Star.
London, England, 1826-11-02 00:00:00

HANOVER, 0cr.19.

The Landroit (Bailiff) of State has lately ordered the
'strict observance of the edict, of 6th Oct. 1694, and of
the ordonnance of 12th of Oct. 1740 ; accordingly all
unauthorized persons, particularly foreign missionaries,
shall be prohibited from holding religious assemblies,
and shall not deliver any discourse on religious subjects.
Those that transgress these ordonnances shall be
ed with imprisonment, and foreign
sent out of the kingdom.

ST. PETERSBURG% OCTOIIIt 14.

ies shall be

By an Imperial ordonnance ofJune,Mahometaos and
Heathens who embrace Christianity, are to be exempted
from taxes for three years.

His Majesty has ordered that the Raskolniks (a sect
of the Russo-Greek Church) shall not be allowed to
build any new churches; the churches and places of
worship now in their possession shall remain to them,
and they shall not be anywise impeded in the exercise
of their religious worship. •
The squadron. of Admiral Crogh (qy. Crown?) has
lately returned to Cronstadt from its cruise, for the ex-
ercise of the crews, which began in July, and extended
to the coast of Scotland. The mariners of the guard
lately embarked on board a shipof-the-line and a frigate,
bound fur the Mediterranean.
STOCKHOLM, Orrossa 7.

The great Committee for the revisal of the Universi-
ties and Public Schools, of which his Royal Highness the
Crown Prince is President, had a sitting last Saturday,
with which it concluded its opetations for the present:
Count Lowenhielm, our Ambassador in Constanti-
nople, is said to be commissioned by our Government
ro negociate a more advantageous Tariff of Custom-
house duties for the Swedish trade than that now in force-
In the night of Friday we had a violent storm, which
tlid considera'sle damage in our port. _ -

The Etoik of Tsesday, and the other French Papers
to the 51st ult. have arrived. They contain farther pardinlars of
I the advantages gained by several detached corps of General Yea-
'Rewires army. nye' large Persian divisions. If these statements

are correct to their fall extent, there is no possible chance of sue-
toss for the Invader". The only hope of the Persians most now
rest on the disposidon of the people to join them : and according to
every iceman hitherto received, that hope has also been disap-
pointed. 'Thus an enterprise begun In aggression and folly, is likely
to terminate in discomfiture and ruin.

• •
Advices have bees received from La Guayra to the
24th of September. Reports continued to be circulated that Bot*
VAIL bad re-entered the territory of the Republic, but at what place
had not been ascertained. General Pan had been collecting as
large a force as he caild, but shelved no disposition to advance,
and seemed solely bent on maintaining what be had done without
enthralling the country in war, if he was not attacked. Bemuses,
who commanded the army of the liepublic, appeared equally disin.
dined to appeal to arms, and an interview between those two Com-
manders was talked of as likely to take place, and as the best mode
of reconciling the existing differences.
At two o'clock in the morning of the 341 of September, a fire broke
out in the town of La Guayra, which threatened destruction to all
the contiguous stores. Every exertion was made by the inhabitants
to subdue the conflagration, but without effect, owing to the want of
water, until aided by the arrival of Commodore CIIAICURI, of his
Britannic Majesty's frigate Daum, with lice engines, and 200 men
from that vessel, and from his Majesty's ship Vatausous, Capt. the
Right Hon. the Earl of Huterwooox, which happened to be lying
in the roads. Their prompt and timely succour was peculiarly of
The sailors immediately formed a street, front the fountain
in the market-place to the stores of Mr. Anima, adjoining the fire;
and, by thus keeping up a constant and quick supply of water, soon
arrested the progress of the flames. The Colswibittwo of the 13th
September contains a correspondence between the authorities of La
Guayra and Captain Cummins, in which the former express their
grateful acknowledgments for the• services rendered lon the occasion
At a meeting of the British merchants of La Guayra on the 6th of
September, it was unanimously agreed to present Commodore
CHAMBRILS with a piece of plate, of the value of one hundred and
• fifty guineas.
Nothing was positively known at Caraecas, *t the date of these
advice., with respect to the movements of the Liberator; but the
most intense interest was felt upon the subject.
The Colombiand of the 21st September contains the Decree of the
Executive respecting the tobacco duties, which was mentioned in
our Paper of Saturday last.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

Consols, which were done at 811 to 82 for the Account in the
earlier part of the morning, and since receded to slit and for
Money 8111 a, have remained at the latter price during the whole of
the morning without any fluctuation, and very little doing of cod
sequence.

The Foreign Market is also heavy, without s feature worth ob-
servation.

AFRICAN EXPEDITION.

By the kindness of a friend we are enabled to lay be-
fore our Readers the copy of a letter addressed by the
well-known Capt.Clapperton, to one of his connections in
this quarter. It is dated from Hio or Eyo, the capital of
Youriba, 22d February, 1826, and is highly interesting
on many accounts.—Donfries and Galloway Courier.

" No doubt you, and all my other kind friends in our dear native
land, would be much alarmed for' my safety, when the sad news of
the deaths of the rest of my party reached you, as bad news always
travel fastest. I certaini was very ill when poor Pearce died, but
the circumstance of having to act as my own doctor, and the power.
ful medicine I took, I believe saved me; not forgetting the Dram
Prawns, which ever, when a man is plunged in deep distress, gives
him new courage to met t himself, and bear up against all misfor-
tunes. You may in some measure guess my feelings, when so many
deaths occurred so rapidly, in so small a party. It is impossible for
me to express them. I may tell you how I acted when poor Pearce
died, whose death affected me most. After closing his eyes, I sat
before the corpse, with my head between my knees, for nearly an
hour, without saying a word. I then ordered a light and a watch
to be kept over the body, and crawled to the place where I had to
pass the night, and next day saw him buried, and read the °with
of England service over him. This was the most trying duty of aIL
it is little to see a man die; but to see the earth thrown on one

whom you knew, loved, and revered ,when living—the last, and best,
and kindest, of your companions, that is indeed a burden. You may
think it strange that I, a Presbyterian, should have read the service
over the dead, but it h a good thing for the living. AU my servants
attended, as also the most respectable of the town's•people through
Poyens. I have been well used here, and depart in two days for
'feud, where poor Park was killed. I will get all his papers, if net
sent home by Bello, and heal. every circumstance connected with
his death. I have made important discoveries here, as every foot
is new ground. I have past over a range of hills which were not
known to exist before; and traversed one of the most extensive
kingdoms in Africa, the very name of which was unknown to
Europeans. In the capital of this kingdom I have remained upwards
of two months. The celebrated Niger is only two days' journey to
the eastward of me; its course to the sea in the Bight of Benin,

can be no longer doubtful. I would say much more in this letter,
but copies of my journals with all my observationa,?ave to be Ant
home. I trust you wiU write by the way of Tripoli, as the westein
route is doubtful—Belleve me, yours truly,

" HUGH CLAPPERTON."

Tn a Dusts ow Yoax.—We have the pleasure to report,
that his Royal Highness the Duke of YORK was pronounced on
Tuesday, to be very considerably better, and his Royal Highness
continued in the same favourable state yesterday. The Royal
Duke transacted military business early yesterday morning, with
Sr Hennas Maxon, previous to Sir Hemmer proceeding to the
Commander-in-Chief's Mice, in the Horse Guards, for the purpose
if holding a Levee.
The ROYAL Doze received visits from the Loan CHANCELLOR
and other distinguished personages.
Yesterday afternoon, soon after four o'clock, the
Prince and Princess Lunn, arrived in town in an open carriage
sad four, from Brighton. Immediately after, his Excellency pro-
ceeded in his chariot to the Foreign Olike, in Downing-street,
where the Prince transacted businesi for a considerable time, in
consequence-et sane dispatches which his Excellency bad received
from Si. Petersburgh.
Last night at six o'clock, Mr. Secretary CANNING,
Ms Majesty's Minister for Foreign Affairs. arrived at his house in
Downing-street, from Paris and Wainer Castle.
The Marquis de PALM eLLA, the Portuguese Minister,
transacted business for a considerable time yesterday afternoon at
the olllce of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
Great numbers of the princ;pal Nobility called yes-
terday at the residence of the CHANCELLOR of the RECHIRICHR, in
Downing-street. to inquire after the health of the (tight Hon.
Gentleman and Lady Seam, Romanis, after the bereavement they
have sustained. The answer given was, that they were as well as
could be expected.
The Right Hon. CHARLZA GRANT, Vice President
of the Board of Trade, and Representative in Parliament for the
County of Inverness, and Ronny Guam, E4q. M.P. for this dis-
trict of Burghs, being at present in Forres. the Provost, Magistrates,
and Town Comae% at their annual Michaelmas Meeting held on
the gist uk. availed themselves of this opportunity of conferring on
these distinguished Gentlemen thb freedom of the Burgh.
Joint Gaoaos LAMBTON, Esq. M.P. has given a keel
ofi coals toarthe Sunderland and Bishopweumouth Infirmary and
Drs
Tie report
of the arrest of Conks Will, and others,
Wu premature.