Star. — London, England, 1817-12-13 00:00:00

T 27 TEE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Thereby, December 11. Stn—This day the fatal 'entree, of the law hail been execute. , upon poor Vanier he is no limit.* Na one unacquainted with the interior ot a Frisco cu sufficiently feel for tfie eitaciatintrinxteties and, fears, the torments of lingering hope. which await the condemned criminal ; be had his share of them. but they are at an end. His late. however,.has awakened rollections in my mind which I am desirous of press. lag upon public attention. He was hornet Weeniest. laud. of respectable and now almostdistracted parents. The abilities he early evinced procured for him a gra. taitous education ; and he successively obtained by his good conduct. his decent and gentle manners. the situations of tut. a in a noble family. usher at a school, and clerk in the GraVesead Bank. In all he was highly respected, and considered to possess very promising talents. Unhappily his min d Isee ante tainted with infi.'elity, and this paved the way for that temptation to which he sacrificed his hopes, his character, and his life. He Red to 'France, and urged by his ardour for literary acquisition, entered the College of Ab .eville I saw him yesterday; he was tree from every kind of nervous agitation, and perfectly calni and collected in his deportment. He said, that his mind was at ease. that he depended upon his Se 'tour ; that be was g. 1-g from an earthly to a heavenly tribunal, and that gut", and there only, he had hope. He left a sketch 4 lii- lite, dra. a up by himself, is the/Ands of the Key Mr. Cotton. which concludes with this ng i Patl l lA " biibis isicoissi sad smears meow (agar% to Ma literary parsehs) nearly owe yeenprardsweedy one. wbos a yummy oc• weep iis be i,reveierd MA, I was ensued as a dark by tbs. firm, whew's...l4. nog my gentle gissfcbaracter asainficienew amity rev red me etser. New honoring mere ribllc, the sphere K my sawaamuce am emeatled; sad se a iworapiesee sty tee. raw habit. ut mammas leessvadvasi to wear 01 The pia ' Wm that 1 bad Mann, Moil Is the dose, _was sow music hi tie sey crew se air sewariews. The reeds etiehitarywlieb bad bias was, began sew la mobs their apyeariese. Canvasser, I miesiderida oat patio* scheme, isvisted to pass:not seder soli sOhordisasee - the people; hot Masks to Its Author, 1 how ohm It is anstber. Is It to be woodered at. that we stasilisilihnli lallatleas posed could set withstand Ow haw niter WS** I tell r , . . I pass by his personal esdawasents s his Aliste, tensility or au ordinary description I his battik, in she prospect of Intrnediats death; Ws humble row' , giacts confulsoce--these are topics which. urged as Memorials of a youth of I 9 -years of age. for whom at this moment vie bell has hardly ceased to toll. would be cidculated to interest the feelings, but my object is to edifices the judgment. If the security of commercial intercourse demands such a milts, if trade cannot be conducted without the terror accited by such a dismal example, we must perhaps give our sorrowful assent to the' event i but *haws the proof that such severity. is calculated to accomplish its object I Cataialy not in England, fur here forgery is punished with death. and here for gery is alarmingly &event. Certainly not is Ame rica, for there it ts punished with perpetual imprison. tient, and goers it is an olleace of rare occurrence. Alloy me to draw the attention of the public to the singular contrast exhibited by these two - great com mercial nations. Till the execution of pr. Dodd in the year 1777, this crime was not always visited with death ; but the law bas augmented its rigour, and forgery has meltiptied in proportion . In Ameriee, I believe. till about . die ;am e parotid it was a capital ()genet ; it is now expiated by confinement ; and as the punishment has become more mild, vie crime has becime snore rare. How then does this strange ano maly arise ? The answer is simple, the crime is pate. 'bed here with eiimirdiretWorimpusiii7. Their are raw who will prosecute incases of forgery: Malty are de terred by the horror of ialicting death on those with whom they hate been in the habits of familiar inter-' course. their dependents and clerks. Many turn their eyes inward, and discover actions of their own as Rs grant—less culpable indeed at the Tribunal of Man. but as deeply attosiotiebelore their GOoLas that for which they ire ti call down the dreadful visitation of the law. , This etaininsuen of their own hearts will often forbid tie deft end of such stets expiation for a erime,often, as in the case Weave us, the fit it which his bees thusiesittell,•the effect -of sudden temptation, andesetlet preiseditated earl practised villainy... , ZlPlwere OM and I trust no inconsiderablennmber. ready deny the-tight of the community to in. • Assent so dispropurtioned to the offence, and who Muse to be the instruments of what they consider legal kinetics. Whatever be the cause, so man conversant with busisiss in London is unac. . Ragged with the fact, that in casts of forgery pee. seep i are very sinwithog to prosecute; and yet ' ends o f these s' probably eager that some severe pushy sheik , be 101 l coed upon the invader of their property, *id wield prosecute 9 that penalty were less than death.' Surely the time is sat distant in which the British public will me, set mealy the in justice and cruelty, bat the impelley diser pretest sis sies -ma, sparse which directly encoisultiii crime, by the inspuaity it posdtices-.4 system by which the multi vibe ass guilty escape, sad the ton seine oat ... of gl mortise to their soils.--a syseemowhielt robe pubic esemadesser their hest aid ratie rm ac e ssi; tar eiiMildiendi Vii,bibbi •Paid: . 1 6 tuoittes lilt ip companies fore S A A ssgastissase isdassatisa d these ogles, dose inadequately urged by (overlie artesily . thwirepthas . etisat-theeli alway 7 . its - , gag g l i eneeple el Awake. H (la-ilisob maid t . : Jiro, i l k = i s roasssol . 'death) * . 480 abastosast. sin tbat. - dir Nay we 640 ' Mew "NM by abolishing Odd mend of . sereeity. _ I ills your obethest Nosed. 11. A or Lelierre. P. b. 1 dam that aathil ma insisistal *lbis will b sosiand lase a , d tour toughy agaissit those Who decide . 6 . the sown Ise pease execution.. It is true, sad use withisihe kawledge 1 tf 'hi feripit of tbis, that lard Asiliesesb payer:eery st — terkban at the /seism sad faiebfal dims / woo* his painful duty. It is but • justice to sisolosookst whonbar he has been petitiosed tm secommeed dor eetao4ralf mercy, hehaii eider boartaaastalseady acquainted ,iio tie citoldltalKOS If the eme g sr cessisistately MOsited.to tbasapascatatiaosthat bays bads made to/it Twa addda Ng4r=timisitiag is abed 5 to . 4 its A * is m * l teem his baths was theldiaer %sok iklialilloasebeing the favourite at tbetwidis WOWS WI hr gist even in the ring. , . , THE FORTUNATE Y0UT1A . ,,,: mi.•••••••••••• TO Tfill . error, Or THE MORNING CHRONICLE. ' “ Nwrnisarket, December 41. i g Sat.-0i Mg return home this evening, after: an sh!ellec of two or three days, I have read the article in Tote Paper of yesterday, under the title of The Fortunate youth . ° As lam alluded euip that article too pointedly to be mistaken either by my friends or myself, I shall answer it under my own signature, with whichnee were before acquainted. is I do ant ism any • of the deteded falsehoods and disengennous acts" imputed to this youth. It is true, indeed, that a Gentleman did inform me that certain incibiries be had made led him to believe that the roith had been guilty of falsehood and disinge ttuonmess ; but it did not fellow that his inquiries were to lead my mind to the same conclusion tha they had done his ; and in truth I did then express!) observe to him. that as what be bed stated. I could say .itiathing, but that faith in the boy remained unshaken. I said not' er g about the £ llOO of which I had no knowledge. ) I asked for no references ; tor I mold not imagine that an enlightened and well. educated boy, Which be certainly is, would attempt to deceive me, when he wanted nothing from me but my advice. I could trace no motive for imposition. 46 Supposing it true that this buy has, in nnguar `sled or convivial moments, boasted of his wealth, or 'even very mush of er.reted it ' • have net mirth older ;and wiser men done the same? Is it not a COquwob !failing 1 And if se, why is this boy to be broken en the rack .of public opinion, for having done that for which grey-beards are only laughed at I 14 I.have, Sir ! this evening read in The Harbin: Pest of Monday last, amongst other curious and ern portant information on thiirsubject from • good au thority,' that 4 at seven o'clock in the evening be walked oat' (from the house of the Gentleman with whom he then resided), 4 and never returned.' ...What inference must the public draw from this statement ? Why. to be sure, that he stole away un ;rations)'y in the dark hour of the evening. But what is thefts: ? bis this ;, he quitted that house at sii¢ilas, in the company If hi: faikW• witiagary; with the knowledgenfid concurrence of the gentleman of the house—and he did not return, because I edvised him not to do an. With birintention el not returning. and with the probabilitr (4 his leaVing town that evening, I acqUatated the gentleman. whose house , he had left, by a note the same afternoon. But after all, what have tbe Ohne to do with this boy, or his circnmstauces I He bas committed nil offence ; be has defrauded•oo one ; nor has a single daim been made upon him in consequence of my former letter to yhu. " Why is he in his absence hunted down with so much rancour, and the feelings of all his•friends thus unnecessarily wounded ? If the pablic had any thing, to do with it, a tale might be told'on the pan of ibis' much-abused youths, which, perhaps, would turn the current of public opinion in a very-deferent direc tion. I shall conclude, Sir, by saying. that I shall not again notice any anonymous article on this sub. keg i that I neve no reason to doubt the troth of any thing this boy has told me (without pretending to Answer to any thing he may have said to otbers) ; and that the moment I discover him to be an im. postal, he shall have no 'rather eonntenance hum me. 41 I am, Sir, yourobedlent servant, ' a f l6 r 1 1 1 0 ) raarn.l4/" I .. . GER.II/at PAWL& • • IMAM. J• The public papersmen:ioned some time ago, 'that M. Beck, Councilloi et mtutsets of Darmstadt, had presented to the Diet * Feticide. setticribed by seve ral thousand estimable raerni:tos: This Petition now appears sn Vita; lihno i)eett, circulated for the 'pia pose of obtaining lather subscriptions, and a copy has been inserted :Ova, .Haws Jeorsal, which runs , as follows : - HIGH FIIDERAL ASSEMBLY. " The Right which every people; and the Ger mans more particularly have, agreeably to their ori ginal Constitutioo--theright at having a free voice tor the expression of their free will, has beenleceatly acknowledged to belong to all Germany by the 13th Article of the German Federal Act, and the execu. deo of that article was promised by the High Allies, a promise which was guaranteed by the faith and tsuth of the nation, and the public honour. “ The truth, that no people advanced to the de gree of cultivation on which the Canaan people at ,present stand, can without a Representative Consti tution, resting on'firasly established contract, attain ,either to durable prosperity, or to moral and poll tied perfection arid dignity, Ms been consecrated in the public opinion as, a principle. site correctness of which is demount** from reason and history, and which in the said t3thArticia of the Federal Act has been Ger many, b a y 6 the bligar ad opted as i e s n l i e stn 171nion.r . 4 4 But although two years have elapsed sines that guarantee was given, which the German people M. soloed with such unsuspeeung confidence, hardly any thing has yet taken place to catiy, iota actual, emeutiots what has thus in principle been so soles:wig pseutsed, sad horn this procrastination And 'reserve.' ON ban she end.of Germany to the other, dierehas Ito she minds of all those who have at heart °al" of their country, and who have a clear of its rights and its wants, a painful spiiit of dire. Neat which threatens to undernitne the suraidense eillktppople in their Governments. Is The discontent, as it is founded on the with. g of an indubitable and acknowledged right, fads coatinual nourishnient in the noblest feelings cif humanity, and can only be tranquillised by the ireilkarioa of well founded espectatims.and honest 11.4Ndon. eg ibir tranquillisatioi, which the difficulties of the tiMet hosisfratively demand, is not speedily afford. ed lilt' g i v e rue to the great evil, that Powers 'Mich ooght to concur in furdwring the good of the wields, will be consumed in rancorous die or. useless strife, and the disregard of the . ei no t r aci elfer desire of a noble-minded people must be therefore with the greatest danger for the trio good of the country. « Hard and distressful times have lately. it is true,- passed by in the utmost tranquillity, but not withoite adding_ evidently to the general discontent. The quiet equanimity, and the hereditary resp**e for laws enclosers, the good nature of the German people, have still kept them within the boonds' of . order, and preserved them from hawing mains to dangetosi measures. " Still, however, such is the political situation of Germany in the East and West, that the first acci dent,, the death of a foreiga Monarch, would kindle the combustible materials which are every where to be found, thereby disturb the artificial state of wan gnillity, and render the'delay which hitherto might stilt admit bf justification, an evil of a most destruc live nature. What motives could then be urged to the people ? How could they then be stimulated to active measures ? What remaining love, and what inclination could be appealed - to, to awake even an appearance of enthusiasm in them, and what promise could be held out to them that they would not reject with disdain ? toold power and force then suffice to call forth what a magnanimous love of country can alone give? 4 . As it has become the firm conviction of the un dersigned, that the public mind in Germany ought not to continue in this unnatural state of excitation, they therefore believe themselves, as German citizens, called on by their conscience, and justified in pre senting themselves respectfully before this illustrious assembly. the highest authority of Germany, witt, the request that you, agreeably to your high calling, will step in as mediators, for the purpose of ad vancing this first and most urgent demand of the times towards its final adjustment. " They therefore make to the high German Fede ral Assembly thew respectful request : That it may please the high Federal Assembly, in conformity to the highest and most sacred pro mises, to effect the performance of the 13th Ankle of the Federal Act. and that in . such a manner that in all the lands of Germany, the people shall be called to participate as a contracting party, to the execution of the aforesaid Article, and a true and worthy representation of the people on principles of 'atonal equality, be introduced throughout all Germany." BERLIN, NOVEMBER 29. 3'he sing has bestowed on Balm Von Ompteda, the British Hanoverian accredited Envoy at this Court, the order of the Red Eagle of the first slats. PARIS, NOVEMBER It& The Sittings of the Athetawn were opened by a Speech from Tisset, in which be spoke of the men• tAI independence of doe Literati, and censured, in ;he frankest manner, the writers of the age of I.onis the Fourteenth, who, White they took up the pp, used first to ask themselves—"" What will the King say > What will the King think P' How little such language was acceptable to the French, of whom Ibis golden age of their literature, as it is called, is the great pride, may be easily conceived, and they took care to express their dissatisfaction. The t?.- trieroes auditory, by no means unfavourably dispo. bed to the orator in other respects, applauded not one single passage. PROM THE RHINE, NOV. 21. The proceedings at Eisenach have, as was to be expected, called forth the most opposite opinions ; and what is singular enough, calmness and circum spection have hitherto been on the side of the young men. The articles in several Jourrals, and latterly the conduct of M. Von Coln, betray great intempe rance, Wile the conduct of the Kiel Students, and shw a s: of ',crush, who have institwed a ta t o rosecu don against the circulators of the report of the burn ing of the Act of tre Holy Alliance, dispLtys mode ration and a lerling of internal security. This maim; the event of which we are speaking, one of .t.e most important signs of our days—it sheers that as evick.itly shews that our young men aspire alter greater things than we were ac customed to expect from them, and that the moving thoughts of the times have penetrated into the very heart of the people. Such s disposition and such rxcitatiwn may produce the most noble fruits, but the stream may also overflew its banks. But consider well what you are about, you who are the guardians 'nf the State. ....» ... Will you prohibit such as semblies ? Place the youth in every country under particular superintendence ? Prohibit all writings, and speeches calculate,' to rouse them ? All your en deavonrs will be fluidal& ••• a. a. 866 ••• That I may, hOwever, censure where I feel cen sure is doe, 1 coofese,that the speech of Professor Fries on the Wittburg did not please me, It is not .a free effusion from an overflowing breast., but the . production of art and constraint . We have a feeling as if this excellent. and estimable man constrained himself to act . a part (or which be was not fitted. ratan a s he used constrint, many things he said have ap stance, abd easily admit of I•mmacisn• strectton. I a convinced that his purpose is OS and raceful,i but his speech may easily be lads to indicate the L cemtrary. ••I ••• •.• Fries spoke as if he bad before him persons as capable of judging as of acting ; his words are not duly weighed. No, young men of Germany—let yourselves not be driven from the course. which becomes you. The man who now addressee you, is your sincere friend His hopes of futurity mil even placed on you. Keep minden asciock andido.... Let yobracivel..neither be led astray by tho vfftrm..ot Azalotsb nor the so. phistry of the friar& of darkness. Do four duty ; labour and sulfurs/ter katilidge—sbove all things. preserve yoturbsertied year morals true and pure.. ant pray to Gota•fo striegtheo you' in your difficult I task. The labour that ROW •awaits us ' ' is not the quick' and decisive. struggle of the fi eld of battle. Goo• avert it—but k is the much more diffieult struggle of our slow formation in the circle, of the family, as well as the State—the Chinch as well as the School; that an end may at length be put to the dreary cOnflision of all public affairs, *kick is emote tor. gamin; than the.dalgen of war. • *. • „ By violence you will not effect—as many of you In the beautiful days of October, beside your mour. ,fain fires, amidst your fiery speeches, may have fondly believed. If you wish to effect your purpose by force. yeti winkle!) , plunge all of us into ruin.-- - 1 ' Our enemies are maliciously Mt the watch, to see it we Germans ate not likely to fall out frith each other, in order that they may, with the hypocritical cry of assistance, blow the flames of disunion. Thibk of the language which the Preach, whom we thought we had wholly crushed, have recently addressed to their King : de France must suffer, because it has obtained too meth tame 1" 0 1 they have already lilted up their heads in their old arrogance, and at'. to its if we are hot untriimou..! 114MBURGR PAPERS. PETERSBUROI4, NOVEMBER if, Count Noailks, the French Ambassador, day to follow the Imperial Court to M, STWITGARD, NgvRM3ER is. The new organization of thelingdom, Whi c h . been expected ever since the dissolutitin of (L e sembly of the States, has been polish:bed -)-ci a r several Edicts. It less been for some w ee k s jest of several meetings of the Privy C JUI:CIi. which nothing was changed in the essential port, some points in the employment of pento,s in new places. This organization makes a neiv tr , the history of Wurteroberg. Our Gazstte and the Glvernmeiit roper rr by degrees, the whole contents of t! est: E toHowing is the substance of them: " The first Edict gives the reasms for :I organization ; it says, that a disiirnortionate, oppressed the agricultural class, and tliat by th l greater developement t the cultivation of the cote WAS prevented ; that the various sources of are not duly divided ; were imperfectly impta, century back, and no longer suitable to the, state of things. It promises a revision a:A a order of the while system of tarttion ht th e Jaz ; the makitte of a new grand survey in older obtain the greatest equality ptesible :n the tar: Another reolation is promised also !or the t tsai Si houses in towns and of income of ptotessiot All taxes proceeding from person.' servitude (or sane) are declared to be abolished, without am denanitic +thin to the Royal CharnherS. end ue reasonable indemnity to be legally tired tot the u: clomaintal Lords. " period of SO years, fixed by a Statute last year for the payment of the public de., is ducted to 4 e 5 years, and LILA by a revision of rite cial system, without imposing 4cfsiitionoi burdens the people. Nry, they are promised for e t ... year, besides the abolition of the toles arisinit personal vassalage, to be relieved from vatii•ti taxes. " The second Mkt details the manner in . the various taxes arising froth the Feudal System to be abolished. This Edict she.ss in a high the truly noble and liberal views of the Kmg. makes ten pages in quarto, the contents of wh most itnpt-. 4 ,•nt, and must ensure to nut King esteem of all enlightened men in Euript-. and gratitude of his people for Centuries to come. 8. The third Edict contains a public exposition Ihrpublic debt. It amounts at present to 29,Qi curios, and requires one million and 4 halt ail 1..1 to. pay the interest. The way ot funding tins ant. thl payment in forty•five years, is then ,:e , in several sections ' is The fourth Edict stews t h e necessity ot change in the forms of administration, *elo !. axe rived from old times, and very diffetent • stances. The point of view in the new systrm, separation of the deliberative part of Legsslatii from the Executive Administration; axed princii.4 id - the administration of the 'finances; rigid mire "dyer the employment of the public money; the estal Imitates): of intermediate jurisdictions, for the Ine -.speedy and accurate examination of the want. 111 a • •object, and the more speedy redress (which Is not' dir. therwise possible) and more strict attent , nn to local relations; thence the establishment of Piovii,cial Au thorities for Justice, the Police, and the Finances. " The kingdom is therefore divided tutu i ..ur car * Ist Circle or use, Necker, with 16 high bailiwicks; _ Ibe Government, and of the Chamber of kinance, is Lutmburg. 44 std Circle ot the black Forest, with t 7 high hathwtcks; kit tie Uoveroasent, and Chamber of Financ. , , at Readopts. " ad Circle of the fast, with 14 high bailiwicks; wit of th e ikoernment, and Chamber of Finance, Summers. s. 4111 Circle of the Danube, with 17 high bailiwicks; seat et tbs Gsvenuneat, sad of this Chamber of Finance, Ulm. " For the city of Stutgerd as the capital, and for the town of Kaenstadts and the harrlious of both towns. a special declaration gall be appointed for the business of Government.--In respect to the adminis tration of justke, and the finances, it belongs to the Courts of Antic; of the Omle of the Necker. " For the administrative there is to be a Criminal Tribunal and a Court of Appeal for each two clicks, is the circles themselves, via. for the circles of the Necker and the Black Forest one Senate of the Cri minal Tribunal at Esslingen, and one Senate of the High Court of Justice at Rothenburg ; for the circles of the Danube and the Jam, the other Senate of the Criminal Tribunal at EUwangen , and that of the High Court of Justice at Maui' AMERICAN PAPERS.' The following is an extract of a letter from s'. .Mary's, dated . Nov. Ist, and containing the latest in telligence respecting affairs at Amelia Island : ST. MARY'S, NOV. 1. es Amelia is stilt quiet, but much is wanted to get things as they ought to be. Twenty-eight Micas of•the 18th Regiment (disbanded) have ar ' rived from St. Thomas's : Colonels, Captains, Cadets, ate: and shelling themselves, bat not a min to com mand. It is supposed the greatest part of General Aury's cavalcade will go away soathwardly. ss Anorxed you have what has jam been sent from Amelia. All the privateers are getting out, and mos: of the roods gone. No late amvals.' The snide alluded to in the above, as having been sent from Amelia, is a copy of several resolutions of the Government of that island previous to the death of Governor Hubbard, according to which aU pets : - .s volunteering their services for the conquest of St. Ac ;twine were to have a bounty in land, upon a sc.s increasing according to rank .and time of service : A private, (or 6 months' service, to have SA a:l' . ". kr 9 months' • - - 420 a:re•• tor 12 inciathe - " NO acres. .lion-Cobintis,ioned Officers, for 6 itioalts' service ) 410 a::•• Ensigns - - - " for ditto 1.,4102 a:re. Second Lieutenants - for ditto SPOO arm First Lieutenants - for ditto 2,500 acres Captains - - . . for ditto 3,900 .ert • Majors - - - for ditto 4,451 u:,.... Lieutenant-Colonels - lot ditto Viso .::..s• Colonels . - - 1.4. ditto ' ?AOC :::r+• llrigadier•tJct.crJ - for (limn 10,000144 v. It appears, however, that Governor Hubbard'' party continued to be so much dissatisfied with Au:y and his followers, that there was no prospect of A. .I attempt beilfg made for the conquest of East Flo:i:f . An epidemic disorder-has broken out at Amelia, the deatlt. *cm f►ve or six daily. - ge , e f ittCP the F e dor ~; t a e snot. rise n tr" dr b the (Del of mot e bur , So by this SO cotra e BF ' npc4ed he ac:u ttaci da at _mb the :11 erp I Older • • tar, t frau( th e (or vs t.l st anr i t the u:!i 'Statute 45 i‘e tine p it urder.s t'te qe • '• I 5111 i! fro 1-111.441 • cl in which i ca ystem a! Kb Irgre KMK. I Wb cis o King , . anti ti. se. Rositton • , V,9t3 tilts n t e 4:k ry 01 is e!a a:e de ',I Corms. iy arm, ,N ti contrail the estah- the more ants of Li • Kb is not . In to local it vial Aa- lances. .ut circler: wk.; sex of LouNborr. 'wicks; st* ngto. +eat at the tks; seat at im. ii, and for aotboth ted for the e admiois- >figs to the er. i Criminal wo circles, lel of the e fru. rria