Star. — London, England, 1819-01-16 00:00:00

SATURT once OF STC tluCed for A ccour ;K: Cent. 961 I Long Ann .63 Stock 231 -.. /; bec,tier The scene th e Public by S jgressic ,),;,;7eignty of - ; uadignatit I:•.'r the dig akt that sloul .I, r e ff s. As rr ,armed the ag; :;,o, availing t this count:'Y ,::at, of courst :icatien of the rioners at l'Ar ;hey prc-..erai t is we shan•st e v ,Tinter in 1101 l itAFFLE.4 Prot; riven rise in justitica he Eastern A column It commenc telirical condi ;flowing, th :he other natis eft and tribut the Dutch h .iist!iction, at 'oral British ; lea reigning Awe, with w •:!tn4l of Ban To this Mist Treaty, concl 'Atm N.sau: r. the eipre! Governa lie defenc Ibl4, bets crnments, rhich haJ hi .1111.1 at tA.) 'tore Es,abli rme ti the -tchange embang wa Ei , tablishmr kr another •:.:rateTer p ?lembang, treat Brit a 1 . 5.1 ~'as a Dltte icrty ta;rang .trit;y the I;3:est . :ors, taa.—Tht Br tl.e :.at affirm: !ix:ct to tl. :t !:,3 only Laab:e .o !-. sI rue per r.' tra t $ rf tv.e;os.'it ',Vince tuup r rt n gcm a fs; • ptli c len3cl art, • .lie 4 ' . • EVENING STAR. LONDON. DAY, JANUARY 16, 1819. THE FUNDS. :OCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O . CLCCK : .-3 per Cent. Cons. 781 ex. div. rnt, 791:4-3?t ?er Cent. 87} 88 97 5 per Ct. Navy 1061:1, ex. div. tns. 23t 5-16-omniitin 11 pre. If ex. div.—lndia Bonds 86 87 pre. s (M.) 19 20 pm hat has been brotight to the view of Sir T. Itismas's Protest against the ions, and positive insults offered to the Great Britain, has excited a very led in the bosom of every one who if,rni:y of his country, and the inviola ild attach to its Treaties with other might be expected, the exposure has , eats of the Netherlands Government, themselves of the liberty of the Press f have, in an Evening Paper, put forth se, they mean to be considered a justi, to proceedings of the Dutch Commis lembang. In Holland and Flanders ,'so t.) boast of a free Press. How free ice by their conduct on the presentoc venture to assert, that there is nut a iland who will dare to puLlish Sir T. rote-a, with the strictures to which it has this, and in other British Journals. :ation of the Netherlands Authorities in rriiipttlago, will be found in our pre- imences with a brief historical review of the lition cif Palembang, for the purpose 'at in former times its Sultan 6 , like all ire Princes in those quarters, was sub attry to the Dutch Government ;" that had a fort and garrison, with a civil ju : Palembang ;" and that " in 1812 the authorities in Java "had dethroned the ig Sultan, and put his brother in his whom they made a Treaty, by which the mca was ceded." istorical notice we shall add, that by this ',hided between Great Britain and the Jmunisr, the island of Banca was ceded wess condition that the Sultan should be 1 , and supported in his dignity by the !ace proceeds to state, that by the Treaty ..ween the British and Netherlands Go " all the Factories and Establishments g',.a possessed by Holland on the Ist of should be restored to the KING of the ms," and that Palembang was one of lishmcias. By the second Article of the y, the Lland of Banca was ceded to the in full Sovereignty, in the Settlement of Cochin, on the coast Thc thence conaodes, that Pa-, was comprised in the Dutch Factories and cents thus restored, while Banc:l was ceded :r consideration, and consequently that power the Dutch formerly posessod at restored by the Treaty of Ibl I with we :ILI, that. the 'Nand of Banca never (eh r os,ession :—nor was it even the pro-1 treat Britain, but on the conditica of main independence of the Sultan ; and ronse- T general restoration of the former Dutch implied the recognition of this hidepend- The scle ques.tion for consideration is, %vile- Stitith Government had a right, during its ty in Sumatra, tz , make a Treaty with any ttive Priner.s? if the answer should be in :71'.v-e, the k chviotrs •with re- I.e Dutch Gevernmeot ; hut if is the mega follwa; that the Etiti - ...h fioveram:?nt had :aid cheated the Suluta of P.At.e>t /1 VG, and c;l:ed him -xilh a sialt , (2f rrolcctiou it war, Protest, G:Wern:":r APPLES remadzs, that tried of making this Treaty with the Sultan", Ilana did not exist as a nation, its re!toration contemplated as a probable • eac political commotion svhich at that time the weihi. But, lest an argument drawn is sauce nli:.;ht ha chargei with a want of the &gradation of the United cs . .h.• result of foreign •asnrressien, we it, but consider the sto:joct upon a an 1, f.tir p: inciple. By the act lueA which gave the supremacy in the East- . is to the British flag, all the polver and rights ly possessed by the Dutch Government v. ere [red to the G.A•cranient cf Great Britain. It iac:i i )le natiuual law, that a Conqueror, on possession of a foreign Colony, has the right alterit,g, and IN:pea:in'', laws, and of per ig every other act of Sovereignty in as full and n - ..inlas as was cnjeyed by former Rulers. true of a Colony:it must be a, fortiori true iniaor e,;ab3:_•hment, or of a property which :ed rather ia personal influence than in actual qacy. Palembang was not a Dutch Colony, was regarded as a dependency on the great coi;accl is the Eastern Seas by Ilolland—a :ain. kind tiff i l, if kyle May so express Ourseires, hell in . - - caple of the Dutch Government established at Java. The tribute derived from Palembang was part of the revenues of that Government ; and as the Dutch might at any time have destroyed this source of re• venue, or battered it for a compensation, so might their successors, who stood exactly in their place. The British Government acted in this manner, and pledged its faith for the maintenance of the Treaty it concluded. Can it be pretended for an instant that the di :severance of the provinces of the Netherlands from the Imperial Crown of France, revived every right once enjoyed by Holland, and abrogated every act performed by the British Government in what were once Dutch Colonies and Factories? This pretension, however, if k could have existed, is re pelled, not only by the circumstance of the present kingdom of the Netherlands being al.ogether a new Power, totally distin:t from the former Republic of the Seven United Provinces, but, independent of this, by the implied acknowledgment on the part of the Government of the Netherlands, of the necessity of a complete Treaty, by which Great Britain should surrender certain possessions therein specified. The very existence of this Treaty proves that, in the opinion of the Dutch Government, the possession arid consequent sovereignty of this country was ab solute ever those places. It is from this Treaty that the Dutch derive their sole right : but in the fair construction of the Treaty, the Dutch cannot possi bly derive under it a greater authority in the places ceded, than was possessed by those %% to make the surrender. The power of the Dutch in 1818, must be measured, not by the extent of Dutch influence in 1603, but by the extent of British authority in 1 . 814. This country could give no more than it pos.;essed, and consequently all that we ceded to the Nether- lands must be accompanied by those restrictions, coin ditions, and limitations, which it bad been our wil or policy to impose. Palembang, or rather the tri bute derived from the Sultan of it, had been given up to that Sovereign. The British Government had an undoubted right to surrender it by Treaty, and as the faith of this country is pledged to maintain the provisions of that Treaty, it could never have been imagined by any reasonable mar., eithsn. in Great Britain or the Netherlands, that the violation of that Treaty and of the public faith that guarded it, could have been contemplated by the British Go-. vernment in signing the subsequent Treaty with the Netherlands. If we had not already extended theee remarks so far, we should now ask why the Dutch Authorities, whq certainly are not disposed to suffer their rights to remain dormant, did not take an earlier oppor tunity of asserting their claim to Palembang' This alone affords a presumption of their own conscious ness that they did not .possess the right now coittest , ed. We shall not observe upon the very unfair im putations that arc thrown by the writer of the reply upon those why in this courtry censure the conduct of Dutch in the Eastern Seas, and endeavour to awaken Kiiglishmen to a sense of the dangers that beset their East Indian Commerce. The trade with the Archipelago is the most valuable branch ef Orien tal Commerce; but should the Dutch Authorities in that quarter of the world be permitted, unra , strained, to pursue their system of ungrateful and ungenerous aggressions, we may expect soon to he it of British vessels being wholly exchnled from any participation in that lucrative branch of commerce.! W hat course our Government may think proier to pursue we cannot pretend to say, but it nin.loabtedly is due to our national character, on which much of our power in the East depends, pot to tidsity the hopes which our solemn promise: may at any time h av e excited in the breast of the Native Princes. It was a strong sense of this honoinehle aed advanta geous policy that dictated the Protest ire de by Str Ti,o:'TAs S. RAFFLES, and by this our Government must eventually be influenced. The Paris Papers of Tuesday • and Wednesday ar• rive,' this forenoon. • The Chamber of Deputies had a public sitting on Monday, when the Marquis DEtiSOLLES presented the Royal Project of Law which had been previously announced, for granting a national recompense to the Duke of RIr'iIELIEV. It consists of two articles. The first proposes, that there shall be established, in favour of the Duke, as a national recompense, to attached to his Peerage, and transmissible with his a majorat of fifteen thousand francs of income. The second, that the majorat shall be composed of real property, to be selected by the Knm, out of the domains assigned to the Civil List, by the law of the Bth November, 1814. The project was ordered to be printed and distributed. • The Niiiii.ter of Finance presented at the same meeting another Project, of which the public have been already informed, for the alteration of, the a:land:A year, which it is proposed shall in future run from July to July, commencing from 1820, to suit which the budget for 1810 is to comprehend also the first six months of 1820. Remitted to the Bureaus. The next Project of Law, it is said, which will be presented to the Chambers, will be one upon the Li berty of the Press. By an Order of the Minister, Secret•try of State to the Department of the Interior, M. CEVIER, Counsel lor of State, has been named President of the Com mittee of the Interior and of Commerce. • Count BEAUHARNOIS, the• Ex-Senator, father of the Grand Duchess of BADEN, died at Paris on Sunday morning, after a long and painful illness. He was son of Madame BEAUnAII,NOIS, known in the literary *4 4 tl for several procitictions of merit, And Cousin of Count ALEXANDER BEAMARN(IS, Mem of the Constituent Asseml)ly, and first husband of the late Empress JOSEPDINE. Five per Cents. Monday, 69 fr. 10 c. Tuesday. 63 fr. 70 c. PaIVATE LETTER. We have been favoured this morning with the fol lowing interesting Letter from our regular Private Correspondent at Paris : " PARIS, JANUARY 13. " For want of other elements of war, that of poli tics and opinions rages here in 612 utmost fury. The Conservateur exhibits the dying groans and curses' of the fallen Ultras. No terms of abuse are sufficiently strong to characterize its hatred of constitutional men and constitutional principles. In 18r5, we saw its authors the most zealous defenders of the Charter, of which they availed themselves precisely the same way as tile Holy Inquisition does of the Christian Religion. It was a double• edged sword and warrant of vengeance; then there was no rust to be found on the hinges of prison-doors, for they incessantly yawned to receive numerous victims ; while the scaffold and the gallies waited with impatience their large portion, of which, in justice to the Conservaieur party, we must say, they were never defrauded. The diffi culty of saving the victims of these defenders of the . , Altar and th,t Throne has never hem duly appre- dated. Had M. De Cazes retired from the Ministry, we would not have hesitated to say, that it is to him the country owes this triumph, in labouring inces santly, in concert with his Majesty, to establish peace and tranquillity on firm foundations ; and consequently, at this moment,Yinds XVIII. and M. De Cazes are objects . of . utter detestation to the Royalists, which they do not even take the pains to disguise. Under EA vex, therefore, we may thank his Majesty and his 'favourite Minister for the ultimate triumph of con stitutional principles. And only mark the compara tive result in 1815 and ISI7. The Royalists, (or, as they now call themselves, illoaardsy men, quite as foolish and more wicked than the ifih Monarchy men a the lith century ht England,) held nearly all the posts of Government, and we heard of nothing but treasons, plots, stratagems, &c. which they dis • covered against the Throne. As they were given rope enough they soon hated therivelves, and shewed that it was !ill their own invention. They cried out 'lf the Allies go, France is ruined.' In their acceptation of the word, France means themselves and friends ; therefore, they were right : but they added, a Revolution will take place. This was afah.e predic tient: France wants no Revolution—she is content with her Constitution—and hopes, by shoving her pacific disposition, to merit a still grea . .er portion of I:be:te. There therefore, only thf Ultras who .:war a Revolution, and it is not to he dreaded from them, fur the extent of their courage was well ascer tained in 1815. But if a still stronger proof were wanting that the sole object of the nation is the strict and simple execution of the Charter, we may alledge, tha , . the Law fur the Suspe;lsion of the Liberty of the P:Obi expired on the Ist-instant, and that the Press is now free : and we appeal to the Ultras themselves, whether even the journals or pa:nphlets have at tempted to abuse it ? Nt, •; nor will they, we are persaaded. they have heretofore been vi:ilent, itl k bec:swe, twirl; resisted, thei ::ornetimes let passion usurp the place of reason. " From the wise measures swirl to he tlie intention of the Ilea? Minister of the Interior to adopt, we may argue that the 19th tenon y spill have its Colbert, and that Louis X Vill. will not he le.:s foitunate in his Minister than his great ancestor." RE WOULD. •Ciu+ i 5 the best world that we live in, To spell& or to ur to Live in' ibl• to brirtow or beg, or to t , r a nun's own, JJVC, wort world that ever was known . _ Ye,terday at three o'clock anothor Cabinet Counci: was held at the house of Loid CASTLEtti.M.II, St. blues's-square, which wai attended by the same Metribet . s as on Thursday, being the whole of the Cabinet except the Lone CitaNern.Lort. They con tinued in deliberation till half-past five o'clock, when they broke up. Yesterday, being the Duke of GLoucEsmn's birth day, his 'loyal Highness's tradesmen illuminated their houses in the evening. The Earl of LtvEttroot. gave a grand . dinner on Thursday, at Fife House to a large party : among thorn were-- The Speaker of the blouse of Commons, the Attornty atul Solieltor Calera', Mr. Serjeant Copley, Mr. Ifulti-onl, )Ir. Alb:al:Got, the Right Hop. Cl:Arks Long, lion. NV( ilesley roir, Mr. Bathurst, Mr. Canning, Mr. Brogtlen, Mr. Pct 4, Mr. Goulburn, Mr. Croktr, Mr. Lushiagton, Mr. Sturges Bourne, &c. Yesterday his Lordship entertained another party. Major-General Sir EDWARD BARNES, who was Adjutant-General of the army under the Duke of WELLINGTON, is going out immediately on the Stall of Ceylon, to succeed Major. General A. C. JACKSON, who is coming home in consequence of ill health. — The accounts recently received from Ceylon are by no means favourable. Last week, two parties of soldiers, one going to oin BoLt VAR, and the other Sir GREGOR M‘Gniccon, aving landed from their respective ships, lying at Gravesend, after getting drunk, began to coarrel, which ended in a regular battle, with swords and bayonets. Several of them were dangerously woun ded. Some were apprehended, and committed to Maidstone jail. The late Dr. WoLcor, it seems, expressed an earnest wish that his remains might be deposited as near as possible to those of BUTLER, the celebrated Author of Hudikas, in St. Psturs, Covent-garden. Thursday, four very respectable Corn-Factors, in tll2 Corti-Exclonlv , iiciended payment. - AMERICA. We have received a farther sctles,of New Papers to the H.'h ulz. ttc)usi.: O 1 ItOREbENT.t.r.V.: 7 -5, DEC. 10. •on motion of Mr. 1 ) 1.1.-1".4 NTS, iL was resolved, " That the President of the Upized St.:tes be recines•td 5. cause to Ll_• laid iwtore the lions: of ite.pres..x.trives the pro. tees:Snit:4 which h.tv,. Lem had uxler Ely; crit'rled •An _kg for the gradual tuella •of the 7of dm. S , .ater; tho mama. r of shii-o have lytzo p::: tri the steels, and of what class, and th.: qtruniry and Ved of l'nuteriAls have been procured in to.nplii.nee with the prav!sions of the said Act ; dnd also the suns of money which have been pitt ie,t of the fond created by said Act, and for what ohec's stud wise the contracts which have b , en entered i••to in exceutten lof the slid Act, on whielroanni*s ins) , not yet have beep ad - - vane. d." Fonr.totr MERCHA NT SF:: M' HOLM then resolved itself into a Committee of the irhole, Mr. Nelson in the Chair, on the Bill to altho-i7e the :12- prolienAon of foreign seamed deserting from mu , chant ve4sels in the ports of the United S:atec. Ns,sv YORK, DEC. " FROM Rro JANEIRO.—By the arrival yesterday. of the brig Janes, Monuocic, we have advice from Rio Janeiro to the 4th of October. A passeriger states that Anrwas, with POOO troopt, had been sac cessful in several late skirmishes with the Portuguese ; and about the Ist of Sep; her, three leagues die,- tant from the Portuguese lines at Monte Video, he had an engagement with them, in which he took two hundred horse, and from thirty to sixty prisoners, and 10-t but one man. " News had just reached Monte Video from Chili, that the Spanish Pats Tots had had several engage ments on the coast of Chili, and had been successful in every instance. " A large Spanish ship had arrived at Monte Vi deo from the coast of Chili, where she had been cap tured by the Patriots in a number of small boats. " Mr. W. P. Drertso)t, of Philadelphia, supercargo of the brig James, Mmtnocrt, is the hearer of a di•i patch from Tuosms MusisTEß, jun. Esq. American Coß,ul at Rio Janeiro. " Markets very dull at Riolineito—produce very high—Coffee 23 cents. per cwt. and scarce." N L STTI.I.TG E SC E. FALMOUTH, JAFUATZY 15. Wind W.S.W.—The following Paciets arc now in the ItoaLL, viz. the Duke of Ke.it, for Lisbon ; Duke :Nork, for Gibraltar and Malta ; Princess Eliza beth, foi me; ica ; Charlotte, far Jamaica ; and the Fiaiais Freeling, for Brazils. PLYMOUTH, ARV 1.1. Came in the Oscar, LINDaEIIY, fi.An St. Uhe's for Norway, leaky, and mmt unload ; Lord %Veliiagton, AMY, from London to Oporto, but driven back by gales after being out twelve weeks, and was off the Bar ti.e 17th Novembe} last. PORTSMOUTH, JANUARY is. Wind S.W. heavy squalls.rrived the Prince Regent, WHITE, from the Isle of France, Cape of Good Hope, and Sc. 2f3 , .h April, 1: 4 01 October, and 251.11 Novamher ; she cipetiem c.i heavy gale off the Cape, wi.ich obliged her tc: 500 bags of sugar and SC% eral cases, overboard ; afterwards put into Simons Bay, and refitted ; spoke the Jane's Desire, for Rotterdam, in the Chopi of the Channel, all well.—Sailed, the Ruby, Cu . PNIA for Hull ; and his :Majesty's cutter STARLING, fur Guernsey. DEAL, JANVARY 15. Wind S. W. fine moderate we.trlier.—Came down from the River, the Baring, Lame, with convicts for New South Wales; Governor llarcourt, NV it.soy4, fv Demerara ; Prince of Orange, SILK, for --; John CALLOW, for Malta ; llonduras Packet, L%x'roN, fl Barhadoes ; and rernain with the outward-6::und : before, all well. AMSG ATr., JANUARY 15. Wind S. W.—Came it. several vessels for shelter. MILFORD, JANC ART 14. Arrived the brit; Mentot, o.:nun, from Cardiff' Naplec. tvith loss (1' bulwarks. N • El: poor,. J A'•:I:Ally i s. The Waterloo, rusiAN, (a Dutch ship), from tacit, sailed 13th August, for Antwerp, has put 'het e. The Ilarriti, ttIIA., It oat Prince L.i wa/ Island for Liverfaxil, was ..fronded in Ban!! y the 9th inst. 'Die Catharine, —, fiom Dr(,glief to Liverpool, with butter and linen cloth, v. as on shore at Bellai;hati Point--crew saved, and of the cargo will hr.' SAved. PENZANCE, .11NUARY 13. Arrived the R ohe, Pit tiaPs, from St. Michael's Lotion, with much dainag‘% • -DARTMOUTH. JANUARY 14. Arrived the Active, Hu. 110r1 the Canui with damage. WHITE.IikvEN, JAYUARY 13. The schooner mentioned 70 , ,terday .proves to be the Edward, BANII..trLD, of !.:•cilly, from Seville to Dublin, the carzo all lust, and vessel gone to pieces; crcw saved. 110T.YI1E. 1 1), JANUARY 14. Wind W.N.W. blowing hard. Caute in the Mi nerva, P.:47trrr, front Cork to Lonittn, having sprung her mainmat:, and otherwise much damitt-ed in her hull and sails; Placentia, FIELD, fr.Nni St. Andrew's to Dartmouth, having sprang her main mast ; Expedition, of Bridgewater, Navin` cut away her maintopmast, and some others for shelter. GLASGOW, JANUARY 13. The Ayrshire, M‘PnEasoN, for Demerara, put back, having experienced several severe gales in 4 t. George's Channel, a,tdhaving sustained some tritinig damage. CUSTOM-MOUSE, LONDON, JANUARY 15. E: TL 11:1) .fi4waitus—The t'ot asts, Cartney, hum a l; the Regent, Brownirg, ftvm Scsi:!c; tbe Heart of Oak, itc.l % and Marpret, Sumn.:rn..lef., front Leghorn; Branstoriii, Stott, from i‘larseilles; Lore. Wen, I arab, front Calcutta. Margris Wellerlty, Napier, for Grenada; Lady Macknrostb, Copes, for Y.:catan; Zeermanto, Ping, for Rotterdam; Jaact, Wylie ftir ?.ntwerp; Brilliant, lamas, f.r C a pe of Good hare; Spceslwell, Gibbons, for Lisbon; Miura., Tremaynr, for St. Miclia c i's; Ulysses, 'ilauson, for Coperkageu; Jtiri•er, SCuith, frr Curaos. hrattris Otneraans— the Par:von, ILde, fcr Grenada; ;Itid Matilda, Whiley, for Antwcrr. Yesterday a Court of Directers was held at tle Eaat ladia House, when the following Captains wt:e sworn into the command of their respective ships : Captain C. WZLITIAT. Veneral Ilarr4, for Pante of Wits' ht‘nd And China; am: Cad ;.:in T. IrTAGGAuz, Lr ;Coy and P. ng..l. z t C 5 . 1 .. 1 '• 1 1 ii ' I 4 I ; . . -. tt • " . I ? , ' . 0 . ) i 1 . lit t for . hn, for . l as 1 ' 1 r. ff . to , 1 13a- A t in .'4 . ird's t ' 4 Bay seda ivelt ' part •.'. i 's for • ;Tics, 1 . , , ,