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c r eenblish to Niagara. Twenty-four holm is tke eme calculate to be take ,p in transmitting dis patchesft-m i'e post .to he other, the distance o shove 323 miles. General Dearborn's last dispatches fnr General Van Rensselaer were sent by this ine. iIITRACT TO TILE EDITORS OF THE BALTIMORE WHIO, DA TED X VtV ORLEANS, SEPT 14. ,‘ We have received intelligence that St. Antonia, in New Mexico, has: been taken by Colonel Manchi sco. Salado. Governor General of the Interior Pro vinces, has 1) , en taken in that.town. Colonel M'Cree took Nacadi.ches on the 12th of August, and I sup pose is now with Nianchiaco, at St. Antonia, or per haps fArther en. A great many people are leaving t his State and the Mississipplterritory to join the patriots, whose righteous cause will most certainly prevail. When the United States brig Syren left La Vera Cruz, that city was still blockaded by the Mexican republic.ms, a prt)of that all communication was cut off between the city of Mexico and the sea." KINGSTON, JAMAICA, OCT. 17. %a During the greater part of Monday, there was a Considerable fall of rain, with a heavy swell from the southward, and strong indications of an approaching storm. Between the hours of sit and seven of that , evening, the wind began to blow with great violence, and about midnight had increased to a perfect hurri. cane, the sea being at the same time dreadfully agi wed, passing over the different wharfs, and sweeping every thing in its overwhelming course. The wea ther continued in this boisterous state until eight O'clock next morning, when the fury of the wind cons!derably abated, and copious torrents of rain fell daring the remainder of that day: Many out-houses, fences, &c. were blown down in this city on Monday bight, great damage done to many of the wharfs, and many vessels in the harbour stink, bilged, and driven ashore: few of them, indeed, escaped without da. mage. On Tuesday evening the weather again be came boisterous, and the wind blew violently during •Y, that night. Oa Wednesday, about noon; it ceased ; ' and there were only few light showers during the • latter part of that day. ', The wharfs which have suffered are those of Messrs. /1-loseason, Banks, and Co. ; Mr. John Jones, Messrs. Purcell and Pacifico, Mr. John Scott, Mr. William Cleland, Messrs. Inglis, Mills, and Co. and Messrs. Janres Dick and Alex. Evans. The hulks of Messrs. Crawford and M'Lean, Mr. Nicholas Uter, Mr. Francis Carrera, and Mr. Thomas Farmer, also re ceived considerable injury. Two houses and several fences were blown, down in the town of Port Royal during the gale, and the =sea ran so high as to carry away all the turtle-crawls, about 80 turtles escaped. The road between Spanish Town and this city was •. impagable until yesterday, Ore water having risen to the height of four feet. On Wednesday a horse, be longing to Mr. William Gyles, attorney at law, was drowned in it, his servant having attempted to drive throu:;h it. The Rio Cubre was so much swollen, that the water.reached the top of the arch of the iron I bridge; being four feet higher than it has ever been known to rise. The Meemmer-bridge turnpike carriage road in St. Andrew's, has also sustained great injury, nearly from '350 to 200 feet of it, near the Hope-guttering, having ;been completely swept away from the foundation, so • that it has become totally impassable even for pas. sengers on horseback, who are now under the neces sity of making use of the old road. Letters from different parts of the St. Andrew's, Port Royal, and St. David's mountains, give deplor able accounts of the effects of the storm in those dis „ rticts ; the negro habitations on many plantations baying been entirely blown down, plantain-walks every where destroyed, great qua,n,ities of toffee trees torn out by the roots, and many fruit and other treess' 3 1, 0 Mingo down; TM EVENING STAR. LONDON. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26. ST. SrmagN.—Hortdai at the Stock Exchange. We this day continue our extracts from the Cor respondence of the Negociations between Great Bri tain and America. We regret to say that, on the part of the Americans, it exhibits a tissue of shirking, shitting, and quibbling which we are ashamed to wit ness in persons speaking the same language, and pass ing themszßes off to the world as the descenclaats of Englishmen. Even an unequivocal acquiescence bythe British Government in their impudent demands on the subject of impressment, would not satisfy them, for our Readers will perceive, from the American dispatches, that there is a claim lurking for compen sation to those who have suffered under our Orders in Council ! After this, who can believe that the Americans are sincere in their desire for peace on an equitable, and of course a solid basis ? We yesterday pointed out the monstrous absurdity of the exemptions claimed for American Citizens, in the affair of impressment—not a word of native born Americans. The good old axiotn of the Civilians, Mono potest exuere patriam, is to give way to the new maritime Ccde Napolecn, and the decoyed seamen of Great Britain, with a piece of dirty paper in their pockets, called a Certificate of Citizenship, are to set the laws 'of nations and of their country at complete defiance. We cannot offer a better supplement to out comments, than by repeating the dignified reply of herd CASTLEREAGH to Mr. RUSSELL, on the sub. ject of the impressment of British seamen from Ames rican vessels : 1 cani.ot, however, refrain, on one single pc:tit, front et pressing my surprise—namely, that as a condition, preliminary "en to a suspension of hostilities, the Government of the United States should have thought fit to demand; that the British Go. /ro.aeut should desist from its ancient and accustomed practice el ;fly:Twang BritiNh seamen from the merchant ships of a foreign State, simply on the assurance that alaw shall hereafter be passed, to p• ohibit the employment of British seamen, in the public or imaimercial service of that State. Ibe British Govetnnient now, u heretofore, is ready to eceive from the Coverntnent of the United States, and amicably o &els. arty pr. posivon which rofesses t have i t view ei her o (*se a'ruse in exercis._ of the practice o impressment, or to accomplA, by m. ans less liable to vexation, the object for which impressment has hi, erto been foua necessary ; but they canno consent to suspend the exercise of a right upon which the naval , strength of the empire mainly depends, until they are fully con vinced that means can be devised, and will he adopted, by which the object to be obtained bythe exercise of that right can be ef fectually secured." A Malta Mail arrived this morning, but, with the exception of the subjoined, it furnishes us with little or no intelli g ence of importance. " MALTA, NOV. 18. 'Mc polacca Eliza, commanded by Capt,iin Stccoli, laden with merchandize, from Malta direct for Constantinople, was attacked off Candia by a French privateer; though the latter was of superior force, the polacca did not decline the combat, but, after engaging her for several hours, and making a most honourable resistance, was obliged to sur render. fg The merchants of Malta; sensible of tht brilliant though unsuccessful defence made by Capt. Siccoli and his crew, made a subscription to reward the valour of both. In that subscription the British Company contributed 1000 crowns, the Anglo-Mal tese Company .500, the Company of Insurance of Malta 400, the Company of the Union 250, the Company Vilh4iosa 200, the Company Singlea 200. The whole subscription amounted to '2550 crowns, which were distributed in the following man ner :—To ten mariners of the crew 90 crowns each ; to three mariners wounded, 150 crowns each ; io the family of Nostrocomo, who was killed in the action; 270 ; to the ec , nicl Captain, Giacomo Tabeno, who was wounded, 550 ; to Captain Angelo Siccoli, 500, and a sword of the value of 80 crowns, and accom panied by a coMplimentu: y letter to Captain Angelo Siccoli." by I 1 kce TRADE WITH FRANCE. The return of EONAP.4KTE to Pails will necessarily be followed by an immense influx of vessels from France, %with licences to trade with this country. ucb of th Parisians as have openly expressed their dis appointment will be carried off by x mock conspiracy, while the discontents of the French merchants will be softened by a copious issue of Licences. Against thus permitting the enemy to draw his resources for further mischief from this country, our G.)vernment cannot be sufficiently on their guard, and in illustra tion of the policy proper to be adopted, we recom mend an attentive consideration of the judicious ob servations in the subjoined letter of a most intelligent British Merchant : TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. " Leith, December 19, 11412. St—Permit me, through the medium of your Paper, to call the publie attention to the great exp,r tation of Bullion from this country to France and her dependencies. It will be said that this arises from cur imports exceeding our exports, but it will be re collected how particularly careful the Board of Trade were wLen the arrangements were making for the last licences, to prevent this, that in an intercourse with an enemy, it should not be on a principle de cidedly advantageous for them. Within these few days are the following exportations from the Port of London : Dtc. stA—For Ostend—B. Dnrans,l, 10,000 oz. silver cain. 7th—For Havre—J. Currie, di 1 oz. silver coin. 14th—For Amsterdam—W. S q'tory, 129 oz. bar gold. 15th—For ditto-1 Clark,7oooz. gold, I 500 oz.silver coin . —For ditto—G. Rahn, 1000 oz. silver, and 1000 oz. gold coin. —Fer Havre—Le Cointe and Co. 15,000 oz. silver. •-• —For ditto—B. Durand, vO,OOO oz. silver coin, and 61 CO oz. gold coin. Being in eleven days upwards of sixty thousand ounces of gold and silver coin. In the commence. ment of all BONAPARTE'S late wars his practice has been, previous to setting out for the army, to sign a number of Licentes ; the money arising from the sale of these, is one of the means for filling the mili tary chest. We have reason to anticipate, from his present difficulties, that abundance of licences will be in the hands of the merchants ; it becomes the duty of this-country to prevent his deriving the farther advantage of draining Great Britain of gold. 64 Our importations from France consist chiefly of prunes, bugle, perfumery, and ostrich feathers. What silk we receive is proving very injurious to our im portations from onr Indian Settlements. To coun terbalance the advantage derived front these articles . of most prime necessity, we furnish our arch enemy with the means of carrying on the war. We increase the deficiency of our tit culating medium, and the specie necessary for the army abroad costs the cowl.' try a most extravagant price, beside a very great dif ficulty in procuring a necessary supply.. Other ar guments might be urged againsi the present inter course with France, but from these very prominent ones, I think it will be the general opinion, that ii our imports ate to be paid for chiefly in gold, the trade should be abandoned. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, 64 WILLIAM THOIMURN." PONTEFRACT ELtc-rroN.—This Election came on on Tuesday last, and ended on Wednesday, when the numbers were, for Lord Pollington. 356. lE. L. Hodgson, Esq. M. T. H. Hodron, Esq. T. Lord POLLIVGTON was chaired accordingly. AWYAL MTV-LICENCE.. We -yesterday mentioned the report of the capture of the MACEDONIAN frigate ; but we stated our doubts of its authenticity. The Port Letters received this morning enable us to state, most unequivocally, that the report is totally void of foundaticu. FALMOUTH, DECEMBER.e9. Sailed his Majesty's ships At onomicettE and RE• . VENCE; with the Lisbon and Mediterranean convoy ; and the Francis Freeling packet, for Bermuda.— Arrived the John o' Gaunt, Ann, Dorothea, and Roxbnrgh Castle, from the West Indies—parted from his Majesty's ships RINGDOVE and FavouttiTE? on the 6th instant, in lat. 49. SO. long. 9. 4:3 sail then in company ; a brig from Trinidad, one of the convoy, foundered at sea—cannot learn her name, or the name of her Commander.—Wind N.E. PLYMOUTH, DECEMBER 2s. Arrived List night the SHA RPsHOOTER, of 14. guns, from the Jersey station. 'llw LANDRAIL, of 16 guns, which arrived last night, chaced (in company with the Bomar), when off Havre, a large French frigate, which came out of that port. The LANDRAIL and BORER being soon after joined by the ALBICORE and HELICON sloops of war, the enemy was chaced a con siderable time, but ultimately get clear off. The LANDRAIL led the chace, and received several shots. The enemy was a very large frigate, having 16 guns on her quarter deck, and could not carry less than 50 guns. She is supposed to have reached L'Orient.— Arrived also two tine American brigs, prizes to the A NDROMACIIE, Captain TOBIN, and BiteroN frigate. The ANDROMACHE sent in two prizes last Saturday. Also arrived the Ann tender from Bristol, with vo lunteers and impressed men for the fleet ; the PER seus, 32 guns, a newly launched frigate, from Ring mote ; Dispatch, Dock-yard naval transport, with stores for the Dock-yard ; FANCY cutter, froM St. Ardero, with an American schooner, her prize. DECEMBER 24.—Arrived his Majesty's ship NOR THUMBERLAND, 74 guns, from the IVestward. Ac counts are stated to have been received at this port, by one of the King's small schooners, that, about five drys since, a French frigate, supposed to have sail !ed from Havre de Grace, with stores and artificers ! for A merica, was fallen in with, close to the Lfzard, by the Aesicoae and tieticore sloops of war and a gun-brig. The latter, being a faster sailer than the frigate, had frequent opportunities of pouring , in broadsides into the stern, the frigate not choosing to heave-to to engage, but crowding sail before the wind to escape. Arrived the Margaret, SPITTAL, fr. ni Tobago—left the We,t Indies, 6th November,. with a fleet of about 30 sail, under cor.voy of the R NG. nova, from whom she parted in tremenduous weather, and it is supposed the whole fleet must have been dis• peesed. After the Margaret parted, she fell in with a French corvette, in about lat. 51. 10. N. long. 10. 11. ; the ci , rvette, however, was not able to board her, on account of a very high sea: His Majesty's ship KENT, 74 guns, from the Mediterranean, which ar rived here List night, picked up at sea, ab, ut 9 days since, the. English brig Three Friends, SAMUEL WHI• LEY master, from Messina for London : she had been plundered, it is supposed, by a French privateer, that had captured, and afterwards abandoned her—she is laden with fruit : only a dog was found on board her. Sixteen sail of the Nit diierranean convoy, under his Majesty's ship KENT, arrived with that ship last night. —Arrived late last evening the KENT, of 74 guns, from the Mediteranean, with a convoy ; BORER, 16 guns, frcm the coast of France. . The BORER was one of the vessels engaged with the. French frigate that escaped out of Hav re. There is reason to think, from the course this Itigate steered, that she is not gone into Cher burgh-,—she is stated to be a ramarkably large vessel. The LANDRAIL had her gaff shot away in the pursuit, gallantly keeping very close to the enemy dur ing the cliace, the shot flying over the LANDRAIL every ni , went. The NORTHUMBERLAND, Captain Ho- THAM, has had very arduous duty during the tithe she has been absent from Plymouth, having been almost constantly cruizing. The PICKLE, of 14 guns, is coming in, I believe from Cadiz, and has just hoisted the quarantine flag. Sailed at night the Sm.+ eestroocea, of 14 guns. Tile REVOLUTIONAIII, of 38 puns, went from Hamoaze to the Sound : this large frigate has been fitted for the American station. Ihe ItEliqreeii, IS 4uns, came horn the Sound to S:on..hanse Pool. here are a great many vessels detawed in the Western Port?, from the prevalence of Easterly winds. POKTIMOUTH, DECEMBER 25. Anived his Majesty's ship ItiNcoovz from the West Indies, and the WoLvEntNE from the Medi. tetitnean ; also the Thomas and Judith, POUNDS, from London ; and Prudent, GEORGE, from Water ft.rd. The TonTotsc store.sLip was released this morning from quarantine.—Wind N.N.E. DEAL, DECEMBER 25. Sailed his Majesty's ;hips CLARENCE, CORNWALL, a:id DUNCAN, on a cruize to the Westward. YARMOUTH, DECEMBER 25. This morning arrived the NIGHTINGALE sloop of war; hut the bad-weather flag being up, we cannot learn from whence, or what news she brings. &lied the BEAVER, Captain DRURY, on a cruize. The BREVDAGERIN takes the trade for Heligoland as soon as the wind permits.—ReMain the SOLE AY, Suc- CESS, LEVERET, VIXEN, CHANTICLEER.—Wind E. EPIGRAM. To hide the truth—to broach a lie, Is the best trade—'tis cltar ; How high the price of infamy ? Three hundred pound, a-Dear! tONAPARtt confesses, that his 4s sacred guard," as he impiously calls it, never loa right of him, till he ran away from thrm ! Bonaparte's boast of the triumphant victories of his army in Russia is now miserably reversed ; tar, instead of its being " covered with glorj," it is evi dently covered with snow. The Duke of VICENZA little dreamed, six month: ago, that he was destined so soon to travel on a sleuit He may possibly yet be drawn on a hurdle 1 By the escape of the Duke of VICENZA, Min PLA TOWS marriage is off, awl, we presinne, ?fwith her own COMICAL. THE ARMY. The Ad+ itant-General and Quarter-Mater-Gene. ral of Ireland have been placed on the Staff of that country, as Major-Generals, and will be entitled to the pay and allowances accordingly. COURTS MARTIAL. At a Court. Martial held at Lisbon, on the 9th of September, 1813, Lieutenant Willi in M•Veagh of the 77th regiment of foot, was arraigned upon the under-ruenttoned charges, viz. : For behaviour unbecoming an Odicer and a Gen. tlernan, and . highly subversive of good order and mi litary discipline, in the several instances set forth in the following charges, viz. le. unofficerlike conduct in absentin7 himself from his quJrie:i without leave, %%lien in the Surgeon's Report, from tke to the 7th of July, 1312. 2d. For disobedience of oilers in not returning to his quar ters from ihn rt!, to the of July, although positively ut dared to si , t so by hls Commandirg Officer in a letter dared the 2 Lth or the saote munch. 3d. Fur unofffi.:?, and ungentlernanlike conduct, in drawing rations of lodge fora hone. between the 9th and 11th days of June last, and also between the Bth and 29tb days of July follow.. ing. although he, Lieuternmt MTragh, had not one in his pos seasion, thi:reby defrauding the public of the rations of forage as afuiesaid. itti. For unofficerillre conduct in wri irt two letters of a dis respectful tendency of and to his Conimantli• g Officer, the one dated li-bcn, 27th of July, and the other dated Passe d'Areos, let of Augu►S, i sth. For unofficerlilite and ungenriethanlike conduct, in de manding a bed, w which he was not entitled by the regal, ions of the Commander of the Forces, between the hours of nine and twelve o'clock by night of Wednesday, the 29th of July, 1812, and for tifin g violence by drawing his sword, and thereby terri tying Senora Margaritta De Como Correlo into a compliance with his demands. Ist Additional Clia!ge— For breaking his arrest on or about tht Bth of August, 1812, 2d Additional Charge,-- For unofficer-bke and ungenAmanlike conduct in preferring charges, dated Lisbon, 9 h tat Asyusr, against his co nimand officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Bromhead, through the irregular channel of the Major-General commanding in the first instance, being itibter•ive of good crder and military discipline, after char g e:, had been de:ivered to hi.a, . Lieutenant Ist`Veagh, by the Adjutant of the Regiment on the day preceding, and aftea having aatutiOy Seen untie: arrest. Upon tt'hich charges the Ci;art decided, " that the prisoner was guilty of the whole of the charges pre ferred against him, and therefore sentenced him to be dismissed his Majesty's service, and rendered in capable of ever serving his Majesty again." At a Court-wrtial held at Palermo, in Sicily, bci the 25th of August, 1812, Lieutenant 111.1 N GOFF, of the 21st Regiment of Foot, was arraigned upon the under-mentioned cliarges, viz. lit. For highly imaiborihnate conduct in using provoking lan guage to me, his Curnmat:hin g Officer, in the public streets tl Palermo, on or about the 9th day of Jule last, stating as hie motive, my having reproved him in my offieial capacity, for an irregularity on the 4th of June, 1812. , 2a. For contempt of the Irt Article, 12th section, of the Ar ticles of War, in -tating his bi..ing ag g rieved by me, his Com manding Officer, to his Ltcebeacy the Commander of the Forces, without my kn wled g e. ad. For .haubedience of my special order, in absenting himself from the evenin g parade uf the r at of August, 1812. 4th. For repeated neglect ditty, and a direct violation of the Regimental Ord, rs of the 10'it of May, 1812. sth. For speaking of me, his Commanding Officer, In a dis respeclui and contemptuous. manner to different Officers of the Reement ; all tending to the prejudice of good order and mai tary discipline. . ALES. James Ross, Major, commanding 2ist Regiment, R.S.F. which charges the Court decided, that the pr:soncr was guilt,' of the first and second charges preferred against him. With respect to the third Charge, dial he was not &illy. In regard to the fourth and filth charges, that he was Olt?. The first, second, fourth and fifth charges upon which the prisoner has been found guilty, being a breach of the be A cashiered. Of war, ale Court doth adjudge, that he shall At Court Martial held at Fuente del Maistro, in Spain, on the 15th of August, 1812, C.tpt. J. FOAM. cis L'EsTRANGE, of the Ist battalion Si foot, was arraigned upon the undermentioned charges, viz. For nonduct highly unbecoming the character of an Officer and a Gentleman, and rendin g , in the most ditect manner, to soli vest g ood order, due subordination, and military disciphoa, to the fodosving Instances, viz. ts. Ist. For repeated and obstinate disobedience of orders, h written and verbal, in persisting to come repeatedly to parade, dressed unlike an officer it various periods, between the 27. Febreary and the 17th May, tSi it, in open delta eof h s Royal Rghness the Prince Rigent's regulatiooelr-spe rin g dies., as well as of regimental orders, issued to enforce o's . 1 tie thereto. 2d. For obsttnately disobeying his Comm t ding Officer's or ders, on parade, at Villa Franca, in Spain, o . r about the morn ing of th e 17th of May, 1812; in refuse 0 qui , he pantie and go home to his quarters, when requee . d and desired to do' so by the Commanding Officer in pers.nt, in consequenc.: of his havit.g again come to parade ineisrupefrl, drcrzed as an officer, and thereby setting a determined e zsni le of iosubotaination to the whole corps. 3d. For making use of diresrettful, vislsit, and threaterd o i laugisage to his Commanding °dim, purporting to give him a challenge, in presence of several officers and soldiers of the re giment, on or near the parade as Villa Franca, in s,,aitt, In or about the morning of the 17th May, 1812. 4th. For disobeffience of written Orders issued by desire of the Officer commanding the beigade, In ape:earing at the bead of his company under arms, without his sword, at different times be tween the 20th of January and the 17th ot May, 1812. sth. For frequently abim-ing himself from parades of the reo giment without leave, and for continuing to persist in a practice so contrar) to good order and Military discipline, from the pe riod of his joining the Ist Jbattalion, about the middle of October in 1811, to the 17th of May, 1812, after repeated officidi com munication had been made to hint to forbid the continuance of the habit. 6th. Tor general neglcct of duty as Captain of a Company, In not attending to its interior economy and good order, as it was his duty to do according to the established rigulation. of the service. 7th. For general irregularity of condtict,tending to disturb the peace and harmony of his brotherOffietrsiand highly sebverute of good order and military discipline. The Court was of opinion, that ort" the lst,2d,4thi sth, and 6th articles of charge, the prisoner is gniity. On the third article of the charge, the Court was of opinion that the prisoner was in part guilty, inasmuch as, of having ciade use of disrespectful and violent language to his Commanding Officei ; but acquitted .him of baiting used threatening language, or such as was purporting to give him• (his said Commanding Officer) a challenge. On the 7th charge,- the Court found the prisoner not guilty : but having' found him guilty of the extent, as above specified, on the respective articles of charge, the Court sentenced him to be cashiered. Friday se'nnight, about five o'clock, as Mr. ben jamin Robins, of Kinfare, was returning home from 3tourbridge market, he was shot, and severely woun led in the back, by a well dressed mane and after.: wards robbed of biz money and watch. i