Star. — London, England, 1811-10-03 00:00:00

r 1 7., 7 , • • k 4 • • a • -•••••• 'PROM THE COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER OF AUG. 29. ANOTHER E16f3.1R00.-Our Readers will perceive, by the following paragraph from the Aurora, that another embargo 4; in contemplation :—We know of no authority the President has. either by the Consti tution or by statute, to lay an embargo ; unless, in deed, there may be some secret law on the subject, which like the laws relative to Flinida, are unfit for the public eye: " By a letter from the seat of Governments we , learn that it *as expected that a proclamation, laying an embargo on all vessels in the ports and harbours of :the United States, would be issued by the Preside t, in consequence of advices received by the late dis patches frOm the American Charge des Affaires in London." AMER/CA. NEW YORK, AUGUST ‘-:7. The city of New York is at once the most vulner able any valuable part of the United States, and will be a particular object of at; ck. Our general Govero ment, aware or this, have given more than a propor tionate share of their att• ntion to the fortifications which are now fist completing. But much remains to he done by our oWn citizens, as well our State Government, in order to meet an actual attack on this City. DECLARATION OF RIGHTS. fav- rue PEOPLE OF VENEZUELA. The Supreme Congress of Venezuela, in its Legis lative Session for the province of Carraccas, taking into 'consideration that to the neglect and . disregard of the Rights of Man, which have hitherto prevailed, must be ascribed all those evils which this people have endured for three centuries past ; and actuated by the -desire of re-establishing those sacred principles on a itolid basis, has resolved, in obedience to the gene• :al will, to declare, and doth now solemnly declare, in the presence of the universe, these rights inalienable ; to the end. that every Citizen may at all times tom, • pare the , acts of the Government with the purposes of the social Institutions ; that the Magistrate may never lose sight of the rules by which his conduct must be regulated ; and that the Legislator may in no case mistake the objects of the trust committed to him. SOVEREIGNTY OF TTIP, FEM.& ART. 1. The Sovereignty resides in the people and the exercise of it in the Citizens, by the • medium of the right of stiffolge, and through the agency of thc:r Representatives legally constituted. 2. Sovereigtity is by its essence and nature impre scriptibleo unalienable, and indivisible. S. A portion only of the Citizens, even with the right of suffrage, cannot exercise the sovereignty ; every individual ought to participate : by his vote in • the f rm Ath al of the body which is to represent the so vereign authority • because all have a right to expr-As their will with full and entire liberty. This principle alone can render the Constitution or their Govern- Went legitimate and just. 4. Any individual, corporate body, or city, which' attempts. to usurp the sovereignty, incurs the crime of treason against the people. 5. The Public Functionaries shallshold their offices for a definite period of time, and the investiture with a public function shall not attach any other impor• tance or influence 'hag what they acquire in •the opinion of their Fellow Citizens, by the virtues they play exercise whilst occupied in the service of the Republic. - 6. Crimes committed by the Representatives and Agents of the Republic shall-not he passed over with impunity ; because no individual has a right to be come more inviolable than another. The law shall be equal for all, to punish crimes, and to reward virtues, without distinction of birth or hereditary pretensions. RIGHTS OF MAN IN SOCIETY. AnT. 1. The purpose of Society is the common happiness of the people, and Government is instituted to secure it. 2. The felicity of the people consists in the enjoy ment of lib rty, security, property, and equality of rights, in the presence of the law. 3. The law is formed by the free and solemn ex pression of the general will, declared by Agents whom the people elect to represent their will. 4' The right to declare their thoughts and Opinions, through the medium of the press, is imrestrained and free, under responsibility to the law for any violation of the public tranquillity, the religious opinions, pro perty, and honour, of the Citizen. • B. The object of the law is to regulate the manner in which the Citizens ought to act upon occasions, when reason requires that they should conduct them selves not merely by their individual judgment and will, but by a common rule. 6. When a Citizen submits his actions to a l a w which his judgment does not approve, he does not surrender his right nor his reason, but obeys the law because he shoulel not be influenced by his own pri vate judgment against the general will to which he emght to conform. Thus the law does not exact the sacrifice rf reafon ner the liberty of those who do lot approve it, because it never makes an attempt upon liberty, unless When the latter violates 'social order, or swerves from•those principles which deter mine that all shall be governed by one common rule or law. 7. Every Citizen cannot luld an evnal power in the formation of the law, because all do not equally sontribute to the preservation of the State, to the se ourity and tranquillity of society. 8. The Citizens shall be ranged in two classes ; the one with the right of suffrage, the other without it. 9. Thos? possessing the right of suffrage, arc such as arc established in the territory of Venezuela, of whatever nation they may be, and, tliey alone consti tute sovereignty. 10. Those not entitled to the right of suffrage are• inch as have no certain place of residence—those without property, which is the support of society.— This class, nevertheless, enjoy the benefit of the law, and its l rcieetion, in as full a measure as the other, but without participating in the right of suffrage. 11. No individual can be accused, arrested, or con fined, unless in cases explicitly pointed out by law. 12. Every act exercised against a Citizen, with; out the formalities of the law, is arbitrary and tyran nical: , 13. Any Magistrate who decrees dr causes an ar bitrary act to be executed, shall be punished with the severity the la* prescribes. s . .. ~,.~ ' . . „ _ . . a. • • _ . 14. The law shall protect public and individual ti ' ' THE COMM. berry against oppression and . tyranny. . - --- 1.5. Every - Citizen is to be regarded as innocent, PARIS, SEPTEMBER 21. until he shall have been proved culpable. If it he- • ro TIIE ESITOR 04: 11111 MONITIIIa. come necessary to secure his person, unnecessary ti- " Having been requested to rectify my Elements goon for the purpose shall be repressed by law. of the Comet by actual observations, I have the ho. 16. Ni person shall be sentenced or punished with- nottr to communicate the result. out a legal trial, in virtue of a law promulgated pre. " The Comet was neared the sun on the 12th cif ' viously to the offence. Any law which punishes September ; it was then still 39 millions of ldagues crimes committed previous to its existence is tyran- distant from that body, and 54 millions of leagues nical. A retroactive effect assumed by the law is a from the earth. From the above date its distance crone. from the sun will increase, till about the middle of 17. The law ;hall not decree any punishment not October, when the least distance of the Comet from absolutely necessary, and that shall be proportionate the eartlawal still he more than 41 millions ofleagues. to the crime and useful to society. It is not probable that the brilliance Of the Comet will 18. Security consists in the protection afforded by go on increasing ; for it will lose somewhat mere of society to each of its members, for the preservation its luminous aspect by its removal from the sun, of his person, his riehts, and his property. than it will gain by its approx;rnation to the earth.- 19. Every individual possesses the right to acquire In general, the situntiorr of the orbit of this Comet is' preperty, and to dispose of it at will, unless his will such, that it can never approach very near the earth. be contrary to a previous compact, or to law. " The nucleus of this Comet :appears seriaratedirom W. No kind of labour, art, industry, or commerce its coma, which surrounds it in the form of a parabolic Ishall be prohibited to any citizen, save only such ring. This appearance, which has not yet been ob establishments as may be required for the subsistence served in other Comets, is ascertained by the observa. i of the State. tions of all the astronomers of Paris, and will doubt -21. N:) one can. he deprived of the least portion of less be confirmed by those of other astronomers. — his property without his consent, except when the Probably, however, it does not at all follow that the public necessity requires it, and then under the con - bod y is absolutel y detached from the coma, as the space" dition of a just compensation. No contribution can which appears void may be fitted with particles much be required and established, unless for the general 1 less luminous than the rest of the coma. utility. Every Citizen entitled to suffrage, nas the " The following are the elements of the orbit cf right, throng the medium of his Representatives, to , this comet :—Perihelion distance, 1,022,41. The in advise and consult on the establishment of contribu- ' scant of its passage by *perihelion, 4b.minutes past tions, to watch over their application, and to require 1 nine in the evening of tie 12th of Septemb - er, 1811. an account of the same from those he has elected as' Ascending node, 140 deg. 13 min. inclination 72 his Representatives. deg. 12 mm. place of the perihelion, 74 deg. 12 min. 22. The liberty of claiming one's rights in the pre- I am, Ecc. 46 BU ItCR II Alt DT, Member of die Institute." settee of the depositaries of the public authority, in no case can he withheld, nor confined to any parti cular citizen. '2). There is individual oppression whey one mem ber of saciety is oppressed ; there is also the oppres. sion of a member when the social body is oppressed. In these cases the laws are violated, and the citizens have a right to demand the observance of the laws. 21•. The house of every citizen is an inviolable asy lum. ' No one has a right to enter it sit:dimly, except in cases of conflagration, deluge, or application, pro ceeding from the same house ; or for o6fecti of cri minal proceedings in the cases, and with the essen tials determined by law, and ender the responsibility of the Constituted Authorities who have issued the Decree. Domiciliary visits and civil executions shall, take place only in open day, in virtue of the law, and with respect to the person and object expressly pointed out in the act authorizing such visitation and execution. • 25. Every foreigner, of whatever nation he may he, shall be received and admiztedinto the State of Venezuela. . 26. The persons and properties of foceigners shall enjoy the same security as the native citizens, provi ded always that they acknowledge the sovereignty and independence, and respect the Catholic religion, the only one in this country. 27. The foreigners who reside in the State of Ce raccase becoming naturalizes!, and holding property, shall enjoy all the rights of Citizenship. DUTIES oF MAN IN soeterv. ART. 1. The rights of others, in relation to each individual. have their limit in the moral principle which determines their duties, the fulfilment where of is the pecessary effect of the respect due to the rights of each of the individuals. Their basis is these maxims;—" Render so others the good which you would they. should render unto you."—" Do not unto another thut which you do not wish to be donel RACE TO MARGATE.—The match against time, for unto you." 200 guineas, to drive a horse in a chaise, with tw a 2. The (lodes of every individual with respect to heavy persons in it, to Margate., in twelve successive society are :—To live in absolute submission to the hours, was deci.'e lon Tuesday. At Canterbury laws—To obey and respect the legal acts of the Con -1 the animal wets much distressed, and soon after gave stituted Authorities—To maintain liberty and equa owner ! up the task, to the RO small discomfiture of ita humane lily-To contribute to the public expenses—To serve the country. iu all Its exigencies ; and, if it becomes Former) BANK Norm—That there is an immense' necessary, to render to it the sacrifice of property and number of forged Bank-notes in circulalien shouts!' life.--In the exercise cf these virtues consists genuine b • be known to every one. particularly to tradesm en . I patriotiim. . live forged notes were taken at a sale which recently S. Whoever openly does violence to the laws— took place at St. Margaret's-hill ; and, in the hum whoever endeavours to elude them declare' himself , • of business, a very necessary caution was omitted— an raemy to society. that of writing on the notes from whom they were 4. No one cen be a good Citizen, unless he be a taken. The notes in question were of coarse paper, good parent. a good son, a good brother, a good and smaller than the genuine ones. friend, and a good husband. WATERFORD, SEPT. 28.—1 n the gale at south.east, 5. No one can be a man of north, unless he be a : on Tuesday evening, a boat ladea with lime-stone was candid, faithful, and religious observer o f the laws ; sunk in the Ross River, opposite the White Horse.— the exercise of private and domestic virtues is the basis The crew consisted of three men, two of whom were of public virtue. unfortunately drowned ; and the other, though he DUTIES Al THE SOCIAL BONY. • din to the oars, and was driven near the county of ART. 1. The duty of society with respect to its in - Wexford side, would have shared the like fate, hut for die idiot Members, is the social guarantee This con- the daring exertions of the people on shore.— sists in the obligation on the whole to secure to every On Wednesday evening last, about half past eight individual the enjoyment and preservation of hisrights, o'clock, the brig Pleasant. John Gibson master, was which is the foimdation of the national oesereignty. wrecked at the islands of Keane ; but , we are happy '4. The social guarantee cannot exi s t unless the law to add, the crew of six persens were all saved :. clearly determines the bounds of th e p owers vested in CHESTER, Sara. 28.—0 n Friday evening, during a the functionaries ; nor when the responsibility of the 1 storm of thunder and lightning , accompanied w ith ex functionaries has not been expressly d e t ermined cessive rains, a melancholy, and in its parti .1 effect s a and defined. wonderful. catastrophe occurred. As Mr. Hoc. S. Public succour is a sacred duty of society ; it Huottes, farmer of Tyddyn.whiskyn, in Carmarthen nateoght to provide for the subsistence of the unfi'n shire, was returning from Caernarvon on horseback, Gi s izens, either by ensuring employment to those with his daughter mounted behind him, holding him who are capable of acquiring means of subsistence or! round the waist, she and the house were str uck dead else by affordino the means of support to such as eau- with with the lightning, while Mr. Hughes himself received not acquire it by labour. , no injury, except a bruised knee from the fall of his 4. Instruction is necessary for all: Societ y ou g ht 'horse. to promote, with all the means in its p ower, the en- Monday afternoon, six o'clock, as the carter of a lightenment of the public mind, and place instruction market cart, loaded with dung, was ring along within the attainment of every individual. Kingaland-road, riding upon the shafts, he was by a This our solemn declaration is to be communicated stiddan jolt flung off into the road.., The near wheel to the Supreme Executive Power, in crder to be pro- of the cart passed over him, by which one of his legs claimed for the nformation of all by such means as was fractured in a shocking manner. He was imme it may 'fudge moat expedient. diately conveyed to the hospital, where it. was thought Given at the -Palace of the Government of Vene his leg must undergo amputation. Isuela, on the Ist day of July, 1311. • Tuesday morning; about six o'clock, as an elderly (Sighed by the functionaries , as usual.) woman was carrying a heavt load of vegetables, Sac. ,___--. upon her head, from Spitalfields-market, sh 6 slipped. At the last Cardiff Sessions, Jeremiah Williams was off the kirb-stones in Pettyeoat-lane, when the load sentenced to two months imprisonment, for assault. fell upon her, by-which she was so much hurt as to be ing Lieutenant Notter, of the impress service. The taken to the hospital, without hopes of recovery. . Lieutenant, seeing him dressed in A jacket and crow- On Wednesday se' n night, and on Saturday night secs, asked him, very civilly, what ship he belonged last, two shots were fired by some assassin or assassins, to ? when he replied, what is that to yon—you ate aat John Martin, Robert. M'Kcon, George Spading, d—d scoundrel; and immediately struck the-Lieu. and James Jordan, four privates in the North Mayo tenant a violent blow on the breast.---Tlre proacu- Militia, while' standing . sentiuele en the county jail ol tics Ina instituted it the desire of the Adagraltr. Waterford. .. . . _ • . _ . . -- -- -- _ _. ... • _ _—..... SI,AYES. . • We lament to see that the spirit of persecution is not confined to the Island t f Jamaica. We copy from the Esseqnebo and Demerara Royal Gazette, the following Proclamation by his Excellency H. W. BENTINCIC, Governor, and the Honourable the Court of Policy of the Said Colonies : " Unto whom these Presents shall come, greetlng,be It known: " Whereas representations have been made to us, that nume rous wettings of Slaves are permitted to take place on the east coast of this Colony, at late hours in the evening; which, although they ire avowedly for relents purposes, yet being at unseason able and improper hours have been found productive of d i vot . der, and if continued to he allowed, nay have the most danger ous tendency We have therefore thought fit to enact, as it Is hereby enacted, that from the date. of the publication of these Presents, no meeting or coltvocation of Slaves shall he lawful, or permitted to take place after the hour of sunset, for any pur pose whatever, except only for the usual purposes of the Estate' or Plantation to which rich Slaves shall belting. And we do hereby in thostrictest manner forbid any Proprietor, Attpiney, or Marlager of Estates, to permit such meeting, under pain of the several penalties of the it gr, directing the Burgher f'fficers of the different districts to nse their aothority to•prevent the same; authorizing them, In case of rt sistance, to commit the person or persons so resisting or refuting to comply,•stricly con forming themselves to the inqtruetions given them in the iith Article of al-, Militia Regular:Tu. " Given at the Court-House, in Stahl-Mc, the :Id stay of May, 1111; and published the 2.lth of the sam m month." e h." " W. H. BENTMCK..." The art of the above T.'roclamation will not br seed through at first sight—the idea of nocturnal meetings being always pregnant with alarm ; but it ought to be remembered ti•.at the poor Slave is kept through the whole day to bare labour ; and it is only at right that he can devote an hour to religious instruction or to holy worship. By this Proclamation then he is to be totally debarred of . all opening to the light of the Gospel, and of all means of earthly preparation for hereafter. 7N7 ~-- -• t- INLICZ MANSICM-1-1017SZ.—Thesday, RiettnierWlls charged by Mr. Humphries, a publican, in Eastcheap, with uttering base sixpences. The prisoner ask. ,1 for half A pint of porter ; in payment of which he offered first one bad sixpence, and then another; which exciting suspicion, an officer was sent for, and he was starch ed. Th ere were found upon him no less than 12 six. peaces of a shrular description, wrapped up in a piece of paper. The prisoner said he WAS an IT Iltilln.4l. -and had been last wt.: king at Cenihriage as a day labourer; hilt had been preve tidy employe. an Essex. digging potato es, It being suspected that he was an old offender, the Lord Mayor asked him, if he had ever been at Halstead. in Essex. and taken into chstodv there; to which he answered, '"I din't thirile I wets." This answer being sufficient to canfirm e..e suspicion, his Lordship bound over the publican, .1-1 Shepherd, the officer, to prosecute the prisoner. Ann Selit4, a poor old woman, evidently derarrzsti, was brought before the Lord Mayor, by Sepwell, tha officer, who said he had apprehended her on Sundt" , i morn.ng in Bishopsgate-street, wander ing about v.i . .:t ,nothing on her hut her-shift, to the great annoyance of the passengets. Iler husband stated her derange ment and her escape from him, upon which the Load Mayor recommended him to take her home. Andrew:, who was eta mined last Tridey. on et charge of stealing oil and candles from his master, Mr. Flint, the harberdasher, on Fish-street-ha , w. a ,, from the want of witnesses to speak to his character, ordered to be committed for trial. . Yesterday two bricklayers, who were at week et a house in a court in 'Threadneedle-street, were charg. ed on suspicion of attempting to rob the house. The female servant stated, that she beard a noise in the house, as if persons were breaking open dames within. The watchman coming into the court, the noise ceans eJ, sad she calling to the watchman had alarmed the thieves, who stem after she saw descendine iron the house by the' ladder, uttering the most horrid oaths, for having been disturbed in their intentions. The next twining,- she knew them when they came to work, and swore to the man she saw come down the ladder ; the other she was not so positive to ; but , thought he stood in the court and spike to the other. Both dewed the charge ; bet the one not 'went to said he would bring proof of his being in bed at the l time ; upon which he was discharged. The other was committed for further examination. A foreign seaman was charged by Mr. Stewart, of the India-house, with having . fraudulently assumed different names, in offering himself for the Compa ny's Menke Service. At the India-house he enga ged himself as a seaman on board an outward-bound I I Indianian, entered himself by the name of Frederick • Dabler, at which time he received two mouths pay lin advance ; he then nent on board the ship, and there entered himself by the name of Andrew Esr. nier, and received two months pay more. He was committed fcr further examination. GUlLDHALL—Yesterday a gentleman applied to this office, who had lately taken his place at Reading jfor town, and came in the coach as far as Oaking lham, with more passengers than the licence al-ov..ed. I and the coach heavily laden beside, so that they were 'in danger of breaking down. At Oakinglum the ,landlord of the Inn warned them of their danger, and advised three of them to take a post chaise; but they ventured on another stage, where the gentleman Jr. tertnined to quit the coach, but, on demanding his baggage, the coachman, with much abuse, refused to 'dearer it, unless he paid 16s. To this he objected. saying, that lie had already paid ss. 6d. therefore he had no right to pay more than 10s. 6d. The coach. man was positive, sa % ing, he did not care if it cost him 430, and the Gentleman was obliged to leave his baggage. Oa calling at the coach-Office in man e they ref used also to give it up, unless he p id the 16a. He desired them to look at the way-b 11, when they found him indebted only lOs. 6d. yet they still persisted. The Gentleman was advised to lodge a regular information against them, which he pr.nuit. ed. The Attorney for the detentfanta declined their willingness to make a public apology. bus the Gee. tlernan said, he conceived that their being made to smart for their conduce, would be the best way to se cure the Public from such treatment in future. A hackney-coachman was charged with driving over a porter in Newgate-street. The poor fellow stated, that he was dragging a truck with wine, when he was met by the defendant, who ordered him to get out of the way. He. in retuin, told the ceiach. man to keep his own side 4 instead of which, he flog ged on his horses, and threw down the porter. %hes& one of the wheels passed over his arm and grazed the side of his head. In defence, the Coachman said. there was plenty of room for any truck to pass be. twetn him and the pavement ; and. that had O. complainant not laid hold of his reins, and, by so doing, rendered his cattle ungovernable. the accident would not have happened. He was ordered to make the porter a suitable recompence. HATTONZAIDIN..•. , Jan Ilatille, Charged on Ms.. picion with having purloined some property of Mr. Crag, of Brownlow-stteet, in whose house he sta. employed us a carpenter; was committed. The otf:- -- s, on searching the house of the prisoner, tone.; two pieces of cotton without mat ks, to which l'i'7 Craig could not swear. and the pr4ener was det..ei ed until the calico printers appear to give evidie,:. , on the business. Wistrecttarat.-Orrick.---Yesterday J. De Silva, a Portuguese sailor, underwent a final esaminatioo, charged with the wilful `murder of John Dangles. 3 Scotch sailor, in East Smithfield, by stabbing hint es the back, a few nights since, of which he died i 3 t%o , hours, after being taken to the hospital. lie was fully committed for trial. Six Irishmen were committed to New Prison. f' being concerned in a riot on Sunday r.i i ;lo last, in Wentwortl,.street. The prisoners, wills a great num ber of others, had assembled in consequence of t!:e funeral of a Cllll‘l, %then a fight ensued, and on Free man and Beeby, Pulite Officers Irma Lambeth. street, interfering, they were assailed by about etvi, armed with bludgeons. &c. and both were woond,i-I, hut at length. after securing the prisoners, the rem .%:i.- der dispersed. - - - HIGH WATER AT LONDON MIDGE TO-MORiurA Memoir Aft 'racoon 35 minutes alter 3 I LONDON Printael aid deibrabed by Lavas. Ka or, tt . . ~. Illoasseplaaw, acid at du NW, Tonto !As. , . _____. _ _ --a .., - 1