Star. — London, England, 1815-01-07 00:00:00

^ INDIA PAPERS. POONAH, JUNE 6. Yesterday, our monsoon commenced with a vio lence not often experienced here. I have felt many heavy opal's at sea and in several pans of Asia have seen the effects of the commencement of different periodical winds and seasons, but this, for the short period it lasted, exceeded them all. During its fury, while wind, hail, rain, thunder and lightning, all in their utmost strength, were contending for superio rhy, intelligence was , brought of the death of three natives who had been killed by lig htning . The hor rid spectacle that they presented is but seldom seen, and it is maul the power of language to convey a just idea of the scene. Three peisons in the vigour of health, were instantaneously deprived of existence, their limbs, and features burnt, and dreadfully dis torted and contracted, and the principal bones flesh less, :`td in many parts their surface even a little scorched. It appeared upon inquiring of the relatives of the unfortunate sufferers, that, during the height of the storm, to preserve the choppa of the house from being. blown off, they were inside endeavouring to secure it) the fatal flash struck the three at once, and the roof, though soaked with rain, was instantly on fire. The Suhandar, Peer Hahomed, to whom the hut belonged, had his sword close by the door, and I rather think there were two nor three muskets and bayonets close by where the lightning first struck; every thing in the hut Was reduced to ashes in a few seconds, and the mall on one side completely levelled. . The man was ignite distracted, not on account of his pecuni try lust ( though to a s:ildier that was rather great), but two of the sufferers were his children, a son and a daughter, the former about thirteen years of age, she latter fourteen ; the third person in the dreadful catastrophe was a horsekeeper, who has left a family behind him to lament his Ic4s. The horse- keeper was shockingly disfigured ; the eyes out of their sockets, the hair completely scorched, and One nostril entirely biirnt off, the arms and legs eon krActed, shrivelled; and black, the whole body quite hard end swollen. The body of the boy was not so much burnt, but was blacker, with a number of white spots. most of the nails off the toes, and the hands re duced to a cinder, the face badly swollen and disfi gured. The girl was, if possible. more shockingly burnt ; the featiircs of her face were nut to be traced, being nearly all burnt. CALCU ITA, MAY M. The past week has been distinguished by an incident altogether novel in the commercial history of this set tlement—the arrival of an English merchantman, on a trading voyage from the west coast of Spanish Ame rica. The saip Mary Ann sailci from Portsmouth on the 31st ofJanuary, 1813, under a special license from the East-lndia Company for this particular voyage. She had the protection pi his Majesty's ship Aquilon as far as the coast of Brazil, where they parted, the Mary-Ann prosecuting her voyage round Cape Horn to the port of Valparaiso, in the kingdom of Chili.— At Valparaiso she arrived on the 22d of June, and was detained there until the 7th of January following, chiefly by the presence of some American cruisers. which infested the coast. All serious ground of Ap prehension on that score having disappeared, she continued her voyage across the Pacific, touching no where until she made Malacca, where she arrived after a Sae ran of about three months, and from McGee came on to Bengal. Max 20.—The most extensive preparations are making for the intended visit of the Right Hon. the Governor General to the upper provinces ; a number of new and suitable boats are building for the occa sion, and we understand that his Lordship will be accompauied by the whole of his family and personal stag, and attended by many of the principal depart ments of Government. • Seuoua DsvoT.—Government have, with a very considerate attention to the shipping interests of this port, thought fit to resolve upon the establishment of a depot ods Saegur Island, for the purpose of lodging anchors, cables, and such other articles of marine stores, as may be of the most essential service to ships and vessels incases of emergency. . By letters from Meerut to the 27th, we learn, that General Marshall had takes his departure, about a week before that date, for Bundlecund, where he is to command. and that General Gillespie had not dims arrived, but was expected in the beginning of the present month. .The annual fair at the Hurdwaer had terminated on the 11th ultimo, and had grievously disappointed its visitors, a very grand ',display of the usual com modities having been expected, instead of which there was hardly any thing for sale, and the fair proved oue of the worst that has been held for many years. The Bth dragoons were only able to procure eleven bines for the regiment. The attendance of bathers had been, nevertheless. uncommonly numerous.— Lady Hood was present at the fair, having proceeded thither hoax Delhi. In the end of April, &r Lady ship was on her way to Barelly, Lut.knuw, &c. on her vetunr to Calcutta. • BOSZAX.—At s General Court-martial, held on' Friday, the 18th day of March; President, Colonel Richard Cook, Judge and Advocate-General ; Lieu tenant Michael aid'', of the 65th regiment, was tried, on charges preferred by Lieutenant. Peird, of the 47th Foot, to the following effect: lit. For Miring, on the 7th of February, preferred against Lieutenant Weird, elastics to? a frivolous, vexatious, and malicious nature, highly reflecting upon his hocoor and char acter, both u an racer and a gentleman, said which charges could not be sub. standated before a General Court-mattial arse ruled on the Ist Much for the purpose of illitll4igasing them, and of which the said Lieutenant Peed was fully acquitted. Holly. For shameful, scandalous, and badman conduct, nob.- tondos the character of an *Meer *oda in having, on time 10th of March last, sent to the laid Peird, by his Fortnum servant, Lieutenaat tweed Kees, which tad been kept since the b h of February lad, a his arrested sward, whh the blade broken in two, and the words M pokram and eowasti" in printed letters on the lower pert tot it. ally. For highly inipreper said shameful adduct ' in having, on the doh of Much. rolled round the sword Ke es, a arks :gee in which was represented the figure of flautintant Peird. ,reaps the words " Rascality and Cowardice" written eadeeneatb. The Court having considered the evidence, roan the prii:.ner guilty of the first charge. With respes te the bac;ond, that he was guilty, with he easirptiot of the worths *as my arrested *Word." On the thin dilitge. h e was also found guilty, with erne or two t) et pistol and the Cowl footcocod hips to be allied the sonic& • • • • • • • . 4 . • • • WSW ARA NORWAY". STOCKHOLM, MEM= is. The day before_ysftwday his Majesty the King re ceived in the Hall of State the Deputies from the Diet of Nervily. Her Majesty, the Queen, and the Princesses, had previously entered the Hall, and taken , the p laces assigned to them. Of the speech of the spokesman (Christie), deli vered in the Norwegian language, the following ad dress of the Diet formed a part : " The remmentadves of the N or wegian people, summoned to inquire IMO Nil amidst the dtuation of the kingdom, and to, come to the Melt mature emelusion for its welfare, have now finished theft hiliportest task. They perceive that a union with the WOW. WS est only put a period to the deviate dons of woe hot ski, bingdoin if foie ded on equitable conditions, open a prospect of eternal Moeda* for the future, and give the king doms et the Werth complete stability and strength to resist eater nal enemies. Your Majesty, ready to form such a union, recog nised the right of the people to constitute themselves is an inde pendent State, and commissioned respectable men to make known your gracious intentions, and thus to promote the union. The representatives of the nation, animated with zeal and anxiety for the welfare of their native lend, thereupon deckled for a perpe tual union between the kingdoms of Sweden and Norway under a common King, gave to Norway o Constitution founded on the aboriginal eights of a free people, and on the 4th harem *awl mainly elected and acknowledged your Majesty as Norway's con. stkotionall King. " The Representatives of the Peep!' have not for a Moment doubted that your Majesty, who commenced by recognising the rights of the nation, will continue to maintain and protect them. They are completely istisfied that they have acted in conformity to the wishes of the nation, and venture to assure your Majesty of the inviolable fidelity and devotedness of a people who hitherto have never forgotten their duttto their King. May ALMIGHTY GOD strengthen you to govern according to his gracious purpose a kingdom which his wisdom has entrusted to you. (Mined) " CURISTII, President. " WLIDBMANN, Secretary. " Extraordinary Diet, Christiania, Norway, Nov. ti, ISI4. The King returned the following gracious reply : " Good Lords and Men of Norway, Deputies from the Diet of that Kingdom! " 1 receive with the sincerest pleasure the assurances of fide lity and attachment which you have conveyed to me in the name of the Norwegian people. 'l'lll4 solemn moment, which puts the last seal to the so happily established union between Sweden awl Norway, was long called for by the actual -demands of the Notch. The two nations who inhabit the Scandinavian Peninsula could not in the tape of ages obey divided interests; every thing called for an union.between them, founded on reciprocal respect, and supported by a common spirit of freedom and honour. " Though I ascended the throne of owedeu under gloomy prosPects. yet I derived energy against dangers, and hope for the future, from an unbounded con fi dence in the Swedish people.— ' They have not disappointed my expectations; and this people, who were so often the victims of the severe blows of termite, .now stand respected among the nations. With equal confidence I h ve I now. from the free and unanimous election of the Diet, aeceptedof the Crown of Norway; and this transaction, a gua rantee for the principles of en) , government, will have th e saute happy consequences. Secured against foreign dangers; animated by the aamenoble efforts tepromote interual welfare,the northern peninsula will be viewed with respect by the nations of Europe. " Norweglans!—l have through my well-beloved Son given you my assurances. to govern the kingdom of Norway according to its laws and constitution • and alao adoptid the fundamental principles which were disc ussed anti agreed upon between my Commissioners and the Diet. I now repeat to you this solemn declaration. Be assured that I shall ever feel it a sacred duty to meet the wishes of the Norwegian people with friendly readi ness. Let us thank that Pao elDasca which. after such fiuctua. don of eyenti and such lengthened internal discord,. has *sta., blished security and unanimity in the north ; let us give ourselves up to the pleasing hopes which futurity opens to our view.— Norwegians and Swedea shall alike share my paternal regard.;-- Behold here at my tide, honoured by your joint gratitude, the been who, next after the AIAMORTT, has be the author of the fraternal league between you. As King and Father, I embrace this opportunity to express to hint my own and the common achnowisedgno uts of we country.. To him will I, when en the confines of eternity. deliver, with 101 l confidence both the' crowns; which will from him receive a new and heightened lustre. Jr is he WM most finish the great work of which he laid the foundntioAs, end which I can only comnienm—in reign over you with mildneas, to respect your freedom, and to defend your independence with valour. Then will you bless the hour which gave birth to the union of tho Scandinavian Rations, and my memory will live among you on account of my paternal efforts for your welfare, and for the Prince whom I give you stalliarther to promote It." Saxons are only called upon to finite their teeourees with those of their Prussian brethren, to form a nor thern barrier for the'reat family of Europe, against the future irruptibe of those restless and turbulent spi. Tits which, althooghslumbering at present, may once more sway the destinies of France. They are called upon merely to exchange the de. graded and degrading Sovereignty of a weak, and we fear we may add, a wicked Prince, for that of a mild, enlightened, unassuming, and magnanimous King, who has drank the bitter cup of adversity to the dregs, but who has risen like ANTSI.3, with reachr vated vigour from the ground, because he threw himself into the arms of his country to give him fresh courage for the kld. Let the Saxons look at the deplorable condition in ! which Saxony has been left by the perverse conduct of the Sovereign, whom they have lost, and let them cease to expect from hi: restoration, the return of peace and prosperity to their conntry. It is to their new Sovereign, ruling according to the recognizvd Constitution of the conntry, that they ought now to look for the protection, the encouragement, and thu maintenance of their true national interests. They ought to recollect that the locality of Saxony has rendered that country, more frequently than any other in Europe, the scene of war in all its horrors, and that a much stronger army than their population can afford, will be requisite to avert these calamities in future. It was in the vicinity of Mersoburg, for Instance, that the Emperor limey I. arret,ed.and destroyed the innumerable hosts of the lions. Two leagues farther off, a simple stone and a solitary tro distinguish the spot where the Conqueror of Lutzen, the heroic GUSTAVUS AooLruus, sealed with his blood the religious liberty of Germany. A little Ember to the southward, Rossback and Jena preserve the recollection of the most ruinous defeats which any army ever experienced; while under the walls of Leipsic, seven crowned heads, at the head of .;00,000 men, fought that awful battle which was to decide the independence or the final subjugation of Europe. We have thus entered at length into the affairs of Saxony, because we confess the question respecting the policy of annexing it to Prussia has, within these few dayF, been brought before us in a new light, by the perusal of a masterly pamphlet, entitled " Saxony and Prursia," and said to be a demi-official.produc tion from the pen of the celebrated Gmrz. The Prussian Government is there made to address the Saxon Nation and Europe in general, in the calm and temperate language of truth and reason. It is there shown, that the interests and the honour of Saxony can best be preserved by getting rid of the family which has brought so much misery and dis grace upon their subjects as men and as Germans. The most sacred pledges sre given, that not even a stone in Saxony shall be removed, if its removil should offend the feelings of the inhabitants, and the character of the Prussian Nation and Government for moral integrity and scrupulous veracity is staked for the performance. It is shewn also, that it will be the interest of Prussia herself to heal the wounds sof Saxony, and to make her not a tributary and de ; Pendent State, but, as Scotland is with England, a strenuous ;and zealous coadjutor in maintaining the independence and glory of the united empire among the nations of the civilized world. But the reversion of Saiony to the dynasty of her Protestant Princes (fur after all, the King of Pnvssui is the lawful heir to the Crown after the forfeiture of the present family) ought to be peculiarly gratifying to the feelings of a large portion of the community of Europe. The King of PausstA and all his family are sincere and zealous members of the Lutheran communion : the deposed Sovereign and his family are bigotted Catholics, while the Saxons themselves are Protestants in the proportion of five to one. But Saxony has still stronger claims to a Protestant dy nasty : it was the cradle of the reformation, and it has long been the only country in Europe, perhaps, where the civil rights and liberties of mankind are protected independent of religious opinions. —Catholics and Protestants are indiscriminately called to exercise all offices in the State ; and to the honour of the Saxon name be it mentioned, that this toleration is not the result of that cold and self styled philosophical indifference to 41 religions, which is too much the C 414 of the age in which we live, but the legitimate offspring of that spirit of charity and forbearance which was inculcated by the Divtxr Aurnots of eur faith. At Bautzen, for instance, the Catholics and Lutherans, alternately, use the same place of worship, and the Ministers of both Comma, nioas live on the most brotherly footing with each other. Saxony, in this respect, is the Sparta of the Christian World A Gentleman just returned from a tour through part of France and Belgium, where he has visited some of the manufactories for spinning, weaving, and printing cotton goals, with a view to ascertain the present state thereof, and the competition this country may expect from them when a full supply of the r4w material. upon equal terms with ourselves, shall en able them to get into full activity, has communicated to us some judicisua remarks, which cannot be too l generally known. From extensive and accurate ob. servatiosse made by him, it appears, that in spinning, these foreign establishments are unquestionably far brig* this country ; and for fine goods, they must yet be dependent upon us for yarns above noster 100. Thks they candidly confess ; btu in prodncing l..ir THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. • SATURDAY, JANUARY y. 1815. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK: Rocha. 6511-4 per Ct. 11141-5 per Ct. Navy 941 95ex. ea. Consols 65i ex. div.—for account,66l 67—OmaIu lie di& Bank Long Aims. lilt 5-I6ths—Bonds 90s. 19s. pro. Exchequer Bills Ss. Oa. peens The Dividends will lie paid to the Public on Moutlay neat on the fallowisi stocks, Navy 5 per Cents.; Batik Stock ; a per cent. Pout& Hamburgh and Dutch Mails arrived this morning. but the papers brought by them furnish ao intelligence whatever of any interest. The speech of the KING of Swann; to the Norwegian Deputies, and the cew monials attending the receiving fl'orn them of the Crown of Norway, fills several columns of the Ger- man Papers. We have already stated, that there was every ap- pearance, from the general import of our foreign in telligence for the last few days, that the fate of Saxony had been finally decided :—it has seemingly passed under the Prussian Sceptre, and has, thereby, reverted to the Protestant or Ernestine branch of the Dynasty which furnished its original Sovereigns. The faithful and Alit:tended ally of the Corsican, FREDCRICK AUGUSTUS, BONAPAnTeII King of Saxony, and Graid Duke of Warsaw, and BONAPARTZ 9 B future King of Poland, has ceased to reign ! But it is with peculiar satisfaction that we per ceive this, change effected without any violence to the feelings of the Saxon Nation, and without the slightest appearance of the independence of Saxony, properly so called, being. compromised or bartered away. To the delight of every enlightened mind be it re corded, that she preserves her numerous and splendid literary institutions, with *1) their endowments-.her States-General, forming a faithful national !represen tation f and which, by moderating the monarchical power, will supply that equilibriums which is the beat guarantee off' tbe welfare, the tranquillity and the ti4ilid glory of Peoplo Itrid Pribees—her religion, her I 4ws, and her national customs-41 these inestimmble Aessings to an enlightened people, jealusta of their ' l4 iatiocil bonguy, hipte been .4eAstlecl sacred ? ,Tht - nuatierstheyeertailly have made considerable progress : The increase in machinery for spinning in France and Belgium during the existence of the Codisental Syrte►n, though certainly considerable, cannot be easily ascertained, but some Idea of the extent may be formed, horn the increase at Saint Quentin, where, in 1804, there were only 900 spindles going ; and at the present time there are upwards of 40;000 spindles at work l In calico printing they certainly excel us con siderably, and independent of certain local advan. tages, arising from the cheapness of provisions, &c. the striking difference in the relationship of matter: and workmen, in France, and in England, gives the forme; so decided an advantage, that if something is not im, mediately done to put the two countries more nearl-, - on a level in this respect, the most disastrous conse quences to this branch of our foreign commerce must inevitably follow. In France the laws oblige every workman to have a book, called a Ltvz►tY, in which his employer, or the workman quitting his service, is obliged to writ, down the Cele he has served—how he has conducted himself, whether he ii indebted to his master, and it so, to what 11,0101111 t F and no respectable .naster wil take a dorkman into his employ unless he proch;c: his I.ltranY for inspection. If the master applied to does employ the workman, aid he was indebted to his former master, he is obliged to withhold one-filth of the workman's earnings until thedebt isdischarged The cOnsecteace, is, that Master's in France Liv 'the red direction of their own aides. Having no bin:stiont of their workmen to contronl their operation• they can have any course of werk executed chic' . their customers require ; and at the present momec: they are fully employed in producing deslinr, partl , done by machinery and partly by blocks, for whic orders have been repeatedly sent to this country fro: various parts of Europe to very considerable exten• but which the Master Callico Printers have not bet-. able to execute, because, in consequence of the combi• nation which, to the disgrace of the country, suffered to exist, the Journeymen Block Printers will ' neither execute them themselves, nor suffer thei:- Masters to employ Apprentices to produce them— thus the trade of the empire is checked, and businers and employment wantonly and foolishly forced into the hands of our rivals. The ignorance of their true interest, thus evinces by the block printers, is as great and as palpable as their conduct is vexatious and wicked, for io most a the designs or patterns which they refuse to work, there is more actual labour, and consequently emolu ment to themselves, than in those which they chuse t execute. As reason and common sense are recovering their dominion in the other parts of Europe, it is to be hoped that England, through whose exertions chiefly these events have been produced, will not remain the only nation exempt from their influence, Yesterday afternoon, Lord GAMBIER arrived Downing-street, where his Lordship had an inter., view with Earl BATHURST. The Noble Lord pro• ceeded from the Secretary of State's Office to the Admiralty. Lord GAMPER left Ghent on Monday, and landed at Dover on Thursday evening. Last evening a Messenger was sent from the Fo- reign Office with dispatches for Viscount Ciarri,l - with the Congress at Vienna. The Messen ger also took with him dispatches from Count Lives, the Russian Ambassador. The Marquis and Marchioness of Bumunaness. have a numerous assemblage of fashionable* at their sear, at Stowe, in Buckinghamshire. The extension of the Military Order of the WO about to be followed up by an immense Brevet, which is to include all Captains of three years standing. This is as it should be. The army bas deserved well of its country, and in the absence of pecuniary reward, is entitled at least to honorary distinction. Letters had been received at Bombay from Benares, stating that Colonel RICH* RDSOII 4 I detachment had received orders to move onwards, in consequence of the Nepaul people having declared their rescind°. to resist all attempts at our establishment in the disputed districts. The troops were expected to pus at least all the hot months under canvas. From the Madrid Gazettes to the 20th ultimo : " BARCRLONA, McLain* 11.-..... The rich Inhabitants of Via, belonging to some of the first and Noblest houses, have been thrown low the prison of the Inquisition of this pity. Spore days ago two State prisoners, unknown, were sent to Montjui by superior orders." MAZIUD. enjoy the met petfeci tranquillity. A general unmet, is talked °finery day." The inhabitants of the Borough of Plymouth bare met, and unanimously agreed to petition Parliament against the renewal of the Property Tax. A Letter from Liverpool, received this mornirig, brings the following i ntell i ge nce:— " The Reecho, Omand, from hence to Brazils, put bath to Cork, after being bran& to by an American privateer oo the 10th ukinto, in M. SI. long. S. 32. from which she mimed in the night, it blowing oo hard when else wee brought to by the privateer that she could not take pomeesion of her. The fleet bad all dispersed in a gale, except the Intrepid, which was with the Commadora when the &mettle ported. " The Milford. Fowler. offend front Teinnmouth for this port, was stranded no the ezd ultimo, near Weafeed; most of the materials saved. " The Venus. Soderbolm, fr om *Dee IW Numbers% with* was onshore near Stade, ha s got off. after dbekarging pare of her cargo, and is arrived. The Grace packet arrived at Bar. bade.. 17th October from Fahnouth, seer besting off a large Americas privateer two days befote. " On the nth ult. the schooner Rhode. Wright, front per. much for this port , laden -with sugar, coat and cotton was akin by an American schooner privateer, of Boston, earryiqg 11 guns, three Iragues oil Cape Chat. The Rhoda had taken a Past on board,and was proceeding for Crookheve• when the prienteet gut between her and the .harbour and ewe be oi l and immedi ately took possession, stripplog thi Caputo and spew of {belt clothes, itc : and seat the erew oo shore. " 11w Moscow, Stoddarteftmo MIMI* to Hamm* pam tell from Os convoy and caber vassals on tko nth Notompber, in lat. U. km. 10. 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