Star. — London, England, 1815-01-12 00:00:00

ey shotdd eneettretil the Moist& to kettl hie &n ority to such' k systerof .1 But." any the advocates of slavery, !t no snoop% ill be made to destroy imitimate • libany in. St. M 0.., ingot the question now agitated is o ne o f Se t el4 ignty merely." • We have put the argument as strongly as peedbk at its injustice may be rendered the more apparent. he freedom of the negroes in the French colonies at ma/Waked by law. Notwithstanding this, the rench, as a people, endeavoured again to enslave em, and during the reign of BONAPARTI carried= sanguinary war against them. The result of the err was not only the defeat. of the white claws by .e black free men, but the conquest of the island of :. Domingo 1 The war was commenced by the nites, they lost not only the object for which they intended but the Sovereignty also of the island ; I now forsooth they would cajole these free men to :knowledge the sovsreignty of that very country hich made war upon them for the avowed purpose • enslaving free wen I Britons will never confound the distinction between ee blacks and Mach doom. It is to be lamented that e trade in the latter is still permitted to be carried i by the most lawless of mankind—those who can far pervert the intention of all binding laws, as / law to make that legal which en. Goa 41 the whole eth--the KING of Kiagebas prohibited. Loot to 14 ours ! Exert your influence to exterminate a system' • hich still threatens Europe with the Dims yen. ,ance. Wansost, Jawuans 11.—. Sunday this Princess • HARLOTTE of WALES, attended by her Ladies in Tciting, came from Cranbourn Lodge to the Castle, • n a visit to the QUERN and Pailicessas, and in the •ening returned to the Lodge. Her Royal High. :ss repeated her visit on Monday; her ferriage was' en drawn by her beautiful grey ponies.—Tuesday MAJESTY and the PanscEssrs, attended by a ' ady in Waiting, took an airing in. a coach and four, -id honoured the Earl. and Countess of HARCOURT ith a morning visit, at St. Leonard's-hill.—Yester. • ty Lord Sr. Hum's, one of the Lords in Waiting . i the KING, left the Castle foe London.—Monday, a General Chapter of St. George's Chapel, the .ev. CUARLES Ca6*rwlss, A. M. WAS elected Minor :anon. Yesterday his Royal Highness the Duke of YORK . 'ansacted business at his Office in the Hone Guards, ad gave audience to several Military Gentlemen. Yesterday there was a meeting of the Cabinet Mi. asters at the Foreign Office. FASKIORRIKK NUPTl*Lfm—Yesterday were married St. Mary-la.benne Church, Colonel W. Goats, of aker.street, to the wealthy and accomplished heiress,' '.tics ORMSBY, of Great Stanhope-street, May Fair.— Colonel Gotta was Aid-de•C Imp to the Duke of Rms. .own during the period of his Grace's Viceroyship in inland. A letter from Mr. JOHN Gtansrrona, of Liverpool, contradicts the account published in the papers, stating that he had received a letter from Lined Livia -1-30a., requesting to know the sentiments of the people of Liverpool respecting the renewal of the Property 'Nilo Mr. GLosorrosis denies that any npoileadisa %as made to him, directly or indirectly, on the soli e.:et. The account originated in a Paper of Saturday. A meeting of the Bankers, Merchants, and princi pal Inhabitants of Hull, was held on Monday last, to consider of the Property Tax, when a petition to Par -I:ament against its continuance was agreed to, with cne dissentient voice. The inhabitants of the borough f 1 1 ;ymouth have also agreed to a petition against the Property Tax. Soot sEr.—On the 9th instant, a numerous and :ghly respectable Meeting of Freeholders, Owners, .ad Occupiers of Land, in the County of Somerset, -col; place at Wells, agreeably to public advertiser " to take into consideration the propriety of e.,enting a Petition to Parliament, for the Repeal of Property Tax." Mr. W. HANNING addressed the Meeting. He de )recated the tax in every form, and was glad to find hat the spirit of opposition to it was becoming ttni -ersal. Mr. BOUVATT (another Commissioner) deprecated 'he tax in the strongest terms, and agreed that it was :horribly oppressivek and ought to be abolished. Mr. Gone Lancrrox, Member for the county, ad. , tressed the meeting; inveighing in the warmest terms - ,gainq the tax, which he deemed odious and uncon titutional, both in its principle and mode'of levying ! ihe people bad borne it patiently: but be hoped that -very place would now assemble to petition against L, considering it the duty of ever y man to avail him. elt of eve r y f a i r me t h o d of giving his voice against 4 tax, for the abolition of which the faith of Parlia- Aleut was pledged. Mr. DWZIN.sON, the other Member for the County, eas glad of this opportunity of declaring against the vas. There was a twofold reason for doing it away: fast, the faith of Parliament was pledged for that Purpose; secondly, it could not be levied without eiada rg sh a p so f i l e . Mr. Dickinson then hinted at the Attempts which, it should seem, were in the content pinion of Ministers to continue it. This, be said, was alarming , and must be opposed ; and it was impossible the, this tax could be levied. The Lon .lon Merchants were obliged to prematurely sill their pods to pay it; and house property had sunk in ' , aloe by being obliged to pay it. Birmingham and Liverpool were peculiarly oppressed by A.- - At Belfast the cotton manufacturers were gone, and le was sorry to say, he feared they had made their escape to France. The farmer he considered as look ng up to the landlord, being unable to pay his rent ; And yet, by a strange fatality, we were giving a pre mium to France by importing their corn, and de voying our own agriculture. Mr. D. concluded by 4eclaring, that be would do his duty, in conjunction with his colleague, by supporting the petition in Par lam ent . Sir 3. C. lizermtv said, on a subject like the pre .. tat, he MOM liOt o as a mau, or as a Member of Par ' lament, give a silent vote ; and he declared, that then the petition should arrive At its point of destina. '6n. he would support the prayer of it with all his night. .111. , , „ .1 aelgt, feteiCal#4• * 11, . • " . r1 . 1% ft , ',lll I niellikatini,lol4ll7 iratertora td'lNStasola ilk AM P aitdilik 01112111__ limo on leash en RUM, batildni ' • ell sod atonal to Caere% t . _- The thwaralin, bound to Pipasonth, laden with coal, pt hie Wpaskek hubs& yaws* inky. l'imlaisart, Ilmirpina. hunt Cork to DAM, winkle *Ws R! Hillikiii it ea Monday, and toU ot wawa. , , Ze fear i llippelsa g Vaa d. dtie, bons Bouedsana So Norm, It., The Alanllke 114 Resent. front Caleb's° London, were losi shoot tlio Mt Wt.-••ezeirs saved. TM Now Bcknouten 4 from Lisbon to Hamborsil s M omegal. amen Ts. Nog* Ng , trap London to Trialiktiiis put Mb /km, wads 4wok, satin* to no& ! s . !tat (I 11,41monit, Alrealutor, , froat Orono* tellinbersk Um easeds4 nos *FR, sank ult. - ' ' ' FALMOUTH. JANUARY *. Arrived the Plowasa schooner, Lieut. HILL, from Bt. Jobn's, Newfoundland; his Majesty's ship HAVOC, with nine vessels from Portsmouth for Cork and Ber muda; also arrived the Adolphus Auguste,' from' Amelia Island, and remains. The Pioneer stated with several vessels from Newfoundland, under con. voy voy of a frigate, and from them in a gale, in which she was obli g ed to throw all her guns but two overboard, since w ich she fell in with a large Ame rican privateer, which chased her fur several hours.-.. Wind West, fresh breezes. • PLYMOUTH, JANUARY 10. Came in the Onarres sloop of war from a cruize. PORTSMOUTH, JANUARY 11. Arrived his Majesty's ship Boswe CITOTENNE, from Cork ; the Hero, BACa, and the Jane, KNATLY, also from Cork; an d Do faro transport, from Guernsey. " Admiral's Office, January 11, " The Harry gun-brig is ordered to proceed to Cork with any vessels which may be bound to Bet. muda and the Bahama Islands." DEAL, JANUARY 11. 'Arrived his. Majesty's. ship Msacuatint, from Dieppe, and remains; and the Mary, HUNT, from Waterford. The Perseverance, ROBERTS, from Dub. lin, remains in the Downs with loss of main-mast...— Five o'clock.—Just arrived the City of Bourdeauz, How, from • Bourdeauz. The outward-bound East Indiamen are detained by contrary winds. COVE OP CORK, JANUARY 6. The Pustlethwaite, Sturm, from Cork to America, is reported to be taken by an American privateer.— The ETIIALION frigate, from this port, arrived at Gibraltar on the llth ultimo.—Tbe SULTAN man of war and fleet from hence, bound to the West Indies, arrived of Madeira on. the 13th Noveml,9l.—Th, Hibernia, STSVENSON ; Jean, CLIMENT ; and Mew der, Eamturron. from Cork, are atrived at Qitebec. The Rhoda, WEIGHT, from Bermuda to Liverpool, was captured about the 20th instant, off Kinsale, by , the BMW American privateer ; she had captured four other vessels.--The fleets for Lisboa, Bonrdeauz, and Africa, got under weigh, but bad not sufficient wind to clear the harbour. GRAVESEND, JANUARY 11., Nothing arrived. It has blown a severe gale of wind the whole of this day at W.N.W. The Mercurio, Santos, for Babb, has lost anchors and cables, but no other damage duct we Dear of. Sailed the Catharine, Esson, for the Cape of Good Hope; the Dasher, Hyne, for Rio Janeiro ; and Glory, M'Gregor, for RlO hegira A great ItTavni Proasotion will shortly take place in the class.of Midshipmen and Masters' Alien, com prising all those who have served meritoriously during the greAter part of the last war. Tile promotion will be regulated entirely by the merits of the parties, tin.' influenced by either favour or affection. Letters from New South Wales, by way of lave and Calcutta, have been received, dated the 7th of February last. By these we learn, that the appre hension of a destructive mortality among the live stock, in consequence of the long-pre'vailing drought, had been relieved by a seasonable tall of rain. Wheat bore a very high price, and the quantity in store was small; but a supply was expected from Bengal. Commercial auvices from China, extending to the beginning of April, have been received in town by the ship Providence, which brings large remittances from Canton, in bills and specie. The price of cotton had been high ; the cargo imported on the Success, and a great part of the cargo on the Providence, having been actually disposed of at 13 tale 4 mace per peed. On the arrival, however, of the ships Windham and Experiment, on the 80th of March, the market fell; and the current price quoted on the sth of April, is from 1 1 :2to 11 5 per pecul. The Agents were, in consequence, warehousing the cargoes of those ships; and, as soon as the failure of the cotton crops its the west Of India should have been as. certauted, theie is little doubt but the price would again improve. The last year's stock of opium appears, by the present accounts, to have been nearly exhausted : but stilt the market price of that article did not exceed 1,060 dollars per chest. The Providence was detained in the Canton River for nearly a month after she was ready for sea, in consequence of the arrival, on the Chinese coast, of an American lett* of marque schooner, having . an board a crew of fifty men, and laden with a rich' cargo of furs, from the North-west Coast of ~ t he American Continent. Tbis vessel, it appears, had been hpiering for, some time among the adjacent Islands,. waiting the depsirutre of his Majesty ' s tri. gates PNCENJX and Doan, • with the honsewatd bound Fleet from Macao ltoads i which had ho sooner taken ilace, than she ran" up to Whampoa, landed her furs with the uttnost expedition, and had actually laid in a return cargo, and passed the second bar on her way out of the River, when news was received, that the Donis ; after accompanying the fleet to a short distance, bad again Made her. ap pearance on the coast. The. departure of this frigate with the convoy appears, indeed, front the first, to have been a mere stratagem. The American mcri chant ships Hunter and America, which had .becial lying at China ever since the commencement of war, were eager to avail themselves of the (+porta-, nity, and prepared immediately for, sea. The. Hu nter actually sailed, with a valuable cargo on board; and, three days after her departure for the river, fell , a prize to the DORIS. The America, on the receipt of this intelligence, was again unrigged ; the letter of marque schooner returned up the river to Whampo, and the Providence, freed from all apprehensions of capture, proceeded on her voyage. MI Atilt • ths ber of the 19th feet, from Hell,.disem. barked at of on the NM ultimo. The following detaditnents are ordered to assemble at Chatham, previeus to their embarkation to join their respective iteeltlOHlS is Madras, which will take place in a few dam viz. SOth, 86th; 56th, and 09th ; and the 30th; rnoirat Colchester, and the 29th it Winchester, are ordered also to Chatham for the same purpose. First Lieutenant JOHN Ma s, of the Royal Ma. rine Artillery, was killed at Fort Erie, Canada, on the 4th of September last, by a rifle ball. GENERAL ORDERS. " HORSE-GUARDS, JANUARY 3, MS. onder-in-Chief has commanded It to bit notified t In reference to Regulations regarding Medical Officers, that As• daunt &wpm are is future to class with Lieutenants, accord leg to their standing in the Regiment; and Hospital Assistants oids Ensigns. " " By command of his Royal Highness the Commander-In- Chlet (Signed) "H. CALVERT, Adj.-Gen." " JANUARY 4, ins. N lib Royal Highness the Prince Regent having been pleased to command that the Caps of the Rifle and Light Infantry Corps* Sad tie liUtle and Light Infantry Companies of Regiments, shal l have a Bogle Horn, with the Number of the Regiment below it, instead of the beam plate worn by the rest of the Infantry, the Cosamander4n-Chlef has directed that the same shall be esta blished throughout the several Companies and Corps of Riflemen and Light Infantry in his Majesty'. service. " By comanand of his Royal Highness the Commander-in- C.hieE (Signed) "H. CALVERT, A.t11.-Gifi." MILITIA LAWS. Vire lave received numerous complaints from indi. viduels iojured by a clause in one of the Acts, re• specting the half-pay of. Subalterns in the Militia, which we are persuaded needs only to be stated to insure the speedy application of a remedy on the part of Government. It is required of such Officers to make affidavit before a Justice of the Peace, of their not being possessed of property to entitle them to hold the commission of a Captain. To this, perhaps, no objection should be offered, but they are also re quired to make this affidavit before a Magistrate of the County . to whielihe Regiment belongs. Thus an Officer, living in the South, may be obliged to travel to the North of England (perhaps of Scotlaud) at an expense which swallows up a great part of his pittance, before he can be entitled to receive it. The origin of this evil needs only to be stated. When the Militia laws first get an existence, it was not contemplated as a thing possible, that the services of these regiments should extend indiscriminately to all the counties : since that time their services have, by various acts, been made general over the three' kingdoms. In framing these, as usual, the general ;chums have been tahenfromfireenfing Acts—all the at te,gtton of the framers having been directed to the . ncw clausesethe clause respecting the affidavit was overlooked. In the very nature of things this clause should be made as general as the field of service. A's the place of service is not now confined to the said count", set neither should the said county be allowed to remain in the clause respecting the oath. It will surely be .remedied. The clause is both unjust and absurd. MI THE ORDER OP THE BATH. In order to correct the erronepus ideas which ap pear to prevail with regard to the new establishment of the Order of the Bath, we deem it necessary to giro the following explanation : Some permits Ihrsztne, Sit the SAttetti 'nod Crouse me newly mated, as well as the Knights Commanders. Bat, in fact, there already existed sixty Knights of the Bath, and twelve only are now added. Objecdot.s are raised lo the precedence which is given to the Knight Commanders before the ordinary Knights of ibis king-, done—and to the Companions before all other Esquires. But the declaration of this precedence is a mere form. It will be found in the old tables of precedency, that all Knights of the Bath take place (by right) of the Knights Bachelors, as they are styled ;. and Esquires of the Bath precede all Esquires, except those " of the King's body." The objections upon this head most be reduced, therefore, to the question, bow far it may have been proper to enlarge the Order of the Bath, and to model it into a military order suffi ciently extensive to give distincdoa to past services, and to serve as an incitement to exertions in future wars, which may emulate the glorious acklevements we hive lately witnessed ? In the tre• maidens conflict which is just terminated, the British arms have been raised to a &grae of glory unknown sinee the days of MAALsolioUels. We understand the present Institution to have bad In view the late was only, and to be intended to distinguish dune Officers who have given their makes services to the State, dam the rupture of the Peacd of MAIM Whoever looks back to the *sale power by which this kingdom was menaced in INS, sad refieste that we then possessed sanely the outline of a repbr army, meet fad astonished at the devotion and exertions by whisk so post a theory has been wrought * our military strength, andwe sway mature to add, in our milkaryreputadon, In this war, every *slay which our enesslas possessed in both hemispheres, has yielded to the Bride\ arms. Sicily, scarcely separated from the amlikerei NAINLIION by the narrow channel of Messina, has been protected by the English forces during aloe years. The triumphs which attended our armies in Portu - gal, is Ilpdo, and finally bs France itself, are too deeply en. gem* in the hens of Englishmen to require enumeration; but let k be remembered, that in sorry Sank in which the British forces contended, through the seven immortal campaigns of the Spanish smuggle—fa seas Aar an brave armies were victorious. If Oar fitavy has drawn less of the public attention during the lest war, k has been beam their former victories bad nearly swept the sea of every rival. In 1803, Bob/APART; by great 'unions, was able to send out a formidable fleet. One battle. the immortal day of Trafalgar, annihilated the naval powers Of France and Spain; and since that day tio general victory bas been obtained by our fleets, simply because our enemies dared not to I venture star them. In the outset of such an instimion as the present, some line must be laid &We. If the honours of the Order are to be con fined a the sward of those services which are supposed to have umlauted mainly to the pat successes by which the last war has bees distinguished, no Meer who has not enjoyed the op pcmanitiss of rendering signal services since 1803 ought to share in those honours; nor ought the many brave and meritorious Olken who hove fought and bled In the wan of the American' and French Ravoludens to consider themselves as being neglec ted. There is a point at which all such institutions must com mence; and the best, epoch which Government could determine upon is undoubtedly that which has been marked by the highest degree of military glory. We understand, that in order to avoid the inconvenience and the kir:teflon, which might have followed au arbitrary mice tion et Medi; certain regtdaiistis Nee iata dam previut:s t 4; 1 the liefalbsilodi en that; Mtn** lalgli thy rank, or greet the intittint of an individeal mltht be, be could belt be eligible. as a Member of the Order unless hiS services brought him within MS tales. The Roe adopted by the Admiralty leas not come to our knowkdge; bet we understand that eighty Naval °dicers were to be recommended for the dignity of Knights Contmanders by the Lords Of die Admiralty. One hbndred °filters of the army were to be nominated for the same honour; the proportion at these numberi being nearly the same as the proportion which the General and Reid Officers of the Land Purees bear to the Flag Mime and Post Captains of the Navy. The regulgione observed in regard to the Knights Commanders Who were taken from the army, are understood to have been as forows r in. Every Officer, not being below the rank of Lieutenant. Colonel, • who shall have received medals, or outer badges of distinction, on account of his conspicuous conduct pe ma lett Mem Ifie e different battles, shall be admitted as a Knight Commander of the Beth. Under this first regulation we understand that DO len than seventy Oaken became entitled at once to the honours of the second dens. It was next laid down that the thirty Cot:menders who were to complete the intended number, Amid ail be Cr nerd Mims: that no General Officer should be eligible who had not received at lent one medal nn account et distinguisi.ed elndoct In action with the enemy ; or have commanded in chief ' a tarp body of troops In a successful action against the enemy ; or have mortised during two years one of the great military governments abroad ; or have filled during the same time dts high &sedan of Adjutant or Quarter4lasfer-General to the whole Army, or of Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance. We are uot sufficiently lafenned as to the regulations by Which the Minden' of the Companion of the Order erlll is Malted ; bit should they come to our kr. ou lodge, we shall lay them be for the public. While speaking of the Companions, Wilmer, we most ob. serve, that several of the public prints have adapted very erro neously an idea • that the officers of the third class are to be " Kazin" as well as the Grand.Crosees and the Commanders. The fact is, that the Compactions will receive no tkle whatever : and Ifs Colonel or a Lieutenant Colonel, after being nominated to this class of the Bath. should walk into a bail-room at a race or an anise befogs one of the neighbouring Squires, (a fearful ev il, which one of our brother journalists contempletes with a laudable bettor) it will be no more than what milker, ma of that rank have been in the habi: of assumlat bentstati ; while if at any time a Captain or a Subaltern should detleguish self so very peculiarly as to be considered worthy of receiving these homers, there would be (we are persuaded) very few tisk Squires who woull not yield the pas with pleasure to sea pre eminent merit. A Gentleman who arrived yesterday from Paris informs us, that letters had been received from New. York, by Mr. CRAWFORD, dated the beginning of December, which mention that Commodore BAIN BRIDGE is elected Secretary of the Navy, in the roods► of Mr. Jonas. Arrivals at, and departures from, the York Hotel, Dover Deecember Wien and suite, to Park. January I.—Count De Lebasecuque, and Mr. ilsonvis and servant, from Paris to London._ January John and Lady Murray and suite, Mr. Elgin, Mr. Davenpiart, and Major Hawker, from Paris to London. J anuar y S—Mr. Shaw, King's ;.lessengrr, Mr. Hyrosque. Mr. Christle, and Lieutenant PcUy , from Paris to London ; Cap tain Roue and suite, and Colonel M'Donald, Coldstream Guards, to Brussels. January 40—Captain MiLeod, from London to Brussels; Mr. A. Sampson, to Paris; Mr. and Mrs. Vanden Haven, from Lon. dun to Paris. - January s.—Mr. Collb:s, M. P. and F. Cross, Esq. to Paris. January 7.—Coinnel sir. H. H. Bradford aiid suite, nod Limb. oaat-Colopel Boaworth o to Brussels. Januar).* B.—Mt. Mar-ell and servant, to Mnsterthlll; Mr. Mansell, front Paris to London • Gnerdl Donkin and arryant. to London; General Witte's% a nd Lady and suite, and Major Foley, irons Paris to London. January 9.—Mr. ironmonger and servant, to Paris • The Hon. WINDHAM QUIN has Not less than 700 'trees, three-fourths of wh ich ware full grown timber, blown down on his ebtate of Adare in Ireland, during the late hurricane. The trust, of which we have only had a sl'ght visit in this neighbourhood, is so intense in Scotland, that on Thursday a Curling-match took place on the ice, between the parishes of Mauchline and Tarbol. ton, in Ayrshire-64 players on each side, which was gained by the latter 48 shots. The Duke of Davonstitaa's Park, at Chiswick, has been robbed of a fine buck, which was killed and carried off a few nights since, for which offence two met have been apprehended. In Ireland, horses which three or four yearsz brought $6O, may now be easily. procured for Oats, in the country, are for 7s. a barrel ; and Beef and Mutton, which a year ago was. 10d. and ls. per pound in the interior, is now dd. and 4d. DRURT-LANt THEATRE. —Miff NC/ A LSTEIN repeated her performance of Lady Teazle last night, with in creased effect, and was in many parts warmly and deservedly applauded. . The Tragedy of Rickard the Second is to be soon revived at Drury-lane Theatre, for the purpose of introducing Mr. BEAN in the unfortunate hero of the piece. MATRIMONIAL SALE.—Tuesday se'nnigbt, a man named John Osborne, who lives at Goudhurst, came to Maidstone fur the purpose of disposing of his wife by sale, in the public market place, but it not being market day, the auction was removed to the sign of the Coal Barge, in Earl -street, where she was actu ally sold to a man named William Serjeant, with her child, for the sum of one pound :—the business was transacted in a very regular manner, a deed and covenant being given by the seller, of which the following is a literal copy : “ t, Mho Osborne, &cis agree to part with my wife, Mary Osborne, mol auk', to Witham Serjeant, for the ~um of one pound; In consideration of giving up ail claim whatever : where unto I have made my mark as an acknowle,lzement. " Maidstone, Jan. 5, 1813." X. This document was witnessed in due form, ant the woman and child turned over to the buyer, t.) :he apparent satisfaction of all parties; the hvsband ex pressing his willingness to take his spouse again at any future period. We understand that the woman has left four small children with the man who sold her.—Maidstone Gazette. A few days since, as Richard Oliver, fisherman, of Maidstone, was getting on his horse, near the resi dence of the Rev. Dr. FOSTER Ptcorr, Mereworth, the rail on which he stood to mount giving way under him, he fell to the ground, and broke his thigh. TRICE OF S COCA.) 1 HIS DAY A.l' TWELVE O'CLteCK Reduced 155i11-4 per Ct.B2ll.—S per Ct. Navy 941 es. ON Comb 651-; ex. div.--ter accouut,66lll—Chuniuus 1141% Bank Lees Anne. 16 trititba.—Bas‘ 19i. sok Frt . Ushquer We is. O. prim; ,