Star. — London, England, 1816-06-05 00:00:00

• . a 1 - wENINp STAR. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5. 1816. PRICE OF STOCKS TI-lIS DAY AT MILNE O'CLOCks !Wu& o§}—Cane. ma 64 —far au. 65f. 4 per Cent. 78*-4 per Cott. 45t—Doncla par, Is. pr. gichequer IMIII, Va. dlia par. By way of Liverpool we have received the Barba- A u Mercury of en: 30th April, with extracts from pr i va te letters, containing many particulars respect. ing t he late insurrection, which we have given at con siderable length in our columns this day. Easter Sunday was the day on which the Negroes made their attempt. • In the course of the same night the Island was placed under martial law ; and so prompt were the movements of the troops and Militia that the Negroes were every where subdued in a very short time, and with comparatively little loss on the part of the troops. Many of the Slaves were killed, and still greater numbers were tried and executed, in virtue olUrders issued by the President of the Island. Notice was sent of these occurrences to General Sir jojts LEITH at Guadeloupe, who instantly embarked in a French schooner of war, and reached Barbadoes on the 244 h of April, and on the 2Gth issued an Ad dress of ex!iortation to the disaffected, and of cocoa ragemect to the faithful part of the slave population. The result of all-these mairainsemwas t that em she 3,.)th o f April Sir lutes was enabled to issue another Pro elamation declaring the insurrection at an end. No less than twenty estates in one parish had sustaintd an almost entire destruction of houses and cane. ids and the number of Negroes killed and executed has been calculated at little short of a thousand. A very large proportion of the Slaves, hrs.:. ever, rallied round their masters, and contributed their efforts to redoce their misguided countrymen. We cannot quit this subject without noticing a very disingenuous and reprehensible use whicit has been made of this occurrence by the enemies of the Slave Registry Bill. We have had various paragraphs sent to us, purporting to be extracts of letters from Barbadoes, imputing the insurrection to impolitic in to:foam on the part of the' Government at home, beim,. een (J.: Colonial Legislatures and the Slave Population, parti cularly in the countenance given to the “ projected Registry Bill." In the 5..-hc Fpirit they pretend to have ascertained that the principal ineizators of this imarrectien are those Negroes who" can read and write" —negroes of superior and‘retanding ; but of the worst lutoritions. ; The intention of all this is scepalpehle that no one GO mistake its object. Seine men never wid learn tense, or rather will bever allow others to vessels common understandine. Has any etre fer e ot the arguments which were used against teaching our own labouring classes at home to read and write ? Is any one so ignorant as not to know that a careful etattitaaiion of this question established beyond ail controversy, that in those parts of the Empire where the people have received most instruction, the fewest crimes are committed ; that among the unhappy erimin.il, who have suffered the sentence of the law, Lut few, comparatively specking, had. been tau g ht to read and write ? Those who In tintained such ergu silents against the iiistruct;on of our own poor people, have 'ince not only given them up, but, in conse spence of a conviction derived from evidence. have, greatly to their own credit, become must stre. Lentos and exemplary supporters of • the Sunday and Nationel Schools ; being now thorceeehly persuaded, in common with all sound p rlitical econour;sts, that ro memrs can be devised so effectual for preventing the ignorant from being led away by the arts of those who have more knowledge, as by arming them with at least an equal degree of knowledge. A way then with the nonsense of the desire of the Slaves to obte:e freedom arising from the officious efforts of the bene volent to give them instruction. It is natural for all men to desire to be free. The period is fast approaching in which Slavery will be abolished every where. Those who take the best means to &reit this event will be found to be the most wise. - Let every mean be adopted to prevent the importa tion of new Siaves.—The Slave Registry Bill is one el - these—and let. some system be adopted to enable The Slaves to buy out their own freedom, and thus introduce by prudent means a population of free la bourers. Do this and you have nothing to fear from pour Slaves. Neglect or postpone it—and take the consequences. Nothing is more easily practicable than to establish by lee , the sum to be paid by a negro to his master, let for one day out of the six days of lebourthen two days, &c. till he entirely buy up his, whole time and become a free man. This was formerly the practice in the French islands: but you never can fete a sufficiency of free labourers while a possibility slit to import, either legally or clandestinely, new supplies of slaves. Dues not the danger with which the Colonies is threatened furnish a sufficient reason for those Powers which have abolished the Slave Trade to command other Powers to abandon it ? Noae have a right to do aay act whereby others may be injured. A letter from Grenada, dated April i 2, says— " We have been thrown into great confusion in con .isquence of a communication from _Sir CHARM 111101ANE, Governor of St. Vincent's, stating, that imams had been received from St. Lucia of infor- Itatiok having arrived there of as iasuirectibn in i Birbadoet, and that f , rtytgiro 440.1 had been 40. etroyed by the Neg Woes. lir Camaiis, believed the intelligence, and einied Mardi' Law to be pro claimed. He. strongly recommended the same mea sure to our Government--and we are all now under arms. We have had this &yen arrival from Tri nidad, but no farther news. We expect a transport every moment to take away the 60th Regiment, about . 400 strong, for Barbadoes." 13, reference to our Port Letters, it will be seen that all is not right at the Havannah.. Capt. Dumf. Ham, of the Lady Holland, on his way (Toni Jamaica to England, attempted to land, but was not permitted. [Fide Deal and Margate Lester s.] . We this day received New York and other Ame rican Papers, to the 15th of May. They contain the following articles : BALTIMORE; MAY it . The following is brought by the schooner Midas, Captain Dickerson, at rived at thisport from Havanna, where the Boxer was lying on the 20th March : The United States brig Boar., in .the beginning of April fell in with and captured the schooner Coma, commanded by the famous Pirate Mitchell (one of the crew of the British frigate Herrnoine), and anu• tlier small vessel laden with ammunition, &c. for the use of :he Pirate, and carried them into New Orleans. The Pitate had on beard specie, jewellery,, &c. amounting to' 160,000 dollars. • Captain Matthews, lam of the schooner Adeline, of this port, rear_hed town on Saturday night in the Nor folk pac6t. He gives a long• st dement of the in. •human treatment by the Spaniards of those who un tortunately fell into their hands. He says that the officers and crew of the Adeline were•stripped and plundered of every thing, landed and driven on by the Spaniards, who beat them shamefully with the butt ends of their muskets till they reached the prison, where there were 60 Americans and British who had fallen into their hands since the surrender of Ca►tha. gena, and who experienced treatment similar to his own. There was a daily removal of some of their comrades to the Hospital, caused by the filthiness of the prison and its exposure to the weather, from whence few ever returned. Captain NI. also states, that s singk fligate would be sufficient to lay Santa Martha in ashes. A Carthigena privateer, fitted out by the Patriots, as is said, before the fall of Carthager.a, has arrived in Newborn ; she brought ,wtli her about 61,000 dol lars in speck. We understand her crew c•snsists of men of ainvia al; ciinliz:d nations, which has inchtccki some to suspect her to be a pirate. s*r. BARTI-101.0N1EW%:.. Tile Governor ot the Island of St. 13 irtholomew's 11.. s iss•i..ki his Proclamation, bearing da.e the 2:)C1 of April 1 isc, ordaining that licreaftcr vessels may lie off and on the harbour of St. B 4! thokanew's from son. ke to can-iet ; proviled th it the Captain of the ves sel, imov_diately cn his arrival (l shore, repairs to the Fort Gaitaviis I'LL and takes out a permit from the cot:mauling officer, for v.hich is to bz paid a fee of ttv,) dollars for a ship, one and a half dollar for a brig, and one dollar tor a topsail schooner or topsail sloop, and six rials for .1 smaller'vessel. '6l:. tax formerly paid, under the name of ton nage niuley. is reduced one half ; and the following atticles ale permitted to be imported free of duty : ruin and molasses, peas, beans, potatoes, onions, anzl ail other ground provisions, or garden fruits; 14;it w:tt•;tt, rye, and all other kinds of meal, pork, hams, lard, butts r, cheese, timber, spars, masts, pugs, deals, planks, staves, shooks, shingles, iron and wood hoop;, and every kid of wood, coming from wh.'t place, or in what bottom soever, are to pay one per cent. of their value. We have received the Paris Papers of Sunday, from whic' we sullnin some estri.cts. FEnDINAND, Kilig of Spain, has issued a long 11.cree, with a view to euconrage the progress of agriculture in Spain.. le purposes to dispense With all Taxes on such lands as shall be brunght into a state of cultivation from a state of waste, and promises to intercede with the Roman Pontil to du the same, so far as the tights of the Church are coiner:lel! : PARIS, JUNE ft. His Majesty will set out for Fontainebleau on the 12th, and return on the 16th.• Recent accounts hom Grenoble state, that Didier affects, while under examination, a confidence which he is far from possessing in reality. The Duke of Wellington is expected every instant at Paris. The Police has just seized a parcel of 240 copies of Nala Smote, which were addressed to an indi vidual in the Faubourg St. Dellis : 150 of these very libels had been seized the week before, and prosecu tions will be directed against the authors of those criminal distributions. Letters from Antwerp announce the embarkation of M. Real, the Prefect of French Police, during the interregnom—he goes with his family to the United States, where he is said to have porchaled s large estate on the Banks of the Ohio. • Czerni Georges, who has performed :with an int portent part in the wars of Servia and Walachia, ar rived on the 2d of May at St. Putersburgh. H 8 has been presented to the Emperor .4 R u ssia. The Court of Assizes will try, off the 10th inst. the Prititers and Itters of the I#l tit Trikka. THE KING'S aratiz.giy. It being the datetirination of the Royo Family to obserie this day, as one of nkoMfoliation end 011ie they went to KawPalace, :Is the most retire d spot. Her .MAJEwri left her Palace, eccoto&mied by the Partmessat - mon after nine o'clock, for Kew.' The pa:pea Rimer. followed his Royal Mother from Carlini+ Mouse* twelve o'clock ; the Duke of CLA RENCK left Clarence House at MAll:past Nit ; the Pete of Yoax did trit leave York House till near five. .--Mr.'VroLcit, the Manufacturer of Mail Coaches, gave his annual entertainment at his Hanufactory,in Millbank-row, to the Pcist-masters of the mail coaches, who resorted there from Considerable distances, Some as far off as York, Sheffield, &c. this being au occa sion. of wirin g with each other as to who shall prn•. duce the best, Sets of horses. At about five o'clock' o'clock, the numerous assembhtge of drivers, guards, &c. in their, new uniforms, were assembled at Hill bank, and being uncovered, drank the King's health in bumpers of port wine, with three cheers. They then proceeded from Millbanh-row to Pall Mall, by Arlington street, to be inspected by the Marquis of SALISBURY, one of the Post Masters' from there to the end of Stratton -street, for the like purpo.c, by the Earl of CIIICHLiTiIIt ; proceeded from thence through Piccadilly, down Constitutiin-hill„stopped opposite the Queen's Palace, aed then proceeded damsels the Pant, out at the Horse Guards, and by the Strand, to the General Post-Office. The ntlier public demonstrations of rejoicing were at the Opera House, Drury-Lane, Covent. Garden, and the Hay market Theatres ; some of the Public Offices ,end the Royal tradesmen's houses were illuminated. Tne annual distribution of barrels of ale at St. James's Palace and in the front bf the Admiralty, took place. The bells rung during the whole of the day.. The Princess Curstmovre and Prince LEOPOLD honoured Covent•Gard , :ti Theatte with their presence on Monday evening. They went in private, - and at in a private box, unobserved by the audience. It is believed that the loyal nuptials between - the Duke of GLOUCIZSTER and the Princess MARY will take place on the S:h insiant at Carlton-11Ju;e• The KING, it is said, often expressed a wish to the QuEeN on the ra . vject. Every thing is nosy arranging for the nuptials. The royal couple will retire to the Duke's house at Bagshot, wuich is ne.rly in readiness to re ceive them. The Duke will toonorrow entertain the PRINCE REGENT, the (..i.uscm, Prncesses lf,s.ta r tarrit and MARY, the Princess CHARLOTTE, Prince I.Loraci, his Royal Sister, and other branches ot . the Royal Family, with a grand dinner at Gloucester-liouse. A third ouirriage is said to he now upon Cie car pet—namely, the Duke of CAMBRII)GI with the prin cess Stviria•of GLoVeit-.TER. Ott Mon..hre morning last died, Mrs. VALPY, wife of the Rev. 1)r. V.tLev, ot !fettling. Saturday, three bells west. hung in the steeple of the beautiful church building for the parish of Mary la-bonne. The belfry is capable, of c:arse, of con taining a full set, eiitch will soon 13:.• co.opleted. The Bill to ertl,:r : .e the Powers of the Chartered Gas Li;tht and ;:oke Company, now belote Pat L ament, deserves partiviltir attention on the part of the MeMisers, as 'it gives to the Company new powers watch, in their operation would effectually deprive the Public (ti all benefit of c , mpetition from other Gas L:eht CompaMes, and confer on the first men tioned Company a complete monopoly. The Com missitmets of Pavements will, we doubt not, take Coe of the trust, committed to them, by insist tivz on the exclusion of every clause from the 1141 would confer on the Company the power if b:tak. Mg, up the pavements whenever they may olcase, without le:ing subject to any controtil t but tithe! and important considerations present themselves.— According to the existing Act, the Gas Light ' Corporation are nit hound to light the Whuee of Pa • runes or Ditiriett, that is, they may, according to the Act, plead that their capital is not sufficient to enable them to light the Whole of the Parish. This legal loop bele enables the. Company to pick out chow streets in various itari.her in-st abohneling with good shops, tind such as ate most likely to be lighted with while the bystieets, lanes, and all'es, which, in the judgment ot every 'person connected with th:e Police, ought to be ligitte.l to the highest degree as The best security agaiust robbery and murder, are left in tlarkneYt, and rendered still more so from the blaze of light which pervades the high streets : supposing then, that the Commissioners and Trustees should be anxious, from motives of safety as well as comfort, to have the if - hol; of a Parish' or Diatriet lighted, as the law now stands they can give the preference to that Company which will undertake to do so; but from the hour that this Bill shall have become law, the public will be at the mercy of the Corporate Gas Company, who Will of course iinmediatily run their mains and pipes along all the high streets; it is idle to imagine that any rival company will be at the expense .of laying down their mains and pipes , in the lanes and alleys, when the best streets are taken possession of ; indeed, the GAS Company admit this cannot answer the end of any one, and it is in evidence, that after the Gas Company shall have laid down their mains and pirs, under the authority of the intended Act, no private Corn. pany, without risk ot ruin, could • lay down A se, rood course, or attempt to compete with a corporate. Company having at command a capital of £8400,000, and only, responsible to the extent of 450, the amount of each original Share. It has also been proved, that with the intended increase of Capital, and the pro. posed independence of the Commissioners and Trus tees. the Gas Company might, in the course of a few months, extend their mains and pipes from one end of the Metropolis to the other, by keeping only.to the high streets; after which,' as has been sbewn, they may make their own terms with the Public, when thus strengthened, and set above all rivaiship.— Perhaps among all the clauses of the new Bill none will more surprise our Readers than• one authorizing the Company to send persons into any private house, supplied by them with &as, at arty time in the day, and without. any previous notice, to inspect the ma .chinery, and ascertain the quantity of gas consothed. 44 or foe egg other poytors, &sips. or haeotlP and.- if re ' fused admittance, they may, on application to a Jas. tic* ot Peace obtain a distress warrant to levy .the "'enmity on the goods of the owner. -This eztravigant, assumption of power, by a trading Company over their customers ' is , we .believe o f u, now io the legit , . lation of every othir country, as it cortaietris ht that Zugland. . . _ re- • • r • ~...... t7IE ARMY: This owning the 2d Regiment of Royal Horse- Geards,,ssembled in the Regent's Park, whetice they proceeded - in t':amwood Scrubs, *here they. had a sham fight . . . • . . Monday *the I Sth . Littht Dragoons were inspected by his Royal Highness the COMMANDILR•N•COIEFI at Rumford, on their return from. France. .The ance of this fine Regiment was admirable, and 01.- tained from his Royal Highness the trost R atering and gracious expressions of approbation, H. parti cularly noticed the beauty and comtition of the horses, all cf v hich he minutely inspected,attended by the Inspector general (Major General BOLT s), to whom lie repeatedly expressed his satisfacti , n. ititer the inspection the Duke and his numerous s:•ite par. took of an (elegant eiestni h la fourckette, prepared by the Officers of the 1:301 Light Dragoons, al.ete t`'e choicest wines, mid every delicacy the rn.ftrep..l;l could furnish, were assembled. His Royal iltit appeated in the best health and s;;lrit.i, and comph. mented di:, Regiment on their serv : ces at WA; lin", and in the Peninsula, where this distiiiruishd c served so nroly campaigns I.a.der his Grmce tl4. Dune Of WELLINGToN. LvI'ELLIGENCB. DEAL, JUNE 4. Sailed this morning his Majesty's ship CA'YMEDr, on a cruize; also, yesterday morning, the Antelope, BityaN' s fitr the Cape.—Arrived and remain for ixclera the PrioccSi Mary, MEEK, from Pert-au-Piinee.—. Came down from the River and remain th . Caledo. Ma, Roinstrya, fur Osku:ta; and the Nelion, Baltrox, f or jito,44es,;.—Arrived this morning and sailed for the River the Lady Holland, DEANHASIt irneti Ja• mama (seven week,), who rPt‘c his boat into the Hi. sinnah, lout was not allowed to land or have any conimuaicaLien with the shore.—Wind W.N.W. MARUATE, JUNE 4. * . Atriv . ed in our Roads, the Louisa, I .Vat.kca; froM Gretrida, and the Lady Holl4nd, DEANNA:I, from ' JAI/mica ; the latter sriled the 1 . 3:11 April. Capt. 1), seut a lima on shore at the Havanoalt, but was not allowed to land. PLYMOOTFI; JUNE 3. 'Arrived leis 111,1j.Isty's ship ASPEIt from a cruizn Came in the APPLEBY, (roar London, bound to the Isle of Fr.ince ; the N-ptunirs, amonN, New York, bound to AtusteriLtra ; and the Peggy, --, from London fnr America. Porclmr)l7 1 14 , 3UNE 4. Arrived bis store.ship TORTOISE from Danizic, aro his Ivi.ri2sly's store.iiiiip CAMEL, trout N. W. Iit'VICH, JWJE 4. Arrived the Lord Nel,on pa..ket, with a mail from Cuillaven.,Wind Nrath. CUSTOAV.I - 101.7:T., JUNE 3 Sntrg agyrrain ourwg v.°, E. ALIA., for Mal.a, Smyrna, and Constamiuoph• ; Cn.mr. G-) Shottrn, for • pies, Palermo. and Messina; Coaster, lain Seitis, for Genoa ant Leghorn; Doris, Harm Hewlett Crootne, for lirernoi; Fortuyn, Pieter Doom, for Amsterdam; Gowning Friends, Ashmanael Baldry, for Strlnemunde and F•ettio ; Gee-ge, Robert noycri for Rotterdam; Helena Ja.nee Pr-me, for Elszneur and Stettin ; Industry, George Patrick, for Havre; Stvall.rw, John Frith, for the Isle of France, i'vladeird, Madras, Bengal, and Bombay; Saint, 'llontas Hill, for Madeira ; Star, Moberg. Cooke, NY M...• drag and Calcutta; Marcus of Anghtgea, John Watkins, for Maha and Stnyrit ; Prirce of Saxe Co'sourg, John l..add, for Ro•terdam ; Salatnanc;:, David Rait, lor Senel•al. NAVAL PROMO TIONS AND AP POLR.TMENTS". Liet•teisato. Jerkin Jones, of the Newc4etle, and the Han. G. W. Irefti,is, of the ir.s, •o the rank of Commander. Lieutenant. George. (.4;IW, and Richard t , t. Lea) Niehrilsan, are eu;wi!tiuniatril, vi.th :he rant of Conimander. Messrs James An'ersnit, Wits. Conedin., rod Jiseph F. For to the rank of Lieutenant. Assistan.s .Alexander Collie, Thos. Dunn, Alexander Laugh.; lin, and John eir, to be Surgeons. • . . Captain Jerkin Joaes, to the Julia. • Lieuterositts RnSert Avehlsoti, James Symons CL), and Thomas Retraits, F. I. to the Leander. Lit utenauts Gesigst M`Pherson and E. W. Seymo.r, to 'the Glasgow. Lieutenant JOserh F. Foriter, to the Newcartle. t • The workmen belonging to Chatham lines were all • discharged a few days since. The artificers and win kown of the dock-yard have also been further IC.. ritricted in their e.srnings. As a proof. of the. flourishing state of the Slaw; Trade, on the authority of commercial letters just . received from the Havannah, we are enabled to state that it. the months of November and December last, upwards.ut fifty vessels cleared out bon; the island , of Cuba for the coast of: Alrica in search of cargoes of human flesh ; and that since that period, on .an average, six or seven more per month have gone to the same destination. Calculating 200 slaves per ship, Cuba may therefore expect an annual imports. tion of 24.000 slaves l 1 I It is a fair question to ask, whether all this enterprise can have originated in the heads and pockets of Spaniards t J. Wars.nr, Esq. has been proposed by the Re cNtolat of LnADJN, and : elected Chairman of tn.; Middlesex Aeisions, vice Wit. MAlN‘vAttisc, resigned. Friday a respite, during pleasure, was received 1.4. Grindlay and C. Orphan!, at present on ler seri, tense of death at Glasgow, and who were to t wo been executed this day. Satiny afurnoon the Old Blue 'Windsor coach, and the Union opposition Wind&r.r coach, s'Aited from the White Horse Cellar, in Piccadilly, the idd coach having the lead. When the opposition cortelt got to the turnpike, the driver made a push and got the lead. The driver stopped near the halfway house to Kensington, to take up a passenger ; after that, in putting on his horses at full seed, to overtake the. old coach, he lost the command of his horses, and they ran the coach against a bank, which overturn, d it on the road, with 17 outside passengers. One r f them had his thie,h broke in consequence ;—he was conveyed to St. George's Hospital. On the evening of Tuesday se'noight, two rns:ng men of the names of John Goold and Michael had a regular pitched battle, in a field mar t*e Military Road, Dublin, which terminated, atter fa rounds, by a blow given by the latter on the stomach of the former, which pat an end to the battle,. and the life7of Goold together: Corm EXCHANGE" MARE-LANE. JUNE. 5.--The sup. Or of Wheat far exceeding the demand, and the millers beini pretty well stocked, causes very heavy sales, bat prices are nominally 10 04 Manday. Bar. ley and Beans are rather cheaper, and Oats are full ls. per quarter lower, having aery couridereess arch* irars, and hot hi' , buyers. • . • .r~"