Star. — London, England, 1813-01-15 00:00:00

, NOTICE. - l i-li m E er, P ,b u e b i l o i l c i a i r n e r B c ol at I N TI N e o d T E fr s o o m f thttaiiking of BALL, m pg! Pi NI, and DOYNF, of Dublin, for £lOO each, which were robbed frcan a vrenn in that City an the 13th September. -UMI' ;last, •:z:--Nos. 6, SA, 62, 63, 66, 67, 70, n, 82, 122, 145,1 410siatildateti th e 9, hianuvy, 1812. 1.....---AL____ FRENCH PAPERS. The Movitenr, of the 9:11 inst. tontains the follow oc,ties on a private letter, stated to have been re. fepred from Paris, which appeared in an English paper: EmousH PATia.—" The Emperor continues to be indisposed: : i !: has not, on that account, ceased to employ himself in state : Note jst in the Moniteur.—" Neither.withltunting Ahree times a week ; marching three leagues on foot, amidst frpst and snow : but there is ao person at Pa iris who does not know that the Emperor enjoys very tood health. It is evident that this was manufactured OR London." E. 1014311 PA PLIll•-•-" His conferences with his Ministers, but articutatly with the Austrian Ambassador, are very frequent." Note 2.—" Observe, there is not at Paris either an Austrian Ambassador or Minister." ENGLISH PA re a.—'s There is much speculation here reipec tins neguciations for a General Peace." Note 3.-0 If you wish to know the conditions of ft—read the Duke of Bassano's letter to Lord Cas tlereagh:" LAYBACH, DEC. 24. • The trade of Castanezza every day assumes more cm& `vity,-.and the new route which the foresight of the ntperor has opened to commerce, already offers the realest advantages. Eighteen thousand bales of cot yton were at one time collected together in Castanezza R during the month o: October last ; it was impossible ' i ta? warehouse•them all—it was requisite to place part of them in tote sq - a les which had been prepared, till 'the pr( jected Mitichouses should have been finished. This has been a very rainy season; the Unna having Semi der4 hip su alien, the island of the Lazaret was Inundated. The merchandize cgmained in the ware houses received no injury ; but the bales of cotton placed in the squares have been covered with water. However, the damage has been less than was at first !eat eil. CONSTANTINOPLE, NOVEMBER ,24. ImiThe Ministers of the Porte, during the last fort ght, have had meetings extraordinarily frequent ; sometimes at the house of the Mufti, sometimes at the house of the .Caimacan, to deliberate upon till et widen i f the empire. Hitherto nothing has trans pired to the public respecting these deliberations; it ss, however, presumed, that these conferences have bad for their principal object the affairs of Servia and Widd,in, as Hell as the troubles of the Government lof Bagdad, where Abdurabman Pacha, who has lately been driven from Kurdistan, has, in concert Sy ith - the Persians, renewed hostilities. The Grand libeler, to judge by what had passed, does not intend uickly to quit Schumla. It is true, that it would be difficult for him to quit the capital before the ne gociations with the Servians are terminated, and der and tranquillity restored, in some way or other, - the neighbourhood of Widdin— The same Pi:per, after statin& the death of the rinse Demetrius Morouse and his younger brother, nd the reasons which led to their execution, as for limerly given in the English Newspapers, adds • 14 * Besides, they were the cause of the impolitic alli. 'ante of the Porte with Russia—of the articles of the treaty relative to Wallachia and Moldavia—of the peace concluded with England at the Dardanelles. 'They made numerous attempts to induce the Porte o iv c a o:c a Ve ny a s t o ri p p p l o e se a d lli t a h n e ce a m z t a h in e s h t e l.; g ra y nce i t b l u va t s th a e s recoMperice for these maneuvres, that Demetrius as to have reigned in Thrace, upon raising 20,000 'raillery troops to the triple coalition. This Deme rius received a cultivated education ; he was magni cent, licentious in his pleasures, ambitious in the ighest degree, and greedy of glory." v THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 18)3. We are still without any arrivals from Gotten - urgh ; but,throngh the kindness of a friend who ;It St. Petersburgh at the date of the last dipatches, We bave been made acquainted with some circum t mces connected with the struggle now making by he Russians, which we communicate with infinite )leasure. Lieutenant-Colonel RAPATEL, Aide-de-Camp to he celebrated General MOREAU, had arrived at St. 'etersburgh, from America. Our Readers will re ollect that this Officer resided a few weeks in Lon 'on, on kis way to the Baltic ; and it was reported ,t the time, that he was the bearer of an uncondi tonal offer of service from General MOREAU to the ;:d4IPEROR of Russia and the CROWN PRINCE of Swe en, in any treat effort they were disposed to make Srthe deliverance of Europe. Colonel RAPAvtL had several interviews with Mi. inters during his residence here, and, as we have aeon to believe, furnished most satisfactory proofs the willingness of General MOREAU to take the field against the common enemy at the head of a grtain description of force, and commence operations 1 a particular part of Europe which he specified. There were circumstances, as we understand, which mdered it impossible for the British Government to ccede to the General's proposals at that moment, nd Colonel RAPATEL proceeded to Gottenhurgh. xt the Swedish Court he was received with the ut xost possible distinction, and BERNADOTTE, to whom e LiLlivertd letters from MOREAU, offered him a corn sand in the Swedish army, then preparing for the Artirded expedition. RAPATEL, however, pursued is journey towards St. Petersburgh, passing through nd minutely inspecting the Russian armies on his , iay, and was admitted, with Sir ROBERT WILSON and other cltstinguitho for 404 tht*Ru.ssiat) Gcnerlds. •—1 Ojs his arrive) bi * itsisstan Carted, CA.. ARA y 4. was planted to,the Emperor ALWRNDIII4 who instantly tuidelaisn an•offer of his punt, and conferred ipon him the. Ma of Colonel in the Quar ter Master General's Department of the Russian army, and he is now busily occupied in organizing an entirely new Commissariat upon • the Pred i ch and English system. It is understood that is future, mail the Russian officers are accustomed to the duties of a vlgllant and active Commissariat, these functions will be performed by such English, German o or emi grant officers as may wish to enter'iliSitisslan ser vice, the whole to be under the supesintenClance, ad interim, of Sir ROBERT WILSON and Colonel RAM**. The services of the former ate well knovm the latter has served in the whole of Gen. MOREAU'S campaigns. Every effort was making at St. Petersburgb, to place the army upon the most respectable footing and the zeal with which the Emperor has entered upon the subject of the Commissariat, proves that he knows precisely where a reform is most wanted. —The Russian aymies have uniformly lost all the fruits of their most glorious victories, from the want of an efficient Comthissariat. Every success during SuWARROWS campaign in Italy, brilliant as it was in every respect, was rendered doubly decisive is con sequence of the superiority of his Staff and Commis sariat. These were composed entirely of Austrian and Emigrant Officers, many of whom are at this. moment unemployed in this country. A The above particulars respecting the sentiments of General MOREAU, for the accuracy of which we can vouch, completely give the lie to the assertion, which we have seen in certain papers, that the American army, destined for the invasion of Canada, was to be commanded by this experienced Officer. His Majesty's ship DIOMEDE has arrived at Ports mouth fr, in Lisbon, with twelve sail of transports.— They left the Tagus on the 3d inst. at which time the army remained quietly in cantonments, The Mar quis of WELLINGTON was expected in Lisbon on the Bth or 9th inst, a circumstance which gives additional probability to the report of his Lordship's being about to visit this country. His Majesty's ships Colossus, RHIN, and GorD. FINCH have captured, and brought into Plymouth, the American ship Dolphin, out 19 days from Phila delphia. The American Captain states positively that Mr. MADISON has been re-elected President of the United States, Yesterday Lord CHOLMONDELEY, the Lord Steward of the Household, had a long audience of the PRINCE REGENT at Carlton• House. Yesterday at three o'clock, a Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office. Yesterday Viscount MELVILLE gave a grand dinner to a numerous party, at his house in the Admiralty. Earl MoIaA and suite do not embark for India be fore the second week in February. His Excellency Count PAME&LA, the Portuguese Ambassador, and Suite, arrived yesterday at the Pul teney Hotel, Piccadilly. The PRINCE REGENT of Portugal has conferred the honour of the Tower a.nd the Sword on Sir Row- LAND HILL. It will be gratifying to the numerous friends and admirers of the late Dr. RAINE to learn, that an ele gant Monument, by FLAXMAN, has been erected to his memory in the chapel of the Charter-house. The hospitalities of the season have been displayed with princely hospitality at Baron's Court, in Ire land, the seat of the Marquis of ABERCORN. All the neighbouring Nobility and Gentry have been invited to a series of entertainments, consisting of balls, con certs and card parties. The Prince of WOLKOUSKI, who acted as Aide-de- Camp to the EMPEROR, was deputed to conduct LAU RISTON to the celebrated conference with Marshal KUTUSOFF. Here also Sir ROBERT WlLsori and the Duke of OLDENBURG were present, LAURISTON evi dently appeared much chagrined at his departure. TEN THOUSAND POUNDS.—The Ticket, No. 543, drawn yesterday a Prize of TEN THOUSAND POUNDS, was Sold in Sixteen Sixteenth Shares, at the Old Established and truly Fortunate Offices of CARROLL and Co. 7, Cornhill, and 26, Oxford -street, where the Fortunate Holders may 'receive the full value on demand. DRURY-LANE TIIIATRZ..•.• The Opera of False Alarms was repeated last night, and again attracted a full and brilliant auditory. BRAHAM, in Edgar Gayland, introduced a new Ballad, " Come tell me t where the Maid is found ;" the words by Mr. ANA-i CREON Moons, and the music by Sir JOHN STEVENSON. BRAHAM sung this fine Air with his usual taste and. science ; it was loudly applauded, as was the Duet, of " Vive le Roi," with Mrs. DICKONS. Mrs. DICKONS was in fine voice, and, as usual; afforded an infinity' of deli b , Yht • ' nor were Mrs. MOUNTAIN, Mrs. BLAND, and Mrs. DAVISON, less happy in their respective parts ; while the succes.ful exertions of Messrs.JoHN STONE,WROUGHTON, DECAMP, and PENLEY, rendered the whole performance a fine and finished treat. — But the favourite Song of the evening was " The last words of Marmion," which was encored amid reiterated plaudits. HAPPY TnnuonT• —Amotogst other ventures which were sent to Buenos Ayres, after the successes of the British forces, were, a considerable number of hearth rug:. For these, however, as there were no fire-places, no purchaser could be found, until at length the Su percargo of the vessel in which they were sent hit upon the expedient of placing one of the most dashing upon a horse, as a sort of saddle. The hint was im mediately taken, the rugs were soon sold olf, and in a few days every horseman was provided with an Evlith SP.A 4mmminalb N . NUMBER S. We avaa ourselves of circumstantial obtained from many points of the Peninsula, to ag the public attention to the state of our relations with Spain. All Europe has seem that the statement, pub lished in the STAR relative to Sicily, in the Autumn of 1811, were even, we may say, to the very letter of our publicationskorrect. The general truths that we have now to unfold relative to Spain, we are confident, will be found equally worthy of attentions But the cases of the two countries are very different : in that of Sicily, we had only to expose the inimical spirit of a perfidious Government. The people were in a sort of brotherhood with the British, and it was only the Neapolitan faction that prevented them from acting. The Neapolitan faction has since been dethroned j and Sicily, instead of being dependant on us for pratee• tion, has undertaken offensive operations On her own account, and with her own means.—ln Spain, the case is reversed: we have nothing to complain of on the part of the Government, but every thing on that of the People. It is the Spanish Nation of which we have to complain : the enlightened persctns who have charge of that Government with which we are allied feel as much chagrin and disappointment as the Bri tish can, that their wishes and efforts are so fruitless. Personal politics, and personal considerations, are, therefore, in the Spanish question, but secondary mat ters. There will be no end to error if we ground our opinion of the Spanish cause on the conduct or cha racter of individuals. It is only in the worst nations that the greatest individual characters appear. Good laws, well-administered, induce a general elevation of character ; but they overshadow the peculiarities of those casual men I , who receive from the hand of Na ture that erninenreofpower which no culture can oilserwise be stow," because they anticipate the occurrence of those changes in which such characters are only fitted to act. The virtue and the magnanimity of individual Spaniards cannot, therefore, be admitted in palliation of the base qualities of the nation. We ground our opinion of the people of Spain on their history, from the days of HANNIBAL down to the date of the ca shiering of that Bobadil, VALLEsteeos—on their here ditary and habitual prijetlica, or, as we would rather call it, on their constitutional qualities. National preju dices are national characteristics, and they endure, like the features of man, as long as the incorporation exists to which they belong. Until Bull-dog: are de monstrated to be in every respect similar to Spaniels, we must consider the inhabitants of the Peninsula as a distinct race from the English ; and hold all reaso ning as irrational which considers them as beings of the same class, though of the same species. We put this the more strongly, because we fear that much of the political blundering that has been com mitted in the Spanish cause is owing to our belief of a similarity in the characteristics of the two nations. We will give a sketch of the Spanish character, and leave our Readers to make the comparison. The Spaniards are jealous of strangers, cruel to their enemies, and prodigal of their own blood— haughty, from an innate insolence of humour—ava ricious in business, and ostentatious in declarations— superstitious even to Molochism in their religion.— Bigotry, which in all other men is an error of the dead, and as such, is generally mollified in effect by the influence of the heart, in the inhabitants of the European Peninsula is a passion of the heart, che rished by the perverse inductions of the head. Wor shippers of ancestry, they are content with the glory of their fathers; and they are in consequence arro. gant in administering the rites of hospitality, Fond of arms and equestrian exercises, they have ever maintained the appearance of a military nation ; but have never achieved any conquest which could be ascribed to military superiority ; for, although they destroyed the Empires of Mexico and Peru, it was pot in consequence of their soldiership, when com pared with their European neighboprs, but owing to the rudeness of the art of war among the inhabitants of the New Continent. The renown of which they partook in the time of Charles V. was acquired by the German subjects of that Emperor. Of all his States, the Spaniards sent abroad the smallest num ber of soldiers, and they were as uniformly the least esteemed by their companions or dreaded by their enemies. They have been frequently subdued, have frequently submitted to receive Sovereigns from Fo reign Powers ; and though accidentally a nation of 'extensive dominions, their whole history is destitute of (the record of one magnanimous undertaking, but full of the disgusting details of tyranny and oppression. This is a harsh sketch, but there is not a feature in it overcharged; and it may want the amelioration of complexion, but it is still a better likeness of the original than that imaginary portrait, which has been drawn by interested and ignorant orators. The cha racter of the Spanish nation, such as I%c have given it, is that by which it was always recognized in Eu rope till within the last foul years. What has oc curred to make it now so different ? Are nations so speedily transformed ? Are nations ever changed without a moral revolution ? Has any such thing taken place in the Peninsula? But without adverting to the new character of the Spaniards, let us consider their old to have been a just one, down to the era of the existing alliance with England—and let us consider the events that • Ftrgusou'o Roman Republic, Vol t. have occurred daring that alliance; we shall then be enabled to judge whether there could have been tN At moral metamorphosis which we have been taught to believe Lu taken place. It is now four years since the British Govertun eci embraced the cause of Spain. There is something very remarkable in the circumstances under which this alliance was concluded. No esetiodtion of the inoti, v , were at the time given ky the British Government. The Newspapers were full of rumours and addresses 1, 1 . &rood to bare been received from Spain, all aa. flouncing extraordinary manifestations on the part of the Spanish people against the French Garrisons th en in their fortresses; and the public mind with us wa s se completely imbued with the spirit of those rumo urs and addresses, that the Government found itself juk tified in what it did, without ever entering into any explanation, no with Parliament, as to the grounds of the measures which it bad adopted, Such was the state of excitement produced in the public, that the Government was constrained to act in the way it has done. The Spanish cause was em. braced so heartily by the British people, that the Go. vernment was obliged to take it up—the Government itself was indeed intoxicated with the same vapour, otherwise it would have made some exposition of its motives in entering into engagements the most gene. rows ever undertaken by any State. But, down to this very hour, we know not yet officially, neither Parliament nor people, what the Spanish cause We have a large army in the Peninsula—we have gained much glory there—but except as a theatre for the war, we know nothing of the political motives which have induced us to tight in the Peninsula. Surely this is a very extraordinary state of thingc s what is that combination of men which calls itself the Spanish Regency ? how was it constituted ? What is that assembly which has assumed the name of the Cortes ? how were the members chosen They pro- fess to be the Representatives of the Spanish peopl e. and yet we know from a thousand sources, and from sources as good as those by which we know of the existence of the Regency, that when it assumed the Legislative function at Cadiz, Cadiz was besieged, and the Government of JOSEPH had dominion over every other part of Spain. Is there nothing, there tc:e, to be enquired into relative to this Regency and this Cortes ? The Spaniards may be very willing to receive a Royal Dynasty from a fpreign Power—they have done so before—the deposed family was sent to them from Paris, as was JOSjiPil afterwards. What is the Spanish cause ?—may we not be misled by the artful address of ambitious adventurers, who, by as. turning the names of a Regency and Cortes, have deceived us into the most fatal engagements ? jf they be the true Government and Legislature of the Spantsh nation, they surely wield the machinery which puts the people in motion. Have the public acts of the Regency manifested the possession of this power ? Granted that the Cortes have made many judicious and wise legal provisions for the advantage of the people, have they done this from a legitimate exercise of power, lawfully possessed, or merely t. acquire popularity, in order to enable them to carry their schemes into effect ? We do not say that the Regency and Cortes of Spain are not lawfully consti. toted.—we only contend and they have appeared in conjunction with circumstances that require an expo sition of the political motives which induce us to keep a vast force, at an enormous expeace, in the Pe ninsula. With respect to Portugal, we have nothing to ask see every thing regular ; and the Regency of that Kingdom, without any empiric tricks, or the quackery of new laws, has felt itself sufficiently em powered to call upon the people to arm and acquire military exercises, for the defence of their country — and the people have obeyed, But the case is other wise with the Regency and Cortes of Spain. The Spanish people have been called upon by an infiui tude of addresses to arm and to discipline them selves, and yet they have done nothing like what they mutt have felt themselves bound to do, did they feel their Regency to be of the same kind as that of the Portuguese. In Spain, as in every country which the French have overrun, are many persons who have suffered, and many also who hate the French character. Let us not fall into the mistake of considering such indi viduals as constituting the nation, or to think that by abetting their inorobabk projects we shall procure any permanent advantage. With respect to our Army in the Peninsula, we have nothing to ray, if it be sent there merely to fight the French. If the Marquis of Witutsiormit be only cruizing on land, as Lord Niu.soN did at sea, to drub the French as well as he can, the thing is proper enough, because he can return without ig nominy into port whenever his force needs refitti:ig, or the utility of continuing his cruize on that station is superceded, and the Government finds it advan tageous to send him to another quarter.—lf we may consider the army in the Peninsula in this way, we are content ; because, if it should be deemed expedi ent to order the Noble Marquis and his force to Holland, or any other latitudes, to fight the enem, then no possible disgrace can arise by withdrawirl; him from Spain. But if, on the contrary, the Nohie Marquis and his force are in the Peninsula for other purposes besides drubbing the French—if, for example, he is there for the purpose, not only of drubbing the French, but also for destroying a government t' which the Spanish Nation had submitted, and also in order to substitute for that Government another ex pected to be more submissive to us; it is very clear that the Noble Marquis and his force could not be withdrawn from the Peninsula, unless they Accom plished these purposes, without incurring very disgrace ; and therefore it behoves this country- 3 , least to ascertain the grounds and motives Wlticli I:1. duce ft to keep so vast an army in the Peninsula- - particularly in SPAIN.