Star.
London, England, 1817-08-27 00:00:00

'I HE EVENING STALL

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WEDNESI...Y, AUGUST 27, 1817.
PRICE UI• I oCK • THIS DAY AT Twzi.vii O'CLOCK
Rafixed 111 Cumob, 110iF—Do. for Oct. slit
4 pct. lent Witt—Navy, 1054 —ltalia lion& i us pr.
Ractryurr bill., so. sc.. pr.

It has long been a must desirable object in the
Commercial world, and one in which the prosperity
of the United Kingdoms is very essentially involved,
•to obtain An assimilation of the two currencies of
Engl.o.o And Leland. The late consolidation of the
two Exch.-quer' was a measure which could not fail
to base an immediate and powerful tendency to bring
about the Accomplishment of this important improve-
met.t ; and we are happy to learn, by. the following
announcement in the Dahlia Journal, received this
day, that something like an approximation to it has
at last been actually effected :
" MOST INPURTANT.....The Bank of Sleeted has
agreed to receive the Notes of the Bonk of Ireland the
same as their own. To illustrate this subject it is
on 1) necessary to state, that a. merchant in Dublin,
instead of paying lu per Cent.•tor a Nil to meet his
engagement in London, may transmit loith Notes,
and they will be received as British Current". It may
be a " a °oiler of nine days," but Ireland reaps the
advantage—it raises her property 10 per Cent. in
price, in the great market of the wcrli, and if it be
true, its we are confident .it is, eve owe so the present
Minisery, ea this meow alone, more than to all their
predecessors since the Revolution."

We have been favoured with the following extract
of a letter train Trinidad, received by the last vessel,
which, though not of so recent a date by three days
as our own communications, furnishes some addi-
tional information respecting the affairs of the Main,
which will be acceptable to our manufacturers;
a PORT Of STAIN (TRINIDAD), JOLT G.
• WAs an Englishman, I look forward to the rasa emancipa-
tion of Spanish Amer.ca as identified with oar best hit/nests,
mid as far as relates to the inhabitants Nothing can tend :u
• mock to their improvement as being relieved from that state of
bigotry and profound ignorance with regard to the principles of
pod government, and the eserul arts of life, in which the Spa.
Mat t.ovemment has kept them lur 300 years, and I see no rea•
DOS to suppose that the persevering efforts of BOLIVAR and the
friends of freedom will not eventually triumph over all opposi-
tion. Ti.e Creole troops fight with such determined valour, that
the :•paniards cannot stand the shock, and bents no Spanish
army no. ells ain the field any where. The fall of the capital
Guayana may be looked for every moment, as the Indepen-
dent squailiou from Margarita had reached•tha Orinoko. and
the Spanish garrisons, even previously, bad been driven to the
(realest distress.
lie trade of Gnayana, when taken, will not be confined to

that rich province, but will take in that of Various and part of
Soma Fe, which are a'rrody hi the hands of this Patriots. To
give you some idea of the subject, the independent General PA
Occupies ibe rrovince of Vannes, all the Lower Apure, and as
far a. lalabiao, about siaty leagues from Caracas, with 5000
casalr,, compesed of the Sambos of Doves and i'vloitabss, and
others of that crass. He defeated Mos ILL* completely in Janu-
ary, at seen by his own reports BOLIVAR, PIAII, Itsaatuots,
Cabana, sod a host of other good linkers, besiege the two es.
hles of titia)ima. On :he IWs of April, Plait destroyed the
fipassi.ll division tat IGt,Omen, most M 01111111.04 veterans, so come
pktely, that an Englishman, who was at the city of Angustura,
who saw them match out and return, says that not fifty etcaped,
and only Brigadier La FOR ac and two Officers. This English-
man, who was shoe with ei, brig, was embargoed till the ad of
May, sail fir the last mouth lived on jerked beef alone, without
bread, and witnessed people dying daily of hunger. In comet
justice or this, all who could desert have gone UeeT to the Pa-
triot,, and the last are vat gave a far more dreadful account of
the scarcity. Ihr surrender is therefore looked for momently,
as Ba lON's Oil, et n.isting of tour liewiy brigs and tix
schooner, and stoups, well armed, and den heavy gun-boats,
tittered the Otintakai three weeks ago.
about San Carlo., 60 leagues
Vtlitt•Ettina is to the ,Uaotta,

from OSMIMI; N•WATS Pratt hat driven the Spaniards mato(
the provinces of Cannon and Ton* in New Granada; Socorro
Las also freed lberself. ROZA* commands at Maturin ; Mauna,
sad Monona% occupy the plains in the rearof Same-
lona and Cuanza; Margarita bids defiance to the Spaniards and
their paltry expedition, and, in a Word, the Doss are every where
quite perplexed and undone. I see every probability of their
shortly being quite driven out of Vet:noels and New Granada,
and good care will be taken they do not return. The Spaniards
have lately shot General Fain as, and three or four other Inde-
pendent Officers, taken at Barcelona. This operation was per-
formed on their backs, for Spaniards will never cease to be brutes
to the conquered. MARINO offered to exchange a Spanish Co.
lona. Lugano for &cites, but Moat tto preferred shooting him,
and letting the Spanish Colonel take his chance, which I fear will
be a bad one. In short, so long as the Spaniards put their priso-
ners to death, they can expect no quarter; nor, Indeed, do
they deserve any. If the Spaniards bad my means to carry on
the war beyond their garrisons, they would have, no doubt,
attempted are relief of Guayana ; instead of that, they blockadbd
Margarita for IS days, but dared not to land."

A Lisbon Mail which arrived this morning, brings
the following intelligence respecting the operations of
the Independent Army in Venezuela. It is contain-
ed k the subjoined extract from a private leuer,
dated 12th August :

“ The last accounts from South America mention,'
that a severe battle has been fought on the Banks of
the River Oronoko, between the Patriotic and the
Royal forces. The Royal party were so strongly en-
trenched on the grand Bank, that an attempt to dis-
lodge them was thought to be an hopeless experiment.
- The Patriots endeavoured to gain the other bank
of the River, by which means it was hoped they
would be able to draw the enemy from their entrench-
menu,
where they could not be attacked but with
manifest disadvantage; the artifice succeeded, the
Royalists were thus drawn from their strong hold,
and a general battle was fought at the point of the
bayonet. The Royalists sustained the impetuosity
of repeated charges with the greatest firmness, and
when overpowered, !lowly and reluctantly retired
from the field ; at length the Patriots, flushed with
success, and confident of victory, charged the retreat.
ing columns of the enemy with redoubled fury, and
complied them to fly in every direction.”

The above account, we have to observe, is defec-
tive in one essential particular, namely, the date of
the battle. It is possible, therefore, that this may
refer to the battle fought last spring, and not to that
of which accounts are daily expected, from the known
position of the contending armies.

Five persons were burned to death by the explo.
lion of the fire-damp in a coal pit, near Bradford.
Ynkshge, on tie 21st ult. owing to the bottom of
one of the safety-lamps of Sir HUMPHILPY DAVY
having been separated from the body. from its being
soldered instead of rivetted—thereby forming a com-
munication between the internal and outward air.

A most shocking accident happened on Monday
itr'nnitght. to on unf..etundae man named &oleo.,
working at Riddell's Walltend Colliery, near Ken-
ton. He was employed, along with another man, in*
-*king the small coals from the ecreens and throwing
them upon the heap, which, as is %AN! known, is ge-
nerally on fire in the inside. On this occasion he bad
left the security of the wall, along which the barrows
are trundled,, and was proceeding over the top of the
heap to throw his load more over it, when, as he was
passing over its centre, the surface suddenly fell in
with its weight, the inside being burnt quite hollow,
and he was engulfed in the burning abyss, which
instantly closed in upon him, and tent forth a volume
of flame and smoke like the crater of a volcano. The
person who was working aloug with him was not
aware of the fate of his companion till he perceived
the flames bursting from the opening made in the
heap ; any assistance to the unfortunate sufferer was
entirely out of his power. Not,a vestige of the body
has been seen. Tile fire was, we understand, be-
lieved to be neatly exhausted, and the heap had been
passed over only very lately. The deceased had been
A soldier, and had served under the Duke of Wet.-
LINGTON during the whole of the Peninsular war.—
He has left a widow to lament his death.

DUBLIN, AUGUST ?S.—Farther particulars of the
descent of the Aeronauts :—ln about eleven minutes
after the ascent, Miss Toturson and Mr. LIVINGSTON
descended, in perlect safety, in a shrubbery, which
was divided by a quick-set hedge from the Park of
Marlay, the seat of Mr. LATOICHP., about five miles
from Dublin. A person having immediately come
up, Mr. Ltvrtrewrom threw him a cord, requesting
him to hold it fast, and then throwing out a little
ballast, ascended about twenty feet, when the man
drew the balloon by the rope over the trees into the
field. The balloon had never been out of sight from
the time of its ascent until it reached Marlay. It•fsad
got to the height of something better than two miles.
An immense concourse assembled at Marlay, having
followed the direction o 1 the Balloon. Miss Testes's:
was conducted to the hospitable house of Mr. LA.
Toucue, and Mr. Liviscasvori retrained with the
Balloon, to get it secured ; every possible assistance
being afforded him, it was soon accomplished and
packed up in the car; the populace tfien placed Mr.
Liviricsvosi on the top of the car, and carried I:im
with shouts and huzzas round the roads, for a dis-
tance of nearly two miles, and at length brought him
to Mr. Laroucire's, where Miss Towson and he
dined. In the evening they took leave of Mr. LA-
TOUCH E% family, and arrived in town about I Oo'cloc k.
Laminar, Auouar 16.—Yesterday was commit, ed
tc the county gaol, by the Rev. J. Crampton, J. Ma.
key, charged with breaking into the house of W.
Brazil, of Collie, parish of Capamore, and forcibly
carrying off his daughter, about IS years of age.—
Malony brought the girl into the neighbourhood of
Castle Connell, where Mr. C. was walking with a
Gentleman, and having by accident met Malony, he
instantly ran away ; he pursued him, and after a
smart run took him, brought him to his house, and
from thence conveyed him in a jaunting-car to the jail.
From Makin', Mr. Crampton ascertained where the
girl Was concealed, and returned her safe to her
friends.

NAVAL INTBLLIGENCL

FAST-INDIA SHIPPING.

The ships Vaaroan and Auaoaa arrived yester.
day; the former in the Downs, the latter at Ports-
mouth. They left China the Ist April, and St. He-
lena the 10th July.
The Amelia, MAITLAND, arrived from Bengal,
sailed on the 3d of April ; touched at the Mauritius
on the 25th of May, and found there the Triton, of
Liverpool, to sail for England in about ten days ;
and the True Briton, for Liverpool, which sailed for
Bengal the following day. The Alexander, ( Dutch
ship), BORSCH, for Amsterdam, was nearly ready for
sea. The Durah, EDWARDS, was at the Isle of France.
Passed the Tyne, BELL, from Bengal for London, in
lat. 2d. 20. S. long. 47. 22. E. ; passed St. Helena
on the 6th ult. ; was boarded by the Gairrox brig ;
and informed, that the Moira, from Bengal, with
troops, had arrived the day before; and that the Ca-
tharine, GRIFFITHS, was also at St. Helena.

FALMOU'T'H, AUGUST 24.
Arrived the Prince Ernest packet, with a Mail,
from Lisbon, in eleven days. Sailed the Duke of
Kent packet, for Lisbon ; and the Walsingham
packet, for Gibraltar and Malta, both with Mails ;
also the John, Rosaars, for Jamaica.—Wind S. E.
to N. E.