Star. — London, England, 1811-10-04 00:00:00

• --- -- . . - k - ' peror's utter contempt for the opinion of the World ; • EAST INDIES. . as well as-for the rulers of the American 'Republic ; Mr. ,Madison made the kindest apology imaginable. • CALCUTTA, APRIL S. The property of our citizens, says he, was ',Fixed ander The third division of the troops of the Expedition a -misapplicatiokof the principles of repris;al, combi prOceeding from this Presidency embarked at Bar- ! ned with a misconstruction of the laws of the United rackpore on Thursday last, on board the river vessel% States 1 When Mr. Madison, perfectly acquainted appointed to convey them to the transports, which with the nature and character of the seizure, (of which are waiting below. This division consists of the 6th in my last address, I gave a particular description), volunteer battalion, and the light infantry battalion, k new it to be an act of sheer deliberate villainy—that the whole c'mmanded by Major Raban. The em- the principle of reprisal had nothing to do with it, and barkation was effected in the highest order, and en- ' that the law was SI plain as to be incapable of mis tirely completed before eleven o'clock. The boats construction in relation to this point. Besides, if the with the division on board passed Calcutta, and dropt law had appeared in any respect uncertain and doubt down the river the following day. ful, there was an intelligent American Minister on Of the force under orders for foreign service, there the spot to explain it, if a right understanding of it now remains unembarked only a small detachment had been desired. Bur such an understanding—a of 500 men, who are not expected to leave Barrack- correct construction of the law, was not desired. A pore before the 20th inst. glaringly false construction alone could furnish the The head-quarters of the marine regiment conti- Emperor with his shameless pretence for the seizure. nse at Basrackpore, though both the battalions of These considerations, with those exhibited in the pre that corps are now abroad. ceding address, shew, that it was impossible for Mr. The Euphrates has been ordered to take in cargo Madison to " anticipate" or " expect" the restoration for Europe. It will be necessary, however, in the of the property. Why, then, did he hazard the mak- ' first instance, that she should go into dock ; and, in ing of such a declaration to Congress ? On the foun tbe event of her being found to require any conside- dation principle formerly mentioned, 'and repeated, rable repairs, it is probable that she may be detained with some illustrations, in this address, the mainte until the commencement of the ensuing monsoon.— nance of the prejudices of the people in favour of ' There are at this moment in Calcutta, no less than France—as the essential means of maintaining in eleven vessels on the stocks, of which ten are ships power the party of which he is, at least, the• ostensi from 450 to 900 tons, and one is a brig of 250 tons. ble head. A full and faithful display of the nature The Pindarees were again troublesome, and Juggoo and effects of the Rambouillet decree would natu- Bala)°, H Sirdar in the service of Scindia, had invad- rally and necessarily have led him to detail a mul- , ed Holkar's territory, and threatened to lay siege to thud& of other arts of France, alike unjust,‘Sulting. Peranbgiirrah. ' and Injurious to the United Stites, and their citizens. . APRIL 22.—We have nothing recent from the Pun- i This, if the people continued under the delusion in jah, which is at present the only theatre of native po- i which he, with his predecessor, and their own cead- 1 litics ; and in the camps of Scindia and Ameer Khan, • jutors had involved them, would have destroyed his matters appear to be perfectly•stationary. !popularity. If such a display by the President of the APRIL 29.—The whole of the 3d division of trait- M United States served to open the eyes of the people, sports, proceeding on the expedition from this port, they, thus Made sensible of the deceptions which had we are happy to understand, has at length got to sea. , been practised upon them by the same leaders, would The Windham, the last ship of the division, reached ;have cast them off—and the cause of democracy Kedgeree early in the course of last week ; and after I might have been ruined. Such a display, therefore, receiving on board her proportion of troops, sailed in I of wholesome truths, by Mr. Madison, was not to be the prosecution of her voyage. . expected. Besides, it would have contradicted the The remainder of the fleet of transports, which con- . course, and been subversive of the predilections of c the detachment of between 500 and 600 men, i hi s w h o l e lif e , in relati ( .to France. But there wai • Teas ayho began to embark at Barrackpore on the 17th inst. 1 also an immediate object which forbad such a display are now working nut of the river, ship by ship, as ' —it would have deprived him of all apology for ac they are ready. The Venus and Charlotte left Ked- I cepting the declarations of a conditional and future, geree on Friday. The Ann had not reached that sta- instead of an actual repeal of the Berlin and Milan don at the date of the last report from thence. decrees—and thereby have deprived him of a pretence MADRAS, MARCH 21. for reviving the non-intercourse law against Great His Majesty's ship Illustrious, Captain Broughton, Britain. An adjustment of our differences with Great is arrived from the Mauritius. Being Senior Officer , Britain must not take place—the rulers of republican of his Majesty's ships in the East Indies, lie came in France, by intrigues, by bribery, endeavoured to pre vent any amicable treaty between the United States with a Commodore's broad pendant, and was saluted ' by the fort with 13 guns. The Illustrious was after- I and Great Britain—any treaty, which by enlarging wards saluted by his Majesty's ship Caroline, Capt. I and securing our own commerce, would also benefit Cole, and all the men of war hauled down the blue Hag i her's, and thus pave the way for that return of good ' 'if his Excellency the late'Vice Admiral, and hoisted will and confidence between the two nations, which the red flag of the Commodore. should add to the prosperity of - both—and when one . • APRIL 2.—Commodore Broughton is to command was fortunately made (that of 1701) France omitted the naval part of the Javanese expedition in person.— ;no means to defeat it. And when foiled in this ac re has appointed Captain Festing, late of the Dasher, : tempt, and afterwards in the choice of a President— ' to act as Captain under him on board the Illustrious, I (Mr. Adams, .and not Mr. Jefferson, being elected), and posted Captain Kelly, late First Lieutenant of the she let loose and gave greater scope to her piratical Illustrious, into the Dasher. Lord Miato is expected cruizers, "to fleece us of our property (as Joel Bar to sail hence about the 18th inst. It is not, it is said, ' low said, and he was then in Paris) to a 'sufficient his Lordship's intention to remain until the a hole of ! degree to bring us to our feeling in the only nerve in the expedition shall have put to sea ; he proposes to j which it was presumed our sensibility lay, which was embark immediately after the first division quits the i our pecuniary interest*" By bringing us to our feel !toads. Thi transports Argo and Admiral Drury, l ing, Mr. Barlow meant inducing the submission of having on hoard the Madras Volunteer Battalion ithe Government of the United States to France, like from the Isle of France, arrived here on the 29th ult. ' many of the Powers of Europe, whose cases he cited On Si nday his Majesty's ship Modeste arrived from las examples for us to follow. Fortunately the minds Bombay. She met the Bombay transports for this lof the great majority of the American people, at that part oft: the Basses eleven days ago. ; time remained alive to national insults and injuries. • APRIL 9.—Yesterday morning the Nabob. of the 1 Resistance took place, instead of the expected sub ' Carpatic paid a visit of ceremony to the Governor I mission. General A royal salute was fired at his Highness's The French Government was brought to its senses, entrance and departure from the gardens of J. H. Ca- and abandoned its impudent pretensions and c la i m s . eamaijor, Esq. How this high and honourable ground, was lost to FROM THE MADRAS GAZETTE OF APRIL It. the United States, may be the subject of future ob servation. That season of dignity, spirit, and lode pen dence passed away, and that of submission fol nington cruizer. The troops in garrison had been lowed, with all the evils we now experience in its ordered to assemble at five o'clock ; but from the re- ; train * rated violence of the surf during the southerly winds, I I have mentioned Bribery as one of the means used trit the afternoon his Lordship deemed it expedient to . by France to gain and establish an influence in the land, and proceeded to the garden house of Mr. Ca- I United States ; and I have done it on the following • samaijor, and in the evening dined with the Hon the grounds: Governor." 1 1. The notorious profligacy of the French Go BOMBAY, MARCH SO. vernment (to say nothing of what existed under its On Monday, the Earl Balcarras, one of the most former monarchy), evidenced by its uniform conduct beautiful models of architecture we had ever the plea- ' from an early period of the revoletion. The official sure to behold, was floated from the dock to the bar- documents of our own Government, under the hands of our envoys, Pinckney, Marshall, and Gerry, _ boor, greeted by a royal salute, and the cheers of a that profligacy. Doubtless there are some persons great concourse of admiring spectators. Her burthen is about 1400 tons, and she is intended for the service ' who, to gain an important point, would offer a bribe, : who would disdain to receive one. The Govern of the East India Company, to which the highly re- ment of France had no scruples of this sort. The apectable builder, Jamsetice I3omanjee, may boast, ' Directory, by .heir Minister of corruption, 'rah that he - has added some of the finest merchant ships kyrand, ha.l the consummate baseness and impu iri the world, but that this, in beauty and capacity, dence to demand of our envois ; douceur, in Eng transcends them an. 1 lish a bribe of £30,000 sterling u-,.vards of 220,000 _i r PENANC. PlSlttrArli 11. ' . dollars) for the pockets of foes. of t the fifth Di ' ' With peculiar pleasure we state, that the annual ' rector, Merlin, who kid held the office of Minister of shipment of elephants for the coast of Coromandel, ' Justice, being paid b the - owners of privateers—for which heretofore obtained at Queda and Saam, corn- ' being the Minister of iniquity, in dtrecting the deci menced yesterday on the Company's territory at sions of the Prize Courts, fondemning American yes- Fraya, and consisted of six in mindsets Several gen- sels and their cargoes; and this'bribe, they were in tlemen from this shore, With' a great concourse of formed, was only the customary tribute in dipliana natives, witnessed the novel scene, and described it as tic affairs ! . And even this douceur was not to pros se:ing highly interesting and diverting. 1 cure th e a cknowledgment of our envoys in the •clia • s --- meter of public Ministers, but only permission for • AMERICA. 1 I them to stay in Paris, where those insolent tyrants ‘ . j kept their court. am PICAZOINO TO 'rpm PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES . i 2 . The confidential friend and agen t of Talle y rand ‘rellovi Citizens — by cherishing and animatin . g the ' in this business (whose information Talleyrand told prejudicies of the people in favour of France, and ex- Mr. Gerry was just, and might always be relied on) -asperating their antipathies to England, the leaders in addition to the douceur of £50,000, ' earnestly rose to power—andi by persevering in the same means Pressed for a loan to the French Republic of many they retain it ; now and then faintly intimating, i s a millions of dollars ;to have made whichwotild have whisper, that some of the Emperor's decrees are not been a violation of our duty as a neutral nation a ;ea ; and a few, the better to conceal their subser. and urged various other unwarrantable' and insolent viency, and gain themselves the character of indepen. demands of the French Government ; enforting thefts dence, will even venture, occasionally; to call him a by threats of its vengeance on failures of tlioir ciSni: Tyr.tnt ; with which his Imperial Majesty will nut Pliatece. Our envoys remaining firm and'invinCitile, be offended while they continue to serve him. For , the confidential agent said to them, "perhaps you be the seizuie and confiscationof American vessels under lieve, that in returning and exposing to your cOuntay the Itarnisouillet decrees—an act 'of such -distill- Men the unreasonableness of the demands of 64' Cee guished 'atrocity—such a shameless violation of the verninent, you will unite them ii resistance to thp That obvious rules of justice s as deplonstrate the Em- • Mr. Barkm's utter . 0 1 With, Mos to the lob A. D'ail , Big.- . . .. _ . : yes ore stietateeii : yes ought to kare that matic skill of France, and the mane she in your country, are sufficient to enable her, aid of the Trench party in America, to she blame which will attend the rupture of the Jciations on the Federalists, as you term your , _ayes, but on the British patty, as France terms you, and you may assure yourselves this will be done." S. The testimony of Fauchet, the Minister of France to the United States, in his famous letter of October 31, 1794, the time of the great insurrection in the western part of Pennsylvania, familiarly known by the name of the Whiskey Insurrection ; referring to certain overtures which had been wade to him by one of the exclusive patriots (whom he named) and which he had before communicated to his Govern ment—Fauchet says," thus, wit:* some thousands of dollars, the Republic could have decided on civil,war or peace ! Thus, the consciences of the pretendad patriots of America have already their prices r* 4. The notorious treachery of many officers, civil and military, of the countries which have been over. run by the arms of France, and whose treason can be ascribed to no cadet but the distribution of French gold. or . the delusive promises of elevation to higher employments and dignities, as in the case of Godoy, the Prince of Peace, who betrayed Spain into the hands of Bonaparte ; or to both these causes. Accor dingly, the opinion is general, that this sort of cor ruption has been the efficient pioneer to the French armies, and opened their way to conquest. S. The open avowal of the fact by a French agent. at the time that - Adet. - the successor of Fauchet; was tha French Minister hi Philadelphia., This agent was Mr. Letombe; the Consul General of the French re public—a person well known to many of my fellow. 'citizens as well as to me. Letombe had previously been french Consul at Boston ; had lived some years lin the United States, and was doubtless much better inforined concerning them than the Minister, Adet. Washington was then President of the United States, and probably Letombe perceived that the time had not arrived for France, by her intrigues and bribery, to gain an effectual ascendency in the Councils of oar nation. Letombe accordingly, mentioned the fact bra tone of complaint and vexation. It was to a very intelligent and respectable gentleman of my ac quaintance to whom Letombe said, " that Mr. Adet bed foolishly thrown away a great deal ofmoney in bribing Members of Congress ; although they (Le tombe and the Minister) were put to much difficulty In raising it ; and that they had, at a great loss to the French republic in the negotiation, procured eighty , or ninety thousand dollars at Boston." - I quote from my memorandum made at the time the information was given to me. Mr. Aden's mission to the United States terminated near the close of the year 1796. Since that time the French Government has found less difficulty in procuring money. The plunder of the world, and the mines of Mexico and Peru have been open to them. Eighteen months ago, I recei ved satisfactory information that the Frenchman who _ _ _ was then Bonaparte's Congo' General in Philadel- phia had, in the course of one year, received about a milrion of dollars, for which the French Government could have no legitimate use in the United States ; because it then neither derived nor needed ray sup plies from the United States. The evidences of corruption, of falsehood, of hypo crisy, and deceit, in the men whose official or perm). 1134 means and influence have for many years given a *direction to the public sentiment, and managed the affairs of the United States, it has ken necessary to exhibit to the view of my fellow-citizens ; because the only hope of political salvation rested on the public conviction that those men did not deserve the confi dence of the nation. This exposure was anticipated with regret ; because (as I early remarked) " in ex• posing them I should unavoidably expose the naked ness of my country ; when, if compatible with truth,. I would infinitely rather speak the praises of both." ,More remains to be told. TWOTII2 PICKERING. Judy 29. • " Aim( avec quelques milkers de dollars la Republique emit decidE sur la guarre civile ou sur la pale ! Ainsi les consciences des pretsadus patriotes en Amerique ont deja up Bard." Fauchet's French Original. BOSTON, SEPTEMBER 2. The last Baltimore Federal Republica" has the follow. ing article : The President has at the demand of the British Mi nister, disavowed any orders as having occasioned the chace and battle with the Little Belt, and agreed to call a Naval Court upon :he conduct of Captain Rod gers, as we intimated some time alo, upon the au• thority of letters from Washington. Private letters of the 3d corroborate the above statement. attest _ FRENCH PAPERS. • • PARIS, SEPTEMBER 22. We are assured that five Minister:, will accompany the Emperor in his tour; namely. the Ministers for Foreign Affairs, of the Interior, of Finance, of Ma rine and the Secretary of State. I:larshst& lionoeyo. Doka• of Co this morniag for Holland. EXTRACT OP A LETTER PEW PORTSMOUTH, DATED armors 5. .. 44 The calamities under which England groans have extended even to Guernsey ; some details, of which we can warrant the authenticity, have reached .51 on this subject. . 44 Two private Banks, the one tinder the firm of Macculloch and Bellamy, the otheithat of Bishop, saPpOrted the commercial operations of that island, Where the notes of the Bank of England were seen only in small numbers. These two Banks enjoyed public confidence ; the merchant placed in them his funds, ancrthe mechanic his savings • but the failure of M e ssrs . BroCk and Lemermier (Lemesurier), of London, destrOied the illusion ; it exposed the situa tion of these Banks, which were able to offer their creditors oily froni2o to 25 per cent. for their funds. 1 fence other failtires Have been produced, and many houses will never be able to recover the blow. Alarm is diffused among all classes • dismay is oral ; the . exchanges are fallen to no thing ; and . , hit island, lately so flourishing, will soon present the 1 i fen ;.. aspect' Of desdlation. Already the guinea passes for 20 shillings, the crown for 5s 6d. and the Spanish se .. . L i dbliar forfitti shillings. Merthindize, the reprnen r ciltiire of wealth, is falling in value ; ten per cent. i; with thiow • lost on goods when embeeged kit ipso% and ye pin sent. when exchanged lee foreign amities. say the people of Guernsey, are tbeimanchaly resu.s. of the war in Spain and Portugal." COMMUCI. The attention of French merchants and manubc. totem has already been several times called to the nets route opened to them by the Illyrian Provinces, for facilitating their direct relations with the Levant. We can now felicitate them on being enabled to announce their success. The merchandise imported from the Ist of January rtd the month of August, amounted in weight to 11,93:1 Vienna quintals, or 499,51 S kilograms. There are already settled atCostanicsa four principal agents for the Levant trade. One of them has dis. patched 1,000 bales of cotton for Paris, LyOns, and Venice. From Costanicza the trade passes generally through Gori tz a, Neu stadt, and Laybech k front thence to Trieste and Milan. The Turks brought about 5,000 bales on their own account ; the surplus has been sent off direct from the Levant to the merchants of France and Italy. I'ne carriage to Paris is conducted partly by way of Trieste. and partly by Laybach and Villach. It is believed that 20,000 bales of cotton will arrive at Costanicza before winter, in cOnsequence of the fa. cilities created, and the suppression -of duties which obstructed the commerce of Costanicza. The route of Costanicza is not the only privileged one; that of Spa. latro also presents some advantages,and among others that of a less lengthened conveyance over the Ottoman territory, and a longer passage through countries unit. ed to the empire, or subject to his Majesty. The post is so regulated. that letters may teach Tr.este in four days. At present there are only two weekly couriers, but it is proposed to establish a third. The road of Carlstadt is not practicable for com merce. That from Costanicza to Graduzsa, by the Save, is t ilerable. When the Save is navigable, cot tons may be embarked at Graduzza, for Laybach ; this route is a goad deal frequented. From these details it appears, that the speculations of French merchants may be conducted with perfect security, by certain points in the Illyrian provinces, which are open to our connections with the Levant ; and that the merchants who first seconded the views of Government have been the first to reap the advan. Cage of it. The amount of Levant merchandise which passed through the Custom-house of Costanicza, for France and Italy. from the Ist of Jan. to the SOth of June, was .50,588 francs in specie, and 2179 bales. From the Ist of July to the gist of August, it was 112,1118 francs, and'4646 bales. CONSTANTIV^"' 12. Last month the army of the Grand Visa was estimated at 50,000 men ; be has since received eon. siderable reinforce's:watt. On the 28th of July, from the imprudence defame individuals, a terrible fire broke out, which reduced to ashes a considerable part of this capital, thicey in the quarter of the 4r.meuians. An English frigate, the Pomone, which arrived in the Dardnnelles to bring home Sir Herfard lanes, English Minister at the Persian Court, who is on his return from Teheran, sought permission, for the pet. pose of anchoring in more safety, to came within the looter castles of the straits, but the Porte refusti it. STLTTTOARD. SgrritiCalt s. • The law issued by our Sovereign of Wirtemberg, . prohibiting emigration under the penalty of confisca tion of the emigrant's property, is mtacuted with great rigour. Several persons have already suffered the penalty ; particularly M. De Hochstettea, vice. equerry to his Majesty, whose property, as well as that of his wife, has been confiscated. ,••• SICIL r. No. V. • The Kingdom of Naples, standing out of the Tory Ma of European politics, was, for a long time before itie French revolution, n.it involved in hostility with any great power. The opportunities for promotion in the Court were in consequence few, and the avenues to distinction full Of rubbish. The Government had rarely occasion to undertake any enterprize in which . it was necessary to consider the popular sentiments, and the people little regarded the proceedings of the .Government. To prevent scarcity, and to keep the hpeace during the public spectacles, seemed to be all the duty of the Government of Naples. still it was necessary that it should have the shew at least of greater affairs, and the ministers and courtiers, to . maintain their consequence, were obliged to throw over their petty concerns a veil 'of mystery which magnified them not only in the eye of the public, but even deceived themselves. From this artificial and cunning course of proceeding grew that sceptical and derelict habit of thinking and acting, which all tra vellers have represented as more peculiar to the Nea politan nobility than to any other people. Every thing about the Court of Naples was managed with the dexterity and providence of intrigue and conspiracy. —The road to place was by the toll-bar of ccw ruption, and success in - public affairs was obtained only by the advocacy of fees. All was in masque ; and truth, and honour, and justice, when they lip peared its their native fairness, were regarded late every thing else, only as painted artifices, and re treated as such. This is a disagreeable sketch, bet the correctness of the outline and the likeness cannot be denied. The Neapolitan Cabinet in Sicily, possessing the arts, practices all the tricks so notorious in the ;Court of Naples. By the condition and feelings of the Royal Family, it possesses a facility in its opera- I tions,. which its over-reaching subtlety carrying beyond the object, CAMS to increase the misfor ' tunes of the family, and to disgust their best friends. This flagitious cabinet knows that the mind of the Queen is full of the terror of being com pelled to swell the dependent train in the Cowl of St. James's ; that •on this rim she is deperste, and .~,