Star.
London, England, 1817-09-26 00:00:00

bktUiSEI.S. SErnIMIN.R 20.

This is the day ou which, in the whole kingdom
,of France, the Electoral Cllieges assemble in the
Departments whose Representatives cease their func-
tions, in order to choose new Members for the Cham-
ber of Deputies. Upon the choice which they make
depends, perhaps, the tranquillity of the Monarchy,
and also the reduction of the Army of Occupation.
Among other observations on this subject, we have
the following from Lille, of the 18th:
44 For these two days past we see Electors from

all parts of our citensive and populous Departments
, flock hither, who thus give an eiident proof of the
interest they take in the welfare of their country.
It In general the well disposed have the prej.onde•
ranee moil us ; these are convinced of the impor-
tance of the present moment, and forget their parti-
cular interests in order to attend to th 4; of the public :
it Cannot, however, be dissembled, that this is not the
case every where in France—however this be, the
elections are to be entirely free and unimpeded ; the
Minister of the Interior has given orders that the
National Guard shall do duty at the Electoral Col-
leges, and that the troops shall not b. in any wise
employed iu it.
" The Duke of Wellington is expected to return

from Alsace to his head-qarters neat week. It is
thought that Ms Lordship will spend some time
• them; and, unless unexpected circumstances should
intervene, nut to go to Paris before the mends of
December."

HAGUE.

It is affirmed that the expenses of the State for the

year 1818 will amount to 72,000,000 of florins ; they
were 82,000,000 for 1816, . and 73,000,000 lot this
year, 1817.
AMSTHADAM, stprimuß 23.

As a proof of the increase of our commerce, it will
be 'seeable to learn, that by careful enumeration
made on the 19th instant, the number of vessels
lying before this city amounted to 709.
s OCKHOLM, SEPTEMBER 9.
A ship of 74 guns, called King Charles Thirteenth,
was lately launched at Carlscrona. It is the finest
• ship in the Swedish Navy, the restoration and in-
crease of which seems to be an o,bject of particular
attention with the Government.

COPENHAGEN, SEPTEMBER is.
The King was to travel on the I Ith from Louisen•

• land to Apeorade. on the 12th to the Little Belt to
Snoghoi. to-day to Nyborg. and is expected tamer-
row evening at the summer resideoce. Fredericksberg,
near this city.

CADIZ, SEPTEMBER 11.

We aped in oar port several richly laden vessels
from Vera Crua, convoyed by two frigates of the
Royal Navy. is order to protect them on their long
voyage against the Insurgent privateers sad pirates.
which swarm in all the seas, and even have the bold
nee to advance sometimes as tar as the Straits of
Gibraltar. On board these vessels are great riches,
via. eight millions of hard piastres, besides large
quantities of cochineal, Peruvian bark, and other
valuable articles. About a third part of the money
belongs to Government. and, the rest to the Mer-
chants. The day of their arrival in this port will be

a day of universal joy. It will increase the happiness
and the prosperity of this City, which already begins
to recover in some measure from the sufferings and
the losses which it ties sustained.
There are no accounts from Peru, nor from some
other parts of South America, which males it ima-
gined that they are not favourable, or that the dis-
patches, as well as the private correspondtnce, bare
been intercepted by the numerous privateers. With
respect to Mexico, the most favourable accounts are
daily confirmed ; and it is now affirmed, that Mina,
having been entirely surrounded by the Royal troops,
bag been obliged to surrender, and lay down his inns,
tqfba the sole condition of his life being spared.—
Apodaca, the Viceroy, has issued a Proclamation,
enanunelorthat peace is reward is the kingdom, and
that only a few scattered bands remain. He pro.,
past, security of persons and
claims oblivion of the
prnisektra especially to those who shall peaceably re-
tain to their homes; only some chiefs, very few in
Amber, are excepted. The armaments for South
Aseriea are .going on with great activity ; the troops

Iwill be very nunaereus—they assemble in Andalusia.
and are daily exercised. This is the tree state of
things. in spite of all that is written on the subject in
foreign cowries.

The Paris Papers doe to-day have not yet arrived ;
bat, from a private Letter which has been received,
we are enabled to .give the following State of the
Polls on Monday afternoon, in eighteen out of the
twenty Sections into which the Department of the
Seine is divided:

M. Laatte 3342 Gilbert de Voisin 2167
Benjamin de Lessen 2903 Roy .. 2143

Custom. Perrier itb77 &Hart 2357
humid • t 634 Pasquier 1974
Benjamin Constant am Lanette 1724
The number of Members to be chosen is eight, and
from the above statement of the votes the election of
the first four Candidates is considered as certain.

A private letter from Paris, dated September 22,
says r—si The report that the change of War Minis-.
ter, which has just taken place, was to be followed
by a similar change in the Department of the Inte-1
riot, acquires more and more comistency. It is even
spoken of in the Ministerial circles as an event very
near at hand. According to this plan of change,
M. Leine will leave the Ministry of the Interior, mid
will be created a Peer of France. Count Mole, Mu
nister of the Marine, will pass to the Interior,
and Marshal Mamoru, Duke of Ragusa. Who is at
this moment on mission to Lyons, will take the Mi-
nistry or the Marine. Others however say, that
Baron de Barante, the Director-General of Indi-
rect Contributioas, will be the Minister of the Marine.
The elections commenced on Saturday last, but that
day was solely occupied in choosing the Bureatts, anis
that choice soon proved that the Likrals are in force;
for all the persons for whom they vote, as, Lafitte,
Benjamin Delessen, Manuel, Casimir Perrier, Gilbert
des Voisin., 14. were appointed to the Bureaux.—
Yesterday still.mcre decidedly showed that the majo-
rity was on the side of the Liberals. On the very
first scrutiny the name of M. Lafitte, the banker, was
announced with a great majority. There now re-
main only seven representatives to be chosen, and the
candidates who have the greatest number of chances
in their favour are—Casimir Perrier. banker; Ma-
nuel, advocate; Benjamin Constant; Bellart ; Ben-
i:twin Delessert ; Gilbert des Voisins ; and Pasquier,
the Minister of Justice. In this number there are only
two Ministerialists, namely, Pasquier and Mart."

Yesterday the Duke of Yoax visited the PasNg'
REO6NT at Carlton-Huuse.

The I)aelct of LEEDS is diminishing his homing
establishment, previously to his •isiting the Conti.
nent. Several of his hunters were sold on Tuesday
at Doncaster.

Some Gentlemen of Bristol have formed them.
I selves into a Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry, with the
11 intention of joining the North Somerset Militia.
Deese. Lasa.—The play of 77is Ifferthcat of Venice
was acted at this Theatre last night, for the purpose of
introducing to the London public a new representative
of SU AtC s *Ra'a Jew, in the person of MT.MAYWOOD,
a gentleman of considerable eminence on the Scotch
and Irish boards. In person Mr: Maxwoon is rather
under than above that size which may fit him to
continue the.succession of great little men by which
the present age seems fated to be distinguished ; and
with all tho e faculties which quality little men to
become great, it is only echoing the unanimous ver-
dict of an overflowing audience, to say that he is
eminently gifted. He possesses a countenance, leu
remarkable for being positively well cast, than for
'that plastic capacity (an actor's choicest excellence,)
which seems, as it were, by every new variety of
change, to admonish nature bow much better a cast
it might have made of the same materials. His eye
i. dark and beaming, and, as far as the fixed cha-
racter he had last night to represent could enable us
to judge, capable of a great range of expression.
His voice, (and in this his excellence is' particularly
remarkable,) is clear, full, and harmonious; even
where his utterance is most' hurried his enunciation
is singularly distinct and impressive. In action he
is full of life and spirit ; easy yet forcible ; when
most animated, apparently most collected : and to
all these first rate capabilities. he adds an evident
Mastery over the workings of the soul—a mind at
once able to comprehend, to feel, and to identify the
subtlest creations of dramatic fancy.—After this ap.
preciation of Mr. MAYWOOD'S merits, it is almost
superfluous to say, that his representation of SAyleri,
was a performance of a very superior order. It
furnished, perhaps, nothing stillungly new ; nor do
we think the less of Mr. MAYWOOD for being above
the ambition of aiming at such meretricious distinc-1
doe ; but in all those respects by which it approxi•
mated to the excellence displayed by his great pre.l
cursors in this character, it was a performance well
and powerfully sustained. In same of the scenes he
was particularly happy, and it is perhaps not the
least of his praise, that he was greatest in that in
which Mecum, the first genuine, and perhaps still
unrivalled Shpkel; was himself greatest—we mean
the scene with Tishah. The horror milled forth by
the proposition that he should become a Christian
was also exquisitely imagined and expressed. At
the last moment too, the overwhelming emotion with
which he retired, was a fine embodying of feeling,
and made the triumph of the actor complete. Oa
his exit he was loudly cheered, and the announcement
that he should appear again in the same pan on
Monday next, was hailed with a more than usual
dernenstration of applause.
Lecevat..—The, plan of giving two perfomances,
to which some opposition was made on Wednesday
evening, is now fully acceded to by the public. Ye:
terday evening a very respectable company attended
to see The Adopted Child, and Waisfei4 a GOVtliell.
When these two Pieces, which constituted the *at
performance, were concluded, the company immedi.
ately began to retire. Some few persons loitered for
about five minutes in the pit and boxes, but they also
went away when the stage lights were extinguished,
without the slightest expression of disapprobation.
.As soon as the first audience were gone, another
company came in to see the second performance,
which consisted of auckiler's Wiww, and iffy (lode.
This passed off to their entire satisfaction; and the
utmost tranquillity and cheerfulness prevailed in the
Theatre during the whole evening.