Star. — London, England, 1816-01-06 00:00:00

SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1316. EPirmANT.—Holiday at the Bank. eve ry thing that concerns the United States is l ig to this country, we have devoted a large of our columns this day to the American evident that the war, had it been American patriots, could have had a national bankruptcy. Let us l uired that poition of knowledge them hesitate and reason a little hurry their country into a fresh Jed our extracts from the French (dress of the Chamber of Deputies, of the Kpro, deserve notice, as on the state of parties :—" We Deputies, " and are I:re/raring for " They are supposxl to have mnesty. His MAJESTY replied— le of prepAring a liappi•er year, to commence will open with a :ussion. I have made known to my intention. I rely with en- the devotion and the z.:al ot the Deputies to second the deaiest ot my . touring the tranquit.'ity of France."— oppobition betwven the address and tlie inferred that the KING has decided to itutionniists, against the party extended the exceptions and the punish the Amnesty. It is impos:iiile : this may lead. The discussion next Tuesday. las.. nig!lt we received Brussels instant. An artid• irons Vienna important points reuiiin to be dis lele" which - is ablut to be 3SSCM• Denmark is ...till in expectation for Norway. Several of the in• Germany are in a similar situation. Hasse continues to be.tr that :ding to the new organization of ippressed. It is supposed from this, future to be considered as a Ger rights of the Hanseatic Cities also exactly defined. All these essen- must be necessarily discussed at Frankfort the Luis of the Coniederation can be laid &stub Ura-?e contradict s altogether the late L&VALZTTE having arrived at, or passed I llbat city," We expressed (says the jour , muse doubts concerning the arrival of M. 1.41- 71 bete, his conference with a General, and panure for Germany ; the whole story was, in I report void of all foundation." Fording to the last Accounts the head-quarters allied troops in France were Bully arranged ciws:—The English at Cambray, the Russian übeuge, the Aubtrian at Colmar, the Bavarian /IC)) the Wirtemberg at Wessemberg, the hUb• eubably between Maubeuge and Nancy. ived in town yesterday morning Bengal, Isle of France, Cape it. Helena. • at the Admiralty yesterday, for men and Marines as out-pen- Hospital. The days of exa . hitherto been held every week, geld tke first and third Thursdays Charleston, November 25, says— the Spatish schooner -Apodaca coast of Africa, with a cargo lack, as two Greenwich coaches were other,'opyoa:te to the Horse Guards, coming off, the coach was overturned: igers were severely bituisecis PREP/CY PAPERS. PARIS, JANUARY t. d imity the Grand Deputation from The Chant- o f peers were admitted to present their homage the CICEton of the New Year. The Deputation oceeducted to the Royal Presence in the usual iv the Chancellor addressed his Majesty in these soi• Peers df France are the elders of the great fa- efe bidi year Majesty is the father: when year c hild ren delkodeee around the Throne, to ray you the homage wood respect, and of their anxious wishes, we glory die list to fulfil this pious duty. We are rejoiced to se tee woo this year, too loot by a hundred days ; but , sr rbe eons Mg bore, that the year which b on the eve will be mo l e happy. France, saved by the wisdom t o owns of her Xing, has now only to understand herself bh hwieficeoce. The Chamber of Peers will ever set 'V e nple of unbodun ed gratitudeOuve, and confidence, and it that It will merit unbounded happiness. 4 he President of the Chamber of Deputies expres- biased to the following effect : ens—Yoar faithful subjects, th em e Chamber of Deputies, an d ro ze it f l or you a ham year. ie g was the King's answer to the Peers: n aive !heals:trance of the sentiments of the Chamber of ire r eferee planar* and sensibility, because they give d ay!* * rich of them.* o t he Deputies he said, /deep receive with pleasure the assurance of the send- the cumber of Deputies. You bid me prepare my- r• i hwpier year. That which is about to commence will n u veryimportant discussion. I have made known my ions to you through my Ministers. I rely with entire con- e 00 the &gin and seal of the Chamber of Deputies to l i m y devil wishes for securing the repose of France." • PARIS, JANUARY st. is rid that the King has just withdrawn his cre- . ;a s from the Puke of Otranto, Minister of co at Dresden, and forbidden hin: to return to ce TIIE EVENING STAR. LONDON. at our coin It is now • in by the A issue than • that they acqui may make do they again hi have continue< The Addre • Answer of •,. some light • au," say the I 'Uplift,. year." , to thE Am! speak to me inch is about ti imponaindiscu! •y my klisters %Meats on 11l ber of Depune - that of auuri the opposition it is inferred t the Constit • has extended embraced la t 'ciliate to what ommence next a late hour 1, • s tethe 3d in , that many im, • dt the Congm • t Frankfort. iodemnitt fo States of Geri e Electo r o f which, accordi aoy, is suppres pretends in ft .. The ris from being ea , MI must be n 1 tut BYAM arriv ispatches from Hope, and SI card was held a • ion of Seas of Greenwich , which have uture to be helc I month. tier, dated Cha e 9.11 instant, t here from the ( slaves!" morning; at ten c id driving past each 1 of one of them e, air of the ?Mali .. . FRENCH PROTESTANTS. Ina *ruing Paper * of this day we find tile sub joined letter from the Duke of WILLINOTON, said to have been addressed to the Secretaries of the 44 testant Society for the Protection of Religions Li-I berry." In the paper alluded. to, the letter is pre. faced by a philippic against those who have exerted themselves in this country in behalf of the per:tented. They are charged (or some of them) with suppress-' iug facts ; and with having ascribed. to religious ani mosities, evils resulting only from political dissen-, tions : and this letter is produced in evidence. LI any unprejudiced sober person read this letter, whatever be the motive that dictated it, we defy hins tr, draw any other conclusion from tie letter, .but a confirmation that the Pro testants have been persecuted a: Protestants. le It is natural that there should be violent contests in a country in which the people are divided not only by a difference of religious, but of political opinion," but it is not natural, as asserted by the Duke, or true, for we know not which he means, owing to the sin gular construction of the sentence—" that the religion of every individual is in general the sigoof the political opi nion of the Party to which he belongs." So far from being true nothing can be more false than such a position ; to say nothing of the confusion of ideas which per vades the whole letter. Let us, however, for a mo ment admit the truth of the Duke's doctrine, then it must follow as equally true in point of fact, that the Roman Catholics in France were all loyal' Boonso nirrs—if not, how came the Protestants to be the only victims ? 6 ‘Ve leave to the Duke to settle this point. We only add that is is a fortunate thing for Europe that his Grace has proved himself better qualified to com mand armies, than he is (judging by his letter) to discuss questions of political import. His letter, so far from producing the effect intended by the writer, will be received by the friends of religious liberty— nay by every sound logician, as-furnishing the most Complete evidence that the Protestants in the South of France have been, and are persecuted by o Ro man Catholic faCtion ; and that the enemies of pers...- cution are more than ever called upon' to make their sentiments known, and to exert themselves in favour of the sufferers. ((7UPT) " PAZ'S, Nov. 211, 181 5. " GINILLM4I.4-1 have had the honour of receiving yuur Letter of the 1:4:h instant, and I take the earliest uzyurtunity of replying t " I have every reason to believe that the public, and the So. cicty of which you are the Secretarie. , , have been misinformed regare.ing 7Lat is passing in the South of France. " It is natural that there should beviolent contests in a country in which the people are divided, not only by a difference of rell • pion, but likewise by a difference of political cylnion, and that the rest: on of every individual is in general the sign of the p ali tical i.ercy to wjlieh he belongs, and at a moment of ptruiir political interest, and of weakness in the Covet-meet o❑ itc co...a! it Vie mutiay of Cie Army, that the weaker parry sutler, anti that much injustice and violence 5h0.,11 be .• milted by individuats of the inure numerous prepoirderatii:g p.!t :y. '• But as 1.4 r as I have any knowledge acquired during my r•:: deuce at this Court last year, and since the entry of the Allle4 ii.to the*Guvatiment have done very thi el in their power to put an end to the disturbances which have prevailed in the Sow hut l'r.mce, and to protect all his Majesty's subj e cts, in con formity vel:11 bus Maktoy's promise in his Royal Charter, in the exercise of their re da:ies according to. their several per anti i.i the eojoyinent of their see:ral w4at ever may be their reti,pur4 p:r.uasiens. etme. a recent inst: f, an (Aker, Omeral I.a Carl !, was s?nt I down to Ni.me,, srci il.y by Government, to enquire into Oa, st.rte of alori iu :it cuun:ry, and upon his lirtt report 1w 16.1.1 s to op 'it t',! Protestant Citurches, which in the of the contest ht=twt en the parties had been closed. Ile was sever.:ly woulidrd u hen in the execution of these orders; I havt been u,l .rated by uuod authority, Chit his Royal Highness the Due trArrouleme ha, Nince marched at Om head of a body of troops ag:Onst those W :10 had oppose4.l l thyntselves to the carve. Lion, by General Lagartle, of the orders of the Government.. " I incloge the copy of the King's Ordonnauce, issued in conse quence of this event, which sufficiently shews the views and in tentions e the Governs " 1 have fin then to iulorm you, that it Is nut true that the u. lades of the Protestant Ministers have been cllscontitutd by the King of France. " 1 trust that what 1 have above stated will convince the So ciety of which you are the Secretaries, that the King of France's Government at least are not to blame on account of the iinfoi tu nate circumstances which have occurred In the South of France. " I have the honour to be, &c. (3:Lmed) " WLLLING UM: 4 ' Mr. T. Wilk§ and ,Mr. T.Pellatt, Secretaries to the Protestant Society for Protection of Religious Liberty." Having ascertained that the two Churches of the Protestants at Nismes was anytime!, the one belong. ed to the Convent of the Dominicans, and the other, to that which was formerly called the Great Convent, the first having been purchased by the Protestants 20 years ago, and the latter granted to them by i decree 'of the late Government in the year 1803 ; we hazard nothing in asserting, that in our opinion, the proposal of the Prefect to give up these Churches for one to be built by themselves without the walls .of the city, was instigated, as he acknowledges, by his superiors, and is a part of a deep laid plot to deprive all the Pro testants of France in due time, of all their Churches, I most of wl i ich are held precisely by the same tenure.; So bare-faced a piece of Jesuitism is worthy of the bare-headed and bare-footed Processionist ! Well may he wish to have the cities and towns ' of France free flip the intrud;ng eyes of Protestant gazers, by driving them beyond the walls to worship, as for =ay, in the open air. We trust our Protestant Rulers will avert this blow at the root of Protestant Liberty in France, by holding tilt French Government tight to the Charter, which secures the purchasers of . national property,. and the French Protestants, in the uaiotcrrupted enjoyment of their rights.. THE► ARM: • • [ • Yesterday,the remaining part of the 1S Dragoon., 3d Battalion lialt Regiment, and the 82d Regiment, latided at Dover from Calais ; the former marched off for Canterbury, the 14th for Hythe, and the 82d remain for the present at Dover. Yesterday the 2d Battalion of the 35th Regiment embarked at Dover, on board of transports, for-Ire land, and will sail the first fair wind. The 6th Inniskillen Dragoons have matched on their route for Manchester, and the depot of the 12th Light*Dragoons from B r abou rn L ees to ROmford. Thursday a detachment of the Ist Royal Dragpons reached'Canterbury, and were to be followed by the remainder of the regiment neit day. During the last tew days upw ar d s o f 3000 , t roo p s and about 300 horses have safely landed at Dover from Calais, consisting of parts of the whole of the unc-amentioned regiments, viz. Ist Dragoons, 6th Dragoons, 14th, M e th, 41st, 51st, and 90th regiments of infantry. RAMSGATI. JANUARY 5. —Arrived from Calais she Annabella freight vessel, and diseMbarked fifty men and thirty-six horses of the Ist Dragoon Guards. This vessel was intended for Dover, but drawing more water than those that sailed with her, she was obliged to run for this port. Sailed the Juno horse ship for Calais, and the Foz infantry ship for the Downs, to be appropriated to carry troops to Ireland. Several owners of small craft have tendered them to the Transport Board, for the purpose of bringing troops from France, and we understand they have been hired at the same rite as thus:: out of Dover si milarly employtd. On the 18th two soldiers, belonging to the 95th Re ment, were tried by a Court Martial at Paris, charged with a brutal outrage on a poor family at Taverney. It appears that they bad attempted to carry off some. thing from the poor man's premises. The latter op posed them; they drew their swords and wounded him severely on the head; they also wounded his wife and daughter, the former so dangerously that but little hope is entertained of her recovery. The old man, in defending his family, wounded one of the soldiers with a musket-shot. Tliis one, named Walker, was admitted King's evidence ; the other, Lamed Neale, and who had long been regarded as a des perate character, was found guilty and elocuted. Too much praise cannot be given to the Officers of the 95th ; they individually visited the poor fa: mily, anticipated all their wants, provided the best surgical aid, and subscribed a pdrse of one thou sand franc; for their Tel kf. On the :I(ith the bat talion left Taverney for Compeigne, highly respected by the inhabitants for the general good conduct of the soldiery, and tie distinguished in banity and hu manity a tl,e Officers. SOUTH AMERICA. Accounts have reached os from Vera Cruz op to the ‘2lili September. Our accounts irr,in 4exico are to the kith Juiy, brought to Vox Cruz by the way of Tampico, the direct road haring been blocked up far some time : transpt,rts, accompanied by die frigate Sabina, landed two thousand men in Vera Cruz, under the command of General MYAHics, but they had not boot able to eff:ct an thing. I'he soldiers were wretcheuay equipped, end their Commander had the greatest d if. ficalt y in ootaibing a tenth part of what he reqiiired. ' The Independents were within the. neighb of Melico, and had cut off the cummunicationi with the interior. The emergencies of the Spanish Go vernment were so great, that Viceroy CALLEJAs It id several times coavened General Juntas, for the put pose of obtaining money, but without effect ; nod at last he resorted to force, and thereby obtained four ' hundred thousand dollars. No general action had occurred between the contending parties, but secaril p trtial ones in diffhrent points, in which the Indepen dents had the advantage. The efforts of General STURBIDE to dislodge the Exe:utive of the Supreme Government, stationed in Ario, had proved unsuccessful. This is the same General Sruttema who, on Good Friday of 1813, in his dis . patch to the Viceroy (published in the Mexico . Gazette), uses the hallowing words:—" This day, on which our Satrtoue shed his blood for us, we have fared happily, by bathing ourselves ia . the blood of more than 600 of these excommunicated dogs (Mee can Insurgents), whom, being taken prisoners, I or dered to be shot, and the same, was executed." The New Constitution of the Independents, and the Proclamation which accompanied it, together with their Almanack, were burnt in the square of Mexico, on the 19th August, and the same ceremony was re peated at Vera Cruz on the Ith September. The Viceroy, a second time, has proclaimed the penalty of death and con fi scation of property, against any one reading or possessing papers belonging to the Insur., gents ; and the same penalty also against any one l failing to denounce another, whom he knows to be possessed of any such papers. The Viceroy calls the' , Constitution and Congress of the Independents cacti legtous, and says the former is opposed to the throne and the altar, because it establishes the freedom of' worship. e also orders that henceforward the Americans shall not be called Insurgents, but that' the denomination of traitors and rekh shall be applied to them, and the Spaniards be called faithful Royalists. This proves that the horrors of warfare, far from di niinishing, rather increase, and that the agents of FERDINAND seek to exterminate the men whom they call traitors and rebels. The execution of such a plait could not hark been placed in better bands than thote of the new Viceroy, General Cauz. . The Mexico insurgents, however, have adopted ne* plans, by concentrating their forces in the North, to commtliticate better with Europe and the United States, in order to obtain arms. They have fitted out several privateers, and already made 26 Spanish prizes. The insurgents were blockading the-river Alvarado, and had taken the port of Huatuno.— Three Commissioners from the Independent Govern , ment of Mexico have gone to the United States.— The Viceroy has prohibited- all reunions of Ladies in the capital, from their being all so favourable to the insurgents. FERDINAND VII. had created a new Order, to be given to all those who should distinguish themselves in subjecting the American Provinces.— It is called the Royal American Order of Isabella the Catholic. The Insurgents laugh at the idea of Americans .being rewarded by wearing * mark of their own conquest, since it was Istpsetl.a. who 11/1• dertook the originul conquest of .ILawri Ca. NAVAL IhrTILLIGENCI. FALMOUTH, JANUARY S. • Sailed the Prussiin ship Harmony, Captain Kam. for Dublin.—Winti N. PLYmotini, JANUARY 4. Came in the Dora.te, PAINCHANT, from 11{ , irlaix ; Atjean, Pim - le, from Itescoffe ; Agennri4, LEAY. from Guernsey ; PANDnItA sloop war, hnm Ports. mouth; and the Industry, DREW, from Vian.i. PORTSMOUTH, JANUARY 5. Arrived the Mars, from Bermuda ' • the Mary Ann,. from Bremen ; Essex, Olive Branch, Limerick ( FNA. slut), Canthain, Swallow, M. 'rose. Earl St. Vincent, Royalty, Constantine, Salisbury, Janus, Lnrd II un gerford, Merlin, and Alfred, fr nri the Downs ; the Fortuna, from Riga; and Malta, from liambuigh. Wind Westerly, and moderate. DEAL, JANUARY S. Arrived and stiled for the River the Miaida, HEARD, from St. Kitts; Cossack, NEWTON, from Malaga; Emerald, ALLEN, from Jamaica; Harriett, HILL, from Seville.—Remain the Hnn. Cqmpany's ships Cabalva, Castle Hu. tley, Marquis H Jutley. and Marquis Ely, detained by contrary winds. Came down from the River the Emma, CRIPPS, for Madras. HARWICH, JANUARY 5. Arrived the Alliance, MARSH, with a mail and passengers from Gottenhurgh.—Wind N.W. COVE OF CORK, JANUARY 1. Arrived his Majesty's ship CYRUS, from a cruiz?. Sailed his Majesty's ship HELICON on a cruizt:. RAYESEN D, JANUARY S. Arrived the James, Cunningham, from Archangel. Sailed this Sarah Ann, Watson, for Surinam; Princess of Wales. .tewart. for Ostend ; Jules and Julia, Lition, for Ft. Valets ; Jotv Jun, Krygsniati, for Rouen; Zell's!), De .Zoning, for Dieppe ; John Frio, Hewland, for Rio Janeiro; and the Maria Llizabetb, Moayskind, for Amsterdam. GREENOCK, JANUARY 2. Friday night we were visited by a tremendous gale from S W. which began about seven o'clock, and continued with increased violence till half-past ten, when it shifted to N.W. augmented in its fury. Considerable fears were entertalned for the :aiety of the shipping in the Road-steal!, and at the tail r. the BaLe.— During the storm a strange light was ,hewn from a a;.ps retely driving tin tl,e bank abreast of the harbour, which proved afterwards to he his Majesty's ship Henan no assistance, how ever, could be afforded till the gale abated, which took place about two o'clock In the morning: The sh.ps a: the tail of the Bat .k had drafted far to the other side, aril at thy-light the Co lumbus. Anuson, Thomas Henry, Myrtle, and the Americas ship ludependence, were seen liar; else to the Hill of Ard mot e, without any apparent ...auta;e ; the brig Clyde wei:t crs shore east side of the Hill, and is now disc.iarging iwr ca:ga Into lighttrs ; b um Atiniquani, (Amtr;can slit;•), alto wtut on short, at Cemniell's Poitr, and it i gistliarging. e Benson, for Trinidad, drove Iror.l the harbli!ur of Pon Glasgow, into the Bar, to toe eastward of that port, ztal is also 4ischarglog...- 'I he Heron ,Loup or war, wrilch had arrived that evening with ii,r - barged seamea, was in the morning aground WI the bank, n ith her rudder brat or, and her ota. s cut away she has since flamed tiff, and been towed by one of the steaui-boats to anchor ing groom!. Some damage :Aso took place ainorgst the thippitg its the e.st harboar, which was pi omoted the tide. lowlog r .en mg the gale tr. a height et;t.ai with tla. i I.e An t ma. 114.Kuila:., riont Clyde to Charl..ston, was A-4 well •nt the istit Nover.t.er, •.:70 miles east of Cbatlestnn Light. The tea, M•Kinlay, iron hence to Liverpool, was driven on share on Campbelton, 29th ult but exceoted to be got off without da mage. The sloop Macdowall, front Dominica, struck on the Kettlebottom Reeks, Barbadues, on the Etlth of Octob.r, and bilged; crew•saved. The Union, Stewart, of Larne, Irons Ir vine, was sliven on shore in Bran Lough, on the 20th ult and tilled with water. The Saltcoats. Craig, item Quebec to Y.ei fav, teas wrecked on the 15th ult. shouts a rui!es from Campbelrown. Inc CordeLa, Davidson, fronts Lisbon to Clyde, oat .s days, put into Dougias, Isle of Man, in great distress. TIM LA :L' C ALAMITOUS FIRE AT CA NTE::BORY•—• To toe melancholy aitead) rrcorded, we.ntr add the depositions tiliZ.:l; on the Coroner's Ingu.!sr, , wfbeh will correct an er•or in fire tofmer of the appearance ot the uidoritioate wtims at rive window of the fart, instead ct it :coed floor tit the . house :—The fast witness tx“rnined Has Tho mas Denne, butcher, who stated, that about a (oar. .• ter atter two o'clock on Sunday moaning, he saw Mr. Goddard, at a window on the second thor of his dwelling house, calling out Fire ! that he with Mr. John Southee, (one t)t the Jury) went immediately to the house, and Mr. Southee burst open the door, when they found the back part of the shop and the staircase in flames, so that it was impossible for Mr. Goddard and his son to have escaped that way. Mr. G. called for a ladder, and one was immediately sent for.—Mr. Southee confirmed the above evidence, and stated, that he saw also the son of Mr. Gadd-ad at the window, and heard one of them say he should be suffocated.—. Mr. Thomas Hacker stated, that between six and seven o'clock in the morning, he was on Mr. Goddard's premises when the fire was nearly extin guished, and found the remains of the deceased per sons among the ruins, not tar distant from each other, - and he had nu doubt but they were suffocated in 'the room on the second floor, and fell with the - ruins upon the ground door, where they were found. No evidence was adduced as to the probable cause of the fire, and the Jury returned a verdict of —Died by Suffocation, occasioned by the fire in the dwelling. hodse.—Mrs. Goddard and her four helpless children, with the maid -servant, who all escaped with scarcely any covering, were humanely received into the house of Mr. John Penfold, and supplied with clothing ; and have since received every consolation their un-. 'happy sitaation will admit, at the.:fouse of Mt. James Parnell, St. George's-street. Some Ladies have since commenced a subscription, to replace the wearing apparel .of the maid-servant ; and we are happy to state that the recommendation of the Coroner's Jury, that a subscription should be entered into for the be nefit of the distressed widow and family, has beer. libe rally adopted.—Some unprincipled villains availed themselves of the confusion attendanton this distress ful occasion, to purloin a great number of articles from the houses of Mr. Couchman and Mr. Powell. consisting of wearing apparel, a gilt watch, some guineas, &c. to a considerable amount. ALARM or Flair—(Froas a New York Pafier.)-0a the last Sabbath evening a alaim of fire was raised in the Methodist church in .Fqurth-street. The con gregation was exceedingly numerous, and thescene which ensued passes all description. The screams of women and children increased the general terror, and every individual rushed forward, to escape, as he supposed, trom a church in flames. At length, most of the audience having made good their escape, seven bodies, which had been trodden under foot, were taken up, all of them severely bruised, and one .of them. a young woman, apparently lifeless. She wasconveyed into the adjoining house, and bled, before any symp- , toms of life were discovered. She then revived a little, and last evening was still living ; and we are happy to add, that some hopes are entertained of her , eventual recovery. The alarm was made by t . hievea r , who robbed several persons, during the confuswa. •