Star. — London, England, 1816-12-26 00:00:00

... diggivado Drnatiaggcs.. ,• • NEW.TORK, NOVEMBER 16. Yesterday being the anniversary of the•evaluation of our city by the British tioops in 1783, as a mark of respect to those who achieved that event, the flags of our shipping, and public places, were displayed throughout the day. It appears that the misunderstanding with the Court of St. Petersbargh, and 'which had so tar pro gressed as to announce the departure of the Russian Minister, by order of his Emperor, is likely to be amicably adjusted. The dispatches brought by Ed ward Wyer , Esq. Consu l at Riga, from Lovitt Har ris, Esq. our Consul-General, are said to breathe a wish for harmony on the part of the Russian Govern went, instead of hostility. Congress meet at Washington City on the 2d of December. The Legislature of Pennsylvania meet at Harris burgh on the 3d of December. The electors of a President and Vice• President of . the United States meet in their respective Statelon the 4th of December. V . Ross THE KINGSTON U. C. dAzitnit.) Ma. - DITOR—On taking up the New York Slacks.' for of the 16th instant, I observed a paragrapb (avowedly copied into that paper from the Water town American Advocate) to the following effect : 46 It is stated that about the fat inst. a Biltish de. setter from Kingston passed through SackeecHar-, hour, and•was soon pursued by three armed English Officers, who overtook and secured h im at Hander-' 1 son. While the officers were conducting their pri- 1 soner back to Kingston, a number of ship-carpeilters and other citizens of Sacket's Harbour interfered and effected his escape." Now, Sir, the facts to which the above has allusion; are as follow : $$ Two officers belonging to the 70th regiment,{ stationed at Kingston, were sent over by me to Sacket's Harbour ; not armed, nor with the view of seizing a deserter, but as private gentlemen in pur. suit of a villain who had committed the most daring robbery on his master, and whose detection and pu nishment every upright citizen of every nation, ought to have felt alike interested. The said two gentle men applied in a regular manner to the Civil Magi. crate (paying the required fers) in order to the cul• prit's being committed to prison, in the full confi dence that the American laws would deal justly by the offender ; but, with regret do 1 publish it to the world, that the Civil Magistrate at that section of the United States, after receiving the prisoner into his custody, and being paid for his trouble, had the ef frontery of winking at his escape, following up his du plicity by the degrading acknowledgment, that the prisoner's rescue was effected by the daring violence of a lawless mob. Thus it is, Mr. Editor, by similar tnistatements as the one inserted in the American Advocate, are rancorous feelings excited, and jealous suspicions begat, in the minds of the subjects of two nations, who have the strongest possible incentives to reciprocal good offices and durable friendship. Your obedient servant, 66 TitostAs EVANS, Lieut.-Col. Corn. 7ciih Regt." I, '• GENERAL M:NA'S EXPEDIIION. We have conversed with a gentleman who fir- 4 ived at Norfolk on last Tuesday evening, the sth instant, in 20 days from Port-au-Prince. This gentle man states himself to have embaiked at Baltimore, Is an Officer under the Spanish Patriot General Mina. The vessels which composed the expedition ;onsasted of the ship Caledonia and a schooner. On board of the Caledonia, in which our informant was, there were about 100 who had embarked in the cause if Spanish patriotism t but 3-fourths of the above 100 bad all the rank of Officers of different grades. General Mina had made ample promises to them of giving regular pay for their setvices from time to ime ; but not a dollar had been advanced to any one of the party when our informant came away. The lame which he assigns for leaving General Mina was ickness ; having been attacked with a violent fever immediately upon his landing at Port-au-Prince. He 'lowever mentions, that nearly one half of the whole number had also forsaken Mina, some from sickness, some from disgust, and others from fatigue, and had embarked for the United States in different vessels for their respective homes. Our informant is a native of Ireland, a young man of genteel appearance, and well acquainted with several of the Irish houses in Bakinsore and Norfolk. He states that most of Mina's party were young men like himself, entirely unacquainted with military affairs, and who had engaged with the Spaniard from the novelty of the scheme, from a desire of seeing the world, and actuated by the ambition of signalizing themselves in the cause of freedom..-4 passion so na tural to the minds of youth. The mutative of our informant was expressed in language of such simplicity, that. it was impossible hot to give credit to every sentiment he uttered. It was the narrative of one who had evidently volun teered with the warmest enthusiasm, and with the most sanguine hopes of success; but unacquainted with the world. and ignorant of the hardships of •a, sanitary life.—Pesersbersh Intel. • One hnodred and two men, women, and children, settlers, arrived st Quebec on the sth instant, in the brig Perseverance and Isabella, from Stornoway, (North Britain). WILOM THE BOSTON CENTINEL. From several parts of the United States we have accounts of abundant grain crops ; from others that the yield has been a fair average of the last twenty years ; and from none have we learnt of a general failure. It is the opinion of intelligent Agricultu ralists in various parts of the Union, particularly the northern division, that the quantity of bread 'stuff harvested this year is as great as that of the last—the %exceas of the small grains fully equalling the defi ciency of the Indian corn. The present high pries of grain must, therefore, be attriblited to specula tion..., or unnecessary fears of scarcity ; and mutt shortly come down, if a stop should be put to exces sive exportations. MONTREAL, Norms= te. Oa Saturday last, about five .minutes after noon, a severe shock of an earthquake was felt over this city and vicinity. It was accompanied by a rumbling noise tinting six or eight seconds. It was also felt at William Henry precisely aj the same time in two shocks. The duration, including the interval, was estimated at about five seconds. - ••• jo=o THE EVENING •STAR. LONDON. S.. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1816. Farrar...l. or Si. STIP II Me-44011 ft the tank. Erehequilor, • and South-Sea cure. FRENCH PAPERS. The Paris Papers of Sunday and Monday reached. i us this morning, but their contents are of the usual complexion—dull and insipid. The French prens deserves any epithet but that of a Free Press. Even the speeches of the Members of the Chambers may not, with safety to the Editors, be inserted in the Journals, if they have not first passed the officiall ordeal. . Were it not for information furnished by private letters, we should be led to conclude that the people were every where the most happy upon the fact of the earth, those who superintend the Departments seeking nothing so much as to banish even from their memories every trace of tyranny and oppression ; but contrast this with the fact. Even the petitions and remonstrances occasioned by acts of opptession. are passed ever in silence. It was lately representeds ht the hope of producing some beneficial impression on the Chamber, by M. COURIER, a landholder off great respectability in Touraine, that the small place 31 Luynei, in that province, reduced by the revoca tion of the Edict of Nantes, from a rich and polio - loos town to one of a thousand inhabitants, is now about to be red iced so nothing at all,in consequenceof the system pursued by the present authorities. He des cribed this place and several others in the same depart ment, as given up entirely as a prey to a few priests and emigrants, and a hostof gendarmes,their agents oilier secu tion. He related one fact, with all its circumstances. of a whole family ruined, owing to its head, a respecta. ble farmer, having refused to submit to the ceremony of genuflexion, as he was met by a religious proces sion. He mentioned several instances of persons impri soned and exiled upon charges of Bonapartism or disaffection to the legitimate Government, for having naturally compared, in their private communications with each other, their present proverty and disquie tude, with their former affluence and tranquillity.— He informed the Chamber of symptoms of commo tion which have already occurred io consequence of the pernicious system of Government ; and be repre sented a general insurrection throughout Touraine as an event to be apprehended, if a thorough change in the administration of that province is not speedily adopted.—This representation received no attention whatever ; and there is but too much reason to be ieve that such scenes are not confined to one De- partment. The following are the only articles furnished by the Paris Paperr deserving of the slightest notice : CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES. • SITTING OF THE 21ST OF DEZEMBER. The Chamber opened at half-past two. M. HAUTEFEGILLE, Reporter of the Commission of Petitions, commenced the Report. The following are the most interesting particulars. Mademoiselle Gournaud, of la Vendee, whose father had expired a victim to the Revolution, prayed to be exempted from paying the list quarter for the acquisition of an estate. This quarter, it was main. tained, had been already paid, but the papers w ere lost when the house was burnt down. They hal lust every portion of their fortune.—Passed to the order of the day. The Sieur Andre of Path, reclaimed against a decree of the Commission of Public Instruction, which interdicted the scholars of Sainte Barbe from entering into the Royal Colleges, because they had assisted at a representation of the tragedy of " Man lius et des . Fausses Confidences." The Commission proposed the order of the day upon this reclamation, on the ground that the decree in question could not give cause for denunciation. — Adopted. The Sieurs Martineau, of Chatellerault, petitioned against the curate of the said town, 4lbo had refused to bury their father, who died in the bosom of the Catholic Church. They demanded legislative mea sures, to avoid in future similar evils.—Referred to the Minister of the Interior. . . Some inhabitanis of Corsica , p ut in prison at the, Fort la Malgue, complained that they had been ar rested without any cause (or at least they did •not know of any), since the first of August, and had lain in prison since that time without being brought to-tiial. They petitioned to be judged. The Co mmission proposed the-order of the day.—Adopted. .The merchants of St. Quentin petitioned against the number of hawkers, who set up their shops in the town and win their trade by selling merchandise of deteriorated value at a low price.—The Commission proposed to refer it to the Minister of Finance. Baron PCYMMInt declared that this Petition was of 1 • the highest interest.al If (said he) an end. is not put ett these abuses which ruin commerce, we shall behold France peopled by ambulating merchants, balk and pedlars, while honest tradesmen , who pay t r licence s: lose all their trade. In order to i, mak such a scandal cease, I second that it be rider retto the Minister of Finance."—Adopted. A Petition from the Sim Tonanes, of Paris, con cerning the promulgation of Laws and Ordinances, su na rec obi rii in! as co bo thi of ha of ti' of Cll ail in he as CI II B tr tl 1.1 ti Amterefarred to the Chs meter c.f Fraace, Wade oil 'Justice. T..e President , upon the conclusion of th e Repor ter at the Commission of Petitions, informed the De puties that the Public Sitting of Moods,' would take place at twelve o'clock. —The Chamber separated at three o'clock. PARIS, DECEMBER 25 The King having taken into consideration the pro positiion, fora promotion on o t hnie lit of nthe. s t n oy , Legion of Honour , ealarfO,rhdae:decofidthede that it shall not take place. Yesterday morning the five regiments of Infantry of the Royal Guard, in garrison at Paris, were re viewed in the great Plain between Clichi and Neuilly by his Royal Highness Monsieur, and a brilliant, Staff. The troops had a mock fight : the village of Clichi was attacked and taken. His Hi g hness ex pressed himself much satisfied with the precision of their manceuvres. Yestefday, after Mass, M. Bussy, First President of the Royal Court of Bourbon, and M. Gilbert Barr cher, Procureur-Geueral to the same Court, took their oaths between the bands of the King. The satisfactory state of the King's health makes it to be hoped that his Majesty will be able to receive company on the first day of the year. After Mass, several Marshals, the Ministers, and a reat number of Peers and Generals, and some Hew - hers of each Chamber , we re admitted to pay their re spects to the King. Nothing further has been heard respecting the sup posed loss'of a packet off Calais. Colonel Chambure, accused of having at the head of a party, on the high road of Rooney, in the night of the 18th of July, robbed two Englishmen of a sum of money and property in gold and silver, has been condemned for contumacy to perpetual hard labour, to the pillory, and to be branded on the back. On the Ist of this month, several armed men, with masks on their faces, entered at night the house of a ,rich person at Vauvent, and robbed him of 15,000 francs. A detachment of gendarmes has, it is said, been sent in pursuit of the robbers. Gann Coulon, ex-Conventional, ancient Senator, and Member of the Academy, died a few days ago, at the age of 72. The Jesuits have re-opened their Noviciate at Ge neva on the 14th of November. Many of the ancient fathers of the order have resumed their priestly habits. The old priest at the Convent on the top of Mount St. Bernard, well known to modern travellers, died lately at Martigny. He has left some interesting collections of natural history. The two Swiss regiments attached to the Royal Guard, and who will commence their duty on the Ist of January, entered Paris on Saturday morning by the Bonier of Charenton. General Despinois, and Count Rochechouatt went out to meet them, and placed themselves at their head, accompanied by a numerous Staff. They afterwards passed in re view, at the Champs Elysees, before his Royal High ness Monsieur, accompanied by the Dnke of .Ragusa. A mercantile house, the most opulent and long established at Barcelona, has lately failed for the sum of three millions of francs. The river Rhine has overflowed in such a manner, that the streets of Strasbourg are covered with water. Tae fell wring notice has been distributed among the Men bi:s of the Chamber of Deputies Those Deputies who would be inclined to contribute to the annual collection which sill take place on the 22d of this month, in favour of the aged priests, the infirm and poor who cannot attend the chinch at the time i of the collection, are requested to deposit their offer ings in the box of the Chamber in the hands of the Treasurer, who will cause it to be sent to the box of the Diocese.", The Minister of the Interior, in consideration of the particularly-distressed situation of the inhabitants of the Lower Rhine, has given authority to the Pre fect of that department to expend 50,000 francs for their relief. Letters from Frankfort, of the 17th of December, state, that the Diet was nest day to hold its last Sit ting, after which it would not resume its labours till the 20th of January. A Nuremberg Journal announces that the King of Panda has made a grant of four millions of riz dol lars (sixteen millions of francs) to those Proprietors of East and West Prussia who have been ruined by the late wars. From Petersburgh we learn that 810 sail of vessels 'We this year catered the port of Cronstadt. The number is not considerable ; but it will be recolleCted that the importation of all articles of English manu facture is prohibited in Russia. The exportation of the native products of Russia has been very consi. derable, and will be yet greater during the ensuing ' year. The communication with Italy, by the passage of Saint Gothard, is entirely stopped, in consequence of a great fall of snow. The unfortunate mother, whose act of delirium we noticed yesterday, only survived her children about two hours. The French Jews have given in to the Court df Casiation a claim for their reestablishment in the trigbts of Citizens, which had been accorded to - them by the Civil Code, and of 'which they were suddenly deprived, in 1804, by a simple Decree of Bonaparte. SPAIN. The affairs of Spain seem evident y to be d ra to a crisis. The state machine m st absolutely s .,°, still—or, rather, must fall t pieces, if via ,. prN ' , anti-attrition be not speedily found to appl y 15 , wheels. Bust where is this to be found ? has at length found out one resource ; and, it We tr4 t credit the subjoined account, are now actually (4 1 pied with the arrangements for reducing the loos. of priests and monks, and applying a portion o f (Let immense revenues (upwards of ten million, and half) to the relief of the nation ! Will these le :, submit quietly to this necessary reform ?—T, nit chew the degree of their attachment to the 14; 1 .1 FgRIANAND." " MADRID, DECENI3ER f 1 It is reported that there is to be a I - 6111 1 4 1 in the Monastic Ord , rs, which will reduce th, rn four Chief Orders. The negcciaticns with liners on this subject are bel:evel to be su fa c , %: , 7 advanced to enable the change to be Lacted the end of the year. 66 It is also in agitation to make a reform int o . Clergy, and it is even said that a plan to t!.:i eff r , has been adopted by his Majesty. Accord nool work urn the Property of the Clergy and Mc L k i r • Spain, which was published by a Deputy of L .. Cortes, their revenues amount to no less than 51 m. lions of piastres (410,625,000 sterling)." NAVAL INTELLIGENCB. • MAILS —gat. not. AIL se ; 1 0 France Waterford ow 1 1 Hambargh -. o 0 I G ue rnsey and Jersey 0 1 Gottenburgh .. 0 1 Li s bon - - - 0 0 Flinders -. . a 1 Holland - - - 0 1 Malta --- . 0 "0 FALMOUTH, DECEMBER at Arrived the Thomas Brooch, Netsos, fro m V. ginia ; Chapman, from London for Co r k and Ares South Wales ; and Brisk, from Shields for Jamaic a , Sailed the Ann, Diana, Hope, MargAter ti , uh ste Sally, and Jenny , for Lon don ; Mer c u ry , a nd Cribs, for Portsmouth. The brig Crown, WILSON, m i nd off the Lizard the 22d, fr im Salo ia 23 drys, a ll well, and proceeded for London.—Wild W. PORTSMOUTH, DECEMBER 2i. Arrived the Quest, Venus, Trsialgar, and 3 0 %,, q and Eleanor transports, from Guernsey. Th e For transport, from Guernsey, got on shore on nainisidp Ledge, but is expected to come off, nithcut Illptj damage, at high water. —Wind S.W. DEAL, DECEMBER 25. Arrived and remain the 1' ALLEY, frm Banc; Ayres, with loss of anzlior and cable; ltAcli.itl and Ann, CASE; and Hannah, Mooa, front (2 , itb , ec.— Came down from the River, and remain, t h e Sir 5. Lushington, Charles Grant, Inglis, and Gesa.l Harris, for India ; and the Pilgrim, for St Arrived and sailed for the River the lln:eiAlly store-ship.—Wind S.W. GRAVESEND, DECEMBER 25. Arrived the Hard Starhig, Skeper ; and 101 l Scruder, ftoat Ansiterdans : Clara, Garrard, from 1 arr.vrnia; Steel Shapp4ra, trom Ustend --Sadcd the Bomilay, ttrail• ton; and Ittllmund, Cla; k, for India ; Queen Charhue, W 1.1,1 11 and Rover, King, for Haniburgh ; El,pos, tor Ammo., ; and Twe Gebroders,Dikock, fur Brussels. Tire Cosci sloop of war, and Dorothy transpirt arrived at Behia the letter end of October. .fhe Captain and all the principal Officers, except the Master, died on the Coast of Africa, having bee: 12') miles higher trp the river than any other eruct The Ann and Elizabeth, of Dundee, Smolt me ter, laden with coals from Islztvcastle, sprung a I•ii on the ith ;11v:tilt, and went down, about thus mil , tiff Gt. Abb's [lead. The crew were taken on boil of the Archduke, Captain Iklvrenzu., which rust arrived at Dundee on the 8:h. The herrings have made their appearance in tl Frith of Forth ; for so:ne days past they have litei taken in considerable quantities, and are now Mar , in Edinburgh, of an excellent quality, at 3d. per dorn On the tOtb instant, four men set sail in a sn.Al boat from Ayr to Arran. The wind, which fix fresh at fist, increased, and soma after getting colt c• the harbour, blew the sails of the boat to rags. Mien about two leagues from the shore the boat upset, •a the whole were drowned. The boat was dtiv:oo shore between Irvine and the Trcon, but the boJie of the men have not yet been discovered. Thee° the men, Stewart, Robertson, and Smith, bebop .to Atran, and were returning home with the proceed of the herrings they had sold at Glasgow.--1 other man was a mason at IVhiteletts, of the nano of Robertson. PErruscunon, Nov. '23 —lt is feared all WI of any more ships getting away mast be abandvard. The Jessy, falls, was ready fur sea, but the wiadialt night continuing adverse ,' and the frost so severe, 041 although the water was open a few worsts bef Cronstadt, it is thought she cannot get to sea. Five vessels laden with Corn have artivea Harwich from Holland. Christmas Day was cb:erved yesterday with be coming propriety throughout the metropds. TRANSLATION CY THE LIB FS IN TUMMY'S STAls°• • LORD EXMOCTII. 4 A nobler name than Cie-it a, Fs &totem' rater, sword has at—cut riv:tted :11.tint litlritOhlYTU, ON SEEING A DASI/ING HIS cUItI(ICLE TIIIMGII 11',ND stitKET. No wonder poor .---- so awk ward appearal, Whilst driving his bart.olcu:',l hacks, For 1 pledge you my word, wittil these few y e3rs, He never drove any but sluices ! ROBBERY. —oo the night of Christmaave I dwelling-house of Mrs. FORSTER, at Walthamst o was entered and robbed of the whole of the Stor e p r ovided for the Christmas week , consiiting of t loaves of bread, two hams, a sirloin of bed, tv key, &c. &c. &c. I The depredators ef,iered t, forcing the iron-bars which protect the cellar-omit! It is a curious circumstance, that an old and tavatis dog, whose vigilance no thief cookd ihtie t e v ade i died a few days before. T he robtury WAS 7id ! 9111 i dote by persons who must h ave been accicinge with the premise& • ing