Star. — London, England, 1816-02-06 00:00:00

r. to s Tol • I r obs eilient a goitinign tatt, tiwy nil Aerial obi is-their &vestige according to law. 0 wrhey supported, as well as circum s tances would r ime, the an t monarchy, in the midst of foreign ivasion and demotic' treason—of revolution and of ovation. From the midst of this chaos arose a . Coartit.pile. We do not-prbfess to admire it in it abstract —we do not contend that it was peen grlY adapted to the Spanish character, or habitudes, r circumstances i but, such as it was,- it recognised p o hereditary right of Ferdinand to-the throne, and p e ight, no less sacred, of the People' to a represen- On which had existed in Spain centuries before the of Bourbon was connected with that country. • Cunstkution too, be it good or bad, was rear by Foreign rowers; and, what is still more 'al, it was a::cepted and is to by the whole Spain. It is notegsy to say that this oath h as no d i ng e fficacy whatever. It is not Casy to say that who wish to :Where to it are mere rebels. tYO. ' wady, it must be admitted that the natiol b is •j. Perhaps those who are inclined to support Xing against the constitution of the Cortes are - ma jority: but upon what principles they rest ;reuse, it is somewhat difficult to discover. It not cough to say, that they are in favour of " the hereditary right." .6 Vitiate :hewn that .the Cortes were so too t— eimi that right be defined by some legitimate i hriektbs State must beeome - a pure despotism, Fi . c h D ever has been the lawful character of the ls b Government. Let it be granted that'the w a tut i o o of the Cones was too wide a departure mm the ancient fundamental laws of the State-. a 3 was too abstract in its conception, or too de persticin us lifilapteS: it ..•. surely better than Wilke to the will of the Usurper. At the time its formation, then, it was surely a benefit confer et Spain ; and the Patriots who thus benefited ' country are at least entitled to indulgence for errors they may have committed. 'On the other what is the system of their opponents ? We not. It icwrgped up in mystery.. King Fer n, on taking the power into his own hands, so. ly pronlised to convoke the Cortes. That pro is aithenn unfulfilled, and no satisfactory reason *in tor its long deo?. It is said, what is all this We have no right to scrutinize severely the ne•.oc conduct of our Allies.'—Granted ; but re is uo severity in a fair and candid discussion of groundi of open contest between two parties, with bof whom we have at different periods been in ance. It a civil war should actually break out niece these parties, we might bare to interfere by ice ; if a civil war should appear probable, we light hate to interfere by negotiation. Certainly se bat.hotheaded .sealots or malignant incep t* wield interfere at all without urgent necessity; I J,60,_ eustaity..may possibly be pretested by a r and explicit statement of ,our sentiments in the insane. 4 it is won these grounds that we maintain, not it we hart a right to libel King Ferdinand—not-that ought to load him with those opprobrious epithets icb properly belong, to a Robespierre or a Bona ite.but that the fair judgment of Englishmen ibt to be fairly given on the points at issue between pad the lase Cortes ; that, if given without pre qie se passion, it must tarry its weight—that it 7teed to moderate the pretensions of both par t, and that it may ultimately preserve Spain frog, horrors of civil warfare. The men who have td the part of Patriots in Spain, have done it tar dy and sincerely, under the impulse of sentiments most dignified, and in the midst of perils the st imminent. Very different indeed are they from wretches' who borrow this honourable appellation France, who were by turns blood-thirsty dema pm and shameless plunderers, and creeping pan sof tyranny. The same principle . , therefore, that Os as respect even the errors of the one, renders ileti to all the hypocritical and lying pretences of littler. The same sentiment which makes' us con- Otte with pain the exile of an Arguelles, leads ',rejoice in that of a Foucbe or a Carnot." his morning the Paris Papers of Friday arrived 1 t Readers will perceive that the report of the , Ph Journals being prohibited in France is sub-: I ill, true 1 All the Coffee-Houses and Reading- 1 filg in Paris are shut by an order of the Police. three Englishmen detained for the affair of Aura have been refused liberation on bai1...... have, through the British Ambassador, insisted admitted to a participation in the privileges admen. similarly circumstanced. rioavis OMIZTTIL at !VINCE or TBURSIDAY. Coffee-houses and Shops Rewires et iStiOpU s persons were accustomeZ to read the Journals, RI and will not be opened again until after a order (esterisation) of the Police. Ina iXTRAORDIN ART OP THURSDAY MDRNiNGI. last intelligence from Warsaw announces that has arrived in that city, from which place be' et cut for St. Petersburgb. ay several hundred Russian soldiers from it Grace, set out on their retuin to their country. day morning a detachment of 400 volunteers Royal Guards, entered Paris by the South all these young mess belong for the most the best families of our Southern Provinces. t letters frost Lyons concur in stating, that perfect ikangt.illity reigns in that city. The of Gsvois, Cvadrieus f and Revedtaier. --; • bine leen disarinea.—liiie .eke bi the %dotal Guards, and the activity of the troops of the line, assure us mere than: irverliir the publiC repot*. Messrs. Vrilson, Brio, and Hutchinson have not obtaihed their liberty. u a Journal had stated t—oo the contrail, k has bees refused to them by an Or donnance of the Chamber of the Council, conform to the conclusions of the prosecutor for the King. The accused; it is said, wish to appeal frinn this Or donnanee. They have besides called for the influ. ence of the British. Ambassador to obtain for theft' the smile advantiges which they think the trench laws grant to natives. ' "*One,St. Ursep, a physician in Bonaparte's armies, who WAS at St. Petersburg% having spoken indis creetly on political subjects, has been sent to Siberia. Baron Pommereul has obtained a passport for Brussels, where he will only stay a few days, being abnucto hide himself in Germany. - Genital Vandiunme, who was a few days since at Cassell. is preparing to proceed to America. The Russian Guards are all clothed in English wbollefis. This fact is remarkable, because the fa mous Ukase of the Slst December, 1810, expressly prohibiting the introduction into Russia of foreign woollens, silk or cotton, stands unrepealed. The Paris Papers received to day exhibit anther lamentable proof of the morale of the disbanded French soldiery. One of these 'wretches, named'Magloird, on receiving sentence of death on Wednesday last, Ifor at least fifty robberies and attitnots to murder, coolly and impudently addressed the Judges, expres sing his hopes that they would order him “ white bread and wine" until he was hanged, as he was a poor man and had no money. The Chamber of Deputies on Thursday eraisoccu pied in a Secret Committee, with discussing a Projet for bettering the condition of the French Clergy. This proposed law embraces six points: 1. Religion is the basis it all educatioa.-2. The Schools and Colleges shall be under the controul of the Archbi shops and Bishops, in concurrence with the Local Auttiorities.—S. '[he Clergy may increase the number of seminaries for education according to the population of any district, &c.-4. The Bi shops are to appoint the Principal, and the Prin cipal the Professors of the Colleges. 5. The pre. sent Universities of France shall subsist under the controul of the Minister of the Interior ; but the al. liance between religion and morals shall be cultiva. ted, instead of mere literary distinctions. 6. 'The Central Commission of Public Instruction, instituted by Bonaparte, shall be suppressed. PARIS, JANUARY Si.-(PRIVATE The following details are in a letter from Lyons, 'brought by the Courier yesterday : 66 At the moment when the disbnrbances took place, General Grenier, formerly Member of the Pro- visional Government, was at Lyons. Nothing indi cated.that he had taken any part in the movement which had manifested itself; fie was, however, ar rested, tried}, and ihot, in the course of the day. Ge neral Grenier was Chief of the Staff to Prince Eugene, -luring the late campaigns previous to 1814. 66 The Police went to the house of one of the richest merchants in the city to arrest bin, bo missed % and they pursued him into a back cabinet where he took refuge, here he took a match which he had, lighted a candle, and attempted to set fire to a barrel of gunpowder which was near the place. At the I moment, when he was about to carry his project into execution his finger was cut off by a gendarme ; he was arrested, and shot six hours afterwards. - 44 It is said, moreover, here, that the Police of Lyons have distoiered that the inhabitants of the ad. jacent country, with whom the movement was con certed, were to have advanced upon the city at the sounding of the tocsin, in order to prevent which sig nal from being given, the bells have all been taken down. Since the day before yesterday the Police of Paris have delivered no passports for Lyons." Yesterday, at twelve o'clock, the Ist Regiment of Life Guards marched into St. James's Park, from . France. The pace establishment for Regiments of Infantry which have not ken augmented by second battalions, is to remain at 600 rank and file. The inhabitants of the lonian Islandsr as might have been expected, are highly pleased with the new Constitution, which, under the protection of Great Britain, has been formed for them. On this subject the letter from Corfu, inserted in our fourth page, will be read with satisfaction. The MINDiN man of war and the Doris frigate are arrived from the East Indies and St. Helena t the former took a cargo of provisions and live bullocks from the Cape to St. Helena, and left that island the 26th of December. BONAPARTI continued to reside at the cottage; every thing . was perfectly quiet, and provisions of every description were in plentiful supply. Madras papers, to the 7th October inclusive, an. nounce the death of Rear-Admiral Buityrow, Cons mander.in•Chief in the East Indies, on the 22d ot September. Captain 0 1 Batm has, in' cottsequenceo hoisted his flag as Commodore of his Majesty's squadron. One of the papers contains the followings • mauarrias IDADCTTE /LIMA, AUGUST 14, 1815. " His Excellency the Governor having karat that there are, in this massy, more well-wishers at Bonaparte than he conceived, Ova notice that he will with plants afford dun a passage to Europe by tie very Arm opportunity. sisurftlei. August 5. " In communes el the death of many of the most respect, able Preach and English inhabitants, and the condaned 'n d pe. dtion of others, his Excellency the bovernor has been pkased to postpone the Sall io human' of the MIAs-day of his Royal High. nese the Prince Regent, sad Friday, the Ist of September nem. Sy command of his Excellency the Governor, " A. W. Fosses, Alde.de.Camp. " Port-tads, Ed Amen, tats." These Papers contain details of the late occurrences at the Island of Bourbon. On the 12th of July, the Governor published an Address to the Inhabitants in favour of the cause of Lows XVIII. On the 25th of August a grand ceremony took place on the presen tation of colours to the regiment of Angouleme. The lifadrat Gazette, ot the SOW September. con tains an Address from the British residents at Futty ghur so Lord Mom*, on the successful termination of the campaign in the Nepaul country, with bis 'Lordship's answer. N4r4L INTELLMItrat. • - RAMSOAT Jl, FEBRUARY s. Sailed the Duncombe and Hound transports, with troops for Cork. CORK, JANUARY 21 Arrived fourteen sail of transports, with troops from Plyrnuutb and Poi-tit-booth. FALVIOU IH, FEBRUARY 3. Arrived the Ajax, JONOI4 from London for Leg horn, leaky and much damaged, having been obliged to throw pan of her cargo overboard. Came in the America brig Eliza, Ewen, master, from Havre for New York,-in a leaky state. Sailed the John, RUBY j thaw s SICYRING. for London ; anctseveral coasters. MILFORD HAVEN, FEBRUARY it. Passed up the harbour for the King's Doclo•prd, at Pater, hi Ills port, his Majesty's ships Majestic and fitWosa, hiving *a Mat d the necestad7 stores for launching, on the 10th Inst. the ger sloops of war, Valorous and Amine. The Majestic sad Me-; day it stens are to be bruken up to serve as props tar the great rt?;of daval timber trendy deposited in the above yard.— the Success, Dols, from London, for Aberdovy ; Miss laith, :ohs, from Remus*, for Lescrpod ; Setvante. Martin Alan, from London: for Bristol ; Elltabeth and Mary. Lolls, *sou I.herpool, for Plymouth ; Ns4y, faylor, from London, tor EriStOi ; Catherine, Owens, from Liverpool, for Exeter ; • fiber, Lone, from Rotterdam, for Bristol, with wine and spirits. bailed the New Actin:, M•Cany, from Dublin, for Cadiz - and the Di ffract' revenge cutter, on a cruize.— Wind S.N. M ows strong. MORE DES.AtIFUL SHIPWRECKS. In additiop to the 'melancholy lou of the Seaborne transport, we have to add the wrecks of the Melville and iloaditea transports, and the loss of a great num ber of brave men. Some of the letters received from Ireland state the name of one of the transports wrecked, to have been the Hound t this cannot be the case - however, for by our Ramsgate letter it ap pears that the Hound only sailed from that port yes terday for Ireland. The Boadicea ought to have been•substituted for the Hound in the Irish letters • " Kinsale, January M. " Went on shore yesterday evening, about two miles to the westward of the Old Head, the Lord Melville transport, with cenipan'es of the 65d Regiment on board. Owing to the hurry sad confusion caused by the event, ►s of the soldiers took to the hest, eleven of them were automaton*, drowned. The reminder of the six companies and the crew of the Lord Mel ville remained on beard until low water, and were all saved. The Deedless crampon, in company with the Lord Melville,' having en board gee of the Sid Regiment, seeing her companion oo shore, immediately came to anchor, but the cables were soon cue through by the rucks, when she cams on shore, and dreadful to relate, an/ out of the Win perished." Auothet letter says, " Sixty only have been saved out of the Boaaitea."—How many cf the crew of the vessel are included in this statement does not appear. FROM THE DUBLIN CORRESPONDENT, FEL 2. It is with deep regret we state another very melan choly occurrence of Shipwreck, as furnished in the following letter, addressed to the Commissioners of the Board of Customs, by the Collector of the port of Kinsale. In a very laudable sensibility for the anxiety which the intelligence must be presumed to create, the Commissioners of Customs have hit it to be their duty to give the letter publicity, es the most authen tic statement of a terrible calamity, cud therefore kindly forwarded it to this Office for that purpose. " Custom-House, Kinsale, lan. Si. • " Me Leap MID Orawri.eattn-1 beg leave W Wolin you. T bad an Etyma'. at five o'clock yesterday evening, from the Lieutenant of the Signal 'rower a; the Old Had, stating that a large ship and brig were cmbayed in Counznasherry Bay, and hr feared, own the doperate state of tLe weather, they may by ashore; and in halt an hoar user I had an aecuent to say, that the ship wee on shore mar Carretstown Stried, and that the brig was lying to an anchor in the Bay; that they were both ususports trout England, with part ut cue 59th and 52d, I be lieve, tied Regiments onboard and that a boat coining from the ship to the shore, with two °thesis, two Officers' wives, a child, and some others, was upset, mid ail drowned. " I lost no time in applying to the Conunailding Dicer Jpere for a party of twenty soldiers and an °Seer, and althoosh the night was most desperate and dark, yet with great difficulty t scut the party across the Ferry here, at ten o clock, with the Port Surveyor, Mr. Peaty, the Coast Officer, Mr. NIMMII.III, sod some more Revenue (Accra, to be ready to give every as sistance pussible, both to prviect the vessel and save the Byes of those en board. " An Berms has just returned to me, with an account that all the soldiers, and every one on board the large ship, got oa shore safe (ricer those 1 me:Wooed who were lost hi the boat), at low water, about' one o'clock this awning ; bat lam sorry to say, the beg parted from bee anchors about two o'clock, and went on shore, and 'knout every one on board has been lost; — there are a few of them that got to the shore with broken limbs, and the whole is one of the most melancholy sights that ever happened on this coast, the Woad being covered with dead bodies. The name of the skip was the Lord Melville, and had slit companies of the MO, and two of the GM, under the cam mandaf Colonel Wttle, of the 62d, and sailed trom Ranugate on the 25th; Captain Rarroan, of the 112 d, and the wives of Detains A. Mancoa and Fawsom, both of the Stith, are the names, I understand, otthose that were drowned. • The brig had a pert of the end on board, from Dover. This information has been given me by a Corporal of the 59th, who has just come from the wrock.—My Lord and Gentlemen, your faithful ger• vent, in haste, " JOHt4 WADE, Collector." LOSS OF THE SEAHORSE TRANSPORT. OVIIITSZIL rAIITICULAfts, /ROM TSB WATIKWOIIIO csaosucts OW TUC 111 T or FBWIWAILT. We have now to state the particulars of a melan choly and afflicting events " The transport Oregon, (No. II), Tune, SCOTT Master, ogled front a port in England, a few days age, for Ireland, (for `Waterford or Cork), with a large detaclunent of the tifth Rest a*. SS board, cousin*/ of about le tracers, 127 men, 33 wain% and St children. On the morning of the 90th ultimo, the easel was di i ven,loto Tramore Bay by a desperate gale from the heath. The severity of the weather had compelled her to cut her miaeu-mast before she came within the Bay. On the forenoon of the day mentioned, she continued beating off, with a view to get rowed Brownstown Head, and dim to reach the harbour in safety, but totally without effect. The foretop-mast fell, killed the Mate, and broke the kg of one of the seamen. Two anchors were dies thrown out, but these were.dragged by the violence of the Marty and rendered totally unavailing. The vessel was then driven forward to within halls:We of the shore, in presence of hundreds of people; who could give the unhappy persons on beard no aid. It was low water at the time, about nose. se. which on each a beach rendered every chance of escape almost utterly hopeless. Most of them on board then retired below, and :I:signed themselves to their awful and impending fate. !be vessel struck epos the sands, about midway between Transom sod the farthest end of the the Rabbit &STOW, and in the course of a few mimeos went entirely co pieces. * The number of those on, board. as stated by cafe account, which we regard as accurate, amounted to 894. Or these 303 weer drowned, and 31 only saved! Fifteen of the crew perished, the Capaut and two sailors having alone escaped; and such is their distracted situation, that they can hardly describe the 'means by which they were preserved. one of the ()kers who dung to 101Mothlog Malin to the vessel, but what he does not re collect, had nearly ahaddested himself to his lite, when a coun tryman rushed into tlw sea, at the peril of his life, and rescued the stuager from death. 'this was a noble trait of benevolence; and greatly would we have rejoiced if we had not been com panies throw a cloud upon It, by usstances us a very driferent condom. Several boxes and chests were thrown oo snore, and, robbed with a non ateusal ferocity. In this case the Oaten have bead the chief makers, end the present forlorn condrelrt of the survivors amongst theist a:itiost heyohil e.e3eription. "Mr. Wotan, eoast-surveyur, with his accustomed b • ma.. i!y, the other court-olficers, avid Mr. Kan ts co v, Eta ever ) . effort to give assitianee; but ft was nut within lift Ctingpa.ti of human pow rto p. event di! .ad catastrophe. One serj..ant, drummer, and is rank and . la l ., have been saved. 'I hi -ty ti.rre persons, and among them :4 children and some woo.eo, i.avo been buried at Dromcaunoo Church. 140 w het b. 411. s had brto seen on the beach when the last accounts lett Trainor , ' )e,.elday. The distance from this city is sit miles. " NeMas oP Orrtcras Lose.—Major Dwight, Ciptalo M'Gregor, Surgeon biacai. Assistant-Surgeon Lambe, : i:ute name Veale, Gent (A !Foam), Scott, and Gi eshir, hnsizus Koss and bIUI, Quartet -Mayer Baird. " be dews Of Mr. Baird Wli accompanied loith that of h 4 wife and two cMldEetl The fate or Sorg. stn Haien is par. icu larly interning. He was the principal support of a widowed mother, two siston, and two brothers. To theft his warmest affections were devoted, and the greatest part of his 144 was ex. pended for their happiness. " Yesterday another vessel, sup;osei to be a coal b, iii , was forced into the Mote dangerous bay, but by skid at,.l o , trs which astinaisbed the specie:tart she nude her way toss ar,is t is; place of the bathing boxes, and no doubt was er.tertainett of her safety. and of that of her crew." ',IIUATIIta PARTICULARS, Irttolll TIME CORK ADVSKTISItit, RECEIVED THIS MORNING. The following melancholy .detail of the shipwreck of two transports, off the Old Head of Kinsale, has been communicated by a Gentleman of that town, who had an opportunity of learning the dre .dful par. oculars stated. No later intelligence has been yt.t re ceived, though it is momenterily expected : “ Oa Tuesiay evening last, two vessels were ob serve+) to be embayed between the Old Head of Kin sale, and the Seven lieads, the wind blowitia a gale from thj - S.E. They used every exertion, and aikined every etpedient to weather the Old Head in vain; the peril of their situation increased every moment, and towards dusk, an account was brought to Kinsale, that the ship would in a short time be on shore, and that the brig had dropped her anchors in the hope of riding out the gale. On the receipt of this distressing communication, Collector bleeps, with a decision and promptness equally creditable to him as a public officer and a man of humanity, ordered an officer's party of the Limerick Whitt, under the directions of Mr. Pear', the Port Surveyor to the Old Head, to afford every assistance and ptotectiva in their power to the unfortunate vessels. 44 Mr. Sleet= Newman, a respectable gentleman of Kinsale, . who holds a Revenue situation, gene. roudy volunteered his services, notwithstanding his labouring under indisposition, and although the scene of the apprehended calamity was altogether out of his district, and the range of his official duty, obeyed the call of humanity, and accompanied Mr. PaArr, and the military, to the Old Head. They had to cress the Ferry of Kinsale, and then to march five or six miles through bye roads, to get to the pl.tre of their . destination. When they !milted they found that the ship had been driven ashore among the rocks--that shortly after she struck, her boat had been launched :lad manned with five seamen—that two officers and two ladies, supposed to be their wives, an assistant surgeon, a serjeant, his wife and child, had got into her in the hope of gaining the shore—that in a few minutes she was struck by a wave and swamped ; and melancholy to relate, every soul perished, with . the exception of one of the seamen, wha reached the land scarcely aiive. 66 In a short time the body of one of , the Ladies was driven ashore, and although her name was suffi ciently indicated by some papers fund in her pockets, we forbear to mention it for the present, from °beve l s motives of caution, and the possibility of mistake.— All the rest of the people of the ship fortunately re mained in her ; at low water, in the course ut the .. night, she was left nearly dry ; and at about one or , two o'clock they succeeded, under PnoviDeeett, in getting safe to land, to the number of about fcur hun dred persons. The ship, we understand, was a trans.' port, called the Lord Melville, with detachments of the 59th and 62d regiments for Cork. At the coin. mencement of the night, the brig being at anchor, slid farther off shore, had, to all appearance, much 'greater chance of escape than the ship. She was dis unctly seen by the revenue officers and military party, with a light at her top mast till after midnight. The light and vessel then disappeared altogether. 66 It still blew a tremendous gale of wind right on the shore, the sea ran mountains high, the rain poured down in torrents, and the night was pitch dark.—. Under these circumstances, the most gloomy awe. tensions for the fate of the brig were entertained by the party from Kinsale. When the morning dawned, - thew apprehensions seemed but too well grounded, as the brig had disappeared altogether. However, after a diligent search for some time along die shore, the fragments of her were discovered among the rocks, which lie between the two strands of Garrett's Town, and where she had been driven after parting her anchors in the night. Upon approaching the wreck a most heart-rending scene of misery, desola tion, and death, presented itself to the view. The vessel seemed to be a confused mass of timber, plank., and boards, broken to pieces and intermixed with piles of dead bodies, men, women, and children ! Near to the wreck was a rock somewhat elevated above the surface' of the water, and upon this were seen about 80 or 90 poor human creatures who had scrambled to it from the vessel, and were still alive. as The people from the shore communicated to them as well as they could, that their only chance of safety was in remaining where they were until low water ; but either through impatience of tee misery of 'their situation, or from the impulse of de. epair,. near 30 of them plunged ieto the sea, and en *avowed to gaip the shore, but in vain, as most of them perished in the attempt. About 50 remained on the rock until low water, and were all saved. — We have not bees able to learn the name of the_brig; she was a transport, and had a detachment of .the 82d regiment on board, bound for Cork. 61 We have bad different accounts of the number of this detachment—the Kinsale accounts mike it very considerable, and other accounts which deserve great consideration, being from seperson connected with the Regiment, making it much less. For. die present while there is a possibility of mistake, we shied ab stain from mentioning the particulars, ot either esti mate. Suffice it to say that only fifty or sixty escaped from the brig. We have heard the name of one of the Officers of the 82d, whet was saved—we announce it with great pleasure for the relief of bit family and friends, Lileutenant Srameev.—Yesterday morning the Sovereign of Kinsale, Governer &tower, and Collector MEADS; were most actively employed in prycuring Clothes; provisions, and medical eeeie 4 . o ". for the poor surviving suffeterw° :~