Star.
London, England, 1820-01-03 00:00:00

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MONDAY, JANUARY S, 1820.

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TILE FUNDS.
?RICE OF STOCKS TATS OAT AT ONI O'CLOCK:
S per Cent. Reduced 67; I
3 per Cent. Consols shut
Si per Cent. 751
• 4 per Cent. 84i
5 per Cent. Navy shut
Bank Long Annuities 17 9.l6ths
Imperial S per Cent. Anns. 661
India Stock shot—lndia Bonds par, 2s. pr.
Exchequer Bills (2d.) ss. Bs. 4s. dis.
Commercial 23 discount
Omni= 1 dis.
Consols for Acct. 6811 1.

The first transfer on Four and Five per Cents. will
be cal Friday next. The Dividends will be paid on
the above Stocks to the Merchants and Bankers on
Friday and Saturday next, and the Public on Mon-
day. Consols opened this morning with a brisk
market, at fitli.

The Paris Papers of Thursday and Friday arrived
this morning.
The Moniteur contains the Royal Sanction to the
Project of Law which has paksed both Chambers, for
levying, provisionally, a certain part of the Revenues

of next year.
A Council of Ministers was held on Wednesday,
which lasted from one o'clock till four. The KING

presided.
The Chamber of Deputies had a Public Sitting on
Thursday, when a Report on a nutnber of Petitions
was brought up by M. d'ARGENsow.
The only Petition which attracted notice, was one
from M. DUPLAN, an Officer of the Legion of Ho-
nour, in which he complained of the rekluction of the
pensions of the Legion to one-half, and demanded
that the Chamber should make the necessary sacri-
fices to complete, to the Members of the Legion, that
pay which had been acquired at the price of their
blood. The Committee of Petitions proposed, that
it should be remitted to the President of the Coun-

cil, and to the future Committee of Ways and Means.
General For, in an eloquent and impressive speech,
which appears to have excited a good deal of sensa-
tion in the Assembly, proposed, that not only the
Petition of M. DUPLAN, but all those which have
been presented to the Chamber during these three
years past, relative to the Legion of Honour, should
be remitted to •Ministers, with a recommendation to
take them into their serious and doinitive considera-
tion. The cause of the Legion of Honour, the General
maintained, was the cause of the whole nation. It
was a royal, constitutional, and national institution.
Its rights were collectively guaranteed by Article 92
of the Charter ; and the rights of the Legionaries.
'were farther individually guaranteed by Article 69.
A Jesuitical interpretation of these Articles would be
as unworthy of the Majlity of the Throne, as con-
trary to the well-known wishes of the people. And,
assuredly, among those rights, thus guaranteed, .the
right to the full pensions, of which the Legionaries
were in the ,actual enjoyMent at the time of the
Charter, was understold by all to be included. The
General did not, however, persist in his Amendment,
and the remit was c.irried without a division, in the
terms proposed by the Committee.
The Marquis de LAUTOUR-MAUEOURG, Minister of
War, has addressed a Circular, dated the 20th, to all,
the Generals of Divisions and Colonels of Regiments,
stating, that he has received information of seditious
Addresses having been disseminated amongst the
troops in several garrisons, with the guilty intention
of seducing them from their duty, and to destroy that
subordination which is so essential to the maintenance
of military discipline and public order. - Hii Eicel-
lency, therefore, recommends them ;o redouble their
vigilance to defeat the mischievous projects of de-
signing men ; and assures them, that their efforts shall
be particularly noticed to his MAJ2STY.
An article from Strasburg contains the following
additional particulars to those received by the Dutch
Mails, respecting the alarming inundations caused by
the recent thaws in that quarter:
STRASBURG, DECEMBER 25.
During some days past this city has resembled an
island, in consequence of the great floods, which
inundate the environs from the overflowing of the 11l
and the Bruche, as well as of an arm of the Rhine,
which burst one of the dikes intended to keep it
within a regular 'course. A pare of the glacis is laid
under water. Very little expectation is formed of the
lowering of the waters, in consequence of the great
rains. Great alarm prevails through the country.--
The elevation is increased by the impetuosity of the
wind, which augments the movement of the waves,
already covering the fields and the roads. Trade has
been injured from the prevention of all communica-
tion, and the fairs, which have been held at this sea-
son from time immenibrial, and which are called
Handsel Faits, cannot now be holden.
Our neighbours at Kehl undergo the greatest appre-
hensioni, for the utmost 'exertions are required from
the inhabitants of all the surrounding communes, in
order to prevent the bursting-of the only dyke Which

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preserved thsplacelioet the inundations or thilthine,
the junction of the waters of which, with those of the
Kinzig, the overflowing of which had already coa-
-1 siderably injured the new Barracks, would has
caused the inevitable destruction of a part of this city -
lately rebuilt, with considerable labour. We are
assured that the Rhine, or the Kinzig, has not been
known to have increased to such a height daring the
last 26 years. The bridge of boats, which replaces
the great bridge of the Rhine (that magnificent mo.
dern ruin which leaves us the regret of a million of
francs being expended almost for nothing), has been
undone for some time in that part of the river when
the torrent threatened to destroy it.

French 5 per Cents. Thursday, 71 fr. 10 c.

A Mail from Holland arrived in the course of
yesterday, from the Papers brought by which we
have given, in a preceding column, an abstract of
some
.curious proceedings in the States•Geneial cf
the Netherlands, who have rejected, with oue excep-
tio:

the whole of a voluminous body of propositions,
made to them on the part of thci: Sovereign, for
regulating the public finances. Two additional
Mails have arrived to-day from Holland and Flanders,
from which the following are extracts :