Star.
London, England, 1820-12-12 00:00:00

STOCK EXCHANGE.

A few more defaulters were declared at the latter
part of last week, but none of importance, merely a
few in Teets, very like a handful thrown in carelessly
by way of giving good measure ! The Committee
have not as yet made any new regulations on the
subject, nor is, it known-that they have met for the
pqrpose of taking it into consideration. If they have
met, it must have been secretly, as not even an ex
dit has escaped. They are, no doubt, fully im-
pressed with the importance of the subject, but, with
all due deference to their wisdom, we do not think
the matter so very intricate as to require much time
for consideration. Their resolves are not big with
the fate of Nations, but merely with the fate of a
few broken dandies, and surely they may be disposed
of without much ceremony. If time is wasted, the
mischief of the last Account may be repeated ; and if
it should be so, we hope the Committee may have
their full share of it.

To explain the rise in the Funds many rumours
have been current. The fact is, that money has been
♦ery abundant, and the recent Ministerial defeat, and
the prorogation of Parliament, have given confidence
to the Monied Interests to go boldly for an advance
for the Opening. The January dividends will fur-
nish the means of .taking more Stock than will be
delivered, as Parliament does not meet till after the
Account. The country too is quiet, and we are too
much cramped to plunge into foreign war ; in short,
the bulls, with heads and tails erects are in full gallop
towards a most luxuriant pasture. Whether the pas-
ture may not prove a swamp, time will shew.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK :
Bank Stock 223
3 per Cent. Reduced 691 h % Vs
3 per Cent. Cons. shut.-3i per Cent. 781,4 vs
4 per Cent. 87% %-5 per Cent. Navy shut.
Long Annuities 18 17 15-16
India Stock shut.—lndia Bonds 255. 245. pr.
Exchequer Bills Is. 3s. dis.—Omnium Ts pre.
Cons. for Account 70% 71 70%.

The following is an extract from a letter received
by the last arrival from Gibraltar:
,4 GIBRALTAR, NOVEMBER 24.

" The Montague packet, bound from Falmouth
to the Brazils, arrived here on the rOth inst. under
prOtection of the tAVOURITE sloop of war, which fell
in with her 300 miles to the westward of Lisbon, in
great distresif, having sprung a leak, and in the
greitest danger of sinking. She is now hove down,
.•:
andnadergoing a thorough repair in this Bay.
4!'Tlie 11th Regiment are under orders for em-
barkation fer Plymouth, to be relieved by the 80th
Regintent, from Cork, which is daily expected.
" Lord and Lady STRANGFORD and suite re-em-
batked on board the CAMBRIAN frigate on the 21st
instant, after passing a few days in this garrison, in
order to proceed on their voyage to Constantinople,
v. here his Lordship is appointed Ambassador.
" We are happy to state, that by the last accounts
from Tangier, the Morocco States are declared wholly
free from plague or infection ; and it is hoped that the
communication between that Empire and the Garri-
son of Gibraltar, will be shortly opened. The Rock
is very healthy, and the weather beautifully mild
and serene."

A Mail arrived yesterday from Lisbon. The mea-
sures which brought about the restoration of the
public tranquillity at Lisbon, and enabled the Go-
vernment to revoke the irregular proceedings of the
military power on the 11th preceding, are chiefly
attributed to Colonel SEPULVEDA, who commands
the Light Legion. This distinguished Officer, by
his remonstrances and admonitions, made the army
sensible of its dangerous conduct, and once more
obedient to the Civil Authorities of the State. Gen.
Texstaa, who redeemed a moment's hasty violence
by a prompt and sincere expression of his regret, was
on the 18th commissioned by the Junta to frame and
organize a Military Council for the improvement
and superintendence of the Portuguese Army. The
first act of this Council was to recommend a distri-
bution of medals for good conduct amongst the Offi-
cers and privates, who had been already desigated
by his M.%.3ESTY as deserving of those honours. The
election of Deputies to the Cortes is to take place
immediately ; the instructions and details for their
art angement being extracted from the new Spanish
code. It is plain that the Government found itself
compelled to expedite this important measure, that
the Constitution might be placed forthwith in a state
of active operation, afid that the People should feel
themselves committed irrevocably to reject or resist
any orders from,Brazil injurious to the liberties of
Portugal.

We have received letters, dated Sept. 16, from
'buenos Ayres. The people of that city had indulged
the expectation that, after the advantages gained by
their troops over those from Santa Fe, under LOPEZ
and CARRERA, the dissensions between the two Pro-
vinces would be settled by a Treaty ; but the terms
insisted on by Santa Fe being inadmissible, and the
troops or the latter being reinforced, hostilities recom-

menced. The first act of aggression committed by
LOPEZ, was an attack on the town of San Nicholas,
in the hope of surprizing the garrison there ; but
the attempt was not only unsuccessful, but produced
the most fatal consequences to the town of Santa Fe.
A large body of Guaycaru Indians, who had been
engaged as auxiliaries, deserted Lot= on his change
of fortune ; and, taking. advantage of the unprotected
state in which Santa Fe had been left, entered it on
their retreat--plundering, burning, and destroying
many of the houses, and committing the most dread-
ful outrages. Lovez, as soon as he received intelli-
gence of them, hastened back to Santa Fe. The
Guaycaru Indians having been generally at war with
Santa Fe, and the ancient animosity between them
now rekindled by this event, it is feared that some
time will elapse before tranquillity can be restored
and the town placed in security. ALVEAR, it ap-
pears, is gone to Monte Video, but CARRERA re-
mains with LOPEZ.

Baltimore Papers arrived this morning to the 10th
of November. The following is the only article of
interest which we have met with :
SAVANNAH.—Rarely in any country has the Angel
of Pestilence been commissioned to extend more de.
solacing ravages than at Savannah, is the present and
recent season. A letter to Dr. liall,of Norfolk, from
a Clergyman in the first-named city, gives a picture
of distress sufficient to cause every feeling heart to
bleed. The disease has found its numerous victims
is every class, and among every description of cha-
racters. Early in September, however, the people
found the necessity of giving up the contention with
the desolating foe. 4, Old and young, temperate and
intemperate, were its indiscriminate victims. Flight
was the only refuge : yet, although three-fourths of
the inhabitants left the scene, the number of victims
did not diminish. The husband and the wife, in one
instance, were interred together : the father and son
were seen lying dead together: seven or eight Phy-
sicians; also lying dead together. In the last twenty-
three days, out of less than 1000 left, 182 diet I--
From the beginning, in the last week of October, 557
died here. We leave the melancholy detail. The
disorder yet prevails."

Nuremberg Papers arrived last night to the Ist inst•
It was reported at Vienna on the 27th, that Ali Pacha,
of Janina, had effected his escape from the fortress is
which he had been blockaded, and that he had taken

refuge, with a part of his soldiers, in Sclavonia.
Advices from the Austrian capital of the 27th ult.
brought by a German Mail received last night, give
a more precise detail of the political communications
said to have taken place at Troppan, and indulge a
more definite prospect of their leading to a satisfac-
tory and amicable issue than any accounts which have
yet transpired on the subject of the Congress or its de-
signs. We subjoin the article alluded to.

VIENNA, NOVEMBER 27. .
It is affirmed that Ali Pacha, of Janina, has suc-
ceeded in escaping from the fortress in which be bad
shut himself up with his treasures, and that he has
taken refuge, with part of his soldiers, in Sclavonia.
It now appears certain that the affairs negotiated
at Troppau will not be concluded there. The King
of Prussia left it on the 21st ; and we learn that, after

the departure of the Emperor Alexander, the Minis-
ters of the four great Powers, now at Troppau, will
come to Vienna to continue the negociations. It is
not believed that there will be any war this winter,
and people seem now to be more than ever
-persuaded
that the differences with the kingdom of the Two
Sicilies will be amicably adjusted by means of nego-
ciations. Count Capo d'lstria, it is said, has formally
declared in favour of conciliatory measures, and'
against any open rupture. The journey. of Count
Bellegarde to Troppau, far from increasing the ap-
prehensions of war, has contributed to diminish them.
The Count was not summoned to Troppau, as Presi-
dent of the Council of War, to give an account of the
Army in Italy, nor to receive orders for farther arma-
ments, but for a very different object. It is said the
Count will immediately set out for Milan, not to take
the chief command of the Army of Observation, but
to reside there as Governor-General. Others assert
that the Emperor has chosen this distinguished Ge-
neral for his Negociator, with full powers, and that
he will go to Naples on an important mission. It is
also reported, that a plan has been formed at Tropp=
for the marriage of the Imperial Prince of Austria to
a Princess of the Two Sicilies, daughter of the Duke
of Calabria. Thus all differences will be removed,
and the heir of the Throne of Naples will be attached
to the interest of Austria. It is now known that it
was after the third conference at Troppau, which took
place on the 6th of November, that the negociations
took a turn different from that which they appeared
to take at the commencement. In the first conference,
on the 28th of October, only the proposals and com-
munications of Prince Metternich were heard ; and
al the second, the Ministers of the four other great
Powers delivered their opinions on those communi-
cations of the Austrian Cabinet. It was in the inter
val between the tw•o conferences that the Ministers
of Great Britain and Russia presented notes to the
Congress.
The Press, at the present moment, is met free."
So says a Ministerial Pape: of this morning ; and to-
morrow we shall doubtless have the assertion echoed
by all those other Papers which have indulged in a
freedom and coarseness of abuse towards a certain

Illustrious -Personage, unprecedented is ther.annals
of licentious writing,, and disgraceful to men pre-
tending to the most ordinary share of human feeling.
"The Press," continues the same modest writer, " is
under the domination of one of the mos: base, bar-
barous, and brutal factions' ever banded together
against the freedom and happiness of mankind."
—Read for " the Press," " the soi-disant exclusively
loyal Press," and there cannot be the slightest ob-
jection to the encomium. " nut," (happy news !)
" the eyes of all honest and good men are beginning
to be opened, and wz now hear, from one end of the
kingdom to the other, one loud and common com-
plaint against the unexampled licentiousnes of the
Press—a licentiousness utterly inconsistent and irre-
concileable with its legal and constitutional liberty.".
We are not surprised at it. Who can be surprised
that a Paper which has found its harvest in libelling
the most injured and persecuted woman on earth
should be complained of, from far and near, from
night to morn, for a licentiousness of observation
which is indeed " unexampled," and which could
never revel in impunity as it does were the " legal
and constitutional liberty" of the country in those
protecting hands which would deal out equal justice
to the highest as well as lowest of his MAJESTY'S
subjects, and not suffer contemptible party and per-
sonal prejudices to interfere with the faithful admi-
nistration of high public duties.