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THE EVENIVG. STAR. , LONDON. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1815. . - 'OE OF 8 TOCKS 'THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Awed 59:I—Coos. mo. shut—for opg. • per Om. 749-5 per Cent shut—Bonds Is. dis. par . nu. Is; j pt.—Do. pay. 101 pre.—Exch. L Is. dts. Is. pr. Tio.day we received Dutch and Harnburgh Papers. itt latter are filled with ctingratulatory Addresses :n the Authorities in Poland to dr it new Save :n. the Emperor ALEXANugit these are mere Amon-place. The Dutch Papers occasionally con some severe reflections on-the French nharacter, porting to come thybogb the med.um of private .crs from Paris. We iutioiu . some specimens of :e Paper skirnsishes : HANOVER, DECEMBER 7. )fficial accounts from Paris state, that the Duke • Wellington has given orders tor the German Lt% , ro and the Hanoverian troops :hat do not remlin France, to be ready to ninth home. General tint Kielmansegge will command the troops on • it march. The OtEcers of the‘Hanoverian army, who have n several months in ramp before Paris, rt.ceived the With November, the additional pay which the ike of Wellington had granted, and by which the &relate between the pay of the English and Hano ..ian Officers is made up. DECEMBER B.—The cold is today at l(2. degrees • Reaumur. It is said that the I).Tex Order will be g: en tr, /eral distinguibhed persons before the end of this • cu. BERLIN, DECENIBER 9. Ws Royal Highness the Prince of Oiange arrived ' 're yesterday mottling, at sour o'clock. His Highness Prince Hardenburg arrived here aerday, in good health. l'ol.tnd, say our Papers, will be evacuated by the issian troops. Exchange on London, Doc. 8, 33. 3. PARIS, DECEMBER Is. EIfROM A LETTER]. In general nothing new has passed at Paris for t:.:1 week past. The English form the girt ion almost alone, and even they occupy, besides the barracks, ;:le posts in the Palais Royal. Soldiers of all the for fr,er french regiments are seen strolling about the ssreets, and even occupy some barracks, but it does seem as if new regiments would soon be formed ot of them. No regiments are allowed to be form din the Departments occupied by the Allies. The idiers are therefore obliged to go about idle. It , •7etns to be forgotten how dangerous the idleness of s:fend' sAdiers is at this tromont. For want of a "Frenth G.A.vison; the National Guard is folly env. I 3yel: Since the trial of Ney began, the guards have en several times doubled during *the night. 411 t.at belong to the military party consider Ney's cause ,:s their own, 2 , 1 eagerly seize this opportunity to ar;tnnble and express their sentiments loudly. 66 It may be ciplained, I think, from physical tuses why the people here are always on the eve of tumult. Since the commencement of the Revoln:ion the brains of the Parisians have been shaken by so, many dreadful and unexpected scenes, that the most t.ifling circumstance is sufficient to put them in mo t:on. At the least noise in the streets, one sees how sl.e people immediately grow warm, particulatly -hen a stranger is the occasion of it, and how quickly explosion would follow if the Police did not im :icdiately interfere. It will be therefore very proper :%at a garrison of allied troops should remain this inter in Paris. " This will indeed vex the Puisiaas. The Arahs • ;a had already said, that in many compAnies a song had been sung, beginning ' re &Jr' anon iv a goodjoursty to you.'—The same paper observed, ..at Blucher was not sick, but had left Paris. 6 SO uch the better,' it added, • every Frenchman must interested iu all that relates to so tkor a personage. his little revenge, in which the French su readily in. 4,dr, is almost the only satisi.tction that is allowed them in their present unpleasant situation." Calcutta Gazettes, datedthe I3th July, have been ceised. They state that the late excessive rains, both the upper and lower provinces, have been extremely ! , rejudicial to the Indigo crops. The late truce between HOLKAR and his disorderly any, , has already given rise to c:irc contention and • -en rebellion. The Hubs:lee troops arc stated to ve mutinied, confined their officerc, and t have ye them, during several succesivc nights, a sound .4srinado. Part of the Rajah's own guard had refused iform its accustomed duty. Barslef JEE SINDHIU :..tditated an attack on the fort of Raninuggur. :jr:l:en &son has marched considerably to tle north Lahore, and on the 4th of last monill entered ".'uzeerabad, a city on the east bank of the Chunab. His late prisoner, the Ex. King of Cabbol, has taken f, loge with Moult KHAN, the Raja of ltujouree, t o h a d been promised assistance by Rout' Uormt lIAN, the Raja of Poonuch, and ZURBURDUST•KIiAN of Mulikal , in the event of an invasion by the Sikhs. The Rajah of Ounze, a district lying on the rthern border of Kastimeer, had incited RUNJUT ain to attempt the conquest of that delightful iuntry ; but the latter appears at present to be en. . ely bent on reducing' to 'subjection the Nuwab 611 BOttittruLroolt and to have had lattient thoughts of undertaking so hazardous an enterprise during the present season. Mr. law FEVDALL, of the Civil Service, was drowned on the sth July, while attempting to swim his horse against the water at Bulrampore. A tragical incident happened on board on? of the Company's row-boats, employed with Captain MAX FIELD, iu surveying the eastern passage. A tyger swam from the shore, sprung into the boat, and seized an aged man, a suave, on beiard. An European presented his gun at the animal, but it flashed in the pan. A Serang seized the animal by the tail, while another native struck him on the head with a hatchet. The blow laid his skull open, notwithstanding which, he succeeded its retiring with his prey. It appears by accounts from South America, in the Jamaica Papers, which have reached us to the 3J ult. that the Spanish expedition under MoluLLo, has terminated not merely as' the friends of mankind wished it might, but as every person of common sa gacity might have foreseen. Moauxo's army, 'baffled by the perseverance of the Patriots, and wasted Dr ; the effects of climate, fatigue, and disease, has kbegq y/ithdrawn, and has since suffered considerably *in the general hutriCane which caused extensive ra vages in the Western hemisphere. 'L'he Bill, of which Mr. Wanenvoace gave notice towards the close of last Session of Parliament, for the registry and regulation of Slaves, has caused con siderable alarm in Jamaica. 'Phis tentlernen furnishes, perhaps, the uttoogest evidence that legal regulations are still demanded fir the protection of the Negroes. 'FRENCH PROTESTANTS. • O 1 the subject of the French Protestants, the pub lic ai e threatened with as authentic account of the events that have tact:place at Winner. It is proper that the British Public should be informed that the true state ment of the Protestants was suppressed ; and that a pamphlet, with a title similar to the above, was pub. lished by the Ft each Government, for the purpose of vilifying the Protestants. We yet may find it neces sary to allude more particulArly to the work in our eye. In the mein time we give the following para. graphs lion* ibis authentic account, to expose its object : 46 Nismes has for 25 years been the theatre of two panics, the one Illways supporting royalty and the other unceas:ngly hostile to it. Tile Catholics, who form mole than tw9-thirds of the population, com; prise almost entirely the former party, sshilst the other consists almost wholly of Protestants." 46 If the Protestants hive principally suffered it is because they were almost all Bonapartists, and that 'Tom amongst them have proceeded the greater part of those men who have committed so many atr In the mean time, it is with no ordinary degree of pleasure that we record the energy and the success of the exertions of the Comnt . ittee of Dissenting Minis-, tees, in INfialfof ibe..peroqoted and too long neg. leeted Protestants in France. .The expression of public feeling which they have called forth, has already quickened the steps of the authorities in France ; and , the conttibutions whici are liberally and cheerfully presented, will most essentially risist those who have suffered the loss of all things, on account of their re ligious profession. Two circular Letters have been addressed by the Committee to their brethren throughout the United Kingdom. The first ,containing an account of their Proceedings, and- requesting collections from all the friends of religi , :n' and humanity. The second, con taining the melancholy proofs of the massacres, spo- Nations, and outrages which hare been for months the order of the day against the professors of the Re formed Religion. It is impossible to peruse this short but luminous and connected lii:aory of the horrid efforts of fanati. cism, without full conviction of their existence, and without an :it - aloes desire to check their progress and alleviate their effects. We are are happy to learn, that the contents of this letter, with additional infor mation, will be published by the Committee in a cheap foe m, and the profits of the sale be appro priated to the general fund. We now lay before our readers extracts from letters of recent date, received by the Committee from France; some of them in answer to enquiries, others written since they have been informed of the exertions of the Committee in favour of their afflicted brethren t " I hasten to commun•cate what news I can collect from the fugitives, whom dire necessity compels to seek for refuge from their blood-thirsty neighbours. I long to hear what effect the in. telligence of our miseries has produced on our Protestant bre thren in your country. You must be conscious that thousands are now looking with u imploring eye to a nation so renowned for the exercise of ChriAiar. charities and Christian graces. I am sorry to say that the unhappy situailoa of Mimes is scarcely to be paralleled in the present tranquil state of Europe. " For many weeks the horrid system of pillage, expatriation, and murder, has been pursued with unabated ardour. Smut trifling cffarts for protection bare been shewn by sonic in autho rity ; but nothing of consequence tiU lately. 'flie eyes of Eng- I shown will sotto be opened calve that, notwithstanding the base cslansnies of our enemies. the object of our indefatigable foes has been not pohtecal, but be Protestant faitk awl the Protestant wor , hp. To aunihilate the former and destroy the latter has been their aim by night aid by day. " .1 he night of the ltiticol October last seemed destined by th e infernal demon that suggested the a:leisure of St. Bartholomew's day u the period when a finish ehoulttbe given to the prOceedings in Musses by the ekterminapin of every Protestant, and the m u rder • of every family of the iefonned faith. * Troops of i,sas. sins had artuaily formed the bloody projec t Of pitting to death .11 the abhorred remnant that remained lit that Ofqrtturate city. ss The stuoins of our brethren have too lt:;tgbeen suffered to .ptoceed with impuoil, bat may wa riot atm lope thai, by the I jeattee of the Ithrtoho4l Mischa" Wise itaiie staashiered. so I many itsnoctet vinitis—laid wane and burnt so many houses in the town; and each a number of chateaus and estates, the pro- 1 perry of . obr ream:4.4Mo Protestants In the country—shall we nut indu'ge the hope, that they will at length meet the reward' of their crimes, and others be deterred from pursuing Ili with fire and massacre, because, without molesting them, we humbly venture to worship Gob, according to the dictates of our con sciences. You will rot be sus ptized to hear that the Proi,stairs still live in constant dread All those who have property have quitted, and have soueit an asylum in Lyons, Honr,!cauk, and Paris; !tad to these more tranquil places the merchants and tradesmen are daily taking Right. The manufactories and otinr monuments of Protestant iudustry, are all abandoned; our wretched mechinies ate either murdered or pi:rishing in the fo rests, or wandering In other towns, bereaved of their dearest connections, forced from their means of subsistence, and seeking daily bread.—Lamen. v. I, 9. 3. " Out of five Ministers, tour have been obliged to fly; and the Churches, shut for months, have no prospect of being re opened, as no Protesmiits due Assemble fur divine wors‘ip, for tear of their persecutors. Write me with as much circumspec tion as possible, and say if your esteemed brethren commiserat: the calamities of the persecuted Protestants." Another, " Since the publication of the Memoir, intended for the de fence of the Protestants in the South, tranquillity is by no means restored in that country. The fanatics continue to persecute and mas.acre those who prof:is a religion different from their own In the month of Srptenther lac; on the ere of the section if the Ch..nrier of Deputies, fortry-taro persons were imtehered.—that thn elcctors. Whig terrified, might not east. any of the Protestants In the night of the 16th or 17th of October, they had formed the plan of a general massacre; and they had begun to carry it into execution." The writer then proceeds to give a long and most 'distressing account of the horrid scenes of the Bth of November, when an unsuccessful attempt was made by the Protestants to re-open one of their places of worship ; which object they have since found it ne cessary, for the present, entirely to abandon and concludes by saying—gi Things are at present • more tranquil ; but all th)se who have pecuniary means, desert this unhappy city, and the others are in a state the most deplorable. Next to GOD, all our hope is in the Kum, and in the benevolence of our brethren of all countries." Another— 44 I hope for better times—persecutions and fears keeping the Protestant Churches and their Ministers in a state of inactivity. rejoice to bear that there has been a General Meeting of our Dissenting Brethren in London. I hope that Meeting will pro duce good effects, and that it mar send some pecuniary assistance to those poor families who have been deprived of all the means of subsistence by the dreadful persecutions which they have en dured, and which are not yet finished. 0 send to them some pious and zealous English Ministers, to distribute to them corn forts and assistance !" Another " I received your later two days ago, It was health to my hares. The time is Pt length arrived when the English churches take an interest Litho , eof France. I thank yon, in the name of 570 Churches and nearly two mil:ions of Frenchmen—; verily ye have ye:ir reward.' " lniepentlemli of the irk gomi that will re.uh frrm collecting in year c:r:tirry, aiure will create a mere lasting interest in the !ate 01 the chori—es on the Con.inent ; and this 1 trust will prelim: the most ini;.ortazir consequences;—yes, rouse, support, and animate the churches of France, and they may con• duct the tclec.ric fluid to the evremities of the Cuntineut.' TILE AR Mr. The regiments ord.:red home from France, and destined for Ireland, are to proceed from the places of embarkation at Boulogne, &c. direct to Cork, where they are to land to be distributed to their se veral stations in the interior of the country. The 16th Dragoons, now stationed at Romford, will march thence to embai k for Ireland, immediately on receiving a remount of 200 horses, given up by the 16th, in Fiance, to regiments that were to remain in that coun:ry, when the 16th was oidered home, being the first on the list to return, in consequence of long service on the Continent. This g.llaot corps had been in the Peninsula and in France during nearly the whole of the last seven years. Tuesday Major-General BOLTON went through the final inspection of the horses of I:.e 14th Dragoons, at Romtord, prep tratory to the departure of that re giment for Ireland, which is to take place as soon as the Life Guards arrive is London to take the town and court duty. The first division of the 16th Dragoons arrived at Romford on Friday last, under the command of Captain WRIXON. The second division, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel MURRAY, was to arrive at the same place yesterday. It is expected that the re mount of 200 horses, preparatory to this regiment proceeding to Ireland, will be completed in the course ' of a month. On Tuesday the Brigade under the command of Colonel Sir CHARLES BeLson, consisting of the 2Sth, 42d, and !)2.1 Regiments, were landed at Dover. These are the corps, consisting of eight or nine hun dred men, wbo so gallantly distinguished themselves at Quatre Bras, and were named in the Duke of Watunseon's dispatches, as having preserved the city of Brussels, and enabled his Grace to tight the following days at the heights of Waterloo. Yesterday, as usital on St. Thomas's Day, Ward. motes were held in the scveral City Precincts, for the election of Common Councilmen and other &dicers for the ensuing year. We never recollect to have wit nessed I , :ss bustle upon such occasions: The following were the only Waris contested : Castle litynard, Cripplegate Without, Aldrugate, and Cripplegate CoTemanottrect. In the Ward ot l'Arringdon Without, Mr. MILLER wis elected, vice li Lncrs, resigned. In Candlewick Wald, Mr. CARn was elected, vice GALE, resignt.d. In Bread-street Ward, Mr. GILLMAN, in the ro , un of -Mr. &prom), resigned. Eirringdon Within, Tower, Cheap, Bishopsgate,Vintry, Langbonme,W thr Old Billingsgate, elected their old Members. Ip Aldgate Ward, the LORD MAYOR presided in the room of Alderman Coats, who was still indis posed, — when Mr. Jonx Jaessow, of Billiter-street, elected without opposition, Via Mr. TAnDY, who reigned. In Cordwainers Ward, Mr. GILLMAN, of Bread street, was elected, in the rsain of Mr.Baurono, who kA,AL /WELL:RW=6- PM MOVTH,.nECEMBIR 19. NI Nothing Arrived of slled bin the from Cotk.—Wind S.W. dirty we•+her. PeRTSMOUrH, DECEMBER. 21. • Arrived the Zelia,Ctunr, ft frn Lisson ; Midtts, - HOARD, from St. Kitt's. The Midas has been tiltvoi &imaged on the passage, having Inst her sails in a heavy gale. The round-house, in whic!, were tour passengers, the Mate, and a 1)41y, w is *.,shed r.ff the deck 'by a heavq sea. She is leaky, and the grc.mid tier of sugar soppognd to b- much damaged. Left the Richard and tsah-lls, Kxtcn r, at St. Kitt's, ready for sea.—Wind N.W. and moderate. DECLMBER 21. Came down from the River the Kingston, Somme, for the South Seas; Welton, 8ALE40..:, for Baba does ; and remain in the Dawns v.ith the Milft.rd Indiaman, and the whole of the outward bound, sat well. The Loyalty, &tut:GALL, for Machira, lost an anchor and cable yesterd .y. RANISGATE, Dr.eLmreß 121. Out of the brig G of Sunderland, that ,vent to pie&s last eveninv at the back oi our Pi,-r, the Mate, the carpent , •r, a boy, and a boatmln of this plade, were • drowned. Ah:ved the Carolina, &um Master, from Hamhorgh for Lishon, with the loss of anchors wid cabli•s, and other da:nage. Sailed the Nes:or transport with troops. The ves s el vrretked on the 20th 3t the back of the East Head, Ramcgate, proves t he the Good wilt, of Sunderland, CAptaiii JAMES WII.SnN. The crew consisted of five r ersow, and it is a little singular that the three saved (Captain, Mate, and carp.•ntrr) are own brothers, who state that the Goodwill WAS upwards of 50 years old. Four bodies have smce Leer picked up on the sands, the three lust in the above vessel, and one that appeared to have been in the water for some days. MARGATE, DECEMBER 21. The Woodbridge E4st lodisman having got a temporary rudder and jury-matts, proceeded this day for the River. F Is r-impiA SHIPPING. The BOMBAY, whose arrival we announced yester day, touched at St. Helena, and sailed from thence Gth November. BON APARTE was in very good he tlt'a at that time ; he took seVeral of the Officers of the BOMBAY by the hand and conversed with them a long time. He seems to be quite satisfied as to his lnthi tation, but complains much of being so narrowly watched; he is not allowed to ride on horseback with out being attended by some of the English (Miters. There had been no arrivals from Eriand since the landing of 11os/tea:ere on the The General Stuart, homeward-bound, had re. ceived but little damage; and was to sail from Born bay in three weeks a r ta' the Bomb 47. The Asa country ship was about u, procead from the same Presidency tor England. The i'dnira sailed from the Cape for England on the 19th of October. The ships Lard Eldon, Heddart, and Northum berland, ar::vcd at Madras on the 6t:t August. 'l'he ships Grant, David Scott, Inglis, Esex, M :pink CArnden, ::ad Vansittart, sailed from Ilombay :u China the '2'2 July, and the General Harris , in the lit August; also the Rose and Strea tham for the Mautiti , os, on ex Bth Atignl;t. The private ships and Ntofratt ar rived at Bombay front the vita jone. The following is an txtract of a letter from the Agent ef Lieren's, at Janelici, divel Noverahrr It is with leen I have to mention to you the visitation we have here experienced of a stoim thet hath been extremely disastrous to the shipp ng-in the bays and harbours in the easiem and mie !:e part cf ais Island. It began on the 17tleult. and coetinued two . days with great viot:nce : the loss to the litiose writers at Lloyd's will be very great upon the v. ssels that %v.:re leadieg at Aonotta Bay and Port Maria, some of them having nearly the whole of their car goes on board at the time they were driven on shore, and little or nothing saved from them. Those two places of loading are particularly liable to disaster is the hurricane and winter months ; and when the wind blows with violence from a northern direction, it is hardly possible for vessels w ride there in safety, especially at Annotta Bay." The following k an extract of a letter on tl:e same subject from Mr. GARDNER, Master of the Raikes, of Loudon, dated Kingston, Oct. 27 :••••41 On the 17th inst. came on dark gloomy weather, with heavy rain. On the 18th it blew, from the N. and N.V. one of the most •reitiendous gales, attended with torrents of rain (which lasted three days), that has been experi enced here these 25 years. In consequence of elects almost all the ships in our neighbourhood are on shore ; many are already in pieces, and none will ever be on float again. Every drogger, shallop, and boat, all down the North side, are entirely destroyed. The houses are mostly washed away ; many seamen and white people drowned, with some hundreds of Negroes. Many estates, with their stocks, ate de stroyed, and a number of roads all cut up ; in short, such a scene I never witnessed. A regular account of this disastrous affair would fill a velnme. Tee canes, plantations, grounds, wharfs, milk, and great houses, with works, on the North side, nave nearly shared the same fate. The Raikes fortunately rode out the gale without any damage whatever ; but lest the lone-beat, pinnace, and-jolly-boat." CORN EXCAANC.e, DI.C. 22.--The Wheat trade canthiues in much the tame state as on Monday, a great dulret:s prevails, and very few sales hive been made today, and prices are rather lower. Barley is Is. per quarter cheaper, and very li-avy sale at that ' ieLluction, as the supply this morning has been tole. rah/y large Irom Stalrolk, and a great deal remains undispostAl isf. Beans and Oats are Is. per'quarter lower. In other articles no alteration. PSDESTBI. NlS:l.—Maidstone, D'ec. 21, (18th Da.y) This morning l'erFne at a quarter past one ;,'clack (having last ru Lt, at a quarter past nine, finished 60 miles), and accomplished, by six o'clock, 11 miles ; the sonr by eight o'clock, seven miles and three quarters. At twelve o'clock they had per. formed 16 miles and one quarter more; and at nine o'clock this bight, they completed in the whole G 5 miles, when they left off—making then 1,075 miles of their task—leaving 125 miles to perform irs the last two days, which we have no doubt they will accomplish. \ Ai