Star.
London, England, 1818-07-21 00:00:00

LONDON•

TUESDAY. JULY 21, 1818.
THE FUNDS.

PRICE OT STOCKS THIS DAV AT TWELVE O'CLOCK :
Reduced 780 ex. div.--Cons.77k—for Opg. 79
*per Cents. 88}}-4 per Cent. 974}
Navy 10611 ex. div—lndia Bonds 94 96 prem.
Omnium I dis.—Exchequer Bills 19 21 pr.

' Parts Papers of Saturday arrived this fore-
noes. The following are some additional paragraphs
relating to the Conspiracy :

PARIS, JULY 18.
•Some hawkers went about the streets

bawling out arand Conspiracy ! ! Ecc. and offering
to the passers by, for one sous, a paper which was
nothing tl,se than the article we published the day
before yesterday, respecting the arrest of the Sieurs
Romi 1„ Stingy, Btc. but somewhat lengthened and
disfigured.
The Police seized a great number of these criers,
of whom Paris has for some time been happily de-

livered, and who, during the period of the Revciu-
tion, assailed our ears with the recital of all sort.: of
events, true or false, by which they deceived credu-
lous people, and which they ordinarily proclaimed
in a manner quite different from the writing which
they offered to sell.
General Cannel does not yet appear to have pre-
sented himself to justice. It was on the 2d that
Sieur Songy was arrested, in the hotel where he re-
sided with this General, who absented himself on the
same day. It was not till the following week, how-
ever, that he was cited before the Juge d'lnstruction,
and that, in consequence of his not appearing, a war-
rant was issued against him, and his papers seized.—
Journal de Paris.
To the details which we have published respecting
the proceedings instituted against the Sieur Romilly
and his associates, we have to add, that on the 2d
instant General Cannel quitted his house a few mo-
ments after the arrest of Sieur Songy, who is said to
be his Under Secretary, and has never since returned.
Cited some days after before the Juge d'lnstructipn,
it appears that he did not present himself, and that
he has paid as little obedience to the warrant which
was in consequence issued against him. The Officers
of Justice proceeded accordingly to his house, and
put all his papers under seal.—(Gazette de France.)
French Five per Cents. Friday-77 fr. 90 c.

A ccntemporary Evening Paper states, that the
Emperor of AUSTRIA is new in the capital of the
Grand Duke of BADEN, and a hope is expressed that
his MAse.rx may, by his personal influence, be able
to bring about an arrangement of the existing dif-
ference between the Grand Duke and his cousin, the
King of BAVARIA. It is a pity, for the sake of so
good au object, th4r, there should be any error in thz
Geography of this statement. But so it is ; the Baden
at which the Emperor now is, is not the Capital of
the Grand Duchy, but a place of the same name,
famous for its hot baths, distant only about six
leagues from Vienna.

A Gentleman who has arrived from Grenada, in
the ARUNDEL, after an extraordinary quick passage,
reports, that on the 14th of May a schooner cleared
out there for the Spanish Main, has ing on board the
following Gentlemen, who had arrived from England
at Grenada in the ship Grace, and were proceeding
to join the Patriots :---Messrs. FERRIES, M'tRRAY,
Bowtx, MENNETT, MUSASICEY, CHILD, BROOKER,
BURRY, SIMPSON, Huj.rv, and SEWARD—that the
schooner had not gone more than a league out to
sea, when a Spanish Royalist brig, mounting four-
teen guns, with a full complement of officers and
men, which was lying off the island, immediately
cut her cables and gave chase ; that, in a short
time she came within gun-got of the schooner,
and that, after exchanging a few shots, the latter
struck her colours. Our informant adds, what we
feel great difficulty in believing, that after the cap-
ture every person on board the'seltooeuer leas put to
death! The following morning-chi Spanish brig at-
tempted to return back to Grenada, but the Governor
ordered the Major of the Fort not to permit her to
anchor, and several shots were fired at her before
she sheered off, and proceeded to sea.

It will be observed from the account of the pro-
ceedings of the Convention of Burghs, contained in
another page, that on the petition and concurrence
of the different parties interested, various important
alterations have been made in the set of the Burgh
of Dundee, and it seems to be the general opinion,
that where all the parties interested agree, the Con-
vention possesses the power of making alterations
and improvements in the constitution of the Burghs.
This is certainly a most important and valuable
privilege, and gives the Burghs an easier access to
reformation, than when they are either obliged to
apply to Parliament or the Privy Council.
A jealousy of any change in the present defective
constitution of the Scotch Burghs has most unac-
countably arisen, and there appears a reluctance to
extend the privilege of Election to the Burgesses,
from some apprehension of danger to the Constitu-
tion, as if it could ever be dangcrotik to give the

Burgases , a eositroul over the local administration
of their respective towns, by allowing them to choose
their own Magistrates. There can, we are convinced,
be no danger in acceding, and with a good grace, to
so reasonable a request. The Constitution granted
to Montrose, is a fair and liberal precedent; and,
though this has been very freely censured, as too
great a concession, it would be difficult to show that
it has been of any ill consequence to the local inte•
rests of that Burgh. If the different parties then,
who are interested in the administration of the Scotch
Burghs, influenced by plain experience, can be
brought to agree in any plan for redressing evils
which all acknowledge, they have now only to apply
to the Annual Convention, where there can be little
doubt that their petitions will be granted. This
mode of proceeding will supersede all application to
higher authorities, and thus both time and trouble,
and no little dissatisfaction, will be .saved.—Coledo-
nian Meicury.

. Our Readers will observe, with concern, from the
accounts given in another part of our Paper, that
the system of Combination among the Manufactu-
ring Labourers of Manchester, Stockport, and other
towns in the North, has begun to assume an orga-
nized and formidable aspect. It were as idle to think i
of reasoning with men who have assumed an attitude
of force like this, as it would be pusillanimous to
indulge in whining complaints about any presumed
folly and ingratitude in their conduct. We have no
reason, a priori, to conclude (whatever our own pri-
vate impressions may be) that their demand for an
increase of wages is wrong ; but we are entitled to
say, that the mode they have chosen to determine
the point is wrong—because it is a mode proscribed
and punishable by law—a mode which is at variance
with all good order and all fair dealing between man
and man—and a mode, which, though often resorted to,
has never yet been productive of the least good to its
abettors; but has, on the contrary, only served to
make matters worse for the labouring manufacturer,
than they would otherwise have been. If the labour-
ing manufacturers have a just claim for an increase
of wages, the law has provided them with a means
of establishing it, by an appeal to the judicial authori-
ties of their district. When instead of this they
think proper to appeal to means of conspiracy, in-
timidation, and force, there can be no other alterna-
tive, than that the law, just to itself, and faithful to
the whole social body whose interests are under its pro-
tection, should instantly exert its utmost vigour in put-
ting them down, and visiting them with that plmish-
ment which their treason to it so richly deserves. In

doing so, as a contemporary justly observes, the Ju-
dicial Authorities of the country will be fcllowing,
what 4$ to the Nation at large is the only wise policy,
and to the offenders themselves, will at last be the
only real humanity."

The account of the state of the Qualm yesterday
from Kew was—' Her Mamma, has not had a good
night, and is not so well as she was yesterday."
Yesterday morning the Duke of CLARENCE con-
ducted his Duchess to the apartments of the Duke
and Duchess of CUMBERLAND, and afterwards pro-
ceeded over the spacious suite of rooms for holding
levees and drawing-rooms. In the afternoon, the
Duke and Duchess left town for Combe-wood, on a
visit to the Earl and Countess of Ltvaaroot., where
their Royal Highnesses dined, and were met by the
PRINCE REGENT, &C. _ _

Lord BvnouEnsu, Envoy Eztraordinary and Mi-
nister Plenipotentiary of his MAJESTY to several of
the Italian Courts, and now actually accredited to
that of Parma, was presented to the Archduchess
MARIA LOUISA. (BONAPARTE'S wife), on the llth of
last month, a public audience. He delivered his
Majesty's Credentials into the Archduchess's hands,
and notified to her the marriage of the Princess Et,t-
zAsErn and the Prince of HEsse-Homaoueo.

The Cit.txtettot of the EitaisquErt has granted
a sum of .f 2560 for the Relief Of the Inhabitants of
Scilly and Islands. It is stated, however, by the
Cornwall Gazette, that £lOOO at least are necessary
to satisfy their present necessities and from £2OOO
to £3OOO to establish mackerel aad pilchard fisheries,
as the only measure of permanent support. The
same Paper strongly recommends the opening of
subscriptions for that charitable purpose.

. . .
EXTRACT 0? A PRIVATE LETTER PROM CUARLESTON,
DATED JUNE 5.

" JACTIOI4, in his progress through the Florida., has dispos-
sessed the Spaninds of the Fortress of St. Mark's, on the flay
of Appaloche, and, it is said, has sent a detachment aga:nst
Pensacola. They have not, as yet, made any advance beyond
Amelia Island, on the Atlantic sine of Fast Florida ; but the
Ge.nunandte of that Island, with whom I am well acquainted,
informs al:, that he daily expects order. to march upon St. Au-
gustine. Were the Governor properly supported, there is no
doubt but he would give his ass:'-ilants a warm reception. There
are, however, strong reasons to conclude that his garrison can-
not be depended upon.
a You may rely upon it, that if the United.Sfates occupy the
Florida., the whole Navy of England, in the event of a war,
could not protect the trade of the Gulph Stream. Such is the
importance of the position to the American Union, that I be-
lieve they would even hazard a war with all the Powers of
F.urope rather than see these Provinces in the hands of Great
Britain ; for in that event the Western and Atlantic State.
would soon be compelled to separate them from the rest.
" The American people, In their political capacity, have ad-
vanced more rapidly than any community tither in ancient or
modern history, and, if unchecked a fcw years longer, they will
be more powerful than any European Nation. Every nerve is
strained to realize all the anvantages they possess. Their inter-
nal improvements are rapid, and well planned. The division
of the legislative power among the States, in all matters inte-
resting to their local character, is of immense advantage, and
relieves the general Government of a mass of business through
which they could not hope to wade during a session. and I con-
ceive this to be the main support of this federative system, which
is no longer probiematical, but certain, In the utility of its ope-
rations. Althounh I admire the system, and accord with mar,
of the results, 'which are peculiar to itself, yet there are, in the
present state of things, many defects to be observed, which
° remain for future time and wisdom to remove. But on the

whole' the perfection to which the political institutions of those
people have attired does them tthute credit, and vc vises to
place them one thy at the head of 'the most glorious nations
of the earl."