Star. — London, England, 1824-02-02 00:00:00

Mow' REVOLT AT PARA AND DREADFUL CATASTROPHE. The fa/lowing is an extract from a letter received from Para, tontaining a detailed narrative of an insurrection amongst the soldiery there, to expel or murder die Por tuguese; and of a consequent deplorable catastrophe, by which upwards of 200 beings came to a horrible death. The letter is dated the 20th of November, and was received by the Unity, which arrived at Liverpool on Wednesday. From the 14th of the month to the 20th (the date of the letter) the inhabitants of Para had been held in the most unpleasant apprehension and alarm, owing to in subordination amongst the troops, who, on the night of the former day, beat to arms, and declared their determination to turn out or murder every Portuguese in the place. They commenced by taking possession of the forts, barracks, and depositories of arms and artillery, armed all who joined ahem, and broke open • the taverns and shops of the Europeans, which became scenes of drunkenness, robbery, and general destruction. They afterwards marched through the town with fixed bayonets, &c. calling out, " Death to the Europeans! Long live independence and the Emperor Pedro!" un til they reached the Palace of Government, where they deposed the President, and elected another of their own choice—a Priest, then a member of Government, and well-known for his hatred to the Portuguese. They then demanded the proscription of nearly all the Government officers, and the confiscation of their property ; the whole of which was promised them. They continued all night and next day rioting and drinking, and the utmost con fusion prevailed throughout the town. Families fled to the country or on board ship ; the houses and shops were shut up, and no persons were seen in the streets but these ruffians, with bludgeons, swords, &c. in small gangs, pillaging, fighting amongst themselves, stabbing each other, and knocking down every Portuguese they met. They thus kept possession of the town till the 15th, when Captain Grenfell, of a brig of war of Cochrane's squadron, landed, with 40 or 50 seamen, and after one Fallout but unsuccessful attempt, got possession of the I:rain, or repository of arms, by surprise; and thence dis patched a detachment of English sailors against a strong body of the rioters, who were robbing two large stores. —After a sharp contest, the sailors obliged them to fly, having killed five or six, and wounded sixteen or eighteen. They also took about forty or fifty prisoners. The greater part of the soldiers then retired ; and early next morning (the 16th) Captain Grenfell sent round to invite the inhabitants to meet at the Train, where they all received arms and ammunition, and, when formed, jointly with the militia, and eight pieces of ar tillery, manned by Englishmen, the soldiers were or dered to lay down their arms in their quarters, and sur render themselves prisoners; which, contrary to general expectation, they immediately did, arid were marched between two columns of volunteers to the Palace-square, headed and flanked by volunteers, artillery, and militia. They were ranged in a column with the militia in front of them, and the loaded artillery heal fug upon them, to fire ills:ant - Iy, should they resist the sentences about to be pas,ed. S ion after, a body of cavalry, for ty to fifty strong, who had not yet , uriende: ed, galloped up With an intention to charge and throw the irilartry into confusion, that their comrades might escape; but seeing an unexpected force opposed to them (Captain Grenfell having had two pieces of arullery pointed against them) they drew op, and surrendered. —There were then 500 unarmed men on the ground, and the orders to the writer, who was Captain of a gun, were, if they stint:A from their ranks, to tire upon them. Ever ything was as still as death. A council of war was held before the Palace, and it was determined that five of the ringleaders shou ld tion. The serjeant who commanded the cavalry, a notorious character, one of the heads of the rebellion, and a reputed murderer, was selected as the fist to suffer. He, at first, conceived the whole was a joke, but finding the case desperate, he only begged to be con fessed, and was allowed five minutes. He knelt down at the month of a gun, with a pi icst at his side. The moment the time had expired, he was taken to the front, and shot by a file of soldiers. Tire four others were then brought out and dispatched in the same way. The whole five were nototiodsly wicked and murderous cha racters. About 150 of the known rioters were their picked from the ranks, and sent to prison, whence, with about 100 others of all sorts, taken robbing or receiving stolen goods they were next day sent on board a prize-ship, Intim harbour. Tue remainder of the troops were, after a severe reprimand, ordered to their quarters. The writer then proceeds to relate a most horrible oc currence on board of the prison-ship, which contained about 256 individuals. About nine, on the night of the 19th, the sentinels on deck heard a great noise below, and repeatedly ordered quietness, without effect. In a short time, they found the prisoners were forcing the hatches, and they immediately fired one or two volleys among them, after which, everything was quiet. In the morning, they took off the hatchet, to remove the dead, if any, when they found only fore r nut of the 256 alive! The place presented a most appalling spectacle of lacerated and mangled bodies. Some had their eyes thrust out ; the tongues cif some hung nut of thcir mouths: others had their ribs stove in: mouths torn from ear to ear. Some were hanging Ly their ham mock• strings by the neck ; others by their middle, with their heads down ; an .I some had under gin:o mutilation too hot rible to be The writer had this ac count,at r nich human nature sliiiddvrs, horn an eye witness, the nist Lieutenant of the b. ig, w ho was first on board in the nrrn fling. It aprear s the carnage com menced by a party of them wishing to murder all the Europeans who were their fellow-prisoners (about, per haps, ten or twelve in nu rube:), but that being in the tho k, they dispatched ninny who were not, which ex cited ill-blood. They did not, moreover, all ag,ree upon escaping by force, which inc.eased the animosity amongst them, and a mutual n:assacre of the most savage nature commenced; for they had no edged weapons, nor anything, but their hands and their hammock-ropes. They were all naked, their clothes being torn from their backs. They had piled up the dead bodies under the hatches to form a kind of plat form to enable them to reach the gi atings, and most of these bodies were of Europeans. About 20 were killed by the discharges of musketry. The four who were found alive bad hidden themselves under the water casks at the commencement of the fray, and had not, it appeared, suffered in health. One man was found nearly strangled, but still alive ; but be died on the way to the hospital, from a slight fall. It is the writer's opinion, that, shocking as this catastrophe was, it was probably fortunate for the friends of order, as it appeared that these wretches bad formed the most diabolical plans of massacre and plunder. (The other account to which we have alluded, states that the English, too, were marked out amongst their victims). Another account supposes they had destroyed each other in a fit of insanity. Co. PIRACY IN LOMBARDY. -.6.-- The Journal des Debats of Friday contains the sen tence of the Imperial Senate of Lombardy on twenty five persons accused of high treason, including among them several Noblemen : of these, nine have been ac quitted, and sixteen condemned to capital punishment. Ten of the latter class have made their escape, and have been condemned par contumace. Nine have been ac quitted, and only seven are in the hands of the Austrian Government. The sentence of five of them has been commuted into imprisonnkent. The following is an analysis of the facts and poceedings in this case, ex tracted from the !toile of Saturday's date : " It may be recollected that a little before the return of Bonaparte to France, a plot, formed in Lombardy, was baffled, and the Emperor at that time pardoned the chief authors of those criminal intrigues. In 1815, Murat revived all the secret societies, aad they had ac. knowledged him for their chief in all Italy, when he was overcome by the Austrian arms. His fall rendered the factious more circumspect, but they worked in the dark. " Carbonarism and Adelfilme were in 1816 the secret Societies which predominated in Italy: Entirely simi lar in their demagogical tendency, the one proclaimed the institution of the Agrarian law, the other regicide. They varied from each other only in the different ce remonies which they had adopted. The centre of the - first was at Naples; that of the second in France. " In 1819, the existence of these sects was manifested by plots: thirteen of the principal sectaries were art ested, and the Emperor again commuted the capital punish. ment to imprisonment. " The revolution at Naples in 1820 gave new activity to all the intrigues of the Carbdriari. Count Louis Porro Lamberlaqui placed himself at their head in 1820. He fled in 1821, and was condemned, par contumace, to the penalty of death. 66 At Rome,•Milan, and Twin, Ade/fist/re, which had assumed the title of the Society of Sublime Perfect Mas ters, and which was connected with France through Ge• noa, excited the revolution in Piedmont. The sectaries of the several States -had provided their satellites with arms and ammunition ; they intended to raise Italy, and that Peninsula was to be politically divided by the Po, and governed by the Spanish Constitution and a Feder ml Union. A Junta of Government, divided into seven different sections, was to be formed. The sectaries had already arranged a plan for a national guard. The in vasion of Lombardy by the Piedmontese army was fixed upon as the time of the combined movement which was to take place. The Piedmontese army would have marched in two columns into the states of Italy. The first was to penetrate into Lombardy—the second to enter the States of Parma and Modena, and endeavour to se duce the Papal garrison of Bologna. The reader re . members the events at Aleiandria and Tut in, and the entrance of the revolutionists into Novara. The project was then formed to excite popular tumult at Milan. " At the same time written notice was sent to the conspirators of Brescia, desiring them to accelerate the revolt in that province. 'Lie leiter addressed to them contained precise instructions relative to the disarming of the garrison, whi At they were to effect; to the ex pedition, the object of which was to surprise the for tresses of Peschtera and Rocca d'Aufo; to the carrying off the public coffers, which they were to seize upon ; and while on the one hand they pressed the insurrection of several provinces of Lombardy, on the other, letters after letters, and emissaries alter emissaries, were sent to call in the enemy and hasten the invasion. " Count Frederick Confalonieri, accused by the pub lic voice of the assassination of Prina, was at the head of the conspiracy. " The Liberals ~f France recommended him, at the beginning of the month of January, 18'21, to the con spirators of Piedmont, and Confalonieri constituted 'himself the supreme centre of the conspiracy in Lom bardy. Pecchio, Vegoni, Demeester, Pallavicini, be came his most active agents. " Confalonieri, far from manifesting the smallest re pentance or the whole cons se of the proceedings, con stantly displayed the most invincible obstinacy in his crime, of which he made a complete confession with a sot tof boasting. A Ftencliman (Alexander Philip An dryane, at Paris) was one of the most ardent sectaries: —Being suspected, after several journies in France, Switzeiland, and Italy, his papers were seized, and it was found that the Grand Firmament, founding its hopes on the Spanish revolution, still entertained, pi eviously to the latter part of 1822, the hope of renewing the in trigue which the political events of Naples and Pied mont had broken ; and now there was fo, med at Genoa, under its auspices, an active centre of co-operation, which powerfully seconded its revolutionary vi,:ws di rected against the tranquillity of Italy. " The conspiring party which w.ts at Geneva had the name of Congtess ;' Andryane was initiated, in the quality of extraordinary Dzacon, into the frightful mysteries of the sect. " His arrest at Milan prevented all the operations which he was to attempt. Legally convicted by his own confession of the enot mous crime of which he has been guilty, he has been condemned to the punishment which was his due." Danirl Grims',ire has been committed to Berks County ja:l, charged ..vith the wifful murder of his in fant son, by pouting a quantity of boiling water from die tea-kettle into the &iild's throat. It may be remai ked, as an instance of the successful enter prise of the Whale-fishing Associations of Dundee, that the quantity of whale-fins imported last season, amounted to upwards of 125 tons—one-fifth of the quantity brought to Britain from the Arctic seas. The number of vessels engaged in the fishing was ten ; and the number of tons brought by each, ranges front 7 to 16.—Dundee Paper. urlos.--BEARs' GREASE.--J. ATKINSON, Impor ter of the Genuine BEARS' GREASE, respectfully cau tions the Public against numerous Counterfeits of the above Ar ticle ; many of these Counterfeits are sold as low as is. and are only lard, marrow, &c. and some are very injurious to the Hair. The Genuine of his importation has a Bear printed on the top of the pot, and a printed Bill round the pot with his Signature and Address. —The high estimation this Article has long held for the Growth of Hair, and the remarks of a celebrated Modern Lecturer on Physiology, that " BEARS' GREASE from the Animal in its native climate possesses very remarkable properties for regene rating the Hair," supersedes the necessity. of further remark.— J. Atkinson will add that this is a genuine article, which he regularly receives once in six or eight weeks frodi his Correspon dents in Russia. It is of the very finest quality, and very pleasant for dressing the Hair, making it beautifully soft and glossy. Sold by the Importer, Jaatis Avemsou, Perfumer, 44, Gerard -street, Soho, London ; and by Appointment. For the Venders' names see the Advertisement. ~„ ... - THE EVENING STIR,. LONDON. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2. 1524. Nurse...vox or roe VIRGIN MAlLY.—Holiday at the Bank. THE FUNDS. STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols opened this morning at 901, 91, but soon after lowered to 901 for the Account. The Expresses from Paris have brought the French Rentes of Saturday, four o'clock, at 96f. 60c. Spanish 241; &rip 81. .. FOREIGN FUNDS. Spanish Bonds opened at 25, but soon declined to 24k, 3, E, with a heavy Market. Mexican Bonds opened at si, and got up to E. Current l'rices : Colombian 66, Old Spanish 24} to I, New Aus trian sa, Chilian 791, Russian 89} to 90, French Scrip 8, Mexican Loan Si, Old Prussian 911, New 894. Although we are without any later intelligence from Jamaica than that which we communicated on Satur day, yet the private letters we have seen furnish some 'additional particulars,which may perhaps be somewhat highly coloured from the state of alarm in which they were written. That in a population where the whites bear so small a proportion to the negroes, the slightest symptom of insubordination should excite alarm, and that the first act of insurrection should be punished with prompt severity, is natural enough. It appears that the Jamaica Government obtained in- 1 formation of the meditated insurrection a day or two' before the time fixed upon for a general rising among the Negroes of St. Mary and St. George, which was to have taken place on the 17th of December. The plan was to begin by setting fire to the wot ks in several places and to destroy the white people as they came for ward to extinguish the flames. The plot was discovered by a domestic who, anxious to save his master's life, ad vised him to go on board of ship. The hoy was seized and examined by the Magistrates, and his testimony supported by a man named by him, who also gave full evidence of the nature of the conspiracy. Ten of the ringleaders were arrested, eight of whom, as we stated on Saturday, were executed. The day previous to the discovery of the plot, a Special Slave Court was held at Savanna-la-filer, when George and Pompey, slaves to Jamcs Graham, a free man of colour, were tried for being present at a meet ing formed for the purpose of administering unlawful oaths, by thinking human blood mixed Kith rum, &c It being proved that they did actually drink human blood mixed with rum, and had taken a general oath :of fidelity and secrecy to each other, they were sentenced 'to be transported off the island for life. ' As the Government of Jamaica has fortunately been enabled to suppress the embryo insurrection, we trus t that the example that ha., been made of the ringleaders, and the vigilance of the rey,.l.4r troops and miiitia, will prevent any further attempts at revdr, particulaily as 1 , the arrival of the 7th and 42d Regiments was daily ex_ peeled. The idea that the British Parliament had de cried the emancipation of the slaves, and that the planters resisted it, is said, as in the case of Demerara, to have been the cause of the insurrection. As the British Parliament meets to-morrow, we doubt not but some measure calculated to remove the er i oneous impression the proceedings of last Session seems to have made ; and to allay the irritated feelings of the Colonists, mill be one of the earliest subjects to which ill call the attention of the Legislature. It is rental kable, that the speech of the Governor of Jamaica, on proroguing the House of Assembly to the 25th instant, does not even allude to the momentous que,:ion of the Slave Trade, with which the island had been agitated dui ing the whole period of the Session. This forenoon we received the Doile of Saturday night (dated yesterday), by Express. The King of FRANCE is so far recovered as to he able to take an air. int. In an article from Madrid, the King of SPAIN-is said to have established the strictest economy in the Pa. lace—and no wonder, an empty Treasury is a great anti dote to extiavagance. The following are extracts : PARIS, JANUARY Prince Carignan leaves Paris, for Turin, on Monday next, at five o'clock in the morning. The news we receive from the Departments are excel lent : the Elections are going on favourably to the friends of the Throne. The Austrian Observer, which has hitherto been silent on the victories of the Greeks, has at length noticed them, and contains a long article on the subject. Mr. Brown, new Minister from the United States to France, arrived on the 28th at Havre, in the American brig Cayane. The Constitutional troops who were under the orders of Brigadier Lloberas, were disbanded to wards the end of December by Baron d'Eroles. The same has taken place with the garrisons of Barcelona and Tarrassa : the garrison of Hostalrich has also been disbanded. D'Eroles has his head-quarters at Sarria. MADRID, JANUARY 22. Orders have been sent to establish Military Commis. missions in all the provinces before the expiration of 15 days, as fixed by the Royal Decree. The Junta insti tuted for Agriculture and Commerce assemble several times in the week ; their labours will be submitted to the Council of the King. The revolutionary Journals, which invent falsehoods, pretend that a certain Ugarte was the favourite of the King, and exercised the greatest influence on his per son; but we must observe that this is false, and that his Majesty has no other favourite than his people, whose interest he has continually , at heart; and he has esta, blished the most strict economy in his Palace. By a Decree dated yesterday, his Majesty orders that notice is to be given for the classes •f individuals who are to form part of the Royal Guard. BRUSSELS. It is asserted that his Excellency NI. Falck is appointed Minister to the Court of London. Faasca Porn, JAN. 51.—Renter opened at 96. End of the month 95.95. Spanish 252. Ducats B 1 A. Scrip 8. This forenoon we received Hamburgh Papers, to tl:e 24th ult. and German . Papers two days later, fr om which we make the following extracts : ST. PETERSBURGH, JANUARY 9. The report of the nomination of the Emperor's Ad. jutant-General, Prince Wolkonsky, to the office or Minister of the Imperial Household, gains ground. I : seems probable that the jurisdiction of this new de partment will be very extensive. Prince Boris Kurakin has presented, for toe tei•el his life, all the !alai y and emoluments which Ac crue to him as Senator to the Establishment for Mili tary Orphans, which is under the patronage of Ler Majesty the Empress Dowager, who has honoured him on this occasion with a very gracious letter. Count Gurzen, lately Minister of Finance, has been for some time past in bad health. STOCKHOLM, JANUARY 3. The Portuguese Chargé d'AfFaiies, Chevalier veira, who left this city about a fortnight ago, to pro ceed to Rome, there to fill the same post, received dispatches when he reached Ystadt, which induced him to go to England, in order to return to Lisbon. JANUARY 13.—1 t is said that the Crown Prince %ill go to Norway some weeks sooner than hii Maje,ty, namely, in the month of March. It is not kseven whether he is to remain there as Viceroy. The grand entertainment to be given by the city will take place on the 28th of this month. SWITZERLAND, JANUARY 14. Great exertions are now making to regulate, by spe cial conventions, the commercial intercourse with the neighbouring German States. It is hoped that the ne gociations will be sufficiently advanced for the subject to be brought before the Diet in the coarse of the summer. Letters from Milan say, that a change in the positirns of the Austrian troops in Italy will take place in tl.e Spring. A column of the troops in the kingdom of the Two Sicilies will leave that country and come to Upper Italy. The Regiments which are to return to their old quarters in the German hereditary dominions of the Emperor will set out on their march at the same time. A grand review of all the troops in Upper Italy is spoken of, at which the Emperor is expected. ODESSA, JANUAnY F. The following is the Ilatti Scheriff of the Sultan, is sued on the appointment of the Grand Vizier, Gha leb Pacha, on the 13th of December (0. S.), 1823: 44 To my Supreme Vizier, and unlimited, upright, and faithful Dc puty, Esser° hfelimed Said Ghaleb Pacha, greeting z " It is known to thee that tl:y predecessor Ali Paella, in consequence of his inattentive and careless character. has done no business since his appointment, as it was his duty ; and as his conduct has by no means answered my expectations, his removal has been necessary. " As thou bast long been employed in affairs of im portance, and art acquainted with all the affairs of my Empire, and hast constantly given proofs of probity and fidelity, I have appointed thee my Supreme Vizier, with unlimited power, and intrust the conduct of affairs to thy tried experience and fidelity. Conduct thyself in everything according to the Holy Law, and endea vour to put the most important affairs in order. May the GOD of MERCY support thee in all things. " As it is evident that the affairs of the Morea are not yet terminated, this is to be ascribed to the want of zeal in the persons intrusted with the management of them ; thou wilt take care that the necessary mea sures be adopted in concert, by sea and land—that the fortresses and towns which are in the hands of the rebels may be speedily taken from them, and this matter be quickly terminated. Thou wilt see that the necessary money and provisions for the inhabitants of my capital be got ready betimes, that they may not suffer any want. Thou wilt also see that the said inhabitants, as well as those of my whole Empire, enjoy perfect tran quillity. May the favourite of the Lola) (Nfahomet) make use of thee for his honour and glory, and as an instrument to manage successfully the affairs of my Empire confided to thee." Letters and Papers from Demerara, to the 13th ult. have reached us. They represent the colony as agitated, not on account of any new attempt to disturb its tran quillity, but respecting the fate of the Missionary Smith, whose case had been referred to his MAJESTY, to whom it is reported he had been recommended to mercy. It is stated in an article from Montego Bay, on the autho rity of a Mrs. POWERS, who had arrived there from De merara, that " upwards of 1,000 negroes had suffered, and a great many were still missing from several plan tations. Many slaves, as well as free negroes, had been executed, and their heads fixed on poles in various parts of the country. Martial law still continued, and would remain in force until after Christmas. A reinforcement of troops had been sent from Barbadoes, and they were in daily expectation of others from England." There must certainly be some mistake as to the num ber of slaves that had suffered, as it does not appear, by any of the accounts, that anything like the number here stated had fallen, either in the insurrection, or by the law afterwards. The Jamaica Papers contain the proceedings of a General Court-Mai tial at Demerara, for the trial of a slave named Jack, belonging to Success Plantation, for being concerned in the late insurrection in that colony. The prisoner was the second leader of the insurrection' his father Quamina, of Success, being the chief. Twenty-one witnesses were called for the prosecution. After they had given their testimony, the prisoner lead lon.; defence. 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