Star. — London, England, 1813-12-27 00:00:00

'ENT • iTAR LO N DON. MONDAY, DECEMBER. 27, 181$. Si. Jove, DaY.—Holiday at all thelighlic Meek , . remar eta, by an eminent writer on Public , •. at a Belligerent effera peace in the mo-: .1 41 .f v it is a pidof that he is sincere— Whereas, i feated and beaten enemy listens to eto solicit for peace until he in a predi cament w gAtagsatens the ruin of his affairs, it is a fair inference :lei . seantean armistice only, during s t . - which he may dt . his opponents and resume a Warlike attitude himself. This Is a golden apothegm, guoad the Allied So irkkeignS and BONAPARTE at the present moment : By the Frankfort Declaration it appears, that the ftikmer bare offered Peace in the moment of victory .-43 y the Paris Papers to the 24th instant, now be , fort its, we perceive that they have adhered to the mind immutable principles of public law, and dis charged their duties to suffering mankind, by refu sing an Annitsice. it was quite natural in BONAPARtE to ask it, but airB did not expect that he would have given it that hatne—we would rather have thought that he,' would have attempted to obtain his object in some, other way. He might, for instance, have endea— voured to seduce Austria from the alliance, or by Marching suddenly against any single division of the Allied armies, interrupted for a while their plans t 4 combination against him. Under misfortunes, hoivever, he is like other men ; his intellects are related, and the pressing peril of the hour so con fbunds all his faculties, that in his impromptu deli vered before he had time to consult his Senators at Paris, he speaks not of Peace, but of an Armistice! The translation of all this chicane into the vernacular of plain honesty and common understanding is this : " Gentlemen Negotiators, I want an armistice—my armies are annihil tted--my finances exhausted—my tin one totters under me, and the Iron CrOwn galls my forehead. Give me time-4 have 300,000 fresh! Conscripts coming up—do not cross the Rhine until I have dragged all the young men trom the German Provinces of France, and made good my requisitions. Do, I beseech you, let me reap another harvest of bland from the Bishofric of Liege, the Luxemburg,' the Pay's. Bas, and the Valais—then you may ad vance against me—by that time your morale will be weakenedryour materiel will be exhausted, and your advance against me will be. through deserted Ina vinces and desolated villages." Count REGNAVD, in his speech to the Legislative Body, recapitulates the sufferings of France, during the last twenty years, in most moving accents. I - le is Unwilling, poor deer erred ! by recurring to past grievances, to " irritate any minds, or rekindle any resentments." And yet he proceeds to insinuate, that from England has proceeded that sanguinary deluge, which for twenty years, with little intermis sion, has baffled all the skill of the French Engineers to keep within bounds. At Campo Formio they con structed a mud wall—at Amiens they erected one of stone and mortar=at Luneville they applied Parker's ' cement to keep out the deluge—at Presburg and at Tilsit they successively added coatings of Plaster of Paris. Unhappy architects I—unfortunate pacifica tors !—miserable philanthropists f—all would not do. The winds blew, the rain descended, and their fabric is fall;ng to the ground ! But why should we employ the weapons of irony or ridicule in attacking the despicable mouthpieces of BONAPARtE? let us answer them by recurring to' , old times, and in the language of the most brilliant public document which adorns the glorious annals of :his 11;g1: and palm nation; in the Whitehall De :laration of the 29th of October, 1793, the immortal Minister of England, in that arduous and momentous :risis, told the world ; and why should not the sarne language be used by the Statesmen of the present Say ?--That great and enlightened man then, speak. rig-in thunder amid the black clouds which threat med him and his country,. thus bid defiance to ranee : he told them, that the Allies " had to m ounter acts of aggression without pretext—open ioletiots of all treaties—unprovoked declarations of va'r ; in a iitidikitokistemer corruption, intrigue; or' vie ince could 9Pet, for the impose, ojunly avowed, e INl gents: dl the 14. f Ist:ions of --aciesy, and of extemfmg over II she nations if .evrope, that colcwion whieh hat pro ?deed the misery of France." ' We would have our, Ministers to infuse the balm .f peace and good-will into the lacerated bosom oi he French people, by telling them in the language 'f the same venerable and magnanimous Declara ion, that " nis Majesty desires nothing more sin et elf than to terminate a war, which he in vain en le:wonted to avoid, and all the calamities of which, is now experienced by France, are to be attributed infy to the ambition;the perfidy, and the violence of hose; whose crimes have involved their own country is miserr, and disgraced all civilized nations !" And let them conclude their appeal to. the good ease of mankind in the eloquent and pathetic lan page of that generous and high-minded proclarna. ion.: let them promise " friendship, security, and 3rotection to all those inhabitants of France who, by declaring for a monarchical firm of government, T .~' :' =hail sista ot tie *Ai of eilea taut uimbj = of that anarebY which has broken all the most sacred bonds oinociety—dissolved all theielations of Civil, life, violated every right, confounded every distylg which uses the name of liberty to exercise the most cruel tyranny--to annihilate all property, to seize on all possessioni; which fotinds its power on the pre tended consent of the people, and itself carries fire And sword through extensive provinces for having demanded their laws, their religion, and their lawful Soiereign." With the exception of the speech of REONAUD to the Legislative BOdy, which we have thus attempted to answer, the contents of the French papers are be neath contempt. The French Funds continue to fall. tven in Paris, the monied men are not so stupid or so sanguine as tve are in this country. Peace with Bo naparte !--wha but a Jacobin can wish for it. ?—who but a fool can expect it ?—who but a traitor would set his seal to it ? We are not ashamed, therefore, to take leave of our Readers once more with, the watchword of all good men : it must be the pass and countersign of the Allies, notwithstanding all their declarations— PBACE WITH FRANCE ! ---ETERNAL WAR WITH BONA PARTE! The Speech of BONAPARTE to the Legislative Body, being, under present circumstances, a docu ment of high importance, has naturally been the sub ject of very particular examination. So diversified, however, are the opinions respecting the true sense of the most important part of it, that there seems reason to suspect some accidental or studied obscurity. The terms of the original (which is now before us), are, it must be owned, not the clearest that might lyre been chosen, if they were intended to express that intire acquiescence in the terms proposed by the Allies which some readers infer from them. NAPOLEON says- 44 Des nigeciationt cnt it; entamier avec let puirsaucer coalides. 'Poi adhere aux barer trelintinairir qu'elles out risentirr." Had these words proceeded from any body else, we might have perhaps taken them as equivalent to " I have accepted the preliminaries proposed." But coming ' from BONAPARTE, we shall observe fast that presentee: is not exactly the proper word—pro/lode:Would he better. At least if presented be understood of the Allies, it seems more peremptory, as if they had an nounced the immutable conditions on which they meant to treat. " Well, (it may be said) such is the case, they have presented their ultimatum." Be it so but now an objection arises to the word adhere. To adhere to, means to abide by, and implies in the person adhering, a preference, a liking to the tli;ng to which he adheres ;—and as employed in this place, utterly excludes all idea of a contrtprojet, which _some newspaper writers dream they have discovered in this sentence. Preliminaries proposed admit of coon .ter proposal:, but, a basis presented should be answer ed by Tcs or Ne.—Were these bases so moderate that NaPoLE4or could accede to them, and even do no better than adhere to them as firer. nted ? This is. doutrt less possible ; but it could hardly be ICarcLiAloN's in tention ta make such a concession in I.tvour of ene mies, against whom other passages of the Speech be tray that spirit of bitterness which may be expected to animate him. Even were the case thus, it would have been more consistent with his pride and dignity to have said, " On est convents des bases prdin:inaires ;" the preliminary bases have been agreed upon. Be sides, were matters on such an amicable footing as this interpretation would imply, it would hardly have been necessary to call upon France to display her whole strength in order to treat to advantage, or ex press his confidence that his subjects would not desire a peace by which their honour would be compromised. Where can be the fear of such a peace, if the terms offered are so good, that he professes his willingness to abide by diem ? How came it into his head to warn the French against "recognizing the law: which Engldnd has for four centuries in vain attempted to impose on them." We fear there is little of the spirit and less of the substance of peace here, than some persons, deceived by their wishes, fancy they can see. But now let us examine these words again, and see if they will bear another interpretation ? " Des negociations oni etc entamies avec les puissances coalistes. J'ai aecepte les bases pirliminaires qu'elles ont presentas." Now qu'elles (they) which has been generally understood to refer to, puissances coalistes, may without straining the sense be referred to nego tiations, both antecedents being in French femi nine. Had he said, the dialed Sovereigns, this ambi guity would have been avoided. Supposing, now, (they) to refer to a:lodation:, the meaning would simply be, that the course of the negociatioas had presented a basis, or a basis had occurred in the negotiation, to which he adhered : from which it would not follow, that this basis was the sole work of the Allies, or even that it was approved by them. Vrc do not think a translator could be accused of having greatly erred, who might have translated the words in this sense. The translation that has been adopted is stiff, as is unavoidably the case when a translator is not exactly sure what the original really means to express ; he is fearful of being too explicit, and wishes to enable those Readers who understand French to presume what the original expressions were. Yesterday morning the LOAD CUANCELLOR had an audience of the PRINCE REar•.NT. ... ,' • • • . . , bitinght &mini I , la ifie 18t h Noirember, and Halifax to the td instant. The ftil. lowing are extiactsi ALBANY, , c General Wilkinson's army having been rein- forced, Colonel Scott's detachments left Grenadier Island on the 31st ult. and began its movement down St. Lawrence, passed Many miles below Kingston. It is now certain that Montreal is his object.' Getiscal, Hampton has ptobably effected his jttnction:" " Nov. 16.—0 n the Bth, the General wits it fla milton, where . the cavalry was sent over. General Hampton's division is again on its march for St, Lawrence. A. few days will settle the questions whether we pass the Christthas before. Quebec." " BOSTON, NUV€MBER 17. " Numerous letter; concur in the fact that the army of General Wilkinson had descended the Saint Lawtence sixty miles, and had passed Fort Prevost. On the British side, the force of that army is from six to ten thousand men. " The Burlington letters state, that much joy pre vailed on finding the long-lost Wilkinson—that he was pulling away at great speed for Montreal, and that a few days will do the business. It is stated that his loss in passing the Fort Prevost was only 2 kiilud and 3 wounded." We have received Jamaica Papers to the 24th of October, but they present little intelligence. From the Carthagena Gazette, of the 10th NOVETTI-: ber, quoted in a Kingston paper, we Pam that the Royalists in the Kingdom of Mexico had so fAr suc ceeded in crushing the disturband'es among the In dians, and opening the former intercourse tlaough the country, that 8,000,000 of dollar's had arrived in July at Vera Cruz from the interior. nom the Paper of the 7th of October, previous to the Ambuscade leaving Carthagena, marti.tl law was declared iu that city to be in force for four months, said to be for the purpose of disciplining the army to contend against the Royalists, but believed rather to be from the apprehension of a large force being likely to be sent from Old Spain, to put down the lusur. gents. General LABATEM, we understand by ac counts, has been arrested at Carthagena, and thrown into prison : it was discovered he had been conspiring against the Insurger.ts. Two Gottenburgh Mails arrived this morning, but they have brought us no news—indeed, we did not expect any from that garter. The Berlin Pars contain the Declaratinn of the Etscrot of Bitostx, on taking the field against BoNAPAnTE. He, too, talks of , g extirpating the Tyrant !" Success to his endeavours. The following letter from our Dover Correspondent furr.ishcs sorne interesting particulars recpecting the internal state of France. All is alarm and confusion in that unhappy country : “ DOVER, DECEMBER 28 se TWo seamen, who have been. confined in France since February, 1806, (nearly eight years), arrived here yesterday, having made their escape. They were imprisoned at the Citadel of Besanson—but the French dreading an attack from the Swiss, they were (to the number of 14,000 marched away, and every? exertion used to fortify the place :—upon arriving at Amiens, these two contrived to effect their escape tn. Dieppe, and stealing a boat from thence, got safe out of the harbour, and•were picked up by the LARK sloop, of this port : whilst passing through Lyons they saw some Spanish and English prisoners (late of his Majesty's 74th Highland Regiment) who in formed them the inhabitants of that city had heard of Lord WELLINGTON'S successes in the South of France.” Yesterday, about two o'clock, ViSCrtUDI CASTLE REAGH had an audience of the PRINCE REGENT, and laid before his Royal Highness the contents of the dispatches brought by the Messenger from the Earl of ABERDEEN, Sir C. STEWART, and the E.trl of CLANCARTY. The Noble Lord afterwards wenr to attend the Cabinet Council. About the same time the Russian . Ambassador, and Mr. H. PAGEL, act ing as the Dutch Ambassador, had audiences of his Royal Highness. Yesterday the Duke of CLARENCE visited the Praxes REGENT for somes time at Carlton House, upon the subject of the Royal Duke's mission to Holland. We understand that his Royal Highness goes expressly for the purpose of congratulating his Serene High. ness the PRINCE of ORANGE, upon the te-establi.h. ment of his power and authority. • A Military Band, consisting of juvenile performers of the three regiments, is formed, to accompany the next draft of the Guards to Holland. The whole of the First Regiment of Guards mounted yesterday on the Parade, in -Sr. Jame.'s Perk, to take their respective dutiis at the King's Palace, the Queees House, Whitehall, the Savoy, the British Museum, and the Bank. Saturday morning, about eight o'clock, Mr. Run , . the King's Messenger, who resides in Pimlice, was alarmed by something falling in his back yard, and on repairing to the spot was appalled at finding the body of his niece, a very amiable young woman, who acted as his house-keeper, lying in her night-clothes, with her skull beat in, by coming in contact with a window-till, and quite dead. How the dreadful event occurred is not known ; she had left a child, about five years old, in the bed she had just quitted, on the second floor s who was totally unconscious of the event. `. '~ .i . : , . MAMA • ARR. Out. •1111. DV S. Dublin - - 1 • Heligoland . 0 4 • Wm/F(6rd - 1 Gottenburgh • 0 Lessard Wands 0 0 Guernsey , Li a d*, 0 9 Jersey . - 0 GAI.LANT ACTION. Wier from Tenerife we have an account of the aitival there, on the 6th of November, of his feel's pickets Montague and Pelham, after a deep: rate action with an American 'Owner prriratiet of eight nines and one long gun on the bow, With tip. wards of 100 men, on the 2,1 November, off Wadeini, which island they bad left the preceding tenting The action commenced by the schooner running the Montague on board. This attempt wis Most g lantly and successfully resifted, but unfortunately with the loss of her brave Commander, Captain NOR: WAY. the Surgeon, and several of her crew. mkt ' conflict was of so warm a nature, that in ten minutes from its commencement the Montague wail corn. pletely disabled : it was then continued by the. Pel ham, (which vessel bad, from the situation of the Montague, been prevented firing into the Amcritan) for forty minutes, within pistol-shot, when the fire of the privateer totally ceased, and site made cff; this, ' though much crippled, her great superiority of sail ing enabled her to do, notwithstanding every effort of the Pelham for two hours to come up with her. The Montague had, in addition to her Commander and Surgeon, four men killed, and the Master ant nine men wourdei, the former severely. The Pet= ham, though n.uch cut up in her masts, sailt, and rigging, sustained no ot'h.r less than her Commgnder, Cap:ain r.evri-ly, and one man slightly wounded. The privateer is the Globe, of Baltimore. A letter from the Gland Canary Islands mentions her arrival in a most distressed state, with the lon of thirty-three killed and nineteen tvminded, besiJas sit who were taken prisoners on ho iNfing the Montague PORTSMMITH, DECEMBER at Arrived his Majesty's sh ip SrnossooLo from the Mediterranean, and it under quarantine; DaPPut gun-brig from the Westward, and is also under qua rantine ; SNASPsloop of war from a maize ; SAirACin and Stacy cutters from the Downs. Sailed the Vs -14:•RAI#1.1 man of war, Rear-Admiral DURHAM, for the Leeward Island statian; ZEPHYR sloop of war. with the Hawke, Elizabeth, Union, Sceptre, Sarre. gossa, Rebecca, and Elisabeth transports, for Jersey. Came up to S. ithead his Majesty's ship JNYINCIRLL, from the Mother-bank.—Wind Etsterty. ANOTHER LETTRo—mAtvt/tbATE. Arrived yesterday the Sir William l3ensley mam port, from Quebec ; left there on the 23d N ivembrr, it company of the George, of London, Carina Howl, lumber loaded. On the 2tiof December. id a- gale of wind in le, 45. long. 54. the George lost hrr rudder and sprung a leak, and. was abar.doned by the crevi, who were taken on board the Sir Wm. Bioslcy. On the 14th inst. fell in with an American corvette privateer, in lat. 48: long. 55. pierced for 20 guns, and engaged her 40 min. when she sheered off . On the 15th tell in with a ship, supposed to be the Dorset, from Quebec ; on the g2d. in lat. 49. 20. long. 8. fell in with an American privateer schooner. pierced for 20 guns, mounting 18—after one hoar and five minutes close action beat her of. It is sin gular, that in neither of the actions the Sir William Bensley bad, not any of:her crew, (consisting of the George's crew in addition to her own) killed or wounded, although there are several of the men with shots through their hats, trowsers, &c. DEAL, DECEMBER so. Sailed the Elphinstone, Neptune, and Scaleby Castle far the East Indies. Also sailed several other ships. Sailed his Majesty's ships PAcroLus, IlLou- LUS, GRIFFON, MERCURIUS. and BARBARA, 1.. r the Eastward ; and a Russian ship of the line for the Roompot. The PIGMY schooner has a signal for ''Portsmouth, ana %sill sail to-morrow. Came down from Stangate Creek the Windsor Castle packet, and sailed for Falmouth.—Wind N.W. WEYMOUTH, DECEMBER 25. The sloop Two Brothers, of Guernsey, Jenne BICIIARD master, from Fontarabia, in ballast, bound to Guernsey, was captured on the 22d of last month by the French schooner privateer la Junon, belong ing to St. Maloes, Captain JAQUE DEBON. On the 26th she also captured the Frig Fame, —, from Whitehaven. On the sth of this month, she cap- . tured the Liberty, Captain STOREY, from Cadiz, with a cargo of Spanish wool, bound to London; and on the following day she captured a Russian schooner, loaded with an assorted cargo, which schoo ner was given up to the English prisoners, and they `arrived safe on the Bth of this month at Castlehaven, in Ireland. I received the above information from Captain Blainsto, who also's:ales, that the Captain of the privateer behaved with the greatest kindness to his prisoners, and give him up his trunk, contain. ing upwards of 8310 in cash. The privateer mounted fourteen guns and eighty men, half Frenchmen and half Portuguese. CORN MARKET, MARK LANE, DEC 27. Having a short supply of Wheat this morning, that article mtt ready aide at an advance of from 2s. to 4s. per qr. Barley is also 36. p.r qr. dearer, there being but little at mark... Grey Pat are 21. per qr. lower. What few Bus Oats appealed, ob. tained ready sale at an advance o: Rs. per qr. but there is no amendment in the price of ordin'ry sorts. In White Peas, Beans, and other ankles, there is uo variation. lNiltsH. Wheat, Kant and Essex, 655. Grey, ditto, 445. 466. 80s. per quarter Small Beano, old, Lieu QM, orw, Dit'u, Suffolk, 634. 765. 445. 545. White Pear, 60i. 42t. boilers, Oats, Feed, 20s. 30s. 00a, 443. Cie. Ylyurt 55 1. 00s. per bash.