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)s I , i . , 1 , i I t 1) i• 1 t ' • t 'I I ' rl 1 i 1 i s 1 : ''' • I • # 1 1 ` l . I _2 seeles AMERIC'AN PAPERS. The Charleston Castries of the 10th Decernber mentions the receipt of Jamaica Papers to the 20th November, stating that a Caracas Gazette, of No vember 17, had been received there, which announced that a severe battle had been fought between the Royalists and Patriots, in which the latter were vic torious; but the Papers did not state whether the Revolutionary Army had entered Caraccas. NEW YORK, DECEMBER to. We expressed some hesitation in giving full credit to the report of the capture of General MINA by sur prise, as received by a vessel from Havannah at this - port. The following extract of a letter, communi cared by a Gentleman of the first respectability to the Editor, will tend to shew at least his capture by sur prise is not very probable: Extract of a Letter from New Orleans, dated Nov. We have to-day a rumour of General MINA being in the -vicinity of Mexico, with an army of 10,000 men, and of his possessing the confidence, and his cause the affections, of the people at large ; the probability of his final success gains 'strength daily." CONGRESS—IIOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, WEDNILIDAT, DICEKILta 17• The Srivoceit laid before the. House the following communication from the Treasury Department, which was ordered to be printed with the accompanying do- currents Treasury Department. Dec. 17, 1817. Sin—l have the hcmour to transmit herewith, fOr the information of the House of Representatives, an Estimate of the appropriations for the service of the year 1818, amounting to 10,925,191,62 dollars, For the Civil List )nscrnaneous Rspenses • , 490,308,51 intercourse with Foreign Nations The Military F.nablishment, including Arranges and Indian D.l...rttrient N:.val Establishment, including the Matins Caps 2,611,376,20 Dollars The Funds out of which the appropriations for the year 1818 may be discharged, are the following Ist. The gum of 6,000,000' dollars, Annually reserved' by the Act of the 4th of August. 1790, out of the'Duties and Customs towards the expenses of Govesmnent. 2d. The proceeds of the Sump Duties. and the Duty on Sugar refined within the United States. 3d. The surplus which may remain of the Customs and In. tarisal Duties, after satisfying the pledge for which they are pledged and appropriated. ath. Any other Unappropriated Woney which may come into the Treasury duffing the year Idle. IL have the honour to be, very respectfully, Sir, Your most obedient servant, wiLLIAX x. CRAwTORD. The Host. fsezdass, of the House of Representatives. Wa.4atanroN, Dac. 01—The report in some of our papers of the President purposing to appoint Mr. Robert Welsh Minister to Prussia, is not entitled to any credit. We learn from a source that may be de petided on, that if the government reciprocates the appointment of the King of Prussia, Mr. C. Hughes, of New 1:ork, now residing at Stockholm, as Charge d'Affaires of the United States, will have the place; his high standing with the Executive hew, and dignified representation of the national character abroad, will insure him tie appointment." THE EVENLNG STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, JANUARYI 1818. FUNDIS. Talcs al STOCKS TIM DAT AT TIMMS IeCAN I T Reduced 61{—Cons.800—Cons.for Feb. 801 81 4 per Cent. 99t —Navy Annuities 10514 India Beads 106 108,pr.—Excb. Bills 19 29 pr. This morning the Comb opened at 81 7.Bths 82, and conti nued at that price until twelve o'clock : scarcely any business was dune but making up accounts, and no defaulter was declared at that hour. The Paris Papers of Saturday arrived this morning. The following are Extracts : PARIS, JANUARY]'/. His*Majesty is now quite fret' from the gout, and enjoys perfect health. He received on Tuesday the foreign Ambassadors at his Court; on Wednesday presided at a Council of Ministers, which laited from one o'clock till five ; and yesterday transacted busi ness with the Duke of Richelieu. The King has issued a letter to the Vicars-General of Paris, ordering a solemn service to be celebrated tLroughout the kingdom on the 21st instant, the an niversary of the day when Louis XVI. was executed. Ile commands that there shall be no discourse or fu neral oration delivered from the pulpits ; but that the testament of that Monarch alone shall be read, in which be shews himself so submissive to religion, so tender to his family and his subjects, and so mag nanimous towards his enemies. A report prevails that the Duchess of Angouleme will. in the course of the ensuing month, make a tour to lloprdeaux and through the Southern •Provinces. • M. Lafitte, the banker, has informed the different Mayors and charitable societies in Paris, that the sum of 100,000,francs has been placed in his hands, by a certain number of benevolent persons, and that t he amount assigned to each institution is ready to be paid. Honoured be the benefactors of the poor, who have covered such a generous action with the veil of secrecy ! It is said the fourth number pf the Courier des Utrnbres has been seized. Recent letters from Martinique estimate the losses. sustained by that colony from the late hurricane at 25,000,000 of francs. What is more afflicting still than the loss of property on the island is, that more than a thousand individuals have perished, and nine tenths of the vessels have been shipwrecked. on Monday, before mass, the Count de Goltx, Envoy Extraordinary of Prussia, in private audience presented to the King a letter from his Sovereign, no tifying the marriage of Prince Frede?ick William Louis of Prussia with Princess ‘Vilhelmina Louisa d'Anhalt-Bcrnbourg. Accounts from Geneva of January 1, state, that the proceedings between 3lustapha Effendi and three private persons not having been terminated by means of submissions were dettrmined ott the 20th by the Tribunal of Commerce, which has conceded to the stranger part of his conclusions. It is said that he is on the point of setting out for Egypt, where he has already dispatched a great number of machines, proper for the spinning of cotton. He takes with him 42 persons. We learn with regret that three of the Missionaries whom the Bishop of Louisiana had sent out before him on that mission, have died of the yellow fever at New Orleans. Intelligence has been received at Marseilles that an American squadron of eight ships of war had been before Tunis. The Bey entered into a negotiation with the Commodore, and the differences between the Regency and United States were amicably ar ranged by means of a sum of money paid by the Bey. The American Consul had been reinstated at Tunis. According to the same letters, the plague continued its ravages at Bona, on the frontiers of Tunis. Recent letters from the United States of America contain the folltiwing statement, which we give without guaranteeing itc authenticity :—" Amongst several French Officers wh,o had proceeded to. the Brazils at the period of the conspiracy breaking out at Pernambuco, were a M. and Colonel Le patre. They were both arrested by the Portugeese, and important papers were, it is said, found on them relative to the insurrection which had broken out.--r They were in consequence brought before the T: ibu nal established for the trial of the rebels, condemned to death, and executed." CHAMBER OF PEERS, JANUARY 15. • The Chamber met at one o'clock, under the Pre sidency of the Chancellor. The Order of the Day was moved on the Report of the Special Committee charged with the examina tion of the project of the law on the Liberty of the Press. The Assembly ordered the Report to be printed, and adjourned the discussion of the project of thc)aw until Monday next. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES,, JANUARY 15. The sitting opened at one o'clock. The Ministers of War and of the Interior were present. A Report was made from the Commission on Pe titions. The -Mayors of several of the Communes in the neighbourhood of Lyons, who had been removed from office by Marshal Marmont, demanded that the inquiry into their condict which had been comm,enced before their dismissal, should be continued, that no doubt might remain as to the honourable manner in which they had executed their functions in the difficult circumstances in which they were placed. This Peti tion was referred to the Minister of the Interior. M. Robert, formerly as Advocate, addressed se veral memorials to the Chamber. In the first the pe titioner complained of the Minister of Police, for having prohibited the announcement in theJcurnals of a work, entitled " Causes of the Principal Everits that have taken place in France for the last 32 years, with the life of the Author." In the second petition he demanded justice for the seizure of his manuscripts on the 11th of December, by the Agents of the Po lice, acting by a warrant from the Prefect of Police. The Chamber decided that the. laws do not authoriie the seizure of manuscripts, but that the cognizance of such infractions of law is reserved to the Tribu nals. In his third memorial the , petitioner accused the Minister of General Police of having exacted, under the title of the Secret Budget of his Ministry, l a tax of one centime and a half on every number of a Journal called "Le Fidele Ami du Roi" over and above the three centimes legally established by the law of the finances. He therefore demanded as against the Minister the restitution of the 40th part of test thousand francs which he had unduly paid. After some observations from M. Cornet d'lncourt, and M. de Chauvelin, the tendency of which was, that this charge was of so serious a nature as to 'demand fur ther inquiry into the truth of the alleged facts by the commissien, the petition was referred to the Com mission on the Budget. The Chamber then resumed the discussion on the Law of Recruiting. - I The Count Dorowr, Deputy from Charente, sup ported the Project, contending that it was absolutely necessary. He concludedby proposing several amend menu, amongst which was one, purporting that the Royal Guards should be recruited, half by meets of men selected from the army, and the other half by , voluntary enlistment. He likewise proposed an ad ditional article, that no Officer should be deprived of his rank, except according to legal forms. M. BARTHE-LABASTIDE attacked it, as unconsti-! tutional, and above all, as encroaching upon the, Royal prerogative. M. DE CuwevigiaN spoke in favour of annually voting the army. He saw no inconvenience that could arise from each year legislating upon the bud get of men of the War Minister. He entered at con siderable length into the various details of the law, and expressed his regret that he saw nothing in the Project relative to the National Guard so necessary to the support of the State and the security of liberty. M. DE S.ALABERRY condemned the Project, as being neither monarchical, constitutional, nor politic. Discussion adjourned till to-morrow. SITTING OF - JANUARY 16. The discussion on the Project of Law relative to the Recruitment of the Army was resumed. M. ROYER GOLLARR. --France, surrounded by powerful nations which maintain regulan-ttlnve k 'ls in want of an army capable of making its indepen dence rented. The law whfch is now proposed has for its object, by creating such an army, to &A* in harmony witk the Charter. h is true the Charier has abolished the Conscription ; but were this enactment to be interpreted with too much rigour, the Army would become a nullity. The difficulty seems re solved in the only manner it can be, by the prefe rence which the Project of Law gives in the first in stance to voluntary enlistment over forced recruit ment—by this preference the Charter is fulfilled. In regard to the question, whether the vote for the army should be fixed or annual, it is in truth a mat ter of no interest to Government ; for in voting thC Supplies, which are necessarily variable, the Cham bers must, in spite of Government and of themselves, virtually renew the vote of recruitment every time they give a new grant of money to carry it into effect. In every respect the Project of Law appears emi nently constitutional and national ; and it does ho nour to the Government which proposes it. • M. DI VOOUE.—The only question is to know whe ther the Project before us is reconcilable with the Article of the Charter abolishing the Conscription ? I must have it proved to me, that it differs essen tially from that compulsory system, before I can support it, and on this point I must say that nothing has been brought forivard to make this difference sensible. Voluntary enrolments properly organized, will always suffice in France to raise such an army as will vindicate its honour and independence.— It is only necessary to appeal to Frenchmen, when the hour of danger arrives, to have that appeal an swered in a way becoming a brave and patriotic people. That hour has not yet come—the Ministers have expressly declared to you, that it is from no apprehension' f danger that this measure has origi nated—and the project being therefore quite as un called for as it is unconstitutional, I shall vote for its rejection. M. BounoitAu.—The question of chief importance. seems to be, whether the contingent should be fixed fora series of years, or voted every year? Ina Con stitutional Monarchy, such as ours, the rights and powers are so perfectly balanced, that there is no reason to fear the least invasion on the part of the Crown, and the fixing of the contingent for a series of years seems to me, therefore, a measure which may he ventured on with the greatest safety. M. DR LA BOU/DONNATIL—If you give to the Mo narch - the power, for a series of years, of recruiting the Army without the concurrence of the Chambers —if you accord to him an annual levy of forty thousand men, over whom you are to have no -controul—if you thereby furnish him with the means of arbitrarily augmenting the army—you will deliver up to him obsolete power—he will only have . need of a strong will to disregard epiniop, to enslave the 5.1 s. to command the purses of *lie D ooolp -,-(Gratt stgi‘ntion in 474 Hal!).—Further discussion; adjourned till to-mcrros-. French 5 per Cents, January 16, 66 f. 95 c. BERLIN, JANUARY I. Lieutenant-General Deriike has published an Apo. logy for the Prussian Noblesse, in which, with all the feeling of a Chevalier of the age of Louis XIS'. he endeavours to prove that these Noblesse, who were in nearly the exclusive possession of all the stiperior places of the Kingdom, both civil and military, until 1816, had always displayed a truly chivalric spirit, and that it was by them the Prussian Monarchy was carried to that degree of splendour which it possessed previous to the battle of Jena. He adds, that though betrayed by fortune in that battle, iniuhed by Jacobin writers, and sacrificed to the blindhatred of the people. they had arisen with a new lustre since 1813, and lexcl rendered Prussia by their victories more power ful than ever, and insists that the Noblesse, with all their ancient privileges, are essential to the existence ofthe State. The Lieutenant-General seems wholly to have forgotten that the King was under the neces sity in 1807 of forming a Military Tribunal of Justi fication and Pacification, which condemned a great number of noble Officers to punishments of various gradations. from perpetual imprisonment to cashier ing--he has forgotten that in 1813, 1814, and 1815, a number of excellent Officers were drawn from the third estate ; while in 1816, all the Officers, with a few exceptions, were of the Noblesse. PRIVATE LETTER. " Pau‘, JAVVAIT 17. _ _... . 6 , The Duke de Fitzjames is called from the Court for having printed his opinion on the Law Project respecting the Journals—an opinion which he had not delivered in the Chamber of Peers, because the Ministerial party in that Chamber had succeeded in bringing the question to a vote, before several Mem bers whose names were inscribed for taking part in the discussion had spoken. The opinion of the Duke is now printed, and selling publicly in the same man ner as that of M. de Chateaubriand. The chief ob ject cf the Duke in this speech, which he intended to have spoken, is to expose the politi ca l s y stem o f t h e present Administration,; which he criticises with great severity :—' The revolution,' he says, c engendered Bonaparte, and Bonaparte engendered t h e Ministry: As yet this disgrace has not had the effect of depriving the Duke of any of his places, neither that of first Gentleman to Monsieur, nor that of Colonel 'of the Cavalry of the National Guard of Paris. Ministers have made applications to Monsieur (the Count d'Artois) as Colonel-General of the National Guards of France, to deprive the Duke cf his rank in that corps, but his Royal Highness refund, adding that he would sooner resign himself. The Ministers have gone the length of holding a Council to consider whether the resignation of the Count d'Artois ought to be accepted. Upon the whole, they have avenged themselves cn the Duke only by halves, and that is the worst sort of vengeance ; fur, instead of ridding themselves of their adversaries, they only insp ir e them with more activity and energy," SOUTH AMERICAN AFFAIR We have already informed our Readers ;J ai new army destined for the re-subjugatio n o f 5 America, and now collecting in tlie.provint..,, tremadura and Andalusia, consists of seve. t two hundred men, including two corps of ,„ and is commanded by Lieuten,int•Getierai c.,,. LABISEAL. The hirelings of PERl:biz/4 N : _ have such people even in Lon , lon—tl4 FERDINAND exult at the intelligence, and sv:: assured that the unnatural reLellson down. What! Is this the first force that has against " these vile Insurgent-, been so many bands of armed mun . • errand before, that we hare lost cl..r •-• can we refresh our memories b;• • hers as occupying the diferent r•nN.•••.- America; for on looking to al' nu- • that quarter, we find but a few the hosts that have been sent acros. t 1.• force the people again to submit to Of FERDINAND, and the benic 4. o ~! quisition. What has become of then: leave the abettors of Spanish tyranny to answer the question. But " the Spaniards will nosy possess ats 7 , 2c . naval force in that quarter, in c(..lseque. , .ce ~f purchase of the Russian men of war. - .....‘V 1 h„, to learn, however, by what means the broadsides from ships of war can he mai.... on the Independent armies, which gees 2. • z ., of the country. It is this possession of that renders the Patriots so strong—:-.2r. - nerable. How stand the Patriots anl at this moment in Venezuela? The la:._-. five isolated towns on the coat—:Le fo:r.c-' seven provinces with all the:r resonrrec J. of their tow:rs, the navigatic:-. of all r . nt the command of all the cattle. R obliged to. import all their supplie. abound in every requisite—except These they have the means v.- this is the case there v - ili • of the world, be found er.tcrprizire: countries ready to supply them. We have been exultingly rernlndei •-• of the capture of MINA. If • depended on a single arm, the nev-s s- .• appalling : but the Patriots have it MINA, and they will fight again.' tion was so galling as to compel t!..c.r. • of revolution when without a sin,.c insult or take vengeance on an (T r y-, - be subdued with the arrriec, the the means which they rixv poi, .- Revolution co rime:iced in ..• their forts with wooden caar: - .t wet: • 1...41§; Proclamations were printed Kith wo, - • which they manufactured for the purpo‘:. 1. be thought that the death of one v.-ar,i(.: . any depressing effect on the energies of sue:, But are we sure that JII cs w has fallen? Wee that-on various occasions the Royalists ir. have had a Te Deem for victory, when it terwards that there had not even been a _ ---- - We have frequently been assured in t Gazettes of the death of MAC CiRrCOR . Commanders. whom we have min atterw drubbing the Spanish Generals. The Ls:: death is doubted in the New Ycrk papers. RAMSGATE, J.-JAW:Mr 14. Arrived about half-past six last evening, from lais, the Poll packet, of Dover, ('apt. Srviss, h.ll on board his Grace the Duke of WILL/NGTO. companied by Lord . ARTHUR HILL. Clionel Fl MANTLE, and Captain HOOD of the 43d Regin It appears the Noble D u k e h ad given the Capta the Poll express orders to land him at this port, 11 ing our harbour's mouth to be at all times ire! 7 a bar to obstruct the vessel's entrance ; and iaz could get in or out at any time of tide. Sir 11 LlA.st CURTIS, with his usual public spirit. open in ing the illustrious WEL L LNG TON had landed litre. mediately waited upon his Grace, at the .tibic.:.! tel, to invite him and suite to his hospitable 111.: but from the urgency of the Duke's errand n: country, he politely decliaed the invitation; 27: . . ter partaking of a hasty dinner. procoeJed don, in hii own travelling carlia&e., ove:—. the gallant Duke bka% heartily bje-standers, on setting off from the Altik The REGENT is expected to hold a Lew.: C ton House on the Nth, and the QUELS a room on the ISth of February. Last night the QUEENS tradesmen houses in honour of the celebration ci the (4: - : Birth-day. Her :NlairsrY has beer. graciously t!easej point Master R. l'Eacy 13mA:tits yin of Cc'.o How.ti:D DOUGLAS, Bart.) to be one of her l'arNs cf lionouiV Lilts (iusNixo, Esq. of Lower Grosvc cne (.1 the Surgeons of St. George - s II atisointri to succeed the late Sir J as Surge, a Extraordinary to his Nississi The I)uke of YORK strained his left an soy Forest, last Thursday morn:ilg, when 1 act of mounting his horse to take the shootittg, acc. rnia: - .ied by Sir IlisNay Tr on -account of tIT accident he did not tended object. but returned to town. ()I called at Chelsea College, and hi-c•ug!‘ M'GRIGOR with him to YLA-k House, w.u. stantly attended his Ile al Highness. the inqUirers yesterday was, " .His Royal I better."—.The Duke °IM - ELLINGTON, who townion Sur.day evening, galled at York terdat afternoon, and had an interview with Highness for about au hour and a ha:`. The