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HERCULANEUM MANUSCRIPTS. EXTRACT OF A LETTER RELATIVE TO TILE MANUSCRIPTS OF HERCULANEUM AND Tlllt ANTIQUITIES OF POMPEII. " We copy from A GermAn Journal the following Not:, which contains seme facts not perfectly known hitherto, thoogli not t:1 very recent date. " On the 26th of November, 1813, a letter was read in the Royal Society of Copenhagen, from Mr. Shoham cobta:ning several literary notices from Italy. 11 , relattss, among other things, that about 3 1 )O of the Herculaneum manuscripts have been unroll ed. Among them are the following important works " (ithouki this he Philodetuus ?) usi the luau clic.> of Mus t- on ett: human CottEitution. gi ;on Nature, two volumes. " 3. 1-'lo.!c:or.!ci on Rhetoric, two parts. " 4. rhilottledes on the Affinity between the Virtues and the V US. " 5. Ph;loni: des on the Vices. " r, V.iiiMM.•4ICA on the Poets. " 7. Plain:mars' PLilosopbical Fra,gments. " M. pcnocritm% Genmetricus's Fr,yrtentii. " 9. 011 unreasonable contempt. " It. Carve-u• ill on Friendship. " 11. C,.ost upon Plato's Dialogue of Isis. " I'2. Inii;Jnlt.tit.i on Rt 1 ' 13. Chrysipi-us on Providence. " Only the two first of these 13 MSS. has yet been r T " The excavations at Pompeii are prosecuted after a certain plan, so as to go round the whole town, v..liich, when cleared front tl.e ashes that cover it, will rioaably become one day the most remarkable monu mer.t 101 antigiiity.”—( La Vigilant, Dec. 9.) WIERAMN PAPERS. Ni'AV YORK, NOV EMBER 14. We have been informed, that after the Treaty with Algiers was concluded, the squadron under the command of Commodore Decatur visited Tunis and Tripoli, both of which Powers had permitted a Bri tish ship of war to cut out of their ports vessels which were prizes to the American privateer Abullino, the lull value t.t which was demanded and obtained, as well as the liberation of a number of slaves. NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 16. We understand the Collector of this port declared on Tuesday, that that thly the property entered at the Custom-house was nearly double the amount ever helore entered in one day, and to use the Collector's own words, " This is a proud day for New Yolk." NEW YORK, NO EMBER 17. The Committee of Defence have made a Report, which stat , :s, that more than 100,U00 days labours had been voluntarily bestowed by the inhabitants upon the works of bat city. The Report concludes as follows: 44 The Committee have reason to believe, that the vigorous drills which were made in the city to place it iii a repectable state of defence, were the means, uniler PitoeMENer, of preserving it from attack— pos...iwy from the unhappy fate of the loss of our na tional 7overnment. They think they will not be ch.irgeci with vain boasting when they assert their be lief, !ha!, ti:e strength of the works of di-fence, and state of the disci?line of our patriotic wia) had assemSied to de!eild them, that had the enrrr y, at the period of their completion, ven tured an attack, they would have met with as ganant a repulse as they experienced at. New Orleans. 46 The Committee rival then I isl.ves of the - present respectfully to recoutrneod to the Corpera ti:..n to press upon the general and State Governments, the proof iety of adopting measures to maintain ;tad iirt-set re the works of defence which now encircle the city ; as, in tlitir opinion, it would Ise an expensive and rhil!gerous policy, a lavish waste of property, am.] a retkcoon upon the nation, to snfFer the forts, re doubti, and batteries, so recently and so effectually erected far our defence, and upon which so much par ionic exertion has been bestowed, so soon to fail into ruin and decay, and thus return to the defence. less stiqe in which we were in the summer of the last year. In the present state of the world, no human eye can foresee how soon this country may (which G ot , 1 . , i t bid) be again involved in a state of war ; buf every individual can conceive how mush influence our being properly prepared to receive and repulse an enemy, would have in deterring him from such violations of our rights and national honour, as might lead to so unhappy an event." PHILADELPHIA, NOVEMBER 13. Commodore Decatur, in the Guerrieri, and a part of the Mediterranean squadron, have arrived at New York. _ _ _ _ _ The Salem Gazette states, that since the conclusion of the war, more than half a million of dollars have been shipped from that port. MILLEDGEVILLE (GEORGIA), OCTOBER 25. Faint THE CHEEK NaTioN.—Colonel cowman...4in,, at Fen Decatur, in the Creek Nation, wril,:s to General Gains on the s:h instant, as W.. loves is ascertained that the Indians below the line, In co junction with the war party, which includes the Sl,rninoles, are hostile, and will unquestionably give us battle, at or ne.ir Chatahouchie River. There are various reports as to the strength of these Indians —ti inn &Alto '2000." NEWPORT (ROAD ISLAND), NOVEMBER 9. Alrived this day the United States brig Flambeau, J. li. N:colson, Esq. commander, from Gibraltar, which place she hit on the 6th October, 1815, in vanpany with the squadron tinder the command of Cinimodore Bainbridge, consisting of the following vessels : —lndependence, 74. gu..s ; Macedonian and Cnngress ftigates ; Chippewa, Saranac, Boz'r, Fire. Fly, Enterprize, and Spark biir , s s • Spitiirl, !stitch, :,11, 1 Lynx schouneis. Frigates United S•ates and Constellation ; 40cps of war Erie and 0.114110 are lett in the Plediterra• pc,in for the purrse of giving protection to our coin. pierce in those seas. The frigate Guerriere, Cotrmoolore Decatur, was to sail in a day or two for New York. The Flam. beau parted c.:nipany with the squadron Iti Western Islands on th.: night of the 24. th U.:tuber in a heavy gab: from the eastward. Tbe store-shipsiohn Adams and Altrt were spoken by seJadron near Cape Spartel on the 10th. The- 6uerriere, Commodore Decatur, mentioned above, has arrived within Sandy Hook, and as anon es the wepd favours will come op to the thy. The Curimodore reached here last evening iu the Reveaue u t r, Ceptaiu Caltuoue. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19. 1815. PRICE. OF StOCKS THIS DAY ATI WE LVE O'CLOCK. Reduced 591 i —Cons. mu. shut—for opg. 810 4 per Cent. 74 }-5 per Cent Ant—Ron& Is. 35. (Ns. Onui.l3if pr.—Do. pay. 14', pre.—Lt .k. lads 4s. dls. par. FRENCH eArLas. With the exception of those of Friday, we have received all the Paris Papers that were due up to Sa turday inclu.ive. The Pdcket with the missing Papers had probably been obliged to seek shelter in some other French port. after sailing from Calais. LAVALETTeS Appeal came on in the Court of CAS mien, when the sentence of the Lweer Court was confirmed. Petitions have since been presented for Royal clemency to be extended to the cull fit. General CLAusEL, who figured at Bourdeanr, and whose name is on the proscribed list, has been disco. vered in Paris by the Police, and imprisoned in the Abbey. General DECAEN, who, when Governor of the Isle of France, made himself so notorious by his inhuman treatment of the late Captain FuNuEns, is also in custody. General DEBELna's trial is going on. He has been for some time in custody. The proceedings of the Chambers possess little or no interest. Petitions are presented daily to the Chamber of Deputies, complaining of losses by re quisitions made by the Rebel Generals, and praying for reimbursement. Among the names of these thieves that of VANDANINIE occurs very frequently. One of the Journals announces that 66 the head quarters of the Duke of WELLINGTON will be removed from Paris on the 20th to Camhrai, by which time all the English and Hanoverian troops will have eva cuated Paris and its environs. 'the Duke of WEL LINGTON will remain at Paris until the Ist of January, when he will proceed to England for some time." Letters from Milan, in the French Papers state, that the Princess of WALES has sailed, not for the Greek Islands, but for England. PARIS, DECEMBER 19. • A new Corps de Garde is beeig established in the cloiture St. Honore, on account of the nuniker of rob. belies which have taken place in that quarter. The Prince de Coburg arrived at Bromardern on the 3d from Paris, to met his sister the Grand Du chess of Russia. They mite from Geneva that the Count Capo &Istria has arrived in that city, and that he will re turn to St. Petercburgh by Lausanne, and visit Vienna for a short tine. A deputation from the Chamber of Deputies have ttetiied upon the King, to thank his Majz.sty for the Pro;ect of the Law of Amnesty presented to them by the Ministers. Several of the Morning Papers say-4$ The Duke de Richelieu has frequent private audiences of his i.lajotty." Wiiat a wonder—that the Prime Mini. ste. of a great Nation should have frequent audiences of his Sovereign ! Au order has been given that no persons are to skaite on the Lain cf kt Villerte. The British troops which now occupy the cazerncs of Mont Blanc and New France,' arc expected to quit Paris at the end of the week. Justice now marches ra i 4 l but she p_t .y. is very slow in seizing offenders. 'M.: . .;;dry. who was lately mur dered in the Rue Bibliotbecoe, was not the only one who perished by the blows ;of the hitherto uaktiowli assassins. It is said that an English Officer, a Por tuguese, and a female, have also fallen their victims. Lately four novices took their vows as nuns, at the house of Dominican Ladies at Langres. Report gives the Archduchess Leopoldine of Aus tria in marriage to the King of Spain. The Duchess of St. Len will remain at Constance in Switzerland only till her final destination is fixed. The famous brigand Grasel, whose arrestation we announced a week back, was shockingly wounded before he could be taken, and now lies in prison in a dangerous state. Several of his banditti have been taken, some of whom it is said, are even 'pre cul pable than himself. The_Grand Duke Constantine is named Generalis simo of all the troops in Poland. General Legal* still lies dangerously ill at Nismes; hopes are yet entertained of his tee every. The 2d Life Guards and the Oxford Blues, who were to have marched for England on Thursday, have, we hear, been countermanded. The English and Hanoverian troops which occupy the villages of Passy and d'Auteuil, leave on Friday ; thine cantoned at St. Cloud and Boulogne have alr..adr departed. General Phillips, on leaving Marseilles, has writ ten a very handsome letter to the Mayor, testifying his high sense of the conduct of the inhabitants towards the troops under his command; and which the Mayor has answered in a manner highly compli mentary of the excellent discipline observed by the Bfitish troops. I .." • . r. 1 • • - PARIS, DECEMBER it. On account of the breitaing.up of the frost, his Maksty was CnThird to take his accustomed ride yesterday : the Duchess IYAngoulerne also took an airing. Died, a few days back, aged 75, Madame the Mareohal de Richelieu, at her ebtatc of Fromonville, near Nensoun. She was widow of the celebrated Marshal Richelieu, and was married under the reign of Louis XIV. She preserved the full use of her faculties to the last, and has left the most lively rtgrets in the hearts of those who had the advantage ' of knowing her. The organisation of the Royal Guard proceeds, with amazing rapidity ; 4000 have been already equipped and merited in Paris, and they are expect ed to muster 10,000 strong before the Ist January. It being understood that several English Officers have refused to spew their passports, or leuillts de route, on arriving from or returning to England, the Duke of Wellingtiia is said to have written to the Minister of Police, requesting him to execute strictly 21 every ordinance or law respecting not o y p ass p orts, i but every other subject, that the tranq uillity be pre served which equally interests the two nations. Genera! Vat:Winnow is about to publish a defence of his conduct. , A very severe host set in at Brussels and its envi rons on die Bth. Religious orders were about to be re-established in Piedmont similar to those which existed prior to the occupation of that country by the French. The Gautk *kik of yesterday contains a long Ordinance of the King respecting the laws of com merce. There is a talk that a great National Bank is to be established in P iris, and that paper money will oh. twin currency—and so it may, but will it obtain credit' Mar►hal blassena is said to have been arrested on the frontiers of France; we do not pledge ourselves for its certainty. This day the appeal of M. Lavatette will come before the Court of Cassation. PARIS, DECEMIWR IS. General Dec.ion, Governor of the I Ith Military Division at Bourdeaux, on the t:Uth March list, has just been arrested. The Count de Choiscul-Meuse died two days ago at the PALis.Bostbon of the gout. The organization of the Royal Guard proceeds with the greatest activity. We hear the Duke of Wellington intends eating his Christmas dinner in Paris. The Duke d'Angouleme was still at Toulouse when the last accounts came away. A general recruiting is now taking place throngq the whole RossiAn empire, to replace the soldiers who have served their time. Prussian detachments still continue to pass by Brussels on their way to the frontiers of Prussia. The cold is most exc:.ssive at Brussels at this time; its rigour is felt by all classes; fires are kept up day and night is the streets for the poor to warm themselves and dress their food. Central Bulow has arrived at Frankfort with part of his Stalf.—l-le will not remain there long. Eighteen hundred English troops have landed at the Isle of Zante. The Marquis de Riviere has arrived safely in Corsica. Tuscany is much infested by banditti. A subscription monument is to be erected to the memory of General Lec iurbe, late Governor of Belort. General DebtHe 'has already undergone several examinations—witnesses are now being heard ; his public trial will take place in a few days. Pieces of '2O francs, bearing the effigy of the King, without the name of the engraver, and vn the other side the date, Lur•de-lys and letter R. are not a legal tender. They can only be sold as ingots. The Bishop of Troyes will pronounce the funeral oration of Lieu's kV 1. on the 21 n of next month, at the church of No:re Dame. The Municipal Council of Brest have prcse ire(' an elegant sword to General Brenier, for his excellent conduct during tlit late political chin es. PARIS, DECENIBER 16. The Director-General of the Ministry of the King'. Household has ordered the Museum to be shut until it nndergoes a great many repairs. M. de Liv.elette ta il I+ y itixived the notification of the arrct which cunarnied the judgment of the of Assizes. Several English officers, misinterpreting the inten tions of their Government, mot the princrplts of a dis cipline which their position renders indispensible, re. fuse to exhibit their passports, or route:, both in corn ing from England and in leaving France. Lord Wellington has directed the French Ministry to put strictly in force, with respect to oh the officers and soldiers of his army, all the laws and ordonnances not only on the passports, but also on every other subject. Thus the English officers will no longer have any pretext for refusing to acknowledge the measures of precaution which the French authorities are obliged to take, in order to preserve a tranquillity in which the two nations are equally interested. Madame Murat has demanded, through the Im perial Chancery of Vienna, the body of her husband, in order that she may inter it with decency. The Chancery has sent her petition to the King of the two Sicilies. From Vienna we learn that the intelligence from Dalmatia is very distressing. The plague has again broken our, and the greatest precautions are taken to prevent all intercourse with the Austrian Monarchy. The letters received at Vienna from Turkey are of a most pacific nature, a circumstance which sufficiently refines all reports of a contrary description. The prisons of Vienna are filled with maltfactors. Expeditions are sent into the mountains and forests of Moravia and Bohemia, to destroy Grasel's band, which has now lost its chief. The evacuation of the French territory by the Ai. lied troops, which had been for a moment suspended, has recommenced with full activity since the Treaty of the 20th of November. The severity of the Wes. ther however, the impossibility of moving rapidly so great a number of troops on the same routes, and the difficulty of collecting provisions and the means of conveyance, necessarily retarded their movements. Is order to avoid the inconveniences, and indeed ti.r entire exhaustion of the country, part of the Etigh.:l, army has halted, and the portion which is to ipi't France will embark at Boulogne and Calais. Ti.e English troops who are to remain have gone into c.o. tonments in the departments of the Seine and of Si!: Seine and Oise, whiLlt they will evacuate cotirsly the end of this month. V I I3IIIEII. IRMW.DIN A ItY OF S'ITURDAY MORNIVO. The family of M. Lavalette have made lint... ? plications in order to implore the royal clunzncy favour of the criminal. We are assured that Geoer2l Mosel was arre ste i yesterday At Paris, in the house Na. 14, R ue F r ., u, and aft. rwards conveyed to the Prison of the AVey TI •i! Duke d'Angotileme is expeced at Mora dc Mrs n, in the department of the Landes, on tae 19.!: or 20th of this month. A frightful event tr3ok plrce in the evenirg of the 3.1 instant at the Tilewurks of Champetier, in the territory of Ay. M. Gautier, the occupier, with wife and two children, one four years and the (Att. three months old, were all assassinated, and the !muse• burnt. The dead bodies of the victims were fc,u•,r: half consumed among the rains of the house. The Minister of the Interior hats directed 11:e Pro frets, by a circular, to exercise the greatest catui.•.z io issuing the routes w the soldiers. BRUSSELS AND VRANKFORT PAPERS . AVe hare also this day received the above Jmuna!; to I.tte dates. We select the following for the perus..l of our Readers: FRANKFORT, DEC. 9. The Archduke Charles, mid the Princess his con. sort, passed through this city to-day, on their way to Vienna. Count Lobo, Envoy Extraordinary, and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Court of Portugal at Hanover, arrived here yesterday. Mr. Kach, the Plenipoten tiary from Lubeck, has been here for some slays. VIENNA, SIECEMBLR I. The number of the military returning from France Who stop iit this capital is so considerable, that the Magistrates have judged it necessary to take some precaution. It is therefore . rdered, that no military p.rson, of whatever rank, can remain more than fon; tra)s lii the capital without a s d ecial permission. BRUSSELS, DiCEMBER irt. One thonsaiid ;gm: htin.tte.l , 4 awl' tiat;M:l3,l tven, - affiVrd here ro.day, coming from France. Te-m a row the last culutun of the Gds corps of the Prus'i.t army will arr;ve. It is still supposed that Valenciennes, Bonchairt Conde, and Chartemoor, wit' be occupied by the Al I hes en the 15th, and that l'holippevilie and Marien ; but will be given lip the same day by the Pitn , sism to the trtyps 4,1 the kingdoms of the NetherlanJs, isi l i which they will form hencelf)rward a part. The Duchess of WELLINUTON arrived yesterdal At Dover, tram The Earl and °winos of HART/WIC/CZ set off last week for Paris, to be present At t e nuptials betweec. bir CHASMIC.% STEWA And LADY ELIZABEhI Yonst, their youngest caughter ; the ceremony WAS to be performed by the Chaplain to the Embassy to that Court. Ti e period, we lope, is not very far distant in wirier, we shad be lisle to announce the entire Air' uf the 3arbary tyrants—the complete over !brow of their Governments—the emancipa on of the enslaved pe. pie cf tl,e whole North-coast of Africa, and the exterisioa of European protection and just:- prudence to their persons and property. In the mein time we have great r itis!action in recording any lac: calculated to prove that success must attend any tee:'. concet red plat, uadertakers for itch o!jects. Our Readers have already teen informed of V:: spirital manner in which the Americans demnrdea and obtaint!..t justice of the t.h.:l' of him to release ail Amer. -no p:iv tuts, to pay dollars for Ewa prizes taken three years ago, t: restore a cargo of cotton lately seen This True!. which was signed on the 4th pt July, also contii:'(.l other stipulations proving the imbecility of the rine despot. By the New-York Papers received yesterday ‘7 . ! learn, that the American Squadron proceeded from Algiers to Tunis, Commodore DrCavot havv: learnt that the BEY had permitted an English frigate. during the war with Great Britain, to come in and take from the harbour of Tunis, two ;zes which hal been sent in there by the priv iteerAbrilino, of Bost' r• The Commodore demanded, that the Bey 51ic .. 1 ,1 p ty 40,000 dollars lot the two prizes which mid been given up ; the Bay, after deliberating a short timer agreed to pay the money to the American Consul,. s a restitution to the owners of the privateers for de two vessels. From Tunis the squadron proceeded to Tripoli, where Commodore Decatur learnt that a prizesvissel had also been permitted to be taken run of their 11,.!• b:bur by a British sloop of war, and that the Ana can Consul had been compelled to take down i s Bag. The Ba.haw attempted to bully th° Americans, bat finding them preparing to attack him, he pod the sum of twesity-live thousand dollars for prep: vessel, released ten Chi istian captit d. nun' deil by the Commodore, and re-hoisted the Anh'• rican flag under a salute of 31 guns. 'the Americas squadron consisted of the Independence of 74 gUnst twit frigates, vim' brig!, and three sel.oonet fifteen sail. They arc now probably in the !taboo of 11()SiQII. U 1 111 -4.1 r tro, r'; 4.. NA V . i 11 , 3VI N 4 .in 1114 C:1 tJ . O lit its 31 TN, ; I n r. RJR • • , e fitl th. 011 ti • 3 1 •+, Co.l