Star. — London, England, 1816-08-24 00:00:00

- "1P • BUENOS 414 ES EXTRAORDINARY GAZETTE, - FRIDAY, MAY 94, 1816, IMPORTANT ACCOUNT'S FROM THE SQUADRON OF COMMODORE BROWN. " The approach of the 25th of this month nate: rally led us to anticipate some agreeable intelligence. It was a favourable omen ; for that day has already been accompanied by events favourable. to the cause of the country. The vanquisher& of the squadron of Montevideo (the news of which reached this capital about the 25th of May, 1814) have anew illustrated their name in the Pacific Ocean, by enterprises not* less important. “ On the 28th February there was published at ' Lima a letter addressed to the Viceroy of that place* by Don Juan Basco y Pasqua) ) . Governor of Guaya quil, dated the 10th of the same month. In this let. ter the 'Governor states, that by letters from the Judge of Puna, and the Commandant of the fort of Punta de Piedras, received on the. Bth, at half-past eleven at night, in which the former advised him of his having observed seven sail of what appeared enemy's vessels in the direction of the above place; and the latter gave him advice of two, which were the' oidy ones which had hitherto approached the Punta : that the guard-boats of La Puna were ink mediately dispatched with what appeared sufficient ammonition, and a garrison to defend the Fort; • but that, on the following day, the 9th, be had the mortification to see the said auxiliary force return, because the Fort had been already taken by the men who landed from the vessels, and which vessels were advancing with eztraordinary diligence towards the city. That accordingly, by ten in the morning, one • brig (the Trinidad) and a galliot had the temerity to lay themselves abreast of a battery of four guns, which had been hastily thrown up a mile and a half in advance of the Fort of Punta de Piedras; that at twelve on that day began a brisk fire, which lasted on both sides till two in the afternoon, and that the brig having run aground, in consequence of the sud den ebbing of the tide, it was compelled tostitrender. On board of it was our distinguished Commodore,' Brown, who, the Governor suits, from private in telligence which reached that Government three days before, had made his appearance of Callan, and , . with a view to this enterprise, had removed from his frigate to the brig. is During the action (these are his express words) a terrible fire was kept up on the batteries, many of the enema's balls reaching the extremity of the city, to the buildings of which some damage was dose." “ The letter states, that the squadron remained. at anchor in the roads of La Puna, consisting of two frigates or large corvettes of 24 guns each, two small schooners, one of which was the vessel-that approach ed the fort with the brig, and found means to escape; three captured vessels, viz. the Consequencia and Gobernadora, of Cadiz, and the Candelaria, of Val. petals*, together with two or three small vessels , more, which seemed to Lave been captured. The letter concludes with begging the iceroy to send him 50 quintals of gun-powder, of which be was much in want, in consequence of the supplies which were afforded to the army of Quito. The following is a list of the armed vessels dis patched from Lima to beat those of Buenos Ayres " The '(auk, of six Saar, Captain,Massehaca. " The Palafoz, of lii pa% Captain Sonia. " The Reyna de los Aside% of 20 guns. Captain Bandlul. " The Minerva, of IS pot, Captain Claudio Vila. " The Europa, of Mauna, Captain Lined°. Their crews amounted to 1038 men, and they mounted 128 pieces of artillery. Don Isidro Can. seiro was Commodore. ge From the Lima Gazette we learn the damage which our squadron had done at Callao, Guayaquil, and the intermediate ports. One of our corvettes had entered the• former poet, and after fiting more than 100 cannon shot, had sunk the Fuente Hermosa, which was there at anchor; and another vessel had nearly met a similar fate. This dash caused so much enassion at Callao, that they began to unload the ships Ithich were ready to depart for the Peninsula, . with much money, and other valuable articles; and so great was the precipitation, that many of the dol. • lira were scattered on the wharfs. ft The same Gazette states, that on our vessels leaving Callao, they took the brig Consequencia, of Cadiz, with more than 800,000 dollars, and after wards five other vessels ; all of which they armed and manned with many insurgents, whom they got from the neighbou ri ng ports. 'rhe number of prizes amounted to 50. es After this glorious career, tech plXce the affair at Guayaquil; but the people of that place were soliciting to exchange Commodore Brown for a new Governor, who was coming out to them, and, with some other persons of rank, was a prisoner In our squadron. - " Persons of credit assert, that the Lima arms- 1 meat has been destroyed by Brown's squadron, be. . came. besides the circumstance of no action h a ving been beard of for to long a tim e, eirniglrboth mutt have in all probability met, the Buenos Ayres ves sels bad returned upon the Coast of Chili. “ At the.departure of the express by which these accouatiwere received, two large vessels of Brown's squadron were blockading and threatening Valpa raiso, and two also Coquimbo: In consequence of • *es:events, all Chili was in contusion and alarm." The latest letters from Madrid, reaching down to the Sd of August, state that the Counsellor of State, i•aanszaw., who was lately Universal Minister of the Indies, and who bad a great share in recent Iniquities, has been banished from Court. General Awls*, charged with organizing the expeditions against America, has also been disgraced. •An iaganioas writer observes; as to Duelling, that none light with true spirit who an overloaded with cash and be gives this instance :Re-A man, who bad been fortunate at cards, was applied to, to act as a second in a duel, at a 0.654 vibes the seconds en. gazed as heartily as the principals. 8' I am not," Aid he, " die man for your purpose just at present, but go aad , apply to hint from whom I won a thou sand guineas • last night, and I warrant you ha will fight Like aay devil I " In corroboration of tbii Writer's sentiment, it has been remarked by some General Officers, that there have been most duels in' their regiments, whea the Officers' pay was in snub • STATlll.oo4o4ills • In our Palliated° of Fridayi the 16th , MB; muoicated extrsetstrout two Whirs from Cadet and Madrid,, statist; that the Padiots confined at Ceuta had best suddenly put on board a übcc, destined, it was supposed, to convey them to the desolatolsland of Cabrera, near Majorca. This intelligence is con firmed is mbetaace by a paragraph which we this day give from the French Papers, under the head of Madrid, and which mentions, in general terms, that 4 , the Under tonfmed at Ceuta had received another destilation, which war still nakertain."— The following is another Letter on the State of the Peninsula : RONDA, JULY 30. The machine must absolutely soon stand still : according to all appearances things cannot 1:4 1 0# a, therare. The- troops, naked and hungry, begin *ow to take an Retire part in the business, and raise their voice against 'the governing party. Officers and soldiers are constantly murmuring. thar.tbe King thinks of nothing but of fattening the Monks and .Canons like hogs, while the military am suffered to perish. Their clamours have reached - eves Ferdinand, and have occasioned sumach alarm, as to extort from him the following Royal Order, which has bees Cir culated among the corps of the army K The Secretary of State and Dispatches, and of Maria*, Ins aemmiated the King our Lard, that the department of 14434 it Ligament of the .Navy, Don Joie lAbradoress hell Peddled of hunger and confirmed want, sad also that the Captain Of* frigate, Dos Puke herein, dud another Oilker, have had gbe same fate • Moreover, that a ship Captain of the due, two of frigates ;Commissary, and many others of different ranks, were at the ;obit of death ; on which account he has set forth to the King, We vrifila of this unfortunate situation of the wad deserving. loyal, and worthy Whit:teals et the marine senile, was the inequality with which the small or large sums at. ihe disposal of the Royal Treastny have been partitiooed by the eistriboton of the said funds. And his Majesty's mind kw* been, to the highest degree, affected by the statements and reflec tions of his said Secretary, he has been pleased to direct that hie Royal Orders be rigorously observed,.. relative is the aridly of the pay of persons in the marine service with that of all other public dicers, in such manner that if to this mwitedous deli there can only be given ntotthly a half, a third, or a fourth of their pay, no other public °Seer shall absolutely receive mow, whether be belong to the Royal Exchequer, the Military service, the Civil's, Ecclesiastical. And this l communicate by Royal Order." Signed by the Sweeny of the Treasury. This, which it was thought would calm the troops,, has only exasperated them the more; for it has only served to declare to them their rights, without secur ing their being properly paid. Accordingly, the garrison of Malaga broke out into mutiny, and attacked the Bishop's palate, throwing stones at, and breaking the windows, Sm. Against the Bishop (Father Carted°, a famous comrade of Ostolaza is the Cones) they uttered dreadful threats; and shd affair would have had leffolll6 consequences had not some conciliatory persons interposed, and the Bishop brought forth a bag of dollars to pacify the mutineers. DUTCH MAIL. BRUSSELS. AUGUST IT. We expect that Field Marshal the Prince of Waterloo wit pass a part of the winter in this dlr. The fonikations on the southern frontiers we proms' cured with vigour t these between Maestricht and Namur will not be undertaken befog seaway. The French Government is not only increasi n g 61 National Army, but also the Swiss regiments in the French sers►ice are augmenting to their tull comple ment, as well as the several foreign regiments under the Prince of Hohenlohe. The strength of these corps is not fixed, but it seems that it is intended to make them as strong as possible. The body of this corps is formed Out of the skeletons of the four German regiments which formerly served under Bonrparte. For some time past there has been some desertions from several corps of our Army, and it appears that many deserters have taken refuge on the French tvr ritory. A few days ago a man was taken at Ath who wanted to seduce some soldiers. HAGUE, AUGUST re. After the Second Chamber had deliberated today till two o'clock, with closed doors, a message from his Majesty was read in the public sitting, accompa-1 stied by a new Project of Law respecting the plan to be introduced for the indirect contributions, in which his Majesty announces that he has maturely consi dered all the objections of their High Mightinesses ; and has, for the most part, endeavoured to meet them. As for the objections made by some of the Provi sional Assemblies, his Majesty says that this must have happened from a misconception of the (soda mental law, because the branch of taxes belongs ex clusively to the King and the States-Clenefal, and is entirely out of the resort et the Provisional SUNS. The President hoped, that in a fortnight he should be able to bring ups general mid final Report, it' being settled that the deliberations should commence the day after the Report was broug ht up. The Pro ject of Law respecting the p ngs when MI Ad dress of congratulation is to be presented to the Sing, was approved by a majority of 70 votes to 13. ' HAGUE, AUGUST se. -A report having been circulated, by several News : , papers, that a great many foreign Officers Obis had ' latcly emigrated to the United States of North America, - tad been placed in the military service of that country, we have received trim an authentic source a request seriously to contradict this error, and to add, for the hem* sof all such as may bo in•- terested in it, that not one of the above-mentioned foreign officers has obtained any ;Lind of situation in the American service,. and all vacancies that may happen will be filled by natives of she cowry, and ' probably by officers lately discharged. STOCKHOLM, AUGUST I.' His Royal Highness the ClVin Pine left this . city on the 3d, to proceed to the southern provinces of the kingdom. Since the V& of las month we have bad almost daily rain. ittiantatnt., AUG*T to. The Crown Prince of Sweden and Prism Omar have left Anmboa to visit Calumny &c. • HANOVER, AUGUST IS. The day before yesterday the . Prussiaul . Alllbassa; dor, Baron Grote, arrived hem On the 9th wa.had a dreadful storm in this neighbotubood. Tire light ning ark a solitary house la the countrt in weal places the roof took fire t a ion of the family was struck, and remained lune • for some lime; dangly* lost for a time light, speech: eat britiqk ;The *Wes fell in many ether plane. • • LONDON. Airnioinsig, lea iv. will appear on Tuesday netts SATURDAY, AUGUST 24. 18 1 6. ST. naaTIOLONIEW.....adieIy ate Bank Ezabeiser, 11114 South-lea m Private Bargalaao—Cous. for ace. iraf co—Rowed toll. Nothing can be more natural, under the present distressed circumstances in which the country finds itself, than that every person, except the receivers, should cry out for economy and retrenchment ; nor could any conduct be more prudent or salutary on the part of Ministers than to meet the wishes—nay, *the necessities of the Empire, by the suppression of every useless, not to say injorions kind of expeoditore. Our Readers will recollect that, towards the close of last Session of Parliament, a Treasury Committee was appointed to examine whether any or what retrench ments could be effected ? We are sow told that Ministers hive not since been idle, but have been,' is 'without noise, clamour, or boasting," adopting a regular system of retrenchment, of which the follow ing is given as evidence: Thy have already, since th. adjournment et Masson, out do cod the army ten thousand men. The Ordnance expenditure larednoml from four anoint° one- The Commissariat Department is estreenely reduced. is the Barrack Department two of tie emendesieners have been Mead, and the abet part et the Istabiblunent hat been also reduced. The Transport Department is entirety abolished. The Cannella. :ha Establishment has ban reduced. About eau-third of the inspectors-Gummi, Inspectors, Ind Serveyers et Taxes, are to be iodated. Ile Wootintris tbm. • are tab, Mood from five to The Medical Board Is to hir reduced to ties Masher. The Land:lie Registry Oise Is to be reduced. And Investigations for the purpose of other reductions see stir la% on. But are these Retrenchments ?" What Ministry in i os time of Pears could continue all the Offices and Appointments of a dais of Warfare When any per ms employs an arthitect, masons, and labouren, to paU down or to build a house for him, he pays them their wages, and, when the work is finished, be sends them about their business. Were these people to tell him that, having once needed them and employed them, he must continue to pay these, though he can not give them employment ; and were he to submit to the imposition, it would furnish a good ground for the Heir at Law to pray that a Statute of Lunacy might be issued against him. The greater part of the foregoing items are precisely of the same descrip, don. The Offices naturally dropped of themselves. To say they bare ceased, is only to tell us, in other - words, that war has ceased—that we are now.in a state of peace. Had such a list of savings originated in an Op position print we should have considered it as a hoax, but to see it gravely brought forward as a matter of praise really surprises us. We shall only add, zeal manifested in this way is, to say the least of it, very injudicious. These cannot be the objects to which the Committee alluded to have turned their attention ; and the public may look with confidence to more important labours from that body. The cry of the public aims at the reduction, not of expenses which naturally cease of themselves with a change of circumstances—the public are not so stupid—but at the reduction of sinecures and ex cessive salaries, which existed before the war, were created during the war, and some of which are at tempted to be grafted even with the peace: Ministers know this. To these have they directed their atten tion ? If they have not, it is time they should ; for the Nation is impatient of taxation for such unreasonable expenditure, at a period too when the neceuary ex penses of the Government press with such unexampled severity upon all the industrious classes of the com munity. We have received the Paris Papers of Wednesday. They inform us that another mock trial has taken place at Paris. The two brothers LALLEUAND, who plotted the seizure of the magazines at Laon for Bo- MAPARTL in March, 1815, have been condemned to death. They are safe in America. We are almost leaked to think that these trials are not held for the ends of justice, but to swell the fees of her Ministers : PMUS, AUGUST 21: The latest intelligence from Contantinople is dated July 10, and states, that three of the six Corsairs which escaped from Tunis at the time of the late in surrection, and which spread alarm throughout the Archipelago and Mediterranean, have been taken. Two' ere taken near St. Jean d'Acre, and the third in the port of Modan, in the Morea. • The crew of *the first two, consisting of about 400 men, saved themselves in the interior of the country around Da. mascus, either with a view to offer their services to the Pasha, or to join a troop of brigands who infest those coubthei. A fourth pirate vessel is watching the trade of,Smyrna and Mitylene. The French fri gate which took the Ambassador to Constantinople was waiting for orders to cruise against the pirates; but by the last intelligence ftom Smyrna, it appears the Pirates are friendly to French commerce. At the distribution of the prises of the Acute:4, on Monday, the beautiftil English Anthem of " GOD save the Ur was struck up by the orches t ra; but before the first verse was finished, some young I?reneh ,4lNa interrupted it t by shouting-. 4 .! A French tuts a , trench air 1" and "le admire their loyalty, " lV loyalty . : but wa I i n -t aiied rl m lei r itrell : . Yesterday the SeconJ Council of w.. ,-. ( , . .; to dud) the elder Lallemand for 'he ttea,wr of 1815. The younger brother - will be tried to m .,, t 7 ,, Both hovel:ld to America. Yesterday his Royal Highness Monsieur a, the village of Petit Bercy, and a itnessed the 'of a One new steatn-boat. She w.ts Charles Phillip, is 190 feet long, and 120 burden, and drasis only 28 inches of water. CODDUK MAAGAMNARY ON WEDNESDAY MORNING Lord Wellington arrived yesterday aftetncyl at ha hotel fel des Champs Elysees. His Excellency the Wirshal Duke of Feltre, ster of War, has given orders th4t the King's Bla b : day :ball be celebrated in all the :Whiny divi.ame with the greatest solemnity: three salvoes of arti;:tty 'will be fired, and an extraordinary ration of p tov i. sions and brandy will be given to the soldiery. Ten Members of the Spanish Cortes, detainecl at Ceuta, have been taken from the [Nihon and tt4. 14 . (erred on board a xebec, which was to convey e val to an island, which is not inhabited, in the hood of Majorca. We,learn from Chalons, that the regim.mt ()fit Meuse, and the regiment of cbasseurs vf the ?,1 1 , 1 ., in garrison at Verdun, have remitted a sum . ofi , :• k b francs to the Mayor of Verdun, in o•d,-e week before, and a week after the King', brt, • bread may be distributed to the poor at a to PRIVATE LETTER. M PARIS, AOGIIIT • lc Three days ago the police did not allow entitles:at of the day to be sent by the post country. This is a common way of pesi k hi nB newspaper which inserts articles displeasing to au . thority ; but besides, in this instance, they h oe at . tempted to levy a floe, or at least to make the paper pay 10,000 francs The proprietor, 11. W. chaud, who is a Member of the House of Deputies, refuses to submit to this exaction : he tells them, that be recognizes their power of suppressing his journal if they please, but he denies their having uy right to extort money from him : he says, with troth, that if he pays this sum , to-day, there is •no reasos why, for same pretended fault, 100,000 francs should not be demanded to-morrow, in the same arbitrary manner. It is supposed that this matter will be brought, in some shape, before the House of Depth. ties when they meet. 84 The time of convoking the Houses is not yet fixed. It is by no means proved to me, that Ministers know themselves how they shall try to resist or avo'.4 the shock that awaits them : they seem, ltowever, fully to feel that when once the House meets, t1...1 cannot long stand against it ; and the state cf tise finances it etch, that they w:ll never dare to brave the responsibility they would incur if they wet acts to con yoke it. Carrot's brother has been taken up. It is sail, that be is accused of distributing Fond:4's letter. "M. de Thiars, who has been in pi icon ever since she affair of the patriots of 1816, has not been al lowed to see any body for some time past." A Dutch Mail arrived last night. They present a grave statement, contradicting a report that several foreign Officers, who lately emigrated from Europr, had been received into the Ametican service—Act, a report needed no contradiction. There is not a more confident man in existence at the present moment, than An American Admiral and an American General. All the aspirations of an infant and prosperous crte try favours this presumptuous feeling. It is the g , .- nuine and gcntrnus ambition of youth, before its spirit has been chilled by corruption, or its etterg;il paralyzed by the decrepitude of: old age. Ai.r4lic.l is now Hercules in his cradle. The old arctic:Aim-3 of the French Revolution cannot assist his growth. and are too late to facilitate his birth. In fact, there is not now a Naval or Military Officer in the United States who does not think he could act his part as well as any European Admiral or General of them* all, and who would not think hirpsell very ill used any foreigner, however t Teat his fame in arms, w.ts put over his head. We have received Norfolk Papers to the 22.1 a duly. From the American Beacon of July 20 :-- INDIANA STATE. Loinsvar.s, Jus.ir S. We are happy to learn that the Indiana Conarrainn have agreed to accept the terms offered by Con dress, by a vote of 97 to 4 Tkey have fixed the gener:►l election fur the Officers of the New State 0,1 the Etst Monday in August next, and the seat of Goserrinamt at Croydon (about t?.; pleasant miles from this place) for nine years, by a majority of one vote. 'DAT closed their patriotic lAm:us on Saturday laxt. by agreeing to the Constitution of Government ('r $ a New state, whose denomination is the 'State WES f.INDIA PAPERS. These Papers confirm the entire suppressinn of t! Negro insurgents at Barbadoes. Business ROftellftsi to be very brisk in all the islands. The Proclp.r, ~ tions and Bulletins of General Bolivar are stated ? , y Don Zovar, the Commissioner of the Indepm !tr , to have been transmitted to the British Author that Great .Britain might by her power assist if e cause of the virtuous Republican's of South A met icv. The ides of an early disiolution of rarFament is rewind in some of the Newspapers received morning• . The 51st ut Chicheste The Com been pleased f r om the 65 capture of ( Regiment, t i ne o f the discipline at e a r i m o eTh n ebu s a brefkYrciepc from ham, where Colonel to have the lhat are no , Wished in some time s Yesprda Farce of I Windsor T the Foot G Windsor 9 party of th WINO oi •roL1) went make his el fru. H. HA his Royal morning tl ter went to Duchess of The Pm that his Ri day, and It claret by i the .Repori The pre of the Pun completed, tics left Cs and Serene delightful INCLEIX at Winds° The Du e i ther on f of his Ro3 Mr. W! City of N direr to hl ef 0) A LES most grac Sir WE for Peters accompan the itussi