Star. — London, England, 1815-12-28 00:00:00

i \ lhcennbi r, 1 . 4 I :r. DUBLIN, DECEMBER 23. ADIMESS REGEN NEW VOLUME (Cr! 9th) or this Weekly Novspaper It commence with the new Year. It con tains no Atlverti4enivnis of aev sort, open or concealed ; and r•sn,i:s entirely. in ail.lithel t' the News if tt r Week, of politi c criti::.l, and rn , seellanrohe Itssays;—the" first written in a Iteaions of English liberty; rat: : , i...zonrl on Theatrical Sub i the third do Men and Ai:timers in several, with a particio i.ye to Ow interests of sound Poetry. The whnie, right or olg,1:.1, an ambhsen of amicii•ating the judgment of pus,erity. Es:twiner Al.:Me:aim:, Covent Gardcii, I‘,lr. O'CoNxru, said, tit ,t it was his duty to re rnrt to the As.iociAticn, from the Cvmmh:ce ap pointed to confer v..::h Henry P.trn-11 with reTect to the Atidiess to hi.; Itoy.il I ligha,ss the I" , ;nce Re vnt. The sentiments at Sir Henry r:tine'd '!;at subj-ct were co.lveyed in n letter to one ~f the Mem ber ct the Committee, sv!,:ch 1:e begged leave to read. Elto The. en, im 5. " Du.su Stn.— As I 5... e by The Chronicle, that it t*; irtethkd to s to Ole Aisociat'on a tti.:n from me, :tr.:;iltts that such a c. 111 s!lould be s:::iLtly crtdined to the stit)ject of t;;:, F r pi Address to the Regent; and in t.rder iii-0 7 1 :my niisondemaniiing in respect hmy (mi. ti,ol ot• the expediency of ti: tt Address, I this o ; •p.)riunity of re-stating the t on which I have tezommonded it. 4' I think, that when a hotly of ttle people, forming sr, I rge a part of ti:e power and ropulatim of these kingdoms, s-eks trom the laf,;isl.lture 04.1 redress of grievance of such ! , :iaAnitude as the exclusion from the e , :joyment of the most eLscutiai rights of the con stitution, they ostght to sukn.:t their case to each of the three branchzs of it. " If they do not* address the Executive, they do not give it the opportunity of originating, in the manner the mist effectual, the proper measure of re tie', nimely, a Gnvernment measure. " If the Address shall contain a request to the Regent, to recommend the situation of the Catholics to t'.e consideration of Parliament, the Minister will lleCCSSAtily lay such an Address before the Cabinet for their advice in respect to the answer to he given to it ; and in this way, that portion of the Cabinet wi:ich is favourable' to the Catholics, will have an oc:pottuoity of exerting their influence in the manner the most likely to prove of the greatest service. The Catholic question will thus become a Cabinet ques tina : all the various considerations which at this mcanent point oe,t the expediency of a final settle ment of it, in the abs:nce of any one reason for fur th:r continning to postpone it, *oust give great weight to the rpinien of those Members of the Cabinet who Lave already sopportcd it, and may possibly induce t:lct I.linister himself to think the time is arrived, when, according to his own acknowledgment, he can Li!oseil abandon all further oppocition, and give his riT:l t;) render ti: : measure of redress as satisfactory as Fracticah;e, to th , se who are to be hanetited by it. " Again, if the Adiress shall contain, as no eotibt it will, a spirited but respectful appeal to th.. ReF.ent, it may ii-lucc him to re-consider what has been the conduct of the Cat:r.dics enr.ng the period be has disc - noir:a t;,e i.l the Executiv.. : and he may thus learn. that they have done coshing to tier.; ::.ern e.i Cait eri ction whir b be was dispose) to give :ten ka .I!rp, a new 4V—Trilistr.3tina to succeed c:::t Poic r 1. 64 If also 0;1 s. - .1) - ;‘.act et sezuriti..4, the ..I.tiefress shall explain, that the apposition v,ttich the Cattiolics hive made to then has nut is any perverse or prejudged vies.v of the qu..stiou, or in any disin- • clination to conciliate or satisfy adverse opinions; but that it has been the result of an apprehension, that these securities wt.re. ‘i be so framed as ta shake the Cetholic rel Lion, anti to gibe the Crown an inflaencc which wotild he laconsistent with the constituional rights and Vier ties of the suhlect ; this explanation would place the question on such grounds, as would remove much of the repugnance that prevails at this time, even to give the main question of Emancipa tion a calm and dispassionate hearing. There could be no objection to the accompanying such an expla nation with a declaration, that the Catholic Body can never consent to any conditions, which shall in any way injure their religion or compromise their liberties. " Tr, gye to the proposed Address its fullest ef fect in attaining its object, namely, the favourable reception of the Catholic Petition by Parliament, it is necessary that it should he represented by dele gates, capable of giving to Ministers, and to the icailmb Parliamentary friends of the Catholics, the most satisfactory explanations of the extent of what is required to be conceded, and of the best method of framing a Bill of Relief. " Such explanations would remove almost all the elifiirultlea in the way of a Legislative Measure; as viewr have arisen, for the most part, either from the misrepresentations of that class of opponents, who practise every artifice to defeat the object of the Ca. %holies, or front the misapprehensions of those who have had no o:iportunity of perfectly comprehending the cireurnstaro:es as they reafly are, under which the Catltotics present themselves as claimants upon the jostict at the Legislature. " Having said so much, in compliance with the requco. whicn has been made of me, to communicate my scno:netirs to the Association, on the measures propi.r to b adopted, in respect to a new application to Parliament, I now take the liberty of offering a few reir.. rki on an advertiserwro I have read to.d ty in Chroniae. of a special Meeting of A— so:titan:l, to :dice into its conflagration a communica tion from Rome. As this, I find, rtl4tes to the letter of Cardin:ll Litt*, I conclude that zhe ciiscuscion which it is in. tendekl to havo ul on it will be, in point of bct,a new • diz.zo;sioa of the question securities. If that is the CaSr'. di) not liesi•oat , .± to .apros great regtet that it shokrld ap: ear a2visl!,ie to stir a:* .{!) tl,.tt trAeatloll in any way Wilk .vtr, until it shall be revulaily and duly bri' ught forward (it ever it s!iall tie) eitlwr by Government or by h ;Mt: VO' u of Parliament ; h in the firs: place, a:ly such discuss;on must inevitably counteract, in a great , Irgree, the tendency of ad dressing the itegent tr, ropr..ve the public opinion ; and, secondly, because, atter all that has been so often set forth in tereand Resolutions, there can be no necessity for an) further esp9sition of the rat tirmnts of the Catholic body. As, in point of fact, the question of Entnneipa. tian las been conceded by tht House of Commons. in principle, it appears to me that the benefit of public 'discussions has been completely obtained, and that what remains to be done is more properly the business of private and aixticable communication -between the heads of the Catholics and their leading • Parliamentary friends.. The whole of their efforts condiwted in the most cautious and able manner are wanting to secure complete success; and therefore it more than probable that every step which is take; of a difn•rent character will create some new .liffi• culty. I give this opinion very freely and very de cidedly, became the opportunity I have had of iseighing all circumstances with great deliberation, and of communication with the best friends of the Catlialics, has fully convinced me of its correctness. The more I the means of judging of the prol'a impres:ion - Allich will be produced by si:nply confining' the Inca:Aires of the Ass"ciation to tecom rani:ling applications to be .made to each brans.h of the Legislature (to be supp-oe,i by the assioaace 4)1 a well selected deputation), the more I am satisfied that such a course will, at the Mlle flost effec tually put down the off its which ate mlliing to dt • feat its objects, and most pow. &illy coniiibute to induce ail the friends of Emancipation to make a peat exertion in the ensuing Session to carry that me isure. It is to this conviction I have to refer you for my apology in so earnestly pressing my opinion, and ,so strongly opposing that of others, which ap pears not to coincide with it. " Believe me, my dear Sir, yours truly, (Signed) " Q. PARNELL." Such were the sentiments of Sir Henry Parnell, and his sentiments deserved the highest respect and attention. He was the sincere and unaffected friend of religious liberty—anxious upon princ.ple, and with no other motive than that of doing goon and serving his native country—for the full and unqualified eman cipation of the Catholics of Ireland. No man understood this question better, even amongst themselves—no other Protestant understood it so well in aU its bearings—in the perpetual and irk. some cppressions which the Penal Code inflicted— and in the only adequate modes of administering re. lief. There could he no doubt that the Catholics would cheerfully follow the advice of Sir Henry Par nell; and they must be blind to their own interests and insensible to the value of such a friend, if the tone, temper, manner, and language of their Peti tions did net accord with his opinions. The draft of the Address to the Regent is in pre paration ; it will be ready to be submitted to the As. sociation on Satuillay in the. ensuing week. It will contain a respectful but manly appeal to the good sense and justice of the Executive Government...-. 'rnere will be nothing in it sycophantic, mean, or cringing. It would deserve to be rejected if then e were. But it. will contain an abstract of the facts which de. monstrate the treachery of the original enactment of the penal laws—the impolicy, and, above all, the in instice of their continuance—and that in terms of the profoundsespect which is due to his Royal High. ness, who is now in fact the first M.igistrate in the citate, and the rightful Governor of these re the Address will again :(f.nd us ail o i lp.irttinity of assisting the grand principle of ,:t i:onsci;:nte, that principle %Ono), by bi,:ng .(l l)y Gi,vern. meat, and carnet into pracLicill . e s c.ition, would give fieedom and the Coastiiiiiioa to the C.ithniics of lit kid, ly b e.oi a ji. wont I afF.rd priit:ct:on, 4 e. cority, equal to the prsecuted Plotest aati the Cui:tini r . t of Ett: Hi.' hen concluiei! by moving a V. to of Thanks to Sir klenry Parnell fur his very kind and eminently useful cunimunicati,.n, which was of course adopted unanimously. A discussion, or rAthzr a conversation, arose upon the most advisable mode of raising the necessaty funds. Mr. Mihnn having left the Chair, and Captain atlwey being "c,tlled thereto, the p articular thanks of the Meeting were voted to Mr, Mahon for his pryer conduct in the Chair, The Meeting then adjourned to eleven o'clock next Thursday. QUEBEC PAPERS. QUEBEC, NOVEMBER 16. War it seems is again about to recommence in our own vicinity. Hostilities have certainly recommenced between the Americans and the Creek Indians, and it is also said that the former are preparing for an In. dian war in the spring with the nations inhabiting the country on the upper part of the Mississippi, MONTREAL, NOVEMBER BILLANCHOLT ACCMINT.•-• By a gentleman who arrived in town last evening from New York, it is reported that a vessel was lost in Lake Ontario in sight of Niagara, on the 29:h ult. and that nearly 50 persons on board, (principally merchants of Upper Canada) perished. Our informant learnt the fore going from a Gentleman direct front Niagara, who intended Ks have taken passage in the unfortunate vessel for Kingston, but arrived at the place of her embarkation a few minutes too late tor a passage, but in sufficient Coe to see her overtaken by a squall, and lost in the waves. The merchants being on their way for this place for the purpose of purchasing g with and nuki ng re - Mittaiices to the merchants iwre, the c.;..jtcture that many thousands of pounds poperty have been lost will be readily conceived as ccoreCt. By an article in this paper, under the Albany head, it will he seen the a sloop and schooner have been •pst on Lake Ontario; The sloop, we think, is the one here alluded to. I ALBANY, OCTOBER 3). In Supreme Court this mincing :he several suits of Is.urc Bronson, agsinst the banks of this city, for the payment of si ecte li r thtir respective notes, wete withdrawn. Novestuert 3.--Arri.tc:TlNG A CIDISVTA.----On Tuesday last the schorit e r sn ow , o f Oswego, sailed from Less aid) so per l / 4 ons. on board, in n, women avid ; the sci.oonce i s supposed to have been upset ia a stirred' i t Thursd.iy night, and en, y person oil ivbird to have perished. The schooner bas since been drivcn on shore near Pultneyvillc. A sloop at the same time drove ashore, without I soul on board. THE We understand that an establishment of this kind in London, is in train, which promises to prove highly beneficial to the Public. The name Bazaar, as many of our Readers know, is given in the East to places of great extent, divided into compartments for the different merchants. Those for the sale of fine and valuahle commodities, (as jewellery. silks, watches, &c. tcc.) are covered with lofty cielings or domes, admitting light from above. The Bazaar of .Taitris is of such an extent, that it has more than once afforded cover fur thirty thousand men ranged in order of battle. Such an expanded establishmeo• cannot, of course, be in contemplation; hut from what we have heard of the plan, it is sufficiently ex tensive, and c moot, we think, be ton highly appre ciated. The object in view is to enable ingenious arid meritorious individuals, whose narrow circumstanc:s keep them in obscurity, and preclude the pos of their exhibiting for sale, in shops of tle , :r own, the various productions of their industry, to brioy; them f Orly to was ket, and at the least possible ex pense. The premises are large, dry, commodious, well lighted, warmed, ventilated, and properly wateled— expenses with which the temporary occupier has 0 farther concern than what he may contribute iu his small daily rat. The tenant will pay only :Itcorcli3:4 to the space and time he may occupy. Extensive and commodious counters are prepo-ed, and these, with a proportionate space behind them, art: to t• . let out, by the font-length of c , ionv.r, at the .midi daily rent of three penes per foot. It is iwpossible to anticipate the advantages which such an establish ment will afford to many industrious families, who have not means sufficient to enable them to (enlist premises fit for public business. When their latl,! stock is sold off their expences terminate—the prepares a new supply—they kr, , w u!,-re they may be again accommodated, and where no other recnni mendation will be wanted but that of an irreproath able character. In point of general accommodation, the colleiting the various productions of art and ingenuity into twe focus, and the civility and beneficial rivalry excited by such an as , emblve, the new establi.hment will re• semble those in.the Last; but here they cease to have any thing in common, and in every other point of view the Bizaar, like the British System of Education, ult., British and Foreign Society, and the.; lying-Banks, will lay the founda tion I , f a new Sraem, which in a few years will ex tend itself tvit only to the large cities in the I3ritish dominions, bat throughout Europe. In a day or two we licpte to be able to state something Inure particular on this novel but highly interestiog subject. C4a.CVI74. AIL? 14. Ti.E SIKHS AND TIM Gooaknas.--Though the regular troops are returning from the scene of tl:eir Late operations, th: corps of Sikhs still remain in the Hills. Thouith a handsome race ol • they are tar inferior as siddiers to the Con ; of this 3 proot was given on the llth of Marr!; in t! ft stork:l ,l e at Jilieend, when they teceivcd ticts-ore ks n from the m , untaieeers. The Sikhs Wer.2 in nom! , sr about 1200, in a good position on the S.W. bark of the Guniltha. They are tall, tine lurking men, armed with sabres and matchlocks, and, to use e words of our correspondent, on viewing their long flawing beards and large sabres, and hearing their assertions, one might think they would eat the devil.' The General had very good of th..: inten tion of umur Singh to try to dislodge thesJ people, and particular cant were given them to prepare for the attack. This injunction they d•ssisised, leader the impression that it was suggestel by a laudable desire to keep them alert. Perhaps, too, they thought that any extraordinary precautions would have the appearance of fear ; a feeling, which in the sequel, they evinced in no trifling degree. A party of Goorkhas, in number about 400, descended from Nahum in the dusk of the evening, and approach ing the stockade, remained quiet till the moon had gene down. The Sikhs were in perfect security, not more than 800 occupied the stockade, which was in. tended to be the night post of the whole party ; and the rest, like their comnanions on duty, enjoyed a comfortable state of repose, scattered about in their adjoining cantonment. The Goorkh is, divided into three bodies, gave tie assault. One division di,. charged a volley, another stormed the stockade and put the Silos to the sword. while the thud fired the cantonment. '1 he surprise was complete; all was flight, contusion and dismay. The appalling shouts of the Gourkhas, which, when uttered by large bodies, and re-echoed by tl:e mountains. seem fit to " rend hell's concave," preveotail the possibility oil any formation or attempt to rally. The Sikhs within the stockade made a feeble s resistance ;• their chid was slain at the first onset. and 250 men felt the lOmrkha sabre. Of these about sixty wretches sill • vived and were brought to Col. Arnold's camp the nezt day. No succour could be sent from Rimini , guile or the idjoining posts % nor could any detach. meat have been useful in the darkness of the nieht and the confusion of the fugitives. The Goorkleis burnt the stockade, carried off the trophies, and wer e seen at the dawn of day slowly ascending to Malmo. In 'he course of the morning. scattered parties of the Sikhs were seen all around at the distance of two and three miles. They desired not to be re-posted in the scene of their late defeat, which they averred to be (and with some appearance of truth) a hatintA and Most unlucky place. The loss of the Chief who was killed in the stockade was the chief subject of regret. He had. while under the command of Lieutenant Ross, distinguished himself on the heights of Bela:- poor, and was, a few days previous to this disaster, invested with an honorary dress :—.be was generally well respectei. `FRENCH" PAPERS: .. .f PAR'S, DECEMBER 21. ' s Some persons hive been astonished, and ha7c perhaps, even complained of the slowness of a famou• cause which has just been d:c;ded, with the mat, as ful solemnities. Tnis slowness arose from the r: renew observance of ail the forms from the legal au , hority, from which it was judged the less proper tc Jevia•e, the more celebrated the criminal was, and do more evide►;t the crime. The•sa+ne regularity, 6 , same attentio►, to forms, had !tee) shewn in the tri of M. LivAlette : there were no delays but those justice and the law. 'l' he pronlncieinn of the sentence was transm: , :ed on bl.lnday to the Keeper of the Sells, %V I M rk ceived, at tha sante tiny., di , : demand Of a dal.% (Jursis). The following dty this dem.:nd W 44 ..elited to his Majesty. There could :.ot then result, any turn, given to this necessary and 1eg.41 de lay till yesterchiy, the very day on the prisnr,: aboconled from justice or tram clemency. T7oe followi3g are Fiore details of the , !.cape of M I.2valette, %vhi:ll we.can answer for as bein 7 exaLt Yesterday, at halfpaq Ore:, o'clncic, lam?. d Livalette, accompanit.d ty:tial by her clang!ltt: of to i, years of age, and by a ternt: arttndan; entered the Ciaciergcrie to taro: Wli li..r .kt ::even t':.• daughter aed her femme d chanwr them..elves at tha Krate to L....ye tt'e p•is3r. both snpprlti.ig a parson v::ro F.:errod tc. he :.I!:tze. perms, dre !,e.l tLe !Act, c1,4t1; , ..s as MaLlame de Lavalette wore when she 4, 1; Conc:errrie, wrarp:d up in A fur chi, ; the bead covered with a bar, aad a hara:kerai:f he fort; the eyes. Ail the nin rs of t"e prise s vier present. Aecustn'u to sc these three trotrini ;i•;t7 die prison cv.:ry evening, pen ip. m , ,ved by for Opt unlit-tune and bad heath of Madame d Lavalette, tht:y ne2i,txted to assure themselves of th identity of her person. Three minutes afterwards the gaoler went into t! room of the prisoner. How was he surprised to hat there the wile instead of the husband ! a Air, Ma dame, (said he, as she has &dared herself), wha have you doiie ? Yon have ruined me." She cor jures him not to make any noise, fearing lest her hu: band should be overtaken if he is pursued ; she hold the gaoler fast by the arm, and tears the de •ve of hi coat. The gaoler, is desptic, tuns to the thole, in forms the ke• per of the prison of what has happened. and calls them to hasten ia all directions to bed. th prisoner. They direct their ci.nise sesoal die ercu• ways. Two of them meet upiat tie Pont Neuf tl. same sedan-chair in %.:tich Madame Lavalette ter: used to come to the rrison, and in nnich she can. yesterday. They immediately stop it, but the pri soner had already quitted it. As soon as the escape of Lavalette seas known er..iers vale given to *hilt the bArticr;, ani they re inained shot this morning at 7 o'cloct:. Nuinetou , researches Late been rt..tc.e iu 1 3 .iiis, espteAses have been sent to all ports of 1:mgdo111, u, d.ttributt every while the description of the pris.otr's Immediately af4r the news of ips tt.t. MuUster and the Prefect ut P& live rtpaiiel to tta Conciergerie. His F.'scuilLio.) interrogated all the of the prism, lie ordero.l the ga hr dr.d a turnkey to be arrested. Tar ;:.,: it ell.. ku Lave iJCZI * wilty of negligence, toe. st.cond is su ut hav ing facilitated the prisoocr's escape.--oheraal dts Aida, :::::11.1eccmlfr. PARIS, DECEMBER 42. There are contradi,(Jry reports about Lir:lleac. Some say that the Lstafttces sent into the Deyart• 'rents with an accurate ees,-r. r .,,,n of his pets( a, hlve been successful in apprehending h•m, at:Li anal he has actually arrived at Paris. Others say that he is not yet taken, but that there is every reason to be sieve that he will be. The greatest acivity is used by Government for the purpose of discoverinvt and retaking him. The barriers were again opened yes• terday morning, but great precautions are used %%ith respect to carriages leaving or arriving at Paris. — The gaolers of the Conciergetie have been strictly examined by the Prefcct of Police. They all agree, we hear, in declating, that he est Ted in women's clothes, and in the sedan chair which brought Ma. datue Lavalette into the prison. The Budget for 1816, which will be presented on S Iturday to t'..e Chamber of Deputies, has been for :e•o:e days the subject of conversation. We are as. cured that the view of our expenses and receipts will be more sa:istactory than circumstances seemed to give reason to expect. Those who are skilled in financial transactions already manifest by anticipa- Lin a s ai ot confidence which is felt by the corgi• we funds. Some assert that the whole u,nu e 1 exoensii, including the charges resulting from the war, will amount only to 91)0 millions. and that ..ogeinciits have bees made for its successive din. notion in future years. It appeArs that ao annual debt, which amounts but to G 8 miloons of annuities, will only be augmented by the quantity of inscriptions created by the convents n% zubsidiny to the Treaty of the 20th of November, viz. :—.3,500,000 francs for the payment of English creditors. 2J, A like number for the creditors of other natiosis. SJ, Seven millions, being the security for the o tact paymtnt of the eentribu' lion of 7u(),000,000, and to which there perhaps will be no occasion to recur. The Minister of the Finances has required a stir•