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- tering the room, which:they afterwards plundered of every thing 'n it, leaving me without a shirt. The same happened to the eon! tents of my sideboard, and . every thing that was worth taking in the corridor of the house. At daylight on the morning of the 21st, I presented myself at the yard window, told the troops I was an American. and desired to see the commanding officer. A soldier at that moment presented a musket to my breast, swore I was a Spaniard, and would certainly have discharged the contents, had not the Captain of the company, who was a short distance in his rear, run up and cut him down. I then immediately opened my doors, and the Captain eliprested much regret at what had hap pened. General &. Anna has promised me,personally, indemnity for the property I lost. The firing continued until half past ten o'clock in the morning, when the Spaniards hoisted a white flag, which was immediately answered by the Mexicans. During the treaty for capitulation, an officer rode up, and stated that General Barradas had returned from Altantira with all his troops, and was at that moment enter ing the town. This news of course changed the tide of affairs, and it was agreed on between Barradas and St. Anna, that the former should have Tampico, and the latter retire to Pueblo Viejo. The number of Spaniards in Tampico during the action was about 370 to 400; they Dad two gun-beats in the river, each with an Is pounder, and three pieces of artillery in the cross streets. The fire from the gun-boats, with canister, swept the streets running to the river. " The Mexican force consisted of about 850 men, three-lout ths of whom were militia, and without artillery. On our house and in the yard there were eleven killed. and five or six wounded. On the 23d, General St. Anna wrote to the American, British, and French Consuls, informing them that he gave the citizens of their nations six days to remove their property and effects up the river to a place of security, as after that period he would commence hos- Mlle,. The British Consul was the only one who answered Sr. Anna's letter. We availed ourselves of this communication, and have removed all oar valuable property up the river to a place of security. On the 22d, Gen. Barradas sent for mg and demanded from me a sum of money, which, he said, 1 had taken from the house of Mr. —, and that if I did not immediately deliver it up be would have me shot. I replied that I had not a dollar be longing to Mr. ; on the contrary, that Gentleman owed me 6,000 dollars, and that the night previous to his departure he had paid me on account 2,736 dollars, which I could prove to his satis faction, by my books, which were rectified by the authorities of the place, and that I would not give up my property. Upon this he got into a violent rage, ordered his officer to call four soldiers out, and have me shot immediately. I then told hinhthat I was a melee American citizen, that my conduct and respectability could be attested by every one in the place, and, as such, be dared not shoot me : upon which the Intendant who was with him gave me two severe blows over the head with a cane, and then attempted to run me through the body; I however, retreated out of his reach. and immediately afterwards was escorted to my house by a file of soldiers—my shoulders covered with blood. " On the Gannet' a returning to my house, and on insisting on my delivering up the money. I told him I would not do so until I had his order in writing, stating, that he took it from me by force. Previous to receiving it, I sat down and wrote a letter to our Vice Consul, stating all the circumstances in detail, and requesting he would write an official letter to the General, demanding satisfac tion for the blows that had been inflicted on my person, and stating, that if he took my money, the American Government would hold him responsible for his proceedings. This was not attended to. On the 23d, at dusk, the United States ship Hornet, Capt. Norris, anchored off the Bar :on the 24th he sent his bo at, with Ueut. Smith, to town. I immediately explained to this officer the man ner in which I was treated, and laid before him a copy of my letter to the Consul. He then advised me to go off with him, and write a letter to Capt. Norris,requesting him to demand of Gen. Barradas the restoration of my property, which I accordingly did, enclosing a copy of my letter to the Consul. On the 25th, Capt. Norris wrote an official letter to General Barradas, expressing his surprise at the violence that had been offered to the person of an American citizen, and the seizure of his money, and demanding that it should be immediately restored. This letter had the desired effect, and the money was restored and an apology offered !" Eruct from snottier letter : We base no doubt that Sundae must soon surrender, and tb.a tranquillity will be restored. The Mexican force now in the old town, and on the road to Altamira, is computed at not less than 10,000 men, which are daily and hourly increasing by the people from the interior flocking to join them, all inspired with the utmost hatred of the invaders, every one of whom will leave his bones here." In addition to the above, it is stated that those on hoard the shipping on the 31st, learned that Barradas had gone with a flag of trace to see Santa Anna. There was much sickness at Tam pico; upwards of 700 of the troops were down in the fever. FRENCH P4PERS. Front the Messager des Chambres.—Second Edition. FRONTIERS OF WALLACHIA, Ocr. 5. military movement has yet taken place, but it is affirmed that the corps of Copnt Pahlen will occupy Wallachia, and that of General Kisselew, Moldavia. The Commissariat at Bucharest is already taking the necessary steps ro provide for its subsistence. According to information communicated to the Divan, a corps of reserve of 4,000 men will arrive here from Russia by way of Riminick by the 13th of October. The continual passage of mili tary stores proves that Russia is using all its efforts to secure for a long time the possession of the principalities. The Russian en gineers have been employed for some days in collecting statistical information respecting the inhabitants and their property. • • We are still uncertain with regard to all future relations sill the Porte ; but it is affirmed that the Divan of Wallachia has had a secret correspondence on the subject with General Diebitsch. According to accounts from Krajosva, a handful of Tarks bad committed all kinds of excesses, and pillaged between Widdin and Orsova, notwithstanding the publication of the treaty of peace. • The cases of plague become less and lets frequent in our part of the country, but it it said that the disorder still rages at Krajowa. From the Florence Gazette. LEG HORN. OCT. 6. According to le from Egina of the 20th, and from Navarin of the 26th September, it seems that Count Capo d'lstrias intends to convoke a new National Assembly, in consequence of the treaty of peace. Meantime he canoes the operations to be continued against the fortresses on the continent of Greece, which are still in the hands of the Turks. Admiral Miaulis is now blockading Prevesa with the Hellas frigate, while Admiral Sachtury, with six men of war, blockades the Gulf of &lonia'. Count Au gustin Capo d'lstrias has left Missolongbi with a body of troops intending to. advance against Athens. Prince Demetrius, with another corps,is going to Etthes and a third is marching to Epirus. According to letters from Code, Epirus is in a most melancholy situation. The greatest anarchy every where prevails. Eight thousand Albanians support the I'acba against the Sultan : and, as they have not received any pay • for several months, the inhabi tants, both Christians and Mahometims, are subject to all kinds of extortion. From the Gazette de France. PARIS, OCT. 30. Their Sicilian Majesties arrived at Turin on the nd of October. The King of Sardinia went a stage to meet them, and brought them directly to his country seat at Agile. The' Grand Duchess of Hesse Darmstadt died on the 24th inst. at the Castle of Auerbach. The health of this Princess had long been in a precarious state, but it was not supposed that she was so near her end. From the Allgemeine Zeitung, Oct. VUTIII.II, OCT. 22 7 BletkikpleS.lo2l; Bank Shares, 1,234. ' • 'Pamir Five per Cents, 108 f. 25c. 20c. 13e. 2Se. 1 des. Sic. Three per Cents, 82f. 75c. SOc. Sic. gag. Bank Actions, 1,865 f. Forman Fnttns. . Neapolitan Rentes Cert. Faic. 91f. 10e.. Sc. 9l f. 90f. 90c. 90f. 80c. 90e. Spanish Rentes loyal Spanish Rentes, 4. Interminable Span. Annuities, =life. Hayden Lagar 350 f. . • Excuanox on Lennox. One month, 25f. 65c.—Three months, 25f. 50e. The accounts from Liverpool this morning state, that another week of extensive business has taken place in the cotton market. and the sales during these last five weeks have been IQ3-200 bags ; the import this week is only 1832 bags, but the sales are 19-250 bags. The sugar sales of this week are 840 hhds. at about the former rates. Nothing_ has been done in Foreign. The accounts from Manchester this day state that the blanket trade, when compared with its stats for three months past, may now be called brisk, and the looms much better employed. The quantity of goods sold in Huddersfield market on, Tuesday last yes larger than usual, but.wages have not improve& At Haliflx market • on Saturday the piantity of pods sof& was greater than, sty previous market-day during these six months pail. • • THE EVENING STAR. i r • " S-FVCATOS C-14' L()N DON. 'OVEMBER 3. AT TWO O'CLOCK. India Bonds 61 3 South Sea Stock Old Annuities' £lOOO Exch. Bills (2d.) 74 5 £5OO Ditto 74 5 £lOO and £9OO Ditto 74 5 Commercial, Bank for Acct. C 0,.. far Do. 91 FORRIG \ FONDS, TWO OCl.tot K. TUESDAY, N PRICK OF STOCKS Bank Stock 2151 14 5 per Cent. Red. 90g I g 5 per Ct. Cons. 91 901 M per Ct. 1918, 991 51 per Cent. Red. 981 4 prr Ct. 100 1 i 4 pr 4,:e..111116, 105 4; Long A nu. 19 13-16ths 11-16 the India Stock 20 Brazil Boacis,s pr Ct. 8.51 I Do. Acct. 654 I) okli lids. Zp. Ct. Ditto 100, 211 Mexican Bd.. 5 per Cent. 17 Do. Bda 1825 6 pr Ct. 21* i _ . . Ditto Acct. 721 Ditto Acct. 21 § Greek Bonds, 5 p Ct. Peruv. BdA. 8 p C. IS§ 14 Do Bds, 1825, 5 p Ct. 201 20 § Rue. Bds. 1822, 5 p Ct. 1041 4 1 BRITISH AND FOREIGN SNARES, TWO tl•rt..ii.K. lONA lii lain. !ii OUSE. Brasilia , Imp. (is& 45 pm.) 35 20 Do. National 25 10 14} i Real del Monte 400 400 80 PROPRIETARY BOROUGHS. We publish in another column a letter on the subject of Lord GROSVENOR'S conduct, in the management of his proprietary boroughs: it bears the signature of A MEMBER OF TILE LATE WIIIG CLUB, and we have rea son to know that it emanates from high authority. It is, indeed, precisely because of this ascertained emanation, that we are induced to reconsider some of our past epi thets, as applied to the political character of that Noble Earl. We should be sorry to wrong the Noble Borough monger : we should regret, deeply, to do him one hour's injustice. But let him not feel offended that we designate him by that descriptive term, to which in his own conscience he cannot refuse to answer, constitutionally opprobrious though it be. After the receipt of the letter which' we now make public, we will no longer press the appellative of his class against the noble Earl, as branding him with any per sonal shame : he shall stand clear before us throughout the ensuing argument—nay, honoured foi his considerate exercise of a corrupt preponderance—but we can never consent to criminate ourselves, by mis-describing him. The noble Earl, then—without disparagement to his public virtue, let it be repeated—tho noble Earl is an in- fluential, overwhelming boroughmonger. He holds in his hands a power which the Constitution ignores, even supposing that he does not work it against the Consti tution : but it ought not to be at the mercy of indi vidual arbitrament, to wield—or forbear from wielding— engines of such corrupting influence. So jealous are the old laws in this regard, that they hold it to be a high misdemeanour in a PEER, to be found even interfering in popular elections: and justly so, since—if they were pitted to dictate to the people what members they bald return to Parliament—the third estate of the realm would suffer a virtual abrogation, and be swal lowed up in the whirlpool of the second : or, ra ther, to speak more to the point, the counterpoise to the aristocratic power being taken away, the monarchy would be left defenceless to its encroachments, and the aristocracy become sole supreme. This is the light in which to view the mischief resulting from pro prietary boroughs : by this process, the triple fence of our old institutions has been overthrown, and bills and charters have been made a mockery. The Government of England, which—according to the Constitution— ought to be administered by three equiponderant estates, by these degenerate practices has become essentially oligarchal, and is verging rapidly to unmitigated des potism. Like tabes, or phthisis, in the body physical, so the borough system corrodes our political vitals ; and constitutional deatfi—if we do not execind . the rottenness —is imminent as inevitable. The Noble Earl must. forgive us for this digression. His perspicacious mind did not require such a picture as ti 3 fore pin; to be held up, to capacit It I him for comprehending all the depravity of which he himself is one of the centrel buttresses. But the people cannot. be too much familiarised with these ratiocination and deductions, which will enable them to understand the seat of the malady, and guide the application—for, to be effectual, it must clearly proceed from them— of the remedy by which alone it can be arrested. A more forcible appeal, or a plainer illustration to their capacities than the letter of our Chester corres pondent, cannot be well imagined. We mistake—he says—the place for which Mr. EDWARD DAVEN PORT sits: it is not for the county of Chester, but for Shaftesbury—" a borough under the influence of Lord GROSVENOR !" This is plain speaking at all events; there is no attempt to mince matters here—no phraseolo gical mystification of a fact, to announce which is to proclaim that the Constitution is defeasant. EDWARD DAVIES DAVENPORT does not, then, represent the electors of Shaftesbury in the House of Commons, but the interests of the Earl of Gaosveson. And what interests has the Earl of GaosvENOR there? None, constitutionally: but the territorial predominance of the Noble Oligarch has made him stronger than the Constitution in his precincts, and in his magnificence he nominates Members to REPRESENT ins PROPERTY, and vote as he pleases upon the laws which are to regulate its possession. By this means, any great borough-proprietor—whether Noble or Com moner—exercises an ascendency over the Minister for the time being, more or less controlling, according to the number of votes which he can marshal on a division of the House: while, all Members—except those for great cities, like London and Westminster, or great places like Liverpool and Southwark—.who sit in Par liament as ostensibly returned by boroughs, do in point of fat represent the PATRONS only, but not the popukt •R gjea Of than pseudo-constituent electorates. ••.: • ,-..v.••• • From this imperfect and hasty outline of the borough system, it may be inferred without any extraordinary sa gacity, with what a wide extended and irresistible activity the proprietary principle works, to degenerate our an cestral forms. Human nature cannot produce the purity, which is proof against such a power of deprava tion. Shall not, then, the pernicious system be exscinded at the roots ? Now, while the State-vessel yet maintains a difficult and precarious buoyancy—and the growing storm has not yet rendered our life-boats un manageable—shall we suffer her to go down before our eyes, overwhelmed by the waters of corruption? It cannot be. The people's wrongs have roused them at last from their dangerous torpor, and they are awakening just in time to parry off the crowning calamity. With the eulogy of Lord GROS V ENO a—as it respects the noble Earl's forbearance of an unconstitutional privi- loge—we do not quarrel : far from it, we wish that other proprietors, while the system is permitted to endure, would take a hint from his generous and high-spirited xample. For generous and high-spirited it is—beyond all question, or possibility of cavil—for any BOROUG lI MONO ER, possessed of such amazing preponderance, to leave his nominees " free as the air they breathe, to fol low their own views of their duty." In our inference, that Mr. DAVENPORT knew beforehand what would be the tone and topics of his noble patron's speech—lrak ! pudor, that we should be forced on the phraseology— it appears by our correspondent's letter that we may be mis taken. Let it be so. In either alternative, it can not affect the exalted purity and patriotism of Mr. DA VIES DAV EXPORT; who affords thus—in his own person—an honourable and splendid illustration of the self-denial and public virtue of the Noble Earl. It is not, however, against LOId GROS V EN OR, that any of the fore going remarks have been directed—but against the prin ciple of that oligarchal influence which it is unconstitu tional for him to possess—which he possesses, only by corruption—and which, though he forbears to do so, it is in his power and at his discretion, to turn to the destruction of the State. It is a poor argument in favour of unjust authority, to say that it is vested in a man who will not abuse it to injustice : yet it was on this ground that Mr. Houtoust —only in the last session—had the effrontery to vindicate the borough system.— No ; while it lasts, and men can discern—like Lord GROSVENOR—the redeeming qualities which we look up to in the Member for Shaftesbuiy, these are God sends, and we receive them with gratitude : but not for ten DAVIES DAVENPORTS—and we are not aware of a purer patriot than he—would we compromise with the principles of Corruption. In giving the narrative relating the horrible treatment experienced by the Spanish Patriots who took refuge in Portugal, from the agents of the usurper, we reminded the country that it was chiefly owing to the influence cf England that the Spanish Constitution had been esta blished ; and that those who suffered persecution for their support of it, were entitled to the strongest sympathy on our part. Having followed up this assertion-with an ap peal to the Noble DUKE, which we thought calculated to excite some attention, it is with extreme regret we have heard it hinted that there is nothing to hope from the sympathy of his Grace. This circumstance renders it imperative on us to recur to the subject, and in doing so, we trust that our efforts may not be altogether ineffectual. The following facts will enable the public to judge of the real situation of those unfortunate men who have been forced to throw themselves on the humanity of England. There are at this moment nearly eight hundred exiles, besides an indefinite number of women and children, scattered over the United Kingdom. Of these, two-thirds consist of Priests, Deputies of Cortes, Civilians, and Military Officers. The re mainder are composed of soldiers. Whatever may have been the allowance hitherto afforded, we are enabled to state that the funds arising from the general subscription are now almost exhausted ; and that there are several individuals, of high rank, living with their families in the immediate vicinity of the Metropolis, on pittances which do not amount to one pound per week. Many others for whom no allow ance has been fixed, depend for the support of their mere existence, on the scanty means which their more fortunate companions in exile are enabled to afford. With respect to the committee of Spanish officers lately formed to su perintend the distribution of the money subscribed for the refugees recently arrived from Lisbon, it is called upon to provide for ninety-nine persons--whose mere subsistence leads to an expence of £3B a week. The prospect of these may be conceived, when we state that the whole of the funds remaining in the hands of the committee, does not exceed 2001. Here it should be remarked, that in a climate at all times so different from their own, aggravated by an• approaching winter, the whole of the Lisbon exiles are totally destitute of warm clothing. It is almost needless to say, that scarcely one of them is provided with a bed. Under all these circumstances, we again put it to the Government, whether some energetic step ought not to be taken, in order to obtain an uncondi tional amnesty as well as a guarantee from the Cabinet of Madrid, that the promises held cut may be faithfully observed. In the mean time, is it not incumbent on us to prevent these victims of their princi ples from perishing in the streets ? We think there can be but one opinion on the subject. It has been most impudently stated in a Sunday Journal devoted to M. ZED BERMUDEZ, that those Patriots who apply at the Spanish Embassy may obtain passports. We admit that a certain class of the exiles can ; but we ask whether they can do so with out a base abandonment of those principles which in duced them to emigrate? Such, indeed, are the degrading conditions now proposed, that we are sure the patriots would rather perish in a foreign land than subscribe to them; and we honor these men for their firmness. It was asserted by the psaegyrists of ZEA BERMUDEZ tha Senor LA GAsca, a distinguished membtr of the Cortes ► has been allowed to return to Spain. We are confidently informed there is not a word of truth in this statement. Nothing in fact will be done, unless the subject is more warmly taken up by Ministers. In every case the benevolent and humane of all parties, have a sacred duty to perform. Let us hope they will on this occasion bear in mind the great maxim of Christianity. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Si R,—ln your article on the Cheshire Whig Club there are some mistakes. First you suppose that Mr. EDWARD DAVENPORT is Member for Cheshire, whereas that Gentleman is son of the Member for that county, and is himself a Member for Shaftesbury, a bo rough under the influence of Lord Gaost . No it. And now a word concerning this noble person, whose eu logy I need not undertake, inasmuch as the public must by this time be competent judges whether his Parliamen tary life has been favourable or adverse to public justice, and the rights of his countrymen ; and if they resolve the question in his favour they will not hastily put an unfavourable construc tion, either on his words or presumed intentions. But there is one fact of which the public are not aware, namely—that the persons he brings into Parliament, are .not bound to coincide in all political questions with himself. They are as free as the air they breathe, to follow their own views of their duty. To his Lord ship's honour be it said, he binds them under no condi tions, and calls on them for none of those periodical categories which disgrace many of the place hunting patrons of the day. Hence the inference that Mr. D. knew what his Lordship's speech would be, (a speech which entered on many topics in which they notoriously agree) is wholly assumed, as well as any par ticular application of the word " apathy," a complaint unfortunatelybut too general.—Accordingly,Sir,you will find among the persons returned to Parliament by Lord G. every shade of what are called liberal opinions ; but you will not find lawyers or trading politicians of any sort. Whatever else they may be, they are at least all persons who can afford to live and vote without the aid of the public money. Your candour will, I am sure, insert this front Your obedient servant, A MEMBER OF THE LATE WHIG CLUB. 1 5 ,8,—1 understand the suppreadoss of Mr. EDW. Duvrosoui's Letter was entirely accidental, being a mere oversight of the CHALIPALM'S amid the hurry of other badness. The Austrian Observer to the 23d ult. is received this day ; and contains the subjoined jesuitical notice on the subject of the peace in the East of Europe VIENNA, Ocr. U. The peace between Russia and the Porte is concluded and rati fied by both parties. The end of the war in the East forms an im portant epoch in the history of the times. The impres.ion which the termination► of this war has made on the several parties who have the direction of public opinion is not only decisive with respect to the character of those parties, but af ford the surest standard for their future efforts. By those who re spect the maintenance of public tranquillity, harmony between States, and the regular progress of general prosperity, a. the greatest blessings of society ; the Governments which do not for sake their most sacred duties and their true interests; the majority of enlightened citizens, the great mass of the people, the news of the peace was received with the same sensations of joy that it has excited in us. Very different was its effect on those who see in public tranquillity only t►e stagnation of their extravagant hopes in the satisfaction of their few citizens, a censure of their violent complaints; and in the contests between that Powers, the most favourable opportunity to advance their ambi tious wishes and their extravagant plans. • The adherents of this party, which has its chief seat in France its friends all over Europe have latterly expressed their principles and views in so clear and open a manner, that we do them no wrong if we. characterise them as the declared enemies of peace. They have left no stone unturned in order, by hypo critical arguments. by declamatory arts, by a skilful use of the noblest as well as the most criminal passions, to prolong the dif ferences in the East ; and, In direst contradiction to the declared sentiments of the Russian Monarch, to connect with the issue of this war an endless series of new revolutions and new wars. Some time', under the pretext of promoting the civilization of the world, at the expense of right and justice, and with the destruction of whole Nations and Empires; sometimes as the open panegyrists of the system of conquest, armed with the enticing words, " Na &mai honour,' and " National boundaries," they have with remarkable effrontery furmed plans, the object of which was nothing less than the dissolution of all raining Trestles. an extensive partition of territory, and the arming of one half of Europe against the other. Their orators and writers have been indefatigable in sowing, by the most wicked fal.ehoods—the most obvious insults—the seeds of distrust, jealousy, and discord, between the Sovereigns; and if their art and their power bad not been more circumscribed than their will, would willingly have spread over the best part of Europe the flame, which was burnt in far too nar row a sphere for their wishes. t We could not be unprepared to expect that a party animated by such sentiments would receive with bitter dissatisfaction the news of the cessation of hostilities, and that it would endeavour to sweeten the loud expressions of this discontent by confident announcements of new feuds and new revolutions. As little are we surprised, that when thesis'', torrent of their accusations and abuse is poured forth upon all (Melva Governments as well as their's, Austria is always In the first line. The calm attitude of this Court, from which it has never deviated during the whole course of the war—the con mistral tendency of its policy to maintain peace and social order— its remoteness from all plans of aggrandisement—irs conscientious respect for all existing treaties—for the independence of all States —all lawful Constitutions—all just liberties, are unpardonable crimes in the eyes of a faction thirsting for confusion and revo lution. The organs of that faction will find even in the remarks which we here make, matter enough for insidious inter pretation. We must allow them this as the vital principle of their system. Their future diatribes will only tam as the past have done, as confirmations of the truth which we have here expressed. t That what we here say is free from all exaggeration, we could prove by innumerable articles from the Journals published within the last twelve months. The well-known pamphlet of General Richemont was but the concentrated echo of those articles...-. Itistriats Oisatar, Oct. 23. Lisbou Guzettcs to the 17th October are just come to hand—by which we see the probability of the Usurper being rtcogoind by his bigotted neighbour of Spain : LISBON, Cler. 14.—(Orraciax.) The Conde da Swim, in a dispatch to the Minister for Fo reign Main, dated Madrid, the Bth Inst. states that the 11th was fixed by his Catholic Majesty for Mat to deliver to his Majesty at the Escurial, his credentials as Envoy Extraordinary and Mater Plerdpotentiari from his Most Faithful Majesty, oar Sovereign.— On the same day (the 11th) the arms of Portugal were fixed over the pte of the hotel of his Majesty's Legation at Madrid. OCT. 15..--Yerwri, at cue o'clock,- the Chevalier Acosta e Montalegre s at as fir* the Palace of .Quelus, delivered to Ids Ma' ,la tbe mid fir* Ms orideutials as Envoy Extraordi nary and Mitiesr PleMpearodary from his Most Catholic Majesty to his Most Faithful Majesty, our Soverelgo.—Liem Gams to Oct. 1714 iseciosim