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/ * i ici l t t. ; • t I . . I . i I . tl{ • f. i 1 : J I. 41 ' Ir l t i 1 , it ' ill . .1 ; 0 1 0 . , : , I 'f . , , 1 , 1 ... \ • . i. .. • . . . # .:,. 1 . ..i !i . ' Ai I. i 1 , ft \d , T, ~ ,•1 .1 ‘‘ ~ 0 4 . ~t, ', ` I 4. 1 - o.7ti' zy ) I 1 1 ~ i• ..., ti t r. , , T ~, . . FROM GERMAN PAPERS. CURLERS, JANUARY e. We find the following article in the Rhenish Pa pers, under the head of Frankfort: " Several public papers have given different ac counts of the treatment shewn here to a French exile, Felix Desportes. The following is the true state of the ease:-- , -In the night of the 4th of December, F. Desportes. was arrested by virtue of an order of the Senate, by an Assessor, accompanied by six agents of the Police. The Assessor did not griii any ac count of the reasons of this arrest : he contented himself with taking, in haste, some notes, and his mission being completed, he withdrew. Felix Des portes remained a prisoner in his room, guarded by two officers of the Police. There was no question of accusation, interrogatory, and other such formalities. tie was itrictly guarded till the 16th. However, as it was necessary to come to some determination, it was resolved to end the affair as it had been begun; they discharged the' prisoner, ordering him at the same time to leave the territory of Frankfort as soon as possible ; he was also ordered not to enter into any kind of connexion with Las Casas. The latter bad arrived some hours before the arrest of Felix Desportes, under the care of an agent of the Police. As it is affirmed that nobody could communicate with him without the permission of .his keeper, we are still at a loss for the grounds of the arrest of Fe lix Desportes. But there we many other mysteries in the world ; why should not the affair in question also be one ? It is generally agreed that a foreign influence was yielded to ; but is this sufficient to ex cuse this proceeding ? As a citizen of Frankfort, I cannot help wishing this event had not taken place. For some time past we indeed took too much care to gain a fine reputation. The Areopagus condemned a man for having deceived the confidence of an ani mal which had sought an asylum with him ; but this sentence was, in those good old times, when the perfectibility of the human race kad made but little progress. Indeed I know not what can be compared with our folly, unless it be our vanity and our pre tensions. When one sees with what care the king dom of France is guarded, one would be terapted to believe in the possibility of seeing it stolen in one night. these means are really necessary, they cer tainly cannot save it from its ruin. Cannot people be persuaded, once for all, that a State is never more in danger than when it is transformed into a vast ptison-house ? Are we then so degenerate, that we have entirely forgotten, that the surest means to gain and attack men are magnanimity and confi dehce ? In truth, I should not have the heart to •blame the:misanthrope, who should justify the dis gust which the present times excite, by the picture of that mixture of vain-boasting, turpitude, and hy .poetisy which we too commonly remark. I certainly do not pretend that the treatment experienced by Mr. F. Desportes is an Important event, or that it ran be regarded as a great act of despotism. But this event ought not to have token place in the free city of Frankfort,`the seat of the German Diet, in -this; mariner, and with these circumstances. It is true the Germans may say, " It is a Frenchman;" -but for the same i'eason the French may say of one of us, " ;" and this would natttralZz lend the vovistathins to melancholy reprisals. N would.redlefr-eays—" It is a man," for we are also men. Mr. IMB" it is said, has resided here by means: of a ?al* passport (which he absolutely de .nits), but even then, we do not see the motives for .the conduct observed in this affair. In all we do, we should consider not only what we owe to others, hot what we owe to ourselves." , • tRANIFORT, DECEMBER 12. ..t k iteiO4 . papers it is said that the Liberty of tfle:',. WK.: Ts again placed under restrictions in the :usi tvr Play of Weimar, and that many Journals there are totally suppressed ; and the !'eliiit 4 i ed for this innovation is, the numerous • '4 l / 1 1 plotiiatic complaints which are incessantly made against articles in these Journals. It is to be lamented that Diplomatists should make so bad an use of their time, Tnd enter, as it were, into a regular warfare trith'3Ottrnalists. However, their pleasure or displea aute an never be a good ground for violating or re "l peating Institutions which have a constitutional exist ' once;—for injuries done to their Courts or to them terve' they may seek satisfaction in Courts of Law. -1 'demand any thing beyond this, is to attack the rigkts and freedom of foreign citizens; and if the de fittnd is complied .with, we see in it the melancholy • •Crtunistanee of foreign consequence having a more :,- refful influence than national rights guaranteed by whole confederation. If these things take place, *ad the German Federation remain at the same time !ilia, we shall thereby learn the ggrraannd and impor tant lesson, that it is quite superias to long for, and give ourselves labour and toil for Constitutions, as those which have actually been obtained and glut - raltced, are set aside on the first occasion that occurs. O etc good.natured Germans! A noble and.chosen People fur political and national advanceinest! ✓ ..stpart et Constitutional blonareisies, Artie Itresen.. tatives of the People, such the English, tench. and Americans hare obtained, they : can poipt to the gigantic work of the former Imperil Constitution; it remains their master-piece; every thipg since must yield to it! We see it ! In France, after all their convulsions and storms, with foreign contributions and troops, in a state of things that seems to jut ,. tify the suspension of particular articles of the Con stitution, more Constitutional forms, more freedom' of the Press still remain, than victorious Germany • can yet spew. Where could Sdhlozer now print his work; now that the little. State of Weimar is nt;) loner • open to free discussion? BOHEMIA, DECEMBER If. • If the Austrian Obser v er is held in n o great estreqq,-, eon in'foreign countries (for we call the rest of Csse 'natty here a foreign country), this Paper enjoys with IA high hostours. It is true the quality airs of the Aatibian Oiserver !often appear ludicrous enough to those who do not know that many of the articles are touched by very,illustrious hands. We would pardon, IMwever; this vanity, if it would only follow the ad vice of the New Rhenish Mercury, and not interfere, with foreign affairs. For whenever it does this, it draws down uportitself a seve r e cast i gat i on f rom the c, • rapers, and we have f oun d to our sad expe . nee 'that every time the Austrian Ob server is exhi rnan liii.gd in a ludicrous point of view by other papers, a most detrimental reaction on our freedom of reading, already so circumscribed, is the uniform consequence. gives rise tothe conjecture, that the Editor ceages &i be an observer, and becomes an actor, whether from motives of revenge, or from interested views, we shall not attempt to say. Foi- instance, immediately after the late attack by the Austrian Observer of the Oppo sition Paper, the Bremen Jostrisel and the Nets Rhe nish Mercury, and the sturdy defence of these papers, the following Journals were immediately interdicted 'to us for the year 181§.:—the New Rhenish Mercury, the Opposition Paper, I.hs Neuwied Journal, all French Journals published in the Netherlands, all Polish Journals, the Nuremberg Correspondent. As to the prohibition of this last Paper, we are here quite astonished at it, as it differs in nothing in tone and tendency from , the Papers not prohibited. As the Nurenberg Correspondent, however, is the Paper most read in our country, it is affirmed that thispro hibition has been effected to increase the sale •of the Austrian Observer, which, as it appears at the extre mity of the Empire, can give us no news, and there fore has log much of its circulation. LNIPSIC. JANUARY e. Madame Krudener has now been nearly three weeks here, though at her arr ival in this city she in tended to depart in a short time. As a pretext . for her delay, she says she expects the return of her son in-law, Mr. Berkheim, whir is gone to Moscow. .At the beginning she received many visits, which drew the attention of the Police, who placed a guard in the neighbourhood, to prevent all persons indiscri minately from entering her house. At present she is only permitted to see some persons who are known; she absolutely refuses to depart till she has seen her son-in-law. On her arrival she had difficulty in pro curing 200 crowns from a Banker, but two or three idays after she had some thousand crowns at her dis posal, She pretends that on the 24th of December, the anniversary of the birth of the Emrror Alexan der, she had a very important revelation, and that 'while she was embarrassed how she should send an account of it to Moscow, a Russian Courier entered into her room, who charged himself with her mes sage. She speaks highly of Leipsit and Saxony, be cause this is the first place where she has nor been treated as a criminal. We wish, however, she would leave us ; because there are too many weak-minded persons heir, •over whom she might have a dange rous influence. The Police has sent away some jour neymen and others, who followed her, but they de clared they would rejoin her as soon as they could, because with her they had only to pray, to have every thing in abundance. At Weimar she received some hundred crowns, which she immediately gave to the poor. She had declared her intention to make similar largesses to those who are in our pritons, but she has not yet done so. She is not in want of funds, and she is connected with great personages, of which she indeed makes no mystery. Government, has to discuss affairs of the greatest im portance with the British Ministry. FROM TIIE MAIN. JANUARY 1. Some papers say, that the citizens of Frankfort have demanded of the Legislative Body an account of the arrest of Colonel Von Massenbach, Felix Des portes, &c. Aga Osmar, Commissioner from the Pacha of Egypt, has arrived at 'Mil= by way of Genoa. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. THURSDAY, JANUARY t 2, 1818. . - THE FUND& TRICS OF ITOCCI TWO DAY AT TWIFLVE O'CLOCK Reduced 814--Cons. 801—Cons. for Feb, ilia. 4 per Cent. 99H—Navy Annuities 105 • • Bk. Lg. Anns. 20{ 15-16—India Bonds 107108 p. Exchequer Bills 19 27 pr. DUTCH MAILS. Two Mails have arrived, being all that were dud. By the Hague Journals we- learn, that the storm which did so much mischief at Edinburgh, Glasgow, and other places in Scotland, extended its ravages to Holland, where it occasioned much damage. By this Mail we have receiiid an account through Vienna, that a messenger, lately dispatched by the Bri tish Resident at Bagdad, over-land to Constantinople, has been robbed of his dispatches and murdered near Mossul. Such things sometimes took place, even in neutral territories, during the revolutionary war, and then we were at no loss to fix on the principals, though the agents escaped. But to what machiavelian po licy is this vile act to be ascribed in a time of general peace ? By whose procureMent was it perpetrated ? —Perhaps by lawless assassins only—perhaps not. HAGUE, JANUARY 15. Sitting of the Second Chamber of the States-Ge neral, Jaauary 13. A Message was received from his Majesty the King, with several Conventions concluded between his Kingdom and foreign Powers : ICerS s.. customs • " 1. Convention with the city of Embden, for the suffer him to ship, under the pretence that he was maintenance of a light-house upon the Ems. too late. The custom-house officers then consigned " 2. A Convention with , Denmark, extending the the coffee to the officer on guard at the nearest post. Treaty of Commerce of 1701. • On the following day, when the Captain was pro " 3. A Convention with Hanover for the reciprocal seeding to embark his 28 sacks, before the officers of giving up deserters. customs, he discovered that seven were missing. The guard on duty at the aforesaid post assured him that "4,5, 6. Conventions with Pru ss ia, B avar i a , and they knew nothing of the lost sacks. Remonstrances Wurtemberg, on the reciprocal abolition of the du- were immediately made by the American Captain to ties on the property of foreigners, in case of death or the officers of customs. The chief officer now re paired to CHRISTOPEE t who instantly gave orders removal from the country." It is affirmed that Count Golt z , the C omm i ss i oner that the Captain, the Officer, and the soldiers should be brought before him. The latter were proved to General of the War Department, is to be employed have received the 28 sacks, but persisted in asserting Upon an embassy to a German Court. that they knew nothing of the seven which were lost. t ROM THE FRENCH FRONTIERS, JANUARY is. Calumet at once directed them to be conducted ~. Strict•injunctions have been sent to all the Pre. " recd a y lk :g h uriag court, where they were shot di- At another time, CHRISTOPHE sent two En fects in the Northern Departments, to have rigorous 'search made for the lately published work of M. but suspetdni that upon 3heir return they might cone voys to PlMoit to negotiate an affair of secrecy ; &heifer, to seize all the copi es o f i t t h at may b e cea l the result of 'their mission from him, attid di found, and to send them to Paris. It seems that - Take iis nature directed one of his confidential friends, a man of colour, - to bef ore in Other ways, he be great stresris laid on the exe cu ti on o f t h ese or d ers, as habil ii t h- hi, Savoys, an d l earn p rec i se ly t he answer the tone of the whole work is,p4usularly calculated that Pwrioir sent. The answer thus ascertained by toexcite the peoples' minds agauspts the farther stay him, the ill-fated Envoys were both shot. CURLS.. of the Army of Occupation in . hisicei «cat tea r yet suspected that he might be betrayed by have the more disagree a bl e coniequel* air tiOn has h L e° latter soon perceived iitthe gloomy his t. master his destined end. Cua lsrorna hitherto been regarded as a t great grief4tyre j " .ti,sfra. vof eyed him with the ferocity of a tiger, and, making a inhabitants. It is said that the Duk e of Wellington, sign to his satellites, the unfortunate man was car in consequence of hi s l ate con f erences with the French t ried out and executed." . -111 k .mllO. AMERICAN PAPERS. This day we received New York P.q ultimo. The following are extracts; NEW YORK, DECE " In addition to particulars alread y specting captur e s of property destine.l: 'we learn, that all prize goods srhich brought even from Amelia, and landed A were seized by the Deputy Marshal November, amounting to upwards of :1 The Marshal in the execution of Hs considerable opposition, but t..e Officers r‘ States on that station assisted him i • • secured the property. The prise v Savauac detained, was from the cr);! slaves, captured by the Mergi Amelia. We also learn, that thm. who had been taken and carried intr. were hanged on the Ist instant, by Governor a that place." MILITARY MOVEMENT (From the Sereitada Rep*W,crtw of Yesterday morning we received from Major-General John Floyd: DIVISION ORDERS. " emenr. " Stit--Having been required b and Commander-in-Chief of the St by his General Order, dated the 2;.:1 - • ' t . front my division a force not exce . ...;:, thereqUisition of Major-General G4;nt'... cer commanding at Point Petre and as 4. meet more immediately the views of Government to raise such a force from of my command most contiguous to I have therefore to order and direct Tl delay, to cause to be detailed and argx. - . ably to law, from your brigade, 500 ir.e7 of officers. These will be raised by dr.l: lunteers should ofer, in which case thr, ceived and be held subject to the man a neral Gaines, United States army. I rely with confidence on your Viz rying this order intu effect with alacr:: the exercise of your vigilance will gun,' least evasion of its entire execution, in '_ full complement of demanded, W: shall be required to take the field. " You will acknowledge the receipt ders. Lose no time in reporting to m ment, furnishing me at the same time of the force in requisition.—l hare. c (Signed) U JCPN " To Brig-xi:tier-General Francis Hcpkir rn coafcrinity to the above Order. r neral Francis Hopkins has required c, 5.1 d, and 36th Regiments, the junta . Major-General Floyd. We understand t ber of men required from this city is 21 of officers. Whether these troops are to co-oper jot-General Gaines in ir.flicting punish *stile Indians, or to aid in the accomplish taking possession of East Florida, or any of importance to Georgia, time will soon HAVANNAII, NOVEMBER, r OUT mai lets continue very depressed tion being made for Vera Cruz., things quite as they ought in that quarter, as tamed some signal successes, which, as petted, deter speculators from making that country. But the most important article in these relating to this country, is, perhaps, the which appears in the Baltimore Telegraph " WASHINGTON, DECE " It is mentioned here with apparent that the British Minister, Mr. Bagot, h mand of his Government, entered a Pr( our coming into possession of the Fic chase or otherwise. I state what I hear, know, such interference can hardly be e " The Private Secretary of the Preside sume you well know, is a younger broti not nephew, as has been stated. The St Gentleman of pleasing address, and eve. for the station." We give the above as received (add, but cannot think it will eventually app British Government have so fir prewn: fere in our concerns!!! The useful and beautiful chain bri , erected over the Tweed, at Dryburgh Al patriotic Earl of BUCHAN, was entirely y the tremendous gale on Thursday the Saturday morning early, an alarming covered in the extensive manufactory of den, and Co. at Spring Garden, Aberde in the engine -house, where it had gained that before the arrival of the tire-engines, past one,' the flames issued from every lofty building, and also from the roof, so part:of the interior, with the roof, was debt very' valuable part of the manufactor eugthe, leas, we learn. happily saved. Monday night the premi ses o f J. N. near! tglefield Inclosure, Surrey, were be in flames, which were c•ccasioned by the laundry flue taking fire. It is suppi kindled several hours before it common children's bed-room, in • a contiguous a Providentially it was discovered in tin: .three children, who slept in the room, th which was on tire. The interior of the • eras new, and the greater part pf the ha destroyed.- VIENNA, DECEMBER 31. We have now more particular accounts of what has passed on the frontiers of Persia. The attack made upon the Turkish frontier fortress of Bogazed, by a body of Curdes, was not led by Abbas Mirza, whom his father has destined for his successor to the throne of Persia ; but by Ali Mirza, an elder son , whom the father has passed over in choosing his suc cessor, and who, on this account, lives at variance with him. It is further confirmed, that this inconsi derate proceeding, ip consequence or - the declarations made by the Schaek, will not be attended with any interruption of the good understanding between the two Empires. CRACOW, DRCRBIRER 26. His Majesty the King of Prussia has sent 200 &- cats to our-Betwoolad Sotietj. His Majesty the Emperor of Russia, as a mark of his particular regard, has not only allowed the free importation into Poland of the and productions of dur .Republic, but also granted the importation from his empire of a number of horses, fit for agriculture. His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, our protector, has allowed salt from the mines of Wieliezka, to be furnished to us at a lower price than to other countries. We learn from the Vistula, that the Polish troops hitherto in the pay of Russia, now go into the pay of Poland. The annual sum paid by this kingdom on this account, amounts to 40 millions of Polish florins. STOCKHOLM, JANUARY 2. A notice has been put up at the Exchange, posi tively contradicting the report of a breach with the Dey of Algiers ; the dispatches from the Swedish Consul, of the 15th of October, giving an account of the sailing of the squadron, mentioned at the same time, the friendly dispositions of Algiers to wards Sweden. The Paris Papers erMonday arrived this morning, but bring no intelligence of the least importance- Count JuLas DR POLIGNAC, who, like the Duke de Frtz-JAstos, was deprived of an opportunity of ex pressing his sentiments in the Chamber of Peers, on the Law respecting the Journals, has also printed and circulated the substance of the speech he meant to Wife delivered; Whether he has -hem visited with any such mark of AQinirterial displeasure as has been inflicted MS die Duke - de Frra-Jamas, for a similar iise of siOute, doesincijet appear. S~ Yeategagy - at tyitreleloCk, a ealrttitt Council was bela-av tbleAr t ee;kl"4 24 i. -- PtirP 6 se ci.arranig tog the-Ess 'ibpeeeit,lo be lubmittod• to hiruia Coma, lei* Mitered arthe opening of the Session:AO Antiaileittr TheCibinet 'sat till about 'half-pastifetre. , • - • The .Pruttqa Anoint; -is erpected to hold a Privy Council. on:Ssiurday; to prick the Sheriffs for the present. year:- The lain illtelDENT gives the Sheriffs a dinner tomorrow. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when the following Commanders wok leave of the Court previous to departing for their respective destinations, viz.—Captain M. HA mtt.robr, Dunk; and Captain H. A. DRUMMOND, Castle Hatay, for Bengal and China ; Captain W. CAMPBELL, London, and Captain E. BALsroN, Prin cess Amelia, for Madras and China. The ship Per severance, of 1200 tons, was taken up for one voyage in the Company_s service. EMPIRE OF Ham.—(From the French Paper:.) CHRiSTOPHE still continues to inspire such terror at St. Domingo, that numbers of his subjects have quitted his States, and prefer to live in slavery among the Spaniards, who have submitted to the King, or pass over to the Insurgents and the Americans. A mulatto, who had just escaped from the Cape, infor med an inhabitant of Martinique, who has transmit ted the informatiOn to us, of several traits of cruelty in the character of CHRISTOPER, which are of recent date :—A Captain of the United States, charged with merchandise, had entered the Cape during the night. There remained near the arsenal 28 sacks of coffee, which the offir of the - would to le Cl f G 1: C• • ft . . U • • el d st a 4 11 1 • a; 46 • r. C S*- ai te at E 7. r thi of sat e? T . of 01 )` M 4 TIN i• • • • (k k NI CCI DI pal b c , mim cf evi dw Gc 9*.: 7: rat:: CO Dr to thl XlO. tr cet the to rate nit: ea hr ett tei tW isluarx 11.1 uttr see Hi dr els lon Li , 'E s WI him a Mina • Pr% may E l ; shi "" use ese - the fo tba ohm h of I - EMIL! an auxhr cal has, by sus Pri rOteg .lidas r, AGt lent, :a I other :e ecrt.r • war ds tLe pear "- • a is ridge. I kbbey.l 4 bly.v3 e 156 i • fie sera. !fs such 3 c r l h w Is A 1 I : 1 ,: • rY F ut so 112• • grOV,se. • ihe FIRLET. 3 per. 0.114 z 1, - a hcale he flocriae '.l house, tr`