Star. — London, England, 1815-08-12 00:00:00

r' hnuat weber b 1 tbe mine laws adrl the same insta the party Wants raised .under other dircum: taco mus t be reinoved, and t n ttst mutually t a su , t b other as inhabitants of one house, * and ch i! r e o one family. Your High Mightinesses know that sdch are 01.0 t he view) of the United Powers of Europe in 01.:h1i$hitig the new Monarchy. t.) the principle of every where main preserviag the already established vela they have especially.requited that oueeSnsti c,,t, sliAri b_ niaintained, and only altered in so far a , t i : ; change of circumstances should upon common e ,i, t „,. 1 ;1011 appear to demand. My own wish es this determination. I have chosen for to ision of the Constitution those measures which zri ! an to me most adapted.to the end proposed.— assembled from all the provinces of the king without any other end in view than the welfare 1 , 1 1 v,• glory of their countrymen, have fulfilled the task ; and in their dispassionate, concur. b i t co...fidential deliberations, I have seen with a new and flattering presage of the fraternal of all my subjects. 4. Ibeie deliterttions still continued, when the of war, unexpected and with unusual rage, s t it GOD be thanked, for a short time only, surprised 2a territory. The &Firer though short was urgent, but the :Inv. of oar warriors was superior to the Ganger. considevition, no examples of a neighbouring c rinn) even could make one doubt a moment of the ; pcnmy of engagements voluntarily taken by the Nitherianders ; and now . tbat in a period of danger ;mud under the banners of independence, and the pick of our generous Allies, they have confirmed their rows Sy deeds, I Batter myself that the nation and it Europe partake my conviction and my confidence. History shall one day chew in the battles of - Quatre Bras And Waterloo two illustrious pillars of the new State of the Netherlands; and happy the fathers on Those sans the lot his fallen to raise them pillars sith their arm, and to dye them with their blood. Toe plan which is to be considered in this Assembly should not be offered you by me, since in the review f the fundamental law scarcely one article was laid nide by which the dearest tights of our nation were Acure?.. every care has been taken to extend these r;g11:: as much as possible, and to define more clearly •hat ,!1.1 new political union may leave the stamp of toL4llteued eye, and of the national character. a The iaviolability of the judicial authority remains :ryas able, and liberty of conscience is guaranteed tithe Oast extent. No property can be declared -:, - ...i.c4ted—no opinion or thought checked in its :atie. Tat meanest citizen is at Warty to make his vice head even . at the Throne. The retain their reprrient4tiortkthe it stcl ttillif as ti poll/wit .41 sardens of the state are freely ♦..ted, and equalty borne. TLS• reve:sues, to be accounted fer according to fixed rules, can be employed in the hands of the Sing to no other ends than to the payment of ser vices useful to the State, to the public institutions, to the jefence of the country; and, in general, the !lay al power is great enough to secure the welfare of the community, but insufficient to oppress or injure a strBle subject. If these observations are just, we may, under the direction of the new Constitution, with increased ability, and with confidence in the future, continue and complete what, under the DIVINE blessing, Ps already begun, designed, or prepared for the honour and the welfare of the Netherlands. " I'o yOur High Mig&incases Areonfided the Ulu ti of this question. Each of you knows the ligh imp , next of his mission, and each of you will strive t. acqn't himself of it with that zeal which we at all fmes, but especially in dines like those, owe to Sur d ar country." Th;i speech was answered by Mr. Van flogen d-,p, who, as President of the late Assembly, offi ci,ta as President in the presen; 'fleeting of the States General, in a discourse which we shall communicate ie our next. The solemnity being finished, the King returned to his Palace in the same manner as he came. The kstembly then proceeding to nominate a Pre .!idevt the Owen .4)lloaPing Gentlemen wqe szeenracht VAn Oster, Ilan Zuiten, xhd Aylvtw-ip - Th, erst WAS proposed by his Majesty as Prisidebr c: 6c States General duriarthopresent Sessions N 3 Paris Papers have arrived this Oh ' Private' letters received yesterclAy speak of an approaching castle in the Fiench `Ministry—the Duke de Itic:m 1.3 u to be Pricr.e Minister, instead of 'FALLETIIAND; V , . de CUAT&AUOUAND, Minister of Police instead of Faucet ; and thiPuke de. FaLTISZ, Minister at . War instead of Sr. Cu: • It may be urged in objection to the accuracy of this statement that the first mentioned Nobleman lately left Paris to go to St. Petersburgh, but tt is may have been only to settle some particular business and then to return. We remember it was :wed vme time ago that be had been invited to take a rhcz i ti e Ministry, but had refused to sit with M. Ilis objection on that ground is nf course removed now by the dismissal of Fowls. Judging of POUCH& as we do public characters in ,-ogland, by Actions, we cannot but believe his t ffice 1 : 1 4y be better filled. In EnglLd the dins can da nv surety, allVatne for inipropel measure, falls, is it ,iught to do,. upon the . Ministers. In France, on tlit contrary, so deticienrare they in the science of a free Government, it looks as if they were resolved that the King can never do right. The Minister rut the credit of every popular measure, and the odium of every obnoxious measure tells upon the Sovereign. The consequences which may be made to flow from such a state-of things, are highly dangerous. to the safety of the throne and the kingdom ; as it holds out, to any designing had Minister, an inducement to abuse the law, and so to undermine the Royal Au- 1 thority. We may illustrate our position by the fact which we gave yesterday on the authority of the Paris Pipers, namely, the supitrusien of a Journal, called the I:dependent, and the prosecution of the aidhor. If the Editor has libelled the the Kim% the Ministers, or other individuals, by all means prevents his, be- f cause this is conformable to law: if be has published sedition or treason, bring him to trial; but do not by a Manildte of Government suppress his publication, because this is contrary to law and the express . engage; sent of the King, and odium may be thus cast upon his MAJESTY by the procurement of the Minister.— Had Fovenz intended to furnish a topic for popular clamour, he could not have taken a more effectual zneasureihau that of first punishing him for an alleged and as yet senitroval crime, by first =thing Itisferoperty, and ,ben bringing him to Court to My iaieficer he hid violated any law. We are informed by a Gentleman who has left Paris within these few days, that the account of Bo swarm's surrender to this country; and his sane quent removal to St. Helena, are wholly disbelieved in France by the great mass of the population. They laugh at the thing as ridiculous story, invented by the pastiest's . of Lotus XVIII. to strengthen their own cause, and weaken that of the BONAPARTIST& —The general belie 4 is, that BomapancE is still in France, and that he will soon re-appear at the head of an army to dispute once more the sceptre with Lows.—Such are the consequences of a shackled press ! It is known that nothing can be admitted into the Paris-Papers but what the Government per mits, and hence truth and falsehood arereceived with equal incredulity. .We are not, thtrefore, surprised that in a country *here no reliance can be placed upon information which is communicated exclusively through the medium of the public press, such an event is regarded rather as a thing wished for by those who task, than as having actually occurred. ll !S 3 9. •. 31 111 tO ?1 p GI dl al 21 21 pi ir t: d C hi to S c. it tll la al Fl re ONA PA RTE. The NORTHUMENULAND, with her precious cargo, has not yet 61)44 left the British shores. It will be seen by the subjt.ined letter from Plymouth, that the WEYMOUTH store-ship, which is considered as •an in dispensable attendant on the fleet, is not yet'ready to join. We understand that bosaPalsre is Aot to Parsvalargv itr th. tlyiena; k thestrict genie 'Of th* expression. He' will be as regularly guarded and confined as he could be iu. England, '.but . will be allowed to take air and exercise, properly attended. While he remains at St. Helena, all neutrals are to be excluded from the Island :" at least such is the re port; but we can hardly conceive how this regula. lion can be enforced. How can A vessel, in want per baps of shelter and necessaries, be refused admittance to the Island ? • We have the law of nations on Fbur side, when we say that the refusal of shelter and ne cessaries to the ships of a friendly or neutral power, would be a just cause of war at. the instance of that power. Let us hope, therefore, that since the " Great Axe" of Justice has not been permitted to. fall where it was justly merited, th. imprisonment of BONA PARTE may be so rigid as to preclude all intercourse between him and any vessel WhAtever: •• PLYMOUTH, AUGUST 10. el It was the general opinion here, until to day, ihat the NONTIIUSSISZALAND had' finally sailed for S:: Helena ; but we now find that Sir Geo. Coercive's* is cruizing off and on with hi's infernal cargo, waiting for the Weymouth store-ship, which is still here, and not yet ready. " SAVAISY SW LAW:MAXIM are still on board the Beutitornox, with a groupe of other worthies of the same description : they are in a state of great trepi dation, and are continually pestering various depart ments of the British Government with supplications lig mercy. It seems tbattbeir fats has not yet been intrtiuniett t l tn.w Yesterday, soon-hter twelie o'clock, the QUEZN, siccempanied 'le Princesses EllaallaTll and MARY, arrived al. her Palace, from Kew, to make prepara tions f;,r tire celebration of the Panics kalliNt"S birth-44. There was no medical report of the state of the Duke of YOMC in Town yesterday, but the verbal .statement of his Royal Highness was,_ that be was duing very well. Yesterday inorning Mr. Rum the. King's Messen ger, arrived, in Town with dispatches from Paris.— After the Messenger's arrival, a Cabinet 0:0061 was summoned, which sat from• three o'clock till eve. Several of the daily Papers having stated, that the redemption of the 5 per Cents. is postponed to the 20th ol October; also mentioning that Mr. lima had gireu oGicial notice at the Stock Exchange, we have made particular enquiry, and tied there is no truth in the report. A person of high rank has recently obtained a de cision in his favour, by which, upon repaying scum bind legal interest, he gets rid of a Post Obit anndity grantea by him smolt" years ago, previous to .his Sucteedinfi to the title, for an i nadequate llartaidera • . tioa vats • egal iaterebt. , . . . .. .. .. . , •` DESCRI.ITIQN 01,SilliELEN•t. i , . The Island of Si. Helena is showed in len IS deg., f3S min. South, a n d long. &deg. 45 min. West. In the South; Atlantic Oceans about 1200 miles West of the coast rd Attica, and •1600 East of the coast of South America. Its appearance on making the land `fro" the Cape of Good Male is that of a steep high reek, and resembles a castle in the midst of the sea On a aesrcr approach is distingiii,lied Long Wood, where the Lieutenant Governor ( Lhattenant Colons:1 Skelton) has a plantati o n, which husks vete neat, con trasted with the sterile aod lucky dills by wh eh it is surrounded. All the sli; i is which approach St. Helena, except the Hotioni able PoMpint 's ships, bring-to on the windward sithoof the island, and send a boat on shore to the .-...istko .with an officer or mate, to report their nation or business, and to request per mission for anchoring, which, if complied with, the ship steers close tinder the Isioi, and passes by Mon den k".. rt , so called after Commodore Munden, •wlio took the island from the Dutch, in the reign of Charles 11. The shore is very bold, which sometimes occasions shch violent gusts and eddy winds as al natal to lay ships on th-ir lasam-ends ; and the lan ding-place at James's Fort being at the most leeward part of the iislandsrendt.rs the utmost attention neces- Sara , in navigators. The shipping anchor quite clos e Ito the shore ; the anchorage is defended by forts, :;nd a battery mounting 40 guns. Rupert's Valley and James Valley are the only' places in. the island for landing, but the former has noalstero that which is Rot at the latter is by iba Vikilso Ogre best quality. aft the entrance of thc to*A. is the Governor's Iowa:, and it is a neat pretty town 'of 1 5l) to 60 houses, betweca two steep and dreary Mountains. There is an excellent shop in it, kept by a Mr. Solomons where every article of China and India manufactory may be had, oppo site.to which is the Lieutenant Governor's Louse.- -With the exception of the Governor, LivitenAnt- Gofernor, and two Members of Council, all the other inh.ibitants, both anilitaiy and civil, let lodgings, the established rate of which, induding board and wine,. is S4s. per diem for each person, and half that sum for children and servants. Contiguous to the town, up Intl* Valley, is a barrack : a few companies of ar tillery and infantry compose the gardens. A little, beyond this are the Company's garden and a few neat houses built by the officers of the settlement, with gardens well supplied with fruit. The • popula don, exclusive of troops, may be about one thousand five hundred, reckoning the slaves. The trurenie length of St. Helena is three leagues, its form circu lar, and about twenty-seven miles round. The principal ridge of mountains in the middle of the Island is called Diana's Peak, 2,200 feet high. James Valley his on the south-west side a hill eltvated nearly 800 feet from the sea, c died Ladder-hill, with a battery of heavy guns upon it that commands the south-west entrance to 'the valley and anchorage. Colonel Mark Wilks, heloo-aing to tic East India Company's Madras Ai tray, is at preooit the Go vernor, who very ohligiogly invit s vhitors o) his house, and sends his Etialish barouche, dr two bytiniz bullocks, to convey them up. When the %tomtit of the Ladder-hilt is attained, then the tint three miles of thy road is perfectly ie'rren, until reaching the Castle of High Knoll, when the .iaterior forms a striking contrast to the sloe! , ou cliffia. here is .evarg vAiiim-,. siod soson \ git: the aed hills, are erected small neat plantation homes, having gardens, and with some pasture land for grazing cattle. All idea of growing corn is giveit up, for the rats, which shelter in the rocks, swarm so on ihe Island as to prevept its coming to perfection. - After a drag up the hill an hour and a half, nearly tint miles, you come to the Lodge of the Governor's Plantation Houser by a short drive through the grounds you reach his habita tion, which is well built; the walls are laid out with much taste. The view from here of the Atlantic Ocean is very extensive, even to discern the ships in the offing at the distance of forty leagues, when the weather is clear. No vessel can sail from the harbour, homeward bound, without passing in sight of the Governor's house. The climate is veq fine and, healthy, although it wants rain some times for twelve months. They have no thunder and lightning. , Notwithstanding the steep rocky cliffs. present so discouraging an appearance to an observer, is sailing round the east pint of the island froin the Cape of Good Hope, yet, after visiting the interior, you cannot but return to your ship much gratified. The Island appears to have been forced upwards from the ocean by a subterraneous fire : toe ab, opt ridges and chasms into which it is split seem io prove this origin, and the effects of vol canic amalgamation by fire are. visible front the summits of the hills._, The inhabitants are supplied with provisions from the Company's stores when they require it, and sometimes get a supply by sending. a vessel to the Cape of Good Hope. They sell their poultry, fish, and pigs, at an exorbitant price, but have little oLo to dispose of except vegetables and' fruit ; and, in exchange for those refreshments, they' got supplied with manufactures from the Company's shire. Pits touching here are supplied with excel . es3 i rater., • , Sir HUDSON Lowe. the newly-appointed Govetonr of St. Holani4, arrived, in town yeswrdny from the Continent. The Allied Troops are spreading themselves over France. The English are in possession of Amiens, 13enavais, and llroteuif: they will soon have Rouen, Dieppe..and Havre: Metz and Sarre Louis have conciuded an artiaistice with General LANGERON. IkTwtmi is psalm a great deal in a little"—this ' may be truly said of the Scheme of the present Lot tery, when we look at the amount of the Caitals : Thirty Thousand- Pounds I SOOO G unicas ! &c. &c. autl'ouly 500 U Tickets. TO THE EDITOR OF . THE STAR. • take leave to inform such of your Readers as are fond of the delightful study of Astronothy, that the state of the atmosphere in. the evenings of the pre- sent month is peculiarly favourable for astionornicai obtervatien. The planet Saturn, in particular, is at present very brilliant, and is likely to c9ntinue so to, `eight or ten . days. i save this grand luminary And tcie nt its satellites last night wail a SI; inch acl:rontatic telescope perfectly distinct : the two belts nn.tlie body ,fifs the Planet and then , ti around it, were pea:batty Neely. defined. I am, &C. ASTRONGeI VS. Wesrao•stryir, Fitzroy-square, Anson 12,1815. NifrAL INTELLIGENCE. • COVE OF CORK AUGUST 6. Arrived his Majest ) 's slip ECLAIR from a c-u're. • tiled die CpssTA wr gun:brig on ditto. FALMOUTH, AUGUST ft. • Arrived the Duke of Narlhornu4,h picket, With Mii from Lis') m. Smiled the Arne: k tin .hip St* pleat), for Arn , terd.tm. Arrived "this eetnin.. the Z ph} r, PE !TIT, from the South S •as, nut •15• months. all well ; has rived up Chanel I she left at PAyta, on the mast r)f Peru, in Dccert her last, the ships •Clt.imes and Nimrod..the latter h. run foul of the Thames ani done her si.roe injury ; 1) •Alt ships: were I itherwise all well. lIALF.P . AST TIN P.M.—Since writing the above, a line-of-battle ship, a frigate, and o?her vess is, ip. peared off tiiis port, passing - to the Westwat tict.. posed to he his NI Ajestr's ships Nostromitura LAM), &C. Wl,ll NAPDLEON an,l suite on hoard. PI.VMOIIrH, AUGUST 10. Came To tic Qu pn. slogp of wit-, with disprrchel from Litrin and Gibraltar ; his M rjesty's !;:ps Eat. nkytm. BACCMIS, aad Mut axe. from a e-si;te. tt riv-. 1 the ship Hu..iby, from VAI-.liti.i, Bliecalla, St. Felice, and Gibr.th4r, lad- i with wine, cork, cal lia?u .rice mit, hound t this port tor ord..rs. . PORTSMOUTH, At:GUST 11: • Arrived his Majesty's Trottair and HAT'C, fr.::nr a cruise. Sailed bit 7.1 .jetty'i ships ECIPHR A tin ,•404 RAMNALCIS t!ie it:vc: and 'Weibatilt packet for ILivre; 'Also arrived Ms . IC4* Beam froin Cap . (' Coast and St. fscsc;!a...l's, with gold Arat and kw's she spoke' the Hercnies, *;id Rnhert off St. Mich4el's ; the former bound to Loodua att.& the latter to Liverpool. HAIM ICH, AUGUST It. Arrived the Yr nce of Or.inge parka, with a mail from Hollancl.—Wind West. DEAL, AUGUST 11. Arrived and sailed foe the River, the General Hewitt, from Bengal ; Upton Castle, from 13 -, lnhay ; and his Majesty's ship MADAGASCAR, to Sheerness to be paid off. Came down from the River and remain, the Ocean, for N:w South Wales; and the Bridges Damn, for the Mediterranean. Sailed twelve sail of transports for Deptford. • Five o'Clotk.—Toe Sir J. H. Craig, for Jamaica, is just put back by contrary wirals.—Wind S.W. RAMSGATE, AUGUS 1' 11. Embarked this morning, on board three transports, seven Officers and 160 men of the fAI Battallion 9th Foot, going out to join the Ist Battalion, in ft AMC. About twenty horses, belonging to the Ist Hussars, King's German Legion, a•id! SeVe: Offizers' horses, lut.:ly returned from Ansetica, h..ie also been em barked for France via ()stem! : the transports will not get to sea till nest tide, as they have not been aide to ship all the baggage in time for this, though the greaLt-st exertions had been made to effect. it. A. .!etacfment of ea: Waggon Train is rxpected to artive on Tuesday next in: embarkation. French bouts are daily 3rrivirv± from the other side, with fruit._ eggs, lte. for sale ; ay.: know not whet;:er they bring the worst of their twit best, but it is by no mhos so good as that we can boast of in Oil England. . - reease.-rts.-111: nigh:- bet* eee lee* 'Met/ e'CeIF took place at the l'..c:: of the Goodwin Sand. Ap pears that a boat te!lenging to the Fox, Revenger cutter, fell in wire a latge smuggling boat, wk.), on to :ittempt being mete to seize her, the CTe'V imme diately fired on the Fox's boat, killed three of her einple, and afterwards, sun her down, drowning three others. Two men (the remainder, of the Fos ll boat's crew), have been picked up oaf the beet, which had turned bottom upwards, and were landed at Dell, which we trust may be the means refunding out these desperadoes. One matt was shot deed on board the smuggler, and several wounded, • ANOTUER FAMILY PoISOSILO..—An event of a most melancholy nature had nearly occurred on Settirday last, in the family of a' merchant of the first respecta bility, in Aldersgate-street, from the fatal effects of arsenic. —On the day above mentioned, the Gentle man in question had a select party of friends (two Ladies and two Gentlemen) to dine with him. The dinner passed over, and wine and fruit were placed on the table as usual, when in less than ten minutes, the Lady of the house felt herself so much indisposed. she was obliged to quit the room, and was instantly followed by the other Ladies. The indisposition of the-Lady was almost instantly succeeded by that of the master of the house and one of his guests, who were seized with violent sickness and every symptom of being poisoned. Mr. Wheelwright, of Falcon- . spare, was immediately called in, and on he.tring the symptoms of the invalids described, declared, with out hesitation, that they had taken strong-poison...- The medicines proper for expelling the poison were administered, and an enquiry was instituted as to what they had eaten ? The kitchen was visited, and the cooking utensils were examined, but nothing was discovered which could at all paint out the cause of the accident; and what tendered. the circumstance Mote perpltning was,' that the cook and how-maid, neither of whom had partaken of the dinner sent into the Parlour, were both 'at this period taken ill else.— Dr. Babington, who had arrived in the interval, seg. gested that the deleterious ingredient niust have been eonteined in the wine which had'beeil deink, and to account for the servants being ill, (leo ; : d th.e , v having dune that which is too freq. i.uy prictised, tasted their ma s ter's wine before i: reached his table. This was at ht st stoutly denied I,y both, but on being told their lives depended on their speaking truth, they confessed they had each tasted a very little drop before the butler took up his tray. This led to a discovery of the source from whence the evil had flowed, the wine in the decantn was examined, and was discovered to t c a strong s' lotion of arsenic ; the bottom left in the black bottle •was also anale zed,, when Dr. Behine ton took nearly a dessert spoontel of the powder nett el it, which, from appe irences, hod been in Liu bottle bale the wine was put into it.— Two of the Ludic:: ant'. one of the Gee:l-nice had ter tunately not taken any ut the wine, at.,! the rest ef the company only one glass each when the providentiel tielispasition of the Lady of the house feevented :me more being Laken ; had any one taken a second glass, it is the opinion cf the medical gentleman that tae cfl'ect most have been fatal. At present the suff::rers. tk4ugh still weak, are considered out of all danger. I