Star.
London, England, 1817-03-20 00:00:00

t'RENCH PAPERS:

The Pair's Papers of Sunday arrived last night
and those of Monday this morning. Their contents
are extremely uninteresting: The tolloiving are
Extracts :

PARIS, MARCH Ht.
Formerly these existed in Paris two Societies for
the relief of prisoners ; the object of of e was to re•
lease persons confined for debt ; while the other gave
them relief in prison. The Revolution destroyed these
as.ociations. Some benevolent persor,s undertook to
revive them abuut eight years ago, and since then
they have procured liberty for 150 debtors, and re-
lieved 1200 persons.
The Prefect of Lisle has issued orders that no ob-
stacle shall be opposed to the departure of persons of
colour who wish to go to St. Dom;ngo or St. Thomas.

HANOVEit, MARCH 2.
The amelioration of our superior Tribunals has
been attended to since the almost certain decision
that a superior Tribunal•of the Germaaic Confedera-
tion is no longer to exist, and that the Provincial
Tribunals in all the Sovereign States of the Empire
are to succeed to its functions.

We expect here in a few days a part of the Hano-
verian army stationed in France, consisting of a squa-
dron of the Prince Regent's Hussars, the Grenadiers
of Bremen, and a part of the Artillery.
We are assured that the Editors of Vie Prussian
Gazettes have been prohibited frcrn publis!iing any
observations upon Prussian manufactures, as affected
by the isrprtation of foreign rnerchandize. Some
vident effusions appear to have given r,se to this
prcbibition.

MADRID, MARCH 4.
The King of has, by I).cree, ordered the
creation of a Consolidated Fund, wholly and irrevo.
cably separate from the general treasury, as t security
to the creditors of the State. It is to be call,d Public
Credit," and is founded on the model of the French
and English system of finance.
There is no intelligence from the Colonies. The
Queen enj good health, and her pregnancy goes
on well.

By a Decree of the 20th of last month, the seignoral
privileges of fishing, enjoyed by many families, and
by softie civil and eccl.•siastical corporations, have
been abolished, for the purpose of encouraging sea-
faring men, and to induce them to register themselves
as sailors. The free tight of fishery is granted along
the whole coast of the kingdom, and the persons who
might suffer by it have been duly indemnified.

NAVAL lA7-3LLIGENCE.

FALMOU IH, MARCH i 7.

Armed the Active, Howes; and fovran, Cuxnr,
from London; and the Alexander, supposed from
the West Indies. Sailed the Walsinghant picket,
with Mails for the BrAzils ; and Mary, Lownts, for
Buenos Ayres.—Wind N.

PORTSMOUIII. MARCH 19.
Arrived the Walker transport, from Antigua. A
Dutch man of war has arrived at St. Helen's, name
unknown. —Wind N. W.
DEAL MARCH 19.
Came dnwn from the River and sailed the Para-
con. for the Isle of France; Sotyria, for Smyrna
and Constantinople ; Peter Proctor, for Dominic I;
Montgomery, for Ltlf,tst ; for Dublin ; and
Balboa picket, for Arrived and sailed for
the Aim the John, NEWTON, Irons Havre.

HARWICH, FEBRUARY 19.
Sailed the Earl of Leicester p .cket, for Holland ;
and 13eaufoy packet, for Cuxhaven. -

GRAVESEND, MARCH 19.
Arrived toe Henrica-, Fersivreen,ier, trout Zuyder Zoa ; la
Espoir, Warren., front Cable ; Providencia. Plainer, front Nor.
tray; Minerva, Warner, from ditto; Venus, Purchase, front
Dantec ; Brizannia, Bennett, from Waterford; Jane NPGrath,
from ditto; Jong Henry, Fazmashe, front Rotterdam.—Sailed
the ktatiley, Ward, tot Genoa; Criterion, Avery, for New York;
Jong Carried", Waperiaar, fur Havre; Alexander, Andereon, for
Dataiwg; Gaien, Tracey, for Boston ; Ocean, Johnstone, tot
Woodford, Brady, fur ditto; Neptune, Dawson, fur Toriola
James Berridge, M•Niece, for Limerick ; Adriatic, Davison, f.sr
Pillau ; Leda, Robson, for lianiburgh ; Thermurns, Dennis, for
Rotterdam ; True Briton, Uu.rer, fur ditto; Jong 1 lertiotilie,
De La Hug, for Antwerp; Scipio, Drummond, for Virginia.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, MARCH 19. •

SHIPS INTIM INW Nimble, M 317000, from
Cork ; Hoffnung, Sewell, from Wo Gut ; Leeds and Liverpool
packet, Smith, from Greenock; Convention, Beck, front Pillau;
Jong. Jan, Boverkamp, from Worcum; De Fenian do Kende,
from Asperade ; Justitla, Cook, from Norway; and
Ulysses, —, from Gottenburgb.
(Jul WARD 3. 1 he Sictly, Cupper, for Gibraltar; Brothorn-
bury, Pitcher, fur Madeira, Batavia, Bombay, and 4:Actor.' ;
Rinpertir Alexander, Watt, for Madeira and New Prostitute;
Visite:lt, Mkt', fur Names; Friends, Clark, for kW:tem. and
Vettriburgh; Nautilus, Clark; and Industry, leitkin:on, for id-
slneur and Revel; America, IsPHeth, fur City Print, Virginia
S ); Aloha°, Creaser; and Ho,4ewell,Collinson, for Flsineur;
Iwo Mothers, R.tbson, for Peter.burgh; Alert, Paytt„ for
Amsterdam and Rotterdam; Gallant, Blyth, for Hamhurgl.;
Three Friends, • Witty, for Pillan, Konigsberg, and Fllnsig;
Duke of York, Fryer, fur Rotterdam ; Fravelser, Hutchinson,
for Madras, Bombay, and Bengal; al,u the Juno, Arthur, fur

CALCUTTA. OCTOBER M.—The Hnnourahle Com-
pany's ship L idy Campbell, Csioxin Mmiuuts, from
England May lroh, and Nladeu a June 7th, entered
the River yesterday niorning. _ _

S:r Anthony Buller, Miss Caro.
!ine Buller, l.ouisa Mips E. 1. liathurst, Miss H.
(.race, Clarks !Mier, E.. senior Merclia.it, W. F. Clark,
Esti. ditto, Thomas Lewin, E.q. Liarri.ter, :r. A. Shaw,
Writer, Mr. A, C. Huyer, ditto, Mr. Gemse iiariby, and Mr.
Geurie Da Costa.

Ir•!sterday a Court of Directors was held at the
India House, w! en Captain J. E.. Juiinsom, was
sworn in io the ct mmand of the Honourable Com-
pany's ship Union, destined to Madeira, 11.ngal, and
liencoolen i and Captain J. Ross, to the Carmarthen,
for 13iunbay.
The CONQO sloop of war is arrived at Deptford.
Several large cases, containing the natural produc-
tions of Africa, collected in the late expedition to thr
Congo, have been sent to Str Joaxets BANKS, for the
purpose of being assorted in their respective classes ;
many of them are of a kind hitherto unknown, and
the whole will shortly be submitted to the inspection
of the public.
The Rotterdam Packet, 1114DoNaLta master, from
Rotterdam to Leith, for whose safety considerable
apprehensions were entertained, arrived in Aberdeen
bay on Friday night—eight days (Rom Aigo, a small
harbour near the Nase of Norway, whither she had
been driven, after being five weeks at sea during the
most tempestuous weather, having ssileil from Hel-
vtietsluys on the •ISth January. Captain M'DONALD
brings uo accounts of any other vessels.

THE FUNDS.

TO THt EDITOI.

Nations siieculatioris hiving been offered on
continued rise of the Funds, I beg to offer. sonde
thoughts on the :object, Which seem to lute escaped
general notice.

It is one of the most undnubt.•d propositions of
ADAM SMITH, that silpply follows demand, and the
truth of this prn?o•,ition was never more unequivo-
cally proved thati by the state of the money market
during the late war, when the demand of the Finance
Minister for thirty and forty millions per annum, to
be expended :n additii3n to the permanent revenue of
th! country in carrying On that agar, was invariably
answered.

The savings of the public at large flowed with
regularity, though by different channels, into the
money market. where the wants of Government al:
ways created a demand for them.
It is probable in the three last years of the war, the
Minister took more from tlm market than the actnal
savings of the people; tilt residue, however, was
supplied from V::: capital of the natinn, drawn from
its legitimate ohj7cts 1-.7 the high premium offered:
It is, no doubt, to thz ezpethinure ht this capital
that we may trace a considerable potty in of our re.
sent distress, materially diaiiiiishilig, as is has done,
the means if emplaying and maintaining labourers.
To return to the subject, however, the money
market, dtholigh exhausted, was not deprived of
any large portion of its animal suiplies, tt;lirh arc
now therefore, as usual, flowing into it from the
savings of certain clasws of the pimple.
6overnment no lon.e.:r requiring large loans, and
arranyymenis not having been yer made for other:
wise dispo,.:l:o; of the acc..mulation of money, it PIUK
ii•zcessarily empinyed in the purchase rf annuities
already created—hence the comiutted rise. of the
Funds, a rise which will prob illy go en progressivrly
for some tithe, until, in the natiiral court. (if things,
a cessation of demand in the money market prodl,ces
a coriespon.!ing diminution -1 supply; arid the low
interest to he obtained from the inctea:•4! price cf
annuities, will turn the money; now employed Ia
purchasing them, into other channels. The conse-
quence will be, should peace be continued, the
complete re-estahlkhrnent of the capital already et.
pended, and considetahle additions to it, which; it is
to be hoped, will, in a short time, remove the evils
the country is at present suffering with so much pa-
tience and magnanimity. F.

Lord Fot.r.v continues tiangernnsly ill. His come
plaint is an ii.r.drntn4tion on the diest.

We understand th.ut the Grand Duke NICHOLAS
will shortly be unitevl In a Sister ot the King of
l'utusst.t ; and are further iniurmei, th.it the Dake of
DEvousutute null receive the hand of Ltdy
LUCK, widow of Sir Wlmelon Hust.,!cat.

The Earl and Countess of CRAVE', who arrived
at 1441.1,!s in loot try, temaitted there, on the 18th of
rebut try, uh• n they and their family were in perfect
health. Ti.ey were expectod to visit Rome in the
Easter- week ; to return to Naples and to proceed to
Sicily and Venice in (heir heantital and lest salting
vessel. Thee tuid ratio voyages, it was a
posed, would detain thetas .n 1,411.- year fronOtotne:

Lott' and I.4dy JEIISLY weir at Naples iii Fehtuar •
General Sir 1: it en, )1i Nl' G amt liniity have
ar~ivej at Ann.ipai, in the Li s thisk, lions Porta
aii-Prinre.

From a statement of the Secretary of t!R Ticasury
to Congress, it a pise.it s that tt e valor of the exports
of the United States, the year end rg the 3ilth of
September, !SIG, wa,eighty-Ine millions, nine him-
dred and twenty thousand, foar hundred and filty.,
two dollars, (SI .920,4.52) of which, 64731,896 were
of domestic materials, and 17,138,556 of foreign.
The Spanialt Consul at Norfolk has notified gene.,
rally to the met:thaw% in America, that the port of
Vera Cruz had been thrown open tar the importation
of all kinds of provisions in se,sels of all nations id
amity with :paint that the duties continue. as here-
tofore, on all articles with the ...ix:l:Lion of flour i this
freedom of tra le to continue t t ,:sx months, from the
`22d of October list, but sit months more would be
allowed from the time the cessition of it would be
announced.

Applications it is said, his bren made by the French
to Ministers for issitin,c! the 111.141 orders to our settles
ments, for Riviiiv beaky to the expedition under Mons.
FusAtttitt, which consists of the UrAnie trig Ate ant
corvette, About to sail tro!ri FrAtice to finish their sur.
vey ot Nov I-1(41414h Ut et:urse, this request will
be compile ii with ; mid, it is ;added, iliac Government
have conic to the JettirtnitiAti..n ot undettAking A nail•
lar enteiprie.

Stort•Liv, between twa ;14.1 etroA t.'clock in the af•
tampon, wile I the Pttrnio.to:nn, at Bah, was full of
tashionablei, a 'lr. Fox, AtuentlA by several othrr
Qaaker+,adJressed the cloy uly for tinny tints,; I',r
which Mrs. Plowita.A GosoisY, a Quaketess, cum.
menced .411 r..:- i its ; but was rev:tiled up ts by some
Geademen

'l7kehtwoasis havei beepn
-
A person employed in a subwdinste si!u4tion oft
the coat% no,ved by an evil or malignant spirit to
attempt the gratidcatir,n of a voirfictiveleeling, lately.
preferred mal-ciiiiis, frivolous, i alit. vexatious Charges
against an Odic.er of some rank ; but the tabalesskhav-
ing recently been turned, and the accused metamor-
phosed into the accuser, charges of rather a serious
natureurriter aorne ntiowwLiniwa smta!leitaolfy.pr,tenpdarwatiiiolnbbey,
it
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pecte.l, in a few days, in the hands of the proper
pawns, :a the nrighbourlioud of Whitehall,—An
odrcdcoermedploicuetnif,fttihneetk)fii,glxildmoln:,ecost:sietr:sbuutida,
bevoelvnednit
aacntdo,:da scotnbsep i
rwalcilydeagaatrti.::
anpspeupatrisi,pr,
front
the basest motive', the interests of the Army at large
are deep:), co-cersied in the event.
The oat seed has already ci,mmenced in different
parts of the country, and will be p•eity general in the
course of the ensuing week, with the best prospect
Irmo the very favourable state of the iseallur, and
consequently excellent condition of the Laud.
PARISIAN PASIIIONII..—NearIy all the bats lately ezhi,
the put liens of the I influents are of er.gyr ; some arc green,
a pulling in the trunt, without Bowers ; wt.& others are 14 c
colour, but ornamented with Awl and yellow wall 21.001011.
large Neapolitan hat are of blended ntrur Aid bl,c, or •
dre latter colour, with much %Ott e erntivial.ry, and a lei
and blies intermingled, ahout three ut rack koi aisou.
young lashicniables quilt starlet upda-wai.tcrials, with
upper; but white Illyrr-WS, :WIN, WI::s a Wifki 1,11141.1.
more IfrClUelltly rxhilittAl.

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