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r!••••r0p71.1....R1P ••••••=••• • - .. . AMERICA. NASHVILLE, (TEN.) AUGUST 1. Nowts.weer INDIAN&—On Monday last an ex press reached the head-quarters of General Jackson, at this place, from Governor Clarke. Governor Ed wards, and the commissioners appointed to negoCiate a treaty with the Northwestern Indians. The com munications received render it almost certain that a war with these Indians is inevitable. The Charleston Paper of the 22d, after enumera ting the Indians most hostile to the United States, the Sacs. Foxes, and Kickapoos, and the probability of immediate hostilities, contains the following ar ticle. The words are—" So far are we from dread ing war with those Indians, that we wish it: it will add to our population, increase cur riches, and pro mote our happiness!" SF. LOUIS, JUNE io. Last Sunday Mr. Alexander Spencer was shot, stabbed, and scalped, within three miles of the town of St. Charles, on the road to St. Cuivre. Indians v. ere seen almost daily in the vicinity of Portage and other villages hey•md the Missouri. The canton ments at Gap aux Gre were burnt to the ground on Thursday last, and every thing is it destroyed by the Indians. This place has been evacuated sxue time, in consequence of inundation. BRUSSELS Ala) FRANKFORT PAPERS. EitUSEI.S, SEPTEMBER 29. Six o'Clock, p. m.—His Majesty the Emperor of Russia, whose arrival has been announced for some days, has this moment entered our walls. The dis charge of 101 cannon announces this agreeable news. —llis Mijesty alighted at the Palace in the Park, where he was received by the King. In the yesterday's sitting of the Second Chamber, a message was received from the First Chamber, stating, that it adopted the proposals of the Second Chamber. . . I. For thp cieation of the Order of the Belgic Lion; and 2d, for a dotation for the Prince of Waterloo, Duke of Wallington; and that*. it has communlvted these two proposals to his Majesty, requesting hint to confirm them by his Royal sanction. The President announced to the Chamber, that his Majesty, in conformity with the 58th Art. of the Constitution, lays before the Chambers— tat. The Treaty of Accession to Great Britain, concluded at Vienna, March 23,181.5, 2d. The Convention between Rtissla ' Great Britain , and the Netherlands, to regulate definitively the Russian Debt in Hot land, concluded at London, 39th May, ICU. Sti. The Boundary Treaty with Prussia, concluded at Vieniia, Slst May, 1813. 4th. 'l he Beundary Treaty with Ens'and, concluded at Vi enna, Slat M.ty, 181.3. T. - -day at one o'clock the Members of tho First Chamber, who sit in the flue Hall of the former States of Brabant, repaired t.- the Second Chamber, which sits also in a Hall of the Hotel de Ville. In this extraordinary Sitting the Session will be closed. The Members of the First Chamber were dressed in ' black, and wore swords. The triumphal arch at the WillianfGate is rebuild ing, anti scaffolding erecting on the ancient battery of the rampart fur an illumination. The bridge !made on the occasion of the trance of the King of the Netherlands will be re-establis'ied. par'ations are made fur the arrival of the august St:. verrigns. The Emperor of Russia slept last night at Feaonne. Some Cossacks of the gum . d arrived hst night at Halle, where, with t he Belgian cavalry, they remain ed till the arrival of the Russian Emperors to .:cccm pany -him into this city. The Ntrrison is under arms, sad the chosen companies of the Burgher Guard, on foot and on horseback, are called together to go and meet our powerful Ally. F.RI CIACT CF A POl VATZ LETTER FROM FARIS OF TUE r-- OF SEPTEMBER. 68 It is difficult to give an exact account of the state cf the public mind : there are many parties, but the presence ot the foreign troops represses opinion. The liberty of the press no longer exists; an ordi nance suppressed all the Journals; some of them have since obtained permission to appear, but doubt less upon conditions which rerider them destitute of all interest. 64 If I may judge by what I see, and by what I hear, the very great majority of the French desire the Bourbons; they feel that there is no salvation for France, except in a dynastf.which ages have conse crated ; but this great majority is divided into many classes. Some desire the Bourbons out of attach ment to them ; others, upon deliberation and cake lation ; some will have them at any price, and be whatever they may. There are some, who, while they honour and esteem the King, fear that he or his successors may return to a system which is no loriger in harmony with the ideas ot the times. 66 If the King does not.shock people's opinions, if be forgets the past, if he will make to the French some trifling concessions, he will be adored by them. The diversity of opinions, however, requires that an irr;:iosing force remain ter some time in France to consolidate the power of the King ; but, as I ob 'erved, if the King cunducts himself with goodness, time will at last confirm his power; people will se esaw:ow themselves to the new order of things, and the King will at last draw round him those who may have tilt sons.: aversion towards him ; it is then that France wiil be saved ; and tl.is is w hat I think will happen. A minority had declared for the Duke of Or. leans, but it does not seem that this par; is at all formidable." SWITZERLAND, SEPTENtrIER 22. Wit} in dies, few Ogys tkre have passed by Buie and Rheinweiler 25,000 Austriin troops of all arms, amti.g others the fine regiment of Szedrier hussars, which returns to its usual garrison in Transylvan'a. Tne greater part of these troop- game from the con fines of burgundy And Fr4nche Compte. FRANKFORT, SEPTKMBER U. Whitley/CT the kao is journals may ssy, La Vendee is not o.barmcd ; or the other Fideres have taken up arms ; the Royalists nail the C o nstitutromaists are in prest:nee 01 each other ; almost as mach is feared as hoped from the two Chambers; in short, France still contains all the elements of a revolution, and only the lops btay of the foreign troops Can preserve her Iron it. • '1 he police lately bAffled a movement, the object of which,waS to regime the Kies to remuee . the Princes, and to appoint the Duke of Orleans Iris s"c"s°f° 'NShas B.l* jise ; 6* PFOl l $ Wester . , IOMN 4KER10.4 Na V. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. The Provinces called Venezuela, of which the town of Caraccas is the capital, are Barinas, Guayana ? Maracaybo, Cumana, and CAraccas. The rivers Tachira and Arauca divide Venezuela from New Grenada. The Municipality of Caraccas, in con , junctinn with the Deputies nominated by the people, assumed the reins of Government the 19th of April, 1810, taking the appellation of Junta Suprema.— One of their first decrees was to arrest the Captain- General, and the members of the Audience, whom they immediately sent to the United States of Ame rica ; treating them at the same time with every mark of distinction. Before I proceed in my narrative, it may be well to enumerate those remarkable occurrences which have most strongly marked the nvolotion of Vene zuela :—first, the establishment of the Junta Su prema ; secondly, that of the Congress General, which succeeded it ; thirdly, the Dictatorship of General MIRANDA; fourthly, Caraccas being taken possession of by MONTLVERDE; fifthly, the Congress of New Grenada sending General BOLIVAR to in vade the country, in which he succeeded ; sixthly, the battle of La Puerta, which gave to the Royalists, under the command of BOVEi, possession of Caraccas. The Junta Suprema was not acknowledged by the Governor of Guayana, nor by the Military Com mandant of Coro, one of the Departments of the Province of Caraccas ; nor by Don N. MIGARRS. Governor of Maracaybo. From Coro and Mira caybo, all the forces have issued which have nearly destroyed Venezuela. Conan* and Baines sent their Deputies to the Junta Suprema, but without obeying its decrees ; and by this conduct they left roo►n for the forming a plan of a Confederation, similar to that of the United States of North Ame rica, which few understood, and the greater number had not even heard of. The Patriotic Government immediately turned its attention to the Court of St. IMO% and asked the protection of England, sending Deputies to London for this purpose; but the only answer they received was, an assurance that the English would preserve a perfect neutrality with respect to the differences that existed between Spain and its Colonies, provided the Colonies continued to acknowledge Feunixop the Seventh. The Members themselves of the Junta Suprema informed the Regency of Spain and of the Indies, of ' the changes that had taken place at Caraccas ; openly declaring the fears of the pcuple, awl their reasons for establishing a Government, which should at the same time protect their own rights, and acknowledge those of FERDINAND the Seventh ; generously offer ing every assistance which Venezuela could give ro Spain for the support of the war against the Preach. - This conduct appeared only to irritate the Regency, who proclaimed all innovators of the old Government r rebels, and ail the Ports under the dominion of the Patriots in a state of blockade. Don N. CORTA• BARRIA was deputed to Puerto Rico, with directions to recall Venezuela to its former subjection. This representative of the Regency, first addressed him self to the Patriotic Chiefs, exhorting them to dissolve the Government, and promising that then the com plaints of the people should meet with redress. In consecpience of the negative given to his proposals, Don N. CORTABARRIA had recourse to other methods; spies, and emissaries of every description, were sent to all parts of Venezuela, with the intent of effecting a counter-revoltition. Threats, promises, and even deceptions of every kind were tried for this purpose. While the attention of the Regency WAS thus en gaged, the Junta Suprema published a regulation for ebusing the Members, who were to form the Con gress General, by the voice of the people ; and com. mantled that an attack should be immediately made on the Department of Coro, where the Royalists had fortified themselves under the command of Don N. CZBALLO, assisted by the Governors of MAracaybo and Puerto Rico, and their number increased by the . Spanish emigrants from Caraccas. The Marquis of Tono, at the bead of nearly $OOO armed men, invaded the enemy's territory in the month of November, 1810. All gave way before him, even to the suburbs of the city of Caro, where the enemy made the strongest resistance. An extent of more than forty leagues of wild and sandy coun try divide the cities of Coro and Carora, from whence the Venezuelan army had marched. Genera) 'Mao neglected to station his forces so as to preserve inter course with the city of Capra. By this neglect all communication was cut off ; and provisions for his army failing, he was under the necessity.of making ~ retreat, which he did not effect without many diffi culties, which were only tO be conqUered by force of arms. General Tono's expedition failed ; but it served at least to prove, for the first time, that Ca raccas could furnish an army that could fight or fall with valoir, and was neither deficient in discipline or courage. The General Congress, composed of nearly fifty Deputies, assembled at Carucci's the 2d of March, 1 1811, and opened its Sessions by nominating three persons who were conj.,nctively to enforce the laws; the next step they took was to declare Venezuela in. depencNot of every foreign Power. The hostile mea sures of the Regency of Spain, the despotism of the CiTil Stagiatcatm ; which the Court of. Madrid made THE EVENING STAR.. LONDON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1815. Last night we received a letter from Cornnna, which ought to have reached us by the last Mail, but owing to an obliteration in the address was miscar. ried. In theabsence of later accounts it cannot fail to prove interesting to every friend Gf justice—to every enemy of oppression, in as far as it shews that up to the latest moment before the sailing of the packet, no certain accounts had reached Corucoa of any personal calamity having befallen the brave man who has so patriotically devoted himself for the de liverance of his country. It is true that /the Captain-Genet-11 Sr. MARCO spread a report, on the m rnir of the 24th Septem ber, that Fortuna had been taken g but it is equally true, that this report was by no means generally cre dited: on the contrary, it was conceived to be a rase desaerre Oil the part of the Ferdinaadists to intimi date the people, and to induce them to support the servile& The conclOding period of ourCorrespondent!s Letter deserves particular notice. The few military who had lent their assistance to Sr. Masco, who bad expected (probably on assurances of that hind given to them by the lying friars) that they would be joined by reinforcements of troops from other parts, had nut on the morning of Sunday the 21th, seen a single soldier come to their support. This looks well ; and our apprehensions, though not quite dissipated, have been lessened by the receipt of the subjoined letter. ' We have very great satisfaction in being able ou this occasion to state, that, respecting the atrocious acts of the restored Government which have at length roused the victims of its oppression and cruelty to acts of resistance, the conduct of the PRINCE RRORNT Of BRITAIN and his Ministers has been precisely that which a generous, tree, and high-tninded people would have wished—exactly that which, they will, approve. Ever since the commencement of thew lawless acts; that is, ever since the restoration o. FRRDINAND, Sir Hoene WILLA:URIC, our Minister at Madrid t has never ceased to reolonstrate against the cruelty exercised towards the Patriots who had so nobly exerted themselves arias& the tyrant who had usurped the throne of N A L n i and the roost marked displeasure of Of gallium* wig intimated to those British °Seers who at first lent execute the arrests ordered by the ill.adv, NAND. Indeed we have every reason to Sir Homes present visit to this country is with Ministers those measures which they best calculated to put an end to the present system. We cannot think that the•revolt of Poi entered into their contemplation; but we suaded that hi: is Me belt, the only radical plan be devised to put the Spanish people in security against future oppression. It is ever, in which they cannot take a direct at all events they are under no necessity t( the insurgents. PRIVATE LE rTER. CORUDINA, ISXPT. 23, EIGHT OT!GC: I wrote you from hence on the 19th, which sailed for England on the same da: ago arrived the Frederic packet from En; I find is ordered to sail again to•morrow mean, by this conveyance, to put you i of the intelligence which has since real the movements in other parts of this well as those which have passed ender ar.! such as may transpire up tr the p^r• putture. On Tuesd :y the 19.14 my letter., a proclamation WAS read, in Me King and Constitution, ordering an illu that and the u.vo following nights, wlicl t•.O. place. On Wednesday was public clantation, of which I eaclose a cop , STAR of the 30th ultimo,] and the Ferrol marched into the town, havinj insurrection ; the regiment of Mondonedo at four o'clock on Thursday morning, there bei ni previously in the place, the regiments of Lugo arc Santiago, and the artillery, all of whom, except :.co: twenty Officers of the artillery, joined the system o Po 'ier ;it is pretty certain t h at these latter fr; equally disgusted with the tyranny which h e • given rise to this movement, and are r!:ady to 'pia i submission to a better constitution ; but one c f thy! little piques which frequently mar the best concaw flans, has operated to induce theist to witlilie. their support from the present me.; ure ;it pencil that in the arrangements wL:ch led to the R volution, they were nut consulted ; and to this.ir cumstaace, and this only, is attributed ciesa wardness. Yesterday morning, at two o'clock, 800 men a% seven pieces of artillery, marched for Sai,ti !t. telligence having been received that the tror, were wavering in their determinations; doubt' sb hosts of Monks and Friars in that city (the Mcu of Spain) have ii,fluenced the troops in some met. sure ; of the result of this expedition nothing is ya being forty English miles from hence; btu is rumoured this evening, the force which vis at Santiago has met them on tn, road, and that Pr• lier has been taken prisoner. This m ruing w 4 ushered in with all the appearances of a cl.ty of um: as early as sis o'clock, the imp, remaining in e? town were in movement, and shortly after most a them left it; but whether tf4 carry into effect the de. termination expressed in the manifesto, or with : view to retire from the scene, is not yet mown; thit was immediately followed by loud Viva:, and the old Captain-General, St. Marcy, whu had been ins. prisoned by Porlier in the castle of San Anton, was released, and brought in triumph through the tow 3 by his friAnds ; then succeeded a scene of confosio: which I shall not soon forget—eari sui panics of VI ' and market women parading the streets in one part; some with flags in another part, headed by a small party of troops with drums and trumpets; others Again preceded by some person bearing a relizioul emblem, all loudly crying; Long five the King rul ti .Religion—( Viva el Rey y la Religion)—and by el most violent language and gestures, compelling eval on.. to take off their hats and join in the cry: unt continued till about noon, when the town gt4Litulif became tranquil, and has continued so diming the remainder of the day; in the course of the Arnie I have seen various officers conducted by small to ties of soldiers to prison, being or the insurrection! party, who have not been able to escape 'rem the royal party. Another illumination has been OP Jared through the town. The preparatory crowds of people walking in the streets, pill° dancing the tasdango with castanets, the intend° ringing of bells, and discharge of fire.works, is 211 that is interesting; 'tor is 'Bete Any reason to Ore' hensl any kine at tumult. I have walked this evelog sound the Alitoseyda or ramparts, %inch are tweed by the, troops who rem lined behind this mnrningi being is number about 500, of Ali arms, ens Fit , Mamended by the artillery offices Se" mentioned; the gates are all shut, bridges up, id no Person is permitted to leave the town on pry account. All the vessels in the harbour have been cldrif examined arid sv itched, it is supposed in the 13 0 9 e ° f finding p 'flier concealed ; but it is pretty remind:it he m itched yesterday morning at the head Of il.e tronkbi for Santiago. Flom the windows of 01 room, which command a view of toe harbour, I have . seen the boats. plying from one ship to occasionally going to me castle of San Auto (tvi." ll status on an isoLted rock at the entrance of the . boor) apparently to place there some prison's,. Toffs day, to= the first time, toe mars have ,Betas then' selves ip the streets, Posher having placed glaPij t heir aid ts, vised rrtt ;c believe ti is to ars4r,, may t!, ent Ponttert ev er we are p , r 'pen that c r 4 situatio n 0 i is oi,e, 4. 7 ect part—E:; to act az 4 i r% nt, b, by a vete. ty: two hoe r! ngland, able; r ; 1 therefv t , in posr,essi n! ached m e , 0 . kingdom, a , my own er ; r:osl of its d e I 1)31 closTd its dr ? name f ne :h accor.lic z : l ished t!!e p m . py, [See ti marines free ng joined tilt sued° cam e it g. there hein i s of Lugo arc a, except :.bol• 1 the system o ese latter iy which he ::itdy to pia ut one c f the!. best tamale( to witlihs.. tbabasiiiof its colonial system, .the hope 01 !hiding both energy and ability to resist the attacks of the Regency, and the .expectation that Fenatiann the Seventh could not return to Spain, were the unitea causes of this declaration, of which Don N. COAT*. JARRIA availed himself, to keep in motion various springs of rebellion that were already in preparation ; and in consequence, on the 11th of July, a conspi racy burst out at Caraceas, that gave serious alarm to the inhabitants. • Inspired by patijotic zeal the people took up arms, and the conspirators, who were chiefly Spaniards from the Canary Islands, were attackcJ, routed, and taken prisoners. At the same period of time the emissa ries of CORTABAWA succeeded at Valencia, which was forty leagues distant from Caraccas. Valencia declared far the Royalists, who fortified themselves in the city, but General MIRANDA. with five thou sand men, besieged die city, and took it by storm. It is necessary to observe that many other conspira cies had previously been stifled, and that Government had generally contented itself with banishing the con spirators. Don N. USTARIS and Don N. Role*, re spectable persons in Caraccas, resolved by means of publications, and by supporting a correspondence with the interior of the country, to thew the advan tages that were to be derived from a Federal Go vernment. This seemed to interest every one. The enthusiasm spread to New Grenada ; and the Con gress of Venezuela offered to the people a Constltu bon which resembled in fundamental principles that, of the United States of America. These States flou rished under the fostering care or their Government, and the hope of reaching an equal degree of perfec tion silenced every argument in favour of any other Constitution, the only tine indeed of which the semi. vent of America furnished any examplP. All prospered at Venezuela in the beginning of the year 1812. The Goverument was respected, the military force sufficient to support it, and the public , mind unanimous. Industrious foreigners flocked from every part to fix their residence in a country, where, under the protecting care of imild govern ment. they could enjoy their different religious opi nions unmolested. Commerce was flourishing : that with England was particularly favoured and pro tec•ed ; to give it more eecouragernena a reduc don of four per cent. was made in the Custom house duties, in favour of English manufactures. The departments of Merida and Truxillo were se para ed from the province of Maracaybo, and united to the Confederation. and General MoahNo was on the banks of the Onmooko, with three thou sand men. ready to invade Guayana, whose inhabi tants v desirous of being treed from the oppres sion of the Spanish troops—when. alas 1 this posses. don, and seeming pros: , ect of continued prosperity, was destroyed by an earthquake, w . ..ich happened on the 26th of March, 1812. Many cities were ruined; disorder and contention again arose among the people, and a split of famed- Itism but st out, which did more hurt at Venezuela than could have been done had the country been in vaded by thirty thousand Spanish troops. As this event has been the source of all the misery that has oppressed Venezuela : and as its influence has ex tended even to New Grenada, I with to relate it more at large than my first plan seemed to allow : bat the imyretance of the subject will, I trust, excuse the digression, especially as a detailed account of this fatal catastrophe has not, I believe, yet a i •peared in Europe. v. C. Octobers,