Star. — London, England, 1819-01-07 00:00:00

FRANCE. The opinion of the patriotic writer, M. ETIESKI I on the late changes in the French Administration, will give to our Readers the most satisfactory account of the sentiment with which the result of the convul sion is contemplated by the great party of the friends of the Constitution in France. We extract it from the last Minerve : " PARTS, DRCEMBRR so. ig All uncertainty ceases; after eight days of an guish, the-new Administration is at last formed : the Royal . Ordonnance has been this night signed. The, Lieutenant-General Dessolles is President of the' Council, and Minister of Foreign Affairs ; M. de Cazes, Minister of the Interior ; M. Louis, Minister of Finance; M. Portal, Minister of Marine; M. de Serre is the Keeper of the Seals ;- and Marshal St. Cyr remains Minister of War. Every one knows now to whom to address himself; the ensign of power is displayed, and the crowds flock to it. Those who had removed return ; all protest that they have not for a moment changed. The party which flat tered itself loftily with the triumph, and which threatened before it was .victorious, is thunderstruck with this unforeseen result.—The true Independents, that is to say; the friends of the Charter, are the only one; who have neither changed their posture, nor their language, because their principles will be al ways the same, whatever circumstances and whoever the men may be. .‘ The new Ministry is called to great works ; let us hope that those who compose it. will not be below their mission. General Dessolles owes his reputa tion, his fortune, and his rank, to the French army ; no one disputes either his mind or his moderation, and the National Girard of Paris knolvs that he loves jus tice, and that he hates persecution. M. de Serre gave, as President of the Chamber of Deputies, strik in? proofs of impartiality and wisdom, and there is no bne in France who does not rejoice to see placed at the head of the Magistracy, a man of impartiality and wisdom. " M. Louis had made on a former occasion, before entering into the Ministry, conditions which do not allow us to question his constitutional principles.— M. Portal has the reputation of a skilful merchant sr..' a good administrator. Marshal St. Cyr is gifted with a great firmness of mind, and a firm character; the .trmy places its hopes in him, and France sees with joy that he remain at a post in which he has repaired as many acts of injustice as he possibly could. It would have been lamentable that the author of the law of recruiting should not complete his work. M. d? Coxes is entrusted with two great burthens of the administration and of public Favour; he has enemies and flatterers ; the first wilt perhaps be more useful to him than the second. " The hatred of the party which would proscribe all new men and new interests began his popularity ; laws of exception, and some inconsiderate proceed ings, bad excited the distrust of the true Constitu tioaals ; but at the decisive moment when our Na tional Institutions were to be shaken, M. De Cazes :hewed himself their firm support and sincere de fender. His resolution, loudly declared, of retiring from the Administration if the Election Law was attacked, and the fury of a party which seemed already to mark out its victims, have conciliated for him in the highest degree the general interest. Ile owes much tai public opinion ; but lie must pay his debt. A man who is in his situation is almost re sponsible for the good which he does not dos this is sufficient to expre , s what France expects from him. " We shall speak of the new Ministry with as much freedom as of the former one ; we shall not be afritid to point out its faults, nor to praise what it dues well. Unchangeable defenders of principles, we shall incessantly demand from it Institutions, Iv:- cause .suers _pan awy, end laws alone ranala. In short, we shall keep ourselves, as in the past time, within the line of a wise criticism, and shall never be towards the possessors of power, enemies who threaten, but sentinels who wasn. " The Duke of Richelieu, whose noble and ho- nest character the Frenchmen of the most opposite political opinions love to proclaim, carries with him the esteem of all worthy man. Ile signed the inde pendence of his country before leaving the adminis tration of it. He retires at the moment of the finest triumph which a public man c,m obtain. Them was, perhaps, only wanting to him a better knowledge of France; the other Ministers bare not the same • excuse ; but they cease to be powerful, and I forbear to speak of them. M. Roy accepted, perhaps rather too lightly, the administration of Finance. at a moment when it appeared impossible that the administration should • not be changed ; but he remained a stranger to all the intrigues of these last days ; on undertaking a troublesome burthen, he only took counsel from his ' attachment to the public. The Ministry of the Ma rine was offered to him, and he refused it ; lie did not think himself called to it by hi former labours, and by his practical knowledge. M. Roy has dis pensed with being a Minister ; he enjoys a great fortune ; and the tope alone of being useful to his country could make him renounce the charms of liberty, and the sweetness of independence. " Now that all this great political intrigue is un folded, we look out for the cause of so many rumours, and find it difficult to explain them. France enjoyed the most profound calm, there was not remarked the slightest symptom of trouble ; there was not a pro vince which was not quiet, nor a hamlet which was nut at peace. The taxes were paid with regularity, the young citizens marched away with spirit; never did the means of Government appear so easy; never did more attachment call for more confidence; on a sudden a thousand insidious cries were repeated ; dis quiet and alarm spread ; had twenty Deloartapentz been in open revolt, more alarm could not hpe been shewn. We with to know whence so mueN mirror originated ; nothing authorizes, nothing justifies it. A faction had announced to Europe that the evacua tion of the French territory would be the signal of trouble and civil war; did it wish to realize ita sinis ter auguries ? The attitude of the French is the finest answer which could be made to it. If the na tion re mained quid in spite of so many provocations, if it has shesvn ilssible in spite of so much teno r , the trial of old Nance and new France is irrevoca— bly decided. I knew tlsa( there has been a wish to attribute this extraordinary movement to foreign influence, LONDON. BOTH THE THIRTY THOUSAND POUNDS !RAZES MUST BE DRAWN NEXT TUESDAY, BEING THE LAST DAY. 1 THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1819. THE FUNDS. PM* OW STOOKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLGCK : Reduced 78i-3 per Cent. Cons. 77/i ex. div. Cons. for Account, 791i-3i per Cent. SThip 4 per Cent. 9.50-5 per sent. Navy 1041 ex. div. ,India Bonds 93 95 pre.—Oninium pre. Exchequer Bills IS 20 pre. The Paris Papers of Monday arrived this forenoon. The KING had his usual grand Levee on Sunday : the only one of the Er-Ministers mentioned to have been present was M. LAINE. The new Minister of Finance, Baron Louis, has recalled M. JOURDAN to the post of Cashier of the Treasury. Count C:: ABIMT, de CRousAL is stated to have given in his resignation as Under Secretary to the Ministry of the Interior : no person has yet been designated as his successor. 'lle fact cc the i iilure of eight considerable houses in Pari:. of which we were two days ago apprised by Private Letter, is mentioned in these Papers as one of the rumours afloat, but no names are given. Ti)e Duke of Gi.oucrs I'ER dined, Q 1 I Sattird.ty, the 'Nineties, wizb the K Kt: and Royal Family. The Emperor of rainAus . has conferred the Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Etienne of Hungary on the Duke of RICIIELIEV. His Grace's health is said to be almost entirely re-established. The Kt v.. has granted a free pardon to M. Dogma, Advocate, condemned. in 1810, to tran.seortation. 13y the private letters from Paris, it appears that since the appointment of the new Ministry the Funds have continued to improve. On the sth the price was 68. Four or five other houses have stopped payments in Paris, and two or three in Amsterdam. A Flanlets Mail arrived this forenoon; bat, ex cepting the following enumeration of ships that en tered tlic. port of Antwerp, from the Ist of January to the 31st of December, 1818, it brings nothing of importance:—The ships were-352 of the Nether lands, '297. English, 31 Americans, 27 Danish, 21 French, t:2 Ilanoverians. We have received New York Papers to the 11th ultimo, the contents of which arc interesting; as they present a detail of tl. Trial [read Mt;RDEII] of our countrymen, Army:ll\oT and AMIMISTER. The great length of the document% renders it impossible to lay them entire before our Readers this day; but the whole shall appear as quickly as we can make room for them. These Papers also connin some intelligence re specting affairs in South Antn-iza ; not, however, of such importance as to danand the exclusion of any part of the proceedings against our countrymen, to make room for them. FROM THE NEW rvENI.Nr; OF 71f£ 7711 DEMME& CONC. itESS, DEC.OniElt 3. The following Message n as read from the Presi dent of the United States:— " n sitere if the Lit:ted States, " I transmit to the Senate Copies of such of the Documents referred to in the Message of the 17th ult. as have been prepared since that period. They contain a Copy of the Report of Mr. RODNEY and Mr. GRAHAM, two of the Commissioners to South America, who returned first from the Mission, and of the Papers connected with those Reports. They also present a full view of the operations of our troops employed in the Seminole war in Florida. It would have been gratifying to me to have com municated with the Message all the Documents re ferred to in it, but as two cf our Commissioners from South America made their Reports a few days only before the meeting of Congress, and the third on the day of its meeting, it was impossible to' trans mit at that time more than one Copy of the two Re ports first made. The residot of the Documents will be communicated as soon as they are prepared. Dec. s; isle. (Signed) "JAMES MONROE." The Papers accompanying the Message, so far as they relate to South America, are those which wore previously laid before the other House ; and so far as respects the Seminole war, of letters between the War Department and General GAINES, and the War Department and General JACKSON, and of the pro- ceedings of the Court Martial for the trial of AR BUTHNOT and AmitIOTER. The Message and Documents were ordered to lie on the table. The following Message was also re ceived from the Pasemityrof the United States : " To ens mesa Or mes mesa anus. " In.convitanceebb the Resolution of the SS* of but moth, requestios to be faraisked with suds informatin as may be pg.- mused by the ineentlee, Mains the execution of so smelt of the first Article of the late Treaty of Peace and Amit7 between his Britannic Majesty and the United States as relates to the re *autism of Sian% and which has not heretofore been comm. pleated, Nay before the Senate a Report made by the Secretary of State on the Ist Instant in relation to that subject. (SiPed) " JAW= 110NROL " December 5,,1 iu s." PROM TOR ENQUIRER. "The correspondence between Gov. Raburn and General Jackson, about the murder at Chehaw town, is laid before the Legislature of Georgia. One of the letters of Jackson is calculated to excite astonish ment and indignation. We shall lay them before the reader; and the intemperate style in which they are written will speak for itself. There is one position against which we solemnly protest. " You, Sir, as Governor of a State within my military division, have no right to give a military order whilst I am in the field." If General Jackson means to the Militia, we repel the assertion with indignation. What ! when did the States part with the power to defend themselves in any cases of extreme emergency ? Sup pose an invasion from a foreign foe, must we quietly wait till we send off to the Commander of the Mili tary Division, and ask his leave to save our lives? What would have. become of us, on several occasions during the late war, if this doctrine bad been admit ted ? :we will obey the United States when they call upon us—vie will ask them, when the time ad mits, for aid; but in extreme emergencies, we mug defend ourselves. general Jackson speaks in too high a tone. The last of all species of dictation which a free people will submit to, is that of military autho rity. General Jackson must change his tone, or his reputation will seriously suffer." The Senate of Georgia, says a letter, has approved of the conduct of Governor Raburn towards General .Jackson, and there is no doubt but our House will concur in the same opinion. TRIAL OF ARBUTHNOT AND AMR R IST UR. MIN CTRS OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF A SPECIAL COURT, onGAKIZED AGREEABLY TO THE FOLLOWING Gni) En: " Adjutant-General's Mut, Fort St. 114 r Ls, April .2G, I Lb. " arras —Dtvistos or Tilt SUI.III. " GIMBAL OILDti. " The fcUowing Detail will compose a Special Court, to con lien!' at this Post at the hour of Twelve o'clock, m. fur the pur po.e of investigating the charge against A. Arbuthnot. Ro►ert Ansbristcr, and such others, who arc similarly situated , as May be brought before it. The Court will rec-ad .111 the Atxumeuts and testimony in the several cases, and their opinion as to the guilt of innocrimc of the Prisoner., and what punish moat (if any) should be inflicted. " Major-General E. P. G President. "Col. Xing, 4th InfmrrY, " Col. D;er, Ten. Vt.l. " Col. Williams, Ten. Vol. " Lindsay, Cur. A'y. " Lt..-Ccl. Gibson, Ten. Vol. " Lt.-Cul. Elreut, Ten. Vol. " Nial. Muhlenberg, 4th 111. " Nlaj. Fanning, Cor. " May. Muntrornery, 7th It:f. " Maj. Minton, Geo. Militia. Vashoa, 7th Inf. " Capt. Crittenden, K'y Vol. " Lt. J. M. Grxic-.1., 7th Infantry, Recorder. " An Orderly will be detailed trona Gen. Gatnes's Brigade, a al the Coutt will sit wit/toot regard to hours. " By order of Maj.-Gen. Jackson, " LIMIT 131;TLEA, Adjt.-Cen." " Fort St. Marks, u6tt, April, 1818. a The Court convened pursuant to the foregoing order, when, being duly sworn in the presence of the prisoner, and he being asked if he had any objections to any members thereof, and rcpl)ing in ti:- negatise, the following Charges and Specifications were read : CHARGES nuatxs? A. ARIUJTHNOT, NOW IN CV4TODY. AND WHO SAYS la: IS A BRITISH SUBJECT. " Charge lat.—Exciting and stirring up the Creek Indians to war against the United States, and her ci tizens, he (A. Arbuthnot) being a subject of Great Britain, with whom the United States are at peace. 64 Spectication.—That the said A. Arbuthnot, be tween the months of April and July, or sometime in June, 1817, wrote a letter to the Little Prince, ex horting and advising him not to comply with the Treaty of Fort Jackson, stating that the citizens of the United States were infringing on the Treaty of Ghent, and, as he believed, without the knowledge of the Chief Magistrate of the United States; and ad vising the Upper and Lower Creeks to unite and be friendly, stating that William Hambly was the cause of their disputes; also advising the Little Prince to write to the Governor of New Providence, who would write to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, through whom the United States would be called to a compliance with the Treaty of Ghent, and advising them not to give up their lands, under the Treaty of Fort Jackson, for that the American Citizens would be compelled to give up to them all their lands, un der the Treaty of Ghent. " Charge id.—Acting as a spy, and aiding, abet ting, and comforting the enemy, supplying them With the means of war. Specification lst.--In writing a letter from the Fort of St. Marks, dated 2d April, 1818, to his son John, at Suwany (marked A.), detailin,: the advance of the army under General Jackson, stating their force, probable movements, and intentions, to be communicated to Bowleggs, the Chief of the Suwany Towns, fur his government. Specification 2cl.—ln writing the letters marked B. without date, and C. with enclosures, 27th Ja nuary, 1818, and D. called a Note of Indian Talks,' i and E. without date, applying to the British Govern ment, through Governor Cameron, for munitions of war, and assistance for our enemies ; making false representations; and also applying to Mr. liagot, British Ambassador, for his interference, with a state ment, on the back :done of the letters, of munitions of war for the enemy. " Cha e rre 9d.—Exciting the Indians to m ur de r an d destroy William Hambly and Edmund Doyle, and causing their arrest, with a view to their condemna tion to death, and the seizure of their property, on account of their active and zealous exertions to main tain peace between Spain, the United States, and the Indians, they being Citizens of the Spanish Go vernment. " Spectfteation lst.—ln writing the letters marked F. dated 26th August, 1817, G. dated 13th May, 1817, and H. threatening them with death, alleging against them false and ir.Tamous charges, and wing evert means in his power , to procure their arrest . All which writings and sayings excited, and h.t tendency to excite, the Negroes and Indians to a of hostility against the United States.— By order the Court, " J. M. GLAbSELL. Recorder.' To which charges and specifications the priso: pleaded—Not Guilty. The prisoner having made application for Colin it was granted him ; when the Court proceeded the examination of the evidence. John Winslei, a witness on the part of the pi cution, being duly sworn, stated, that some time be; last July, the Little Prince received a letter, sig , ;. by a Mr. Arbuthnot, advising the ripper part of t nation to unite with the lower chiefs in amity ; stating, the best mode for them to re-possess the: selves of their lands would be to wthe to him (A buthnot) and he would send their complaints to t Governor of Providence, whence it would be fi warded to his Britannic Majesty, and he would ha the terms of the Treaty of Ghent attended to. I moreover stated his belief, that the encroachntee• An the Indian lands were unknown to toe Preside:. of the United States. The witness a!so identified II signature of the prisoner in a letter :obis son, markt A. and referred to in the first peciti..ation, in the s cond charge; and heretofore noticed as the same wit that sent to the Little Prince. The witness, on being further interrogated, state the language of the iezter alluded to, to be, that tl British Government, on application, would cause be restcred to them their lands, held iu 1811, ag:c , ably to the forms of the treaty of Ghent., b 1 tile pri•oner.—Who is the Little Prince, Or he knov:n by any other name?--He is known by name of kky I lopin, and is the second Chi. of the nation. Q. the priconer.—W!ereii the linter you alluk to, of in whose possession ?—it was left in posse , ..sio. of Little Prince when !act caw it. Q. by the prisoner...4l3s this Little Prince no otht name than what you state ?—Not that I know of. Q. by the prisoner.—Do you cwear that the let c• alluded to was addressed to the Little Prince ?-1 d • not ; it was presented me by the Little Prince to real and interpret for him, which I did. _ . Q. by the prisoner.—Are you certain that die lett, , rate.l that the Chief Magistrate of the United S:att could have no knowledge of settlements made o Indian lands or injuries committed ?—The lett< stated chat to be the belief of the writer. John Lewis Phenix, a witness on the.part of tb prosecution, being duly sworn, stated, with regard t the Ist Specification of the 2cl Charge, that being Suwany, in the town, about the Gth or ith of Apri he was awakened in the mottling by Mr. Ambrister receiving, by the hands of a negro, who got it frcr an Indian, a letter front St. Mar ks, at that time state by Ambrister ;,o be from the prisoner. Q. by the Prisoner.—Did you see that letter c• hfar it read ?—I did see the paper, but did not hea it read. by the Prisoner.—Did you state that the lent was received by an Indian express ?—go the blaci man that delivered it said. A questicn being raised by a Member of the Com as to the jurisdiction en the third Cl:arge and its six cification. the dcors were dosed, and, after math!' deliberatica, the; ded.led that this Court are incorn potent to take ccznizance of the offences alleged that charge and specification. Peter B. Cook, a former clerk to tile prisoner, anc a witness on the part of the prosecution, being did : - sworn, stated, that about Detember or January last the prisoner had a large quantit: of powder and lead brought to Suss-any in his vessel, which he sold to Indians and negroes; that, subse.quent to that time. which he cannot recollect, Ambrister brought for th prisoner in his (the prisoner's) vessel, nine kegs c • powder, and a large quantity of lead, which wa taken possession of by the negroes. The witness als - identified the following letters, referred to in th , foregoing charges aid specifications, marked A, P. C, D, E, F, G, and 11. as being the prisoner's hand writing ; also the Power of Attorney, No. 1, granteil by the Indians to A. Arbuthnot: (A.)—From AaArbuthrlot to hi% •on, John krbuthnot, .i.treL Rat St. Mark, April 2, 1814, ill. the Mot-nillt, " Dear John—As lam ill able t.) write along let ter. it is necessary to be brief. Before my arrival her, the Commandant had received an express from th. Governor of Pensacola, informing him of a large em barkation of troops, &c. under the imme.liate corn mand of General Jackson, and the boat that brutigh the dispatch reckoned eighteen sail of vessels, on Appalichacola. By a deserter that was brought her( by the Indians, the Commandant was informed tha 3000 men, under the orders of General Jackson, 100( foot and 1600 horse, under General Gaines, 500 unde another General, were at Prospect Blur, where the: are rebuilding the burnt fort ; that 1000 Indians, o different nations, were at Spanish Bluff, buildinl another fort, under direction of American officers that as soon as these forts were built they intended ti march. They have commenced. Yesterday morn ing advice was received that they had appeared nea and taken two of the sons of M'Queen an,' an fadian. Late in the afternoon three schooners cam to anchor at the mouth of the River, and this mot' ing the American flag is seen frying on the largest. I am blocked here ; no Indians will come with me and I am now suffering from the fatigue of comin . here alone.—The main drift of the America ns i s t destroy the black population of Suwany. Tell in n . friend Bole: k, that it is throwing away his people t.. attempt to resist such a powerful force as will Ie down on Sahwahnee; and as the troops advance by land, so will the vessels by sea. Endeavour to gee all the Foods over the River in a place of . securn) , as also the skins of all sorts ; the.tni‘n must be left I. its fate. So soon as the Sahwanee is - destroyed, Y es pect the Americans will be satisfied and retire: this is only my opinion, but I think it is conformable to the demand made by General Gaines to King Ha tchy some months since; in fact, do all you can to say,: all you can save, the hooks particularly. " It is probable the Commandant will receive some communication from the vessels to-day, %the!. he will know more certainly what are their motives in coming off the fort. I think it is only to shut up th" passage to-the Indians. Twenty canoes went clOw, yesterday, and were forced to return. The road be tween'this and Mickasucky is said to be stopped.- Hillisajo and Him;thlo iklico were here last tight, t hear what vessels; they will remove all their caul( but nothing is less probable than such conjecture. As soon as the Ministers of the Allied Powers appear at Paris, the vulgar attach great importance to their arrival; they will only see great intrigues which have no political object. Many a stranger, comes here for pleasure, whom they :appose to come , for mighty combinations. France owes Europe no account of its internal transactions; Foreign Ambas sadors cannot hereafter interfere in any part of our administration. We have fulfilled our engagements ; they have nothing more to require of us. 4 THE EVENING STAR. E .113 st, bi se d i a) 'I a .g ati or .ti nc ,at 'pp st •all ry atu rlc heir he I 00 - 1 to And your bly Toni The tc Do) pecl on ip: H.l l'io whi Sn. tnl and Nat s C.) Ic 61 0 iS • e 1 • • E! :ft I 'A 11 fCC e •1 :t 11,1 el 'Ol 7 for lel • J .e a .ia 'o cl • • 1 1 ir