Star. — London, England, 1815-04-03 00:00:00

tobacco at the bottom of the barrels of their guns, that, if they should be obliged to charge, the priming might not catch. Captain St. Clair will be again in a few days placed for trial before the first Council of War. The addresses from the army continue to pour into t h e dice of the Minister of War in countless num ber,. Amongst what have been received within these few days, are those from the different regiments quartere d at Lisle, Mezieres, Montmedy, Vesoul, Arras, Valenciennes, Tout, St. Sedan, A miens, Michel, Giver, Culnis, Bar-sur-Aunoin, Besancon, Vannes, Nancy, Lons-le-Saulnier, Epinal, Argen- Metz, and several other towns. tun, ANGOUI.EME, MARCH 24. All the efforts made here to arrest an expression in favour of the Emperor have failed. MAYENNE, MARCH 24. 'Two priests endeavoured to distribute writings ag ainst the Emperor, denying the departure of the 1;4, and the entry of the Emperor into the capital : it ' , induced a trifling movement on the part of a small number of Roya:sts, but it WAS instantly suppressed by an hnniense majority of the inhabitants, who ral licd Ind the tti-coloured fl :g. TOULOUSE, MARCH 20. There has pa ..ed here a very singular scene, and shich has thro,‘ prcat deal t.f ridicule upon its au thors. Yestettlay privee man disturbed the public ly crying Vive le !" and a all those who are the friends of • King follow me !" Many young men went aftet him—the greatest part Went to give dirt names to the municipality, in order to serve as rolunt-ers, but today every one having received 11is letter to depart nobody answered the appeal. MADRID, MARCH I& Th e arrests continm. There have been commit. tee t o prison within these two or three day. all the iwlembers of the Department of Finaice, and others have been appninted to succeed them. When it is Laown that there is :eccived in the Royal Treasury Nil). 30 per cent. of the whole revenues of the State, it will be perceived how lucrative those appointments tnust have been. it will be perceived bow lucrative those appointments must have been. VENICE, MARCH It. We are assured that the Austrian Government has sent 15,000 men as a reinforcement to Italy. Gene- ral Ban& is expected at Venice, to succeed the Prince of Reuss, who is ill, in the command of that cat;. Mann 15.—They speak of the arrival of 6000 Yeapolitans at Ancona, and it is added, that the Ring of Naples is there at their head. TRIESTE, MARCH 12. Ca the first news of the departure of Napoleon from the Isle of Elba, a great agitation prevailed amor ,, st every class .0 of people. All commercial tperations were suspended ; and every body was recopied with political intelligence. The few Italian regiments which were in Italy have been sent to Hungary, and are to be replaced by 40,000 men, the advanced guard of which are s!Teady arrived. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TUF. LOTTERY DRAWS ON WEDNESDAY NEXT.- 111 REF. PRI Z OP .tio,ow—FlVE THousAND GUI- KLAS IN GOLD, A 5 SOON AS DRAWN. MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1315. THE FUNDS. %soli began 571, and went up to 534 for the account; at :1-,:he o'clock, 571 for the account-57i for money. Yorterday a French Messenger arrived at Dover, with dispatches frum the French Government—some ..ty from Nteoteore himself—for the British Govern- ment. He came from Calais in one of the passage nits, and remained at Dover last night when the came away, waiting for permission from Minis. . e " 10 Prflet l ed to Loadon.—To affect to know any !iiag of the contents of these dispatches would be ri. ; but from every step that has yet been s.n since the return of NAPOLEON, we have no mubt that, in profession at least, these dispatches aim at the prevention of hostilities between the two %Inuits. r:e atwmpt to open a correspondence between the 'No Cove:einem at least furnish the French Tith a colourable pretext for throwing the odium of lz7 upon this country and putting our Ministers in a: wrong in the event of hostilities. If BONAPARTE 14 all insidious object of this kind in view, he will di 4 ?pointed ; for we have every reason to believe' "An Ministers will not, it it can possibly be avoided, tornrnit themselves and the country, without doing 'II' thing in their power to avoid so dreadful an I:m.native as again unsheathing the sword. ' 4 : 111 '4 be disgnised that the BOURBON Dynasty 42.! Lave been viewed with more complacency as head of an Empire whom it might be e:a.d that the relations of peace and amity might be s_aint lin e d, w i t h less chance of jarring than with the S:Ar.tare Dynasty ; bnt we cannot agree with those • 817 eNitemporaries who would hurry our Ministers :) uashcatl; the sword, and t o s h ut t h e d oor aga i nst .1 hvgociation with France but under the reign of a '14;;ILou. 4 11 our Administrations, notwithstanding the nu. %loin provocations furnished by France, have, ever 'to t he , ceannencement of the French reiolution, er4 gnistal the right of that country to regulate its VENICE, MARCH It. We are assured that the Austrian Government has sent 15,000 men as a reinforcement to Italy. Gene ral B anclii is expected at Venice, to succeed the Prince of Reuss, who is ill, in the command of that Masai 15.—They speak of the arrival of 6000 Ycapolitans at Ancona, and it is added, that the lin of Naples is there at their head. TRIESTE, MARCH 12. Ca the first news of the departure of Napoleon from the Isle of Elba, a great agitation prevailed amongst every class of people. All commercial rperations were suspended ; and every body was ccupied with political intelligence. The few Italian regiments which were in Italy have been sent to Hungary, and arc to be replaced by 40,000 men, the advanced guard of which are Own interiml concerns, without foreign interference;' and have, in spite of every excitement employed by their adversaries, kept that question entirely distinct from every one of•the grounds of war : nor can we belie,' that the present Administration will allow itself to be provoked to adopt a different line of con. duct. Ministers will jealously guard the interests and the honour of the country, but they will be slow to commit the country in the present circumstances of Europe. What is practicable and attainable, not what may be desirable, will ever regulate the aim of a wise and prudent Administration.- We are led to this subject from the spirit which we see manifested in some of the Morning Papers. None but fools substitUte fiarsivn fur cfslikrati.m. Were Ministers to listen to the voice of some men, we should have interminable war—interminable as to any thing admitted into their calculation. What ! urge the Administration to commehee a war never to be terminated but with the restoration of dr: Boon- BONS to the throne of France I We think this to the full as reprehensible as the conduct of those aho are for viewing the Usurper of die French Throne as not merely a harmless but a meritorious Prince, who aims only at ameliorating the condition of his own people and of the surroundhg nations ; and who con sequently would have this country—(the country which alone possessed independence sufficient to make her persevere in her efforts to compel the French to confine their pretensionswit hin more moderate bounds) tamely and passively to look upon the passing scene, without even preparing to vindicate, in case of ne cessity, the honour, the independence, the glee', of Great Britain. Yes ! 44 the glory of Great Britain ;" for greatly as the term glory has been abused by our enemy, we have a lustre of character to maintain, which France has yet to acquire. We have not at all changed our opinion of the man who has so long been the scourge of Europe, nor do we believe that his antipathy to this country is at all lessened ; but, for the mesons stated in the STAR of Saturday, we are convinced that others now divide the power with him in France, and that this cir cumsiance ought not to be lost sight of in the deli berations rendered necessary by the events which now occupy the attention of Government. There can be no doubt that the Nation will sup port Ministers if they be forced into a war; and we think it equally certain that our adversaty will pin them in the wrong if he possibly can. Hence one strong reason, iu addition to the fresh load of debt which a new war will occasion, why they wilt put it out of the p .cer of BONAPARTE to say, that they would not t . o listen to any proposition calculated to avert hostilities. Even the official documents published in the French Journals, which we have no.v received to 1 hursday last inclusive, shew that it Is now a part of their po litical tactics to run before others in some of the topics calculated to produce a popular feeling in favour of the new order of things. The Decree anarastimo MIL SLAVE TRADE, and declaring that henceforth it shall not be lawful IQ; Frenchmen (excepting to finish the voyage entered on under the floultamts) to buy or sell. Slaves, we consider as a measure of this kind : but no matter, the measure itself, whatever the mo tive may have been that dictated it, is good, and therefore deserving of praise. The ver y adoption of such a system makes it more than ever necessary that Ministers should be exceed ingly cautious : but let them, knowing the man they have vi deal with, be fully prepared for the alterna tive of war. To be found off their guard would be to reader the restoration, or rather the maintenance, of peace (for hostilities have not yet commenced) absolutely impossible. We have given in the preceding columns extracts of every thing worthy of notice in the FrencbJournals. According to the Moniteur, the Duke of BOURBON has failed in his efforts to excite a movement in La Vendee in favour of his family, and an agreement was at length entered into by which the Duke and his followers were to receive passports to quit France . In an official Prater Vaal in the same Paper, it is stated, that of the Crown Jewels, valued at 14,441,646 francs, there only remain to the • due of 603,598 francs. The rest (including the diamond called the Regent, estimated at six millions of francs) valued at 13,838,046 francs (more than half a million sta. ling) are stated to have been taken away by the Knco and his friends. Our private accounts from France state, that a great degree of gloom is obsei %fable, not only in Paris, but throughout France ; the expression of ex ultation, at the late change, being chiefly confined to the military, and the lower orders. In the sea ports, as here, the people scera to think that a renewal of the war will be unavoidable. At Havre they are even preparing for the event, we mean the people, who are making great exertions in re.equipping their privateers for sea. Three of them are expected to be ready for sea in a few days. We need hardly add, that out Admiralty should be on the alert to he prepared for the event. Indeed, we know that in that department the exertions at this moment are great to procure seamen and get ships ready for sea. During the last three days, the press gangs on the River have taken every seaman out of the vessels that have been ready to sail since the Ist of February ; even apprentices that have served five years of their time are taken without discrimination. We understand, however, that the Transport Board lon Saturday declined receiving any more tenders for transports for the present. THE A.Rmr. In eonseqnence of a Brigade Order, the Ist bat. talion of the Ist regiment of Guards, and as many men as will complete the 2d battalions of the three regiments et - Guards to 1000 rank and file each, will be in readiness to proceed to Deal tomorrow morn. ing, for embarkation for the Netherlands. The fol. lowing detachments will, therefore, set off, viz.; 1200 of the Ist regiment of Guards, from Portman.street Barracks I 250 of the Coldstream, or 2d regiment, from Knightsbridge; and 250 of the 31 regiment, from St. James's Park:—the greater part of the above are young men of the last enlistment. A trr.op of the Royal Hone Guards will embark at the SAM• 2 time, to serve as a Guard of Honour to his Exceliency the Duke of WiiI.LINGFON. Lord CO \lakilidallE is said to have received orders to hold himself in readiness to take the corn:bawl of the cavalry in Belgium, under the Dukt of LINOTON. A troop of the 12th Dragoons, and 300 of the Royal Staff Corps, embarked on SAturday afttrir , oli in passage-boats for Ostend, and sailed iinniJdiately. Last week parties of the 14th Light Dragoon., from Radipole barracks, arsived At Hounslow. The first division of our army in Canada is to sail from Quebec os the Ist of neat mouth, for tngland. Nine cid of large transports are under ()ideas to sal front Portsmouth immediately (without convoy) to bring home the secon4 division ; and several others are going out laden with provisions. Since Saturday we have received a most abundant supply i f German and Dutch Papers. An arzicle from Vienna notices an attempt on the part %if some Frenchmen to carry off clandestinely, the son of Bo- NAPARTZ by the Archduchess MARIA LOUISA, but the project was dule iced. The Duke of W ELLING. TON left Vienna for Brussels on the 2tith, t.i take the cninmand of the GranJ Allied Army. BEUTIILER (the Prince of Neufchatel) it appears remains true to the cause of LOUli XVII i. and has gone on a mission to the King of BAVARIA,to rouse, if necessary, that So vereign once more against BONAPAIiTE. In the mean time, the Allied Sovereigns continue to push forward their troops towards France, and even Denmark sup plies a contingency of 15,000 men for the great cause. The following are extracts from Dutch Papers re ceived this morning t SWITZERLAND, APRIL 1. Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales passed through Basle on the 13th, without stopping. Madame de Stael is arrived at Capel. On the 17th a Cotirier to the Ati,trian Mini,ter brought the news that the aiLirs ot a;• .erminated, at the Congress, and that will, in a leg/ days,. la lug these resolutions. VIENNA, MARCH 19. On the evening of the 16th a grand Ceuncil of War WAS held, composed of Prince Swartzenberg, the Duke of Wellington, Princv Wrede, the lieredi tacy Prince of Win teinberg, M. de Grasina, Priuees Metternich and 1 - lirdenberg, and Count Nltirister.— it is in consequence or the deliberations of this Coun cil, that the Duke of Wellington goes to Brussels. The Austrian Army is on the march ; two batta lions of grenadiers marched from this city to•day : 10,000 Aaistrian troops ate advancing to t.ie south and south east. Those of all the others are in motion. The Matquis de Chastiler had just been named Quarter-Master-General of the Army in Italy, when we received the unexpected news of his death. Private Letters brought by the Brussels Mail at ►ived in Town this morning, mention that a skirmish had taken place on the frontier near Thionville, be tween a party of Prussian Hussars and French Light Horse, and that the latter had been cut to pieces.— The letters also mention the arrival of the Dnke of WiLusiuros at Brussels. 44 WINDSOR CASTLZ, APRIL 1. " His MAJZSTT has passed the last month in an uniform state of tranquillity; but kis MAJESTIer disorder continues unaltered. (Signed) " U. NALPORD ) M. RAILLIR. " 3. MILLS% R. WILLIS, The above Bulletin was not exhibited in the State. moms, as usual, on account of their having been con verted into barracks at the time 01 the late riots, and the military continuing still to occupy them. The Bulletin was in consequence shewn to the Nobility and ihe Public at large, who resorted there for that purpose, at the apartments of Mr. PBN ROSE, the Household Surgeon, where Lord Rtvens attended as the Lord in Waiting, and General CAMPBELL as Groom. Saturday the PENCIL RMIZNT took an airing on horseback. Divine Service was yesterday performed at Carlton House by the Rev. F. W. BLOMBERG, Clerk of the , Closet. The LORD CoAsiciu.Loa had an audience of the Pattice REGENT yesterday at Carlton House. Yesterday morning Lord CASTLEREAGH introduced a Foreign Gentleman to the PRINCE REGENT, uho had just arrived is Lond.on with dispitches. The Noble Secretary of State had also a private audience of the REGENT. Saturday, all the Cabinet Ministers were in close consultation for three hours and a halt, at the Foreiga Office, baying met at two o'cli-ck, and not breaking .up till bait past five. Yesterday, at two o'clock, the) Assembled again at the Foreign Office, and continued in deliberation neatly as long, the Cabinet not break ing up till past five. _ . Saturday evening Mr. STUART, of the Colonial Department Office an Downing -street, arrived with Duplicates of the Dispatches lately received grom the Congress. The Duke of Kur dined yesterday at the General Officers' dinner, held at the Ilaitisla Hind, Cockspur street. The British Linen Company of Scotland have sent to his Royal Highness the Duke of KENT, the munificent contribution of One Hunlred Guineas to the Caledonian Asylum. The Panics RRGENT, attended by Generals BLoox• FULD and THORNTON, were at Drury-lane Theatre on Saturday evening, and szemed highly delighted with the new Opera of tl.e Unineems Guar, which went off with infinite eclat. The reports which hive been circulated upon the authority of letters from St. Thomas, of the capture of the MAIDSTONZ frigate, Captain SKIPIIIY, by the Constitution, America* frigate, are destitute of Won datum. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. DOVER, APRIL 1. - --- From the late arrivals from Calais we learn that there have been great desertions from the rvgitncnt quartered there, and also from those at St. Omer's. Thtee French Mails arrived this morning. Arrived early this morning, two French passage vessels, one of them brought a Messenger from Bonaparte with dispatches : he remains at the Shi7 Inn until le tve is granted from Ministers for him to proceed lo Lon. dun. Two French Officers in disguise were taken up at Ostend a few days ago, and put into confinement. DCAL, APRIL Q. Nothing arrived from the Westwar.l. Came down from the River the ENDYNtIoN for the Cape, &ic it .. TRAStfor India, COSSACK for Newfoundland, and the RUSOLUTION, George, and KATE. the latter for the Cape. Sailed the JUNON frigate for the River —vvc. 14 Dover passage-boats, for Ostend, full of troops. outward-bound E remain. BRIGH TON, APRIL 1. At nine, A. M. this dty, the Prince It -gcrit patket, from Dieppe, landed upwards of WI p..1€ 0 14, ern our beach, including about eizht or ten Luglicti Gentlemen, Comte Grua; the I-Linov:rian Am; sador to Louts XVIII. the Bishop Da hlnvTr s, e venerable Bishop of Reines, ;luny Fr 'act) P:i tee. and at least five or six And twenty French I. idTs. Captain C)LIIILL4 of the Msvy, W4S 4MJIIi; the Bii• tish passengers. IVIUSOPD-HAVEN. MARCH 31. Arrived the CONQUEST gun brig from a cruir: ; Active, WILLIAMS, from Bo istol for this port ; Gower packet, with a mail and passengers from IV.i.crford ; aligence and For, Custom-house cuttels, from cruizing on their respective stations. Sailed tire Maria. WAIIIIIINAN, from Amelia ',land, with cotton wool, for Liverpool ; Robert Nelson. PATTEMON, from Dublin for Barbadoes ; Amelia, RozzaTsos. from Li. verpoal for Antigua ; Sandwich packer, with a mail and passengers. for Waterford ; Edward and Eliza. teeth, CUSTANCI4 from Newport for London.— Remain his Majesty's ships MYRTLE, SPITFIRE. and Cownsr. FALMOUTH, MARCH at. Sailed yesterday his Majesty's ship GOLDFINCH on a cruize, and the Nimuou cutter to the Eastwar,l. Sailed to-day the following Packets, all with Mails—. Duke of ICent. for Lisbon ; Hinchinbrook, f.r H las and New York; Blucher, for Surinam; and Ddke of Moatrose, for the West Indies. Admiral Dot:. GLAS made a signal on board his Majesty's ship WAlt. soon this moraina for the West India fleet to prepare to sail: they are still here. but should the wind can. tinue lair, no doubt they will sail in the morning. TORBAY, APRIL Sailed yesterday his Majesty's ships Scour and HoPR, with the whole of the wind boUnd ships, to the Westward. Sailed to day about 20 sail of ships belonging to this port s and 'feign:mush, for New• foundiand.—Wind PLYMOUTH. APRIL 1. • Sailed his Majesty's ships Actsan, for Holland; MALTA, 80 guns, to the Eastward ; and Hauunsx gun•brig, on a .cruize. PORT3MOU APRIL 2. Arrived yesterday his Majesty's ship FURIKUSE from Halifax. Sailed a fleet of transports for Qiietwc.—. Arrived to-day his Majesty's ship Leve►ter, from tl:e Coast of France, and five sail of colliers from the . North. Went oet of harbour his Majesty's ships POMPIM ARACIINR, and CONTEST. Sailed his Ma. jesty's ship BRUNSWICK to the Westward. The Smaeeen and Pz.uscna, are ordered to be got ready for sex immediately. Orders have been received at this port not to put any more ships in or. dinary, that may be found fit for service. The men of war at this port, are ordered to be supplied with the war allowance of flags of the different nations— and be particular in not omitting the tricoloured flag now again used as the national coliurs of France. COVE OF CORK, MARCH 29. His Majesty's ship BOYNL, Captain MAITL A ND, has received orders to proceed to England, and is ex pected to sail to-day for Spithead ; as is also his NlA jesty's ship DANMARK, 74, for Plymouth. His Majesty's ship LEVIATHAN, 74 guns, Captain BRIOC4 proceeds for Gibraltar, as soon as the weather mode rates. WM INDIA CONVOY —His Majesty's ship Pawn takes the vessels as above. The Leo, American privateer, of 7 guns and 93 men, was taken on the Sth instant, in lat. 46. 24. long. IS. SO. by the Tyber frigate, after a chace a 11 hours. She had been out three weeks from L'Orient, and on the 7th instant, captured and burnt an English sloop from St. Michael's.--The hawk privateer, of Baltimore, of 9 guns and 85 men, from Boston, was taken on the Old of January, by the Butwattx man of war, and carried into Halifax. —The Bergen Jul, Batman, from Dublin to Spain, put into Dartmouth on Saturday, in great distress, being completely dismasted, and her cargo - shifted. HARWICH, APRIL a. Arrived the Fieeling and Diana packets from Hamburgh, and Earl Leicester packet. with a trmil from Rtliand. Sailed the Active packet, with a mail for Gottenbutgh. COLCHESTER, APRIL t. Arrived the Ann bye-boat, Captain DENNIS, from Ostend, without passengers. Every thing remained quiet, and the English families still resident in the Netherlands, appear to have recovered from the tint alarm. and to have given up all thoughts of moving for the 'present. Sailed the Success packer, Captain BLACKWELL, with a sealed bag of letters and pas. singers, for Ostend. Yesterday the Duke of ORLRAtii and suite arrived at the White Hart inn, ColcheAer, from Helvoettl ye. They came over in a Dutch man of war, and were landed at Aldborough. Their carriages and bag. gage are expected to arrive at Harwich in a trans port. CORN EXCHANGE, APRIL 3...••• We had a large supply of Wheat this day from Essex, Kent, and Suffolk, and early in the morning a few prime S'Aule pies from the•country sold at an advance of 2s. but the trade in general was very heavy, and upon the whole our prices must be considered the same as on this day week.—Having a considerable arrival of Barley, our prices hive declined from Is. to 2s. per quarter.—White Peas are 2s. and Beans and Oats Is. per quarter dearer than last Monday.—JA other Larticles no alteration. I