Star.
London, England, 1821-01-06 00:00:00

GERMAN PAPERS.

VIENNA, DECEMBER St.
Last Sunday morning, about nine o'clock, a fire
suddenly broke out in the apartment of Lady Stew-
art, wife of the British Ambassador, which, though
happily no person received any bodily injury, de.
stroyed a quantity of valuable furniture, wearing ap-
parel, plate, china, Stc.. to the value, it is said, of
200,000 florins Vienna currency. The fire is said to
have been caused by the pipes of a stove, which have
so frequently been the occasion of so many accidents.
His Highness the Landgrave of Hesse Homburg,
General of Cavalry in the Imperial service, arrived
here on the 20th. -

Every preparation is now making at Laybach for
the reception of the Sovereigns and their Ministers,
and the Court equipages are already sent thither.
All is here ready to receive the Emperor Alexander,
whose stay, however, will be short, as he will either
accompany our Emperor to the South, or return to
his own dominions. The Public are curious to learn
the result of the proposals made to the Pope by the
Allied Courts, of which Baron Libezellen was the
bearer, and of which nothing is known, but that they
do not relate to a mediation, as was at first state
but to something else, which is desired of the Holy
See, with regard to the affairs of Naples.

The Journal Hesperus, published at Prague, con-
tains the following interesting article, under the head

" DISPUTES IN SERVIA
14 New troubles are beginning in Servia. The cause
is very simple. No Turk is allowed to spew himself
in any part of the Province, except Belgrade, where
a Vizier resides, together with the garrison. The
Servian Gosbaar Milosch, formerly a General under
Czerny George, executes the commands of the Vizier
in the Province. The Servians are, notwithstanding,
exposed to various vexations from he Turks. They,
therefore, resolved, very lately, to send a Deputation
to the Porte, and request to be treated on the same
footing as the Moldavians, that is to say, to remove
all the Turks out of the country, and to place over it
a Hospodar of their own, for which they promised
to pay a higher annual tribute. The Deputies pro-
ceed to Constantinople, the Vizier hears of it, writes
to the Porte that the Petitioners cannot even pay the
present tribute, how, then, should they be able to pay
a higher one ?

44 The Deputies, being informed of this, write to
Milthch, and receive from him all the receipts by
which they prove that they have punctually paid the
tribute for the whole of the current year, though it is
not expired. The Porte, surprised at this contradic-
tion, sends a Defterdar to Belgrade, to &quire into
the matter. Soon after his arrival, Milosch receives
an order to repair to Belgrade, to hear the Firman
which has been received ; but a Turk, a sincere friend
to Milusch, privately lets him know the Commis-
sioners has agreed with the Vizier, to make him (Mi-
losch), a head shorter, and thus to restore tranquil-
lity ; and he shouli, therefore, be on his guard. The
latter, therefore, had no longer any desire to hear the
Imperial Firman, and sent word to the Vizier, that
the affair concerned the whole People, and he was,
therefore, resolved to assemble as many as possible
before Belgrade, that they might hear the contents
thethselves, otherwise they would not believe him. '
14 -Without waiting for the answer, he assembled
7,000 armed Servians at the gates of Belgrade, and
sent a request to thc Vizier to come out and read the
Firman to them. The Vizier declined, and desired
the People to send him a Deputation. Milosch sent
into the fortress his two brothers, with 200 armed
men, to whom the Firman was published, importing
that the request could not be granted. The friendly
Turk, however, sent again to Milosch, and let him
know that the People had been deceived, and that he,
'should demand the reading of the true Firman. Mi-
losch accordingly let the Vizier know that the Peo-
ple doubted the authenticity of the Firman, because
the Deputies were still at Constantinople, and had
not sent any such communication to the People, and
he, therefore, begged to know the contents of the
real Firman. At the same time he sent orders to all
the Rajahs (Judges) to assemble as many armed men
as possible, and be ready to proceed, at an hour's no-
tice, to whatevel ;lace they might be ordered. Thus
the affair stands at this moment—it may produce a
new storm."

The story of the existence somewhere in the Trans-
Mississippi Country of a large mountain of salt) has
been recently revived. Governor MILLER, of Arkan-
saw, has written a letter, in which he mentions an
extent of country covered with fine chrystalized salt,
six inches deep. He adds, all men agree, both Whites
and Indians, that this article is in such abundance
some distance above where he was, that they cut and
split off pieces a foot square. " It may be true," says
the New York Commercial Advertiser, " that this vast
mine of salt exists in the West, but we have not
much confidence in Indian authority, and we should
have been much better satisfied of the fact, had Go-
vernor MILLER traversed the country and split off
and preserved a foot squate of the salt for his own
use. We all remember, that next to his red breeches,
Mr. JEFFERSON was quizzed more upon this subject
than any other, and doubtless it was premature in the
credulous philosopher to state positively the exist-
ence of such a mountain in a Message to Congress,
without better evidence of the fact than he possesses.
So indispensable is a Newspaper become in all
situations, and to all ranks of the People of England,
either afloat or ashore, above ground or in mines be-
low ground, that even the crews of the Polar vessels
could not dispense with this necessary of life, when
immured in utter gloom for eighty-three days, and
with the glass at 50. under Zero. A Newspaper was
actually composed, printed, and distributed for the
information of the people. Captain SABINE was the
Editor, while Captain PARRY wrote and prepared
Dramas, which were regularly performed for their
amusement. Something of the same kind has been
known in most of our fleets when afloat. In the flag.
ship of Admiral SAUMAREZ, when in the Baltic, a
Journal regularly made its appearance, not_printed,
but written, called the Orlopian Gazette. The con-
ductors of it were not known; they laboured in se-
cret; and contrived to drop, unseen, a sufficient num-
ber of copies of their lucubrations to make them
known from the Admiral's table to the Orlop deck.

LONDON.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1821.
letrws, us Twures DAT.--Holiday at the Bank.

At a late hour last night we received German
Papers to the 29th ult. from which we have given
extracts. The residence of our Ambassador, in Vienna
was much damaged by fire on the 17th 'ult. and
much of the furniture was destroyed, but happily
no person was hurt.

I -
The Austrian troops now in Italy are said to be
two hundred thousand, one half of whom are to
march against Naples, if the visit of the KING to
Laybach shall not produce results favourable to the
views of the Allied Powers :—that is—they are to
march ; for if the Kixo agrees with them, then the
Neapolitans must be punished as rebels; and if he
refuse to call his subjects rebels, then the war will
be against both KING and People, for introducing a
system incompatible with Monarchical principles.

The Sardinian Government proposes, it is said, to
maintain a strict neutrality. This, however, will be
impossible—should the Holy Allies command the
Sardinians to take the field.

The protocol of the Congress has been circulated,'
but not yet published on the Continent. It presents
a moderately;worded denunciation of the changes in
Government effected by the military power. We
have heard that the new Governments of Naples,
Portugal, and Spain, are particularly named in it,
and protested against ; and to the difficulty of deter-
mining on this comprehensive and momentous ques-
tion, has been ascribed the delay respecting the
affairs of Naples. The chief aim of the British Am-
bassador is stated to have been to postpone any de-
termination until the views of the King of POW' U-
GAL, respecting the revolution in that kingdom,
should reach Europe. Everything, certainly, that
has recently come out, tends to impress the belief
that Naples would be but the outpost in an attack
upon the new representative system in the South of
Europe.—But freedom has a herculean strength,
even in its cradle.

Accounts received from Madrid state, that persons
of adequate talent and information bad been ap-
pointed, under a species of Royal Commission, to
various districts of Spain, in order to (report to the
Ministry their opinion and observations regarding
the political and commercial state of the interior.
The individuals selected for this duty have, it is said,
been chosen with great impartiality, without reference
to the particular interest to which they might be at-
tached, their qualifications for the undertaking being
the chief matter taken into consideration. The fact
that such a Commission had been instituted was an-
nounced publicly in the Madrid Newspapers, and had
given much satisfaction. The apprehension felt some
time since of commotions in the southern provinces
of Spain, and particularly in Valencia, had altogether
subsided, the principal ground of complaint being
now limited to the new Tariff, which has already had
so injurious an effect upon trade. From Barcelona,
under date of the 16th of December, they write that
it had been received there, but that there was consi-
derable doubt whether it would be carried into exe-
cution, in consequence of the opposition by which, on
all hands, it would be met.

The Path Papers of Monday, Tuesday, and Wed-
nesday, arrived this forenoon.
On the first day of the new year, a Deputation
from the Chamber of Deputies, with the President,
M. RAVEZ, at their head, waited on the Ktso with
the Address of the Chamber, in answer to his MA..
JESTY'S Speech on opening the Session. Like the
Addresses of other Legislative Assemblies, it is
merely an echo to the Speech.
On the 2d of the month, the Minister of Finances
presented is the Chamber of Deputies a Project of
Law, for authorizing the collection of six-twelfths of
the direct Revenue for 1821 upon the assessments
for 1820.

The history of affairs at Naples is brought down
in these Papers to the 15th ultimo. The private let-
ter which we quoted yesterday was erroneous in
stating, that the KING had executed a formal act of
agreement to the modifications necessary in the Spa-
nish Constitution. The following is an exact sum-
mary of the events which took place from the 11th
of,the month, where our last narrative broke off, till
the period of the Km's departure.
In the Sitting of Parliament on the 12th, the Com-
mittee appointed to examine the act of accusation
proposed by Colonel PEPS against the ex-Ministers,
six in number, on account of the Message presented
in his MAJESTY'S name on the 7th (see STAR of the
30th ultimo), reported, that in the opinion of the ma-
jority of the Committee, it was the conduct alone of
the Duke de CismrocistAno, Minister of Foreign
Affairs, and of Count Zum.o, Minister of the Inte-
rior, which was liable to the application of Article
226 upon Responsibility, the first for having counter-
signed, and the second for having dispatched the
Message to the Intendants of Provinces.

On the 13th the Parliament replied .to the third
Message of the KING--(See STAB of Wednesday
laai)—by an Address, in which they first refer to an
accompanying Decree, transferring to the Vicar-
General, by the new title of Regent, the whole of

the Royal power during the absence of the Kato his'
father; and after expressing- fervent wishes for his
MAJEsvis safe return, to live in peace among his
people, or assist them in defending their rights,
they say, that they will regard it as a new pledge .of
his MaJzsvv's attachment to the interests of his

People, if he will immediately fill up the nominations
Ito the Council of State, provided for by the Consti-
tution, in aid and controul of the Executive, and com-
plete the modifications necessary in the Constitu-
tional Act. In reply to the Deputation who waited
on the KING with this Address, his MAJESTY said—
" I go to the Congress to fulfil what I have sworn.
I leave, with pleasure, my beloved son as Regent of
the Kingdom. I hope that GOD will grant me the
strength necessary to fulfil my intentions."
A very short time after the departure of this
Deputation, his MAJESTY sent a new Message to the
Parliament, of the following tenour :
" FAISDINAND. ice. _ - _

" Mr FAMITUL Derrnis—The interest which I take in the
welfare of my people demands that I should not defer for an in-
stant my departure for Laybach. where the Allied Monarchs
must already have assembled.

" In acceding to my paternal views, you desire that, before
departing, I should make some dispositions with respect to the
2omination of Councillors of State, and the modifications in the
Constitution. •

" Time, which presses, will not allow me to attend to what
regards the Council of State. I desire, however, that this Body
should be established, in order that the progress of affairs may
not experience any delay during my absence.
" The modifications of the Constitution require a more ma-
ture examination than I can give to it in the few hours left me
before my departure. This duty will remain, therefore, con-
fided to the Prince Regent, the Duke of Calabria, my beloved
Son, who is Invested with my powers in their full extent. But
if you think it necessary that this examination should be made
by myself, you can transmit me the modifications, or rather you
can wait my return from Laybach, which I hope will be very soon.

" As the duration of three months, which the Constitution
prescribes to your legislative functions, iv: near Expiring, and as
the matters for your discussion are far from being exhausted, I
desire, in terms of Article 107 of the Constitution, that the pre-
sent Session of Parliament shall be prolonged for one month
farther; the wants of the Country demand it.
(Signed) " FERDINAND."

Notwithstanding the delay indicated in the first
part of the above Message, respecting the Council
of State, his MAJESTY appears, on second thoughts,
to have formed a wiser determination; for,• almost
immediately after the Message was delivered, it was
followed by a Decree, in which his MAJESTY, agree-
ably to the suggestion of Parliament, nominates the
twenty-four Members of the Council of State.—
Among the names are—the Archbishop of Mon-
/MALE, Lieutenant-General D. GUILLAUME PEPE, D
ROBERT FILANGIERI, the Prince of VILLARMOSA, &c.
At three o'clock on the 13th, the artillery of all
the forts, and the vessels in the reads, announced the
embarkation of his MAJESTY. An immense multi-
tude, who covered the quays, rent the air with their
acclamations and their wishes for a happy voyage to
his MAJESTY.

In consequence of contrary winds his MAJESTY
did not disembark at Leghorn till the 20th. He con-
tinued to enjoy good health, but the fatigues of the
voyage made it necessary that he should take a
repose of some days at Florence. The Grand Duke
of TUSCANY had set out from Florence to meet his
MAJESTY ; the Duchess of LUCCA had also sent her
Grand Major-domo to compliment her uncle.
Letters from Rome say, that the Duke de GALLO,
the new Minister for Foreign Affairs at Naples, had
arrived at Rome, from whence he was immediately to
set out to accompany the KING, his Master, to the
Congress at Laybach.
An article from Vienna of the 21st, mentions that
there was some expectation of the place of meeting
being transferred from Laybach to Florence.
The Court equipages which were to set out for
Laybach, had received counter-orders.

The following intelligence from Leghorn has been
received at LLOYD'S: " LEGHORN, DEC. 23.
" On the 20th instant, arrived here the Vastort
man of war, REVOLUTIONAIRE frigate, and a French
frigate, from Naples; and the limo of the Two &m-
-utts, who came passenger in the Vaticzust, set off
this morning for Florence. The ships sailed yester-
day, on their return to Naples."
French Five per Cents. Tuesday, 79 fr. 75 c.

The labours of the Ultras to procure pseudo-loyal
Addresses have hitherto only tended to prove their
paucity in numbers, and to expose them to the deri-
sion of their truly loyal countrymen. Can smuggled
Addresses—or such as are, in contempt of the voice
of the People assembled, forwarded by time-servers,
as expressions of public sentiment, deceive any_
even those who are labouring to deceive themselves?
Impossible.

Some farther particulars, received this morning,
respecting the Dublin County Meeting, are given in
another column.

At length one County Meeting, for the purpose of
a, so called, Loyal Address, is to be attempted by 1,
the friends of Ministers. They proMise themselves
success at Derby ; and perhaps they may contrive to
obtain there a semblance of approbation. But on
the other hand, the Counties of Northumberland,
Bedford, Berk:, and Southampton, will all meet in
the course of the ensuing week, to give an honest ex-
pression of their feelings in Addresses to the Throne,
and Petitions to both Houses of Parliament ; and the
great County of York will soon be ready to deliver
its sentiments on the conduct of the King's advisers.
Can anything be more base, more wicked, more,

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stupid than the conduct of the Ultras (the only
Revolutionists who threaten danger to the Conk;
tution) in vilifying the whole community as seditiot

disaffected, and encouragers of blasphemy!

on us ! what would come of these Ultras, if thi,
charge were true?. Would Ministers and their minim.

dare to use such language if the People were other.
wise than loyal and strongly attached to the Col.
stitution as by law established ? It is easy to yam?
about excessive loyalty among a People so loyal
that even the insults of those who abuse the"
cannot provoke them to acts of indiscretion.,
Would these bold men dare to deal out abuse all•

scandal, and in the manner they do, if they them,
selves really believed one word of all with ullith
they now presume to charge the People? No; the}
would be the last upon earth to venture to open the,
mouths in such strains ; but it is easy to vapour where
there is no danger. Little curs may, it is well knot;
bark at a mastiff with perfect impunity.

The following Requisition has been sent to the.
LORD MAYOR:

" My Loan—We, the undersigned Members of the Cart
of Common Council, request your Lordship will convene aa
early Court to take into consideration the expediency of N. ,
tinning Parliament to use such measures as in their wiaiom
seem meet for effecting the restitution of her Mamie's Rise
into the Liturgy, her restoration to her rights and dignities., •
QIICEN, and a rigid inquiry into the unconstkutional pry
ings against her MAirsrv.-sth of January, 1921."
The LORD MAroa has appointed Thursday net•; '
the 11th instant, at twelve o'clock.

A Requisition, numerously signed by the Nobilitr,
Gentry, Clergy, anli Freeholders of the County
Derby, has been forwarded to the High Sheriff, se.
spiting him to call a Meeting to address his MA.
JESTY, " at this iseportant crisis, for the sole po:.
pose of assuring him o+f their permanent attachment
to the Throne, and of their determination to suppoi
the Constitution in all its branches." The Sheri
has accordingly appointed Monday next, at tssehe
o'clock, for the Meeting to take place at the County
Hall, in Derby.
CHARLES BARNETT, Esq. the High Sheriff for the
County of Bedford, in consequence of a Requisition •
presented to him, most respectably signed, has deemed
it his duty to convene a Meeting of the County, to be
held at Bedford, on the 12th instant, to consider the
propriety of addressing the QUEEN on the failure of )
the late conspiracy against her honour.
A Meeting of the Freeholders of the County of
Ayr was held on Saturday last, when a Loyal Ad-
dress was voted to his MAJESTY. Sir DAVID H.
&Ain was in the Chair. The Address was moved
by Sir JAMES FERGUSON, and seconded by Sir \fib.
LIAM CUNINGHAM, of Caprington. Mr. Oswath,
of Auchincruive, opposed the Address, as intending
more than it professed, and implying an approval of -
the conduct of Ministers. Several other Gentlemen
delivered their opinions, some for and others against
the Address, which was carried by a majority of 51—
the numbers being, Ayes 66, Noes 15.
A Meeting of the inhabitants of Cheltenham was -
held in that town on Tuesday last, the Hon. R. Moog
in the Chair, when an Address to his MAJESTY yas
unanimously agreed to, professing their unshaken !or
ally and attachment; but condemning the proem:Ns
of Ministers against the QUEEN, and praying their dis• •
missal from office. Thanks were at the same time
voted to the Duke of GLOUCESTER, Marquis of Lau.
DOWN, Earl GREY, and several other Peers, who Lod
an active part against those proceedings in the Roue
of Lords. T. GRAY, Esq. the mover of the Address,
commenced his speech with the following explanatios
of the cause of the present Meeting:—‘, In common
with every well-wisher to the peace and prosperity d
the town, I beg to express my regret that any politi-
cal agitation should have been excited among us; bat
when an Address, framed at a private Meeting ofa
few individuals, and not in the usual course submit•
ted to the test of public opinion and discussion, his
been ushered into the world under the title of al&
tenham Loyal Address, and is stated to have bees
passed at a Meeting of the inhabitants and visitants A
lof the town and neighbourhood of Cheltenham, held
for the purpose of framing a Loyal Address to his
Majesty King GEORGE IV. when that Address con.
tains a direct attack upon the mainstay of our liberty,
the Public Press, together with a general charge of
treasonable attempts, in my humble opinion, a public
Declaration of the inhabitants of Cheltenham, at a
Meeting thus regularly convened, was imperatively
called for."—Mr. GRAY concluded a long and ek •
cellent speech with moving the Address, which was
si
ably supported by H. W. Haulms, and E. Pilaus,
Esqrs. The Address received three hundred signr
turn in the course of three hours, on Wednesday.
At the head of the little junta of birds of passale
that framed the snug Loyal Address alluded to by Mr.
GRAY, were Lord MOUNT-EARL and Sir H. Pos.
A letter from Dublin, dated December 27, says—
, " An occurrence of an extraordinary nature took
place a few days ago in the part of the country WI
have just quitted. The Marquis of LONDONDERRI
dreamt that his son (Lord CASTLEREAGH) came ova
to his house, and that he went down to the Statue
Gallery to see him. With this impression on his
mind he got up in his sleep and walked down to the
gallery in his house, and stumbling against a starve,
knocked it down; the noise brought the servants to
the gallery, where they found the Marquis in an apo-
plectic fit, in which state he was carried to his room,
and still continues in the most alarming condition,
with very slight hopes of his recovery."
Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the
East India House, when the following ships Were
taken up, and thus stationed, viz. the Bombay, Car
min HAMILTON; and the Herefordshire, Captain
HOP., 1200 tons each, for China direct.
The Duke of WELLINGTON is now on a visit to
Lord SUEFIELD, who has invited a large party to '
meet his Grace.

Baron Von O EYNHAUSEN, Chamberlain, and Vice
Grand Master of the Horse to the Duke of BRoxs•
wicx, arrived in• town yesterday, to announce to our
Court the death of Prince Avousrui, brother to her
Majesty Queen CAROLINE. He died at Brunswick
on the 18th of last month, at nine in the evening.
The-Metropolis, yesterday, in common with most
parts of the country, experienced a heavy fall of snow.
Towards evening, however, a thaw took place, ac
companied by heavy rain, which continued during
the greater part of the night, and this day,

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