Star. — London, England, 1813-12-09 00:00:00

_ saner,. Our bridge has not suffered any damage... The Commandant, Duroc, is made prisoner•..that rash man, who in his rage sacrificed our towns two prvates who took him •would have shot bins, had not an officer protected him, saying, go he is •utrarmed ; there is no honour in killing ,sn unarmed man."... The Prussians are this day marched to Nimeguen. " DEC. I.—We are, thank Goo, very tranquil... to-day the wall , works and suburbs are full of dead bodies. 4 4 Dac. S .—I this day spoke with a Prussian Officer, who informed me of the imminent danger in which we have been. The cannon were pointed on the town to lay it in ashes, in case that it had not surrendered in two hours, and it was besides to have beet) given up to plunder for three hours when they entered it ; but as the town was opened to them on the first heavy cannonade, this was laid aside. It wis not till yesterday that the cry of Orange lows commenced, when that flag was hoisted over the gates, &c." GRAVENSHAGE, DEC. S. His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange has re. quested that it may be published in the newspapers, that two brave countrymen, one named Albertus Van Dykshoom, living in Portugal, and Bastian Wey, dwell,ng in Spy kenisse, notwithstanding they had suf fered greatly by losses and oppressions caused them by the French Government, yet wished to give con vincing proof of their love for their country, and for the person of his Royal Highness the Prince of Orange as Sovereign of this country ; these brave men have made present of a well equipped horse, to which they have furnished a rider, whom they have undertaken m pay for three months, and likewise to support his wife and children. The Commissary General for the interior Affttirs expressed himself highly gratified with this pleasing intelligence, wishing and expecting that this eiample may be followed by many others. THE EVENING STAR.' LONDON. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9. 1513. PRICE OF S LOCKS THIS DAY AT TWEI sre..Ling. Reduced 600—Cotiv. shut—fur see. 64fi • 4 per Ct. 7-si 76—Navy shut—Long Anus. 10 1116ths New 0nt0.93 i pr.-446.13111b so. ss. pr.—Bends Ss. ss. dis. Peace be to France—if France will Peace permit... U not, bleed France ! and Peace ascend to HsAvatt Vagle we, GoD's wrathful Ministers, shall denounce Thobe who beat back Hz' Peace to Ha:AVilt PEACE WITH FILANCIff.—WAR WITH BONAPAETE !. We are not yet ashamed of our colours—we want a gi secure Peace."-.-"• We must not only , recollect with whom we contend, but with whom we have to nevi ciate"—So said Lord CASTLEHEAGII-....50 say we. Bur hat us proceed with mathematical precision —let us support our positions not by sophisms or diplomatic chicane, but by the ruks of " logic and sight reason." .;—Historical facts, not hypothetical inductions shall be the materials for our main syllogism. In the first place, then, we deny that the "Nies are at at with the French a: a Natioa—the . great mass, of the inlialoitaos: of trance are mild, generous, Mk. ina ne a nd considerate--they know nothing of any .national antipathies against England or any other country—they treat their prisoners of war with kind. Hess—the peasantry cheerfully supply Lord WEL LINGTON'S army with provisions ; and it is but re cently...that the citizens of Calais or Boulogne gene rously released from captivity the crew and passen gers of an English Indiaman (the Elizabeth) which was wrecked on their shores. This was an example of Castilian honour and Spartan virtue ! It was the act, however, of the people of France, and not of BONAPARTE'S Government. Our second position is not less capable of demon stration— We deny that Bosset.sers is the Sovereign of his French People, either by election or conquest. There I arose from the exhausted volcano of the French Re volution a pyramid of burning lava, with a scorching meteor at its apex t—this meteor was NAPOLEON Bo- NAPARTE HIS Marshals and Generals, his Prefects and ll , uaniers, were the scoriae under which he buried the architectural gratvieer of All countries around him An earthquakelas again exposed the Corinthian capit* of human socieLy to view,—the columns are still erect and 'antire, because the fOun- II were constructed sny ow Naggers with a pro. vident regard to the persoasersee of their institutions, and to the security of possetitp wing - the scourge of univerail delpotism. If these owr premises ared9o6llol6 it seill-dollorar as I a necessary consesueneeohat in all their Manifestoes and Proclamations..-is all their diplomatic inter course, sultrquestrothrwratrity favaß/sOtr, die Allies must anxiously .otiuguieb •bemetta .the harmless, pennyless, and -ehildless,inhatritauts Of France, and the Tyrant who has assumed she+basloasous office of Chief Minister of Vengeance to do clestenying Angel —they must tear as t usdoe, sfisisoutessuple, the false • membrane by which this ferocious Moloch would , connect himself with the womb of every mother in France, to claim her male offipring far his bloody .itar— the cat araetwith which his cunning, his crimes, ti,l his false glory have obscured the visionary organs -..t . the French people, mast be removed by the hu mane process of absorption, and not by the cruel caustic or the biting knife. He seeks to identity him self with the French nation—let that charm be dis solved—bet that gordian knot be laid under the axe, and Europe will enjoy a long repose. The Allies must level their musketry sod artillery againift 'him only, and the Satellites who continue, like the Dutch Renegado VEKH!UIL, to adhere to his falling fortunes—the thunders of a well-con'itructed battery---the hailstones of a well-directed miirailteds, Ought AO constitute the whole of their arguments gut- . Ai him sad tbeco. These thO only arkeiodses to whosulbey will listen—theronly *par' *WI they comprehend. The roaring of cannon-4 chill ing of swords—the tines of the yrounded—tbc . ". rut ting of dead_ inen's bonoo-411 these, and =any other frightful sounds, bate been the daily music of NAPOLIIOII BONAPARTi and.his redoubted Captains.— Why should these birds of prey and passage—these blaci swans of human'society--,be deprived of the mortuary privilege of howlin g th e i r l ast curse:3.lloo* mankind amid the accompaniments of their favourite orchestra ? But for the People of France, we have symphonies of celestial origin in store. We cannot joie in the Epithalamitun of the verbose, but not inelegant writer in a Morning Paper : we cannot consign the French nation, " for better for worse, to the infernal paradise of BONAPARTa'S embraces." These able masters, GENTZ, STznr, Komstrs, and SCHLEGEL, still form " the body guard of the Came PRINCE of Swaosts :" they are still the leaders of the band, the Maettri di Czyttllo, to the Allied Sovereigns: they are destined, we trust, to be the Composers of the grand chorus and finale (as they were certainly of the over ture) to the magnificent spectacle of EUROPE DELI.. I. 'FUSED. They surely will not teU us, in the cold and selfish ling angs of a Bengalee-Englishman—that calculator of far distant chances, from the cockpit of a Malayan Rajah" that France must be ruined, in order that England may be saved." Has this writer forgotten, that it was the converse of this dogma (for it is of Corsican origin) which brought France to her present state of humiliation ? Has the Hindoo-college of Fort William taught him to forget the honest principles of an English draymanl Does not a con queror assume the most formidable, because the most magnanimous attitude, when he stands over the bedy of his prostrate enemy, dictating, not to him, but to his party and adherents, the terms upon which he will check the career of his just vengeance, and retire to his own family ? These terms must be security for the future. Here all parties are agreed : perhaps, cir cumstances may require that they should involve in demnity for the past ; but is there a man who breathes the air of England, who will insist that the widow shall mount the funeral pile, and that the children of the dead enemy shall be sacrificed to the rnal . ,es of his victims, or retained as hostages that he shall not rise from the grave ? Precisely upon these grounds we deny that it is now (viz. in December 1813), the question whether France or England shall destroy each ether ? France, that is to say the Terra Naplecnie, has been long since rent asunder by an earthquake—the death-watch of its existence was first heard in the Peninsula—when it tapped at -the burning gates of the Kremlin of Moscow, the noise was sufficient to awaken the most obstinate of the admirers of their favourite dynasty. France is in fact crippled to all mischievous intents and purposes. It will require half a century of peace, under a benevolent Monarch, to enable her to resume even a third rate' rank among the European nations. We are not for a profuse liberality ; but, if we treat with BONAPARTE, the restoration of TIIREE HUNDRED THOUSAND PRISONERS OF WAR, which must be a rine qua non in any Negotiation, will be precisely that kind of capital with which he ought, the last of all men, to .be entrusted. We may take his provinces, his fortified places, his women and children, as hostages--yet if we give him a new army, he is once more the Great Captain who made Europe tremble! Again we exclaim—PEACE WITH FRANCE, WAR WITH BONAPAIIIR I If we are allowed a vote, the terms shall neither be abject nor unprofitable. As public writers we shall fight vigorously—it is for others to negotiate wisely : if they do not, we can only say, in the good old English phraseology, " the more shame to them !" We shall take up the subject again to-morrow. We have received Pat is papers to the 6th inst. They are, as usual, filled with falsehoods from the seat of war. The new Conscriptions go on swimmingly, if we are to believe the French Journalists. BONA IAILTE is, of course, exerting himself to procure a new army. The last Dutch papers are filled with - details of fresh triumphs—Helvoetsluys and Goree are now restored to the old owners. TIM ROYAL FAMlLY.—Yesterday at half-past 12 o'clock, her MADSTY, the Princesses AUGUSTA and ELIZABETH arrived at the Queen's Palace from Wind. sor Castle, in a travelling carriage, escorted by a party of Light Horse. They were received by the Pages and other attendants in waiting. In the course of the day they were visited by the Dukes of YORK and Sussex, Lady Meivitta, and a select arty of the Nobility. At half-past six they left the ueen's Palace for Carlton House. to dine with the *ince. They went in sedan-chairs ; her Majesty went in a new-built chair for the first time, having for its prin cipal object lightness. Its outside is red morocco leather, and that only in the pannels, except where the ornaments are. A very splendid crown is at the top, in the centre, and small crowns at each corner. There are various devices of olive-branches and lau rels, also C. R. The inside , is lined with crimson satin, most tastefully displayed with trimming, tas .sels, &c. The windows of di; best plate glass. At the bottom of the front cornet* are a lion and uni corn, elegantly gilt. The poles are red, with appro priate ornaments and devices. The PILINCR REGENT g ivies a grand dress party this evening to meet the Quarts. The Duice of YORK 'transacted military fussiness yesterday with the FIUME Rum?. EDITION. GOTUK2IIII.GIi MAIL. A Gambia& ma i anived-this asorninN. Ac- Cording to the intelligence it brings. Stettin has dot surrendered—.the terms proposed by the garrison having been rejected. The Turks - have retaken Bel. grade from the Servians. The venerable remains of sGeneral Merino were deposited in the Catholic Church of St. Petersbargh on the 14th of October. PzAcs iv MIS MANZI ! GOTTENAURGH, DECE,MBER " The lAM convoy is positively to sail from hence in a, few days. There are about fifty vessels still here, most of which will be under the necessity of wintering here for want of protection across the North Sea. The Swedi sh convoy passed the Sound on Sun day last. A l i English brig with bright sides, and a Swedish, *loop, were taken and carried into &sinew. .1 ' OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF THE SURRENDER OF HELVOETSLUYSp COREE, &c. THE WHOLE OF NORTH HOLLAND CLEARED OF THE FRENCH! 44 BERLIN, NOVEMBER 10. " The long oppression practised by the French, and their late barbarous conduct, has so exasperated the inhabitants cf Saxony and Thuringia, that the pea- santry will not bury any Frenchman, bet declare that they are not worthy of German ground, and must, thereto/1, remain lying in the fields, a prey to the crows. " It is reported here, that the Commandant of Stettin has requested to capitulate, on condition that the garrison shall not be sent prisoners to Russia ; that all the. Officers may return to France, on their parole wt . to serve during the war; and that they may take to France-all the artillery and ammunition not belonging to the fortress. These conditions were refused." " FO 114 IG N OFFICE, DECEMBER It. " By dispatches received last night from Lord CLANCARTY, it appears that the enemy evacuated Helvoetsluys on the night of the sth inst. when it was immediately occupied by the Dutch troops. The capture of Goree had also been inniseldiatey followed by the abandoruuent of the B:a!t of pu quesme and the whole island of Overflacke, in which were found One Hundred Pieces of Cannon, and a large quantity of Stores. The whole of North Holland, except the Helder, was fres! fror the French." 414 rigs iktii-uairitc4 ' • .. 41111. Ws. - ARC DIVR• Dublin . . 0 I Helkol e ad Waterford - 1 1 Gottedblfrgh - 1 o Cadiz - 0 1 Oemensey • 9 4 Li a ison . 0 0 leney . . 0 1 Corunna - 0 1 Honied • 0 0 CAPTURES BY THE AMERICAN FRIGATE ESSEX. - PLYMOUTH, DECEMBER 7. . Put in here yesterday evening, by contrary winds, ..,........... We yesterday gave a short sketch of the intelli-l-the :chooser Fortunatus, SUTTON, from Curacokhst gence brought by the Heligoland Mails, and by the I from Bermuda, laden with sugar, coffee, cotton, &c. Messengers Mesita and WIL;.LLAIE ; the former from bound to London ; sailed from Curacoa on the 2itla Frankfort, and the latter tient Holland. The most October, from whence she brought a Mail, which has prominent features in the various intelligence thus been forwarded to town. She experienced very bad received, are those which relate to the operations of weather, and was several times near foundering : ps-t the hostile armies in Germany.—B O N A P AR T E bas ; of her cargo (about 140 bags of coffee and sevelal offered to treat for the withdrawing all hisooopsibales of cotton) has been hove overboard-; her Ails from the fortresses on the Vistula, the Oder,*and the I are split to pieces. and the vessel in i very datnaied Elbe ; but his proposals were rejected with becoming '' state. We are sorry to say, the Fortnnatus brings spirit. They are, in fait, reverting to the possession I the unpleasant information of the capture o f e i g h t sa il of the lawful owners daily, as the results of the sieges of our South Sea whalers, off the Galliingos Islands, by the American frigate Essex, Captain Puifla, undertaken against them. Modelin and Stettin (it' the latter has actually surrendered) are among ;which continued to cruize, and it was feared ivo t tld the most recent of these acquisitions to the Al.' , almost annihilate out trade in that sea. Otte of them lies. If BONAPARTE could get his garrisons back had on board a very valuable cargo, consisting of to France, they would give him a formidable army. : 2,000 barrels of oil, and was proceeding to England. :The Essex had fitted out two or three of her prizes, Dantzic alone contains officers sufficient to manoeuvre a body of several hundred thousand men : the' , that place l i a . i which it was reported were cruizing near Cape . fititn. eied Squadron" threw themselves into !The ships Greenwich and Ceorgiana were email,'" the captures, the taptains of which, Snurrtswoares 'lliad after the retreat from Smorgonie. GouvtoN ST.CYR was on his way with a fine army (about 20,000 ,Pirrs• came passengers in the Fortunatus, from liar strong) for France, from Dresden ; but the capitula. 'mu", where they arrived from the coast of Smith tion having been rejected at bead-qu men, hit High-! America, after . having travelled upwards of 2uoo nes: took it in dUdgeon, and refused to return to miles. We understand some of their companions Dresden. He had, in fact, exhausted the hospitalities died on the journey of hunger and fatigues of that place, and could not think of returning.— Since writing the foregoing, we have learnt the He was, therefore, very properly marched off to Bo- names of the Southseamen captured by the Essex, hernia, at the head of his corps d'armee. The Con- viz.—Georgiana, PITTS, 1600 barrels of oil; Policy, federation of ;he Rhine has been formally dissolld Bovarair, 1200 ditto ; Montezuma, BAUER, 1400 at Frankfort : our Readers will see from the folly,- ditto ; Atalanta, WYER, 200 ditto ; Greenwich, guar ing Table of their respective population, that the simmer'', GOO ditto; Rose, Mosso; Hector, accession of numerical strength to the allied cause aratartos ; and Catherine, FOLGERy quantities on is now immense : known. DEAL, DEtEMBER 5. Power:. ' Bavaria' - . - . . His Serene Highness the Duke ofBRUNSWICK and . . Wurtemberg - ...am • Suite embarked this day, on board the B*AZZI4 sloop Saxony and Warsaw . . . . of war, under a Royal Salute from all the men of Westphalia - - - . . . war in the Downs, and sailed immediately to the Prince-Primate - - - . Eastward. Also sailed his Majesty's ships Cassius' Baden - - . . - . . Berg end Cleves - _ . and Fuel.; the former with. 500 marines for the . Heise 0 ‘ 00000 Hague, the latter for Hosely Bay, to receive a de- Wurzburg . . . e a • tachment of the Guards for the same destination. Nassau . l . .: . . . Sailed the Spence transport, with the Duke of Bruns- Huhenzollern Salm Saint Salm-Kyrburg iseinhurg Aremberg Lichtenstein Leytn Sate-Weimar Saxe-Gotha Saxe-Meinungen Saxe-Cobourg Ipulatim. 3,452,008 • 1,309,400 5,600,000 1,900,000 279,000 929,300 930,000 565,800 275,000 270,000 • 0 0 • a • ' skies horses. Arrived the CarrAs sloop of war from Lathe Hague. 44,000 35,000 27,000 35,000 18,000 5,000 5,000 109,000 180,000 34,000 59,000 33,000 52,900 35,000 33,000 48,000 55,000 51,009 70,540 20,132 '78,808 $18,e34 70,000 Oldenburgh " • 09,550 - The fate of DAVOIXT and of Denmark is drawing to a close. The CROWN Patece has informed the latter, .that. he will not treat with him. but upon Da . nish . grouncls Count 4utusarourr, the Danish Mini ster, - has consequently bean seat to Frankfort. In tbesuean time, the Caowx Pecs fulfils his duties u a soldier, in pressing thsieges of Harhhurgh and! Altoni. He was to pus the Ell* on the 29th with 4.0,000 min. Not only are all the Allied Sovereigns, but alio their Generals, collected at Frankfort. This doei not look like negociating on any other but French ground. The intelligence from It* is of the same gra tifying nature. piapigiutimm...musAT, .an f i. even MA161.141, are now in . .thitAadin Italy, not for the purpose dAgh l 4%.*Allo# l l s o_,o 4 0.9.4• 11 iA -1 surrecuthis • . • a • . . . . . . . • a . . . . . . . • • • 0 S S • a • a 0 0 0 0 Ashok Dessau . . . . As boh-Bernburg - . . . . Ashak-Cogato Ruiotstads • • • • Waldeck Lippe-Devzold - • . . . . .--- Schatunktui • - . OD Rens - . . - - - • a a • . . About thirty sail of the homewae4.booac! Baltic fleet passed Gravesend yesterday. •• • Letters dated Bombay, the 20th of Jnly, and re ceived in town this morning, via Constantinople and Gibraltar, state that the Sir George Webster India. mar., which has been so long “ a mosing . ship," was at Bombay at the above date, together with . the Car 'earthen. A letter received in town this morning from a pas senger on board the William Pitt Indiamen, men. tions, that the fleet which sailed from•Portsmonth on the 2d of June, for India, under cancel, of the IN CONSTANT, was well on the sth of May a in lat. 10. 1 3. and long. 21. SO. W. By attvices from Greenock, we learn that a large . American privateer was en shore in Lochindall, but it was at ebb tide. The HELENA sloop of war in the Clyde, was getting under way to look after her, but it Was supposed that 'the CYGNET on that station, might have previously caught the thief. • Several licences have been obtained from the Admi. ralty, for vessels to Ma without convoy to Holland. Darns Surrawasts.—A Meeting was held yester. day at the City of Londoe Tavern, for the purpose of promoting a Subscription for conveying to Holland the unfortunate natives of that country, who had fled hither to avoid the French conscription, and tor re lieving the other sufferers by French tyranny in Ho). land. A conversation arose, in which the propriety was suggested of adjourning the business of the Meet. log to some day subsequent to the dinner which is to be given in celebration of the Emancipation of Hol land • this was acquiesced. in by the Meeting, and a committee having been appointed it was resolved, that the business of the Meeting be postponed accordingly. Mrs. Mutt, it is said, isu ri eli kaleM so an in. dlctment fer a libel upon the ght FM* Oglitilap Chancellor of the lailifteme sE Irelaisd! i t • 1,1 I tC.._ 't• sa les