Star. — London, England, 1818-09-15 00:00:00

L. .-.‘\. I $ C t ■ • a 2 • t , e r C t t. t f e C I 2 a I , • 1 • 1 1 1 1, - ) • SOUTH AMERICA. Letters ana Gazettes have been received from Buenos-Ayres to the 25th of June, by the ship Lind sey*, arrived in the Downs. A letter of the 24th gives the following intern race should seem that Artigas is nearly hots ..4 20 .44.11.4 at least against the Portuguese. The tatter are taken Arroyo de la China, where they eciminitted'the greatest excesses, sparing neither age nor sex, nor any property, whether Spanish, British, or of this State. It is not positively known where Artigas now is, but some accounts state that he is far to the North, pushed up almost to the frontiers of the Brazils.— That he is sinking fast is highly probable, because the towns hitherto under his sway, such as onrientes, &c. have expelled the Governors appointed by him, ana have sent deputies here, requesting to be admit ted into the Union. It is even reported that Paraguay has expressed a wish to the same effect. In Tucuman and Upper Peru nothing has occur red yet ; but it is very likely that the news of the events in , Chili will cause the Royalists to think of a retreat on Lima. --- From Chili we have an official account, that 200 men of the national troops stationed at Taba, have surprised a royal detachment under Colonel Bulnes, consisting of 300 men, at Parral, killed 200, among whom was Dulnes himself; and taken 70 prisoners...- The United States sloop of war Ontario had returned to Valparaiso from Lima, having on board a Com missioner from the Viceroy , Peznela, authorized to treat for an exchange of .prisoners. She also conveyed two -Lieutenant-Colonels and two Captains of the Buenos-Apes troops, made prisoners some years ago in the battles of Villeapugio and Ayoma; these were freely restored, in order to show the sincerity of the Viceroy. It is a proof of the impression which the victory of Maypo has made at Lima ; for it is not long ago that General San Martin made proposals for an gxchange of prisoners to the Viceroy, who not even condescended to return an answer. Now he sends a Commissioner with dispatches to General . . San Martin, who is addressed in the style of “ Ex cellency and General-in-Chief of the Armies of the Andes and of Chili: _ One of the British ships of war arrived at Valpa raiso, had on her passage put into Talcahuano, where she found the Spanish frigate Esmeralda, much dis abled by her late engagement with the Lautaro. It was said she had lost 50 men in killed and wounded. General Osario was at Talcahuano, but had only about 1000 men under him, being all that he could collect, pat tly of the garrison left there and of the militia in the vicinity. He was shipping his heavy artillery, which seemed to indicate that he despaired' of defending the place. • The Chili Navy is now composed of the Cumber lead of 64, the Lautaro of 42, and the Avon of 26 guns. General San Martin is to set out from hence for Mendoza in a few days, • and will cross the Cor dillera on his return to Chili as soon as practicable. Most Excellent Sir—Authorized by his Excellency the Vice ro) and Captain General of rem, Don Joaquin de la Pezuela, for effecting an exchange of prisoners of the Royal army, made by the army under the command of your Excellency, lam ar rived in this port under the guarantee of the flag of the United States of America, in the sloop of war named Ontario, of that nation, commanded by James Biddle, Esq. who generously ole--ed to contribute, by means of conveying me in his vessel, to the relief of the Meritorioui warriors whom the chance of war has put in your Etcellency's power; for which purpose I am the bearer of dispatches from the Moat Excellent Viceroy to your Excellency. I have SLIP ten thousand dollars for supplying the said Officers, and request that your Excellency will grant permission for the landing and distribution of that money, if there should not be an objection to it : I further request that your Excellency will communicate orders either for my pro. ceeding to the capital for the purpose of arranging an exchange of prisoners with your Kiceilency in person, or to treat here with the person whom you may think proper to name. I must mention for the information of your Excellency, that Lieutenant-Colonels Don Juan Jose Quesada, and Don Juan Jose Balderrarna, and Captains Don Pedro Equino, and Don VranciscoVillanueva, being of the number of prisoners detained at Callao, are arrived with me, and are already gone on shore, for the purpose of being exchanged. All the rest would have tome with me, if Captain Biddle had had accommodations for th flt in his vessel; or if it could have been expected to find an other to convey them under his convoy, to which effect he was applied to, as he himself can inform your Excellency. May Goo preserve you many years. Port of Valparaiso, on board the United States corvette On tario, May 29th. (Signed) FELIX D'OTHABERRIAGUE BLANCO. To the Most Excellent Sir Don Jose de San Martin, General in-Chief of the Army of the Andes and of Chili. (A true copy) BALCARCE. The HYACINTH, of 26 guns, Captain ALEXANDER Itrwrou SHARPE, C.B. lately arrived at Portsmouth from the South American station, where she had been employed two years and a half, left Buenos-Ayres an the 14th of June ; touched at Monte-Video ; and finally sailed from Rio Janeiro on the 21st ofJuly.— Though there had been no meeting between the con tending forces in South America, since the battle of Illaipo, yet the general state of affairs there is consi dered highly favourable to the cause of independence. With respect to the state of affairs in Peru, the Buenos Art - eau Army had advanced towards it, as far as Salta, and the Royalist Army was within a short distance to the Northward, at Jujay. A revolt was daily expected to take place at Lima, which, it was presumed, would occasion the recall of the Royalist army ; and then it was anticipated the Buenos Ay reans, aided by the Chili Patriots, would be enabled to advance unopposed to Potosi. The Portuguese troops, whose object appeals to be to extend the Brazilian boundaries to what may be called their natural limits (the river Parana), had shewn no dis position whatever to give up any part of the country they had occupied : they affect to say, that if Fag- DINAND will send a sufficient body of troops to keep down the Independent forces, they will then retire.— However, two days before the Hyacinth left the river Plate, '2,000 Portuguese troops, under General PINTO, had passed up that river, to land at Rio Negro, to act in furtherance of the object of making the river Parana, the western or internal boundary of the Bra zilian territory in South America. The Spanish and Native inhabitants are decidedly adverse to this inva sion ; and it can only be said that the Portuguese have military possession of the country—on which their army encamp. The Spanish frigate Esmeralda, which struck her colours to the Independent frigate Lautaro (late Wyndham Indiaman), and afterwards got away, was not secured to her captors, owing to the imprudence of the First Lieutenant of the Inde pendent frigate. She completed her number of men, and got her guns on board, only the day before the .action. Seeing her opponent - (which she went out purposely to fight) she commenced the action by firing a broadside into the Esmeralda, which the lat- . ter returned ; but only three guns took effect. The Independent then ran close alongside, and Captain O'BatEN and about 25 men boarded her—the Spa niards all running below. The First Lieutenant of the Independent, instead of well securing the prize, by putting more men on board, dropped off to cap ture the brig Pazuela, the consort of the Esmeralda. The brig hereupon struck her colours ; but, in the mean time, the Spaniards in the Esmeralda tiad gained fresh courage by the absence of the Indepen dent frigate, and, after a hard struggle, in which Capt. 0 BRIEN and most of the boarders were killed, they regained possession of the frigate. The Inde pendent, upon this unfortunate issue, returned to Val paraiso, as did the Spaniards to Talcahuana. The In dependent squadron has been since joined by several other armed ships ; among them is the Cumberland, carrying 64 guns and 400 men, formerly an East India man. The Lautaro mounts 52 guns, and has a crew of 450 men, 130 of whom are said to be Englishmen. —Captain q--, of the British Navy (brother of a Baronet), had lately arrived at Buenos Ayres, in a brig of war, mounting twenty-four 18-pounders, for merly his ajesty's brig Hecate. Captain —, two Lieutenants, and several Midshipmen, formed part of her establishment. She was intended to be sold to the Independent Government, but the terms not being agreed to, she was proceeding to sea, under British colours, when Commodore Bo vi.rs sent the Tyne and Icarus after her, and brought her into port, for a breach of the navigation laws. Had she been under the Patriot colours, and provided with a commission from either of the Chiefs, she would have been iden tified with the Belligerent cause, and, of course, no interruption would have been offered to any of her proceedings, wherein the British flag or name was not concerned. The Andromache, Captain BEHR RZFF, and Blossom, Captain HICKEY, were in the Pacific Ocean, attending to the British interests rn that quarter : they arrived at Valparaiso in 42 days from Rio : they were lying at Valparaiso so late as the 12th of May. The Amphion, Commodore Bow Lits, and Icarus, Hon. Captain RIDGMAN:Were in the River Plate. The Tyne, Captain FALCON, was left at Rio ; she was to sail soon for the Pacific, to relieve the Blossom. The Portuguese Government have cause to regret having laid a duty upon the importa tion of merchandize from Europe to Rio: in the quarter previous thereto, the produce of the Revenue was 60,000 dollars ; in the next it was 16,000 ; and in the last 6,000: the goods are now smuggled into the place. The Hyacinth brought diamonds to the value of 60,0001. SIERRA LEONE. It appears by the Sierra Leone Gazette.; to the 18th of June, that this interesting Colony increases in prosperity, and visibly improves in civilization. There is not only a considerable increase in the commercial relations of this infant settlement, but also what is more desirable, a sensible amelioration of the morals of its inhabitants. This may be proved, as it is in the present instance, by the continual decrease of criminal business at the General Quarter Sessions. For the last three or four of these judicial sittings we perceive that the calendar has become comparatively 'lighter, not only in the number of the accused, but also in the magnitude of the offences. This diminu tion is, in a very great degree, owing to the active and persevering exertions of the Governor and those who immediately assist him in the administration of 1 justice. Amongst other new regulations lately plan ned for the better preservation of the laws, we cannot omit to notice one which has already been produc tive of the most beneficial results. At the Sessions held in May last it was stated by the Chief Justice, the Hon. Edward Fitzgerald, in his address to the Grand Jury. that a plan had been submitted to, and approved of by the Governor and Council, which it was hoped would, by affording immediate redress in all cases of trivial aggression or fraud, put an end to tho.,e constant broils and frauds engendered amongst an irascible and ignorant people by any lengthened delay in the settlement of their disputes. This plan consisted in the establishment of an office similar to our police offices, where one of the Magistrates was to give daily attendance in his turn, with a power of investigating all complaints, and of affording such immediate redress as circumstances allowed. To any one acquainted widr the charact&and disposition of the African negro, fierce and impatient of any con troul whete he thinks he is injured, but mild and tractable when he imagines that impartial justice will be administered, this must seem a most wise and salutary regulation ; and we are happy to learn, that as far as experience has been had of it in the colony, it has fully answered its object: for we find the Chief Justice, at the ensuing Sessions, noticing to the Grand Jury, in strong terms, the go od effects which it had produced; but this is still further proved by the state of the then calendar, which only presented four per sons for trial, and these merely for assaults. Among the other topics introduced in the course of the address to the Grand Jury, connected with the general economy of the Colony, the Chief Justice also impressed on them, and through them on the other principal inhabitants and heads of families, the importance of tile duty of instructing their native servants and those captured negroes who were in their employment, in the English language, in a more perfect manner than that in which they then understood it. The English language was the me dium through which all other instruction was com municated to those persons, and an adequate know ledge of it would be found highly beneficial in all matters of ordinary business, as well as in all cases where such persons should have to give evidence in trials at law touching matters of property, or mat ters of criminal justice. At present it but too often happened that when a native who knew nothing of English was brought before the Court, another na tive was brought to interpret between the Court and ' him, who spoke such a jargon for English, that it, became necessary to call in a second interpreter, in order to make the language of the first intelligible. And by this two-fold interpretation the Court and Jury had generally to grope their way, not only on the most important cases of property, but also on ' the more awful trials of life and death. Now one • part at least of this complication of difficulties might ' be removed by a more diligent attention on - the part of the principal authorities and heads of families, in giving a better knowledge of English to those em ployed about them as occasional labourers, atten dants, or domestic servants. The advantage of that care would soon be felt, and if it was neglected the injuries resulting from that neglect would become daily more manifest and grievous. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1818. THE FUNDS. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAT AT TWELVE O . CLO7K Bank Stock shut-3 per Cent. Reduced shut— per Cent. Consols 75i /—for Acc. 7511. 31 per Cent. shut-4 per Cent. shut 5 per Cent. Navy 10511 —India Bonds 83 85 pre. Omnium S disc.—Exchequer Bills 18 19 prem. This morning the market opened very heavy, and but little business was done : Consols commenced at 751, at which price they kept pretty steady.. The Commissioners gave 751, and were served generally I by the jobbers. The Foreign Loans do not go down in the Money 'Market. The few persons who have been deluded vai* hie prospect of great profit by their old friends, the Jews, are now reaping the bitter fruits of their credulity. In the City this morning Bonds of the Prussian Loan were offered to pawn at 20 per Cent. below their value, with an interest of .5 per cent. on money to be borrowed for two months. Notwith standing this undoubted security, John Bull will not bite, and no money chn be raised even upon these atban:aa • eous terms. The Paris Papers of Saturday arrived this morning, The following are extracts: PARIS, sp.PTEMBER 12. We are assured that the Duke of Richelieu will not set out for Aix-la-Chapelle until the 20th or 22d of this month. The depositions of the Captains of five ships, arrived at Havre from Martinique, and the letters of health which they received at the moment of their depaF ture, establish the distressing fact that the Yellow Fever has re-appeared in that Colony. The Minister of the Interior has in consequence put in force certain sanatory measures, in virtue of which, until it shall be otherwise ordered, all ships arriving from Mar tinique will be subjected to a-quarantine of 30 days. The obsequies of General Kleber were celebrated with great pomp, at Stra'sbourg, on the 7th inst. French 5 per Cents. due from 2 0 2 d September, Fri day, 75 fr. 50 c. AUGSBURGH; SEPTEMBER 4. The thief who carried off the casket of the Arch duchess Louisa from Baden, has been discovered. VIENNA, AUGUST 31. The Archbishop of Aleppo has arrived here to im plore the protection of his Majesty in favour of the Catholics of Aleppo, who are now experiencing the most cruel persecution. The plague unhappily spreads more and more in Egypt, and many of the Islands in the Archipelago are still suffering under its ravages. FRENCH FRONTIERS, SEPTEMBER S. It has been again observed, that in the latter end of the month of August, a number of British soldiers have returned to their own country, and that no others have come to supply their place. All the regiments of British cavalry have marched within these few days from the neighbourhood of Cassel, in order to join the infantry and artillery in the environs of Valencienres. This cavalry is of the finest appearance. It is thought that the grand ma noeuvres will take place to-morrow, as the Duke of Wellington is expected at his head-quarters at Cam. bray to-day. The troops will afterwards return to their former cantonments, in order to await the deci sion of the Allied Sovereigns respecting the evacua tion of France. The order of march is already designated ; the Prussian corps d'armee is to pass through the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg and the territory of Treves ; the Russian cavalry, after crossing the Rhine, are to traverse Germany to proceed to Poland ; the Rus sian infantry and artillery are to embark at Dun kirk ; she English troops will march to Calais and Boulogne, where they are to embark, after previously selling a number of horses, and all that part of the train which has become useless to them ; the Saxon Corps will take the shortest road to the Rhine ; and the Danish and Hanoverian Troops will pass through Belgium. Yesterday, at two o'clock, the PRINCE RECENT held a Privy Council at Carlton House, which was attended by the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, Earls LIVERPOOL and MULGRAVE, Viscount SIDMOUTII, Lord C. BENTINCK, the JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL, and Mr. ROBINSON. Viscount MELBOURNE and Ge neral STEVENS attended as Lord and Groom in Wait ing; and Mr. BULLER as Clerk of of the Council. The Council broke up at a quarter past four o'clock. The PRINCE REGENT gave audiences to Earl Li vEltpool., Viscount SIDMQUTH, and the JUDGE ADVO CATE-GENERAL. Yesterday, the Duke of YORK visited the PRINCE REGENT. at Carlton House. The PRINCE REGENT left town yesterday at five o'clock. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY, after attending the Council, yesterday, at Carlton House, left Lam beth Palace for his seat, Addington Park. Lord Maws left his house in St. James's-square Yesterdaislor his seat, Shugborough, Staffordshire. 11ANCHES In this large manufacturinl tinned perfectly quiet on Su that the great body of the Sp , regular employment next Tr will recollect that one of our information has generally be when mentioning the return c to their employment (see the that " Mr. D AVID ITOLT main " his Spinners. lie sal,' on: " their case into consic;eration "to their employment:' We ceived the subjoined letter fr which we cheerfully give a p TO TIIE EDl'for. 0 SlR—Your Paper of the seen; it communicates to )1 the following information, letter from Manchester : " We understand that Mr. Davi( mist to his Spinners; he said onl-,i into consideration, if they would and that it would be no worse for t could take place until they were fai This statement being so e calculated so much to mislea a question of _great importai rests of our extensive man called upon to state the fac from making any promise to, avoided saying any thing wl• into an intimation that their raised. Their visit to me w: called for : I had reason to sed, but, like many of their the influence and direction gate characters, who were and applying the funds extol in all the surrounding count purposes, while the great be dependents, with their famil ing. -To sustain this alarm' encei nothing was wanting hi of the Master Spinners ; ant extent the defection would Ii judged of by the arrangemen It has ever been my stti people in my employ as corn believe there is not a man would not confirm this asset solicited permission to retort ner so creditable to themselv duty to state to them, that I all that had passed, and in sincerity of their declaration for what they had done," I my employ again, and ends comfortable as they had eve A few of them, whose who to work, from the alterations very respectfully, the tempor labourers, at link more tha they can obtain when they re This simple statement of credit upon the men themsel , give; and I do trust, that i lately alarmed and afflicted populous town may never ag With much respect, I am, Charlton New Mills, Manchester, September 1!, 1818. Having laid Mr. Hotr'sl4 we leave it to others to ji ment of our Correspondent fairly quoted, was " extrem " laced to mislead the Pub] " of great importance to the " extensive manufactures." Mr. HOLT had made no pm opinion that Mr. Hoer, who so much kindness and libera solve, before permitting then that he would not take their and that it would positively I returned before any discussie nothing disrespectful to Mr. think he has viewed the stat dent in a wrong light, if he any thing like a compromise character, in any respect wl have admitted ;fly thing of columns; and we are much one who reads the staternen on Mr. Hotr's sheaving, as On another point in Mr. I rences of opinion certainly suaded that the question of ployed and the employers tance to the general interests factures," in Mr. HoLr's vie indeed, be a question of col the extensive inanVacturers, crease of wages may affect t fits ; but it can be of no in generally, whether the want; men get the largest share of the mangfacture—excepting the share allowed to the latu able to maintain them ; for to put their hands iuto the j