmatul of Majtif Caoot, with which she pro-
ceeds to Sierra Leone.

The 65d Regiment hai received orders to march Gm Castlebat
to Buttevant, where it will arrive on the 2d, sd, and 4th of March,
and wait the arrival Of transports at Cork for its conveyanee to
Chatham. Three eotnpanies of the 15th Regiment have received
orders to march. from' flutievant to .Ternplemore, Roserea, and
Renagli, to replace the detacktneots of the 10th Regiment. One
.compatry of the 29th Regiment has been ordered to march iron
Waterford to Toughal, to relieve a detachment of the 12th Re-
giment; ordered tit Fermoy. Detachments belonging to the 13th
and 14th Regiments of Infantry marched yesterday from VVest-
rninster for Chatham. A Detachment belonging to the 11th Re-
giment of Light Deigooas marched yesterday from Weatminiter
for the Cavalry Depot it Maiditone. Detachments belonging to
the 2d, 20th, 38th, and 48th Foot marched yesterday from West-
, minster for Canterbury. A Detachment belonging to the 85111
giment of Infantry marched yesterday front Westmindet to Dover.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
...-..up....

FALMOUTH, Fea. 14.—Wind variable; light airs.—Arrived from
London the following outward bound, viz—Symmetry, Joan;
Dorothy Forster, Hint; Africanus. Hoeusox ; Burleigh, CITAN
COLLOR. ; Genoa Packet, Pat mason ; Naples Packet, Wawa ;
Sprightly, Newton; Lady Arabella, /Late; Fame, Owen; and
Eleanor, &remelts. Sailed the Union Howse. and Cynthia,
Luntt.Araa, for London. Yid back, tie Coburg, Baaamt, for
Trieste.
Fairmount, Fn. IS.—Wind S.S.E.-..Put back to St. Helen's,
the Juliana, lairs, for Madras and Bengal. Sailed the African
(colonial steam boat), fit the Cast of Africa.
Cowes, Fn. 15.--AFind S.S. W...-. Arrived the Dutch ship Ba-
.tavia. Biria, from Batavia, in 140 days, for Antwerp.
Dan., Fes IL—Wind &SAL—About nine, a.m. the ontvAird
bound (except the Indian) got under weigh, with the wisd about
S. but they made very little way to the southward. the wind being
light; it has, however, since increased. and got more to the east.
ward, and they ire now (live, e.s.) of the South Foreland. Ar.
rived the Wilheimilia and Marie, &acme, front Amsterdam for
Buenos Ayres; and the Electra. Haaats, from London for Phila.
delphia ; and remain, with the Indian.
Livaaron, Feu. 14.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the James, Tu.
wAlas, from Terceira; and Deux &tures, Gummi, from Haan.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, Faa. 15.
SHIPS EXTVIIMI 'ma ana—Tbe Esther, Blessing, and Garde
Hoop, from St. Michael's; Ebeneter' from Messina; Speedwell,
from Standgate Creek; New Union, from Ostend; Earl of Clan-
carty, from Rotterdam ; Champlin, from Sr. John's ; Pbetbe, from
Demerara ; Lelia Rookb, from Penang ; and Perseverance, from
[Dant:ie.

ENTKIIRD OIITWAnas--Huchon, for New York ; Thigabeth, hr
Genoa • Joseph Bankes, for Jamaica; Palmyra. for cideedill
Britannia, for. Balboa; Pembroke, for Sligo; asd 4114011peli,
for Demerara.
A ' •••

• CORONER'S INQUEST.
. .
•
"Moncia7;. an Inquisition was taken at the sign or the
Prince of Brunswick, White Conduit-fields, before I'.
STIRLING, ESQ Coroner for Middlesex, touching the
death of Joseph Shepperd, who was, run over by a
chaise en the evening of the 2d inst. Maiy Ann Shep-
perd, widow of the deceased, an interesting ybnng
woman, gave her evideoce under very great agitation
and affliction, sad desctibea circurnltances, whch
led to the mtlancboly,eventig.the folicrwiag manner :
deepisd. we} art husban4 i be. was a
libourer . add tilvent7-wx., years of age.. .13. e. had
!seett. out of seiork foar..ennte time.;:pn the pth of .bit
igicusfh:Pe goX
.sciitatemplOymedt., pnlburs4ay,the
2j instant? he rethtlll home from his work between
'seven anti eight o'iloc in the evening he complained
of a pain in his back,sand appeared very ill ; he sat down
and smoaked a pipe for a few moments, and put it
down. I then asked him if he had over-worked or
hurt himself? He said he bad received a blow which
he should never recover from. He said, that between
six and seven o'clock in the evening he was carrying a
bricklayer's screen across the road opposite 0 wen's-row,
St. John's-street-road. He heard a chaise coming down
the toad from Islington. He turned to took for "it, and
was instantly knocked down by one of the shafts, and
the horse fell upon him, and trampled on him ; that as
Soon as the driver of the chaise got the horse up, he
drove away at full speed, without offering any assist-
ance. He did not know whose chaise it was; but when
he recovered a little, he found himself at.the, side of the
curb-stone, and his mouth full of blood. He heard
some person call out ' StoP,' and all the desctio-
tion he could get was, tliat it- was a stout Gentleman,
in a drab-coat, who drove towards St. Ishn's-street.
The deceased lingered in exeemolvepain until Friday 12t0f0h4 last.
A juryman remarked, that he hoped that this case would moth its
way into the public paperer*, which means the person who bad
been the cause of thew:Meat might be informed of the nwiatteholy
result, and thereby, bamtaltied so make some amponeation tolbe
unfortunate widow of the doemeed, baying driven away is so
shameful a manner, without Wording the poor man any assistaasee.
The jury having viewed the body, nearsedahe Moeda. verdict :
" That the deceased died ha consersomot of Widish* had received
by being run against by a one-horse chaise