Star.
London, England, 1820-09-06 00:00:00

LETITR4:ROM ,tl4. CHARLES WOLSELEY
• •
TO THE tDITOR OF THE STAR.

SIR—I should not be at all surprised should my
presuming to interest myself in favour of our " good
Queen CAROLINE," be the means of calling down the
vengeance of my persecutors. But, Sir, even that
shall not hinder me from putting in a word in favour
of our persecuted Queen, should I" think it would be
of the least service to her in her present unprecedented
predicament. Having lived, Sir, at Como, for seven
months of the year 1817, with my family, I very na-
turally had the curiosity to inquire as to the shameful
reports that were prevalent, particularly in the Mi-
lanese, against her Majesty, and which reports, I am
sorry to say, I generally had from the English tra-
vellers, they having received them, I suppose, from
those people u;ho had been hired to infest the coffee-
houses at Milan, for the express purpose of prejudicing
the minds of the English against their Princess—a
circumstance so notorious, that any man going into
one of them was sure to be accosted. At Como, how-
ever, where she was so well known, how astonished
I was to find that the histories I had heard elsewhere
were not even so much as hinted at ! On the con-
trary, I always heard her spoken of with reverence
and affection. The poor blessed her, and her name
was ever followed by prayers for her prosperity and
happiness : her hand was ever open for the relief of
those in want, or who were on the bed of sickness.—
Having, therefore, heard nothing but good of her
from those who really knew her, at the commence-
ment of the present prosecution I wrote to a Gentle-
man of respectability, of whom I had rented a house
on the borders of that beautiful Lake, to inquire into
the characters and situation of those persons who had
been engaged to depose against the Queen, being
satisfied that no person who had a character to lose
could in conscience say aught against her; and at
the same time begged to be informed if the report in
one of the Papers was true, as to " a Priest having
attended these witnesses, for the purpose of absolvin '
them from the consequences of a perjured testimony.'
The answer to my letter I have this day received;
and take the earliest opportunity of sending a copy
of it to you, in order that you may make what use
of it, or of mine, that you may think proper : and I
remain, Sir, your obedient humble servant,
CHARLES WOLSELEY.
(COPY.)
gi Sta—ln answer to your letter of the 15th July, in which
you ask me the character of the witnesses against the Queen,
according to the information which I have been able to collect,
it is understood that they are almost all journeymen masons,
with the exception of one, who is a locksmith's apprentice—all
poor devils, who certainly have been induced by the prospect
of good pay to depose even what has not the shadow of sense
or probability.*
" I have not been able to discover any Priest here, or in the
neigbbourhood, who would lend himself to such baseness. I
have spoken to the Professor Mochetti, who told me that 112
had not received any letter, on behalf of her Majesty, desiring
Lim to repair to London to give testimony in her favour; and
con.equently he is not disposed to go."—(The letter concludes
with the usual compliments to Sir Charles and his Lady.)
• This chews the opinion of the conspiracy at Como.

The French Papers arrived this day are tl.ose of
Sunday, consequently there is no notice taken of the
price of Funds. The Government Official Journal
I:As the following observations on the alarm in the
Money market:

g, It was well known that great speculations took
place on the Exchange; they had long been defeated
by public confidence, and nothing led to a belief that
this confidence could be changed by false reports.
But whether the interests of stock-jobbers became
seriously compromised, or whether the factious deemed
it politic to interfere with the public funds, it is evi-
dent that attempts have been made to lower the price,
of stocks, by the circulation of absurd rumours. This;
has been carried so far, as to announce that it is in-
tended to issue an Ordinance to place a certain num-
ber of Departments out of the pale of the Charter ;
that whole legions are fighting in the Depart-
ment of the North, and that the towns of Brest
and Strasburg are actually in a state of rebellion.—
It is astonishing that such assertions should for a
moment have found credence, and therefore their
effect could not be of long duration. On 'Change
this morning the rentes fell at first as low as 751 r.
50c. but reflection soon exposed the absurdity of
these rumours, and before the close of the market
the price rose as high as 76fr. 80c. There cannot
be a more positive proof of the just manner in which
public opinion has apphciated these fabrications, on
which interested speculators have dared to calculate."
The Journal de Paris, of the 2d instant, says, that
among the present tactics of the disaffected is the
circulation of a thousand rumours and false alarms,
of deaths, of insurrections, and resistance to the
lawful authority. These are industriously spread in
the capital, in the hope that, propagating themselves
fi om the centre of France to the Departments, they
may succeed in producing disorder.

Lieutenant-General Marquis de Lauriston has been
appointed to the command of the 12th and 13th Mi-
litary Divisions, in which the town of Brest is in-
cluded. His appointment and his consequent de-
parture created a belief that the rebellion was making
further progress in that quarter ; but the Journal de
Pails asserts that all has been pacified. It adds,
however, that the factious have changed the seat of
the revolt, and have since placed it at Lille, Mentz,
and Strasburg, with as much truth as in the former
instance. It is evident, from these accounts, that the
internal repose of France is much troubled at the
present moment.

Yesterday, a Meeting of the Inhabitant House-
holders of the Ward of Aldersgate took place at the
Dispensary, Alda-sgate-street. An Address to her
MAJESTY was unanimously agreed to. Thanks were
voted to Mr. Alderman Cox, and the Meeting broke up.
Her MAJESTY did not come to town yesterday. A
crowd of three or four hundred persons, chiefly well-
dressed women, many of them apparently from the
country, remained in front of the house the whole
d.ty. Hackney-coaches were frequently sitting down
and taking up persons, and an unusual bustle was ob-
servable. _ _

EXCHANGE, MARX-LANE, SZ7TEI2II 6.—We have had
no arrivals of any Grain since Monday, but there being few
buyers at market, the Wheat trade was exceedingly heavy, and
l'Uonday's prices w. re with difficulty obtained. Oats were rather
brisker in demand, though not higher in price. In Beans, reas,
and Barley, there is little or no variation.