Star.
London, England, 1816-04-23 00:00:00

TIW'EVENING STAR.

LONDON.
TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1816.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK:
Reduced 601 1 —Cons. tno. 6lH—for ccc. 6214
4 per Cent. 754-5 per Cent. 911—Bonds 56. 6s. pr.
Oum. for Rodenip. 16fi—Excb. Bills 4s. 6s. pr.

As a preliminary to the trial of Sir R. Wascuto
end Messrs. Bnocz and Hoyentrisou, we insert in
our columns, this day, the interrogatories of the pri-
soners and their answers, before the Commissioners
of Police. It is not denied, nor attempted to be de•
nied, that the escape of LA-v4Larre from France was
effected by their efforts ; but there is not the sliglAest
evidence, nor can any person, by the greatest inge'
rarity, draw from the examination an inference that
they had an) concern with his escape from prison, or
any previous knowledge that such an event was even
in contemplation, This circumstance destroys en-
tirely the connection attempted to be established be-
tween the political sentiments of Sir ROBERT and tie
escape of the convict from prison ; and, of course,
every iiference bwlt on the idea of a conspiracy to
overturn the Government.

Sir ROBERT admits that theist might have been
some indiscretion in his expression of his sentiments ;
and it is equally plain, from some of the letters, twit
from his answers, that, involved in a vortex of con.
tradictory rumours, he had given some of them rathv
a hasty credence,—and especially such of them as
painted to results favourable to his views of what
might be desirable. But in all this there is no
grounds whatever to implicate him in the plot against
the Bourbons. In one word, Sir Roster seems to
have been as free in expressing his sentiments in his
correspondence with his friends, as he would have
been in an English Coffee-house; but, on the other
hand, they were colfidentiel, and have only been male
public by the French Government itself.
Mr. Maven's examinations require no comment.
He acted from a conviction that honour would ap-
prove of his conduct, and was not connected with any
plot ag.iinst the Government.—We shall give Mr.
HUlCHiti4oN's examination to-morrow.

We have received the Paris Papers of Saturday.
Oa Friday the Chamber of I)epoties beard read to
them a Project of a Law for bettering the condition
and securing the incomes of the French Clergy.--
The Bsrbary Corsairs have recently effected a land-
ing in Sardinia, and carried off 88 men, women and
children, into captivity. Perhaps this atrocity will be
attended ultimately with good effects: it will in all
probability spur on the Powers of Europe to some-
thing like an efficient coalition against these ma-
rauders. A few European, and of course Christian,
Colonies, settled along the African shores of the Me-
literranean, under the protection of a British forri:,

would do mßch more for the civilization of the i.

nor of Africa, than twenty Expeditions to the West-
ern Coast.

COURIER EXTRAORDINARY OF SATCRDAT UORNING.

Yesterday, at eleven a. m. his Majesty received a
Deputation'from the Department of the Marne. A
Member of the Chamber of Peers and four Members,
of the Chamber of Deputies were among them.
Yesterday the Dukes of "Angouleme and Berri
visited the Depot de la Guerre rue de I'Universite.
The Deputation of the Chamber of Deputies,
charged to present to his Majesty the project of a
Law on the Budget, was admitted to the King yea-
terday at eight o'clock.
General Travot arrived on the llth instant at the
Castle of Ham, department of the Somme, and was
immediately given up to the Commandant of the
Chateau.

An Ordonnance of the King, dated' April 11th.
bears, that the conclusions presented in the Report of
the Commission created July 16th. 1815, relative to
the Duke of Gaeta and Count Mollier, are adapted•
In consequence there will be no law suit against
them, on account' of the operation ordered by the
Act of the 16th May, 1815. The Act paned by the
Treasury with the House of Perregaux and Laßtte
on the 3d of July, 1815, as well as the deposit cf
1,500,000 francs of stock made in the Bank on 27th
May, 1815, are approved of.
The King and Princes on the 3d of May will heal
a general review of the King's Household and al!
the Royal Guards.