Star. — London, England, 1824-10-13 00:00:00

Notwithstanding the long period which bas elapsed since the official notification of the favourable issue of' the expedition against Algiers, the public have not yet' been acquainted, through that or any other channel, with the terms of the convention which followed the" submission of the•Dey. - It will be recollected thatahe points in dispute were the insults offered to the English Consul by a violation of certain privileges enjoyed by him at Algiers, as the representative of the British nation, and particularly an infraction of that article of the treaty made with Lord Exmouth, renouncing the practice of ebndemning Christian prisoners of war to slavery. We are not in possession of the official docu-' ment, but we understand that the following is the sub stance of the Dey's declaration on these two subjects, signed by him and by Mr. Macdonald, in his capacity of British Consul-General to the Regency of Algiers r Is After the usual preamble, and referring to the treaties existing between Great Britain and Algiers, which provide for the entire safety and freedom of the person and estate of his Majesty's Consul-General, the Dey specifically declares, that he is readily disposed to comply with the wishes of his Britannic Majesty, in proof of his sincere desire to establish more lastingly the peace and harmony so happily subsisting between Great Britain and his Regency ; and he therefore heartily promises, " t st. That for the future, and for ever, the British Agent and Consul-General residing in t he city and kingdom of Algiers, shall be treated at all times with the respect and civility dot to his character. " ad. That his person and his house, or houses, shall be inviolable; and 4f any person Inure or insult him, by words or deed, snob per son shall hr severely punished. " 3d. That be shall have liberty to choose his own interpreters and servants, eitlarr Alussulmen or others, who are not to pay any tax or contribution whatever. " 4th. That he shall have the liberty at all times of hoisting his Majesty's Bag at the top of his house, either in town or country, and in his boat when he passes on the water. " sth. That be shall not pay duty for furniture, clothes, baggage, or any other necessaries which he imports into th e or territories of Algiers, for the use of himself or of his family; and that if the nature of his Britannic Majesty's service, or any other motive, re quire his absence from the kingdom, neither himself, his servants, baggage, nor effects, shall be stopped or detained upon any pretence whatever, but that he shall have free leave to go and return as often as he may think it necessary; and finally, that all honours or pri vilege.* that are now, or may hereafter be granted to the Agent, Consul, or Vice-Consul of any other Power, shall likewise be granted to his Britannic Majesty's Agent, and Consul-Glneral, and to his Vice-Consul. On the other point the Dey distinctly declares, that he is willing to abide in the strictest manner by a for mer declaration, concl tided by hisli ighness's predecessor, Om tr Bashaw, with Lord Exmouth, in 1816, engaging, that in the event of any future war with any European Power, not any of jhe prisoners should be consigned to slavery, but treated with all humanity as prisoners of war, according to European practice, and by which de claration the practice of condemning Christian priioners of war to slavery was formally renounced." The clause in the above declaration, wherein it is sti pulated that the British Consul shall have the liberty 6. of hoisting his .Majesty's flag at the top of his house, either in town or country, or in his boat when he passes on the water," is, we understand, perfectly novel, no 'Consular flag everhaving been hoisted by the British, or by any other nation. • It is, therefote,•at the - request of the bey, privately stipulated, that.the hoisting of the British Consular flag over the house in the town of Algiers is not to be enforced, the Dey declaring, in the most explicit terms, .under his hand and seal, that the absence of the British fin over the town-Louse shall not' deprive it of any of the privileges to which the hoisting • of the flag would entitle it. The prisoners of war detained at Malta in consequence of the hostilities with the Dey of Algiers, were em batked on the 18th of August on board of his Majesty's. ships Phaeton and Cyrene, which sailed the next day for-the purpose of testoring them to their country and their families. The Phaeton carried 151 to Algiers, and the Cyrene 59 to Bona. They had been in con finement since April, when the greater part of them were in a diseased state, from the hardships they under went on their pilgrimage, for they were detained on their return from Mecca. They .had been subsequently completely restored to health, and in departing ex pressed their gratitude for the treatment they had re ceived during their detention in Fort St. Salvadore. GKESCE. A vessel under the Grecian flag arrived on Monday, off Dover, on board of which Mr. Blaquiere is under. stood to be a passenger. The following is an extract of a letter from that Gentleman, to the Secretary of the Greek Committee : is We sailed from Napoli di Ro mania on the 29th of August, touched at Zsnte on the 31st, and left it on the following day ; put into Malaga for water, and have been seventeen days on our pas sage thence. With respect to the state of affairs in the Confederations when we left, I am justified in represent leg it as very prosperous. You have, of course, received the account and details of Admiral Sactuvi's gallant exploit in destroying a Turkish line-of-battle ship, a frigate, and a corvette, together with a number of transports, in the vicinity of Samos, on the 20th of August, and without any greater force than a squadron of eighteen Greek ships. fhe total failure of Mehemet Ali's focmidable ex pedetion must also be known to the friends of Greece in, England. At Salon* and its neighbourhood the , suc cesses have been most brilliant, the army of Dervish Pacha having been beaten and dispersed some days in fo:, my departure from Napoli di Romania.- The Prince Usurocordato, from whom I found letters at &ate, had advanced into. Acarnania, and established his head quarters at Lidourike, where a large force was collected to attack the Pacha of Scutarrs troops, but that Chief' had been enabled to collect only 2,500 men, and there was consequently no appearance of any attack on the side of Valtos and Xenomavis. You must also have heard that the division which had advanced towards Athens has been driven back to Negropont. I hope that the fiat letters you receive will bring an account of the destruction of Mehemet Ali's *armament. The whole Greek fleet, to the number of 100 sail, was des tined for this grand object, and was on its way to Rhodes for the puipose of attacking the enemy." - SMYRNA, AUGUST 21. Letters from Athens announce that actions of no great importance are almost daily fought in Attica, to the ad vantage of the Greeks. A Pacha at the head of several thousand men was 'deli' attacked at Thermopylc, and was obliged-to tetireinrefh loss. A more important en gagement lately took place at Marathon, and the Mossulmans were defeated. The artillery, baggage, eta military chest, fell into the bands of the victors.-- The number of killed and wounded on both sides is not, precisely known ; but it is stated that Omer-Pacha, the Bey of Caristo, is among the prisoners taken by the Greeks... Dela. • • • • - SAXONY: • DRESDEN, serriemetli v a no : The prokct of law concerning 3)*. a between the Protestants and the Catholics in the kingdom of Saxony was presented to the Assembly of the States in their last Session, that it might make a declaration on this subject. (Our Readers know that in Saxony the greater part of the inhabitants are Lutherans, and that but a small proportion professes the Catholic Religion, which is that of the Royal Family). This declaration was given by the States at the end of the Session. The States, in a memorial of considerable length, and drawn up with equal moderation and frankness, de tailed the reasons for which this law is incompatible with the principles of a real equality between the two Confessions, as it really gives the advantage to the Catholic community over the Protestant, and would endanger the well-founded liberty of the latter, and even the rights of the Sovereign. The Assembly pro. poses inconsequence that the King may be pleased to have this project of law revised, paying attention to the observations which have been made upon it, and have it presented to the next Assembly, that it may give a new declaration. Relatively to the important question, in which reli gion the children born of mised marriages shall be edu cated, the States have expressed their conviction, that to prevent all inconvenience and all violation of tights on this subject, and even to make the minds of fathers and mothers easy, such pf whom by a concession on this point would depart from what they owe to their Church, the solution of the question ought not to be left to an agreement between the parents, but should be de cided by a law which would exclude all tusceaminty.— Among the different measures adopted in other States on this subject, the best seems to be, that in mixed mar. riages, the sons should follow the religion of their father. and the daughters that of their mother. The States, after having adduced arguments in sup port of this proposal, request, that, in case the King should approve of it, his Majesty would be pleased to give it the form of a lavias soon as possible, even before the next Session of the State. - . THE lOAIAN ISLANDS. CORFU, SEPTEMBER S. The following publication has appeared today " His Excellency Lieut.-Gen. Sir Frederick Adana, Lord High Commissioner of his Majesty the King of Great Whale, to the United States of the lonian Isles. "The Provisional Government of Greece having pub lished and addressed to his Majesty's Consul at Con stantinople, and to the other Consuls and Vice-Consuls of the European Powers in the Alchipelago, a Procla mation in which is set focal • As the Masters of several European vessels have chartered their ships to the . Turkish Government, for the trail-port of troops, ammunition, and provisions, in despite bf the representations of their Consuls, and ih violation of the principles of neutrality professed by their respective Sovereigns, during the struggle in which Greece is now engaged, those ships cannot be re garded as neutrals, but shall be looked upon as enemies, and as such to be attacked. burnt, or destroyed, by the Greek fleet, or by any Greek vessel that.may meet tkem: " And his Majesty, in order to maintain litrlfglta of nentraft during actual hostilities, with vigour and impartiality, and to protect 1 the.commerce as well as the lives of his subjects and of the looian people, placed under his exclusive protecting, having commanded the Lord High Commissioner to intimate to the Provisiooal vernment the propriety of revoking immediately this Proclamation, which is so ow:wary to the rights of the people, and wail thir elides of humanity and relations hetwein civilised nations. Add the Lord High Commissioner having, in consequence, demanded, •in the name of Iris Majesty, the revocation of the 8114 Proclama tion., and the 'Provisional Government having refused to rOmplY with that demand, and this refusal having been notified in form to the Commander of the Naval Forces of his Majesty; " It is made known by these presents, that the saki Commander in -Chief, conformable to the instructions given by the Lords Com.' rnirsionere of the Admiralty, will capture . and destroy all vessels armed, or containing armed men, equipped with or without the authority of the Provisional Government of Greece, or recognizing its authority ; and these instructions are to be in full force until the said Proclamation, be fully and authentically revoked by the Pro- visional Government, and that revocation be formally notified to the Lord I lie: Commissioner. or to the Commander-in-Chief of his Majesty's Naval Forces. " This shall be printed in three languages, English, Greek, and Italian, and published and communicated to the Authorities whom it concern.—By order of his Excellency, "J. It USIALL, Secretary to the Corfu, Sept. 6. Lord High Commissioner." ' In order to put the above measures into execution, two English frigates, which were in our ports, have been dispatched to the vicinity of the !storm', and the Admiral's ship willjnin them at Zante. • THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER IS, 1804. THE FUNDS. • STOCK RXCH A NGE. TWELVE CFCLQCIf.' Consols opened at 96j i for November, and for Monti 961Aiii since the arrival of the Express from Pails they have advalkitti.to 96i I, owing to the Reines coming at 103 f. FOREIGN FUNDS. . Current Pikes: Nrw Spanish 151 I, 01d 401 /, Russian 961 Mexican 60161, Colombian Scrip 5; 61 disc. Chllian 754, French Scrip 14/ , 15, Portuguese 911, Brazil pre. Alliance Shares 101 pre. P:1 ICE OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank. Stock ex. dir. 233% % . 235 'h $ per Cent. Red. ex. dir. 95 1 A % W . - $ per Cents-Cons. 96 1 / 8 % per Cent. ex. div. 102 1 / 8 . 3i per Cent. Red.lol % • • '. 4 per Cent. New 108 107% 108% .107.% • Long Ann, ex. div. 251,4 3A—lndia Booth 93 94 1.3,000 Excheq. 13iUs (24) 53; (1 1 4 d.) 51 50. £5OO ditto 12d.) 53 ; (1 1 4 d.) 50 2. 4.300 and E2OO do. (2d.) 51 3 ; (11444 51 3. Cons. for Acct. 96 1 % The retaliatory Proclamation, issued by the LORD HIGH COMMISSIONIR of the lonian Islands, which we noticed on Monday, and of which we give a copy, from a French Paper, in a preceding column, excites Consider able discussion among our contemporaries. One of them, in that tone of confidence which he frequently as sumes, says, « No recent proceeding with which we are acquainted, has excited greater disgust in the country." Without denying, which we might do, the truth of the assumption, we will ask this Journalist how he has as certained the opinion of the country on a circumstance of so recent occurrence as only to be partially known in town on Monday, unless, like our northern friends, be claims the privilege of second sight? Bet to the goes , don Ralf. • • • • It was infaflack as the 6th of karst That we pub lisbedin the STAR, the Pieclansatiou issued By tl Pro vidpetil Government of Greece, threatening td Attack, burn, and destroy, with their crews, all European vessels hired out to the Turkish Government for the transport of troops, ammunition, or provisions. We then re marked that the' Proclamation was of a lt sanguinary character; for t to call it merely vigorous would be mis applying the term." We felt persuaded at the time that our Government would lose no time in remonstrating against this as sumed power of the Greeks, as contrary to humanity as it is to the law of nations. The LORD HIGH COIIHIS• I SIONRR did remonstrate, and demanded that the Plods• oration should be revoked ; the Greek Government ob stinately refused to comply with that demand, and, as a necessary consequence, oar Government has issued instructions to capture and destroy all armed Greek vessels, until the obnoxious Proclamation is revoked. We confess that we regret oar Government has been compelled to resort to such a measure, but the protec_ don of our commerce demanded it, and whatever may be the consequences, they *ill be owing to the obstinacy of the Provisional Government of Greece. There are two points in which this Proclamation is to be considered. The first is, whether Greece, not re cognized as an independent Power, and not actually emancipated from Turkey, can claim the respect and privileges of an independent belligerent Power, accord ing to the acknowledged laws of nations? We confeu we have some doubts as to her claim to this privilege ; and it would, we suspect, puzzle our best Jurists to find anything in VATTEL, PUFFENDORF, or BYNKERSHECK, in support of it. Were this really the case, any suc- 1 cessful revolt, however temporary, might claim thel same r fight, and we should require a new code to de termine at what period an unrecognized, or even an unorganized Government, shoUld be entitled to all the advantages of one fixed and permanent ? We are certainly far from admiring the cupidity d those ship-owners who have hired out their vessels in the service of the Turks, but we are also far from considering it an infraction of the law of nations, any more than the supplying of money (the sinews of war) to the Greeks, which our capitalists have done, and would at the same time do to Turkey, did the GRAND SEIGNIOR offer tole rable security and a large premium. On this point we perfectly agree with the following observations ig a Morning Paper: " We know," says the Herald," that it is against the public opinion of England, that our ship-owners should lend their ships for hire to the Turks—but, suppose they do it, and that the Greeks take them—is our Govern. ment to look on quietly, and to do nothing retaliatory? If they did,* w Whit would our ship-owners say—and `where woulille2fhe question of England's maritime superiority P It appears to us, that if we concede this pOint to the Greeks, we should have to concede it to Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Buenos Ayres, and other South American States ; and then the Miriam might call upon us to do the same thing, so far as France were concerned —or, indeed, any other colony, shaking off its allegiance to a hie:ldly Power, might call upon us not to help such friendly Power ; and upon the same princip!e, that it was fighting for its independence. If we c.)ncede this to the Greeks, we may have to give way in instances of which, at present, we have no con ception. Why, the South Americans might as well in sist on our money-lenders not negociating a loan with Ferdinand, and following it up by seizing such ships of ours as were carrying the proceeds of such loan to Spain. But what would our money-lenders say to this, or such part and parcel' of our newspapers as are dabbling in Foreign Securities ?" The same writer afterwards observes.—"" But suppose the Turks had seized Mr. Blaquiere and the ship in which he took the Loan to the Greeks ; or suppose, on his return with the cargo of oil and currants (bought, no doubt, by means of the Loan raised in England), the Mussulmans had sunk him and the oil and the currants, and Sir Frederick Adam, or our Government, had quietly looked on, and on the principle that Mr. Blaquiere was unlawfully assisting the enemy of our allies, what would Mr. Blaquiere and the Greek Committee have thought of such an outrage, of what they might consider the law of nations, on the part of the [ Turks ? We rather think that Mr. Blaquiere and others would, in such a case, have put forth pamphlets .as lengthy as some that we not long since attempted to wade through on the India Free Press question." But admitting, for the sake of argument, that the Greeks are to be treated as an independent Power, fully recognized by all nations, and entitled to the full benefits of international law, does that law authorize them to issue •sd ferocious a decree as the Proclamation we have noticed ? Certainly not; they might capture, and if they have tribunals founded upon, or acquainted with the law of nations, they might legally condemn neutral vessels acting as transports to the enemy; but beyond this, the international law will not authorize any Power to proceed ; and where such a right is claimed by a Government that is not known to, the Courts of Europe, or even in the diplomacy of the United States, it must be taught to conform itself to that code of laws which these Powers recognise, and by which they are guided. One of our contemporaries attempts to justify the conduct of the Greeks on account of the ferocity of the Turkish mode of warfare. We shall not enter into an y inquiry as to the difference between Turkish and Greek warfare, which is, perhaps, not so great as some people imagine, but is the belligerent to determine what is savage and civilised warfare? and if so, is it to ex. tend its retaliation to neutrals? we presume this will not be contended for by the warmest advocate of Gretce, or the most eeptiots Inquisitor es to the conduct of oar Government. In conclusion, we repeat our regret that our Govern. dent has been compelled to resort to the measure it has adopted : but let the Provisional Government with. draw its obnoxious Proclamation, and learn to respe ct the rights oflother nations, and we are persuaded Greece will have no cause to complain of the strictness of our neutrality. This forenoon we received the Moniteur of Monday, and the Etoik of yesterday, by Express. The former contains nothing official, nor indeed any article of tl; e slightest interest. From the Etoile, we quote the fo:- lowing intelligence from Gieece, which, it will be se en; is favourable to its independence. PARTS, OCTOBRR ii. The Ss yrnean of the II th, which we have received this instant, contains the following : NArouna Reatairta, Amgen 2s. Three times the Ottoman squadron, which was be. fore Samos, advanced towards the Greeks, and chased them; and three times the Greeks, by their good ma. nceuvres, and with the aid of their fire-ships, obliged the Turks to retreat. The Capitan Pacha made the fourth. signal to ad. ranee on the enemy, but all was useless, the sailors were panic-struck, and the vesiels abandoned the action never did' the Greeks coverthemselves with more glory. A Turkish gallior, with 400 men, fought with a little Greek brig. The news of the disaster of the Ottoman squadron, has caused here and at Peloponnesus, the greatest joy. SMYRNA, SZIPTI3[IIII,I I:. Letters from Constantinople announce, that our Go. tremor, Hassan Pacha, has received orders to enrol 5,000 Janissaries, to be sent to the new Camp, wl.ich are to be landed at Samos. A French vessel, coming from Stancbio, has seen the naval armament of the Captain Pach a, and of the Generalissimo of Egypt, in the Ro . ads of that Island ; this squadron was detained by contrary winds. 4 CGIIIBURC, 001 . 01112. '7. The Gazette of Augsburg of the 6th, contains the fol lowing :—The silence which the Turkish Government keeps on the events already known concerning the affairs of Samos, only seem to confirm them. A great num ber of private letters all agree in the following account : It was on the 17th August that the Capitan Pacha attempted to disembark a corps of thirteen thousand men, at Samos; the Greeks let the Turkish fleet ap proach, and immediately attacked them with the greatest ardoar."—(Here follow the accounts already given.) It is no thought that the expedition to Samos is given op? Lord St: angford only awaits the arrival of the Mar• quis of Ribeaupierre, the new Ambassador from Russia, when he will quit Constantinople. PARIS, OCTOBER 11. Yesterday the King beard Mass in the Castle. The Count Villele and Baron Dames transaeted business with his Majesty. At half-past eleven o'clock, bis Excellency the Eng lish Ambassador (Sir Charles Stuart) was introduced to his Ma jesty, and bad a special audience. N. 11. Constant was yesterday amongst the Deputies at Court. It k not known from whence the Journal des Debstis arul the Consti. ladionnel have taken what they insert of the conditions of a Spanish Loan passed by the Council of State, and the landing of 1,500 Constitutionalists in the kingdom of Valencia. These two Jour nals, which appear to have the same correspondeoceponght to be on their guard as to the information they receive. The sz-Minister of War arrived at Luneville on the sth. Runes.—Emi of the mouth, at half-put three o'eloelt, 102 i. 9k. By the arrival of a Buenos Ayres Mail, we have re ceived the Asp; to the 31st of July, inclusive: They contain no news from Peru later than BOLIVAR'S Pro clamation, on accepting the title of Dictator. The ex pedition of General FRITRZ against Chiloe, after. being completely successful, narrowly escaped destruction by the storm which followed. An insurrection broke out at Mendoza, the capital of the province of Cuoco, on the 28th of June. The troops demanded the deposition .of the Governor Gonzalez; who, endeavouring to bring them to their duty, was shot at and wounded. A new Governor was hOwever elected, and tranquillity restored. The revolt was not in favour of Spain, as their watchword was " Liberty for ever." Private letters have also been received from Buenos Ayres to the 18th of July, stating that the country iv tranquil, and that British goods are becoming more in "demand in the interior than formerly. The following , are extracts : FROlit THE ARGUS OW BUXIIIOIII Atli; AMR 26. CHILL We can affirm, upon respectable authority, that the ex pedition of Senhor Freyre to Cbiloe, which has returned to Conception, has not lost more than three or four hundred men in the whole campaign s though if it had 'remained on the coast four days longer, the whole army might have been lost, because none of the vessels could have bees saved in the severe storms which followed. The expedition returned by the port of Talcahuano, and the transports suffered in some degree. The arrival of Senhor Freyre in the free territory of the Republic seems to have wholly saved it from a con vulsion in the capital, headed by the Liberal party, that party trusting that Senhor Freyre would complete the Ministry with persons who merited the public approba tion by their principles and abilities. It was asserted that Colonel Pinto should be named to the dice of Chief Minister, vacant by the departure of Senhor Egan• for Europe ; and that, in consequence, a mom prosperous state of things should be intrOduced into that State. Ana 21.—The Paper of this date, referring to a pre• ceding one, not received, says " The accounts we published in our preceding Nunt• ber. under the bead of Peru. give occasion to an inv. Iportant observAtion, •iz, that it is Above all necessary .~._ 5 .. Yeste You be tended bi The two o'rio The 1 eonsidera The the seat a The 1 Vienna. 1 Nape is r: Lady In town her two g The l for their The I left Tomb Lord The ( day from Earl The 1 of the fin The Consul at Pada Nelson's wen, I tI by an of &welt The sold by ] t.b Gi among a Sir J In the 11 June ta Ms Eta' a large respect t service The able sun deas at ( The DI 3ir. 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