Star. — London, England, 1818-08-04 00:00:00

$ I ~ 1 • 1 1 1 1 , .. . I 1 , ;1 , i ; !I, 1 1 L 1 i . , I : i l i i 1 ) 1 I st 1 1 i 1 i i I . . t . . i t . • I , 1 1 I I 4 t i i 4 ~, .., I) i . ,:..4. ,t! p,. * 1, , A THE EVENING STAR . LONDON. TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1818. THB FUND& PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE (*LOU Reduced 78{—Cans. 77i i—for Aec. 771} SI per Cents. 8811-4 per Cent. 970 Navy 105 k 106—Bonds 90 92 pre. Omnium * f dis.—Ex chequer Bills 18 20 pr. Yesterday the Pumas Ar.osta held a Privy Coun cil at Carlton House, when an Order was signed by his goyal Highness, proroguing for fifty-nine days the New Parliament, the Writs for the meeting of which were returnable this day. The termination of hostilities in India will not pro .bably be followed for some time by the dispersion of the Grand Army. It will necessarily have to keep the held till the country shall be completely settled, according to the new arrangements resuking from the treaties with HOLKAR and Scirrimt. The Go vsn:lon-Gtriaaat. was to the south-west of G'w*lior •on the 7th of January ; and the Madras Courier of February 24, citing the Calcutta Gazette, states, that he will pass the ensuing hot months at Gooruckpoore. It appears *at MEER KUAN submitted with SCIN• PIA, and Komar CA/LUR with HOLKAR. KURREEM KHAN and Castro° have abandoned their head quarters, and, pursued by many British divisions, are it once desperate'plunderers and miserable fugitives. The gallantry of our troops, in the course of these hostilities, is, we are happy to observe, likely to be rewarded by a very ample share of prize-money.— Two hundred camels laden with treasure, partly sil ver, belonging to the PEISUWA, are said to have alen into the hands of the Bombay troops ; and a private letter from Madras, of February 26, states, that Major GRANT, commanding the Mysore horse, had, in the capture of HOLKAR'S jewels, of which there were no less than fifty camel loads, realized so immense a booty, that the share alone of the Com mander-in-Chief, Sir T. Iltsnor, is estimated to be worth more than £lOO,OOO sterling. In the distribuean of the Prize-money taken in this campaign the Governor-General has appointed a new rule to be observed. Adverting to the peculiar and desultory nature of the warfare in which the troops are engaged, his Excellency, by general orders of the 9th December, ordained, that all lawful prize which might be captured from the enemy, should be consider:A as the property of that division only, by which, or by detachments from which, it might happen to have been seized. New York Papers to the 11th ultimo arrived this ninruing. The Spanish Ambassador, Don Lots D'Oens, is stated to have left Philadelphia for '%Washington on the sth of July, having previously received two dis patches from Spain, which invested him with full authority to .settle alI matters at variance between Spain and the United States. It was stated in some preceding Papers, that Don Or:ts had been super seded b: a M. Lr.nera, and that the latter had ac tually arrived at Philadelphia; but it would appear from our present intelligence that it had been so stated erroneously. Very probably M. LERNA was only a confidential messenger to Don ()N IS. The dispatches received by Don ONts from the Spanish Government of Pensacola, are said to deny that any aid or countenance was given by the Spa nish Authorities to the Seminole Indians. We ex pected as much, and should not be surprised to find it very satisfactorily proved that the Spanish Authuri•- ties are asserting no more than what is perfectly true. Tue persecution which these poor Indians have long experien:ed from the Republiccan back settlers, has notoriously been of the most dreadful description, and more than accounts for those savage excesses, which the :arc e:leans are pleased gratuitously to as cribe to the malicious incitement of their Spanish neighbours. They have been hunted down and shot wild leas ; they have not been treated as men, and now they are abused for retaliating like savages. Nor is this, we are sorry to say, the system of al few scattered settlers merely ; it appears to be a ge neral system, recognized as well by the people 'at large, as by the Government of the United States.' We should have been slow indeed to yield credence to such a charge against a people pretending to the character of civilized ; but when we find such an order as the following among the first acts of General Jaccsot4, after the taking of Pensacola, we can no longer doubt the fact : HEAD.QUARTERS, DIVISION OF THE SOUTH. " Adjutant-General's Me*, 23 mats W. of Pensacola, May 31. 1818. is Captain ?WOW, of the Territory of Alabama, is autho riz:3 and Instructed to raise a company of volunteer mounted men for the period of six ruonths, unless sooner discharged, to cz..nsist of two subalterns :and sixty privates, to be under his cammand, as Captain. As soon as Captain M'Girt raises thirty men, he will proceed directly to the Perdido, and scour the country between i• and blobile and Pensacola, putting to death (l ey hoer* worrier Mot could befvund, preserving the women and children, and delivering them to the Commanding Officer at Pensacola." Yet the General who i s sues this Decree for the cold-blooded massacre of every male Indian who may be deemed hostile to the Americans—who shuts them out from all quarter—from all mere, and com passion—who will only allow " women and children' to b preserved—is a man who presumes, in the name of his Country and Government, to complain to the Civilized World of " the horrors of:erase massacre! r The following Letter from the Havannah, of the 26th June, gives another, version of the Governor's reception of the American cartel with the late Go• vernor and suite : " HAVANNAH, JUNI ss: te This moment a small American schooner with a lag of truce, has arrived from Pensacola, bearing the late Governor and suite. Our Governor has in formed her that she will be admitted under her na tional flag, but does not acknowledge the truce. As might be expected, some little sensation and animo sky bursts forth among the individuals, but no hostile measures are noticed in the Government, which I am happy to inform you, lest apprehension might be en-. tertained relative to the safety of American property in this place. Business at this moment is somewhat stagnant." A Mail from Jamaica has brought us today papers and letters to the 21st of June. The Royal Gazette of the 13th of June states, that intelligence had been received there of the complete failure of the attempt• (of which our Readers have seen some indistinct notices) made by an Independent squadron on the settlement of Samana, on the coast oi St. Domingo. The squadron consisted of seven ves sels, .but was repulsed with considerable loss.— Several boats employed in the landing of troops were sunk, and a number of men were killed, wound ed, and taken prisoners. The grounds and object of this attack are not yet explained ; nor under what particular Republican authority the squadron acted. The Bay of-Sumana, as we learn from THOMSON'S Alcedo, has the advantage,' in consequence of lying on the windward side •of St. Domingo, over every other place in the island as a maritime post, which renders it capable of protecting the whole Gulf of Mexico, to which it is in reality the key. Accounts from the Spanish Main state, that Mr. . . ROBERTSON, who had been empleyed.by the Ameri can Government in surveying land over the Main, had been taken up as a spy, carried to Campearly, and there imprisoned. The Park Papers of Saturday arrived this morning. The Earl of NVESTMORZLAND is stated to have had on Thursday along audience cf the KING. Five per Cents. on Friday, 77fr. 60c. The following Is from our Private Lettor : " PARIS, JULY 30. " It would seem that the appearance of General Carmel at the Tribunal, which has excited such asto nishment, and so many conjectures, after the xeig.l•! . y reasons given by him for his absence, is simply an act of folly of his party, which knows not any other line of conduct. Every thing proves that the Gene., ral, who understands affairs better, notwithstanding his political threats, took flight from fear, on learn ing the arrest of M. de Songy ; and that he had no intention of returning so soon. He thought, very properly, that it would be much easier to make war at a distance. Some one of his, party holding the pen, the only formidable weapon of the ultra military, every morning w:ould have hatched a pamphlet, in which, as in the affair of Lyons, speaking of himself with audacity and vain boasting, of his enemies with abuse and contempt ; giving the lie direct to the facts! and proufs brought forward by his adversaries; pro•' miring justificatory documents ; rousing the passions, and setting all France together by the ears, he would have succeeded in imposing on fools, and in confusing, the :u air, a hich could not fail to be cleared up the moment the evidence was produced; and thus ren der doubtful even the clearest facts; so that the odi ous trials, to which all France looks forward with so much impatience, would have produced no satisfac tory result on the public mind. , "I'ltc• evil genius of the party has once more, hap pily for the cause of truth, led her votaries into a snare. The ill-advised friends of Cannel, it is said, went to him in his retreat —' What are you doing ;' I said they, By this conduct you ruin yourself and us. Why do you give such hold to our enemies? Let them say what they will ; we are certain that they know nothing, that they have discovered no thing ; take courage then, appear.' Cannel suffered himself to be led away—came and made a bravado before the Court—you know the rest. Justice, which prefers a few minutes examination at the bar to the whole artillery of cabinet literary leisure, has clap ped her paw upon the General ; all will now be cleared up. s , The marriage of the Minister of Police, the Count de Cazes, with Mademoiselle de St. Aulaire, is said to be fixed for the 15th of August, her father being returned to Paris, after making all the arrange ments with the King of Denmark and other Sove reigns, for the future dignity of his daughter and son-in-law. This news delights the Constitutionalists as much as it displeases the Ultras. What adds no little to the mortification of the latter is, that the Duchess of Brunswick is arrived at Paris, to be pre sent at the ceremony. These Gentlemen cannot con ceive how so great a Lady, a Sovereign Princess, would condescend to take a journey to Paris to attend at the marriage. Nothing can be more comic than the complaints of those Gentlemen, who declare that it is time to despair of the good cause, since all the Princes of Europe ceignent le domed rouge; for, with them, whoever is not Ultra Royalist must be a Jaco bin they do not even suspect that there can be such a thing as rational constitutional liberty ; and as they have no idea of it, the people will, we are persua ded, never think of investing them with power, in the hope that they will then go to school to learn how to govern according to law." We have received by a Mail from Hamburgh this forenoon, Papers to the 29th of July.—The only ar ticles of interest they contain relate to the affairs of Sweden. The remains of the late QUEEN were on the 16th ult. solemnly interred in the Ritterholms Church.—The Swedish Diet has resolved, that every Norwegian shall enjoy the rights of a native subject in Sweden, from the moment that his petition to that effect has been presented to the K INC, and a hope is expressed that there will be an equitable reciprocity on the part of the Norwegian Storthing.—lt was ex pected that the KING would in person close the Sit tings of the Storthing on the 31st of last month. Hamburgh Exchange on London, 26th of July, Cs-2. 33-5. Yesterday, at two o'clock, the PRI:CCE Rzertrt held a Court at , Carlton House, at which the Swedish Minister attended, who was introduced to his Royal Highness by Lord Viscount CA STL ER EACH, and con ducted by Sir ROBERT CHESTER, the Master of tl.c Ceremonies. His Excellency had the honour cf an audience of the RIXIIINT, when he delivered a letter, and was most4macionsly received. His Royal High ness held a Privy Council, which was attended by The Lord Chancellor, the Fire Lord of the Treasury, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the First Lord of 'he Admiralty, the Master of the Mint, the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Judge Advocate, &c Viscount CIiIETWYND attended as Clerk to the Council. The R EGPST gave audiences to the Duke of YORK and Viscount CASTLEREAGH. Sunday afternoon his Royal Highness gave a long audience to the Duke of WELLINGTON and Mr. WELLESLEY POLE. Captain KATER has been appointed by the Board of Longitude to measure the length of the seconds pendulum at the Shetland Islands. The expedi tion originated with his Majesty's Ministers, who have in the most liberal manner provided the finest instruments, and every thing that is neces sary to promote the object which it has in view. Captain KATER, accompanied by Lieutenant FRANK, of the Navy, arrived in Edinburgh on the 27th of June, and set off for Shetland on the Ist of July, in the Nimrod sloop of Nvar, commanded by Captain DARLING. After measuring the length of the pendulum at Uist, Captain KATER proposes if the weather is favourable, to go as far as the North Cape in Norway, with the view of determining the; length of the pendulum in the latitude of 70 degrees, or 71 degrees, and to repeat the same measurements in Norway in the latitude 0f66 degrees, or 66 degrees. lie then returns to the trigonometrical survey at Cowhithe, near Banff ; and having determined the length of the pendulum there, he performs the same experiments at Leith Fort, Clifton, Arbury Hill, and Dunnose. If the weather shall prove favourable, so as to ailow Captain KATER to make his observations in Norway, we shall have a series of results of the greatest importance in the determina tion of the true figure of the earth. Extract of a letter from New Orleans, dated Sd June, ISIS:—" An official communication has been rneived at the Custom House here from - the Treasury at Washington, stating that there will be no obstruc • tion to the admission of specie into America from the British West India Island-. after the 50th September next in vessels of war. Those, therefore, who wish to lodge funds here may avail themselves of such : i op portuntt.s." It rail be gratifying to the friends of humanity to learn, t':at the plan now before the Legislature for suspending the necessity of employing climbing•boys in cleaning chimnies, by the use of SMART'S machine, has been adopted in Pennsylvania with complete suc cess. The following, is an extract of a letter on this subject, lately received by Mr. MILIAN, DELL WYN, of Walthamstow, fr.:m Mr. I:or.Enr VAUX, of Phi ladelpllia : " The substkution of Smart's (Lund,-c) machine for sweep ing chimnies, for clitnbing-boys. is another benevolent contriv ance for which we are hide:stet' to you ; and I take plcuure in assuring thee of its 'introduction here with every prospect of soon removing from this employment to better service those un fortunate and unpitied little black children who have so lung excited the uotice of come of our citizens, travelling our streets in tattered garments during the most severe weather of our climate." By letters received from Nova Scotia, it appears also that Lord DAIIIOI7SIE, the Governor, has issued orders for bringing the machine into general use in that colony. "Jr.: Simrsort, the Superintendant of the chimney-swecpeis at Halifax, having reported to his Excellency that, after four months' continued use of the machine, he is induced to adopt it in pre ference to the former mode, convinced by practice of its utility, and that it is competent to perform every thing essential in the cleaning of chimnies. Thursday, rather a novel sight attracted the atten- Aim of many of the inhabitants of Gloucester, no thing less than a youthful couple (the gentleman not 21, and the lady only 16,) making the best of their way to the Blacksmith's lodge, at Gretnaireen. They arrived about ten o'clock, and incautiously waited breakfast, but had the start of papa, who. with two legal assistants, pist , ls, &c. came into town at eleven, and immediately proceeded on the North road ; near Kidderminster he came in view of the fugitives, and ultimately overtook them, when die capture was made; and, about eleven at night, the pretty dears were brought to Gloucester on their re turn to the neighbourhood of Taunton, there to meet the frowns of mama and two maiden aunts.—Delight !u! Misery ! Friday night the house of Mr.WILLIAM MARMOT, farmer, of Preston Deanery, near Worthington, was broken open by a gang of robbers, about nine o'clock in the evening, and robbed of plate, money, wearing apparel; &c. to a large amount. Mr. MARMOT was severely cut on the head, while one of the gang re peatedly cried out kill him, kill him." Informa tion being given a general pursuit was made, and the whole patty were taken on Saturday afternoon, fully identified, and conveyed to Northampton jail, amidst the loudest execrations of the inhabitants, to whom they have long been a terror. One of the party is William Minard, who left his hat at Mr. MAR mot's, and his name being in it, gave the clue. THE QuEEN; The neport to-day is, " that her lAJUI a good night, and continues a little bette r : , Arrangements were making on Saturday MAJEsry to take an airing out of Kew p a d some alterations in her chair and pol es , 1 ) : 1! did not t a ke place. --Frkkrifiliortriiere--yi Sunday, but we are sorry to sarthe Chzc s well enough, and her Assitort, we ate col ic say, was not quite so well on Sunday even!!: had been the three previous days, partici; Thursday, whr i s h e was better th an she!. since she had been at Kew. The Duke as Of CLARENCE went to Kew on Sunday, to of her MAJESTY, and dined with the GLOECE.STER and the Princess Ava'sta. and Duchess of KERT arrived at Kew , evening, soon lifter seven o'clock, horn on a visit to the Qtreax, and to take L.. 4 Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE. The following information is stated to quarter, in which, we fear, there is i!!fe pr of error :—" It is now upwards of a n.n re2: 31A;rsry has quitted her chamber ;,.1 a:1: ing the s‘h.,le of that time, nne or titlw r oi ctans has bet n in constant attendance, daily consultations are held among t!:e ro, sers of the Royal FamilF, on the st.ue 41 1 which there is but too much reason to a?, confirmed /,8d; •Ip4 peclot is. Synipt...m, have made their appeal .trace, some time.; , :n the extremities, ;ind the difficultv especially when in a Fs:comb:2.a poste,e, continually. At the sante time, her rieuccs a most distressing nervons wea..dss, treme lassitude, on the slightest rantim, an most incessant torpor. Of coe:se, ereic:se, so necessary in these complaints, is totaits• and the consequence is the worse, as he: ',V when in health, has always accuston.c.i daily exercise in the open air." Her MAJESTY is most anxious to return tot She is very ill accommodated at Kew: is small, and in no respect fit far the resideni family, much less for a Royal Invalid and hc hold. The rooms are sm ill, the passages : the only staircase is close to her MaJusrfs so that no person can move up or down wit turbing her, and there is not accommodati.: necessary attendants. The difficulty, hnwe her removal, since the least motion filing spasms by which she is afflicted. It is tit trying to take her Madt-sxv to Windsor by and preparations are making for that purpc will be tried in a day or two, if the Physic: approve of the attempt. For the information of such of our Reade: he ignorant of the private rights of the lloya as established by law, we give the subs!r:,::e STONE'S Commentary on die personal riBlit: rogatives of the QUEEN. The QUELN Consort, by vi:tueii her mar many prerogatives above other women. TI may purchase and convey lands, grant k copyholds, and do other acts of ownership the concurrence of the Kixo. She is also c taking a grant from the KING, which no is from her husband. In law she is consk feirte sole, as a single, not as a married sent the reason of this, according to COKE, is, Kt an, " whose continual care and study public good, may not be troubled and disc account tf his wife's domestic stfairc." The QUEEN has also many exemptions an prerogatives. She pays no tolls nor direct t. she liable to any amercernent is any Court also some pecuniary advantages, u hich to; direct revenue. She is entitled to an ancien site called Queen-geld or Aurum Regina, aril fines to the King, from Royal Grants, or of ters of Royal Favour ccnferred by the Kit licenses, pardons, &c. and it becomes an nc so the Queen's Majesty, by the mere recordinl th of at grace B a c n i E d e rf favour, vi , ; ,i t c h h es t e ho mite ni rs , o z ur, adds,ott arose, were frequently obtained from the the powerful intercession ofthe Queen!" The Judge then mentions a curiou s a necdote respe Aurum Regina, in the reign of CHARLES , (says he) fertile in expedients for raising mom King, on the petition, of his Queen, lIENRIt MA, issued out his writ for levying it, but a purchased it of Al, Consort at Me price of T sand founds!!" The Americans was performed last nigl English Opera House with its accustoms The Duke and Duchess of KENT were pre were greeted with universal and warm bur plause. Goo save the King was sung on the with the most happy effect. Mr. STEPHEN KEMBLE has been appoint Sub-Committee of Drury-Lane Theatre, Mi the ensuing Season. Now that Miss Pops has departed from of life, the only remaining Performer of t of GARRICK is Mr. SMITH, of Bury St. Ed/ Gentleman who was once most deserved]; favourite with the public. He is now, stand, on the borders of ninety years of age plete possession of his mental powers, an bodily health. The late Lord AwsoN had been confit room for the last three months with a sty of the gout, which unfortunately reached hii and occasioned his death on Friday. His was born Feb. 17, 1767. and married Sept. to ANN MARGARET, second daughter of Ti COKE, of Holkham, in Norfolk, Esq. by JAN ter of LEXNOX NAPIER, Esq. His Lords] ceeded in his titles and cststes by his eldest MAR WILLIAM. now Lord Atzsos, born Oct who is on the Continent. Expresses have warded to hasten his return. A small Work which promises to be of n 1 utility, is announced on a subject, on believe no popular Treatise exists. It is enti Art of Preserving the Feet;" or Practical It for the prevention and Cure of Corns, Bun losities, Chilblains, &c. with Observatio dangers arising from imr . . (+per Treatn vice to Pedestrians, &c. to which are add tions for the better .11anagement of the 1 Nails, by an experkticed Chirornd*.:.