Star.
London, England, 1818-07-20 00:00:00

FROM SATURD.IY NIGHT'oS GAZETTE.

BIILITAItY PROMOTIONS. •
WAR-OFFICE, JUIA 18, 1818.
Baaval.—To have the Rank of pr, ou the Cuadra:ix o>!
Eurcne only :
Captain the llon. Augustus Curzon, 24th Light Dragoons.
Captain Sir Archibald J. Murray, Batt. 5d Foot Guards.
Commissions signed by the Vice Lieutenant of the County of
Sussex:
Sussex 'Militia—Lieutenant Charles Brown, half-pay gath Regi-
ment, to be Ensign.
Western Regiment of Sussex Local Militia—The Right
Henry Hall. Viscount Gage, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice
Goble, deceased.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERStDE'D.
James Brown, formerly of Cock-Hill, R4e146-Hlghway, COW
a prisoner in the King's Bench, slopseller.
BANKRUPTS.
•

Jeremiah Clerk Clegg, late of Manchester,
dealer and chapman, (a prisoner in Lancaster Castle,) to au:-
render July 31, August 1, and 29, at ten, at the Bridgewater'
Arms Inn, Manchester. Attornies, Messrs. Hurd and John-
son, Temple, London ; or Mr. Geofte Hadfield, Manchester.
Samuel Taylor, of Liverpool, chymist and druggist,- August 7,
la, and 19, at one, at the Gorge Ino, Dale-stract, Liverpool.
Attornies, Mr. James Murrow, Liverpool ; or Messrs. Black-
stock and liunce, King's Bench-Walk, Temple.
William Lippeat, Kaman, parish of C.unerton, Sonterset,
tallow-6a idler, dealer and Chapman, July 29, 20; and August
29, at one, at the Full Moon Inn and Tavern, Old Bridge,
Bath. Attornies, Mr. Highrnoor, Scott's-Yard, Landon ; or
Mr. Hodgson, Westgate-Buildings, Bath.
Robert Cunlirfe, of Astley, Lancashire, shopkeeper. August 10,
at five, 11, at tan, and 29, at twelve, at the Ragle and Child
Inn, Wigan. Attorney. Mr. Henry Oaskall, Wigan. •
Thomas West, of Manchester, joiner and builder, August 3,4,
end 29, at ten, at the Spread Kap Inn, Manchester. Anor-
aks, Meows. Appleby and Sergeant, Gray's-Inn. Lead= ;or
Messrs. Clerk. and Whitehead, Manchester.
p ukal Dawson, of Wetherby, Yorkshire, ienkeepir, dealer
and chapman, August 5, at the Sessions HOW.. Leeds, 22,
and 29, at the Angel Inn, Wetherby. Anoraks, Mr. Lake, 4,
Dowgste Hill, London; or Mr. Granger. Leeds.
Morwele Baron, late of Coleford, Gloucestershire, scrivener,
. dealer and chapman, August 3,4, and 29, at twelve, at the
Rummer Tavern, Bristol. Attorneys, Mr. C. 11. Walker.
Bristol; or blesses. Adlington and Gregory, Bedford-row.
James Ford, of Bidborough-street, Burton-Crement, Middlesex,
builder, merchant, dealer and chapman, July 21, August 1, std
, 29, at one, :4 Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Henry Cope, Wilson-
meet, Grails-Ina-lane.
Samuel Allen Wheeler, of Birmingham, factor, merchant, dealer
_and chapman, July 30,51, and August 29, at four, at tlie
Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Anoraks, Mr. William Tooker,
5, Holborn-court, Gray's-Ina, Londob ;or Mr. G. bluish,
Temple-row, Birmingham.
John Ashworth, of Manchester, grocer, August 3,4, and 29,4
two, at the George Inn, Manchester. .tttoiney, Mr. P. R.
Atkinson, Manchester; or Mr. Makinson, Temple.
Thomas Philipps, late a Baking, Pembrokeshire, merchant,
July 24, fa, and August 29, at roe, at the Castle Inn, Haver-
fordwest. Attorney, Mr. Charles Harris, Haveriotaavim ; or
Mears. Slade and Jones, Gray's-Inn.
Jonathan Watcham Pearson, now or late of Great Marlborough.
street, Middlesex, dentist, dealer and chapman. Jury 21, 28,
and August 29, at ten, at Guildhall. Attornies, Messrs. Davks
and Son, Lothbuy.
John Jones, of Cambridge, cabinet-maker and upholsterer, Au-
...gust 17, 18, and 29, at eleven, at the Red Lion Inn, Cam-
bridge. •Attoraies, Mr. George Pe .. cha, Cambridge; or
Mew's. Toone and Afill, 50, Bedford-row,

THE EVENING STAR

LONDON.

MONDAY, JULY 20, 1818.
THE FUNDS.
PRICE Of STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK :
Reduced 780—Cons.77a—for Opge 79ti
Si per Cents. 881-1. per Cent. 97* 9$
Navy 1061i—India Bonds 94 96 prem.
Omnium par, dis.—Exchequer Bills 19 21 pr.

The Paris Papers of the 16th and 17th have ar-
rived since our last, and their contents are more than
usually important.
The secrecy which has been so studiously observed
by the French journals respecting the late conspiracy,
is at length broken. The actual existence of the
conspiracy, and the arrest of certain individuals as
cmcerned in it, arc now facts admitted, and admit-
ted of course under the sanction of the Government
itself, without whose assent no such admission could
appear.
Among the subjoined extracts our Readers will
find a demi-official article on the subject, which,
though somewhat vague in its terms, is yet suffi•
ciently clear to leave no doubt as to the general
accuracy of the rumours which have been afloat.
The explosion of the plot appears to have taken
place on the 2d instant, when warrants of ar::•st
were issued against General CANUEL, Major-Gene-
val CHAPDELAINE, SONGY, a Staff °film, Ro-
latr.mr, a Chief of Battalion, and some valets ;
and it was, on the same day, (as our Readers will
find on referring to the Swot of the Gth), that our
Private Correspondent at Paris wrote to us, commu-
nicating the first accurate intelligence which was re-
ceived, and published in England of this event. The
Paris Journalists, or rather the French Ministers who'
dictate to them, agreein their estimate of the pleit,with
the sentiments which have been almost universally
expressed here on the subject—they state it to be an
affair which dt appears as hateful in itself as it was
ridiculous inits object and means of accomplishment."
The Duc di !tacos/. has published a letter to the
Duc de IticncLixe, wherein he strongly reprobates
the conduct of those functionaries at Lyons, against
whom many of his own measures in the administra-
;ion of his extraordinary mission were directed, and
explicitly" guarantees the truth of every assertion
- made by Colonel Faavixa, in which General CA-
` swat, and others of the same political pa,rty were im-
plicated. The Duc de RAGUSA demands a strict in-
vestigation into the whole case.
PARIS, JULY 16.

A process has been going on during the lust ten
or twelve days agaihst the Sicurs Chapdelaine, a re-
tired Major-General ; Songy, formerly a Stag-Offi-
cer; Romilly, a Chief of Battalion; and one Joannis,
who were arrested on the 2d inst. by order of the
Juge d'iustruction. /Codling has transpired as to

the tesult of an'.iffair which appears as hateful in it-
self as it is: ridiculous in its object and means of ac-

complishment. It is stated, that
Canuel, against whom an order had been issued, has
not again made his appearance at home since the
above parties were taken up: and the Officers of Jus-
tice, on repairing to his house, placed a seal upon,
the papers he left behind him. Several witnesses
have been examined. Nothing can better prove the
'little importance which is attached to this affair, or
rather the little fear which has been created by the
presumed authors of a plot as ridiculous as criminal,
who we suppose to be now pursued by the vigilance
of Justice, than the progressive rise of the Public
Funds, which were to-day at '7B francs.
An error was committed in most of the public Jour-
nals of the 25th of June last, in'the inseition of a no.
tice relative to the oppositions to be entered against
the claims of the subjects of foreign Government&
The delay of one month granted for the declaration
of the grounds of opposition, was stated as expiring
on the 9th of July ; but this term only applies to the
claims included in the special Convention concluded
on the c2.sth April, between France and Great Bri-
tain. In consequence, all persons who have pro-
tests or declarations to make against the claims of
.the subjects of all the Governments mentioned in the
`7th article of the Convention, concluded on the same
day between France, Austria, Great Britain, Prussia,
and Russia, will continue to apply to the Secretary
of the Commission, Rue du Bac, No. 88, every day
from ten until 'three. Notice will be given of the
period wised the delay fixed by the 9th article of the
same Convention will expire.
The Duke of Wellington left Paris yesterday mor-
ning at six o'clock.
Yesterday Count de Forbin, Director of the Mu-
seum, had a private audience of the King upon his
return from the Levant.
The Court will go into mourning, on Friday nest,
for twenty-one days, in consequence of the decease
of her Majesty the Queen Dowager of Sweden and
Norway—full mourning for the first eleven days, and
half mourning for the rest.
M. de la Ferte, Intendant-General of the Kiag's
Privy Purse, arrived in Paris on the 13th instant. It
will be recollected, that he was commissioned by the
First Lord of the Bedchamber to present to his Royal
Highness the Prince Regent of England the full-length
portrait of his Majesty Louis XVIII. The Prince Re-
gent received this fine present with the most pro-
found sensibility, and expressed his satisfaction to M.
de la Ferte in the most flatering terms.

PARIS, JULY te.
The public attention continues much occupied with
the arrest of Chapdelaine and his associates. A great
number of witnesses have been examined, and ac-
cording to what is reported of the questions which
have been addressed to them, the examination re-
lates to certain projects. so criminal, and at the same
time so insensate, that the execution of them would
have been as impossible as the thought of them is re-
volting.--Journa/ des Maires.
FRENCH FirNns, JULY 16.—Five per Cents. 77f. 30c.
Bank Stock, 1635 f.
FROM TIIE FRENCH FUONTIERS, JULY s.

At the Head-quarters of the Army of Occupation
a report is current that the Emperors of Austria and
Russia and the King of Prussia will go from Aix-la-
Chapelle to Paris, in case the result of their meeting
should be in favour of withdrawing the Army ; and
that they will afterwards review their respective con-
tingents, which will then immediately commence
their march home. The Austrians, it is added, will
march through the Bresgau, the Prussians through
the Grand Duchk of Luxembourg ; the Russian
troops expect to be embarked ; the Saxons will
march by the shortest way to the Rhine, and the
Danes through the Netherlands to their own country.

A Hambnrgh Mail arrived this forenoon, with
Papers to the 14th instant.
The only interesting article of intelligence they
contain, is an announcement of the return of the
Emperor ALEKANDEn to St. Petcrsburgh, on the '29th
ult. accompanied with the particulars of a remarkable
Ukase which he has just issued, which shows that his
Majesty has not been an indifferent observer of the
condition of those of his subjects among whom he
has been travelling.
The introduction to this Ukase states, that his Ma,
jesty had been informed that the peasants on some
estates of the Nobility in the circle of Mosirsk int in
extreme indigence, and suffered from actual famine
in 1817—and that his Majesty bad therefore ordered
an inquiry on the subject to be instituted en the spot.
From this enquiry it appeared that the peasants,
on some estates, have greatly suffered by failure of
the crops, by loss of cattle, by want of horses for
husbandry, and other misfortunes ; so that they had
been driven to the necessity of mixing beans, straw,
and leaves of the lime•tree with their bread; that
the Land-owners not only shewed little regard to
their wretched condition, but oppressed them by ex-
treme labour, and by various acts of injustice—
not allowing them time to cultivate their own land ;
requiring from them far more hemp and tow than
the raw material given them would produce; forbid-
ding them to grind their own corn, to sell their own
produce at pleasure, or making them pay for per-
mission to do so; obliging them to take much more
salt from the owners of the estates than they wanted,
and at a far higher price than they might have ob-
tained it elsewhere. The Ukase proceeds to state,
that the necessary measures have already been taken
to prevent such oppressive proceedings in future;
and that the Magistrates have been instructed.-.first,
If in the village of any Land-owner or Crown Tenant

these is not sufficient corn for clic support of die
peasants for the year and for seed, the landowner and
crown tenant (arrendators) shall supp'y the peasants
with corn from their own inagazines, or if they have
none, shall purchase it. 2dly, If a peasant has no
cattle, the landowner shall have his ground tilled,
and let this work be done by all the peasants, de-
ducting this work from the days they have to work
for the landowners. If the landowners shall be found
negligent in providing the peasants vith corn, the
estates shall be taken from them, and placed under
the administration of the GGvernment.

The Ukase, besides these, cciatains numerous other
humane regulations for the protection of the Peasmas
from oppression, and adds another to the many
proofs already given of the benevolent and paternal
views by which the whole domestic pc:icy of th
enlightened Prince is directed.

' A Flanders Mail arrived last night, and one from
Holland this morning. The Cnowx PRINCE of BA-
VARIA has, by a solemn Act, declared his accession
to the Representative Constitution established by his
father.—The Emperor FRANCIS has, on the repre-
sentation of the Aulic Council, abolished all the re-
strictions that existed in the old Atisttian Provinces
relative to the exportation of corn.

In another column our Readers will find an inte-
resting Report of the proceedings of a General Con-
vention of Representatives from the Royal Burghs
of Scotland, assembled at Edinburgh on the 15th
Instant. The Convention, it may be necessary to
inform our English Readers, is a legally re:ognized
body, of great antiquity, and has been at diffezent
times, as it is now likely again to be, of very consi-
derable utility. The question which was at issue
before it at this last meeting resolved itself virtually
into tlds—Whether the Convention has the power of
itself to alter, amend, and reform the Constitution
of any Burgh, upon cause shewn by any number of
the Burgesses—or whether such alteration and re-
form can only be effected as was done in the late case
of the Burgh of Montrose, by the authority of the
King and Council? According as this question is
determined depends. the important consequence,
' whether the reform for which so many of the Burghs
of Scotland have forsome time past been contending
shall be effected through the medium of Representa-
tives from the. Burghs themselves, when there is
every reason to Lklieve the reform would he as speedy
as'it would be general? or whether reform shall only
be obtained through the medium of the Crown, which
is at all times naturally, and we may even add, con-
stitutionally opposed to every thing in the shape
of innovation. The decision of the Convention
is, that they have the right—but only when all
parties interested apply to them to exercise it.—
Even this, however, is a great deal—it establishes
a principle which we feel entitled to congratulate the
people of Scotland upon, since, if we are correctly
informed, there pre nearly one half of the Burghs in
which the People are unanimously agreed in solicit-
ing an entire revision of the ruinous.sy stem of muni-
cipal government by which they arc at present en-
thralled.

The report of the QUEE:t yesterday Was, " Tier
MAJESTY has had a tolerable night, and is better.this
morning."
Friday the Duke and Duchess of CLAnENct I,nd
their first dinner party, which consi•ted of the Du-
chess of MEININOSE ani suite, Sir Jolts and Lady

NAVAL INTErzroshtz

FALMOUTH. JULY

Wind variable from N. to s.—Sided the Daktd
Kest packet, with a mail lot Lisbon.

PORTSMOUTH. JULY It
Wind S. E.--Yesterday arrived the Corn
Mena-N. from Falmouth for Losiko. Wad ikt
Lord M Aga axe, MOPWA TT, for Cork ; and Coaprmta
gun brig, for Jamaica. And to-day arrived the sco"
gun brig from the Eastward, and anchored a' Sota
Lead Sailed bis Maje,:ty's ship LivErtfoor„, for ifie
Ea -A-Indies ; Proselyte, BARTON, for Madei,a asa
Bat bndoes; Old Friend, —, for the Coast of M.
rica ; Resburce, —,for Memel ;
'Mflerls CX1771,
for the Brazils ; and General btewart, traAsoatifcr
New South Wales.