Star. — London, England, 1815-05-18 00:00:00

tHE AR MI 111 I NM •.1 • alb Tile 4th dismounted Trckqi of the 14th Light D t3 , t ooss, and the Ist Battalion of the 4th mid 44th R eg iments, are among those arrived at Portsmouth g o o America. The distnounted Troop of the 14th L, g lit Dragoons is ordered to join the Regiment at liotinslow Barracks, and the Ist Battalion of the h Regiment to the Netherlands. detachment of the 85th, which is also arrived from America, is ordered to the Kent district, to ir hich place it is now on its route. The Ist Battalion of the 21st Regiment of Foot, wh i c h is announced amongst those arrived likewise !RID America, is to re lace part of the troops which are ordered for Ireland, as also part of the 93d. Two companies of the 2d Garrison Battalion have arrived from Bermuda. Detachments of artillery continue daily to proceed f rom 'Woolwich for embarkation for Holland. --- The Isth Hussars, the 28th and 32d Regiments of Fo*A, have embarked at Deal for Ostend. The Ist Battalion of the 44th is to replace part of those troops for Ireland. The Depots of the lit and 2d Battalions of the' 95th Ririe Regiment, were removed from Dover to liythe Barracks, on Thursday last. RANISGATE, MAY 17.—Arrived after post, last even ing, from Ostend, the Dover packet Queen Char. lctte, with General Sir NICHOLAS THANT and Lady ; Geneal FITZUEIIALD and Lady ; and several other passengers. Generals Tann. and FITZGERALD are now at the Dover Castle Tavern. Sailed last even.' ing the Liverpool packet, Captain Fourraft, for Os tend. The Resolution packet, Captain K ELSEY ; an d the Norris Castle smack, are now taking in contract horses for the use of the Army in Flanders, whither they will both sail when the tide suits ; the former with a great many pusengers, as well as horses. Yesterday, at half-past twelve o'clock, ber MA• :c• 1 v, Priucesses ELIZAXETH and MARY, attended by MISS &nit:amts. anived at the Queen's Palace from Windsor, escorted by a party of Light Horse. The Dukes of YORK and CLARENCE IL and a numerous assemblage of the Nobility, visited them in the course of the day. In the evening her MAJESTY had a party at the Palace at nine o'clock. There will be a grand dinner at Carlton House on Friday, and an evening party to meet the QUEEN. The Duke of Yo* bad a select party to dine with him yesterday at Yorbhouse. Yesterday the Right Hon. CHARLZS ARBUTHNOT gave a grand dinner to the Marquis of BATH, Earl BAT/Warr, EatiCadext.us, Earl CHOLMONIMLEY, and a large party, at his house in Dawning-street. The Key. Mr. CIIANCSLLGSt DOUGLAS presented to her MA.rass7 Mr. DODSWORTU'S elegant Work on tike Episcopal See and Cathedral Church of Salisbury. Two and twenty waggons arrived in town yester day under a military escort, bringing the valuable plate, porcelain., lustres, and a variety of costly ar. steles of furniture, the property of the Duke of WEL LINGTON, and which belonged to his Grace's esta blishment at Paris while he was Ambassador at the Court of Loofa the Eighteenth. The Seventh Concert of the Philharmonic Society, though not so good as some of the preceding ones, and much shorter, was very fully attended on Mun. day last. This Institution does the highest credit to the state of Music in this country. but we lament to ftnd that want of union - preva ils even amidst-these Sons of Harmony, from which a new Society, called, we believe, the Professional, will next year be form. ed. This Seventh Concert was enriched by aMS Sinfonia composed expressly for the Society by Rim, and also by aMS Overture from Ftontu.o. The Sinfonia by MOZART was encored. CovaNT GARDEN.—A new Farce, under the title of 4g The Fortune of War," was last night produced at this Theatre. The story consists, of course, of the loves of a youthful pair, Mr. JON ES and Miss FooTE ; the latter the daughter of an officer (Br.aNcilmin), s , llyEned to be dead ; the former the nephew of a rich old farmer (MATHEWS), upon whim he is Wholly dependent. By a fortunate chance, however, the path is thrown into the company of his mistress's rather, who is just about to undertake a dangerous taterinize against the enemy, and volunteers to ac company him ; and ultimately, by his courage and conduct, secures the success of the expedition. This' ?rocures the young volunteer a commission from she, General, and the consent of his Captain (Sr his mar riage with his mistress, which takes place accord ingly. There is an underplot, arising out of the mis adventures which befal the uncle, in consequence of circumstances placing him in such a siteacion that be is suspected, taken up, and imprisoned as It spy; and he is just about to receive punishment, when his ne-, phew, who has been made Aid-de-camp te the Gene ral, steps forward and releases him. The performance', of MATIIEWi t as the old Farmer, was exquisite, as, was that ofLLSTON, who supported the character of an tdventlirer, passing himself off as a man of fortune. d ;n1 ), , ,ue of the Piece is spirited throughout, and was received with great applause, and given out for . ..epetition to-morrow evening without a single dissen dent voice. La FAIKCTE and his son have been elected Mem oers of the New Chamber of Representatives is Paris. According to all private accounts from Pairs, it appears certain that Bonaparte already finds himself greatly embarrassed in coneequence of the System adopted by him. The Jacobins were necessary to aim in the attainment of his object; and they are still .I , :cessarj to him, that he may not at once lose his rhience over the populate. The Jacobins, however, who have long known him, ate aware that he is al -eudy meditating the means of getting rid of them, fhe contest has, therefore, openly commenced, and the Jacobins have already every where the upper land, especially in matters of police and the interior. fifteen months ago, Bonaparte, when he was hard pressed by the Allies, and his a ffairs were in a very bad way, in a moment approximated the Jacobins. It was at this time, that on his return fivm a visit to the tauxbourgs St. Antoine and St. Marceau, for the purpose of gaining the populace, and when his cout. i tiers blamed this ridiculous attempt at popularity, he replied to them—" Gentlemen, you may say what, you please ; but there are no nobility like the canaille of the fauxbourgs ; and no canaille like tit nobles whom I have szesieln Tile 4. 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Flanders . 0 0 pottenbargh 0 Malta 0 1 PALAU:WTI-i t MAY 15. Arrived the American twig Sally. from America. Sailed the Bellona (transport) for Portsmouth. PLYMOUTH. MAY ie. Came in the ATALANTA and the VIRGINIA, kohl - Guernsey I HOPS, SLANET, and Piteasaur sloops of war, from a cruize Sailed the TAY sloop of war on a cruize. • . • PORTSMOUTH. MAY N. Arrived the Smut sloop of war, from the Leeward Tdands ; EUPHRATES and ASIPIIION frigates ; Poo surritzus sloop of wat, and EsconT gun-brig, from a cruize.—Sailed the SPARTAN and SARIN; on a cruize.—Went out of Harbour his Majesty's ships CAROLINE and SNAPPRIt t and the HINDOSTAN store. ship.—. Released from quarantine his Majesty's ships MKNALAUS and GANYMEDS.•••AriIId Westerly. MAY 17. Amved his Majesty's ship Orossuar, from the Downs. Released from quarantine his Majesty's ship ETHALION, and the' Ashea-Mariner, London, mid Maria (transports). Came into harbour his Ma je4y's ship REDWING. &tiled his Majesty's ships LEONIDAS, CAROLINE, and DEXTEROUS, for the Downs. • HARWICH, MAY 17. Sailed the Beaufoy Packet, with a Mail for Hol land ; and the Lady Nepean Packet, with a Mail for Hanaburgh.Wind W. DEAL, MAY 17. Sailed the Charles Mills, for India ; and the W. P. Jona:on, for Philadelphia, and about thirty sail of other vessels—particulars not known. Re main in the Downs his Majesty's ships Aim, Dem, WRANGLER, HASTY, ZEPHYR, and MERCURIUS. Also remain the following East Indiamen ready to be dis patcl;ed :—.James Sibbald, Carnatic, Carmarthen, City of London, Union, Minerva, David Scott, and Lord Castlereagh.—Wind S.W. DOVER, MAY 17. Sailed this day the Chichester packet, Captain RUTTER, with a Mail, Colonel LAKE, and Mr. METZ, one of the King's Messengers, both with Dispatches, and about forty passengers, for Ostend. Arrived this day a French Mail from Calais. GRAVESEND, MAY 17. Arrived the Prince Oldenburg, Jacobs, from Oldenburg; Hope, Oldman, from Ostend; Vrow Jacoba, Kuyer ' • and Vrow Hanna, Coutre, from Groningen.—Sailed the Auspicious, Hamm, fur lodi c; Ocean, Gilbert, for New Brunswick; Planter, Nicholson, for Demerara; William, Davison, for Hayti; Ceres, Tozer, for .Senegal ; Lord Macdonald, M•Rctizle, for Quebec; Nutte, Douings. for Palermo; Apostle Paulus, Nasseur, for Havre; Ann, Harrowsmith, for Hamburgh ; Eclipse, Ken ; and Fancy, Rooms, for Bremen; Regent, Forman for Rotterdam; Vruw Maria, Nagel; Die Liebe, Eggers, fur Amsterdam; aod Duwsun, Gibson, for the Cape. NEW-YORK, APRIL IL Mr. Chamberlain, who arrived in the Little Bill, from St. Bartholomew's, brings a confirmation of the re-capture of the Levant, and states that she was cut from under the guns of the fort at St. Jago, by the Phcabe s frigate. The Leander and Newcastle wens left in pursuit of the Constitution. Mr. C. had a paper containing the particulars of the recapture of the Levant, but has mislaid it. Amu. 21.-Imi/errant and hey plealiaig laielfigence. Captain Silly, of the schooner Selby, which art ived l at this port yesterday from Guadaloupe, informs us, that on the 9th April, in lat. 21. 4. long. 65. he spoke the cartel brig Elizabeth, Captain Hayes, bound for Annapolis from Barbadoes, which island he left on the sth April, with 171 released ptisoners of war. Captain Silly took from the cartel Captain Calder, of New York, and fourteen others, who informed him that the British ships Leander and Newcastle, of .50 guns, and the Acasta frigate, arrived at Barbadoes the Ist of April, frorp aft unsuccessful chase after the United States frigate Constitution, Captain Stewart, which, as theßrituth officers reported, escaped in a fog. • The ships Leander, Newtaitle, and Amu, sailed In com pany. The Phoebe had arrived la England with the Essex frigate, taken at Valparaiso. It mast therefore, have been the Acosta, and not the ?babe, by wide!: the Levant was recaptured. FROM THE MRECANTILI ADVERTISER OF THE 19TII. FROM CANADA. — Letters from Buffalo state,' that the Provincial Parliament of Upper Canada, which is now in Session, and of which General Drummond is President, have enacted laws authorizing the seizure at all the American property which has been, or may be carried into that province, which is to re main in a state of sequestration until the will of the' British Cabinet is known. Some of the British Civil Officers have said, by way'of explanation of, the proceeding, that no treaty of commerce exists between the two countries; and that they shall ad mit the entrance of American merchants and their goods or not as they please. That there has been some seizures of American property carried into Ca nada since the peace we do not doubt ; but that those seizures were in pursuance of any laws of the province, we do doubt much, and cannot but consi der them as abuses emanating from exasperated feel ings . of individuals, occasioned by the late devasta tions there. A passenger in the brig Enterprise, from St. Jago de Cuba, informs, that he left Jamaica the 11th of March, at which time no intelligence of the ratifica tion of the treaty of peace bad been received there.— It had not been received at St. Thomas's on the 21st of March. General Bolivar had set. out with 5000 men on an expedition against St. Martha and Mari. calls% which it was generally supposed would be sae cessful.—Flour at Jamaica 20 dollars, at St. Jago 16. Arrived at Baltimore the schboner Ant, Captain BIIOTHERTON (ten days from St. Thomas's), with rum—left a schooner from Norfolk, name not recol lected. A few days before sailing a British frigate came down from windward, and reported that the United States frigate Constitution had captured two British sloops of war, one of them had been recap tured, and that the Constitution had got clear Two British ships came down the bay from Tangiers and anchored on the Wolf Trap. News of the peace had arrived at New Orleans on the 16th of March. A correspondence ensued be tween the American Commissary there and Admi ral Cochrane, respecting the mbar of psisenere. iIfErrAuNsTLAR MEETING. A numerous Meeting was yesterday held in Palace yard, pursuant to notice, of the Electors of Westiiiiii stet., for the purpose of taking into congi,ler:itien the jastice and policy of engaging at this time in a war with France. At tine o'clock the HIGII BAILIFF took his place on the Hustings, accompanied by Sir F. Bunnerr, Ma. jar Cnterwittoitr, Mr. WISHART, and others. The HIGH BAII,IFI , having read the Requisition. Major CARTWRIGHT addressed the Meeting. Her commenced by remarking upon the indignation fiat by all honest men at the intelligence of the violaiiin, of the peace of a private dwelling, by the intrusion of robbers, and upon the comparative apathy with which the intelligence was received of fire and sword, with their attendants, destruction and HMI d..r, heitia carried into the heart of an uneffending nation.— Surely before one country inflicted upon another such complicated haters, the utmost anxiety ought to pre vail that the cause of War should be just. There were, in his opinion, but two just causes of war, Ise where a nation fought to defend itself and its liberties against the invasion of a foreigner ; '2- %here an un offending people demanded protection from the ty ranny of a powerful neighbour. Were either of these around: that on which Ministers could rest that war into which they were now so anxious to plunge the country ?—(No, no, from the crowd). —What was the pretence on which we called upon France to disown the Sovereign she had chosen, and to place him in the hands of those who would sacrifice him as a vic tim to personal hatred and revenge ? What ezciise could be made for carrying fire and sword Oats France—for laying waste her fair fie:d . and dividing her fettered people and her desolated land aniiiiig those who should be employed in her subjugation ? (App/airses). He was persuaded that no one wh , , heard him would thick such a cause just. He would reverse the picture and make the case our own.— Suppose Bonaparte, instead of sending an emissary with the olive of peace and friend Ship, had dispatched a herald with the ensigns of war and defiance—sup. pose he had declared that he would instantly coin mence hostilities, unless the people of England re signed their constitution, and consented to become vassals to his conquering Generals : what would have been the indignation of the people of this country at an insult declared by such unparalleled impudence? He would not ask the Meeting whether such a war would be just on the part of France, but whether the Electors of Westminster would not feel themselves bound to fight to the last for the King and Constitu tion they had adopted ?—(Ctmtinued cheers).—So much for the justice of this new war—he would now inquire into its policy, without resting it upon the broad moral ground that every war that was impoli tic was unjust, though he should be well content to leave it even there. Did the Electors of Westminster require to be reminded of the enormous, the intole ruble load of taxes under which the country groaned, and that had crowded the House of Commons with Petitions? —(No, no).—After some further observa tions, in his usual style, Maj is C. proposed to the Meeting a Petition, recapitulating the various grounds on which it was unjust and impolitic to make war against France. He expressed his firm persua sion that it would be adopted by the Meeting. Mr. P. WALKER, in seconding the Petition, ex pressed his concurrence in what had been said by the last speaker, on the injustice and irnpoliey of snaking war upon a man who had been chosen by the whole 'of Fiance, and who had called round him the noblest friends of liberty and independence. He hoped the Meeting would express its abhorrence of this new and atrocious attempt, as well as its disgust at those undertaken by the Congress of Vienna to parcel out freemen, like flocks of sheep, to this or t'other Sove reign—one asserting that a just portion of souls had not been assigned to him—another exclaiming that his portion was not equal to his deserts, and all is their kind and generous interest for the eternal wel fare of humanity, wishing to take upon themselves the care of the souls of the greater part of Europe. At such practices all the civilized world revolted, and must refuse its support and confidence to those who degraded themselves from the lofty rank of So 'vereigns, to the base level of soul-mongers and soul misters. He trusted the Meeting would strongly ex ress its hatred to that execrable tyranny which had us Spain established the dominion of torture, and that • Inquisition which had been most blasphemously called holy. If the injustice of war were not a reason to induce the people of Englandto enter their protests against it, the enormous sum of money which must be raised to support it, the increase of taxes, 'which ' were even now so high, would be a - sufficient reason to induce all to behold it with dread, except those who basked in the public disgrace, who fattened on the spoils of the people, and flourished in the ruin of in dustry— (applause. )—The Petition was then adopted, two or three persons only being dissentient. It was then moved and seconded, ia That we can not adequately convey our thanks to, nor our 'admi- • ration of, our Representative, Sir Francis Burdett, Bart. for the inflexible integtity of his public conduct, 1 and his scorn of the proudest patrons of corruption," which Resolution was carried unanimously. • Sir Faancis BENDICIT then came forward amidst loud applause, and addressed the Meeting in nearly the following terms : Gentlemen—lt will be with pride and satisfaction that I shall again appear to present the Petition which you have now voted in the Assembly wbich calls it self the House of Commons of England, but when I say this I am not able to persuade myself that it will produce the slightest effect in averting the contest . with which we are threatened, nor can I hope that MOM regard will be paid to the sentiments of this re spectable assembly than was paid to those of the Li verymen of London. That Assembly will embrace the same objection to the principles of the Petition, namely, its hostile feeling towards corruption, and the determination which it expressed to procuic a just and absolutely necessary reform. After you have been so ably addressed on this subject, I should trespass unnecessarily on your time if I troubled you with more than a few words—(cries of no;) but it is ue cessaty, and you have a right to expect that I should lay before you my undisguised sentiments on the pre sent situation of the country, and on the war, on the /Urge of which we seem to he standing. I am the 1 mots desirnos of expressing my sentiments as the =Of England hive no constitutional organ left Vie meetings, such as the present, by which alley can make known those gentiments to one anti flier, which, when _strongly expressed and sally manifested, ma's , make some impression, even on that House. The people of England can no longer •be duties to false pretences—to be fooled once an age is quite sufficient—the object of the war stands cleans. revealed. A pretence, however, must be had, and one pretence only can be found—the character of the present Ruler of France, who, we are told, I'S a man with whom we cannot subsist on terms of amity and peace. But who are Nand in alliance at the Emperor Napoleon ? The Emperors of Russi a, and of Austria, and the King of Pruss:a. What treaties have these powers not violated with him, with ris, and with one another—(l.oa_Amdarge)—as their immediate interest, and their selfish desire of aggran di,ement made it convenient for them to do so ? What faith then can bind these Allie; to us, who to say the least are on a par with him against whose life they conspire ? it was not the present Emperor of France, but the Government of ;his country, who violated the peace of. Amiens, and a message was, on that occasion, brought down to the House of Commons disgraceful to the nation, but which raised the Minister of the day to a Peerage, and which it Was now notorious contained not a word of truth. Accounts , 4 as false as hell," were then circulated of armaments preparing in the ports of France for t!e invasion of this country, and this Government re fused to do what it had stipulated to do, viz. to de. liver up Malta to France. That war has since ter minated, and the result was, as the object had been, the re-establishment of tie Bourbons, which Bona parte, when First Consul, was once told were the only terms on which peace would be accepted.—On the same grounds are we again to be involved in a war.—Who can foresee the result of one battle, who can foresee horn this mad war what consequences may ensue ? Yet it is in the power of this country at present, to continue in a state of safety and to main tain the peace of Europe. France is confined ta is ancient limits, has manifested a desire of pe ice, has not only renounced the views and even deprived itself of the means of aggression, and its people has sliewn a desire to turn to that rational and satisfactory em ployment of forming in a country which for ages has been a prey to despotism and superstition, in all their horrid varieties—a fair, a moderate, and A rational system of Government. Why, then, shall we go to war ? We must go to war to maintain the existence of the Borough faction. That faction cannot see with indifference the prospect for France of a fair and equitable Representative Assembly—this is the cause of their enmity. It will be instructive to look at their Allies ; for it is'a true adage," Tell me youe company, I will tell you who you are." They have not in their alliance one free State ; their Allies are all despots, who, with fair words in their mouths. proclaim their desire to maintain social order, and to preserve the peace of the world. It was with the same feelings, and the same professions, that the maternal Catherine was induced to alleviate the mi series of Poland, by taking a large share of it to her self—that the King df Prussia and the Emperor of Austria, trampling on the rights of independent States, invaded and divided the remainder of that unhappy country. It will be recollected, that when Spain was invaded by the French Government, and that the Spanish people manifested a resolution to resist the invader, that resistance was loudly applair ded .by the Government of this country. Nothing, indeed, was heard horn Ministers and their adherent.: but glowing eulogiums upan the character of the Spanish Patriots. What, however, has been since the conduct of those Ministers towards the objects of their former panegyrics ? These Spanish Patriots established a Constitution, calculated in their vitw for the freedom and hapeiness of their country ; but after having answered the end of Ministers in resist. ing the French—after having been encouraged to ex pect, that when liberated from the dominion of France, they should be secured the enjoyment of that Constitution, which, although not' bound by parch. ments, we were bound by honour to protect—the Cortes, with whom we were actually in alliance, were basely deserted—both Constitution and Cones were subverted, and a sum of money, wrested from the industry of Englishmen, was actually sent by the English Government, for the purpose of aiding the subverter—aye, for the purpose of supporting that odious and contemptible despot and usurper, Ferdi nand VII. accompanied by his Inquisition and his srtures. (Loud applawa ) Such have been among toe results of a war that has imposed the most enor mous burthens upon this country—burthens, indeed. the pressure of which all classes must feel. Of the nature of these burthens every one must be aware, who took occasion to compare our situation at the commencement of the war, with that to which we found ourselves reduced at presents At the former period the interest upon our public debt was nine millions; at present that interest amounted to forty millions—the debt itself, in the first instance, being . about 200,000,000 while at present it exceeded eight hundred millions; at the former period our.taxatten was about 16,000,000, while at present it exceeded 70,000,000. Our poor's rate, too, which in 1792 WAS 114tle more than 2,000,000, had, in consequence ' of the aggravated wretchedness of the people, through the pees i Sure of taxatitm, risen at present to - nearly 7,000,000 a-year:. Such, independently of the shock ingeffusion of human blood, has been the calamitous result . of a war, the only object of which was. to set asp despOtism • wherever it was put down, or to put down freedom wherever it was set up.— (Apt/mum) Yet this war, with the same object, it is still proposed to renew. Oue should think that the people of this country bavequite enough to do to settle their own affairs, without meddling with the :Obits of others; and sure I am, that it would better become their character and interest to take care of their own frer dom, than to disturb the freedohi of others—for should they succeed in destioyiog the freedom of other countries, there is but too much reason to ap prehend that that success would serve eventually to enslave their own.—(aterpieure.)—At all events, 1 trust that the people will, do their duty by imitating the examples of London and Westreinster—by pro testing strongly against a war full of peril, and what is worse, marked by gross injustice—against a war which, whether successful or not in its,ohject, tfiust prove in its consequences a certain calamity to the rule of England.—( Acclamation: of umlaute.) Thanks being voted to the High Bail if, that Gen. damn Wetly addressed the Meeting. Thaaks were also voted to Major CARTWAIRT. Ah