Star. — London, England, 1820-12-20 00:00:00

..% •• BUENOS AYRES. The following is an extract of a private letter, dated Buenos Ayres, September 1, 1820 : " The Owen Glendower, Captain the Hon. It. C. SPENCER, has teen the temporary flag-ship at Buenos Ayres from January 13 to the present date ; she is soon to be relieved by one of the smaller vessels cml the station, and will proceed forthwith to Monte Video and Maldonado to refit, preparatory to a trip to St. Helena with money, after which she will return to the Rio Plata to re-victual, and proceed round Cape: Horn about December or January, to relieve the Andromache, Captain SH IRREET. at' Valparaiso.. " This Buenos - Ayres is a strange place; and the manners of the country people, the vexatious and in consistent changes of the Government, and the appa rent apathy and indifference of the great cause Which they have continued in so long—their emancipation from the yoke of Spain—make them appear con temptiele in the eyes of all who have looked upon them hitherto'with any_ sentiment of liberality and commiseration. " What the alteration will be after all the strug gles for power whiCh we have witnessed during the last eight months, no one knows. The changes of Governors and Governments have in that time amounted to a numlier past all belief, and scarcely one of the many changes has produced a leader who has been solely actuated by zealous and real patri otic motives. Whoever has obtained the seat of Di rector has been sure to fill his pockets—the revenue, which is the only source of their present Ways and Means, has always been the first object of the new Governor to turn to his own advantage and that of his friends. Trade had been almost at a stand, and the commercial negociations of the interior have been occasionally suspended fer months. Industry has been paralysed by the people being constantly rated to work themselves as military corps ; and it is feared neither.the peasant nor mechanic will be able to re turn again to his work with the same feeling as before. Here you see devotion without religion : an affecta tion of high-minded principles without a sense of honour ; patriotism reduced to licentiousness, and in dependence to lawless robbery. " The Province of Buenos Ayres, contains land fertile and rich, capable of being cultivated to the acme of advantage, where industry has only to shew itself in the very infancy, and it will be richly re warded ; where the original manners of the people are constantly good, their habits quiet, and a system of regularity which is rarely to be met with ; where food is particularly cheap, compared with other civi lized countries, and where the productions of the globe may be obtained at prices scarcely exceeding what you pay in the different metropolitan cities of Europe ; and where the people, by a general voice, relieved themselves from the greatest oppression pos.' sible ' • yet this very Piovince, after having preserved. itself free for ten years, during which time, it is wor thy of remark, it has never had a foreign enemy to contend with ; this Province has been, for eight or ten moaths, a prey to the wildest and most turbulent conduct that could be evinced by man. " Since January, 1820, the city of Buenos Ayres ha; three times suffered under all the horrors of a siege by their brothers, the country laid waste, vil lages sacked, murder and robber y in t he noon day : and for what? Merely to suppoit t 6 ambitious views and pusillanimous conduct of six or eight people, who distrust each other, and who keep up a toler able appearance only by command of money, and, from the ignorance of the lower class of people. . " The Federal Army of Santa Fe, assisted by the discontented, under the command of Don Carlos Lele, and some Chilians under Don Jos Mijuel Car rera, made war against the Government of Buenos Ayres, and approached so near the town as to in terrupt the daily communication between the city and its suburbs: each street was guarded with can non: the tops of houses taken possession of by thel military ; houses and stores shut up ; the churches appropriated to the reception of women and chil dren; everybody obliged to sleep with pistols and swords by the bed-side. In shot t, we scarcely re collect to have witnessed such real misery and dis tress. These scenes are more lamentable, when, in the midst of them, you see the leaders of the Govern ment cutting each other's throats for power and com mand; the Members of the Senate renowned for apa thy and want of talent; their Generals wanting not only common prudence but common courage, and neither order nor subordination among the troops (this picture is not over charged), until about July last, when a Colonel Dorrego was appointed Acting - Governor, and to command the Army. Ile suc ceeded a General Soler (a poltroon), and has suc ceeded in making the Federal Army, retreat, beat them in some skirmishes, sent in a number of pri soners, and eventually pursued the enemy to within sixteen leagues of Santa Fe, and apparently going on well, putting quite a new feature upon things. What think you is likely to be the reward of this said gal lant Colonel, who has retrieved, in some measure, the honour of the Buenos Ayrean arms, beaten the enemy, raised the siege, restored to commerce a portion of its securities? Why, at this very moment, daring his absence, a party is making in the very essence of the Government, to place another Officer over Dorrego in rank and power! " You will scarcely believe it, perhaps, when I say I have_ witnessed the very soldiers selling their arms and accoutrements during the siege, and at the very moment when, by an order of Government, every one had been called upon to furnish one male servant and one horse for the use of the State—l say, at this very moment I have had army accoutrements offered me for' sale, at a price that would hardly afford the' vender a day's food. A Commission has been nomi nated to try the Officers, forty-two in number, who have been sent in as prisoners (most of them inha bitants of this town), and this very Commission is afraid to act—afraid to do its duty r The rumours in the Foreign Papers, relative to the question between the Allied Sovereigns and Naples, are, as usual, contradictory, but the prepon derance is in favour of the opinion that there will be Do war, though reinforcements continue to be sent to the Austrian army in Lombardy. The Public feeling in Germany is represented to be decidedly in favour of Naples. •.. . 1. • ~. • ~. f r . . ST. DOMINGO. . • The following is an extract of 'a private letter from Cape Henry, dated October 15th. It contains some additional and interesting 'particulars of the late Revolution in the Island irif St. Domingo s " There have been Some very important changes in the Government since I last wrote you. About two months ago the King was suddenly attacked with a severe fit of apoplexy, and it was thought he never would completely recover: during his lire•time `you have often heard of his tyranny and great cruel ties, which of late have been more excessive. On the 30th of September, he put in irons the Colonel of the , Bth Reginient ; his men, who were much attached to him, instantly revolted, and took possession of the town of St. Marc. The King immediately sent a force against it, but they were repulsed. So soon as the news reached this, the garrison revolted also, and declared themselves free, and by the 4th instant, the whole country was in arms to depose the King, and do away with Royalty altogether. " On the Bth, the King assembled his body guard, and offered them money, and also the pillage of the Cape, but they refused to take their arms. Finding himself desertei, he retired into his room, and shot himself through the heart. The Queen and his fa- Mi!) , had him immediately carried up to the citadel, where he was buried under one of the bastions in statu quo, as he was so much detested, that they could not get any person even so much asto make a coffin for him. His body was hardly out of his Palace at Sans Souci, before the soldiers entered, and in tiro hours time they pillaged to the amount of one mil lion of dollars, in plate, jewels, and money. The pri sons have all been thrown open, and to the number of nearly 4,000 poorscievils have been set at liberty. It is too shocking to relate to you the miserable ap pearance of some of these poor wretches, many of whom have had their backs broken by bastinadoing, And will be cripples for life ; his crimes and cruelties will now be known, and will astonish the world. " The Dey of Algiers has not been near so bad. It is said, that one of his last orders was to murder all the Whites and Mulattoes, as he attributed the commotions entirely to them. They are now about forming the new Constitution, which is to be a Re public, something like the liberty enjoyed under Toussaint L'Ouverture. It is expected General Ro maine will be President, a very good man and very popular. The soldiers are all to have double pay, and to be allowed to go and come when they please. There are about 46,000,000 dollars in the citadel, and there is-a good deal of it to be put in circula tion. From every point we view it, it must benefit commerce, and I am of opinion that twice the im ports and exports will be seen in less than one year. —Consider that there have been for the last fifteen years, not less than 12,000 people in garrisons and public works, who will now be allowed to work for themselves. There is no country in the world that holds out greater encouragement to cultivators. The Queen, Prince, and Princess, are in town; they did not save more than what was on their backs; there are also some of the Chiefs who stuck by the King. Some of them have but a poor chance to live. In the meantime, I consider myself and property secure." EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM PORT-AU-PRINCE, DATED THE LATTER END OF OCTOBER. " This city is again quiet. The troops are all in the North, with President Boyer at their head. Every' place he has appeared before has surrendered ; and he is pushing ou for the Cape, where the people are said only to await his arrival to cut off the heads of the Royal Family.—Trade is reviving greatly. Cur rency is fifteen per cent. discount." SIR JAMES CRAIVFURD. The Correctional Tribunal of Paris waragain oa cnpied on Friday with the case of Sir James Craw. ford, charged with having, in certain compositions, printed and published, calumniated and defamed the Duke de Grammont, and the Duke de Guiche. The Baronet, having in his hand a large packet of papers, again urged his right to defend himself. On the remark of the President, that M. Dupin had been assigned at the preceding audience for the defence, he protested against the measure, predicting with inex pressible phlegm, that his unheard of wrongs in France, would be taken up by his country as a na tional affair. He then withdrew, attended by an immense escort of the curious. M. Dupin then declared, that the defendant had not furnished him with the necessary documents and instructions in the cause ; and for this reason he could not take upon himself the arduous duty assigned to him at that moment. M.M. Berryer and Charrier, Advocates for the Noble appellants, addressed t he Court against the Chevaliers proposition. The Tribunal, after hearing the King's Advocate, relieved the accused from the exception he had taken against the judgment of condemnation, and ordered that he should. withdraw his case, reserving to the parties the right of appealing against the libels pub lished and distributed since the preceding sentence. The Court, however, confirmed the judgment of the 9th of November, by which Sir James was sen tenced to six months' imprisonment, and a fine of 2000 francs, for the former libels, reserving to itself the power of judging on the recent libels which the Baronet has published. Among the latter obnoxious publications, was a Memoir, circulated on Friday in profusion, in the saloon of the Court, by Mr. Manuel, Sir James Craw ford's Secretary. The title of this libel is—" The case of Sir James Crawfurd, published as a prelimi nary to the tiial for bigamy, which he is about to institute against the soi-disant Laiy Crawfurd, Anjou street, No. 21, St. Honore." Sir James, in stepping into his carriage, cried out Vine in Carte! and his Secretary, who had been taken into custody for distributing his " Case," was liberated. At Constantinople, on the 31st of October, Mr. FRERE had an audience of the.Gaatio SEIGNIOR, who personally dictated to the GRAND VIZIER what he should say in reply to Mr. FRIERE'S Address; an honour which, it is said, was never before conferred on a Minister of the second rank. Negotiations are ' said to have been -opened between the Pours and ALE PAGNA, who continued to be blockaded in the fortress of Ylmia.Kalissi. • : - ‘• Aer SNUG MEETING OF THE WARD OF FAR. RINGDO.V WITHIN, D.Ectmaatl9. We hate generally found i — t extremely difficult to catch the loyal Proems that is now abroad. At St. Pancras we were too late; at Kensirgton we were too late. The evasive element tZaway ere we could view its fo rm. At the London -house we therefore presented ourselves very early,. in hopes of catching a glance of the loyal Body of Farringdon Within. At the door we blind two very ostentatious invita dons for signatures to the Loyal Address of Farringdon out. Oa entering we found, with obsequious waiters and courteous Gentlemen of the Ward, nothiag but—" Pray walk in, Sir—This way—You wish to sign the Loyal Address? This way." We found, in fact, that without any previous inquiry, we were solieeed to deposit our names—no matter what their weight, or whence. they came—at the bottom of the Loyal Ad dress of Farringdon Without. This was not our purpose; and we inquired when the Loyal Meeting of Farringdon Widths was to be held? " Oh! not till one o'clock : the room is not opened yet." At one, we pressed forward to see this mysteri ous assemblage of darkness. We remarked, on entering at the outer door, that the ostentatious signals of publicity were with drawn: all was now solemn ss:erecy. In the very passage where, a eltort time before, all was invitation and politeness, and open conduct, we were alarmed to find three Gentlemen obstructed in the rudest terms. If we were warranted in draw ing inferences from plump appearance of person, comfortable abundance of genteel apparel, and correct and dignified lan guage, we should say, that they were of the most respectable class of citizens that the City of London can boast. They were viewed with looks of suspicion, and asked their busi ness? They replied, that they came to attend the Loyal Meet ing of the Ward. " Your names, Gentlemen?" The names and places of residence were given at once. " Gentlemen, your names are not at the bar : however, I shall mention them; and inquire whether you can be admitted or not ?" While this sacred scrutiny was goingpn, one Gentleman oats rally remarked to the other, " What a strange way of getti • public Address this is ! They ought rather to ha v e pre pared k' at a family dinner, and sent it to their friends for signatures." The reply from the adyturn was, " You cannot be admitted : this is a private Meetings" This reply appeared so extraordi nary, that one individual pushed forward from the back ground,' and held the following dialogue with this Charon or Cerberus of the Loyal Meeting : " What, Sir ! had you a list made up, previously, of all the names to be admitted to the Loyal Meeting? and are all other inhabitants of the Ward excluded ?" " Yes, Sir, they are. The names mentioned are not in the list." " Well, Sir, in that case I think it would be impertinent to intrude upon such a private Meeting." (Whether this was sus pected to be irony we, know not, but the reply was—) " The room appointed for the Meeting is nearly full." " Will you perfnit me, Sir, to look? I assure you I shall not enter." " No, Sir, your name is not on the list." Here, then, we discovered the acme, the consummation of loyal dexterity. To meet early was the first essay ;to exclude Re porters was the next ingenious improvement ; but the accom plished result was; to draw up a list of loyal Dames, and tok ex clude all the unhallowed persons who bad not been initiated into the Eleusinian mysteries. AU great discoveries are the results of many experiments—for proof we refer to the history of the art of printing; the improvements of the steem-engine • Cowper's progress of the Sofa ; or, the in of getting up loyal steam-engine; in the first year of the reign of George the Fourth. " 'Lustre molls eras Tvamanam condere ge.ntem."—Tinuts. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1820. have. not the honestrand courage to proclaim that thought to the world? We are the more disposed to press these considera. ticns, from a sincere belief that many well-meaning individuals are daily deluded into a participation is these self-styled " Loyal" Addresies, from the very idea that because they are thus empty and unmear ing, there can be no harm in signing them. The harm, we can assure them is great. At Court there are two ways of understanding English—one the way in which it ought to be - understood ; and the other the way in which it is agreeable to understand it. Thus a "Loyal" Address, no matter what its contents are, means, according to the last amended edition of the Carlton House vocabulary, not an Address declaratory of fidelity to the Koic, but an Address approving of the conduct of Ministers, in pursuing the Kmo's wife to destruction. We warn every one, therefore, who does not really and conscientiously go that length, to keep back his hand from every thing in the shape of an Address,, which takes to it. self the title, par excellence, of " loyal since assu redly it will be held as an implied approbation, on his part, of conduct which, most probably, in his soul he abors. _ _ Neither, we fear, is the importance of such Ad- dresses so generally appreciated as it ought to be._ Ministers know, that unless they can persuade their Royal Master that they have the mass of public opi nion at their back, they will be kicked from their stools ; and therefore it is that their emissaries am busying themselves in every part, and by a thousand ways of cajollery, to entrap the timid and inconside rate--not into Addresses approving•of the proceed ings of Ministers against the QUEEN, for not all the influence and trickery on earth could accomplish that—but into Addresses so unmeaning, that, somr. thing like Proxies, Ministers may make any use of them they please. To convince our Readers that we do not exaggerate the importance which is attached to Addresses, we beg to quote, for their information, a few facts relating to the' Loyal" Addresses after the Peace of 1769, extracted from Huishe's Public and Private Life of George Me Tliird : - - " The measures of the Ministers roused the indignation to that height, that few Corporate Bathes could be found who would Address the Kr.vo on the Parliamentary approbation of the Articles of Peace. In some instances the Addresses were obtained in the most dishonourable manner; and, in one case, the seal of a Corporation was forged, and, in more than one, it was feloniously obtained. " The City of London refused to Address, although the sntn of 5g14,000 was offered to complete Blackfriar's Bridge. The Lord Lieutenants hail begging letters sent to them, to use their influence, and Xsoo,Secret Service were added to each letter. " The sum of £5OO was the notorious price of an Address, but it was in general regulated according to the importance or magnitude of the place !" The deliberations of the Holy Allies, at Troppan, are, as much as possible, kept secret from the Pbblic; but it is, nevertheless, well known that .they have not proceeded with that unanimiti which the Ultra- Legitimates could have wished. To the credit of our Government it is known, that Ministers endea voured to dissuade the Holy Alliance from the cru sade which was contemplated against the reforming States, especially Naples. For this there might be many causes ; but all the - -world knows of at least one good reason—the want of money ;—and to this some may be disposed to add another—the impossi , bility of their carrying into such a contest even the semblance of the public approbation ; for the trial of public patience and virtue, during the proceedings against her MAJESTY, has led to such a searching of men's principles, and has so roused the indij nation of the placid and quiescent portion of the People (whose suffrages have hitherto been always assumed to be for Ministerial measures, merely because this class—a great and worthy class as indi viduals—never expressed either opposition or appro bation), that Ministers can no longer shut their eyes to the dangers that threaten them and their ad herents; and cannot but see the impossibility a carrying the country with them in any war under• taken against the independence of a free State. If Ministers founded their dissent from the pro- posed crusade on a conviction of the right of the people of Naples to introduce such alterations and improvements as they may think necessary and pro per, they ought, like Sweden, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, at once to have acknowledged the re generated Government, by receiving the neuly-ac credited Ambassador in his public capacity. Bet let their conduct, in this respect, continue what it may, the freedom and independence of Nations de pends not on the will or fiat of coalesced Kings. & far as the wishes of these Kings went, the einancipa• tion of France was to be prevented; but their joie labours only served to bring upon the States of mail of them an overwhelming invasion. Was this et repelled by the will and Jet of the Kingse—N The flood , was expelled by the fiat of the People. I wars between States and States, the issue may doubtful; but . between Kings and People, nevelt No weapon formed by . Kings and Rulers as class, against the People as another class, can di mately prosper. Blood and misery may, for a time be spread over the face of a fair portion of the eat but woe to the Tyrants who may provoke the 0 filet; for it can only end in their own destruction. The KLNG if, WC are happy Lou p in gond he.i l It is nevertheleis true that his MAJCSTY was t%' bled in the course or last. week—a ci,rcunistatice utioual with people of a plethoric habit. THE FUNDS. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE &CLOCK Bank Stock 221 1 ,4 221 3 per Cent. Reduced 69% 3 Si per Cent. 78% sh-4 per Cent. 87% % Long Annuities 17 15-16 18. Imperial 3 per Cent. 68 India Bonds 245. pre. Exchequer Bills par, 2s. dis. Cons. for Acct. 70Y8 71 7078. .. ~ .... We shall continue to regard as nought every Ad dress, at the present crisis, which does not state, in plain and explicit terms, what the opinion of the Ad dressers is on the grand and only point which agi tates public opinion--namely, whether his MAJESTY'S Ministers have endangered or promoted the stability of the Throne•and the Constitution by the late pro- ceedings against her MAJESTY ? and, according as that question may be answered, whether it is fit, :or safe, or decent, to leave the reins of Go vernment any longer in their hands? It can ex cite in all sensible and reasoning minds nothing but a feeling of pity, perchance of contempt, to see in so many ccsners, knots of respectable Gen tlemen—grown-up Gentlemen too—whose devotion to the Throne and the Altar has never been the ob ject of the slightest suspicion, and who, nevertheless, have taken it into their heads that they are impe riously called upon to asseverate and proclaim what nobody denies, or has the smallest doubt or— It is quite right in them not to remain neuter at a time when addressing is so much the fashion ; but let them state plainly and manfully what their sentiments really are on the important subject which has roused the Nation to present itself in the attitude of suppli cation and remonstrance at the foot of the Throne, To deal merely in general and high-sounding pro testations of loyalty, is doing nothing ; it is saying no more than what all his MAJESTY'S addressing subjects say, with, probably, quite as heartfelt sincerity.-- To protest that they are ready to defend the Throne and Constitution" with their " lives and fortunes," is protesting no more than we are all ready to do (we trust the exceptions are but few indeed); it is not an atom's worth more of real support to the Thrtme, than any opinion of theirs would be, in support of the fact that the Earth goes round, or that the Moon shines by night. It is the more marvellous, that , the very loyal co teries to which we allude should so carefully refrain from any distinct expression of the kind we demand from them, when it is considered how private, how exclusive, how snug, all their Meetings usually are— of which we have to-day . to present our Readers with another striking and amusing instance, in the proceedings of the Ward of Earringdon Within...- What have these Gentlemen to fear, from stating aping *eaves what they really think of his Ma jesty's Ministers? And if they have a thought on the I subject ) what manner of men must they be, who s • .111 letter for D sibio «Ii occui is .viz is no 'ti, movi panic tnnsi that and Pose ffi man New poin A Bos L qu a Inds is tal T and shor to S to E Car lii Che P %a bel To Cha frog 'PA )3111 ND CPO 1 Co It' dr sal thi Ira *I Lw VI 43 11