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London, England, 1818-01-15 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR.

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, ISIS.
THE FUNDS.
MICE OIS ATOM THIS *AT AT rwszvz ceccoact
Reduced Slit —3 per Cent. Cons. Set
Cons. for opg. 82-4 per Cent. 99;
Navy 105W—Indii Bonds 106 pr.
Exchequer Bills 19 30 pr.

The Paris Papers of Saturday and Sunday arrived
this morning.
The only article of real interest which they contain
is a report of the first day's proceedings on the trial
of M. Scheer, for the publication of his work on the
State of Liberty in France. The whole of the day
was occupied with the speech of the Kum's Advo-
cate, M. MACMIGNY, in support of the accusation.
Some remarkable passages of it we subjoin :
" in sielicts of.the Press the accused find here a
primary guarantee against vague and arbitrary con-
structions, in the rule which you are in the practice
of observing of taking for your guide the text and
spirit of the law ; they find a second guarantee, not
less precious, in the habit of penetrating into the
intention of such acts and writings as are submitted
, to you, so as to interpret them less according
to particular expressions than to their general
meaning. It is a tutelary maxim, in short, in your
jurisprudence, that it is necessary to consult the
intention rah% than the terns. What writer can
be afraid to appear before Judges, whose duty it is
to profess this wise maxim—a maxim more parti-
cularly applicable to the appreciation of indirect pro-
vocations? With such a maxim, there is no fear of
ever seeing you torturing an insignificant expression,
to extract from it cries of sedition, or of deducing,
by I series of forced inferences, the intention of an

Syr; 'phi other words, fathering the delict your-
tabour of a base interptetation." • • •
of the accused seems to us evidently
with a seditious intention. And here, Gen-
*tn vwe would conjure those who have vindicated
41t warmly the exercise of the Liberty of the Press,
to dishonour the use of it by turbulent publica-
tions, bit to offer with frankness and sincerity useful
observations and new views. We leave it to them-
selves to say, whether a writer, whom the sight .
every thing like legitimacy throws into a sort of
frenzy, and who, totally regardless of the conserva-
tory principles of public happiness, invokes, upon the
ruins of a disastrous epoch, the odious phantom of
revolutions—whether this daring author has not in-
curred the penalties imposed by the laws ?
" A bitter censor, an ironical contemner of all that
merits our respect and our homage, M. Sciterrea in-
• ges in the most exstatic and prolonged admira-
tion of events the most ruinous, and causes which
hare been the avowed spring of oar many misfor-
tunes. He calls for the contempt of posterity, upon
the Chambers of Deputies convoked by Louts XVIII.
be strives to defame, by monstrous imputations, the
greater number of those who con'iposed them; while
on the contrary, he invokes the public gratitude for
revolutionary and illegal assemblies—acts of revolt,
and hostile anniversaries, are ostentatiously paraded
inthe eyes of a regenerated Monarchy, as if to brave
iti power and insult the objects of our political faith.
".‘ The law considers as seditious such writings as
tend indirectly to excite disobedience to the KING,
and this law applies evidently to the passage of M.
SCUEIIVt, in which, after making a pompous eulo-
gium on the Chamber of the Hundred Days con-
voked by the Usurper, he adds, " This Chamber of,
Representatives was courageous to the last, and even
on the Bth of July it gave a remarkable proof of it

by its Pretest of that day."—* * * * * " The day
when the KING returned to his Capital, amidst the
acclamations of his people."
44 M. Scheffcr has, besides, indirectly excited dis-
obedience to the Chatter. That Charter has pro-
nounced that the King is the Supreme Head of the
State—that he commands the forces by land and
sea—declares war, and makes treaties of peace and
alliance. Now observe what M. Scheffer has said—
, I cannot,' he says, 4 adopt the idea that it belongs
to the Government alone to defend the national in-
terests against the Allied Powers.' He enjoins the
Deputies to assume an energetic language towards
foreigners, and to devise, independently of the will
of the King, the means of expelling them. If
a Frenchman entertained such a sentiment, he
would feel it incumbent on him to restrain the ex-
pression of it, less from an apprehension of any penal
eonsequence than from a sentiment of honour more I
imperious than the fear of punishment. As French-
men, we love our country—as good citizens, we de-'
plore the grievous burdens under which it labours ;
and while we find in immortal remembrances much
to console us for the present moment, it is not the less
painful for us to see foreign armies upon our borders,
and our trophies, as it were, yielding place to theirs.
At all times we know weft, that even misfortune may
be one of the elements of gl;ary—we know well that
a noble resignation attests a mysteriolu power, and
a. sacred confidence.in the future—fertle.in tiniest-
„aim,- • • • •

Mr. MARCIICIIIGNY concluded with demanding I
against. M. Scheffer the application of the law which'
inflicts a punishment of three months imprisonment,'
and a fine of 50 francs ; and the cause was then post-
poned for eight days, in order to give .M. Scheffer
time to prepare her defuse.
A Decree of the KING of NAPLES appears in these
Papers, dated the 2d of December last, by which
his MAJESTY confers the title of Duke of DINo on
Prince TALLEYRAND, With remainder to his nephew,
Count EDMOND DR PERIGORD, and his descendants.
Mr. BARING gave, on Thursday last; A brilliant
ball, at which most of the French Ministers, the fo-
reign Ambassadors, and a great number of other
persons of distinction, were present.
Five per Cents, Friday, 65 f. 70 c.

In a file of the Gibraltar Chronicle we find the fol-
owing particulars respecting the death of the late
DaY of ALatztts :—When the Janissaries surroun).ed
the Palace of the Day, he called to his assistance the
Officers of his Artillery and Navy, but they declined
interfering. The Day then demanded of the Janis-
saries ;what they wanted ? They replied, "An indi-
vidual' from within." Anxious to preserve his life by
any sacrifice, he offered to double the pay of the whole
corps; but this was rejected and his person loudly called
for. His firmness now forsook him, and he had recourse
to poison its operation, however, was not sufficiently
quick, and the Janissaries entered, seized, and bound
him, and conducted him to the spot appropriated for
public ereeutinns, where they strangled him: they
then quickly returned to their homes. All this passed
in about an hour from their first assembling. The
public opinihn was much in favour of the new DEY,
ALI Coont. The Ministers of his predecessor have
been banished into the interior, and their property
confiscated.

Yesterday, about half past two o'clock, the Duke
Duatess of GLOUCESTER arrived at their house
I .
in Park',lane. from Bagshot. Their Royal High-
nesses had a select party to dinner.
The Dowager Marchionem. of Holtskst. is anived
at her haute is Davies-.freer, Lk-skiley-square, &cm
a LOUT.

NAVAL NTELUGENCE'.

MAILS T 1

It DAY.

AWL 1140.
Detain 1 rim
Waterford 0 I Malts
Guernsey and Jersey 0 0 Prune
Holland I Harnburgb
Gouenburs• • 4 Ringers
FALMOUTH, JANUARY u.
Sailed the Hind, Providence, and Wulf Revenue
cutters, on cruises.
, FORTSMOUIII,,,LANUARY 14.
It blew a gale last night, and the.early part of ti,6
Morning, from S.S.W. with thick weather. nit af-
ternoon the wind moderated, and shifted round to
N.W. The following ships remain at this pert ja
safety, vic—The Russian fleet ; Abeona, for Dat,
Tara ; Hooter, for St. Thomas's ; Harriet and Geer.
&no, for the West Indies ; Integrity transport. for
Cori ; ()racaheva, for London ; and Abeona
port, waiting for orders.
DEAL, JANUARY 14.
Wind S.W. blows hard.--The Providence..`.!,;.
CIIELL, lost an anchor this morning in the D; ens,
and has been supplied with another.--Seves.:l Des)
boats have been off to the Sand, but not a ve.tire ci
the wreck is to be seen.—The following is a &scrip.
tion of the sloop lost on the Goodwin, as. reported
yesterday 5--About 100 tons, painted yellow skew,
running bowsprit, topsail-yard across, she appeared
loaded, Berwick or Bridport built.--Arrived ad
sailed for the River the Harriett, COLLINS. fro--
Michael's ; Providence, lklircnnt.t., from Net' Act',
deuce; and Vigilant, ALLEN, from Tenet iffc.
RAMSGATE, JANUARY 14.
Monday evening one of our Ostend packer cclr,:tt
across from that Port, mistook the G-4. tor the
Rands Head Light„ and very narrowly escape,l
struction. We frequently hear of similar
many of vihieli have proved fatal, and we earl;
belt) here suggesting to the Trinity Board, tin:
would. be attended with the most benefielil
make the North Sands Head Light a rrookiat! qic;
for vesselt at the back of the Goodwin Sand are cc:,
tinually exposed to wonderful difficulty in
out the different lights, which might be ovia:e.i as
above, and many valuable lives and mach prcpc4
be preserved. Our harbour :.bounds with
front the Downs, come in for shelter, and many nic-o
are expected to arrive this next tide. Sewn:, Lagid
Spanish nuts, marked BT and casks marked Tini
.114, supposed to be part of the cargo of the slo?
lost on the Goodwins, hate been landed bee.
have this instaat been informed that the Captain std
crew of the sloop, stated in our's of yesterday. 3
have been lost on the Goodwin Sands, are safely landed
at Broadstairs.

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MARGATE, JANUARY 14.
Wind West.—The brig Argo, HOLLAND, oftti
from Yarmouth for Naples, with red herrings. Sic..
was lost on the Knock last night. Arrived
Roads the Peace, of Yarmouth, Gaove, With .01
'of anchor and cables, from Spain to Londcr.
KINSALE, JANUARY to.
The brig Flora, CALDICKLL, from Quebec tolltu
don, was stranded yesterday morning at Mums:4l,
near Clonakilty-bay, but expected to be get oI
WHITBY, JANUARY IS.
Arrived iii these Roads the sloop York Mrchrl,
LEE, of Wisbeach, having lost her mainsail, :err.:,
and part of her bulwark, and must come in towit.
GRAVESEND, JANUARY 14.
Arrived the Minstrel, Bristow, from Bengal • Mary, Gelb.
worthy, from Dublin ; Two Young Mows, Vaal de h*, fr.%
Worcum. Sailed the Eclipse, Winter, for hie of Frank; tie
Berwick, Compton, for flarbadoes; Enterprire, Wass:, fa'
Nevis ; Larth, Anderson, for Gibraluitt Vktcria, Carat', z
Vera Long; and Rodeur, Amman, for Antwerp. .
CUSTOM-HOUSE, JANUARY 14.
Sams maw I:moose—The Hawk, Nesbit, from In*
Seeger, Burgin, from Jamaica; Ilinthrg, Bertram, free
vile • Boyne, au gluon, from Calcutta k and the Catime,
Ewell, from Bikkos_ Ayres.
Outgrows—Tho :IWomfari. Thimplareys, far Limerick ;
Ceres, Watkinarfor Lotadondakry ; and Prance Regent, Ihisks,
for 'Waterford.

The brig Margaret, with coals, from Liverpool to
Limerick, was lost near Kil-- Polar crew saved.

A yestel, consigned to the Marquis of Slit%
freighted with the splendid furniture and other tr
luable effects of the late Marchioness, to the arnet.:
of £20,000, has arrived at Westpott, the p:::77:12.111-
sidence of hi: Lordship in Irelanct

A quantity of mahogapy has been east on shored
the coast of France, and at Cape Clear, Irelsn.
which, by the marks upon it, appears to be Fart .1
the cargo of the ship Bellona, WALLACE, o: Abe--
deen, not heard of since the 21st of November.7...v
she was parted with near the Capes of
her voyage from Honduras to London. The unit:.
tunate vessel has, therefore, probably' een last .a
the &illy Islands.

The operations, we are happy to state, for :he !t•
lief of distressed seamen, are most laudably tr.:!-
rnt. About 60 sea-faring men were exarn:sd
yesterday,
and most of them sent to the rece-v.l
ships at the Tower' or to hospitals. The temp:-.1
aid also of a fturth part of a quartern loaf anJ
pence each, for the night, was administered
340, at the Poultry Con apter, :awl at the lin:g's
The following is a copy of a circular ler.er ire:"
the Committee for the Suppression of
the City, &c.

.
44 My Lean --I diverted to apprise Tatar Lerlshie :f
general nature of the L..:i:ation contemplated by the ter",
tee of the Society for the Suppression of 3lendicity, and to w
licit the honour of your Lordship's sanctioa and support !.:
of so de,irable an object. Subject to regulations o:' dote!, t's
plan of the Society may be briefly stated is grounded on
which originated with Mr. Matthew Martin in 17:16.
since, though on a limited scale, b...en successfully carried co 41
him, as more particularly described in the Report of a 1.-1
mittee of the House of Commons, to whom the state of
dicky in the Metropolis was in the year 1815 referred.
" The immediate purpose of such plan is altogether le cr.'
Bede the bestowing of alms on common street beggars, by :be J'
livery to them of tickets of reference tom lace tots': estaste'rt
in a convenient part of the town, for the investigation of ttv
cases, with a view to rscertaln their claim on such parish.'
fund, as may appear to be properly chargeable with their me',
tenance, and for relief, if absolutely necessary, mails:eh
shall be sadsfactorily.subst:intiated.
" As the organizing of such an efficient system, Milgt, is d
first instance, be necessarily attended with considerable es?, '4
although the ultimate efti-ct will be orte of economy to di.
scribers, and to ,hr public in general, the Committis—erel.
most tespectiagrisa suhinit such their plan fnt you
considerationcistalk hope that your Lordship will not 40.
pleased to contrihute to the funds of the sanity, but to hot'
It with a commemicotion of such suggeitioess as your L t'e•
may d' impnrtanc4: In the bsneflebill comittet of
the-honour to b.: my Lori, your very hbodieNtasivvyt
.err4lllllllities.rooto,, "W. H. Fro:icor
!'nowt: and Azeuor , J....:_.