Star. — London, England, 1811-11-28 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS. . _ HAMBITROa, NOVEMBER B. On the '2.lth of October s..2smral English pinnaces K ane to Visbach, and att3ci..ed the French.garrisnn Nnr the island of Dorcum ; but a brisk cannonade ob liged them soon to sheer off. Three brigs and a cut ter, which were at anchor in the Eastern Ems, sailed on heating &e firing, and put out to sea wida the pin traces. 'the same day, the begs and the cutter re turned to the Eastern &lac - . Two other brigs were at anchor to the East of the ;sle of Juyst—two other larger vessels, appzrently frigates, wcre perceived out at sea. , On the 25th, the Vice-Admiral L'Hermite 'made with six gun-boats for the three brigs and the cutter, which immediately weighed anchor and stood out to sea. The six gun-boats continued to. cruize the re mainder of the day, keeping the enemy in sight, and returned to their station at ,tight. NOvEMBF.II 7. Stone time since the coast of Holland, as well as 'that of Denmark and the Han - lbw - th territory, were on a sudden covered with a great number ef persons, landed at night by El vessels. Their smulta swots, appearance would of col.rse attract the atten tion of a vigilant police. Some were sent to Am sterdam and others to Wesel. They all declared that 1 7 ...ngland had discarded them, beCause their 'infirmi ties and weunds had rendered them incapable of far ther service. Some of them also add to this deposition, circum stances which impart a still more odious charneterlo the ingratitude of the Islanders. One was pushed out of the vessel, in a place where the water reached . his , shoulders, and it was not without great difficulty that be reached the shore, with his wife and a child in his arms.. Another saw three of his companions perish, unable to reach th, shore. When his Majesty passed through Wesel, he in quired into the cases of stub of those people as had been sent`to that place. There were more than fifty of them ; and though necessity had tirge4 them all to enter into the English service, the Emperor pardoned- them, and ordered them to be set at liberty. Such is thi . diffelence . hetween the conduct of Eng land 'and that of France. The fiamer casts away, asl an useless burthen, the unhappy people • wounded in her service, and who are thereby rendered - incapable of bearing arms—while the latter , . on the contr a ry , . receives and succours them ; and restores them to their • country. -The following is the substance of the declarations and depositions made at Wesel, by a certain number of these unfortunate victims of English policy and in gratitude. They have been collected in an authentic prates vcrbal " Jacob Cecil declared, that be was born at Ge neve, on the rth of April, 1177, and served three years'in the 10th regiment of light infantry. 'Having embarked As a passenger in . -an American vessel, in 1803, he was taken by the English, and fatted to enlist - in the Hanoverian Legion, in which he served five years and a half, -three.seounds rendered him un fit for service. He now thought he was entitled to remuneration, but he was banished, throUn from a frigate upon the. Danish coast, in a place where he was tip to his shoulders in water. The poor man had his wife and child in his arms, and made the shore not aithout great'difficulry." Thelk follows a list of other cases, equally vexatious with the foregoing. • VIENNA, NOVEMBER e. General Baron de Bonge, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Foveden,•having been Invited, on account of the protracted absence of his Majesty, to go to Presburgh to present his creden tials, bad his first audience ot the k;mperor the `22.1 of October. Yesterday the Pr;nce of St. Angelo, the Neapolitan Minister, enjoyed the same honour. The assembled Sta . xs of Hungary have also had their 17th General Sitting at Presburgh the 24 th of last month, their 18th on the 26th, and their 19th on the 28th. The Diet of Transylvania closed on the 21st of September. AIX LA CHAPELLE, NOV. 7. The public w,t,lts in the vicinage of our city, on the road to Montjoie, Maestricht, and Douisburg, are continued with great activay, The road branching from Aix la Chapelle to Bas Borcette has been marked out—a road which; when finished, will facilitate the ap;roach to the baths, the conveyance of merchand; se, and will reach the pro inenade of the king of Rome, on which rlurc are Monda ,in the Court of King's B ench, wor k men constantly employed. The ease with which • y Dublin, the symmetry of the roads in our environs is preserved new Bills of Indictment were found by the City all of which termistate in de li g htful walks, is worthy Grand Jury, against Messrs. Kutwitif, SCCRLOG, cf remark. It would apiscrys-as if it were the mien- Duarte, andTAMFE. On the same day, the Attorney tion of the persons who have arranged the pian, to , ! General moved for an attachme nt whi c h was g ranted, form 4 connected system, ~ w ell conceived in its de_ tails as in its whole. against PIIILIPWIIITFIELD HARVII*, Proprietor or the It is a received opinion.among the people of the ! Freeman's Journal, for an article in Lis Paper, copied East, that persons enirloyed i•I the oil manttfactuct, from the Dublin Evening Post, reflecting on the and whose garments are always saturated with that commodity, are secure ftorn the iidection of the . Chief Justice of the Court of Kin g 's Bench. plague. We entertain a notion of a similar kind, that colliers are exempt liom cut ineous disorders, such as the itch and tetter. Hence it has been supposed that a coal ointment might be. used with success as a re medy for the first of thosa complaints. Meters Bil• lant 'and Duval hav:l. m tdc sev,r.il expe , iineole, founded on the hypothtsis in the hospitals of Bres:end Antwerp, n ith then, ost •decisive success. Physic has its fas't:ons as wall as other things..-+ It appears that the Getman I)octtns administer pretty generally, this year, sOntions of arsenic for _ intertnitting fevers. '1 he frequent use of t his terribl e febrifuge pars called for a very proper regnlasiqn it* the Berlin Police. •An r o form method fsir * • preparation of the solution is thereby prescribed $ it a n directed that the material can only be sold Onlite ?rag of a physician, regularly lived and si t ,Arict Su— it is only to serve for one dt•sc, and the apmliecirry is required to file the t rier, which moreover erine s, that the quantity should not exceed taco dinars— Ot it should b t e Made up in a seated Alt and that r.he physician should destroy iihatever mien reniain sifter' the etquisitc purpose had been set*d! Titus, precautions have beau taken at Berl - .hi erd_ rto talent arsenic ? 1004 s'iotsld clip : ittry s,:ck mak, .fioria 'Willing in its progrest Oa* in good ..a101! - --- • ... 4. ,. -- : - • ' - :r ... .A N i ',SW?, NOITMEMR.*;., .. in ccin§eirtace of a D e cr e e of his Ma sty, made EN INC; SrAR. LONDON. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ON B OCLOCK S per Ct. Cons. for moner6sit —Ditto for opg. 63j} S per Ct. Reduced 62A-4 per Cent. 7512. Navy 5 per Cf. 961—ISonds I 7s. I ss.pr.—Otnolum A db. Enti. Bills (SI) Is. pre. to par—Ditto (sid.) 34. 4s. ss. pre. Yesterday, the Marquis 'WELLESLEY went to Oat lands, to lay before the PRINCE REGENT the proceed- I ings of tite Cabinet Council which *was held at the Foreign Office on Tuesday last. We mentioned yes. terdAy thc strong rumours that were afloat respecting some pea, grrangements in the Administration, and we ;aid,before our Readers a list that had reached 'us 'Otrough a respectable channel. Various other lists were in circulation yesterday afternoon ; and it was added, that Mr. PERLEVAL was this day to wait upon the ?Riser won the business. On a matter which can be • perfectly known only to the parties ; concerned, we forbear to speculate, as a few days will probably throw some new light upon the affair. It is certainly poss:ble, however, though some changes May Like place in the Councils of the REGENT before the ensuing meeting of Parliament, that they may not be to the esters that has been reported. • The Duke qt youg, in company with the Craw.. CE49a9f the ElcultQuPt anci Mr. Secretary RYDER, • 'rode on horseback yestprday irk Hyde ; Park, apd at fcr4r o'clock, after attending . at the iiprse-Quarcho left town for c:ti. li y, to visit his R9y/.1 Highness the 1 3 4INFJ. Fsf!": public at Utrecht the I telt of lag' October, new works on a very extended scale are about to be commenced , in our city. The following are the principal New barracks for 20,00 4 ) men and 2000 horses are to be built as well on the right hank - as the left (where the new city is situate). The tribunals, the prisons, and the barrack of the gendarmerie, are to be. all comprised within the old convent of the An nonicades. The places under ground are .to contain 2000 men in the event of a siege. The citadel will be subjected to the contrnal of the Naval Comman dant, with the exception of the apartments of whoso ever may command tke land forces. The burnt barrack within the citadel is to be rebuilt. There are to be three hospitals. An hotel is to be purchased, or built for the accommodation of the General com manding the garrison, his staff, and suite. The great arsenal and the foundery are to be - on the left bank, and the ropery in the entrenched camp. The powder magazines are to contain 1,200,0001h.5. , The naval arsenal will be enlarged, the , houses now standing on the ground which is to be occupied by the addiuonal building being purchased. A basin is to be con structed for the reception of merchantmen. The gate of Slyk will henceforward be opened only for mili tary purposes ; the inhabitants are to pass through the Rcdsgate. Roads are to be constructed without from the gate of Slyk to that of Malines. Two flying bridges are to ply, one for the tide of flood, the other for the .'bb. All the quays are to be paved in 1812. The spiracles of fort Meri are to be stopped, and two vents are to be opened, which will be vaultei in 1812. In order to defray the expence of these works, which is to be borne by the city, the sinking funi will ad vance in the course of three years 1,900,000 francs. - STRASBURGH, NOVEMBER Is. Winter has commenced, and yet vegetation is not checked. It was.formerly not uncommon to gather ripe grapes of the second or third sap ; but one is surprised to observe in our gardens in a season so far advanced as the middle of November, the flowers of Summer, of Winter, and even of Spring, such as the Balsamine, the Christmas Rose, the Hepatica, or Trinity Grass, in sintuitaneous blow. The Poppy, which according to the usual order of nature is never seen after harvest time, is still twin found in our fields. The flax seed, which. fell while they were taking the crop, and which has germinated and sprung up to a considerable height, bungs us back to the Summer months, as it Were by illusion. Messieurs Weiss and Nauss, the one an inhabitant of Rugperweiller, the other of Liderscheidt, tried, in 1809, the-culture of vines in this country, the tem perature of which is cold and the winters long. To the astonishment of every one' the experiment suc ceeded, and a tolerable produce has been obtained. MILAN, OCTOBER 26. The celebrated philosopher Saccho, says the official Journal, spares neither labour nor expence to forward the benevolent views of the Government. He has been the cause of vaccination being introduced into this country ' • and Tor these some years p as t he has been engage d in researches with respect to such indi genous plants as might supply the place of sugar.— It is well known that he has established a large ma nufactory, in which very good sugar is drawn from the beet root and the chesnut. He has just discovered another plant which can also furnish it, and which grows in abundance in almost every uncultivated .district of the . .kingdom of Italy. The fruit of this plant yields seveety parts out of a hundred of white flour of a very good quality, and twenty of a syrup, superior to any which has been yet extracted from any vegetable substance. It is obtained without any mixture of sulphur or lime, chrystallises easily, and furnishes sugar of a very fine quality. The process is neither expensive nor troublesome. Dr. Saccho pro mises to give the name of the plant soon to the pub lic, to make them acquainted the whole of his discovery, and to furnish rruofs of its results. The intimation has mated a very lively sensation, and a very general curiosity here, the Doctor being gene rally esteemed for his great learning, and the posses. sion of a character free from all tinge of quackety. REWARD ISLAND MAIL. tally would make a demo 10011 us. They tell • 411=.1...10 . • us, that from disease and distress for provisions, The Duke of Manchester Packet has, 004 at which are every where shalt, MAIL1101 , 1?Iiin 1100011. Falmouth, with mails and passengers from Surinar dition to m nve w i t hout susta i n i ng aw d e f ea t f rom L o a and Martinique. They wera only 5.5 days on their Wstaaxarox. Aameta's Army,which guards the passage from the latter Island . North, although very deficiest in discipline as well at By the above arrival we have received some in every-thing else, has taken possessinaof several places teresting communications on the sailect of St. Do- ahandoaeal by the French, and has been otherwise mingo. The following are extracts : extremely eseft.l."—On this authority we are like , 64 PORT-ROYAL. sEPr. es. wise enabled to contradict the report of a general 4' Accounts have arrived by a vessel from St. Do- engagement having taken place between the allies ant mingo, that General Rigaud died of the fever a few the French, at least up to the 4th InsL to which date, days ago, at Aux Cayes. If this be correct, I can- had any such important event occurred, intelligence not help believing that be has been taken off by unfair i mus s have been received from the British bead-- means. It has been strongly suspected that he was quart e r s. an emissary of Bonaparte, and that he was sent out purposely to pave the way for the introduction of R French force, whenever a favourable time might I offer. Certain it is that he had been a long while in France, and that he was brought out to the island with General Le Clerc's army, that be might' in fluence its inhabitants ; but finding that he was not likely to get a command, and kept at the Cape far from his relatives and property, which were in the south, he began at last to correspond with them on his release : This information being conveyed to Le I Clerc, he placed him under arrest, and sent him i prisoner to France, where he remained till about a year and a half since, when he arrived at Aux Cayes, and was received with great acclamations by the i speople. He has a son nn the island, I am told, a fine young man. If the accouats of his death ( Ri gaud's) be true, Christophe will have lost a formi dable enemy, as he dreads his active enterprising genius and courage more than any one in St. Do . mingo. If Christophe received a lioeral'educa tion, it is doing him only justice to say, that he would have been a second Bonaparte, had fin-tune placed him in the same circumstances. You may recollect the account of tme of his Colonels at the Mole, who did not behaie well in an action with the besieged. He was sentenced to death, and pardoned by the in tercession of Madame Dessalines, and some other ladies at the Cape—was reduced to the ranks, and given an opportunity to retrit% his character. He behaved so rell, that on the capture of the Mole he was reinstated in his former rank, and left in Its corn- I mand. " In an English.paper I saw, a short time since, a notice made - in the House of Commons, to inter dict all communication with the States of Hayti. I was happy to see it, and sincerely wish to find it take place. , What can be the benefits arising to English Merchants, to remain now in a country under such government, when there is not a single market open for West India produce, which will cover its first ex pence. The greatest motive for most of them re maining, is to collect what is due to them in the island, and which is most difficult. I enjoy very good health in this climate, but be assured I strongly wish to get home. It depends on so many fortuitous cir cumstances, that you cannot say when you have a prospect. I hope you and family are well—be pleased to make my kind regards to them, with all other friends whom you may see. " OCTOBER, Is. - 46 The accounts of General Rigaud's death are correct : a person who attended his funeral was in this island a short time since. One of Petion's Gene rals (Delam) lately conspired against his life : he had concealed a dagger and a pair of pistols in the lining of his coat. He went to the irdace twice fur the pur pose of putting the plot in execution. On going the third time, Petion, having been previotisly informed of his intentions, told him, that it was well known that he wished to take away his life, and ordered him to prison. Instead of giving himself up a prisoner, he rushed out of the palace, mounted his horse, dis charged his pistols at .the sentry as he passed, and made all speed for the south. Where Rigaud was, the alarm guns being fired, all the passes "were guarded, and he was obliged to come in and deliver himself up—and was tried iy a military court, and would have been condemned to death, but thevillain supplicated in such a pitiful manner, that they de creed him five years' solitary confinement, with legs and arms chained. ‘, An insurrection was lately discovered, and for tunately put a stop to in Guadaloupe, by several of Christophe's Commissaries—one of them a new made Count ; and when pursued, fled to the sea-side, whore finding it impossible to escape, shot himself to pre vent being taken alive. Surely it is high time to break off all communications with these people, and drive their ships into port." . A letter from Oporto of the 6th instant, brought by a ship which left the Douro on that day, atter mentioning the gallant affair of General Hsu., tear Merida, procceeds as follows :—" The accounts that have reached us of the number of prisoners taken are various, but in none are they stated at less than 1100 mon, and the utmost I have heard mentior.ed is 1700. The Guerillas, who must have been extremely ac tive in the pursuit, will no doubt increase %he amou it, unless, indeed, which is not improbable, they reuse to give quarter. It has peen reported that General GIRMID has been captured by them, but there seems to be much confusion as to the name. You have prob.tbly already received the official details from Lisbon.—A day Of two since, some Gen4ernen ani. ved here from the Northern► Districts, who quieted the fears felt a fortnight or three weeki ago g that the • A Gentleman reached town yesterday from Got. teuburgh, who brings the most recent intelligence from that quarter. He states, that the Sw.des ate ald with the intention, it is said, of attempt ing the recovery of Finland, provided the Emperor of Russia should refuse such propositions as have beep lately made to him by the Swedes for its acces sion. If this is really true, it may be considered s•- the consequence of Boxii.eitaye's intrigues durirg h;• journey in Holland. A war with Sweden, superadded to the one already in existence with Turkey, will afford employment enough to Russia. without im posing on PONAPARTE the necessity of turning leo,e the power of France urn her. The following is on extract of a letter which has reached us from the 'Continent ; EXTFIACT OF A LETTER. FROM BERLIN, DITCH NOV. 1. 41 The cordon of troops which was formed during the summer season, by order of his Russian Majestt along the northern coast, has received orders to re turn to the different garrisons, as the winter is Let approaching ; when the English will be obligzal to leave the Baltic with thoir fleet. AU I can inform you of in regard, to politics, is, L that• we are in the same state as when I wrote to you last. We have received accounts from Pillau of the 20th October, stating, that they are working night and day on that important fortress, so as to render it impregnable. Ail this r certainly does not look as if Prussia will be suffered to remain a quiet spectator in the event of a rupture in the North. W In regard to business, the last Leipsic fair was numerously attended by merchants fr. m Galicia and Moldavia, who purchased 'very Largely, and tent off their goods irnmediatetrtolkady,theptincipal of Galicia. Several Danish travellers from Russia lately arrived here, who say, they experienced great difficulty on their arrival on the Russian frontiers, where they were obliged to wait for their passports from St. Petersbnrgh. This is a new regulation, by order of the Emperor of RUSSIA, enforced with great rigour by the Police." . His MAJFSTY continues in the tarns state. Toe PRINCE REGENY.—Sir Watfita Fanoustan took leave of the Fames Reams. on Tuesday.- - The prix to account yesterday from Oatlands to the Royal Family, was, that the Praxes was better yesterday than he was on Tuesday. Yesterday Mr. MANSFIELD, son of the Lord Chief Justice MANSFIELD, was elected Preacher to the Ho nourable Society of Gray's Inn. Lady CATHERINE Loso's change of residence is to the late Lord Montgomery's house, in Hamilton (not Stratton) Place, as mentioned by mistake in this raper. The University and Ring's College of Aberdeen have unanimously re-elected the Right Hon. Lord GLENEIRVIE co be their Lord Rector for the year ensuing. Mr. tionse TooKE, to the amazement of that ea rochiat assembly, appeared, a tew days since, at a convened vestry meeting in the Parish church el' Wimbledon, and carried his point, in favour of a re formati-n of its concerns, by a division-1S to 7. Yesterday a .:ours of Directors was held at thi• East li.dia House, when the undermentioled Cant. tnandoss took leave, previous to departing fir thoi: respective destinations, viz. a—Captain H. Rem, loyal Charlotte; Capt. W. DON A LOrN, Neptune; Capt. W. CAMPBELL, Anniston ; Captain J. Boren, Cabalva ; and J. Boyce, Courts, to Bombay China ; and Captain M. Ricues, Thames, to St. Helena, Bencoolen, and China.—The Court adjourn ed at six o'clock till to-morrow. Extract of a letter from Charleston by the late :ar rival :—" Vs'e have this day nnamonr, that the French Consul here has been conducting and projecting the surprise and` destruction of Amelia Island. The man ner in which we learn this, is by a merchant vessel that was bound to this port, having fallen in with his Britannic Majesty's ship Emulous ; she had captured a vessel bound to France, with dispatches to the Mi• nister of Foreign Affairs at Paris." A message ha; been sent by the Minister to the prin cipal Distillers from Malt, desiring a consultation with them as to the necessity of stopping the distillation t tor,l Corn, in consequence of the failure of the last harvest, and the deficency tithe stock on hand. Various alterations are making, previous to the nt xt session; in the House of Lords. and the diftn•ent ap proaches to it. A new stair-case from the arcade the west side h completed, and a new dnor.way nia2e into the house near the south-west corner. The .:00r way leading ttom the lobby to the robing room has been closed ; and new renal doors made It r the entrance to the painted-chamLer. Some new etlic... 7 apartments have been added; which lot la a.' tional story to one . part of t!ie west-front. All Cfe seats, &c. are taken 'op within the house, an I `Lt' e , - terior will be orairely refreshed, the Choi; u: newly decotated, &c. committee-toor. • :1 1,1 offices ale also foiniing, for the farther ice of the Memberi of the House of Common,; ;!..,! the whole of the aiennes to both ROUSES arc td Le . .rpair ! ed and tainted ) arc.