Star. — London, England, 1811-09-19 00:00:00

SICILT: Recent circumstances have excited a deep interest, in the affairs of Sicily. By the annexed letter it will be seen, that our Min;ster, Lord Wm. BENTINCIt, ar rived at a m'st seasonable nit -intent. Our acconnts are 20 days later than the advises noticed yesterday. " On board the Cumberland, off Palermo, July 26. 46 The day after we p aced, an order was given by her Sicilian Majesty, directing all the English travel lers to quit Palermo without delay, in consequence, as she said, of their having interfered too much, and taken liberties tco great respecting the Government of the Country.—The same day, the Princes Villa Franca, Castel Nuevo, D'Archy, Bellmonte, and another, were seized by her guards, and sent on board a Sicilian man of war lying fn the Bay. They are banished to Pantilaria,. and to two other Tslanc!s, for having, as her Proclamation says, conspired against their Sovereign, in protesting against her tax of one per cent, and apply'ng for the assistance of Great Britain to withstand the lawful authority at his Ma jesty, Ferdinand.—By some means the Queen got possession of a petition to our Government, signed, st is said, by no less than 52 Sicilian Barons ; the ob ject of which was, to ascertain if they would h sup parted in the attempt to form a new Government. — The old has been quite outrageous;—she swears she will he independent of the English ; that she will accept of no further pecuniary aid from them ; and she declared that she would oppose the landing of the Minister, Lord William Bentinck. She has, however, cooled upon this last resolution, as yester day morning his Lordship went on shore, having ar rived the preceding evening in the Fame. On his appearance, a party of the Royal Horse Guards were ordered to attend on his person. All here are in high expectations that his Lordship will put matters to rights, and that he will intercede for the unfortunate Noblemen who are banished, and who are not only the most distinguished for rank, but the Most popular characters in the island.—The Doke of Orleans,while supping at Bagarea, had his hou surrounded by about 20 of the Royal Guards, who endeavoured to Make him prisoner. Those in the house, however, secured themselves ani resisted, and one or two fell, I understand, in the affair. We do not hear how it has ended, but I suppose, unless our Minister inter feres, his Royal Highness will also be sent off into exile." AMERICAN PAPERS. NEW-YORK, AUGUST S. ARE VIE FBENCII DECREES oFti ?—Captain Bacon, of the ship Spartan, of Plymouth, (Mass ) who ar rived here on Saturday evening in 47 days from Lon don, informs us, that on the 14th of July he was boarded by a French frigate, who enquired where the ship was from, and on learning from London, in formed Captain Bacon that he must burn her, as she was not worth ,carrying in. They then proceeded to examine the papers and letters, and a ftewards returned them. They then informed Captain Bacon, that in the course of three weeks they had captured twenty. five English and American vessels, several cf whom they had burnt. One was an American brig from Lisbon bound to Boston, burnt the day before; and another, the ship Betsey, from Lisbon for Boston.— He did not seem inclined to give Capt. B. the names of the other vessels, but told him be was very fortu nate in not having a valuable cargo, as in that case lie should have sent him in, and if he had a moderate cargo of any kind, he must have tsarist her ; but as she was oily in ballast, he permitted the Spartan to proceed.—The pilot who brought the ship Spartan up inf rms us, that on Friday last, off Lnng Island, he spoke the ship lss, from Monte Video, bound to Pro vidence, R. I. abe Captain of which said, that the place htd,surrendered to the patri Its, and that they bad declared themselves independent. PIULADELPHIA, AUGU:iT s. Tits CCP is etnne—The long-impentiirg. ire, the smothered hatred, the disguised war which lass ed s o many aspects, which has ult i mat el y and promised r..tlress, and professed justice only to vary the farms of injustice —wbch has oppressed the commerce, corrupted the morals, insulted the dig nity, and violated the rights of this free anctindepen - dent nation —which has murdered our people, and carried thousands into the mast adieus of all bondage —at length assumes an aspect less treachet nus, be ' cause a more opened and determined hostility. Great Britain at length avows her injustice, and once more menaces our independence. From the seat of the United States Government, and from England, we az the same moment have re ceived advice which corroborate each other, and de termine the fact that Great Britain has resolved to make war upon us. ' [The Philadelphia paper then mentions the arrival of the Russell, from Liverpool, with an account of the condemnation of the ship Fox, and other vessels.] Such is the substance of the infoimation by the ar rival of the Russell at New York. Prior to the receipt of these advices, we had receiv ed authentic informatinn of the course already pur • sued by Mr. Foster, at Washington. Upon his first arrival we bad suggested, that five or six weeks would determine whether the " intents" of the British Go vernment were " wicked or charitable." The youth and incons:qiience of this Gentleman had induced an ' epin;oe, that he was intflteled to be one of those roes . aengers whom Pope Sextils V. described, by the sanootlineas of their chins, better adapted to cony sy Viet dcax than raeript:---to pat take of a carnival than to announce hoisterons war. Vs - e supposed him sent, Ike some of his predecessors, t s ilioigne ; or, like o t hers, to amuse or abuse our Governinent. I-lam rnnntl, List n-., Merry, Inakine, Rose, Jackson, and ?gorier, had in succession been employed upon this raissi •n—and upon c .nsidering their course of con- I curt, it vas rot easy to believe that this young Gen fa-man a:as to be the.agent of a policy,,more auspi -1 e nu,. The distresses in which the detestable nature . of lb it:sli policy had involved that nation, induced , s Ine o believe that ii_ essity had tatieht leer justice, I find the coming of Mr. roster was, with a credulity which has never been diminished by disappointment i oby reason, considered by thousands as the final iimeasure which was to heal all former wounds, and put a stop so future injuries. , Others, and we among this class, believed, that as he could not have been the person selected. if any thing like substantial justice was to he done, his mis sion was to be only a business of amusement and pro crastination —that he was to make no distinct pro mise‘, but to carry on a discussion of contingent pro p Isitiors, and to give aid to Messrs. Pickering and Co. in their undertakings. It appears that we had mistaken the character of the mission, and that the Minister's valet would have I exechted the service upon which Mr. Foster was sent, with as much skill and as much good manners as the diplomatist himself. Mr. Foster has fallen nothing short of the insolence of one of his predecessors, in the style and port which he has assumed—and he has exceeded him b perso nal indecorum and even personal rudeness. On the snhject of the Little Belt, our Government i displayed an alacrity to give the most satisfactory ex ' planations, and it is presumed did so ; but on the sub ' ject of the nun-importation law it was replied, that acts of legislature belonged to the Congress of the United States, which would meet in November : and it would be with that Body to act in their province as wisdom and justice should direct. But that, on the question as it related to France or 1 any other nation, the United States would not inter fere hut in concerns of the United States alone; that the United States had given to Great Britain, in com mon with France, a fair and liberal opportunity to obtain not only an uninterrupted commercial inter course with the United States, but, if she had accepted 1 the terms, an exclusion of France in her favour ; that Great Britain had not chosen to pursue that path, con sistent with justice and her commercial interests, by leaving the flag of the United States with free pos session of the neutral rights of independent nations— that France had embraced the proposition, and that it had now become an engagement for which the na tional faith of the United States was pledged, so long as Great Britain chose to persist in her aggressions on neutral commerce—that as it related to France, she had complied with the engagement, and the United States flag was, as to her, unrestrained and uninterrupted on the high seas—and the United States had no right to interfere in any matters of dispute be tween the two belligerents, in which she was not con cerned, and could not, and would not, make any re presentation on the subject. This is the substance of the information we have obtained, and it is the substance only that we take upon us to give ; the phraseology is our own. SPANISH PAPERS. GUERRILLA PARTIES. (From the Coneiso.) rt is only at a time when, though the majority of the nation is animated with the most noble and heroic sentiments, the disgraceful envy, the barbarous pre judice, and the vile intrigues of some unworthy Spa niards do no less mischief to unhappy Spain than the bayonets of her enemies :—it is only at such a time, we repeat, that it could be considered as in any de gree necessary to enforce so manifest a truth as the advantage and the glory which result to Spain from the conservation of the parties of patriots. But the indignation which we feel at seeing these heroes, the glory of Spain, insidiously attacked, and their merit underrated, prevents us from remaining silent. What would Spain have been, had it not been for the patriotic parties ? What nation is the world ,ever presented a spectacle comparable to the war, which 'daily, and through the whole Peninsula, the Spanish patriots wage against those hosts of the Ty ' rant, which are the terror of all other nations ? Who feeds the fire of our holy insurrection ? In entire provinces now subject for years to the Vandals, what proof would there be that they had not sweived from the patriotic feelings to which the whole nation is re sponsive, if these brave men, who reckon as many? triumphs as days, were not seen issuing forth from lamong them ? Even apart from the advantages of intercepting convoys, and of diminishing every day the numbers of the enemy, by their slaughter, by making numberless prisoners, by facilitating and pro moting, chiefly by their proximity, an advantage un attainable by our armies, desertion among the enemy : all these considerations apart, is not the circumstance alone of rendering it impossible for the intrusive Go vernment to organise the internal administration, and - benumbing its communications, one of the greatest services which can be performed to the nation ? It is undeniable, ve confess, that with parties alone w.t can never conquer : to trumph over armies, ar m;e; are necessary ; their organization should be the grand o' , ject : but it is equally certain, that, in the sate in which the nation has been since the com mencement of the contest, and, still more, in its pre sent condition, we shall as little triumph with armies alone. For let us not deceive ourselves : where is the probaßity that an army ill-orgailised (for both time and the necessary means are wanting for that pur pose) ; an army taw when compared-with the enemy,. who has been twenty years engaged in constant war; an army so deficient in cavali y, in which the enemy is so powerful ; an army, in fine, whose officers are unequal to those of the enemy, from the subaltern to the General in Chief, (for it is necessary to confess it,—we do not know that man among us who knows how to conduct a body of 40, 50, or 6) 000 men, and still less one who, with proper intelligence, can direct the three branches of infantry, c.ivalry, and artillery) ; that an army, then, of tnis composition, can triumph over the enemy solely because it is an army !—The thing I; destitute of probability. But the reverse is the case when guerrillas come in aid of the army. The former, by intercepting the convoys, cnt off the subsistence and correspondence of the enemy ; diminishing the number of his troops, not only in prop ution to the number of men whom ti,ey k 11 or take in every encounter, but these whom they oblige him to employ in the escort of convoys and couriers, and on the military roads, which be Ends it necessary to maintain by a 'number of troops ; our force is thus indirectly increased. And what is all this but tAtilitAting to our armies an ultimate triumph, which, in any other way, if not impossible, would at least be doubtful ? Let us adopt, then, with eagerness, all proper measures for the organization and completion of the guerrillas, which wage open the enemy a species of warfare more steam:ma and • . appalling than any they have ever known : but let ' him be regarded with suspicion, or, to speak without' circumlocution, as an enemy to his country, who is an enemy to those parties which are its ornament and defence. The Minister of war has submitted a system of re gulations for the guerrillas, the substance of which is as follows :—They are divided into three classes; the I first comprehending the greater parties, which may act in advance of the armies, form divisions, atc. such as those of the Empecinado, Mina, 1). Julian San chez, &c. ; the second, consisting of those who con stantly harass the enemy, even though they should make inroads on the villages ; and the third, of those who are employed sllely in cutting oft supplies.— The guerrillas are to be all under the orders of the General in Chief of their respective districts, who shall decide upon their respective amount, selecting the chiefs and officers. They are not to admit into their troop deserters, nor men comprehended in the' levies, but shall bring them to the armies ; they shall pursue robbers, and abstain as much as they can from all inroads on the villages. There shall be in every army xn officer with the title of Inipector of Guerrillas, who shall review them from time to time. In the Sitting of the Cortes of the 10th of Au gust, a warm discussion took place on the above sys tem of regulations, which was rejected, and a special Commivre appointed to draw up another Of a more practicable nature. CORTES. SITTING OF TUC 10TH. The Commissioner from the office of the Treasury of Spain presented himself, to give an account of the transactions of that department during the first six months of the present year. He gave a description of the state of the various provinces, as far as information could be procured, giving an exposition of their wants, their sacrifices, and the devastations they had suffered, and extolling their ardent patriotism and resolution to continue their efforts ; in proof of which, he mentioned the en thusiasm with which the Third Army was received when it advanced to Granada. During the last six months there had entered the Treasury 93,730,000 reale', of which 57 millions came from America. Expences of the 4th Army, 27,125,000; of Marine, 12,000,000: of Stores, 17,000,000 ; the Civil List, 2,000,000. The mint in this city had coined to the amount of 9,899,00 Teals, and the mint at Valencia had coined more than 1,000,000. He proceeded to give a circumstantial account of the produce, expenditure, and deficit of the provinces of Leon. Murcia, Valencia, Catalonia, Asturias, Gallicia, Soria, and Avila, and of the remittances in money which had been sent to them, which he computed within the Last six months to amount to 23,708,503 reals, besides a prodigious quantity of provisions and other stores. He dwelt particularly on the propriety of recog nizing, without delay, the national debt s as the only means of giving stability to public credit, without which, both the direct and indirect taxes were insuf ficient to support the war, and concluded by enume ; rating the measures which the Regency had adopted to give impulse to public spirit, and recommending for that purpose the utility of provincial Juntas in the districts occupied by the enemy, with which the Re , gency.held relations of the greatest importance. The I Minister then withdrew. CADIZ, AUGUST 14. According to an 611Pci.11 account, dated the 6th instant, which bas been received by the General com manding the camp at Gibraltar, Colonel Courteen, Governor of MAI bella, has come over to our parties. The port of Palma, in Majorca, I as been declared open to the commerce of the Indies, because there is no part in the province of Catalonia which is now open to that commerce. The Regency has appointed a confidential officer to examine into the conduct of the Marquis of Cam. poverde, with regard to the late military events in Catalonia. DECREE Waif REGARD TO SZIGNIORIES. AUGUST 5, MI. 14 The General and Extraordinary Cortes of the Kingdom, desirous of removing the obstacles which may have been opposed to the good government, in crease of popglation, and prosperity of the Spanish Monarchy, decree : " 1. That henceforward all Jurisdictional Seign/ories, of what ever class and condition, shall be incorporated with the nation. " 2. The appointment of all magistrates and other pu!lic tune tionaries shall he proceeded in by the same orders, and in the same manner, as in the townships of Royal jurisd.ction. " 3. All public employments of the above description refugia" suppressed after the publication of the present decree. " 4. The words VASSAL and VASSALAGE are abolished, mg all payments, whether real or persona!, which owe their orie*! to a jurisdictional title, with the exception of those which pi* teed from free contract in the exercise of the sacred rigida - 4f property. " 8. The Territorial Seigninries remain henceforward in t • _shit of other rights =ached to private properly, it not of a description that, by their nature, they ought to be basurpo IS+ Is the nation. " 6. All con racts, bargains, and agreements which hart been made in regard to rents, dues, &c. between those called !midi and Vassals, shall be co nsidered as contracts but wren oat individual and another. " 7. 1 he privileges called exclusive, privative, and peohib'tive, and having the same origin as seigniotks—such as those of cline, of Aching, of ovens, mills, waterscourks, fores , t, Ste. are abolish— ed ; the free use of them remaining to the kite:lmams, in tailor mity to the municipal laws established in every township. " 8. Those who have purchased the above prerogatives for a valuable consideration, shall be repaid such tapttitl as appears in the deed et purchase; and those who enjyy them u a reward for great and acknowledged services shall be inelemntfied in ano ther way. " 9. The nation will acknowledge and pay these capital sums when they are ascertained in the proper Courts, and wi'l pay an interest of 3 per cent. upon them till the capital is liquidated. " 10. At whatever time the possessors shall present their claims, they shall be heard ; and the nation will be hound by the result of them, as if specified in the preceding article. " ii. licncelorstrard no one ca. call himself toed of Vassals, exercise jurisdiction, appoint judges, or excicise any of the claims and yrivilegts comprehended in the present decree; and lie who dues so, 'hall lose tee right of lndromiticatton in the cases that have been specified. IN The present Decree shall be communicated to tfie Council of Regency, who shall take the necessary measures for its due execution, causing the same to be printed and circulated." . • Twenty teals yam make. a dollar. FRINCif PAPERS. PARIS, AUGUST IS. Vice-Admiral Villaret Joyeuse has set out to as sume the Government of Venice, to which he has been appointed by the Emperor. The Consi itution American frigate arrived at Cher bourg on the Oth, wish Mr. Joel Bartow, Ambassa dor from the United Statls, and two Consuls. On the 9th, the Emperor hcld • a Council of COPl merce at Compiegne. They write from Madrid, that his Majesty the rin g of Spain means shortly to visit the province of Cata lonia and the kingdom of Arragon. Besides the daily journals of politics and literature, there are published in Pans 35 other journals or pe • riodical works, upon din erent branches of the arts and sciences. The receipts of the different Theatres of this capi tal, have been much greater in 1810, than they were in 1808 and 1809, when they amounted to about 4,400,000 francs. They amounted in 1810 to 5,224,102 franca. This increase it principally attri butable to the concourse of strangers which the mar riage of his Majesty and the concomitant fetes drew to Paris. PRESBURG, AUGUST 30. All the Deputies to the States of the Realm haricg arrived, the Diet was solemnly opened yesterdar At half-past nine in the forenoon the Magnates of Hungary repaired to the Hall, where the Deputies were waiting for them. His Imperial Highness tile Archduke Palatine took his place at the head 4if the Magnates ; M. Personnal, Counsellor of the Ceurt, and M. George Majkalt, at the head of the Deputies of the State. They delivered very eloquent discourses on the circumstances which had called them toge ther ; and two speakers from the body of the States replied to them. Two Committees then mutually examined the powers of the respective Deputies and the Directory proceeded to select 1 Deputation of Members to proceed to-day to Schlossliof, to preser:t the homage of the Diet to their Imperial Majesties, to inform them it was constituted, and to Invite thery• to repair to it. These preliminaries being finisbe t, the Archduke Palatine, accompanied by all the States, went in procession to the church of St. Sava. our, where a solemn mass was chaunted, and after wards Te Denys. . THE EV 1.. N. 1 Isl, Sl'Alt. LONDON. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19. PRICE OF STOCKS THU DAY Al - ONE O'CLOCC. S per Cc. Cons. for motley 430 —Ditto for account 64 a per Ct. Reduced shut—Navy S per Cent. 94 4 par Cent. sbut—Bonds les.l7s. rnt.—Ontniuto par db. Rub. SWs (M.) Is. die. to Is. pre.—Ditto (510444.54. press. REPORT OF THE CAPTURE OF CIUDAD ---- - RODRIGO. The following important article on this subject has been received at the Admiralty : EXTRACT FROM TR& JoURN AI, Off TR& IXPRESI PROW. ON I.IZR VOYAGE BROM GIBRALTAR TO ENGLAND.' " August 30, 1811.— L st. 36.44. N. long. 8.9. W. 'Cape St. Vincent, N.N.W. distant two leaguei; at 4 P.M. spoke his Majesty's ship SEAPLOWER, out two days from Lisbon, having a transport under canvoy bound to Cada ; Lieutenant STEWART informed me, that Lord WILLINGTON had attacked and tarred CIUDAD RODRIGO." An Anhok Mail, which arrived this morning, has furnished us with the followihg articles of intellageuce from" the Continent : CONSTANTINOPLE. JULY 10. The army of the Grand Vizier is pr,,vided with necessaries of every description in aljndance. The Government daily expedites cuur;crs with most pressing orders to accelerate the march of the tro Jps from Asia to the camp Of the army of the Danube. The Turkish fleet is now at the mouth of the Bos phorus, but it is not completely equipped. ITALY, AUGUST 10. They write from Corfu, that the enemy has raised the blockade of that island, and that all his vessels have disappeared. The navigation is at present cum. pletcly free. COPENHAGEN, AUGUST SO. By order of his Majesty, it has been made known to all those residing in Denmark, that the flags t.i Hanover, avid the towns of Hamburgh, Bremen, nil Lubeck, ceased to exist from the moment the Han seatic towns formed part of the French Empire. FRONTIERS OF HUNGARY, AUGUS I' IS: Since it has been known that the Turks were as sembling forces neat Nissa and Weddin, all the troops have held themselves in readiness to match for Sery iA* —Some thousands of Servians have already arrived from the camp of Delegrade, and at 'amok not a day passes without fresh reinforcements arriving.— Two thousand Servians have marched for the hot.. tiers, to support the Cordon established along the Drina. They are wonting with great activity at Bel lgrade, and all the other fortresses in Servia, in pre• paring military stores of every description. All let. tens received from Wallathia unanimously agree in stating, that the opening of the campaign has not I been favourable to the Russians, and that they have successively evacuated all the fortified places situated on the right bank of the Danube. They have even, it is said, abandoned Silistria and Rasgrad, after hay. sag demolished their fortifications. It will be recollected, that on the 4th of July NI Turks attacked a corps which was encamped near t:t.tt town, and that they were repulsed. We learn, that !lifting received fresh reinforcemen•ti they AgAin at tacked the Russiantwith such impettto‘ty un the sth artsl 6th, that they compelled them to repass the Da• .