Star. — London, England, 1815-05-16 00:00:00

. I i • Rlu JA....R1R0, MARCH 10. PRIVATE I.E rTER. 4i S;nce the arrival of the, English in this quarter, the, Creoles have discovered how hardly they were formerly use. , by the Portuguese, as they can pur chaie the goods they want at one-third of what they gave, and as by this advantage, their capitals e n,,hi t t h em to carry on a more extensive trade, they have gradually been getting rich, and hence arc be. come of more consequence. Whilst this class is fiugally, and augmenting irs wealth, and. pro gressively its power, the other, which formerly was the support of every thing, is reducing its opulence by the expensive style of living into which it is led by the iesidence of the Court. " Flom what I have before stated, you will imme diately perceive that there is a wide opening for a ss..rions disagreement between the Cabinets of London and Rio. In such circumstances you will, perhapi, ask why this Government permitted your's to send out ships of war ? The party which is desirous that the P,ince should return to Europe, perhaps con cluded, that if this step were taken his. Royal High. ness might determine upon going, and therefore. en couragement was given to such a measure. The opaostte party. calcul.tting upon its own strength, and desirous of over-reaching Lord S. who is hated by both, may have held it to be prudent to admit the experiment to be tried, taking care, however, not to commit itself, far should the ships come out, and his Royal Highness decline going, it is natural to con clude that your Government will gravely enquire how his Lordship could send for ships, without hav ing the most positive assurances that the Prince would embark The party appears to have succeeded in its purpose, and it is given out that his Lordship has received orders to return to England immediately ; a. el report states, that the orders are worded in a way indicating much displeasure. AU I can posi tively say is, that since the arrival of the last mail Lord S. has applied to Admiral Dixon for a frigate, which could norbe granted ; and rumour says, that on this disappointment, Admiral Beresford has ten deted to his Lordship a passage on board the Duncan; from which it may be inferred, should the rumour be correct, that the Prince has declined leaving the Cofonies. 4 ' The Americin privateer Warrior was, by the last accounts, off Bahia, and it is said that there are, no less than three off Pernambuco. The Inconstant frigate and a sloop of war sailed for the North a few days ago, in consequence of the receipt of this news." .I.IIftRICA. EXTRACT OF A rETTER FROM PHILADELPHIA, DATED THE 17TH OF 111 A ECII. " Congress have at length determined to have a Navy—a Bill has passed the Legislature, appointing a Navy Board. Commodores Hull, 'Bainbridge, and Rodgers, it is expected, will be appointed Ad. minds, and put in commissii n. A . very powerful force, under the command of Commodore Bain , bridge, is now fitting out for Algiers ; it will consist of two new 74. gun 6ve 4 -igates, and ten sloops of war. If I am not. mistaken, the Algeri:les. will rue the d7.y when they provoked the vengeance •sf our tars. The Guerriere, under the command (4 Morgan, sailed from this port yesterday for Nrw York, where she is to be joined by the Constellatiou and Java frigates, from the Chesapeake, and the United States and Macedonian from Long Island Sound =these frigates, with six sloops of war, form the first division against Algiers ; and it is said that 2,000 of Brown's rifle veterans will go with the squadron. The whole Nation is decided for a Navy. The Pennsylvania, a 71 gun ship, will be launched at this place in the month of May. Large quanti ties of timber are daily brought down the Delaware and Schuyllkill for ship-building. It is no more ex traordinary than true, with what dispatch they build ships of war in this country :—The Peacock, of 18 guns, was built at Newbury Port in eighteen.work ing days ! The Wasp was built at New York in sweaty days ! The Superior, Commodore Chauncy's flag-ship, of 64 guns, on Lake Ontario, took up only thirty days from the laying of her keel until she bad all her guns on board, and was ready for a cruize ! It is said Congress intend to have the Irames of the Lake Squadron removed to the Atlantic." Sir Gr.onoe Pasvosr landed on Saturday, at Ports mouth, from the COr:i ACK, 28, Hon. Captain P. Ron- Nev, irvai Canada. Tire Cossaca arrived on Thurs day ; Luc having gone Isom - the Mediterranean to America, s!ie W 43 placed under quarantine. Si: GIAItGE W.IS received with those cnngratelatory at tention; and respect, which' a . remembrance of his Lieutenant Governorship therevan never fail to in spire. S•r Groans - embarked and 'sailed from Sc.* John's, New Brunswick, on the 20th ult. By the Redwing, Captain YOUNG, arrived from the Leeward Islands-26 days from Antigua. we learn, that Sir Giotto Cott. tan's squadron was in Carlisle Bayp - Biarbadoes, victualling andrefittine; SirGentioui bad been six Months cruising with the Leander, Nen castle, and Mama. in 'search of the Ameeican Irigate Clulititalion. He got sight ,of bar of Porto Praya the 11th of March ; but she was then in' advantage ously situated to escape, that, 'added to her superior rate of sailing, she soon effected it—the Newcastle being the only ship that could keep sight of her, even for a short time. Sir G1:011GC intended to return to H alit x. The Superior schooner arrived at Barba does in - sixteen ,fags from Baltimore, with a cargo of flour, spoke the Cyane, prize to the Constitution, on the coast; it is therefore presumed she has got in. —lt is -a remarkable fact, that so greatly have the minds of tie people at Barbadues been prejudiced against the American nation, that only eight dollars p barrel was offer e d f or t h e cargo of our which the Superior took there; whilst during the war it WAS as high as VS dollars. The French at Martinique and Guadalot4ie had equally manifested the same dispo. sition, endeavouring, by all the means at their corn mand, to prevent any importatisms from America. The French Islands had been already well supplied from France, ltd our islands from Ireland. The ships at the Leeward Islands had been thus distri. bnied : the Venerable, on the 17th ult. at Antigua, refitting, to bring home Sir P.C. Dorman ; the Bar badires and C lumbia had gone to cruise on the Line, until the, term of making (Armes expired ; the Ister. and Crescent were cruising ; Fairy and Chanticleer at Demerara ; and Dasher at St. Thomas's. Mt* . • . PARTICOLAAS OF 'a „__,eoW. . MAJOR GENERAL GILLUM& The perticulars et the late unfortunate attack epee Fort Kulingah, in the Napaul country, by the force under Major-General Gillespie, are detailed in the followin . g extract from a private letter, written by an Officer in the Beng4l cavalry, dated Camp, Leltar *gong ( Bundl ecund) November '29, 1814 : 66 The relief for the cavalry appeared in General Orders, in August last. We marched from Sultan pore on the 15th of October. On the ltd we cross ed the river Ganges at Allahabad, marched up part jot the Dooab (the Dooab is the country situated be tween the two rivers Jumna and Ganges) and crossed the Jumna on the ttcl instant at Chillatarali Chant. When we were about four days march from Keitah (the place to which we were ordered), an express arrived •with orders for us to halt until further in structions. The next dty the Commanding Officer received a dispatch, and in consequence made a re trograde movement, and we arrived at this outpost on the lith instant. We have been ordered here, it seems, to watch the motions of the Pindarrees, OF THE UNiORTUNATE AFFAIR UNDER Iwho; a short time ago, plundered and burnt some i villages in this neighbourhood. They have not ac tually violated the Company's territory, I believe, but it is supposed will not be satisfied with hanging about the frontiers. 44 We were reviewed by the Earl of Moira on the 10th of September ;'he 'he expressed great pleasure at what we did, thanked the Officers, and observed, that our state of equipment, and the evolutions we formed, did us all great credit. di You will probably have heard, before this reaches you, of the warlike operations carrying on at our north-east frontier. The irruptions which the Ns paulese have made for some time past upon the bar rier lands, the villages that have been plundered. Sec. are the reasons why war has been declared. Govern ment attempted to put a check to injuries of such magnitude, by negotiation and mild measures, but the endeavour was unsuccessful. '• Two grand divisions of the army were formed, the one to enter Napaul Proper by the east, •and the ether to act in its north-west Provinces ; other de tachments were assembled to assist the two grand attacks. Major• General Marlay commanded one or the grand divisions, consisting of about WOO .men, and Major-General Gillespie. of his Majesty's 25th Light Dragoons, led on the other, who was-untbr tunately killed on the Ilst of October, in attempting to storm the Fort of Kulingah, or Nalapanee, in the, Dehrah llhoon. The army was formed into four columns of attack, with a column of reserve. The columns under Lieutenant-Colonel Carpenter and Major Ludlow, were repulsed, after an obstinate and. murderous struggle. With three companies of his Majesty's 83d regiment, and two 6-pounders, the gallant General Gillespie moved on to the attack, and after making two unsuccessful assaults qn the fort, in the third, while in the act of chewing on his men,' within thirty yards of the gateway, he received a mortal wound. 4 , Colonel Mawby, of his Majesty's .53d regiment, at the head of the advAnced.guArd. mole an att.ick on the fort the 21th of October.. He had fired about 100 rounds, when he discovered that the place was too strong to be taken by assault with the force be conananded. This, with the three attacks subse quen,ly made by General Gillespie, make altogether tour Attemt;ts to carry this impregnable foi rress ; in .the course of which five Officers have been killed and 15 wounded, two of whom have since died of their wounds, and 225 rank and file lolled, wounded, and missing. 4 , The fort of Kulingah, or Nalapanee, is about 500 feet high, is garrisoned by a regular battalion, And mounts some heavy pieces'of artillery. It lies near the second range of mountains; there is no ditch round the fort, but all the approaches to it have been strongly stockaded. 46 It is understood that the Rajah of Napaul has four or five regular battalions, consisting of about ogle thousand five hundred men each. The Napau lese soldiers are represented to be hardy and coura geous; and are expected to defend themselves in Kulingah to the last extremity." FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, MAY 12. Yesterday the Empe ror :went out in a carriage to visit the Invalids, who waited for him. drawn up in line, and whom he reviewed. His Majesty conversed with them for some time, and afterwards went to see the Officers at dinner, and visited the Infirmary. It. would be difficult to describe the joy these veterans manifested on seeing the Emperor. His Majesty al tdrwards mounted his horse, and went round the Champ de Mars, followed by a concourse of people, who uttered continued acclamations. Lieutenant-Genen-al.Girard writes by telegraph the following letter to the Minister at War, dated Metz, the Ws : 46 On the 9th instant, of seven in the morning, the Prussian troops which were ou the right bank or the Moselle, on the side of Sierk, set off in all haste on their way to Flanders, whither they pretend the Em peror is proceeding ; they were replaced on the 10th by some Bavarian light horse." Marshal Grouchy also writes by telegraph the fol lowing letter, dated I.y3ns, the 11th : 66 All is tranquil oq the frontiers of Switzerland and Piedmont; and tl►e Austrian troops, whose ar rival iii Piedmont had been announced, have not yet appeared. Private letters confirm the account or a ►teat success having been gained by the King of Naples." The Morriteur contains an address purporting to be from the workmen of the taubourgs St: Antoine and St. Marceau, to their fellow-citizeus and comrades. It commenc:s thus : 4. The odious declarations of the 13th and 25th of March, and the proclism ition of the King or Print.sia of the Sth of April, have tinveile.l the sacrilegious projects of' the foreigner, who, not content with blot ting out PGlancl, Italy, and the brave Saxon ncio. from the list of Powers; with having disposed o Belgium and the departments of the Rhine to hi. advantage, would also divide Vrance, and seems. to leave no other choice but that of clring in its de fence, or ceasing to exist as. Frenchmen. 46 All the inhabitants of the eastern -departipent hive taken up arms; they 01 . !C 4JC144 to our Om tiers -to cover them, to our fortresses to defend them. ' i—. The people of Paris} will nut be .tke last to fol. low so noble an example; the heights commanding the capital are covering with entrenchments and bat teries. Our. suburbs shall not remain without defen ders, in presence of their immense population. The interval placed by the foreigner between his procla mations and resolves is turned to account by the wise foresight of the Emperor. lf. last yeai, treason had not paralysed all the measures of defence, if it had not :dosed to us arms, the enemy never would have penetrated our suburbs ; though he should an ive again, he shall never penetrate them again. Wt bear no envy to the National Guard, which enjoys over us the advantage of being Isble to devote their time to daily service, but we wish to have our shale in the common defence; we offer our arms to the Emperor, it is our wish that he. accept them, and at the moment of danger direct the blows. We all de. mand to be armed and organized,. because we all claim the same rights, and have all the same duties to fulfil, &c." On these grounds they declare themselves confede rated, and resolve that a deputation, be sent to the Emperor, with offers to march, should the capital be threatened; and to request permission to send de. puties to Lyons, the second city of the Empire, to excite its inhabitants to similar measures. The rally ing cry of the confederation is—rive to Nation ! Yive Lilorti I rive PEntiureur!—The address is said to have 3,000 signatures. The Aconites,' also contains the following extract of a private letter from Vienna. dated April 28 : " I still believe there will be no war, notwithstand ing the hostile demonstrations. I trust that reason, in accordance with interest, will prevail over passion. The Powers would 11 , 4 now make the declaration of the 13th of March, if it were to do again. Its AU thors, however, feel themselves compromised—the) are now embarrassed how to tread back their steps, so as to save their sell-love. 66 Another manifesto wits to have followed the de claration of March 13. fn the first draft no mention was made of the Bourbons—the plenipotentiaries of the Courts of Sicily and Spain refused to sign it. A second was made, in which the Bourbons were com prehended, though in an insignificant way. Their Ministers appeared, however. satisfied with it in the first instance; but Clancarty and his colleagues soon made some reflections, and refused to sign unless it was declared in precise terms that war should be made for the House of Bourbon. Austria and Russia rejected this proposition, and the project of a mani. festo fell lathe ground. " Russia is uneasy in regard to Poland and Tur key. Austria is as much afraid of the Emperor Alex. ander as of the Eagierur Napoleon, though she does not skew it. The Pruisian Monarch appears very tranquil as to his possessions ; but the nobles and capitalists of Prussia are ruined ; a crowd of young men look to no other resource but war. It is only at the expence of all private. fortunes that the government has found the means of maintaining a sort of public credit; is hence results that it is ill at CAS; and no longer ter of events. in this state of things men's miads begin to grow cool. Events.will greatly depend on the course pur sued by France. And with this view it is essential to produce a conviction that the new system she professes is adopted in gaud faith, and not trom the interest of the moment. It is important also to show that she will not he domineered over by the army, to which she owes such obligations. 64 All wishes are here for peace. The Austrian Cabinet is fully sensible, on considering the present state of Europe, that sound policy forbids her fighting against France, it she would conclect her with the friendly intentions of that power towards Austria, and pacific with regard to other States. " I repeat it, I still do not despair of peace." It would appear to be generally believed that Aus tria has.resolved to remain neutral in the event of war. The accounts received to this effect have singularly contributed to raise the public funds. (The French 5 per cents. were on Thursday at 6`2 fr. ) One thing is certain, that the Austrian Government has resolved provisionally on leavin t , free the passage of letters and travellers, not suspected, corning from or going to France. Several Journals have announced that the Empera. was to leave Paris early in this month, to visit the fortresses of the Northern frontiers, but it appears cer tain that his Majesty's journey is postponed'; the car riages have received orders to retrograde. Lieutenant Gvm•ral Belliard, Minister Plenipoten tiary from the Emperor to the King of Naples, and the Duke of Padua, Extraordinary Commissioner for Corsica, embarked on the 3d of May at Toulon. On the 3d instant, some excesses were cunimitted at Dijon: Fortunately these disorders were promptly repre.ked. • IRUN, MAY 3. We learn from Madrid, that by a decree of his Ma jetty the Court is ordered to be in mourning annually on the 2cl of May, in commemoration of that fatal day. This is very honourable to the memory of the victims who perished on that fatal occasion—but in truth we cannot accpunt for the siience of the Ftench as to the true details of that affair,' in which impar tial witnesses do not ascribe the aggression to the French army. It was'attacked by the people of Ma drid, and there were more French sacrificed than Spaniards, because the former were not on their guard The Council of Castile, which did not seek to dimi nish our lois, did not make it amount to more than 104 persons—the French lost more than 400 in killed and wounded, and in an hour's time were masters of the city. We cannot conceive what political motive induced the bulletin writers of the Grand Duke of 1.1.:rg to ex aggerate so absurdly the number of Sim:muds Who perished—while it is certdin that the French army itd not wish to milder a victory sanguinary of which - it was by no means proud. The reason why people have disclaimed so loudly against this 2J of May, is because . the military execution of a few men taken with arms in their hands was regarded as an assassi oation by a people accustomed to see authority ytehi to all its caprices. It is better to throW a veil on all dine horrors, than to seek to eternise their rtcullec awl by impolitic ceremonies. PANS, MAY ta. . The Marshal Duke of freviso left Paris some days ,go, to fulfil in the departments of the North, an ez-. traordmary military commission relative tq the pro visioning and placing in a prOper undid= all t h e fortresses. A telegraphic dispatch, written: from Lille in th,, afternoon of to-day, contains the following The Director of the Posts at Menin came this morning to the frontiers to say, that he had received orders to refuse the mails coming from France at present and in future. There is a long letter front Cambaceies - to the Procureurs-General of the Courts l of Justice, recommending strict attenti3n in enforcing I the Emperor's lace decree, passed in consequence ul Fouche s report. It was said yesterday upon 'Change that an Enrly Extraordinary had arrived from the Emperor of Au. trio, bringing communications favourable to peace. [FROM THE GAZETTE DE eltitEcE.] COURIER EXTRAORDINARY, SAIURGAY MORNING, Letters from Bergamo of the 22d of April, spr .k afresh of an insurrection at Naples, and say that I , :r parations were making to storm Ancona ; but news seems suspicious, for the Florence journals of the 27th make nu inenti•m td these events. p err i n de Vosges, Ex-deputy- and- Commis. sinner. in the department 0 the Vosges, died denly at E ssinal. The corps of the army collected ht the environs of Chaenbery, *ill take the name'ef the army of the Alps. • On Sunday, in the Court of the Tbuilleries,, there will be a grand review of the Imperial Guard, and 'of the regiments now at Paris and its environs It is believed that it was owing to the intervention* and lively solicitation of Colonel Laharpe, a Swiss . by With, and who was the .tong of the Emperor Alexander, that, in the event of war, the Helvetic Republic will maintain a neutrality, for which this Mbn.arch has loudly ex pressed himself. • Among political persons there is a different into. pretation c the motive of the prohibition which the Duke of Wellington bas issued to his soldiers, under pain of death, of putting a foot on the French tern.. wry. We believe that the following is the prt + c r explanation a in the army of the Duke of Welliiig ton there are some corps of cavalry composed princi. pally of Hanoverians, who are burning for plumler; 'and little disciplined.. On different occasions, detach. ments of these troops were seen to pass the line of the ashAinced posts, at points where we frequently had but two videttes or same collectors of excise. The result was quirrels and broils, in which some Hanoverians were killed, and one French Custnni. house Officer was recerely wounded with a pistol, ball. This led to explanations : the French Coin. manders enquired of the English Generals whether hostilities had commenced, or whether they mete still in a state of peace ? The Duke of Wellington, who is equally skilful in legitimate proceedings as in no. litary discipline, made haste to give on this subject men. satisfaction flan was asked ; and the prohibi tion which he issued to his soldiers under pain of .death, is evidently a consequence of the premises Which we have related. French funds GO 1.90 e. M. Berne, a merchant residing in Rue Richer, has constructed a machine, by means of. which he can fa. bricate every kind of paper, of an, indefin4e length and of the breadth of from 44 to 45 inches. It is afterwards reduced to sizesusefol in commerce. Thu machine has been constructed at Paris by M. Calle, and the trials that have been made leave nothing t, be wished. PARISIAN MODEL—The crowns of hats are agais worn high, with broad trimming; ribbon sewed the middle, and plaited in round plaits is quite corii• moll. Frequzatly instead of pipe plaits, there sirt two rows of h ros disposed so as to tuake the base of one horn tout : , the point of another. This is a::4 principally for trimming made of united ribbons, v white rose colour and straw colour. rh.it winc ! cailed cafzete de pride has undergone no change r form since last year. Many of these caplet are stn• mounted vial, in the monkey style, like the can::: Fortueriy these ,rust were plain, having only a Wit point which dropped : now one point ascends and at other descends. Gauze and gauze ribbons contintir in fashion.- Chaputas: of white and citron sparterk occasionally a?pear. The only flower which uot: belongs to fashion is the rose * , with leaves of rose co lour. The elegant women wear white. Frequently the bottom of the robe is richly embroidereil, ar,.i the top also. The sleeves are rather loose. • We obs:lse coats of clear blue, with yellow buttons. The skirl is straight, with a gore lochs middle. " Napoleon, like an old rook-leader, hardly perched upon his tree and-croaked, when all his fellow rooks flocked in cri:wds to .him.. 'He is now master of his rooks, and by their means also master of the country. He has proved that he knows how to gown them. In one week he has done what the Bourbons could not do in a whole year. The Bourbons did not understand how to govern the French ; and that throne is therefore no security for our repose. We may pity the King, but we wilt do well nut to saill out to reconquer the nest of the family. " Napoleon understands the art of governing the French, but not the art of governing us. W OOll that he might always rule over them I—they der such a scourge ; from our hearts we could with (,) Brant them this favour, and are sorry that it canno t be allowed. But if the throne of the Bourbons birds us no security, front their not knowing how govern the French, Napoleon, op the other h‘n w i affords us none, because he dues understand t he art of governing them to their content. For IA: re; pose Europe, therefore, there is nothing to Le exiw aa t from either of those dynasties. We mu“ ilk a secinki second time drive before us the enemy peace ; not, it is hoped, to put the Bourbons ag o. on the unimpaired Fr e n c ti Throne, but to gi".• new Constituticn to the country, namely, such 4 . " 6 `.. as they have invented for us—the sovereignty of h aw a dozen of Kings."—[From the Rk•niik Ilfff.-oryq THIRTY TIIRM'SA!“) TlCkt * Et N e " 3M6U, drawn on ;,itnrd..ty i.tst. a Prtze WAS SHARED 11 : fine ( iilark r t and Aizht Sixteenths, A,:ti SOLD at Mt trulsjitlonate Nu. 17, Ludgate.street, (near St . Peat 's) OL Holders may receive we value 01 tnrir Shares, "ton Demand. This Ole T.:Vtney-Satot pital dared and bold by Wana in littlr. .re rwo Tian; and it will be recollected, MAI 1::•G• entitled on the 15th of fad Month to 1,000 Guide and No. were also sold at Wens's Office. '4502, the last Piize R 10,00(.! ettr Ji .