Star.
London, England, 1817-08-25 00:00:00

DUTCH MAIL.

BRUSSELS, AUGUST 16.

The taking into active service the Officers on ball.
pay has had so favourable an effect on the minds of
the military, that thsise who two years ago obstinately
refused to serve under the present Government, are
now very happy to be engaged. In the choice of
them less attention is paid to their former political
opmi .ois than to gond conduct. The number of offi-
cers on h alt pay so put into activescrvice is said to be
600 of different racks ; but there are no Generals or
Colonels among them. It is generally supposed in
France, that in the autumn the arty will be aug-
mented by '2O men in each coillp,atty of foot, and ten
nun in each company of horse.

MIDDLEBURG, AUGUST 11.
On the 9th our new harbour was opened with great
solemnity, its the •presence of the King and Prince
Frederick.

THE EVENING STAR.

I.ONDON.

MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1817.
PR:CE OF oTOCK • THIS DAY AI TWELVE O'CLOCK s
Consols Suit—Do. for Aug. 801 t —Do. for Oct. 811
Re used thei 81--4 per Cent. 9811—Navy, Mit
India Bonds 1111 pr.—Exchequer Edi., 31.4. 341. pr.

The Paris Papers of Thursday and Friday have
arrived since our last.

Messrs. CoNITY and Dmiotten, the Editors of the
Claw Aurersen, who have been for some time under
prosecution twi a libel contained in that work on the
Roy-if authority, have been sentenced to one year's
imprisonnient each, a fine of 1000 francs, deprivation
of their civil rights for five years, and other penalties
imposed by the Criminal Code.
At Rouen .54. and at Orleans nine persons con-
victed of of arising out of the late dearness of
provisions, have been liberated, in pursuance of the
humane Act of Amnesty recently issued by the King.
Accounts from Malta are said to represent the
Misery there as very great, in consequence of the re-
moval of trade to other cleaners. It tbay possibly
be nue that the inhabitants of Malta have not been
ezemptes; from a participation in those privations to
which the rest of the British Empire has been for
some tune ezpdsed 1 but with the peculiar facilities
and encouragements which have been lately conceded
to this important Island, particularly on respect of the
East Indian trade,' we doubt whether its dim:eases
can be so fairly attributed to a local transfer as to a
general suspension of commerce.
• A dispatch which has been scut by the Austrian
Commandant of Semlin, to the Vice President of the
Ault: Council at Vienna, gives an account of the
death of the famous Utast! Gnaw's, Chief of the
Bervians, somewhat diffeteitt from that with which
the last Earns Papers supplied us. It appears that
Gronuas had gone to Seniehdria under a false name,
and concealed himself there in the house of a friend
and that the object of this hazardous st p was to re-
cover a treasure of 50,000 ducats, which he had hid
before quitting Solna, and with which be now de-
signed to retire into Russia. The trieud, however, in
whom be trusted, was Moos weak ui wicked enough
to denounce him to the Pacha of Belgrade, who im-
mediately came to Semendria -with au escort of Ja-
nissaries, arrested Gammas, and also a Greek who
accompanied him, made them. be beheaded, and sent
their heads to Cuostantinople.
The Archduchess hiatus LEOPOLOINE, Princess of
Brasil, with the Archduchesses her sistets,and Prince
Lamm) of Naples, set out from Flotsam on the Bth
inst. for Leghorn, where the Partugoete squadron
wow waits to convey the Princesifo thf Brazils.—,
Priace blerrEarocu had set out 'for the same place,
some time before, in order to officiate as Imperial
Commissary in the delivery of the Princess.
French Funds, 21st August-68 fr. 30 c.

We have this morning received Hamburgk Papers
to the 20th and Dutch to the 25d instant. The fol-
lowing are extracts;

STOCKHOLM, AUGUST S.

An account ut a law suit between the land-owner
Redress and the Rev. Provost Iledreen, has been
published here under the title of u The Axe to the
Root," and is considered as the most important cause
relative to the affairs of the Clergy that has happened
since the Reformation. The tithes were at that time
fixed by Gustava Vasa, so that two thirds fell to the
Drown, and one third remained to the Clergy, which
last tithe was usually paid, according to an amicable
arrangement between the clergymen and their pa.
rishioners. The above-named Provost, however, has
demanded the payment in kind by counting the
sheaves in the field, taking the tithe cf the great and
small cattle; Ike. as well as of the butter, milk, ficc. h
the fat m.yard ; and besides this he has demanded by
an action at law, a cow for every funeral, six ells of
linen for every marriage certificate, sue the Odor-
mance of a certain quantity of labour.

The public are not a little antiailt`rwecting the
issue of this affair. The lowef,cuurts Ipgre already
decided in favour of the Provo;, The 64a1 decisions
vrhich is important to every landttaiderin the king-
dom, is shortly expected to be given b 7 the superior
Court.