Star. — London, England, 1815-01-30 00:00:00

• . ,• j, • 7. BRUSSELS, JANUARY U. • Lieutenant General Count Excelmans, after having escaped from his _house where he was guaided. by gens d'armes, bad engaged in writing to surrender himself as soon as he should be legally summoned be fore a competent tribunal. Though two of the charges against him have the penalty of death affixed to them, he 'has punctually fulfilled his promise. •On the 14th he repaired voluntarily to Lisle, where the Court- Martial is to meet, and wrote to Lieutenant General Count Erlon, Commandant of the itlth Military Di vision, President of the Court Martial, the following letter : 41 Ltst.t, lANITAItIr 14. " The messuriii taken against me about the middle of last month, having appeared to me to be Illegal, I thought myself allowed to withdraw from their effects. However, when I got out of the bands of theta who had constituted themselves my k eepeta, it was my duty to engage, and, in fact, I did engage vo lxitarily to present myself as soon as the tribunal formed to de cd.: upon my conduct should be known. " he fulfilment of this obligation, which the necessity of de fending my honour bad prescribed me, did not then give me any lea., because I was convinced that no criminal act could be justly imputed to me, and because I was too well sainted of the' purity of my intentions In all I have said or written, to fear the con.equences, under a Prince whose justice I always admired. " Bewg now acquainted with the Members of the Court Mar tial who are to judge of my conduct, and full of confidence in their justice and enlightened sentiments, I tem to declare to you, Count, that I am ready to appear before them, and that I entrust to them with the greatest tranquillity my honour and my person. Please to accept, &c. (Signed) " Lieutenant-General Count EICILIAL424. i. After the delivery of this letter Count Excelmans surrendered himself prisoner at the citadel of the town to which he had been ordered to repair ; it was not till then that the charges against him were made known to his Counsel. They are laid down in - the Report made to the King by Marshal Soult, Modem at War, on the 29th December lint. The Wales, expresses himself as follows:. " The acts of which Lieumnant-Oeneral Omni Amin* has been guilty, are of a naturoloilnitety serious " t. He has kept ups cotrespondinos with the essessy, with a permission in wddng from his superiors, while be was employed in the character of himettosuGeneral of the crodry Is the first military division • I say with the ene your Majesty has not recognised Joachim Murat u(Na ples; and.even if be bad written to a Prince who w or ally of yoir Majesty's, his conduct would have been reprehensible. " 2. He has committed lin act of espionage, by welds( to Joachim Murat, that' thousands of brave dicers, fanned in his school and under his eyes, would have been ready at his call, If things had not taken such a favourable tarn for him.' " s. He has IN ritten tbinp that were offensive bath to the per son and the power of your Majesty. " 4. He has disobeyed the orders given him f 12411 your Ma. jrsty by the Minliterof War. " 5. He has violated the oath which be took when he received the Royal and Military Order of St. Louis." The inhabitants of Anspaeh and Bareeth have pre sented a petition to the Congress, expressing their ar dent wishes to be re-united to Prussia. This petition has been in general favourably received. N • 4( ;•: , . . , • . • • PR4NIVORI'..dND BRUSSELS PAPERS. VIENNA, JANUARY Is. The belief is, an amicable agreement upon the ' grand affairs before the Congress continues to prevail. From all sides it is repeated, that all the parties ap. proximate, and that the conclusion is at hand. A few days ago, a great Prince and Statesman was made to say, on the occasion of a ball, that in three days all• the peat points would be settled, and in three weeks the Congress at an end. All parties, without any exception, promise themselves that the Congress will be over in a month. The. day before yesterday some circumstances led to a •supposition that the Emperor Alexander was preparing to depart, but we hear now that he intends Snit to use the waters here. It is, however, by no means believed that he will stay till the affairs of Germany are settled, but that be will go as soon as tha general concerns of Europe are decided on. The affairs of Germany are indeed under discus. sion. but till Poland, Saxony, and the left bank of the Rhine are disposed of, they are in the back ground. vim EVENING STAR. LONDON. MONDAY, JANUARY SO, NIL KING ClMlLLiel;MArnritioss. — Holiday at tbs Beak. Since Saturday we have received a most abundant supply of Continental Journals. Those from Paris are of the 26th, and those from Brussels and Frank fort are of the same date. Every thing on the Con tioent hears the most pacific aspect. It is true that large military reinforcements are hastening towards Belgium from various parts of Clermany, but prift. eipally from Hanover. The policy of this measure of precaution is obvious. The French (we mean those of the Bonapartean School) have still a strong party in the Netherlands; and there are abundance of mili tary men out of employment, who look to nothing short of a revolution in that part of Europe in Invent of French interests. This is an event which the whole Allied Powers, but more particularly Holland and Great Britain, are interested in preventing. It will be necessary, therefore, that a strong cordon shouhi be drawn in front of Belgium, on the side of France, for several years to come, or at least until the. French nation have acquired habits of industry and virtue, and the fetid bubble coiled glory has completely burst over the headset themost devoted followers of the great Charlatan who has been justly kicked out of Europe, an attidefroes Lille WC find that gaccimaur• the traitor to the ging his master and the worthy parole breaker so the Severe** whose prisonet% he was in Enema& has sue eesd' himself to take his trial. All the charges against him are of the most heinous nature, and two of them • call for the punishment of death, as a warning to all other scoundrols. it has been repotted that he hip been unanimously acquitteder—We trust that this • is not true, heaps; if wit, it Implies that that, is 4otnething rotten in the principles of • the log litor7 .ribunal of Pic, which ought to My* DO doubly vigilant on the side of A s i g i ume , Tfihnirql affair of snore 11 3 Orfitt Illeq most of cur ft.ackft sit InTobablT dismal tQ ffettl it is; first • sight- If the tranquillity of Etlf6o is toren* uq disturbed for any length of time, Belgium mest . .both secured from all she efforts of bad men, whethan Frenchmen or natives. Lille ought not to be c 0 L e*, minated with the presence of any ci-tkcant Aide Camp of BONAPART4 or parole-breakers from thin country. No men who have contributed to deluge Spain and Portugal with the innocent blood of its de. fenceless and unarmed inhabitants ought to be per mitted to garrison any frontier town in Europe. War, rapine, assassination, and desolation, are the watchwords of all such hell-hounds, end whether they are sanctioned by their Government or not, their pro pensities will be sooner or later indulged. We trust we have said enough to open the eyes of the French Government to their real interests, and to the best in terests of humanity. If EXCELUANS has been acquitted, the garrison of Lille and the military district around it are in most i dangerous hands, and the sooner they are put upon demi frailness, it will be the better for the rest of mankind. ..~.,... As our Paper was putting to Press, we received Brussels Papers of the 27th, but they contain nothing of importance. Ministers are mustering all their strength against the approaching Meeting of Parliament. A warm dis. cession and even a division is expecte d on the first night. The following is a copy tscircular which has been received by several of their friends : it has been sent to every part of the country : " Divisions—Treasury. Wednesday, Je5.115. "Year attendance Is MOST ZARNISTLT and MOST PARTICU. WILT requested In the HOMO 01 1 C0103110011. 00 Tbursday, the eth of February. It being cesldentiy muted slat a &Won will tabs place at that day." At a select Catholic Meeting in Dublin, on Mon day last, it was agreed that Lord DONOUGHUORE and Mr. GRATTAN should continue to be entrusted with presenting the Catholic Petitions to Parliament. An Aggregate Meeting was held on the following day, Tuesday. Lord Fixes., on being called to take the Chair, declined. A Dublin Paper states, that he said faith was broken with him on the subject of the Vote. He disapproved the resolutions, and retired in a torrent of bilges Mr.O'Conon, of Belanagar, was then called to the Chair, and Resolutions for unqua lified Emancipation were moved and carried. A letter was read from Lord DoNotionstoas, declining the presentation of the Catholic Petition ; but, at the same time, expressing his decided conviction, that Emancipation should be granted unclogged by Re striction, and unqualified by Securities. Saturday last a numerous Meeting of the inhabi tants of Halifax, Yorkshire, took place at the Talbot Inn, in that town, when it was unanimously resolved to Petition Parliament for the repeal of the Income Tax. Yesterday, a detachment of the 17th, or Leices tershire Regiment of Foot, consisting of twenty-four fine young men, under the command of Ensign Viiit. NON, 80th Regiment, marched into Chatham from the depot at Maldon, preparatory to immediate embarka tion to join the regiment in India. An alarming fire, and destructive in its come.' queues, broke out, a few minutes before, five o'clock on Saturday morning, at the house of Mrs. Wale roan, a most respectable dress.snaker, in Conduit streets Bond.street. The flames were first discovered in the back part of the premises, and, iris afrww)ed, i the fire brake out in the work-womcns' room, on the fist floor. The number usually employed in the room i was twelve or thirteen. Mrs. WALFORD rescued five of het children from the flames, but a sixth, a fine boy, about twelve years old, fell a prey to the de vouring clement. He slept in the two pair backs room, and must have been suffocated before the lame could reach him. This unfortunate youth was af flicted with deafness, which probably prevented him from hearing the noise which the alarm of fire occa. sioned. lii leu than an hour the house was a heap of ruins within its walls. Mrs. WALFORD had lately buried her husband and her eldest son, for whom the family was in mourning, and her present additional affliction is most deeply to be deplored. The roof of the adjoining house is considerably injured. Wednesday night last, about twelve o'clock, a MA destructive fire broke our in the manufactory of Mr. ions CLAY, pipe and brush manufacturer, on Lion Terrace, Portsmouth, which in a short time consumed the whole of the extensive building, with its stock, the tools used in the above branches, and a variety of other valuable articles. So rapid were the flames that Mrs. CLAY and her children to escape then, were obliged to encounter the inclemency_ of the Might with scarcely any clothes about them. Several of the North country Coaches, which were to have arrived in the course of Saturday, did not reach town till last night, owing to the great depth of snow in various parts of the road. At Northamp ton the snow lay the height of the tops of the coaches is many parts, till chewed away by the peasantry. The Clerk of a Banker in Margate is stated, in the French Papers,to have been *arrested at Calais on the 19th, in consequence of an application made by Mann. Fano* and Idnrirr of Dover.. The prisoner had carried off, it is said, paper to the rains of 486,000 sterling. He was taken at the Kingston Hotel in Calais, and delivered up to the police nearly the whole of the property. His wife was appre hended id this country, when about to embark to join Wednesday last Thais Nay and Nary O'Neil were emoted at Illornisigside, in the vicinity of Edin burgh, hr three diferent acts of highway robbery, as deseribed in a former paper. They were executed on the spot where the most atrocious of their alias was committed. They were both Irishmen and Catholics. Kixo's TilICAT11.•••••*11147 =MO Sass! made her fourth appearalwa at this re,, and was universally anhvidtd. A petit ballet, called B i wa was insrocloa4 for the fa* tjate, after the Opera, sad was received With =Wend, applique.. Cativ.se V/X21115 and Ark Casa_ perforated todearfr.. rably in this antonomasia, ge did the rein of they or* de Wet p—it is the . eoinposition of Varraso o . The mask, !chi& the*compodribp Of Vilma ; lire- Ravin* fof its encelicage and sweeties% NairdL slain following as this morning posted at LLOYD'S : fli • • at •MIONDAY, JANUARY SO. II His Majesty's ships CHATHAM, BOMBAY, LARNE Z EPS Y R sailed yesterday from Portsmouth, in l aearch of the American frigates. cM Hit Majesty's ships CENTAUR, YORK, LIVERPOOL and PHILLIMORB, which sailed from Plymouth in search of the American frigates, were driven back to that port on Saturday last by contrary winds. Sir GEORGE Cowin in the LEANDER, with the NEWCASTLE and ACASTA frigates, were off Fayal on the 11th instant ; and the EvpnaAras frigate was at Fay4l on the 13th." FALMOUTH, JANUARY g 7. Arrived yesterday the Mayflower and the Frede ricka, from Bottrdeaux ; and the Abeona, from Li merick. Arrived to.diy the Thomas, from Ply. mouth ; and the Lion, from Bourdeaux—the latter bound to London.—Wind N.E. PLYMOUTH, JANUARY IR. Sailed in quest of the American frigates, and put back by contrary winds, his Majesty's ships Curraus and You. Or 74 guns each, the LIVERPOOL frigate, and the PeltAmeonst sloop of war. Came in the PHEASANT sloop of war, from the Western Islands : she is said to bring dispatches from Sir G. Cowes. PORTSMOUTH, JANUARY 29. Arrived his Majesty's ships AMARANTH; from Lisbon; Conflict, from Cork; and Biesimupa, from the Downs. Sailed his Majesty's ships CHATHAM. BOMBAY. LARNE, and ZiPHYR, in search of the American frigates; and his Majesty's ships HAM it. DRYAD, for Woolwich, and DIXTROUS. for Sheerness. Arrived the Prince, HARRISON, from Falmouth, to join convoy for the West Indies.—Wind E. DEAL, JANUARY 29. Came down from the River his Majesty's ships Levitt, SLANIY, and HIARTY, bdund to the West ward ; and the whole remain in the Downs, with his Majesty's ships Guinn and Meacuatus.—Wind S. HARWICH, JANUARY 2s. No arrivals. Sailed the Prince of Orange packet with a Mail for Holland, Lady Nepean packet with a Mail for Cushaven, and Earl of Leicester packet with a Mail for Gottenburgh. TORBAY, JANUARY 21. Yesterday the sloop John and Sarah, of this port, drove from her anchors, and was lost on the rocks near the port. Arrived his Majesty's ship SFALARK from Rochfori.--Wind S.W. RAMSGATE. JANUARY 29. A French schooner got cm shore last night to the Westward of this harbour, but got off without da mage. Came in the ship Nautilus, ADLAND, from London to Grenada, with her bowsprit broke by'an other ship. Came in several other ships for shelter. COWES, JANUARY 29. Put in for shelter the French ship of war I'Aiinable Eulalie, from Havre for Brest, with converted timber. The Sovt reign, SMITH, from Se. Thomas's, is arri ved at Portsmouth; sailed on the 14th ultimo, tinder convoy of his Majesty's ships Oaasrss, PALMA, and HA EARN with 31 sail of vessels bound totheat Britain, and patted from them on the 16th inst. in a heavy gale, which continued for six days, during which the whole of the fleet were dispersed. The BONNE CITOYENNE, Captain Curroao, is or dered into harbour to have her defects repaired, and be fitted again for sea. The sum of 1500 in Bank tokens has been received at Portsmouth Dock-yard, on its way to Plymouth, - to which place they will be conveyed by the ZEPHYR* The Amelia, SMITH, from the Clyde to St. Do mingo, is retaken by the THRACIAN sloop of war, after being plundered of all her cargo, except a few boxes of soap and tin, and carried into Jamaica. The Pommy, Capt. Aims, is collecting convoy at Portsmouth, for the coast of Spain, Portugal, and Mediterranean; and the ARIEL, Captain Ross, for the Canary Islands and coast of Afrita. The Mews, Captain Svcittimo, is dismantling for paying off ; tbc PIONEER, Lieut. Jona HILL, for going into dock; and the CURACOA, Capt. Towels, to un der repair. The DANNEMARE, Captain BAKER, kat been refitted : at Spithead, and is again ready for sea. The TYRIAN, Captain BALDWIN, has arrived at Portsmouth from her attendance on the Panics RE GENT. at Blitchtoo6 She will return thence as soon as she has received some supplies. The Caoconits, Capt. Eutorr, has been put out of commission. The West-India convoy will sail, it is expected, 'about the sth February, under the WAREN*, &Os Friday was the Second Day of the Drawing of the Lottery, when Bum sold the foUoirinr iers Capl4 Prizes all in Shares, and the fortunate i r o have their Money on demand. - MCI- - £3OO son . . MOO ' - - iCSOO 7,110 . . MOO 1,143 - - 4100 10,014 - . 611110 2497 . - 4 100 Sc. ko. To-sioaaow the Lottery will finish. The Wheel now contains t of . £lO,OOO 4 ( 1 • • 2 .000 S - : . - 1,000 II - - SOO &e. Ike. Tialaaa and Shares, warranted undrawt are selling at Baas% 4, Cornhill, and 9, Chat ing-Cross. SAITTHPUILD MAREJTA, JANUARY so. lOW as 04 as as Od 1 Vial 7. Rd ts Ss M Motes Ss 01 ce Ss OW** Ss Od to 7s Ikt Beasts lalll-41isep sad Lents 10,760—Calves 100--Pfp slio HAY AND STRAW, PER LOAD. PAtadmir Me 41 to 111 Os I am, A Os is St Ils Sum Al 10s. as 41 141. . 4400 300 900 couguql:l4 MAIM-LANE, , Km* saw orWbsat this atoraiii, sad way buyers . 1t Morist i taissdA demand, sad salts byre bees drectod It as mimes of 4s. pet tower spa *spikes tale day seam Dirk? is boos is. to pat rum 4sirsr, but very taw Flu emoted. Oh% Now, Ityl tees as wady Is* from te. to Is. Per touter blew. • • • WAsst s Lou sail Zoni s 421. filo. Haw s ads. to I. per Cd2UNTY OF BEDFORD MEETING, ON ?NZ PRASENT STATE OF AGRICULTURE. ' •11, At a numerous Meeting of Proprietors of Laud. In the county of Bedford. held on Saturday se'nnight a. the Severn Inn, in Bedford, to take into consideration the distressed state of agriculture ; the Earl of UPPER OSSORY was called to the chair, and stated the object of the meeting. Lord ST. Joao said, that nothing was so painful to him as to see honest industry in distress; nothing was so heart-rending as to see the industry and pro. spects of so great abulk of the community going in to the pockets of others. He trusted there was no one in the room but would agree as to the necessity of petitioning Parliament; corn bad not been regu lated by the necessity of the markets, but by the ne. `cessity of the growers. It was a circumstance welt. worthy the reflection of every one present. ahat now received cern from France ; the result was, tiny France was a nation of farmers ; they support no only Great Britain, but Spain and Portugal. He then proposed the resolptions. Mr. FOSTfI said, the present system made us de. pendent upnn foreign countries in two ways depen dent upon them for feeding us, and derails:Lt. in finding money to pay hos it, sad we woo putting power into the haads of our enemies. If the present system is continued, agriculture will no more fturisti here ; it may flourish on the basks of the Vistula, cut the plains of Normandy and Picardy, but no more if the country of Great Britain. When corn is sold at a price that will not pay cultivation. how are Lust. lords, taxes, tythes, &c. to be paid ? This year he knew go od would not produce IS bushels . per acre, for which the farmer sowed three bushels of eg o, pical grain, worth double the price of that produced. which, with harvesting and threshing. this year would about balance the account. Mr. Foster concluded by seconding the resolutions. Mr. Warname was at all times open to tonic don, and he was sorry nothing had been said to on vince him that the steps they were about to take would bring them to the desired goal. He was of opinion, every encouragement ought to be given to agriculture, and we ought not to be dependent on any but ourselves ; be wished again to see us an ex porting country. Mr. Foster and Lord St. John had said, if we allow France to import, we me encourag ing France to the injury of British agriculture ; and we are told, France has so improved the culture of its soil, that she is enabled to overwhelm the English market. Now give me leave to ask my Noble Friend, whether France has not been blessed with a most bountiful harvest, and whether we are not caking that as the work of man, which is, in fact. the we! of GOD? We have not in England wheat enoug': to keep the country; and if the average of 20,000 quarters had not been brought in weekly, the metro polis could not have been supported. Are we, there fore, to look up to the Legislature for redress; They are always ready to assist, but sometimes they are improperly led to interfere, and then they do miss chiel. If you go to Parliament, and importation is prevented, would that make the lean corn plump ? Would it be put in competition with the plump fo reign corn in the market ? It is a delusion that you can have redress in that way from what at present overwhelms you. How long, Gentlemen, has this existed ? finer long have we fallen back in agricul ture? We have not long lost that great friend to agriculture, Francis, Duke of Bedford. Since 1804 has there bees no improvement ? Has not the im provement kept pace with the times, and the produce with the improvements ? Every one who has crossed the water must have witnessed the abundant crops in France, and, on his return, must have bad the most poignant feelings of regret at seeing the blighted date of the crops in his own country ; but how can the Legislature relieve this distress ? There have been times, when experiments have been made to starve countries at war with each other. but, by the blessing of Goa, it had never succeeded. In the be ginning of the war it was a measure of this Govern ment that corn should not go to France ; and when afterwards Bonaparte, with the iron hand of pewer e was endeavouring to shut us out from every quarter, no less than 30,000 quarters came every week from France, and we supplied him with money, which he as much wanted. There is no power on earth can prevent it. It is like the wind which bloweth where it ninth. Mr.Whitbtead denied that agriculture had improved is France so much as in England; it was Dot from France alone we received our supplies, but from Poland and the Baltic. We are told these countries can supply us, because they are not bar. thened with tythes and taxes ; but what are the bur. then laid on by the landlords there ? Those who tin it in Poland are slaves, who till it for their Lord; slaves, without a bed to lie on, without covering tot their nakedness, or shelter for their wretchedness... He - was sure there was no agriculturists in this country who would exchange their situation for any other in the globe. Suppose, says Mr. Whitbread, there are two - farms adjoining each other, equally well cultivated. with the same industry, same care, and the same skill, one may be blighted and the other good. can any thing that the King. Lords sad Commons can enact, prevent this ? Can any legida tive Interference snake the bad grain plump ? This, Genders's, is a short view of the case. I would not advise you to go to Parliament now. I am of opinion if the Corn 818 bad been passed list year the tfistten would have been the same, for it could not have re vealed the blight ; nor will you be beee€ted if it now takes place. Next year PNOTIDVICK may bless you with good crops, which will exclude the foreigner . ; if it was not for him* now, distress would be inevi table. These reverses, however, ought not to mislead us t If I thought there was a possibility to remedy your present_srievances, no man would be more ready. Mr. Whitbread hoped they would do him credit to believe that be felt regret at sanding in op panda& to so large a body of the respectable part of the county ; but - he knew if he went to Paltament he should only mislead them. Lord Br. Joni and Mr. Foam replied very for cibly to the arguments of Mr. Whitbread, and the letter Gentbmats, is conclusion, Inside the following assertion :..that it was aseasy to chango the course :ef ivervrisseddin the ugen nult eimoustat il e7d 72 alo zi miatesti a ve s f r b y r trhandsom Mr e.... . mr Wh .ww i l tbrea r reuthrea d r t e i beide the reseissionsirce put, who they were ear! r •