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with kindness. Prom., the indent capital Of Pepe.
dentietin °m inters, as having's meaner appigatanee
thin Rangoon. 'A few spiral pagodas excepted,
thee is nova sitigle btick building within its confines.
-Alt the houses are of wood work wired on piles, and
more or less substantial in proportion to the means of
their owners.
There is no ;catchy of provisions in the town ; fish
and froit.are brought profusi .n to market, and the
Commissariat have always had a• plentiful supply of
buffaloes and bull,,clts for the issue of rations .of beef.
As a counterpoise, however, to these advantages, the
troops are unhealthy—cholera morbus and dysentery,
in a severe form, have cur off -everal of our Officers
and- m sny of our men. Dr. Harlan, who went with a
detachment to Prome in March last, came dawn here
about seven weeks ago, in consequence of an attack of
the latter disease, and has since returned to Calcutta on
extended leave of absence. The rains set in here on
the 4th May, and, with their cooling breezes, brong
Co me) t ea'th and its attendant blessings in their train."

officer's word, hie onleanced *ithout any apprehension
of treachery, emhr*d tl e man; and said, " Now is the
time fo you to fulfil your ptr•mise." Bessieres ordered
up, his advanced. eu Id, and was proceeding to:ear-
pri,e the .fort, ut en the French, who were within
it_ptseiv rig the treachery, beg-in to fire. Benign%
vii fio-t twiny; d smaved, brought up his advanced
guard and hegasao.fi,tht &ape! ately. His Commander,
Mayon. se eii.k Like enterptize was frustrated, and
t ant Bessielis wis oecaloning a uselesrloss of his
men, sent him to eateskorders to retire. He at length
retreated, htinging Wong the French Officer, with all
Iris ;war d, u ho Mind entered into an nnderstanding with
I.in' #itr the affair. Bessieres was not content with being
Captains but aspired to a higher rank, and at the same
time wislied to act just as he Eleaied. Manus, his Com-
mander, frequently reproved Sim for his conduct, and
told him that if .he'did not obey orders he should be
ponished according to military law. Bessieres, impatient
of reproof, determined to desert, and tried among the.
French to negotiate measures for oloaining pal don for
the murder committed. The French seat him for an-
swer that he should be pardoned, and should have his
tank of Captain secured to him, if he would desert with
his whole company, and would point out the means
of securing the Commandant Manso. Bessieres, tin•
able to bring away all his company, took with him
twenty five soldiers, two corporals, and a serje int.-
03 his march to join the French army, he was atrested
by Don Martin -IM-lines, an Officer of the saline divi-
sion; while passing the Rio de Sao Vincente del Ortiv,
at S in'Yeliz de Übregat, and was taken by that Officer
to the city of Martoril, then occupied by the General
in Chief of the Spanish army, the Baron d'Etelles.
Bessieres was thrown into prison, brought before the
Council of War, condemned to be transported for eight
years to Majorca, and to be degraded. In 1820, the
term of his sentence being expired, hr returned to Spain
frith his family, and settled at Manresa, where he fol-
'Owed the trade of a dyer. Scarcely was the Spanish
Constitution proclaimed, than he gave up his business,
and repaired with his family to Barcelona. He pre-
sented himself before the patriotic Junta, and inscribed
his name as a member : he also enrolled himself in the
National Regiment as a private soldier, to demonstrate
the li'•eral spirit by which he affected to be animated.
Shortly afterwards he sent a petition to the Cortes, re-
questing his rank of Captain; and this being refused, he
endeavoured to foment a counter-revolution ace
over-
throw 'the Constitutional Government, and found a
Republic; in this he failed, and being d.nounctd, was
arrested, and his h use strictly searched. Bessieres was
taken to the citadel, it• d imprisoned in the tower. He
was examined, and afterwards brought before the Coun-
cil of War, composed of several Generals, and of the
Governor as President.
Though Bessieres defended himself with, great boldness
and energy, he was sentenced to the Garoie (a death by
sroingulation, formerly inflicted solely en off-nders of
noble rank in Spain. by means of an iron collar), and
was led back to the tower. He bore himself with un-
shrinking firmness, and expressed no emotion but that
or regret at leaving his family. He was afterwards
token into the chapel belonging to the citadel, and was
informed that his execution would take place next day,
at fire in the afternoon. Two chaplains were left with
him frtt the. purpose of exhorting him to make a good
end; but Bessieres begged they would let him her:pier,
and not torment him for the spice of 24 hours, as it
would be quite useless, for be would not confess him-
self. While Bessieres remained in the chapel, 200 or
SOO of the first Liberals in the city repairedto thehouse
of the Govei nor, sod demanded' of him a respite for
Bessieres, thteatening that if he persisted in carrying
the sentence into execution. a number of Li'erals would
by force effect a rescue. The Governer replied, that he
c uld not grant the fay -ur,and would take proper precau-
tions for seeming the prisoner against any attempt of that
kind. At five o'clock preciselyabe time fixed for executing
the sentence, Bessieres was taken horn the chapel and
led back to the tower, where he was informed that the
Liberals had endeavouresl to save him; and that the
Governor had written to the Cortes at Madrid, to de-
termine what was to be done with him. A few days
afterwards, an order an ived from the Cortes resident in
Madrid, that Bessiere- should b • exiled from the whole
territory of Spain, under pain of death if be ever should
set foot in it again. While he was waitinz the decision
of the Cortes, his snns came to visit him: the instant he
saw th-rn he embraced them, and having nothing at
the moment to give them, he broke some bread that
lay on the table, and. giving a piece to each, said, in
Spanish, 0 ta no erect darros jamas pan"—(.. I never
expected to have given you bread').
The French hiving entered Spairr, and replaced Fer-
dinand VII. on the throne, this Sovereign appointed
him Governor of M idrid, which office he held until
toe month of July, 1825. Being of a turbulent dispo-
sition, and never contented with his lot, he united a
great portion of the garrison of Madrid, by the advice
of the Prie ts, and sallied forth from the city, exclaim-
ing si L-ng live Charles the Fifth—long live the In-
coirsition r L.eutenanoGeneral Don C tlos de Esp
rna
was instantly dispatched with 1 Spanish force 'o arrest
him. Bessieres, nut thinking that he was pursued, suf-
fered himself to be taken by sutpri-e on the 25th of
August, and on the 26th he was shot, having been pro•
stanced guilty of the crime of lest myna.
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Till!: EVENING STAR

LONDON.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 12 1826.
STOCK EXCIIANGP., TWRIXE (YCLOcK.

The City this morning is not so fertile in reports and events a.
yesterday ; though the information of the revolt of Coxmatertoes
Regiment, and the slaughter which ensued, is fully credited, the
Public are anxiously waiting for further details on this subject, as
well as f the *resignation of Cousimirrism Some imagine that it
will invcitve the politics of Russia, and cause a great dimension la
the family.

Consols opened at the same price as they left off yesterday, $I
for the Account ; a great deal was doing in the earlier part of the
morning, and they get up to Slij to I, sine whieh the market has
become heavy. They are now SII to n, and for neat Account
82 to e.

In the Foreign Market nothing is doing.
Current Prices: Old Spanish 13; 14, Meziean 61k, Russian 11
Greek Bonds 134.

PRICE OF STOCKS AT FOUR O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 218 217 216%
3 rer Cent. Wed. 813/4 814 A
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Long Ann. 20 3-16 %
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CI ,000 Excheq. Rill, 6 4 5
£5OO ditto 6 4
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Cons. for Account 81% 82 to 81% 8214
FRRNCH FUNDS, Pans, JAMIARV 9.
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Three per Cents. . . . 68f. 50e.
Bank Stock . . • . 20751. •
Bente') de Naples . . ~ 781. 40c. .
Royal Spanish Loan, 1823 . . 490.
Hayden Loin • • . 8001
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Intelligence reached town this forenoon, that a courier
had ortiv.ed at Berlin, from St. Petersburgh, bringing
with him the manifesto of the new Emperor NICHOLAS,
Which was immediately published in the Prussian capital.'
When the Courier left St. Petershingh, which was
on the nil ult. order had. been restored. A grow!
Court day was held, at which all the Nobility and
Military Officers attended, to congr malate the Emperor
NICHOLAS on his accestion to the Throne. Je ileum
was sung in all the Clutches. The Estrenon in person
presented Ate banners to the troops. •

The public mind is worked up to an intense degree I
of anxiety, in relation to the affairs of Russia. All that
is certainly known amounts merely: to the single fact,
that the Grassi Duke Nrcnot.as was on the 26th ult.
rititicr or A LETTER Fiona AN OFFICER AT RANGOON,
proclaimed Em
peror, by the resignation of his elder
DATED 5-ro Jour, 1825, nicctrao 1N cmaactow P
LAST WK. brother, Consratrrina. The motives of this resigna-
" Some ten days ago we heard, that there was a tinn are for the present involved in mystery ; endless
Burman Ambassador in Calcutta, on the errand of conjectures supply, both- in the foreign and British
peace, and that we are to go home in October. The Journals,
the
of
real
n want
LORD grant it may be so ! for I am heartily tired of a
Was CONSTANTINE a free agent in this most remark-
war from which we cannot hope to derive either honour,
profit, or pleasure; and of a place in nowise attractive, able affair, or was his conduct influencedtion by
of the
and in in which I have been fixed like a cabbage ever ons necessity ? His voiNntary renuncia
since I came to it. Though rich in the luxuriance and throne of a mighty empire from any supposed con-
value of its vegetable productions, this country possesses
tempt of worldly gteatness—h's spontaneous re-
hut little wealth, and that little, to far a, I can learn,
fusel to become the absolute master of the lives
is almost emit ely absorbed by the King and his Nobles,
who,it may be supposed,will take care to place their trea- and fortunes of fifty-five millions of human beings,
wry beyond the reach of an invading enemy. I question from a romantic attachment to the Lady whose desti-
much if the capture of Ummerapoora itself would give nies he has united to his own, is a conclusion so utterly
to the victors a t upee a man, or that the whole circulating .
improbable, that it can hardly have emanated from a
Medium of the empire would suffice to reimburse Go-
vernment the expenses of the conquest. Our trorps mind unimpaired in its reasoning faculties.
entered Proem on the 26th April, and hutted them- Self preservation, the most powerful of all motives,
selves for the winter. No opposition was made. The would deter the legitimate heir of the Monarchy from
Prince of Skrawaddy,. a brother of the King, was a few renouncing his rights in favour of the next in success
miles off, at the head of a small body of men, but did
soon, ,
simply because, in despotic countries, the tranquil-
not show himself. The inhabitants fled, seared at first,
into the woodi, but they son -returned, on 'assurance lit of the reigning Sovereign. is seldom considered
being given that they would be protected, and treated compa:ible with the personal safety and presence of the

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