Star.
London, England, 1817-08-28 00:00:00

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PROCLAMATION.
By his Eio:IICECy LtitUtenili-Cilellefal the Rlgi.t Honourable
GSl4Sti: E7fl of Itimotestc, Honourable, Knight of
the Gran'd Cross of 0 r Most Military Order of
the Bath, and Commander in Chief in and weer his Majesty's
Province of Nova Scuds, an Drpend, odes, &v. &c.
" lifts-rem, by an Act passed in the 48th year of his present
Majesty's refin, power Is given to the Governor. Lieutenaise-
Governor, Commander in Chief. with the advice and consent of
his Majesty's Council. to allow the impartation of certain enu-
merated articles from the United States of America into this
province.
" I have therefore thought fit, with the advice and consent of
his Majesty's Council. to publish this Proclamation, hereby aii.
tlsorisiug and empowenng British subjects, for the ipace of three
months from the date hereof. to import and bring into this Pro-
vince from the Coiled States of America, in British built ships
or vessels owned and navigated according to law ; scan ling,plaiik,
stones. heading boar shingles, hoops, or 'Tiered timber of any
sort, horses, neat tattle, sheep, hogs, poultry, or hire stock of
any sort; bread, hiscutt, Boer, peas, heat's, potatoes, seine', rice,
oats, barley, or grail' of any sort ; and British subjects are, during
the same period. hereby authorised and empowered to export
In Ballet thip4 invited and navigated as aforesaid, all lw asy of
the herein before numerated ankh, to any of his Maj. sty's Co-
lonies or.Plantatloos, excepting wheat oats. or ;outer+.
"(liven under my hand and seal at Halifax, this el st day of
July, I e i 7, in the 57th year at hit Majesty's Redo.
"By his Excellency's command,
" Ru ?gar O. fixottoa, Secretary."

THE EVENING STAR.

1,0 \ DON.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1817.

PRICE OF STOCKs THIS DAY AT TWEI.VE O'CLOCK I
Reduced Wl—Consols 80I—Do. for Ace. 2011
4 per Cent. 28i—Navy, 1051i—India Bonds 122 124 pn
Exchequer tille, Ms. &Ss. pr.

THE FUNDS.

There never was such a Settling Day in the Stock Exchange as
yesterday proved to be. The Bolls, who had made heavy pur-
chases in the hope of a rise, which the Market of Monday
and Tuesday fully warranted, were obstinate to the last, and
would not sell until the lateness of the hour compelled them.
At this time they could and but few pot-chasers, as those who
bad sold Stock, and who writ anxious to deliver it on settling
the account, gave (as usual in Fueh cases) orders to several Brokers
Ito sell ►t out publicly from the Commissioners' box ; and we arc
informed that at leau £300,000 was disposed of In this way.
This produced such distress, that the price, fur Money. was 80
whilst for Friday they were buyers at 80i : the account can
hardly be said to be wholly settled yet.—Prices this morning, for
Mosey, were 1101, and for October Account, 81.

The Paris Papers of Sunday arrived last night,
and in cur preceding columns we have given some
eatracts from them. •

fie most important +rude in these Papers, is the
Official Circular, which we have quoted at length,
of the Spanish Minister of War, classifying the
favourers and supporters of revolotion in America,
and regulating the mode of proceeding against such
of them as may chance to fall into Royalist hands.—
It breathes, we regret to say, a most ferocious and
exterminating spirit. Eight classes of criminals, as
they are called, are designated to be punished capi.
tally, and repeated injunctions are given to execute
the punishment with the utmost promptness. ..a%
It is truly painful to contemplate the consequences
of so sanguinary a Manifesto ; the Patriot* will
doubtless in their own defence, resort to some similar
act of retaliation, and what must then be the charac-
ter of horror and desperation which this unhappy
contest will assume! Humanity sbuddess at the pro.
spect. Nothing, we apprehend, could be so likely as
this Proclamation to draw forth some generous and
powerful European Sovereign from his neutrality,
and induce him to interfere is the name of humanity
in behalf of a Christian population thus doomed,
though we trust impotently doomed, to indiscrimi-
nate butchery. It is in fact a war of extermination,
and therefore at variance with all the laws of natiosts.

The Princess Royal of PORTUGAL. our Readers
will observe, has at length embarked at Leghorn on
board the Portuguese squadron for Rio Janeiro.
French Funds, 23d August, 68 fr. 45 e.

The Paris Papers of a day later than the preceding
have arrived this forenoon. The 25th being the day
of the Fete of St. Louis, the journals are almost wholly
occupied with fulsome details of its solemaisation.
Lu Z ERNS, another of the new Cardinals, received
on Sunday his asp, from the KING.
The Count de RIMPAI (King of Payssta) dined
on 'Sunday with the Duke de Ricatectsy, and after-
wards attended a concert at the Duke D'Aussowr's,
at which the Duke of Wzu.snteron, the Ministers of
Russia, Prussia, and Austria, were also present.
The Doke de'GavolowT. Captain in the Garde;
des Corps, is said to have received the appointment of
Grand Equerry to the Kum.

The negotiations between the KING of FIANCE
and the Pore have terminated in a new Concordat to
regulate the affairs of the Gallican Church, of which
we have given a translation in another column.. By
this Convention a suitable provision is to be made by
the French Government for the different Roman
Sees, &c.—not in lands, however, as some of our
contemporaries have translated the document, but in
State Annuities (ea renta tar ?Etat) as far as circum-
stances will permit. It is avowed to be the intention
of the parties to restore the Religion in France to isr
ancient sitlesidour—that is, as such language ever im-
ports, to revive all the mummeries of superstition
and ignorance. To call such an undertaking the re-
establishment of Religion is to employ a misnomer.
They may thus give a national establishment to irrc-
lizion, but they will not thereby add to the perma-
nence of the State : on the contrary, its fall will ke
accelerated by daubing it with this untempered mor-
tar. A State, to secure the affections of its childrtn,
ought to have no favouritta of any description what-
cvis. It ought to protect all of them alike ; no

' should the whole be burthened for the soppott of any
particular sect. Where there are old establishments
it would be difficult to return to the first dictates of
justice and sound policy; but where exclusive sys-
tems have once been subverted, no wise Government
will re-establish them; its best security in such cir-
cumstances would arise from giving equal privileges
to all ; for all would then have an equal interest in
1 supporting the State.—We have yet seen nothing,
since the return of the Bovnaots, which, in our
oj,inion, gives stronger indications of the precarious
foundation on which the present French Government
rests, than this attempt to bolster it up by the breath
of the hierarchy. Governments require better sup-
ports now a-days.

GIBRALTAR.
EXTRACT or A LETTER, DATED ACCUST 7.

(g We have to notify the opening of the commu-
nication this day with Spain by land. The Satellite
brig of war, Captain MURRAY, arrived last night
horn Tads and Algiers. No news has yet trans-
pired b) her. The garrison remains very healthy—
never was more so."