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from life before the age of inert. He was neverthe less justly condemned to the punishment of death. TOLOSA, DECEMNES 20. We read with plersure in the last Madrid Gazette, his Majesty, after a due deliberation upon the : , t ae of our countryman, Marshal Ricardo d'Alava, decided against his arrestation, and ordered that be forthwith set at liberty, declaring at the same .me his royal satisfaction at the Marshal's services, I nd that nothing which had lately occurred should c t ird his future military promotion. Loters from the capital announce that General Sillasteros, who opposed the Duke of Wellington's ,;•pnintusent to the supreme command of the Spa. sii troops, has been recalled to Madrid. He has •n exiled since the affair alluded to. All the maritime cities of Spain are dreadfully allied at the mere apprehension of the eventful loss the Trans-Atlantic dominions of Spain, though :authentic intelligence yet received warrants a fear that extent. k is said that the disastrous results of the present cstem of political and religious intolerance have at ength induced a serious, though tardy revolution in ie Royal Councils. Thq Council of Castile, to whose consideration the general polity of the kingdom ;As referred, has decidedly recommended a thorough :range of system ; and we know the . King loves jus :;e, as he proves every day. VIENNA, DECEMBER 211. Her Majesty the Empress of Russia has presented lie Invalid Committee with one hundred ducats, to e cli,iirsed as they may think most suitable. marriage between the Prince Royal of Wirtem ,:rg and the Duchess of Oldenburgh is confidently of. The King of Wirtemburg has declared penly in favour of the policy of Russia, though not : since that Sovereign, as well as his Bavarian ‘lajcsty, were in favour of the integrity of the States. The Committee of the Secondary Powers and the - iee Towns are now occupied on a new plan for the Constitution of Germany. They are very desirous t the establishment of the Imperial dignity. Fifty sledges, superbly decorated, for the use of I;,e Sovereign Visitors and their suites in their plea jrable excursions. The Neapolitan General M. Dozinsky, arrived ;cre the 20th, from Warsaw. SENECIALIA, DECEMBER 17. A numerous body of Neapolitan troops which had `,sited here have marched, by the orders of General 'irliegarde, for Bologna, where a fermentation against the Neapolitan Government exists. We are assured, that before the 13th of January, King Murat will be t the head of his army in the field, and that Bologna ill become his head-quarters. TOULON, DECEMBER 21. Yesterday were landed here the corpses of the two "rincesses Adelaide and Victorie, of France. The aneral procession which took place was of the most ,rand and solemn description. THE EVENING ST. LON DON. THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1815. rtZE OF STOCKTI i'141.11 DAY 41.S Twa snra" ‘. ‘ 16.1t. Noktee4 68ti-4 per Cent. ava—S per Cent. Navy shut Consols shut—for account, 66{ 67--Omnium le dis. Sauk Long Anus. 161—Bonds 19s. pre. ..xchequer Bills Ss. sa. prom 1 he first Transfer in Consols and Navy on Saturday next. We have received the Paris Papers of Sunday last, !gillg New Year's Day. The King, by a Royal t)rdonnance, has at length ordered the traitor Excel.- :lANS to be tried by a Military Commission, to be held in the Sixteenth Military Division, which is corn artnded by the Duke of TREVISO (Marshal 'Nemo). We have not heard that EXCELMANS has yet been 'iken : he will therefore be treated as a deserter. Auxnu LAVAYSSE, the person who ha.; ap. ;eared at St. Domingo in the character of an Agent :rom France, was not sent to that Island by Louis XVIII. but by the Provisional Government, which '6: a few days before his recall held the reins of the .3overnment. If we may judge from the particulars - :.at have reached us of his mode of procedure after etching that Island, it is impossible to conceive that cc wrcse calculated for re-establishing friendly rela ••-). s of any kind between France and her ci.devant ‘.l"ny, mild have been pitched on. He was, we id•zrstand, formerly a member of ROBESPIERRe3 . 'nrtimittee of Public Safety, and of course active in of the Revolutionary measures which entailed o much misery on Europe; and it 'would appear •.n.o.,:ght something of the same spirit necessary for ;:hcing efficacy to his present mission. Regarding 'le President PETION as a person capable of being se ,.uced, or misled by specious but insignificant phrases, e addressed him in language of that description ; :hilit, to the Sovereign of the northern part of the Izid, he dared to use those ferocious and sanguinary • scats which he perhaps thought most likely to make impression on his mind. In both instances he ..e failed. We yesterday gave an authentic copy t the important commercial decree of the President I :riow. We have now to state what was the result M. LAVAYSIIIeS correspondence with the Govern. .• at at Cape Henry. On the first receipt of his insolent and menacing the King commanded his private Secretary to c•:wer it article by article, a duty which the Secre :iry performed with a degree•of ability that must :ccatly disconcert those who so confidently reckon on 'le ignorance and incapacity of the Haytians. A ;eneral Council was then summoned, before which Haut (Cmurropus) caused M. LavAvsses ,ter to be laid. The writer employed the name of guts XVIII. but as he was mapifestly unprovided any authority from that Monarch, the Council ' , re too just to attribute to the latter the horrible , :.imersts which the former unblushingly avowed+ Rte'"' Those sentiMentr, however, produced a hirst of id dignation, and a soleina resolution of independence, which must prove fatal to the interests lithe trench in Hayti. Our Readers will not be surptised at ibis, when they see to what atrocious and daring falsehoods this roi-dirant representative of a just and humane Monarch resorted. The following are some of the expressions in his letter: " Every thing has been foreseen and provided for in the Treaty of Peace between the Sovereigns of Europe. Being insufficiently informed of your Ex cellency's principles, they thought it possible that you might hesitate in respect to the conduct you ought to follow ; and they therefore agreed, that in order to replice the population of Hayti, which in that case would be totally exterminated, by the immense mass of forces sent against it, France should continue the Slave Trade for several years, with a view only to supply the neces sary hands for cultivation, but also to form a black soldiery in imitation of the English." 44 You, Ge neral, will not force us to convert into soldiers those Negroes, whom we are at the present moment col lecting ou the coasts of Africa—you will not force us to use all the possible means of destruction." " I am persuaded, you have too sound a judgment, too en lightened an understanding, and too noble a disposi tion, not to be satisfied with becoming a great No bleman and a General Officer, under that antique dynasty of the Bounims, which Paovioersce, as it in contempt of all human calculations, seems to delight in perpetuating on the Throne of our dear France. —You will prefer the lot of an illustrious serv•►nt of the mighty Sovereign of the French, s to the more than precarious state of a Chief of revolted Slaver ; and if examples were necessary for your imitation, behold Generals MURAT and BERNADOTTE, who, as Kings or Princes, have for several years governed the nations that they have rendered illustrious by their arms, now descending voluntarily and nobly from their Thrones, and preferring legitimate and durable honours for themselves and their posterity to the odious and unsafe title of usurpers." 44 Do not de ceive yourself, General. You doubtless know, what every body in Europe knows, although it is not yet diplomatically published, that the principal article of the agreement, which the Sovereigns of that quarter of the globe have ratified with their royal word, is to unite their arms, if necessary, in order to destroy all Me Governments which /save been formed in consequence of the events of the French Revolution, either in Europe, or in the New World. Learn, moreover, that it is Great Britain, which is the centre and serum mover of this confe deracy, to which, sooner or later, all other powers must yiild ; and every Government or Chief that re. fuses to submit, will be punished as traitors and ban ditti." This insulting letter produced precisely the effect which any Inas of common =gam might have 'antici pated. It was heard by the KING and Council with contemptuous indignation. An address to the &act( SovErman was voted by the Council, expressive of their unanimous resolution to perish, to the last man, rather than submit. A deputation waited on the KING the next morning with this expression of their sentiments, and received the following manly and energetic answer : " lidarians ! your sentiments, your generous resolution, are worthy of us; your King shall always be worthy of you. " Our indignation is at its height. ' Let Hayti, from this .mo- 1 ment, be only one vast camp; let us prepare to combat those tyrants who threaten us with chain., slavery, and death. " Haytlans! the whole wood has its eyes fixed upon us; our conduct must confound our calumniators, and jslstify the opinion which philanthropists have formed uf us. Let us rally; let us have but one and the same wish—that of exterminating our tyrants . On the unanimous co-operation of our union, of our efforts, will depend the prompt success of our cause. " Let us exhibit to posterity a great example of courage—let us combat with glory, and be effaced from the rank of nations, rather than renounce liberty and independence. A King, we know how to live and die like a King: you shall always see us at your head, sharing in your perils and dangers. Should it so happen that we cease to exist before consolidating your rights, call to mind our actions—and should our tyrants so far succeed as to endanger your liberty and independence, disinter my bones, they will still lead you to victory, and enable you to triumph ever our implacable and eternal enemies." The above particulars gave been taken from the Prow Verbal published at Cape Henry. The refu tation of LAYAYES/e3 letter forms itself an octavo pamphlet of 28 pages, and is extremely animated. The author is stated to be the Chevalier Pazzeitux, A pamphlet published at Jamaica by a Mr. H. HENRY, exhorting the Haytians to submission, has also been answered by another printed at Port-au- Prince. But though, like their enemies, the Hay tians make use of the press, they know that other weapons will be required for their defence, should their independence be attacked, and they are pre paring accordingly 1 The answer to the Jamaica Pamphlet contrasts the present with the past circumstances of the people of St. Domingo; states the progress they hive made in civilization ; dwells with satisfaction on the increase of population that has taken place since the revolu. tion ; speaks of the humanity of England to the sons of Africa with great feeling; and dwells with force on the hopes that may be cherished from the known humanity of Lotus XVIII. We shall not take up our ,Readers' time with quotations ; but the last mentioned argument is so much in unison with the sentiments entertained by the best informed of the French Nation that we cannot refrain from quoting some remarks which were published in Paris by a person known to be in the confidence of Louts, when the Proclamation, &c. of Kills HENRY 'reached 'that capital, &nigh It? medium of . tote London pe'rs, about three weeks age. Oa a question like the present, k is of more consequence to kin* tir what sentiments the rulers of France are actuated, than the particular arguments by Which the fiiends of huma nity would endeavour to softest chose who threaten the Haytians with war, chains, and slavery. On the documents to which we have last alluded, the following sensible and humane observations were published; " No person can read these documents without being struck with the air of truth, energy, and dig. nity, which breathes in every line. At the moment when the Manifesto appeared and when the inhabi tants and foteign merchants residing at Hayti, were reading therein the allusions to the horrors committed at St. Domingo by the French Agents in 1802 ; the very same faction among the colonists residing in France, who had excited the horrors in questioni printed and circulated in France a recommendation to his Majesty Louts XVIII. to put to death the four hundred thousand human beings who escaped the rage of BONAPARTE I 66 One would think that Cnawroruz, froth the turrets of Fort Henry, had actually been present at the councils of this Committee of Destruction, from which we now learn, with pleasure, that already several old Planters and French Merchants have withdrawn with disgust. Humanity ought to bless the prudent aversion of the King from hasty treasures, and the inflexibility with which the Philanthropic Monarch has, uniformly, rejected all solicitations to pursue violent measures. " His MAJESTY must doubtless be sensible, that hay ing accepted the succession from BONAPARTE with all its advantages and disadvantages, he can no more annul the Proclamation of the First Consul, which declared all the Blacks free and equal before GOD and the Republic, than the Acts by which his Majesty confirmed•the sale of the property of his most faith ful friends, and his most loyal subjects, as well as the titles of BONAPARTE'S upstart Counts, which are on a par with Counts LEMONADE and MARMALADE. " But what militates still more strongly than all the acts of the revolutionary government, is the immense force which they can call out in defence of their inde pendence. In the northern part alone, King HENRY has an army of 22,000 regulars, and a militia of 33,000, accustomed to arms. Supposing that there is the same number in the south, it is evident that 110,000 resolute men must be killed btfore • single loaf of sugar can be made at St. Domingo. Where are the troops having the strength and the will to execute such a butchery ? •" *here are the funds necessary for defraying the expences of such an expedition, the ships for trans porting it, the King to direct it, and the Chiefs to coapwand It t AU this exists only In some wild ima ginations, and in heads which are as hot as furnaces. 14 We are far from confounding all the St. Domingo Planters in the same catalogue—we know many who are remarkable for their resignation, and who sigh in bec re t ; and the latter have a better chance than the madmen, for sooner or later the day of reconciliation will arrive—Durum red Inthufit isatienter quidquid cor. • rigereat tufa: !" The PRINCESS of WALES continued at Naples, at the date of the last accounts from thence, which was about the middle of December. Her Royal Highness received the most marked attention from all ranks. Lord Perms, we understand, will shortly lead to the Hymeneal Altar Miss BEDDINGIFELD, eldest daugh ter of Sir RICHARD BRDDINGFIRLD. The Lady is in her 21st year, and is reported highly accomplished. The Supplement to the London Gazette, (published yesterday, and given at full length in a preceding part of our Paper) describes an extension of the Ot der of the Bath, so important as almost to amount to the creation of a new Order of Knighthood. The Order is now divided into three classes, viz. Knights Grand Crosses, Knights Commanders, and Com panions. The first includes the existing Knights of the Bads, with a few additions, and is limited, exclusive of the Royal Family, to sevetrtytw., whereof sixty are to be Military or Naval, not below the rank of Malor-Generals and Rear-Ad mirals, and twelve Civil. The second consists of 180 British. Members, not under Lieutenant-Colonels in the Army, and Post Captains in the Navy ; and ten Foreign Officers, holding Commissions in our service. The third Class is unlimited in number, and the honour is to be bestowed on Officers who distin guish themselves in the cause of their country; who are indeed so numerous, as tut to be readily inclosed within a list of Heroes. They have no title but to take precedence of all Esquires. Sir GRORGS NAYLER s so distinguished for his Heraldic knowledge, has been named the Herald of this Order. Owing to the late Sir EDWARD NaworsiAss having unfortunately forgotten to take out the patent when he was created a Baronet, there exists no personage of that rank at present among his sons. PROPERTY TAX.—Thursday last a Meeting was held in Taunton, to consider the propriety of addres sing Parliament, in deprecation of the renewal and continuance of the Property Tar, when a Committee was appointed• to prepare a Petition.—A Meeting of the inhabitants of Carlisle took place on Monday, when a Petition to Parliament was agreed to.—A Meeting of the County of Cambridge was also held OR Tuesds y, at Cambridge, when it was agreed to Pe. tition against the renewal of the Property Tax. Notwithstanding all that has been said respecting the continuance of the Property Tax for at least any. ther year, it is confidently asserted by many that the complete abandonment of it has been actually deter mined on by the Cabinet, in the event of the Treaty being ratified by the American President. It is said to be intended to substitute the income of the Sink ing Fund for the present year, which, without incroach ing on the capital, will be equal to the whole amount et the Property Tax. A;iik A detachment of the 14th Light Dragoon% ei. barked on Monday last at Portsmouth for America. The 52d regiment embirked on Tuesday last at Portsmouth for service ill America ; but It has been intimated to them, that, probably, they may return without landing upon the coast: Colonel PRITZLER leaves this country with the fleet about to sail for India, in order to join hit regiment the '22d Light Dragoons. He is to be succeeded as Commandant of the Cavalry Depot at Maidstone, by Colonel Sir JOHN BRO:TN. Sunday morning, a detachment of the 17th Light Dragoons•osarched from the cAvalry depot, in Maid stone, to embark at Gravesend, for the East Indies, to join their regiment. A detachment of the 54th Regiment of Foot ar rived on Sunday last at Liverpool from Ireland, and are now on their march for Chatham, in order to em bark to join the Ist battalion, now in the East s. A detachment of the Royal Scots now at Bens , . t are ordered to proceed to Ireland to join the dd 13 It. talion there. Among the various arrangements which have taken place in Ireland, in regard tf) the distribution of the forces these, the following have occurred, in regard to the Militias, viz.—The second Somerset has march ed to Fermoy, the second West York to Clorimell, the Tipperary to Bantry, and the Wexford to Cashel!. The 39th regiment, and two Battalions of the (2d regiment, are at Canine; and the Ist battalion of the 31st, in North America. All the Officers serving in the Colonial corps in the East Indies, who were in England on the 21. th ult. were reduced to half-pay, with a gratuity of 14 months. NAVAL INIELI.IGENCE. An account was received in town this forenoon, stating that the Albion, Captain SUOLING, bound for Bermuda, has been captured by the American privateer Brutus, carrying 12 guns and 116 men, off the Coast of ir.land, and sent for America. The Albion and Planet, bound to Jamaica; Arundel, bound to Trinidad; and Norfolk Hero, hound to Tobago, put back to Falmouth on Sunday. The Louisa, bound to Jamaica; and West Indian, hound to Antigua, did not put back as was stated yesterday. The Moscow, arrived at Liverpool, sailed from Havannah the 24th of November, under convoy of his Majesty's ship later, bound to 13arbadoes, in company with the Roselle, for Leith; Cossack, for Cork; Perola, tor Falmouth, and ten other vessels, names unknown, and parted the 22:11 of November, in lit. Si. 10. The Anna Margarita, Byron, from Copenhagen to St. Croix, is put into Plymouth in distress; she sailed from Copenhagen on the 22d ultimo with a beet, and supposes they have all been dispersed. The Georgian; Hughes, sailed from Bermuda on the C'h of November, under convoy of a brig of war, fur New Providence. The Oceanus, Rhode, from Botirdeaux so Cottenlinen, is to. lolly lost near Cherbour,;--cr.w avert. The Oscar, Lycke, twin Udlewa;la to Gibraltar, was carried into Rans.gate yesterday, having's:ruck upon the rocks and been abandoned by the crew. _ _ _ _ _ The :It. Johanrws, Marn, from Sheerness to Christiana, Is lost on Marurand. The Chatham, Buchanan, from Jamaica to I iver:giol was on shore in the I.;ulpit ut Ihirtda, early in November, and ti's charging. The Nadeeelda, Polite, from Narva to Liverpool, and the Hope, of Liverpool, \with coals, were driven on shore at Loeb. Wall 16th termer was expected to be got off. A foreign vessel, said to be Ke.siau s was toteUy wrecked to the westward of Cape Wrath, about the 24th ult.—two men drowsed. ABERDEEN, DECEMBER 31. The brig Malta, Jaare. SvrixsoN, of and for tit;s place, has not been heard bf since sailing from Sun derland, coal Ine.ded. on the 13th instant, and is sup posed to have foundered with all on board, in a hard gale next day. FALMOUTH, JANUARY gi. Put back the brig Palafox.—One of the that , :nrit's convoy, on the 28th ultimo, was struck with a heavy sea, and received so much damage that part or the whole of her cargo must be discharged. On the 30th ultimo, at 5 ft. m. in lat. 47. 40. N. long. 6. 24. W. passed the West-India convoy steering to the South ward, apparently in good order.—Sailed his. Majesty's ship ANDROMEDA on a cruize.—The Grace packet, last from St. Thomas's, is now (7 /. m.) in the Bay, but will not - be in until late, being under jury masts. having lost her mast and bowsprit in a gale, twrlve days ago. Her mail has been landed, and will pro ceed immediately for London.—Wind North, fine weather. PLYMOUTH, JANUARY s. Arrived the Malta, War, from Malta; parted from the fleet, under convoy of his Majesty's ship ETHALION, in a gale.—The NIGER frigate, with the outward-bound East.lndia fleet from Portsmouth, passed down Channel this afternoon with a fine breeze at N.E.—The CHESAPEAKE frigate, Captain NEWCOMBE, from the Saumarez East Indiaman, sailed to join the Mom. Also sailed his Majesty's ship Inman, with the Lady Barrington, to join the fleet for the West Indies at Cork.-13ailed his Majesty's ships Banns and ROYALIST to the Westward; anal the Favouarrs sloop of war for America, with dis patches. PORTSMOUTH, JANUARY 4. Arrived the Kate, CLARK. from Cadiz in 17 days; sailed under convoy of the CURACOA from Gibraltar; the fleet consisted of about 50 sail of transports and merchantmen, some of which are arrived, and at the Motherbank under quarantine. Also arrived the Doore and Hoffnugh from the Baltic, and Hibernia from Exeter. Sailed the HAVOC and Wam.oLes with several ships bound to Bermuda and the Ba hama Islands, to join the fleet at Cork under convoy of the LEONIDAS. The Connwaws gives instructions to the ships bound to the Cape and East Indies. DEAL, JANVARY 4 . Arrived the NAUTILUS sloop of war from Holland, Dolphin store ship from Bermuda, and remain in the Downs with the BOMBAY, Mancuatus, and the SWAN cutter.—Wind N.W. GRAVESEND, JANUARY 4. Arrived the Midas, Dorgan ; Two Brothers, Dawson ;Prince Frederick, Bank, and Emanuel, Boldron, from Norway; Urine, Vaudt: fleck, from Stettin ;Aurora, Hill, from Hamburgh ; Ruby, Peterson, from Norway; Royal George, Closscn. from Konigsberg; Elizabeth, Coleman, Iran Riga; and Margaret, Honor, from Jamaica. Sailed the Beim, Conyers, for Trieste; Ajax Tour, for Leghorn ; Louisa, Rumen, for Dieppe ; Johen;ta Catherine, hitchtehon, for Antwerp; and Marquess Csothdan, Sampson, for ladle. Nothing dose in Consols--Onsium hi a Sowe r, that is 44 fast asleep r all speculation at an end, but the Lottery, which begins the 18th of this month, and the Schema will spew what it Mine of Wealth it contains. I r a Pb a - a. MIN ' ;~ ~~~