Star. — London, England, 1815-04-04 00:00:00

LON DON. T oF LOTTERV' DRAWS TOMORROW—THRER PRIZES OF .C,IO,OOO—FIVk. THOUSAUD GUI. Nl4s IN GOLD, AS SOON AS DRAWN. TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1815. no of S TOCKS THIS DAY Al' WHINY. O'CLOCK. Muted !hut-4 per Cent. abut-5 per Cent. Navy 87 com ,o, 5n .. I—for act. 55i a7—tacheapter sa. L o udy sliclets The French Messenger, whose arrival at Dover we announced yesterday, was not permitted to. pro ved to London with his dispatches. These dispatches wae , it now appears, addressed to the Comte de CII, me, the French Ambassador. He had also with him dispatches for some of the French Consuls in Scothold and Ireland. The Messenger sailed again yesordav from Dover for Calais. EA of HARItOwiIY and Mr. WELLIBLIT P OL E, also sailed yesterday evening from Dover. Ti lt) , go to Ostend, whence they are to proceed to Brussels. mute a Council is now assembling, which will be compr,,ed of Ministers not only from the States, tl:at fortmd the Congress at Vienna, but from most of those which contributed to the success of the last campaign against France. At this Council the pol;tical and military measures, to be adopted for supporting the DECLARATION Of the Amucci POWRIIS, at Vienna, will be taken into consideration; and the expectation of the best-informed circles is, that their first act, should all the circumstances which may come under discussion be found to demand it, will be to address a ?reclamation to the people of France, reminding them of the circumstances in which they stood towards the Allies, at the time of the treaty at foutainbleau; of the full power of the latter to have ctitorced the military penalties to which that termini suljected itself, after losing its army in making vars ucoa al. others ; of the effect Of BONAPARTE'S abdication, in bar of those penalties; and of the duty of abiding by it, which the French acknow ledgi.d, when they accepted the full release, that AC .ompanied it, and when their Senate, their Army. tr.d their Magistrates declared him unworthy of reigning. The Proclamation will call upon the French Nation to spare the effusion of blood by ful fling this duty, and surrendering, or expelling, the Usurper. Should that call be found necessary, and should it e made in vain, the Allied armies will immediately titer into France and carry on the war with the ut lrist energy. In the mean time, the different Powers tre preparing their means; ail their armed forces will be got in readiness fur action upon the French fron tier, and thus there is some probability that the soil of France will be made the theatre of the war. If war shall be found inevitable, it is certainly good rolicy to be well prepared for it, and it is equally de irable that the evils which are inseparable from the scene of conflict, should, if possible, be confined to the territory of that people which has provoked the con test. The French have suffsred many revolutionary horrors, but hitherto (except during the campaign vihicb made the Allies wooer: of Pori') they have hardy suffered at all in the lung wars which have nc.oly desolated some of the °that States ut Europe. Hue must have war, knowing, as the world does, not only by declarations but by exper:ence, that it has MT been the Maxim of ,he enemy to make coal mainiais war," it is highly deirAble that the effects of such a maxim should be turned against the common enemy, and the people who support him. _ From every circumstance that transpires we are led to believe,' not that those who have the, direction 14 our public affairs lure resolved to go to war with i . iaace as a tue o isurc That i$ desirable, but that, horn v',ew of the tutisactiiiun which have ocete: red, and the state in which Europe is placed, by the movements of a tiotibl, ,orne individual acid the :.:Irport he 11.“ met •with from men bred up amid :et:es of war, tumult and robbery, they are led to , :orbitler war as the only alternative left for the public eety. At all events it is proper that they should prepired fir the event. At such a crisis as the przsent t:-.7 would be highly erirninal were they *ri c:pose welfare and safety of the ciltuniu- . ni:y to dru ier b y ail kind of negligence : and, it war Cit11:10t be averted, it is unquestionably sound policy tl..it it should be earned on with rapidity and tnergy, she better to baffle the enemy in the arrange sheets which it Cllllllot be doubted he is now making Nor the conflict. From what passed in the House of Commons last eight, it seems apparent that Ministers consider them elves and the country placed in circumstances vihich seem to render war unavoidable. Hence hesitation about proceeding in the further discus. of the proposed Assessed Taxes and the Votes :!!e Committee of Supply. Indeed, if we are to rave $ state of warfare such half measures would be iilarectual fur the exigency.—lt is obvious '.at much must depend on circumstances that can t Aly be known to men in official situations'. The pub ' " therefore do well not to shape their opinions 1. 1 those of the jourealisu which either advocate or op. vise the idea of a MAL To tell Ministers that the Vlembt Declarationtm shut the door against all over fists from the enemy, and that they cannot entertain 4117 overture from him without N i.Jdiblr infamr." to say the least of it, highly indecorous. Indeed it de. .crvrs a snore were epitbet. That Daiwa= Was issued on the 13th of Maith.a week before BONAPARTX arrived in Parisi did not • even know that he had 'reached Lyons. They could never contemplate the possibility of the Govern ment of Loma being found so weak as not to be able to crush an adventhrer aiming at the sore reignty, supported by only siz hundred men I If the BOURDONV failed in the duty they owed to them selves. to France, to Europe ! —and we hold it im possible to justify a Government which could thus allow itself to be surprised and overthrown : We say, if they failed in so essential a duty, by such failure they virtually released the other Sovereigns from eve' y obligation they might be supposed to have come under to support them. The circumstances of the Allies, by the very fact which we have stated, , have been completely altered from what they were At the time that Declaration was issued, and so altered by no act of the Allies : is it reasonable then to tell our own Ministers and the Allies, that they will incur iadtlible isffainy if they shall not follow up that decla ration by a war, whatever circumstances may have intervened, or may inlet vene, to shew the imprudence of such a measure ? We think it a duty imposed epos as. to do the best ia our power to enable the public to form as opinion for themselves at this important crisis, respecting all the topics which ocenpy general attention; and to prevent, as fur as may be in our power, the substitu tion of passion fur argument. Were the Govern ments of Europe to allow themselves to be influenced merely by questions of feeling, incalculable evils would be entailed on their subjects. It is just as improper to threaten Ministers with infamy if they shall maintain peace, as to endeavour to deter them from preparing with energy for the• de• fence of the Empire, in the event of the continuance of Peace being rendered impossible by some gross insult or act of aggression on the part of the enemy. Is a nation to be exposed to danger because the means of defence cannot be prepared without incurring a great expense t The Ministers who could be guilty of such negligence, would deserve from the Nation something more than disgrace. In one word, Ministers are responsible for the line of conduct which they pursue, and acting under this responsibility their hands should in no way be fettered, nor their deliberations influenced by clamour on either one side or other. We mean not by this to be understood as maintaining that Mi. nisters should never attend to any thing but the suggestions of their own minds; for Ministers are but men and may, and, oftener than perhaps it would be proper to acknowledge it, do receive and act upon kiwi ill suggestions conveyed to them through the press: but we maintain that they should be " 'written at" in the language of reason and argument, not in that of threat and insult. We have received Patis Papers of Friday. B 0144•, PART& was still in the French Capital, but Marshal Nay has proceeded towards Belgium to inspect the military force in that direction. The Neapolitan troops, under Muaar, ate said to be in motion to support BM:APART& Two thousand cavalry, finely mounted and equip ped, voluntarily accompanied the &mason PRINCES to Flanders. Marshal MARMONT, General LAURI sToN, twenty General Officers, and about five hundred interior Officers, were of the party. The equipage of the Ex-Empress MARIA LOUISA is said to have been sent off on the 27th ultimo from Versailles to convey her to Paris from Vienna. The French Funds are at 69. Yesterday the Duke of ORLEANS, the Russian Ambassador, &c. had audiences of the PRINCE Rs- GENT at Carlton House. On Sunday, three officers arrived at the French Ambassador's. His Excellency was attending mass %viten he received the communication, and went to the Foreign Office with a dispatch, and laid it before Lord CASTLERF.AOIt, previous to the Noble Secretary of State attending the Cabinet Council which was held on that day. An Officer indeed at midnight en Sunday with dispeehes to Lord CASTLEREAGH from the Prince of ORANGE. Yesterday, at two o'clock, the whole of the Cabi. net Ministers assembled again at the Foreign Office, and separated at about ball-past three, when the Earl of Ilatinowav and the Right Honourable W. Wm, Lenin , PULE set off in their carriages from Downing.. street, with their suites, for Brussels. They are ae. •eninpanied by Mr. MILLS and Mr. SfixerrEtt, the King's Messengers. After the departure of the Ca. billet Ministers, the Earl of LIVERPOOL aed Viscount CASTLEREAGH waked upon the PRINCE REGENT at Carlton House. It is said that the suppression of the llfoxiteur of the 19th arose from its containing the Declaration of the Allies. This document was, of course, expunged in the second sheet, issued in the afternoon. The Declaration of the Allied Sovereigns against BONAPARTE appears in the Austrian Ojicial anat. and Observer, both in German and French. Bitawn.—This day the LORD MAYOR, having in spected the meal-weighers' returns, ordered the price of bread to be raised halt an assize, or one farthing in the quarteru loaf—to take place on Thursday— the price will then be One Shilling. Last night, about eleven o'clock, the house of Mr. Rosa, cheesemonger, Pickett.street, was entered by two or three men, and property to a great amount packed up ready to be taken away, when they wen disturbed by the servant maid going up stairs, whom they seized by the throat and attempted to murder ; a thick cloth she had round her neck for a cold was , cut through, and ter hand badly lacerated is ber at. tempt to prevent them, when she fortunately sue. needed in get ng from them into an adjoining room, and tinned the In Upon them, and upon her making an alarm the villeins escaped; takias ctiik WM of the property. THE EVENING STAR. NAVAL INTkI,LIGENCE. FALMOUTH, APRIL I. Arrived the Lady Arabella packet from Plymouth, where she landed her Mail from Lisbfot about a week since. Sailed the Lady - Lodisa packet with a Mail fo► Coruunaa Marlborough packet with a mail for Lisbon, the Lord Hobart packet with a mail for the Mediterranean; and his Majesty's ship Tams, wail the Union, General Kyd, Providence, Eliza, and Hibernia, East-Indiamen. Also sailed his Majesty's ship Pricavax, with between 60 and 70, for the Mech. terraaean. The West-India Fleet, under the Walt. area, Admiral DOUGLAs, got under weigh, but the wind coming again from the Southward, the signal was made to anchor, they therefore remain. P. S. The Lady Louisa, Marlborough, and Lord Hobart, packets, ate put back. It is feared the Praamtx, with the Mediterranean fleet, will also be obliged to bear tip. The Mats, with the Eatt•lndia fleet, it is expected, will keep to sex, aid also st:beral of the West-India ships who got out. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 3. Arrived his Majesty's drips Rosmuo and SPRIGHTLY from the Downs, three collier from the North, and Atlas transport from Cork. Came into harbour his M.rjesty's ship PACTOLM —Wind S.W. DEAL, APRIL s. Came down from the River the Marchioness of Wellesley for India, and the Mary. BILOWN, for America, and sailed immediately ti.r Portsmouth, with. a large fleet, including the following ships: Lord Eldon, Princess Charlotte of WAles, Metcalf, Ceres, Rose, Hope, Walmer Castle, Lord Melville, Marquis of Wellington, and Huddart, for the East Indies; Ann and Cumberland for the South Seas; Royal Oak, George, Northumblriand, and Doris, for Quebec; the Vittoria, for Philadelphia ; and se veral transports for Portsmouth, only to bring troops for Holism'. The Streatham East Indiaman remains. SHEERNESS, APRIL. S. The Java, East.lndiaman, brought up off this place under jury-masts today, and has since proceeded op the Thames. The Admiral's flag ship the NAMWI, now lying in this harbour, h ordered to resume her station at the Nore. HARWICH, APRIL a Arrived the Juno transport from Holland, with the carriages, arc. belonging to the Duke of ORLEANS. TRURO, APRIL I. The Chesterfield packet, Captain FURSE, fell in, on the 4th of January, on her outward-bound passage, with a large American• schooner privateer, off the coast of Madeira. The enemy's vessel was full of guns and men, and when within pistol.shot she com- 1 menced a very heavy fire on the Chesterfield, which I was returned with equal fury. The action lasted two hours and a half, and was t"rminated by the pri. vateer's sheering off, apparently much damaged.- I ,The Ciseuegield had one 1114(1 killed and 3 wounded. Captain Tome was wounded, but slightly. When the Chesterfield was 2t Antigua, it was re ported there that the Lady Mary Pelham packet, Captain GRAHAM, from Surinam, had been captured off that island by a privateer. As the Lady Pelham sailed from Antigua five weeks before the Chester. field, and has not yet arrived home, it is feared that this report is true. Several American privateers were at Martinique and Guadeloupe. ORAVEsRbIII, APRIL. S. Arrived the So Printlto, front Konigsberg; Vrow Jo hani.a, Valentine, fro:n Embdeit; and Vrow Egina, Pustuna, from Groningen. Sailed tke Jason, Hook, for Antwerp; For tuna, Jancke, for Hamburgh ; Mary, Moss, fur Michael's; Canada, Robinson; for Quebec; and the Kite, Read, for Riga. SINGULAR PHENOMENON.—WhiIst the Lady Louisa packet, Captain thaßoN, which arrived at Falmouth on Sunday last from the Brazils, was on her voyage home, her decks, span, sides, &c. were suddenly And completely covered (in some places to the thickness of half an inch) with a yellow dust. An explanation of this extraordinary circumstance has been attempted, by supposing it to be the effect of a violent eruption of a volcano on the coast of Africa, although the pac ket was at least one thousand miles distant from all land when the event occurred. His Majesty's ship Hyana, Captain Fnxrox, sail ed from Halifax, with a convoy for England, on the 26th February. A report prevails in Halifax, that his Royal High ness the Duke of KENT IS coming out to that qua, ter as Governor-General, or Viceroy, for the British Pro vinces in North America. The 99th, or Prince's Tipperary Regiment, left St. John's, New Brunswick, the latter end of January, for Custine. The Fultitose, Captain hiovastY, arrived on Sa turday at Portsmouth, from Halifax, in 16 days, having sailed from that port on the 16th ult. charged with a duplicate copy of the ratification ot the Treaty of Peace with America. On the same day, the TA. MAR, Captain SOTHEBY, and Kauoanoo, Captain HALL, lett Halifax ; the former with the ratification for Rio Janeiro, the latter for Gibraltar : the ARAB was also on the point ot sailing for Jamaica. The FUNlatna spoke the Taturpos going into Halifax ; which ship was under orders to return to England. The Limo/moo, on her passage to Halifax, experi enced very severe weather, during which, to prevent the threatened danger of upsetting, she threw her guns overboard. The Osborne packet had arrived out in the latter part of her passage, she had almost unremittingly, for eight days, one continued gale from W.S.W. and NW. with tremendout seas, threatening every instant inevitable destruction : she was 73 days on her passage ; in the course of which she gallantly beat off two American priva teers. The schooner Rota, from Bermuda, mid brig' , Legal Tender, from Newfoundland, recaptured by the BULWARK and Srgicini, had arrived at Halifax. The TallaDOA, CHARYBDIS, and ARAB, were the only ships left at the port. Mr. ST&WART, of the Cols Diplomatique ; Captain BAKU, R. N. (late a Lieutenant of the Tattoos) ; and Mr. GASOOIONI, Sin Regiment, son of General GMCUICNS. came WV la the Ft) tukoz. IfifLIF.IX. ACV.! SCOTI.I, M:4140,1? .5, itiiiS! YttIVATI LETTEn—iteceiVED ay THE HALIFAX MAP • Arrived his Majesty's ship Tamar. Capnin 8;)- tliU.sY, in 19 days from Plymouth, with dispatches, and duplicates of the Treaty o' Pelee with Ame rica: HUcal ST tfa nr, Esq. of L. ad 11 t: burst's Office, eagle passe:l,ler in the 'Pain ,r. arrived his Majesty's ship liarigar.4o, Captain Hucc, in days from Portsnimith, v ith •lisp fte es tor the Ad tn:rd : —t!ie Kaageroo h err rienced much bad weather (ti this coast, and dime.. the greatest pars of her guns overt: '4IJ. Major-Ge•ierd Sir Genetic Munn snd his Staff, Comnruilire U ovev, and some other Officers, who arrived at Habits in the Niche frig le, the latter end of December last, arrived at Fiederi.ktown, New Brunswick, about Ow Vas February, on their way up to Quebee—whie:4 lattor place they expected to reach About the beginnino of March. The news of Peace has already b.•loin to have con siderable influence cn the markets r.f . Halifax, which it Ave hitherto I,,:en most extravagantly high : a cord of wood. wtfcli a week or ten days since sold tar 11 Jolla's, now sells for five ! and Hour, tot which nearly £6 per bane! k% AS lately th-ught not a sufficient pries by speculators, now sells tot 40 and 455. I ! A Proclaircualin has been issneil by his Excellency Lieutenant-General Sir JoSIN ettettilltolKt. bearing date 4th Aloe), permitting the imputation into Ha- Rot of Anielican produce, and the exportation of British goods to America. The winter in the Provinces of Nista Scotia and New Briinswick, leas been excessively severe Halifax the harbour was entirety frozen over for many days; and in the latter Province, the mercury in the thermometer has been frequently as low as 30 degrees below Zero or 0. Such a season for severity and continuance thereof, has scarcely ever been ex perienced by the oldest inhabitant of these Provinces. Numerous accidents have omitted, and many indi viduals, both at sea and on land, have been severely frost-bitten. On the coast much damage has been done to shipping. The 4th battalion of the Ist regiment, or Royalc, and the 103 d and 104th regiments, are now in gar rison at Quebec—the latter, previous to the intelli gence of peace, was intended, it is said, to have been sent to garrison the important post of Michilimachi nac, in Lake Huron, Upper Canada. In the American regular army, in 1812, the deaths were 13,476; desertions, 5,072. In the militia, deaths, 977 ; desertions, '2,01.5. In 1813, regular army, deaths, 16.409 ; desertions, 6,104 : deaths, 990; desertions, In 181.1., regular army, deaths, 18,015; desertions, 6,`284: deaths, 870; desertions, 1,:;438 !—Here then, in the short space of Once years of Mautsos% War, 50,737 Americans have fallen victims to his disastrous policy, and 22,110 have voluntarily deserted his standard, and this for the Conquest of Canada and Traitors' Rights !—sn :ranch for War. Mancii 8.--This evening arrived the Osborne Packet, which sailed from Falmouth the 25th De cember last, and for which serious apprehensions were entertained—she had a very boisterous passage s many ,passengers were en board, chiefly Officers of the Commissariat Department, and, on her arrival. she was :.early out of water and provisions. Within three weeks .titer sailing, she was twice attacked by privateers, which were beat off. The Packets of lomat y and February are both daily expected at Stsersl ships of war are now lying ready at Ha. Wax, waiting the an ival at that plaLe of die official notification ef the President of the United States having ratified the Treaty of Peace, when they will in.tantly sail for different quarters et the world. The Furieuse frigate, Captain Mousers ; Tamar, Cap tain SOTHLBY ; and Arab, Captain Jatill, are the ships in readiness for this service. The 64t1i, 93th, and 7th battalion 60th regiment, now form the garrison of Halifax; two companies of the latter ate at Annapolis. The New Brunswick Fencibles are quartered at Fredericktown, and St. John's, New Brunswick; the 102 d regiment at Moose Island and St. Andrew's ; the 19th, 62d, and 99th regiments at Custine, from which place preparations are making to withdraw the gatrison. The com panies of artillery now in Nova Scotia and Depen dencies, are—Majors F4RRINGTONPS, CRAWFORD'S, P. CASTIMELL's, and JONES'S, which last arrived at Halifax, in the Niohe frigate, fiom England, the latter end of December last. Lieutenant BALTHOLONIEW Ks.str has been appoint ed Master and Commander, and has now the Weser troop ship with the expedition tinder the command of Sir Acxxascien COCHRANE on the southern coast. Accounts have been just received here from Cus tine, which state it as the opinion of the Boston Lawyers, that British vessels arriving in any port of the United States, were, with their cargoes, liable to confiscation, in consequence of the Non-impor Won Act being in force. Mancu l4.—Sailed his Majesty's ship Alban, Captain Boil), with dispatches for Sir ALEXANDER Cc CHRANE; and a brig with American prisoners fOr the United States. MARCH 15.—The official intelligence of the Pre sident of the United .`,sates having ratified the Treaty of Pease, has reached Halifax, and the Furieuse frigate, Captain MOUNCET, proceeds immediately to England with dispatches on the occasion. There is as yet no appearance of the January and February Packets—the wind for them is fair, but it blows fresh, with snow, sleet, and thick weather, so that vessels will be afraid to approach the coast. The January Packet is the Lady Wellington, Captain ?stoma, and we have accounts of her sailing kttont Falmouth on the 12th of that month. The latest accounts from Cumbeiaid Island, in the River St. Mary, are to the tlthit u ary, mli at which time the British garrison there was anded by Lieutenant-Colonel IViaLialtis, of the Royal Ma rines, and consisted of druid:wrists of that corps, and 241 West India regiment. The Intelligence of Peace with America appears to be received in Halifax with peitect indifference— no symptoms us joy or satisfaction manifesting itself on the occasion ; and illutninatioas, and similar de monstrations of popular feeling, which have taken place in the United States, appear quite out of the question ; and, !rum what we can learn from other quarters, a similar spirit of indifference seems to pre eari throue,hunt British North America. a I r 1.1 ~,. `'