Star. — London, England, 1813-12-13 00:00:00

- . . on real Prim ch karts; that it would awake two). lections dangerous to you—recollectiens of liberty and glory." On the charge of libellist, applied .to the Crown Prince, by Donaparte or his scribe s our author ob serves as follows: o The Imperial Gazette-writer, or the Journalist- Emperor, affirms, with unequalled impudence, that the Prince Royal of Sweden for souse time past has subscribed with his name, writings which deserve to be characterised as libels, and that he employs merce nary authors for their. production. The Prince Royal, however, has no oCcason to borrow the pen of any man : he knows how to wield the pen as well as the swot d ; and with both he has directed destructive blows against you. " Since Sweden entered the coalition, only a small lium'ber of documents on the general affairs of Europe have appeared with the signature of the Prince R o y a l. The two letters to the Emperor Napoleon, inserted in the Report of the Minister for. Foreign 4f fair:, on the relations between Sweden and France ; the ProclaMation to the Swedish army which defends the frontiers ; that to the Combined Army of the North of Ger many,* thatio the Saxons ; together with the let ter to the Emperor Napoleon, of the 2sd of March, 1813, are, I believe, the only writings authentically published underthe'name of his Royal Highness. 4. Instead of vague abuse, why don't you reprint them. to the Manifests., accompanied with notes, to persuade your. readers that they are really libels You dare not ! There is, especially, in the letter of !the 23d _of March, wherewithal to dispel all the im postures with which Bonaparte is surrounded. That document forms an epoch in the annals of diplomacy. IC is replete with great truths, delivered in a grand Viand majestic mariner." ' 6 It is useless here to remind the reader of all the libels which Bonaparte has written, or caused to be written, against the Sqvereigns of Europe. They are deposited in, the, geeiteur and the other Parisian Journals; for, ge nobody in France dares now-a-days deliver an independent . opinion on public affairs, we may be sure that very thing of this sort, hazarded by these journals,'is diCtated by the Government— and the Government is. Bonaparte.. It is notorious, that not only as Consul, but as Emperor, he has kept Barrere' in pay—his old friend, and the orator of Res hespierte—as the writer of his newspaper articles and political' pamphlets." Speaking of the discourses, the manifestoes, and the bulletins of Bonaparte, it is justly 'observed, " l his man is consummate in hypocrisy, while net the slave of his passions. There is no name, however sacred, beginning with those of GOD amid of PROVIDINC4 which he has not profaned, for the premotion of his sinister ends ; no noble sentiment to which he has not appealed ; no hope dux to humanity, with which he has not sported.* In the course of his observations on the career of the Crown Prince, during the French revolution, and after Bonaparte had assumed the supreme power, the author relates the following anecdote : The Crown Prince, then General Bernadotte, did not act against the usurper, but he did not conceal his sentiments.— Bonaparte feared him, and neglected no means of disarming his opposition, and of preventing the true friends of thew country trom rallying around, him.— During one of those ceremonies which Bonaparte stitoted, to habituate the French to the return of monarchical forms, he observed with satisfaction to General Bernadotte,- 4-Every thing reverts into the old order of things,'• cYes, Citizen Consul,' replied the latter,• 4 every thing does revert; nothing is want ing theretabut a million of Frenchmen, who perished for the cause of liberty"' Bernadotte, like other French Generals, was deco rated With •titles under the new regime, and on this topic, we extract the tollowing . ncute remark 4 , Amidst this new formation of elevated ranks, those which were appropriated to victorious captains were almost those exclusively which had - within them a principle of reality. In almost all Couniriesit was the brilliance of martial exploits whfch founded the first nobility. The French Generals were rewarded for having served France ; others were so for having become the docile instruments of the schemes of Bo naparte." After passing a high encomium on the disinteres tedness, the urbanity, and moderation displayed by the Crown Prince, during the campaigns of a twenty years' war, which had generally assumed the charac ter of a gloomy violence, the author proceeds,, as folio ws : " You make A merit of not having retained the rrince Royal in France, when he was invited to the 1 succession to the Swedish throne. No doubt, after Laving usurped the sole disposal of the existence of io man.y . millions of Frenchmen, whom you permit 3:either to think, act, write, speak, nor even breathe freely, you might as well extend your claims thus far also : alter other unheard-of vielences, you might have practised this too. Why, then, don't you also boast of not having caused the Prince Royal to be assassinated at the moment of his departure ? We know you wished to cause the destruction of Moreau, I .)tit that you dared not. Perhaps, also, on second thoughts, you deemed it less dangerous to have an :antagovist without, than to raise up one within 'France, or to . push a man of energy to extremities." ,•• 13ut what indiscreet& of hypocrisy was it which induced:you to reproach the Prince Royal for having adapted the religion established in Sweden for three' centuries past? Truly, the zealous Catholic most feel highly edified ! • The reproach well becomes you,. mouth, who were a renegado in Egypt; the im postor who wished to pass for a prophet of Mahomet —the same man who, returned to France, affected great zeal tor the re-establishment of Catholicism— teho engaged the Soverei g n Pontiff, by the hope of restorieg peace to the Church, to sanction by his be nedictions your elevation to the throne ; who, in re turn, despoiled the venerable old man of all his States, dragged him into captivity, where he still groans; who were excommunicated, and are so still, !Or the new concordat which you have dared to pub lish is only a new imposture. Bonaparte has, in turn, flattered Mahometans, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, even Philosophers, by proclaiming universal tole rance ; he has deceived them all ; and- whatever be t!.e religious opinions of men, they must all agree in abhorring one with whom religion has never been any thing else but the mask of hypocrisy, and the engine of his infernal policy. 6' The reproach of having robbed France of Gua daloupe does not affect the Prince Royal alone, but - the whole Swedish Government. It is hitt, that ac cording to the old law of nations established in En. rope, a conquered province was never disposed of to a third power, until ceded by the original possessors, at the conclusion of a .psace. Bet Bonaparte has trodden under foot that venerable code: he has incor porated with France a number of Provinces that never were ceded by their legitimate'Sovereigns; the king. .clom of Westphalia was put 'together in a similar way. His own proper acts have therefore rendered void his reclamadons, and England has exercised only very moderate reprisals. Sweden, on the other hand, was entitled to seize this opportunity of reta liating on Bonaparte ; he had invaded Pomerania ; Sweden took possession of Guadeloupe. And if at a general peace that power should ever consent to restore Guadeloupe, in consideration of an equivalent, this would always be a service done to France in con cert with the English Government. " By accepting Guadeloupe, SWeden wished to prove to the world that she was not afraid of Bona parte. She early foresaw the fall of his colossal but factitious power. Besides, what is Guadeloupe, when compared with so many other important colonies which France has lost since the rupture of the peace of Amiens ? It was Bonaparte alone who brought this loss upon himself by his senseless obstinacy in making war on Great Britain. No enlightened Frenchman is ignorant, that the only hope which re mains to France of recovering her colonies, is founded on the return of her Government to principles of equity and moderation in Europe—to principles which the usurper Bonaparte will never sincerely acknow ledge." After thus tracing the views, the character, and the policy of the Crown Prince, the author concludes with the following portrait of Bonaparte : "Vain, then, is your attempt to render the Crown Prince odious in the eyes of the French, who can no longer mistake the true author of their calamities, nor the object which alone deserves their hatred. It is the man who has accumulated on their guiltless heads the hatred and the vengeance of nations. Who could sketch, without some omission, the long career of crimes by which he arrived at, and has mtio tained himself in power ? Bonaparte, born in Cor sica, was educated in a military school in France, by the beneficence of the unfortunate Louis XVI. ; he issued from it, to become a furious jacobin : his first attempt to make himself notorious was a pam phlet in the most revolutionary strain, called le Sayer de Avignon ; after the 9th Thermidor, lie was marked, arrested, and deprived of his rank, as an agent of Robespierre's : he flattered aad betrayed all tht factions in turn, till he became their master; he defiled the streets of Paris with the blood'of citi. v i ins who claimed a constitutional right; he sacrificed a fine army to his chimerical projects in Egypt there he massacred his Turkish prisoners, poisoned, his own sick, and deserted his army at the most et id cal moment : returned to Europe, he attempted, at the head of his satellites, to dissolve the National Representation ; and was at the point of failing in his enterprise, had he not been saved by his brother's pre , sence of mind : arrived at power, he caused Picbe gru to be strangled in a dungeon, by his Mamelucs ; he proscribed Moreau ; he kidnapped the descendant of the greatConde, on a hospitable. territory, and drag , ged him to punishment; the reign of terror was re stored in France ; instead of one Bastile which the French had demolished, he erected eight ; all the dungeons were filled with state-prisoners: suspicious as Tiberius, and cruel as Nero, lie established in France a system of universal espionnage, which absorbs one half of the activity of all the public functionaries; every liberal idea was proscribed, every independent voice was smothered ; the silence of death hovered, and still hovers over that country, inhabited by one of the most enlightened and ingenious nations of Europe: flattery alone is heard, and by a monstrous scaffol ding of lies it endeavours to conceal such a multipli city of horrors. His system of internal government has ruined the prosperity of France ; his conduct in foreign relations forms only a tissue of Machiavelian perfidies. " In the wars which his wild ambition has kindled for the last ten years, all those veterans, the old de fenders of their country, have perished in succession; the youth of France, torn from their peaceful occu pations, has been thinned, without pity ! If the glit ter of 'victories gained by French valour was for some years able to produce illusion, that illusion is now de stroyed. Bonaparte, by abusing fortune, has at last tired her out ; he now experiences reverses alone, and his success was his only'met it. He has not one faith ul ally : all of them aspire to shake off the yoke of vassalage, which imperious circumstances imposed, and which he decorated with the name of alliance. He has still satellites, whom fear for their own safety attaches to his 'person : he has not one friend in the whole world. " The moment approaches, when this man, who so long wound his way in darkness to a height at which he seemed to tread under foot the human race, is about to re-enter his original nothing. It is in vain that he would confound his name and interests with those of France: he has nothing in common with her: it is only his usurpation and tyranny which have hitherto connected the fate of France with his. The Allies have loudly declared, that they do not make war upon the French nation, but upon Bonaparte alone. Amidst se many millions of men whom he calls his subjects, the tyrant is insulated ; a general amnesty is proclaimed for all those wt.o have served him, provided they relinquish his party, and act against him: he alone is proclaimed an outlaw against humanity. • Never did a mere august Senate preside over the destinies of Europe than that which the Allied Sove reigns form at this day. Can it be supposed that the 'Prince Royal of Sweden would not raise his voice in that Senate, in favour of his country, were the dis memberment or subjugation of France even hinted at ? But France may obtain the most honourable peace, the moment she chooses to set limits to her despot's abuse of power. • The Allies wish only to re-establish the tran quillity and independence of the civilised world. The Prince Royal of Sweden cherishes the remembrance of France ; he ceases not to pray for her happiness. It is Bonaparte who has neither French blood, nor a French heart. After the manner of the ancient knights, the Prince Royal has nobly thrown down to him his glove : let his adversary take it up if he dare; let him come and terminate this great contest in single combat : the event would not be doubtful— VethinEs t the, Mice literal a Sweden advance within the lists, with that serene front, that air so open and nob* which recalls the image of the Bay. ards and the Do Gorse:ins, against his adversary, bloated with pride, but loaded with cruses, and hi s forehead a l rea d y rrowed with 'the thunderbolts of celestial wrath. Methinks I see the shades of heroic Kings of Sweden appear in the clouds, to be witnesses of this )u o f if Coos—methinks I see Gustavus Adolphus dart a look of indignation at him who profaned the name of the battle of Lateen, by saying that it had been fought a second time by him for the liberty of Germany. Nations, the spectators, would applaud with enthusiasm, the generous enterprise of their defender ; they would presage to him the vic tory : the monster would be thrown-to the earth, and the world would resound with shouts of gladness." THE EVENING STAIC LONDON. MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1813. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY 'T *WELVE O'CLOCK• Reduced 60 1 —Cons. shut—for aec. 620 4 per Ct. 76—Navy shut—Bank Long Anns. 141 13-16ths New Onm.9,ii pr —Bones, par lad's.—Etch. Bin s 3 6 , 5 6 prc. The details in the Gazette of Saturday, relative to the operations of the Austrian and English forces in the Adriatic, u ill be rend with high interest. The whole of the littorale—the ancient possessions of the House Of Austria in Italy, hav,e now reverted to the rightful owners—and, as we foresaw from the French statements—BEaunatiNots has been defeated at all 'points. There is something peculiarly magnanimous in the avowal of the Austrian General NLGUNT, that it was to the co-operation of the British force under Admiral FREENANTLE, he was almost entirely in. debted for the success with which his exertio were crowned. The circumstance of the prisoners taken from the enemy exceeding in numbers the troops op. posed to them, speaks most forcibly fi r the disposi tion of the Italian troops towards their French masters. They must, in fact, have laid down their arms, on all occasions. Frankfort Papers to the 2d inst. have been received since Saturday. They announce the determination of the Allies to attach the Swiss to the grand Conti nental league. In the event of the Cantons perse vering in their armed neutrality, or in other words, in their alliance with BoNarmtne, a large Alliei army will enter Switzerland, for the purpose of trying of what metal their neutrality is composed. It is probable, however, that, like others among the Allies, the Swiss only wait for the appeirance of a hostile force on their frontiers, as an excuse for making common. cause.- The German , inhabitants of France receive the Allied armies with open arms. Nothing, in short, can be more gratifying to every honest heart, than the spirit with which the Allied cause is every where supported by the inhabitants of every country sub jected to the sway of BONAPARTE. Yesterday the Princess CHARLOTTE attended Di vine Service at the Chapel Royal, St. James's Pa lace, accompanied by the Duchess of LEEDS and Miss KNIGHT. The Eatl Of LIVERPOOL and a nu merous assemblage of Nobility were also present. The sermon was preached by Mr. MADAN. The an them was, " the Lord is Wing," composed by Dr. ARNOLD, and sung by Messrs. NIELD, KNYVETT, and CLARKE. Saturday morning the Duke of YORK, after trans acting military business at York House, took a ride to Windsor, to pay his weekly visit to the QUEEN I and his Royal Sisters, and afterwards went to Oat lands to dine with the DccHEss. Saturday morning the Hereditary Prince of ORANGE was introduced to the PIUNCE REGFNT on his arrival in England, and had a long interview with his Royal Highness. Yesterday he dined with the PRINCE REGENT ; there w.is a select party to meet him. • The Marquis of HUNTLEY was married on Satur day last, at Bath, to Miss &tom, only daughter of ALEXANDER BRODIE, Esq. of Arn Hall, N. B. ROYAL HUNT.—The hounds threw off the first time since the alteration of the hunt, with the acces sion of new hounds, at Maidenhead thicket, on Friday. The stag was taken after a brisk run of two hours, near Cranbourne. The new hounds have fulfilled the expectation of the field of sportsmen, under the management of Mr. SHARP, the huntsman, and are considered a staunch pack. The hunt will assemble on Monday, at Salt Hill, and on Friday at Ascot race ground, at ten o'clock. The Commons met on Saturday : but there being only S 3 Members present, the SPEAKER adjourned the House till this day. Ministers, with a laudable desire to return the compliment to the PRINCE ROYAL, for the attention he has paid to his Majesty's Electoral Dominions in Germany, have intimated to Marquis WELLINGTON a wish that a marked protection should be afforded to the town of Pau, the birthplace of his Royal High ness, should the British troops approach that favour ed part of the French territory. A letter from San Jean de Luz, dated Nov. 29, says, " The head quarters of the army are established here. The only place on the left bank of the Nive, in the possession of the enemy, is St. Jean Pie de Port, where they have about five hundred men. Many of the French inhabitants have continued in San Jean de Luz, notwithstanding positive orders from their Government to quit it ; and they have treated us not as foes, but as friends. We have plenty of provisions. The rains, until within these four or five days, have been incessant, and the country on the shore of the Adour is wholly under water ;—so that whatever may have been the intention of the Commander in Chief, as to a further progress into France, it cannot for the present be fulfilled. The Army of Gallicia, which has been so long in movement, has arrived at I Medina del Pomar on the Ebro, and some strong de tachments from the Spanish forces, ban been sent in the dictation of Catalonia.". nvrnmOiliczo MAILS. *U. Oug. AIM Dili. 1 2 Heliglielandi . 0 Gottenburgls - 0 1 O 1 Guerasey - 1 0 O 0 Jersey - 1 0 - 0 1 Hullsnd 0 0 EXPEDITION TO HOLLAND. " DEAL. DECEMBER lg Sailed yesterday the PIGMY cutter, with dis. patches for Admiral Yourro. Dubin . . Waterford . Cadiz • Lisbon . Coruna& " The troops were all safely embarked yesterd iy on board the men of war by the Deal boatmen. Sir Tidost‘s GRAHAM and Staff tmbArted this morning on board his Majesty's ship this-sta. Several Offi cers of the Commissary Department and Medical Gentlemen also embarked, and the whole of the 44th Regiment on board of different men of war, and will sail immediately for Holland. ' Sailed today, the RINALDO sleop of war, with a convoy of transports with troops, stores, and baggage, for Holland." FALMOUTH, DECEMBER 10. Arrived several ships from the Eastward. Sailed the Chichester Packet, with a Mail for Gibraltar and Malta.--Wind E. P.S. Since writing the above, a brig with a qua rantine flag flying has arrived, but cannot learn her name. PLYMOUTH. DECEMBER Arrived his Majesty's ship Ontos, 74, from Ports. mouth ; Pad the IlaucoN sloop of war, from FA. mouth.--Wind PORTSMOUTH, DECEMBER is. Arrived yesterday twe Russian men of war, from the Downs; and to-day his Majesty's ship Harm- Bm., from of Cherhurgh. Came into harbour the M•2rcurius, from Cadiz, retaken by his Majesty's ship SIIARPaIIOOFER. Sailed his Majesty's ship Dumcars, with transports, having strong detachments for the army in Catalonia, Sicily, and the Adriatic on board, and convoy for the Mediterranean.; anti the Fma, 22 guns, for Guernsey.--Wind E. . The hopes entertained for the final recovery of the ship Queen Charlotte, and cargo, as mentioned in a former Paper, have unfortunately vanished ; the gale on Friday nig:.l. accompanied by an excessive swell of the t.d.:, destroyed'what the extreme labours of the • two frigates had accompl'shed in a week. The decks . having started, she remains a perfect wrfck,with the cargo constantly floating from the hold. SCILLY, DECEMBER 7. During the last week, there has been a great malty casks of butter picked up Boating about these Wands, . marked A F S—Colk," and different other marks. • • The Mary, WHITE, from Liverpool to Limetick, has been taken off Tory Island by the True-blorded Yankee American privateer. She burnt die Britan nia, from Liverpool to Westport; a brig belonging to Cumberland, laden with timber, and several other vessels in Lochitidalil. The Triton, .131u.nrcip, from London to Lisbon, has been found at sea in a leaky state, and without any person on board, by die SCYLLA sloop of war, and carried into Scilly. The Pieter, EDWARDS, from Portsmouth to Teigu mouth, is on shore near Teignmouth. The CIIEERLY gun-brig arrived on Monday in Leith Roads, from Longhope, after seeing her con voy safe there. The Hawke cartel sailed for Morlaix on Wednes day, from Portsmouth, with sixty infitm French offi cers, from Alresford, who have been released. The Little Catherine packet, from Passages (not the Vittoria privateer, of Guernsey, as stated on Wed. nesday) was taken 24th ult. by two French frigates : she was found at sea by the HOTSPUR frigate, and carried into Penzance. Monday, a farmer, near Bell's Hill, Glasgow, on returning from the market of Shotts, was knocked from his horse, and robbed of £6O. Some Buenos Ayres Gazettes have been received to the end of August, by which we learn &hitt the contest between the Parent State and the Insurgents is yet undecided, that its continuance was attended with all the calamitial incident to war, and it is said that more than 7000 persons, chiefly of the peasantry, had perished from want and misery since the com mencement of the siege of Monte Video. • By advices from Surat, we learn, that on the 27th of December the Neerbudda, swelled by conti nual rains duiing the three preceding days, overfl 'wed its banks, and swept away forty-two villages. Many thousand men, women, and children, lost their lives by this calamitous event, which has deprived the sur. vivors of shelter, food, and raiment. A collection is making here for their relief. It is the intention of Government to improve the copper currency of the country, by calling in the old Tower halfpence, suppressing the tokens, and issuing copper money of more intrinsic value. CORN EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, DEC. 18. We bad a good supply of Wheat from Kent an 4 Essex this day, and early in the morning flee rune sold readily at a advance of full 10s. per quarter upon the prices of la.,t Monday, but the sale became heavy'towards noon, and the morning's pricer were not attainable by 9.1. and 81. per quarter. Barley is exceedingly dull sale, and 6s. per quarter lower. Beans and Oats are *4 dearer. In Peu and other articles there is no alteration. aNcritsu. Wheat, Kent and Essex, 68s. Grey, ditto, 465. 50s. 84s. per quarter Small Beans, old, 00s. 00s. new i , Ditto, Suffolk, 645. 83s. 465. 58s. Ditto, Norfolk, 60i. 741. Tick Ditto, old, 00s. 00s. am Rye 56.. 42a. 40$. 545. Barley 861. 425. Oats, Potatoe 328. 36‘ 00s. _ _ Malt, 701.845. Ditto, Poland, 481. 3 4 25. 004, White Peas,—s. boilers, Oats, Feed, 401.305. 00a. 645. 681. Flour, 558 60s. per kg. tom. Rye 40s. 42 1 . Barley, 40.. 441. Oats. Feel, 241. 541. White Peas, 60d. 701. Grq ditto, 601. 555. Wheat, Motels, 70e. a4s. MAO, Baltic Red, acs. 74,. Ditto, Fituabro' or Bremen, 646. 741. UM) Inkalg &W U% 741.