Star.
London, England, 1817-06-05 00:00:00

STOCKHOLM, MAY 18.

An approaching convocation of the States.of the
Kingdom is here talked of. This assembly will not
wave for its object pretended changes in the Consti.
ution, nor a diminution of the privileges of the No.
blesse, which are little felt as an oppression. It is
the state of the finances and of commerce which rea-
sonably excites the paternal solicitude of Government.
The commercial policy of England, and of several
other Powers, has diminished by a halt the demand
for S'wedish iron and Norwegian wood. To establish
the balance of trade the Government has had recourse
to the prohibition of coffee, of wine, of foreign cloth,
and other articles ; but the less we buy from others,
the less will they buy from tis ; and the prohibition
has bad no other results, but to lead to contraband
importation of articles of luxury in exchange for our
ready money. The Danish and the English smug-
glers, who are unwilling to export our iron, carry
away our money. From this results an absolute
dearth of the precious metals. There are no com-
mercial-houses who could at this moment sustain their
credit with foreigners without the direct assistance of
Government; but this assistance is not given without
great formalities: the trader is obliged to prove that
the bills of exchange which he wishes to liquidate
have been given ior conimodities not prol.ibited ; and,
above all, for articles of the first necessity. In this
state of pupillage Swedish commerce bas lost its cre-
dit at London and Hamburgh. In ftlic, the prohibi-
tory system.cannot be executed; fJr the immense ex-
tent of our maritime coast, where Oere are so many
small ports or little creeks formed by the rocks, would
require an army of custom-house officers and a fleet
of small craft to guard it. Between 18 and 20,000
ships, English, Dutch, Hamburgh, Danish, and Rus-
sian, pass and repass every year Along our shores, and
in their passage find the opportunity of conducting a
contraband trade. How are they 'to be stopped and
visited without exposing to a war with all commercial.
nations Such ate the dlffictiltie4 which at present
occupy solely the solicitude of Goveminetit.

THE EVENING STAIt.

LONDON.

THIJRSUAV, JUNE 5, 1817.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY Al"TwEs.vE o'ci.ocx
Keenest! 7241.-4 per Cent. 94—Navy, 104
Esebetiner Bans 13e. pr.-;-Cuneols fur Opening 73

A Third Report by the Select Committee on Fi-
nance, embracing the important department of the
Ordnance, has been presented to the House of Com-
mons, and printed.
The exertions of this Department during the last
war, are very strongly eulogized. The Committee
state, that from MOS to 14316 there were issued to our

gwn Army and Navy, and to certain of the Allied
Rowers, no less than three mullions, two hundred and
want,:-:even thousand, sewn hundred and noway-six
stands of Arms. Mote than two-thirds of these ums
were newly manufactured within the period—th.
:oaken at one time delivering, by contract, one thou-
sand daily. The amount of Stores at the end of the
war, is stavd to have been as follows :
Szdall Armi - 8111,2112
Salt Feu* - - 7,3110 Teas.
Glappawdfir - - - - 1104000 Barrels.

.Including 05 millions of Cartridges.

Tl* Estimates of this Departments for the present
year, (as they have already been presented to the
House of Commons). are neat examined by the Com-
mittee, in detail.

It is with peculiar satisfaction, they state, that they
observe the great redaction .of the Unprotrided Ser-
vice, thinking it highly expedient that this should,
at all times, be kept as low as circumstances will pos..
sibly admit : and they deem it also important to re-
mark, that one-half of the sums charged under this
head, in the Estimate of the present-year, consists of
expenses arising nut of a state of actual hostility on
the Continent in the year 18145.

In the expense of the Ordnance Establishments at
the Tower and Pall-m4ll, so far as relates to the Sa-
laries of the Officers, the Committee do not see room
for any pretests reduction ; but they recommend cer-
tain prudential regulAtions, to restrain any improper
enerrase of these salaries in future.

• The Establishments at Woolwich, Greenwich. &c.
the Coromiuee conceive to be of such uulity--espe.
clay that at Woolwich—that they ought, on every
account. to be maintained in their present state. .

In regard to the number of Engineers, Sappas,,
Miners, Artillery and Artillery Drivers, kept up on
the Peace Establishment, the Committee express
great satisfaction at the prompt attention to economy
which has been here displayed; and although they
refrain from giving any opinion on the amount of
these corps as constituting a military force, 'yet in
their character of depositories of military kedwledge
and skill, and as schools fur impacting largir Dam-
bers when occasion may require, the Committee de-,
cidedly recommend that they should be at all times
maintained on a scale adequate to these purpma.
On the subject of the ORDNANCE MEDICAL EWA*
DLIAIDIENT, the Committee :mask, that the Esta-
blishments of this Department at home are of shell a
magnitude as probably to require a separate Medical
Department—but they recommend that' °askance,
Detachments on Service, like Regime:Ai Of that Lano,'
.spon should in future be provided with their -owe Sur.'
s, and be at the same time dependent on sheds..
neral Hospital of%the Army for all their supplies.
The Establishment of the Corps of Royal
{approve
Surveyoes and Draftsmen, the Committee pprove
of as In the-highest degree useful. The accurate

andicienti& researches conducte: by Colon l Mupor.
they conceive to be not merely a credit to the nation,
but calculated to become mainly. assistant in Mos-
'luting several of the most curions.problems in asiro;
nomy and geology. And they recommend, that no
false views of economy, where the adsantage to the
public is so great, should impede the prosecution of
the important undertakings commenced in this De-
pat intent.

On the subject of E:':TRAORDIS:AUJES, the Comm't•
tee recommend that there should be an entire suspen.
sion of all works of fortification, where the object of
them is extension, reconstruction, or reformation, or
any thing beyond' what may be celled necessary re-
pair.—" A powerful fleet," they say most truly,
" and an unconquerable spirit pervading a nume
rous population, with the means of-a7min and train-
ing whatever proportion of that number may be
required for any emergency, offered better security
against foreign invasion than can be derived from the
most perfect system of lines and towers which could
be applied to every point of our extensive coast."
The Committee sum up their Report by some im-
portant observations on the Cenral Conaiissrion of this
Department. The whole of its proceedings they
earnestly recommend should be subjected to the ge-
neral controul of. the Lords, Cismmissioners of the,
Treasury ; by which means they conceive they would'
come more completely under the observation of the
[louse, and its demands on the Public in every cur.
rent year be better sifted and appreciateJ.
The whole of this interesting Report reflects the
highest credit on the conduct of the MAiTER-GENI-
- and the Board of Ordnance, who appear to have
discharged their duty to the country with the greatest
ability and integrity.

We are extremely happy to find, that in the Re.
port of which we have just taken notice, the Com-
mittee of Finance have not recommended a further
reduction of that valuable Corpi.the Royal AriillJry.
As we are fully convinced that such a measure would
neither have been warranted by sound policy, nor even
,ultimately by real economy, we trust that Minis►ers
w►ll most deliberately weigh and consider the subject
in all its beatings, before they consent to make any
further diminution of this branch of the service, on
the efficiency of which so much of our success in war

depends, and which, if once suffered to fall into
neglect or d •cay, can he less easily restored than any
other part of our Military Establishment, and will,

in the event of any future war, inevitably expose us
to all the mischief and inconvenience we experienced
at the commencement of the revolutionary war, from
our inadequate force of Artillery at that period.
In less than thirteen months after that war corn.
menced, eighteen hundred men of the Artillery were
embarked for foreign service, comprising the whole
of the disposable force of that Corp, in this country;
and yet this force was found completely inadequate
t i meet the numerous and urgent demands for Artil-
lery which was made from all our foreign possessions.
For the truth of this we may appeal to the cones-
pondence in the Cosassasnim.in-Cnter's office, where
remonstrances pouted in from all quarters on the sub-
ject. So completely, in fact, was the country drained
of Artillery, that there was scarcely Officers or men
left fer the recruiting service, cr to instruct the re-
cruits that were transferred to the Corps from other
Regiments; and the Laboratory Works at Woolwich,
where all the ammunition is made up by the Artillery
soldiers for the supply of our Atmy and Navy, and
the garrisons abroad, were frequently stopped for
want ,of Artillerymen tqcarty them on. in this si-
tuation, • the Duke of.:ltionstoxn, who was then
Master-General, was indefatigable in his exertions to
increase the Artillery, so as to meet the demands of
the service ; this, however, he never was able to ae:.
complicit ; and most of the new levies were sent on
service, not half instructed in their duty, from want:
of time and opportunity. The Royai Academy at
Woolwich being unable to supply the requisite pro.
portion of Officers, the number of Cads was greatly
increased; but as it. requires at least three years
close study to qualify a young man to pass die requi-
site examination previous to his being made an Officer,
his Grace was impelled by necessity to give a
public intimation, that any gentleman capable of
passing a certain examination, very ir.ferior to a hat
was required from those regularly bred to the set vice,
would, immediately on his application to him, be !
appointed an Officer of Artillery ; and notwithstand-
ing this, in the second year of the war there were not
less than fifty Officers wanting to complete the diffe-
rent
Corps ; and, such we venture to predict, woulJ I
again be the case in a few years hence, should ass- !
further reduction take place, and we should ever 1
again be involved in war.

An army of Infantry may be raised and made
effective in a few months, but this is impossible witl,
Artillery, which can only be formed by long prac-
tice sad experience.

Indeed, when we contemplate the enormous valve
of the Ordnance Stores, entrusted to the sole manage-
ment of the Artillery on actual service, and when we
know that in one single day, during the memorable
siege of Gibraltar, the ammunition expended by our
batteries amounted to the value of fifteen thousand
porads:sterliap—svlren we contemplate such facts,
we could not but have deprecated as most mistaken
economy any reduction which might, on a sudden
renewal of hostilities, have made it necessary to en-
trust such costly materials to unskilful hands.
Numerous as the Corps of Artillery may have ap-

pearod tr unskillol observers it tl,e close r,f the
it is cortain thAt they rever were adequate to tl e
manes of service even in tH ary prece,L,
war. Every OfEeer wlio 1,:t4 14.1,1 any ere..
man.; or service, must Le at'. to Le4l
rucry to, this fact ; and as a farther pluif, ice ri..y
state whit is nt.t, perhaps, so sell kvown, that in :F..
and in all our former wars,Sv.e Lave it.s4ilably b'
obliged to employ foreign Artillery as so autil::.rf
lot ce. During tlw 14st war tee no *sou 11... an 21)(.0
foreign Aaillery in our pay,

The foreign Altil:ery which we have tbns be,ll
obliged to hire at au equal expense, r, i; unirers47
admitted are far superia in pliot seienzt to ot.r
own, and conudering besides the immense wine of
ordnance stores and ammunition, which. i. thus 117.
avoidably intrusted to these foreigners wlan in our
service, and over whom it is impossible to hold the
same contrail and responsibility as cvcr British
Officers, we should condemn any further reduction
in a Corps, which trust, in tile event ti another war,
inevitably lead to the employment of foreigners in
this branch of din service, Ir(,rn our own inability to
supply. the force that would lie reqeired.
We would do tl•ell in this paiticu:ar to copy tit
example of our neighbours the French, who in :41
times and under Al ciscur.k.;ta:.ce:, have rioter re-1
glected their artillery.

When Dumounient invaded Fiaii!ers, be had 7.)
less than 540 pieces of artillery with his arm 7.
Even at the battle of Wa:erl.co, x1:1
was an old artillerist, and who knew the imitcr:4;ice
of a formidable train, contrived to bring `..,itt pie:rs
of tanni; into the field, whilst we. at 4 memert
when the resource: of the Empire were st.rarted to the
utmost to enalil, the intmortal o to me:
his great opponent on equal terms, could only bring
one hunched pieces of Briti•.!) artillery into the action;
and our chief loss on that hkody day, arcs from tl-.e
superier number rat tl,c enemy's a:title:l, as it Ire.
cptently happene.l thztt t single luiyade of our ar.;!.
lery was exposed to the fire of three brigades of tl.e
enemy's; the cot.scquence was, that the guns v.-etc
soon dismantled and the men destroyed; and the
French artillery were then at liberty, when no longer
checked by the foe cl our guns, to turn their s*/;o".e
fire on our infantry, drawn up in squares, which po-
sition they were obliged to atsume to resist the enemy's,
cavalry.

13RAZILn.

Advices from Iltavre state, that a French re;sel,
named the Pearl, had just arrived there from Per-
nambuco, having on board, as part of t.er crew,
three Portuguese sailors. All these men concurred
in stating, that the attempt of the insurgents to re-
volutionize Bahia had failed ;.and that the ritigkaders
of the plot in that city had been secured and shipped
off for Rio de Janeiro. The Authorities at Bahia,
no longer apprehensive for their own safety, we►e en-
gaged in fitting out some large vessels to annoy the
Inuirgents of Pernambuco, by cruising off thcir port,
intercepting their provisiuns, and cutting op their
trade. Among the ships under equipment h.r done
purposes were three, the Domingo:, Cenna, and
another, of at least I.ltX) tons !,,irden each, and nearly
ready for service. At the time k me.t be ob-
served, that although the Pearl had t.ar:hed at Pt:•
nambuco on the 6th or April, it does not app-.:r
she had previously vhited Bahia ; so that .•e have
nit yet traced to it; s-;urce the io!ormation
people describe tlitutschtes as having received in, a
the kgter city.
The lidlut:ing e::trart, how:'ver, of a Letter fiats
Bahia, dated the ‘,;.'itti Match and port fd•up at
I.Lovo's this morning, :,:Teal; suiiicieut consr:natioa
or the preceding intel:igence :

A ves,el tom Y.tnamtpico tsar SC/ dat the B:r two dal,
since, havit:z on board a l'et.,t and !is other Lerurgeats, =to
Prolontatiow, Appo:ntinentri be. all of ..v!ers
were ¢tiZell and are now in possession of the Governor of •Li
place. The Conspirators are DOW on trial before a Court-mart, ,
and it h expected Will be excepted to,m4rro v.
" The MOK perfeet • tranquillity reigns bere. ai.J front t'e
satiAlat !ion .a theapprAtemipri.of the `.ololl...opire,rt,
the firmness and loyalty of the cigars- and inhabi•aots, we fuoi
nature than ever satisfi. .1 that are perfectly refute. Vv.
enutr, y and activity of the (ksiertior is beyond all praitc.
of thh place, and probably that of thwwbole of ibt
may Ne attributed to hunt. ITr 11:11 per-
men.: and pre3ence of vimid in all hit n•-a,ure:-., ;rail both .11
Itroops and inhabitants have the hijb,-; respect Ins :.J,
deuce in him, as he h..s 4111147 i ar.d j..t
GJV eritor."

Soule intelligence (so/monk:it-1 thronoli Ne 7
York Papers to the Ist of May 'I, "i ;:ie
had taken place in Pcitt•g•iese A trwrica, thoe;Th n t
at variance with what had pre-Au:l,ly. rt:.:thed
is of older date, nod !;ives no ads.itional
of any moment. Dispatches had ben forwirikd
Maivritcs to the Eriti,ll G•ivtriiinent, as Well AS
that ot liii• Unit:d State.i, soLcit;tig an stannvied,:•
meat of Brazilian i.idcrendence, atid inviting' ir-
:ercourse on tl.e crust friendly too.:.ng. The Pi'vi-
sional Governoient appointed on the 701 of Mirc!:,
was composed of five dietinct departments, the her!
1f each having the tide ot " Patriotic Governor."
The interior officers of the old administration.
their 'pl..ces under the new, with the exception cf
those who had voluntarily given in their resignatinc.
The pay of the military had teen raised —a conifncl
but perilous expedient ; as it involves the nece.tr,y^t
an increased expenditure, and, by consegocnce, ,
odium of fresh impost, on the propte.

The Paris rapers of the Ibt 0rri..,,?
night. and in a preceding columr. we i •
rather inttresting cAtriscia trorn

NM AL INTELLIGENCE.

FALMOUTH, JUNE Q.

Arr;v.d a man of war brig—name unknown. Or-
, ii2tve reached for the rani; of the Countes.. of
0 • v es,er Packet for Gibraltar And Malta, but s!ie
.;i get under weigh till late, or early to-morrow
g S.W.
PLYMOUTH, JUNE a.
p-rased the French chaste maree Bienfaisant,
• ,•• 1•o•n Havre. Passed by for Hamburgh,
FanusTrt, from St. Domingo.

P MtISMOUTH, JUNK 4.
red the Quern and Regultis transports, horn
ts.—Wind W.S.W. . .
RAMSGATE, 117 Ni.: 4.
'r Caroline, of and Irmo Lordou, fur the West
lost anchors and cable: :bit, morning off Broad-
Ow is now sever. or &gilt talus off the North
...and, and an anchor and cable ate sent uff.

DEAL, JUNI.; 4.
and sailed for the River, the Marquis of
awn Bombay and China ; and the Scaleby
tri.m China : tltt latter remains. Also :eve-
•.l others. supposed to be homeward-bound.lindia-
:-.,l—pirticul4rs nnknown Came down, from the
Nirer, the Nisbit, GRAY, for Put .back the
lig,' George pass:me-vessel, with passengers trom
.iorrr to Calais, to repair her sails, which were da-
rogel this morning by the strong South-west wind.
The Cumberland passage-yessel, with passengers from
CilAis, was drisen inhere by strong South-west wind.

NLWHAVEN, JUNE 3.
Arrived the Duke of Wellington packet, Certain
Cur. from Dieppe, with 49 passengers and four
carriages on board. A greater number of passen-
:en arrive lunar France than the departures from this
Flu or from Brighton. The prevalence of emigre-
to the Continent has considerably d, dined this
year, and we are glad to find so many of the Nobility
rcLanlng to their native shore.

BRlutil'ON, JUNE 4.
'Nis morning there was 4 severe gale from the
5...,:h-west. The tremendous swell of the sea created
; t..:1 of anxiety for the safety of the numerous boats
anic!l put to sea for the mAckarel fishery; how-
in the course of the forenoon, most of them
i,rar 4,ely got into Shoreham harbour. A strange
xeiEel .4%:s awl in distress off Rottiogdean,sabout two
trorn the shore, which was lined with specta-
nn, observing her perilous situation, but the sea ran
to high that it was impossible to render her any as-
For several hours she withstood the gale,
lot at length lost her anchors, and at two o'clock in
the afternoon was drove ashore ; she pseves to be the
Mona, Captain ACTOR, bound from London to
with a general cargo. The crew and pas-
sneers were safely landed ; and it is supposed, by
6:charging partof her cargo, the ship will be got off.