Star. — London, England, 1814-02-04 00:00:00

:%IURAT, sot-D/SM•IT "'CNC OV NAPLES. We live in an ar. , ,e of wonders,Rumours pour in upon us so fast, that it is more than usually diflicult to seprate the true from the false. One day we are told that the Allies will not make Peace with France, until Me integrity and independence is restored of every :ornery in Europe politically known at Me French Revo lution. We cannot sufficiently applaud the spirit of this declaration. We hope, nay, we believe it is un questionably true, for it denounces the demolition of that infernal system of` Tyranny which BONAPARTE 33c1 his creatures have attempted to set up, and by %hich the whole crowns of civilized Europe were to be handed down as heir looms to a groupe of Banditti, Assassins, Thieves, Swindlers, Bawds and Strumpets, under the designation of the " NAPOLEON, alias the' , SACRED DYNASTY !" There are rumours abroad, however, of a different description—we allude to those which are daily serv ed up to us in a certain oracle of historical truth, the Text Book of political wisdom. The ingenious Gen tlemen who preside over the destinies of that lumi nary of " common sense h and right reason"—(the Morning Paper to which we allude) have not only an exdurive batch of Correspondents in Paris itself, who note the Great Emperor in every turn he takes across his Cabinet, and regularly " champion him to the utterance" of interminable vengeance against " the enforernak Allies," but even in the Court of MURAT, and in the Kitchen of Lord WILLIAM BENTINCK, they have their " servants fee'd."—These faithful retainers to the historical Mute are extremely anxious, it would appear, for a treaty of peace and amity with Itlnat, as King of Naples. They know that the legitimate Sovereign of that Kingdom is still alive. but they cannot bear the idea of losing a single sprig of the tree of despotism. The same Gentlemen, be it remembered, were among the original planters of the tree of Liberty—and it would have withered soon after it first appeared above ground, if it had not been watered by the crocodile tears and fanned by the amorous sighs of the English Jacobins into the family tree of the " Immoveable Dynasty." "But to the cittestion-s-to the matter"--:We do not pretend to be so deeply in the secrets of the Corf u iiiidameeigat as some of our neighbours—we do not intend even to risk a prediction that Lord CASTLE REAGH or Lord WILLIAM BENTINCK will so far dis appoint the hopes anti expectations of the good and virtuous of all nations as to make Peace with BONA PARTE as Emperor of the French, or MIJRAT as King of Naples. We shudder at the idea—we cannot en tertain it even in theory 12'ov-retro referent ! As impartial Historians, however, it is our duty to give a succinct but accurate Biography of the highly distinguished personage who is about to be forced upon us as our friend and ally by the style and title of JOACHIM NAPOLEON KING of NAPLES. He 1126 1 long since dropped the family name. of MURAT, fi r reasons which will speedily appear. Let us now examine the claims of our new Ally to, our “ high consideration."--In 1'769 MURAT, then about five years of age, was admitted into theQrphan House at Lyons. His father had just been broke upon the wheel at Valence, as a Murderer and a Thief. This was not the fault of his son it is true, and had he not by every action of his future life con vinced us that he inherited the virtue: of his father, we would hive scorned to mention it, At the proper age, he enlisted into a regiment of dragoons,- from which he deserted •t the proper sea son, namely, during the confusion occasioned by the Revolution. In 1789, he offered his services to SAN 'relftßE, the Brewer, of infamous memory, and from !lis knowledge of miiit:try discipline, he was speedily made a Corporal, Serje.mt, and Sous-Lieutenant in the Corps of National Guards raised by this worthy patriot, n June, 1'92, Mt,RAT commanded the party ich guarded the unfortunate BotmuoNs in the stle of the ThuillerieF, and with the insolence of a '-born and illiterate upstart (for he could then ;either write nor read), he rudely vociferated to overeign" Lots, ere es rrn traitre ; it nous fart to " To Madame ELIZABETH, who courageously . proached him for his insolence, he lifted his sabre, addressed her in the following elegant language: Tab toi, cord,: aut►ement je to coupe en deux." He '; actively employed in the massacres of the 10th August, and of the 2d, 3d, and 4th of September the same year ; that is to say, he commanded the :rds who were stationed at the various prisons by humane Regicides to prevent these massacres ; id, as a proof that his cnnduct gave satisfaction, tigor MARAT (one Of BONAPAItibell precursors) )moted him to the rank of Colonel. In January, Multkr bad the sublime honour conferred ) 1 him of commanding the gens d'armes of the )rt which conducted Louts XVI. from the Temple the Ccevention, and afterwards to the scaffold. March of ;be same year, our hero figured as one the Secretaries to the Jacobin Club, although it notorious that he could not write his name ! In Proclamation signed by MARAT and MURAT (Or - math. I) dated on the Nth of March, 1793, the is Culotter of Paris are invked to do themselves 'tier for the aristocracy of the backers, merchant:, and :-Acepers. "If you want money / " expresses this ions proclamation," you know where the bankers ' ; if you stand in need of clothing, visit the ;fliers; and if you have no other mean, to procure LONDON. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1814. RUGS OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. Red. 66i—Cons. 6611—for acc 671-4 per Ct. 89.1 5 per Cr. 9512—0nin.1911-I.g. Anns. 161 9-16th• Exchequer Bills 4s. 6s. pre.— Bonds 6s. 76. pre. To-day we give, at full length, the documents from the American Papers, to which we alluded yesterday. They are precisely of the character which we ezpee ted.—Finding himself disappointed in his views of any assistance from France in his war against our Maritime Rights, MADISON makes a pitiful effort to ei►trap Russia into his hopeful coalition. He forgets that the Emperor ALEXANDER has his hands too full of Continental affairs to admit of any interference, at present, with the Maritime Rights of others. The language of MADISON, in his communication to Lord CASTLEREAGH, is haughty and insolent—it is any thing but the language of a person desirous of a Tustin; and honourable Peace, notwithstanding the raft plicalions with which he ends his letter. He does not say a word of his naturalization projects—these, he knows, will never be carried into effect, and hl3 lan gnage is, therefore, as general as a special pleader could make it. Lord CASTLEREAGH'S answer has MOTE ge.sVaith in it : he speaks of his " earnest desire" a " conci ii itlry adjustment, upon principles of perfect reci procity." The Lord Nelson Packet has arrived from Hol land. It was this Packet which carried over his Royal Highness MONSIEUR, who is by this time in Switzerland„ having proceeded immediately on his landing in that direction. The Lord Nelson brings but little intelligence of interest, because she was lite rally driven off the Dutch coast by the violence of the wind, before any Mail could be put on board.— A Dutch schuyt has also arrived at Harwich, from HoHaw], with a report that Bois-le-duc was taken by storm on Wednesday last. The report as yet rots upon no other authority, and we have received so many anticipations of good news from Holland, which were not confirmed immediately afterwards, that we must withhold our implicit confidence from the report in question, until we receive further details. " HA't WICH, FEBRUARY 3. " The Lord Nelson packet arrived this forenoon from Schevelling, having landed Monsieur Count de PONTIJIEU at that place in safety. She encountered a dreadful gale on Friday last, while at anchor on the Dutch coast, and was obliged to throw her guns overboard, and with much difficulty succeeded in beating off the shore : she has left her Captain and part or her crew behind. Ten or twelve ship-masters are arrived in her, who made their escape from a French prison. A schuyt has also come in from Holland with passengers, who report that Bois-le- Disc was taken by storm on Wednesday last. The Alliance estra packet sailed this evening with several messengers and passengers, Sec. for Holland." The following are Extracts from the Dutch Pa -1 pers, receiv.l by the above conveyance : " HAGUE, JANUARY 28. 48 His Royal Highness has received the important intelligence of the town and fortress of Hertogen busch being taken from the enemy. 44 After that General Billow had considerably re. inferced the troops, which, for some time past, had blockaded the place, an attack was made on the town, and the French Commandant found himself under the necessity of retreating from it. On this occasion the inhabitants attacked the French garrison, and were active in forwarding the entry of the Prussian troops; their zeal on this occasion is highly praised by General Von Bulow. , s They continued their endeavours for preparing an attack on the Citadel, which was on the point of being made on the evening of the 26th, when the garrison capitulated, which was 900 men strong, 800 of whom, as prisoners of war, are to be sent to Si beria ; but the Officers and 100 veterans have ob tained permission to return to France, after having give.' their parole of honour not to serve again during this war either against the troops of his Majesty the King of Prussia, or those Of his high Allies. With the 70 pieces of artillery found in the fortress, it may immediately be put k a sttc of defence; and this service renderc,l by Ceneral Von Billow and his , valiant troops, anti for which we are indebted to them, is thereby rendered of double ctiicacy. No less satis faction is derived from the conduct of the citizens of Hertogenbosch, by this twice.repeated assurance, that no Netherlander will evade any sacrifice or danger, when the interest, when the national interest, or repu. cation and independence is concerned." The arrival of Dispatches from Admiral YOUNG, has given rise to a report that Antwerp is taken by the Allies, and that the whole of iirabant is in arms against the French.—This report we have no doubt is somewhat exaggerated. WINDSOR, FEB. 3.—This morning pr.)ving remark- ably fine, the QUEEN, and Princesses AcoOsTit, ELIZAiIETH, and MARY, took an airing to Frogmore, where they partook of some refreshment, and return ed to the Castle to dinner. Carlton House being about to undergo some mag nificent alterations and improvements, the PRINCE REGENT will shortly remdte to Butlington.House, Piccadilly. This superb pile (the property of the Duke of DEVONSHIRE) having been lately much ne glected;as a residence, is now putting into a state of repair for the reception of his Royal Highness. The Princess CHARLOTTE of WALES took an airing in Hyde Park yesterday. The Ertl of LIVERPOOL and Viscount SIDNIOUTII waitej upon the PRINCE REGENT yesterday at Carlton House. Yesterday the Earl of HARROWBY as Lord Presi dent of the Council, gave the annual grand dinner, called the Sheriff's dinner, previous to their being pricked for in Council, which was attended by all the Cabinet Ministers except the LORD CHANCELLOR and Viscount CASTLEREAGH. The LORD STEWARD of the Household, Viscount CHETWYND, and Mr. BULLER, the Clerks of the Council. The LORD CHAMBERLAIN was prevented from coming to town to be present, owing to the dangerous state of the roads. All the distinguished guests who were present on the occa sion, appeared in full Court dresses. On Monday last was married at Fulbeck, the Right Hon. CHARLES ARBUTHNOT, tO MISS HARRIET FAVE. After the ceremony the happy couple set off, to pass the honey-moon at Apthorpe, the seat of the Earl of W E.S r \IJIIELAND. The Spanish Ambassador had a select party at din ner yesterday, at his house in Grafton-street. The Marquis and Marchioness of STAFFORD had a select party at dinner yesterday, at their house in Cleveland-square. ':'le Countess of ARRAN had a card party yester day evening, at her house in Dover-street. Yesterday morning the Adjutant-General and the Quarter-Master-General transacted military business with the Duke of Youx, at York House, St. Jatiaes's Palace. _ The following letter furnishes an interesting pie. tare of the internal state of France. It bears inttin. sic marks of authenticity : " GRAVILINES, JAI". 2S, 1814. a It is all up—commercial houses are falling with the tremendous crash of a political earthquake. Scarcely can we reckon six that are standing, viz. Bagnenanit and Co. Mallet (brothers), Perregaux, Lafitte and Co. Rougemont De Lowernberg, Deles sert and Co. and another beginning with a D, some say the house of Dourouse. All the others are either deficient or in agonies. Iron and I, my dear friend, are amcogst the latter, and I greatly fear must soon be buried with the former. All trade is at a stand. This is the unfortunate result of the licence system, and all houses which have meddled with it are now the victims of it. Sugars and coffee do not fetch the duties, and indigo has been offered on 'Change at any price, but no purchasers. Gold bears a premium of 7 per cent. in exchange for silver. The Bank has stopped its payments, or, what is little better, pays hardly 500,000 francs a-day. The Directors have published a fine report con cerning i-s situation ; they say they have only 38 millions of francs out in Bank notes, and that the amount of accounts current is only six millions; that the amount of their ready money is 14 millions, and that of bills in the I- ortiolio 31 millions. As to the ready money, six millions must go immediately to discharge the cheques of Merchants and Bankers who have accounts current with the Bank ; there will then remain only eight millions to answer the de mands which can be made out of the 38 millions of Bank notes in circulation. To be sure, they have taken a good tar to prevent a quick call, as few people are fond of *Rag to the Mayor of their quarter for a number, for fear of 'hewing that they have any money. As to the portfolio of the Bank, people think of it as they do of the portfolio of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, which contained documents relating to the negotiations for peace—they have not . seen the I contents 1 Besides, we are inclined to think, that the 31 millions in question, as well as the 111,500,000 of the primitive capital and reserved profits, are al most entirely composed of .c orders from Government on the Receiver-general of Districts (delrgationr rue In Receveurs-generaur In Dl:arta:eat:), upon which the Bank has been compelled to advance money by anticipation on the revenue of the State. tt Yon know, my friend, as well as myself, that Government may (and it would not be the first time they have done it) order the Receivers-General to send the amount of their receipts into the _Treasury, and dishonour the orders upon them : farther, some of the Departments are already in the power of the enemy. Judge of our situation. It is also rumoured that a Mr. de Ber, nephew of a great house, now in your country, has lately arrived in the Isle of He. dick, some say in Brittany, and that people begin to prick up their ears. The enemy pressing upon us, bankruptcy at home, and these, perhaps, only the prelude of intestine wars ! judge, judge, my friend, of our consternation. Your wife is very melancholy— the children pretty well, but seem to partake in their mother's sorrow. I have given her as much money as I could spare.—Adieul may we soon shake hands together, and see better days." EMBARGO IN THE AIVIMUCAX PORTS. " LLOYD'S, FRIDAY, PEttutuat 4. 44 Official information has been received from Ame• rica that an Embargo was laid on the 11th of De• cember last, to continue twelve m:mths." NAY/4L INTELLIGENCE. FALMOUTH, JANUARY 1. Sailed yesterday the - Duke of Kent packet, for Passages, with a Mail ; Arid a schooner, with a small convoy for St. Sebastian's. Sailed to-day the.Wiu- TING schooner and the Ann transport, for Plymouth. Sailed yesterday die Spring, Eclipse, and Quebec transports, for Passages.—Wind —, fresh breezes and clear we.tther. PLYMOUTH, JANUARY 2. Sailed the LYRA gun-brig for the coast of Spain. with a fleet of merchantmen, transports, &c.; the Prince Regent, ROGERS, for Passages ; and Good 1,11. tent, CAMPBELL, for Bilboa.—Arrived the WHITING schooner, from Falmouth. pilaw In Vnicl Casa P O - 4- teich ( his ,S ; fete." ,- repro and g "Tai was a of Al of the ignar the hi and, the ti prom Y:93 ,Ippn 7.SZOr ti n f th as Prc ades 'ant tisti( Ito;. uric ive 6)0 yourselves eofPee, sugar, soap, Sm. fraternize with the grocers. What you take from them is only gout property restored to you, and of which yott and your brethren have been robbed by their aristocratical cupidity." In May MURAT was president of the Club of the Cordeliers ; and in a speech printed in MARAT'S paper, L'Arni du Note, of the 25th of the same month, he demand: Me head: of sixty-nine politicians of Brissot's and Roland': factions, as the sole cansers of the defeats of the armies, and of the troubles at Lyons, Bourdeaux, and Marseilles ; accomplice: with Pitt and Cobourg, as well as with Dumourier. After the revolution of the 31st of May, and the victory which the terrorists gained on the two follow. ing days over the moderate party, SANTERRE obtained the command of an army of 14,000 men, with whom he marched against the Royalists of La Vendee ; and MURAT, who was then advanced to a General of Brigade, commanded the cavalry ; but, either from misfortunes or from incapacity, he was continually routed, and two-thirds of the troops were killed in less than three weeks. This caused great discontent at Paris, both in the Jacobin Club and in the National Convention ; and SANTERRE was recalled in disgrace, which was made so much the snore mortifying, when being accused by the ungrateful MURAT of drunken ness, ignorance, and cowardice, he was sent to orison' THE EVENING STAR. PORTSMOUTH, FEBRUARY S. Arrived his Majesty's ships BriNIBAT and WAturnyt o 74 , grins each, from the Downs. Came in the 'VI ML• LIGENT gun-brig. The convoy remlin as before. DEAL, FEBRUARY s. Sailed the RINALDO sloop of war, with a (Frit n of transports, having a detachment of thy 301.11 nn.l 81st regiments on board, for Holland; the Ar rtv, hired armed cutter, with dispatches for Atimir.ll Yount; also several homeward bound vessels for the River. Arrived his Majesty's ships CADMUS anti GRIFFON, from a cruize off the French coast ; FENDRR lugger, from the fleet in the Roompot ; and remain with a fleet of transports, with German'sol diers on board, for Holland. Counter orders were issued on Tuesday to the de tachments belonging to the regiments serving in In dia, .hose departure for that part of our empire was suspended a short time since, with the intention of sending them to reinforce Sir I'. Ga A HA m, in Holland. These detachments are, therefore, now to embark for India, according to their original destination. Accounts from Bombay are said to state, that the troops of the Pacha of Egypt, after having entered Jedda and Mecca without opposition or bloodshed, de tached a force against 'rail, the only pl a c e rema i n i ng in the hands of the Wahabees. The power of the Sect is, therefore, looked upon as annihilated in that part of Arabia. • Last night, between flint and fen o'clPck, a fire was discovered on the . premises of Mr. Honosow. stationer, in the ftent-toad, which in a short time consumed the whole of the building. Fortunately the adjoining houses were preveu:ed s' aring a similar fate by a strong party.wall. The mortality in Dublin since the commencement of the fogs, has been computed to amount to from 1 40 to 100 per diem! In the town of Boiton, more than one thousand pounds has been raised in three days, for the relief of those living within its boundaries, who suffer under the pressure of the winter season ! One of the Mail-coaches was last night overturned by coming in contact with a heap of lumen snow, at the top of the Haymarket. A Sheriff's Officer, being lately solicited to take a part in a trio, observed, he was a much better hand at a catch ! To THE EDITOR.-Sir, During the severity of the present season, the beadles of the parishes have a more than usual power over our distressed fellnw-creatures. It may often depend upon them, whether a distressed object shall pirish in the street, or shall receive a temporary relief, and become again, perhaps, an use ful member of society.' Let me, therefore, by means of your Paper,recommend it to the Clergy and to their Churchwardens and Overseers to encourage these per sons to an humane exercise of their duties, and, what may be often necessary, to correct their disposition to judge ill of the poor, for the sake of their own ease.-...- The Public are little aware of the effect, arising from a sense of power in the minds of persons in this class. The gold.hound hat and coat, which to others seem as hu miliating as a livery, are worn by them as marks of dignity and authority, amongst their dependent poor. They represent themselves to be objects of compassion, wheu they beg their offices of us ; but no sooner is the laced coat put upon them, than a sense of importance fills their minds, and this too often ends in hardness of heart and pampered indolence. Nothing requires so much education as the art of enjoying power, withoitt abusing it. The mechanic may learn his trade in a tenth part of the One necessary for rendering him moderate and lenient in enjoyitz the wealth and consequence he may acquires by it. —A Pe .v years since, I was myself a witness to the difficulty there was in persnading one of thew beadles to remove from the streets to the workhouse, 'a poor, but very decent woman, full sixty years of age, who had fallen down from fatigue and sewn of nourishment, in returning from Greenwich, where her husliand was a pensioner. She was, however, carried to the workhouse, where she received, it night, a basin of broth, and the nest morning another of rice-milk. • She then voluntarily set out for her owa home, a few miles off, full of thankfulness for the kindness with which she had been treated.—Thus was a fellow-creature saved, in all probability, from a miserable death. But this would not have been, if Mr. Beadle had not bt en pretty closely pressed by an inhabitant ; for it was eleven o'ch,ck, and he had got his slippers on, and he wonder ed . what the woman could mean by coming at th a t tim e o f night 1 A. a. CORN MARKET, MARK• LANE, FEBRUARY 4. Our Market is quite deserted—nothing transacting, the stalls empty, and the prices nominal; therefore, until the thaw comp menses, we expt.ct no alteration. 1. t