Star.
London, England, 1816-01-31 00:00:00

TUE EVENING STAiI.

LONDON. •
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 81, 11116.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT WELVEO'CLOM
Redurs.l rno. 611 f—tor ate. nif ,
4 per Cent. 77a--S per Cent. 900.—Bands is. pr.
One. 18 pr.—Do. pay. 114—.Eacb. Bells Is. 4s. pr.

The Funds maintain their late advanced price.—
Yesterday was a holiday at the Stock Exchange; but
bargains to a considerable aniount were privately
done on the Royal Exchange:. 50,000 Consols were
contracted for, in one purchase, at 621 for the account;

they continued about this price throughout the day.
Many stories are abroad which have an influence to
keep up the price of the Fuads. The principal is, that
the Minister intends to do without a Loan, by conti-
nuing the Property Tax at 5 per cent. instead of 10,
by a fresh issue of Exchequer Bills : and lastly, by
borrowing a few millions of the Bank.
.The statement with respect to the Loan is, we be-
lieve, correct, and we deem the others probable.—
It is also in f Avow of the Funds, that a Meeting has
lately been held by the principal Members of the'
Steck Exchange to consider of .the propriety of pe•,

titioninft the Bank to eztend their indolpence with
respect to the redemption of the Omninm in pledge,
amyl the year is considerably advanced, provided
that Government shall have no Loan.

A Morning Paper alluding to the intelligence first
published in the STAR, thit Carthagena had offered
to become part of the British Qossecsions, adds. 44 we
are enable.f to contradict this vague report, which
'newly :niginated in a proposal for preferences in
track, lately transmitttd through our Jamaica Admi-
ral in Government at home."—For the present we
only say they may contradict truth, but it will still
remain true. The fact is as we have stated. We have
cnp;.Ls of all the documents in our possession. We in-
tended this day to have resumed the subject, but have
been obliged by want of room to defer it.

No French Papers have arrived this day; nor have
we been Al! to find in those of yesterday any thing
to add to the extracts then given. It is confirmed,
that there have been some disturbances at Lyons;
but the accounts are contradictory : indeed, in the
present state of the Frer.t.:l Press, but little reliance
can be placed on the accuracy of the statements in
the Jqurnals. One thing is certain, that the affair
us.ll numerous arrests.

By all the accounts that reach us, both through the
jonrnals and private letters, it seems unquestionable,
that the ecclesiastics have secured a strong party to
bring back the old system, by which Priest! and Con-
fessors, tAing advantage of the imbecility of the
sreak and dying, were enabled to wrest from them
donationeand legacies for the benefit of their own
Orders, but followed with the ruin and beggary of
the ra gives of the devotees. Should this system ob.
t.. 31 again under the Blvasotis, farewell to the pro-
mised prosperity of France.

We have already reproaared that sweeping propa.
g tti,,n of unproved assert;ons respecting cur
ti) men, charged with .:tiling the escape of Lava.
LETTS, which, contrary to ail law, serves to pre-
judge the question. Many of the alledged facts are
positively denird by Sir }Ulmer's friends : nor shall
we give these pretended facts credence till establish.

ed by evidence: Indeed we do not believe that Sir
ROBERT, Captain HUTCHINSON, Of Mr. BRUCE. bad
' aus knowledge of the escape. of LAVALITTE froin
pris'a hefure the fact, whatever part they had after-
wards in conveying him out of France. The fol.'
lowing statement is, we believe, nearly if not per-
fectly correct :
46 It it sot true that Sir ROSICaTp Of any English-
man. conu'ived Lawarrres escape from the Con-

ciergerie.

• .• is not true that Sir RoIFAT applied ender a
fahe zi3me for any passport from Sir CHALLIs
STuarcr, or any English authorities in Paris.
6i It is na true that an original sketch or draft
of Pozzo ar LionotrN. paper was found in sir
Itensvor %Vmsores papas. It is not true that any
letters from or to Sir itGotitr (:xcept one from his
clan brother to hi,u, and one from himself, in winch
he related what had passed to a Noble Lord, and de-
sired him to consmuskate al the particulars to lsie Royal
Highs= the Duke of 7 ori) have been found, and we
incur that many letters reported, both in London and'
Paris, to have been seized in his lodgings, never.
exist* +, end that the pretended passages quoted from
others, are base and malignant forgeries.
4, It is re.: true that the letter detailing the transac-
tion of LAvALLTIO escape from France was sent by
a laquall de plate Or by any servant who betrayed it,
to the Police. There is strong reason to suspect, that
the on!), letter containing evidence of the transaction,
was riptaiiied by some underhand mans by .the
French Police, froth some bag of letters for England.
We tru,t this fact will be well investigated at the ell•
tri,d, or by, our couinrymen at Paris.
\V. understand that the first suspicion arose in

consequence of a coat, ordered by Sir Rotten./ to be
ramie to A m-asure which the tailor immediately re-
cognised to be snipped by a person who was ndt of
1 is profession. This the loyal tradesman immediately
communicated t the PAliCe for such is the state c):
corntort.and liberty in France, that so trifling a eu
curnstance cannot occur without being divitlgedi.t..
he offi,:ers of justice; sad a tradeintan who allowed