Star. — London, England, 1810-09-03 00:00:00

FROM SPANISH PAPERS. IYAL ORDER. Caton, Avcvsr s.—The following Royal Order, dated the 31st ultimo, and transmitted through the usual channel to the Consulate, has this day been published - 66 The Council of Regency no sooner received the unexpected and disagreeable intelligence of the events that have occurred in the Caraccas, the natives whereof, instigated no doubt by some intriguers and factious persons, have committed theibdignity of de claring themselves independent of the mother country, and created a Junta of Government, which exercises the pretended independent authority, than his Majesty determined upon taking the most active and efficacious measures to attack an evil so scandalous both in its origin and progress. But in order to proceed with that mature deliberation and circumspection which a matter of such impoitance demands, his Majesty. thought it proper to advise thereon with the Supreme Council of Spain and the Indies. This has accord. ingly been done, and such measures have consequently been adopted, as his Majesty entertains no doubt will accomplish the object in view ; more particularly as, according to subsequent accounts, neither the Capital .and Province of Maracaibo, that of Coro, nor even the interior of Caraccas itself, have taken part in so criminal a proceeding ; hut, on the contrary, that they have not only recognised the Council of Regency, but alse, animated with the best spirit in favour cf the people of the mother country, have taken the most efficacious measures to oppose the absurd idea of the Caraccas declaring themselves independent, without the means of maintaining their independence. His Majesty has, nevertheless, deemed it indispensable to declare, as he hereby declares, the province of the Caraccas to be in a state of rigorous blockade ; or dering that no vessels shall enter the ports thereof, under pain of being detained by the cruizers and ves sels of his Majesty, and forbidding all Commandants and Chiefs, civil or military, of any of the provinces or 1 dominions of his Mujesty, to authorize vessels to pro ceed to La Guiara, or to grant permits or licences to any vessel bound thereto, or to any port or creek of the said province ; and further, commanding that all vessels sailing therefrom, whithersoever bound, shall, be seized, detained, and confsseased ; and in order to carry this measure into effect, his Majesty is forward in? a sufficient naval force to prevent arty vessel from elitering or departing from the ports of the said pr .since. " Majesty also directs, that all the Comman dants and Chi , fs of the provinces, contiguous to the said province, da obstruct the introduction therein of any description of provisions, arms, or stores, and ise the exportation of the productions of its soil or industry; and that they exert themselves to cut off all communications with the inhabitants of the said province. " This Royal Resolution does not extend to such provinces of that Captain-generalship as, declining to fj llow the pernicious example of that of the Caraccas, have manifested their constant fidelity, by renouncing the pro t ect of rebellion, which has solely originated in the unbounded ambition of some of the inhabitants, and the blind credulity of the rest, in suffering them. elves to be hurried away by the inflamed passions of eileir fellow-countrymen. His Majesty has taken the proper means for the complete extirpation of these evils, and chastising the authors thereof with all the rigour which the rights of sovereignty authorize him to exercise, if they do not previously mUe a volun. tary submission ; in which case his Majesty grants them a general pardon. 44 His Majesty orders that these dispositions be cir culated in his dominions for the impose of being car ried into effect, and also in foreign parts, that they may conform themselves to the measures adopted for the blockade of the above-mentioned coasts ; and, by order of his Majesty, I transmit the same to your ho nonr for your information," &c. AUGUST 6.—The Castle of the runtal and the bat tery o' La Aguada have been firing upon the Tro. cadero; and two English bomb-vessels have been discharging their broadsides at the Castle of Santa Catalina. - Two enemy's privateers, which were seen in the hay at an early hour in the morning, captured a coasting vessel, with which they steered their course for Roo. AUGUST 7.—The skirmishing parties are conside. /ably augmenting in Andalusia. One of them lately attacked, between Lebrija, Trebrugena, and Xeies, daachment of 100 hussars of the Qd regiment, wi;ich they completely defeated, as they also did an other detachment that had come from Xeres to their tssiNtance. The acts of oppression which the Van dal• cminit in these quarters are so numerous, that they admit of comparison only with the number of the boasted triumphs which they daily publish in their papers, with an effrontery which is unparalleled. OTTANBURGH AWL. OREBRO, AUGUST 21. The important object for which the Diet was con s?: ke,l, has this day been happily accomplished by the nomination of a Crown Prince. His Serene High s the Prince of Ponte Covvo, who has been chosen trb fiil that exalted station, was proposed. by his Ma ;zsty% - Unaliktiously elected; so perfect vial; the b‘s prevailed on this occasion, that ri..t more than half i hour was occupied in the deli s; Immediateiy after the decision, Count Was directed to proceed to Paris to announce to the Emperorynd the - Pritice. . iighness had sent hh,her his own portrait, with is Princess and son, accompanied with letters ig assurances of the ioterest b 5 took in the of this kingdom, and pointing out the means :h he hoped to ameliorate it: s situation. Among ly be eziomerated the re-pury hase of the estates :rania, which were given t French officers hp late war; a 'voluntary lout of 8,000,000 at an interest of four per cent. which in to be appropriated to national purposes, and iris y and extension of our commence. C4TTENBURGI - 1, AUGUST .es. ces have been received here today of a French 20,000 men having entered Rostock pi) the THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. of Pont* Corvo, 2,, a proper person to be chosen Crown Prince of Sweden: 44 At a period when, after a long Session the last Diet separated, the fairest prospect of peace opened for Sweden; after a long series of severe misfortunes, last ing tranquillity seemed to have been obtained for this kingdom. Three Treaties of Peace had seethed the dominion which remained at the end of a destructive war, and a generous Prince placed near the Throne, promised powerfully to support the constitution formed by the States of the Empire, and every thing promised to well-disposed Swedish citizens certain indemnifica tion for past misfortunes. His Royal Majesty fondly shared in the pleasing hope in which his faithful sub jects indulged on this head, when one of these unex pected blows, with which PROVIDENCE at times de- , stroys the hopes of men, annihilated ours. The Crown Prince Charles Augustus was no more, and his death shrouded the future destinies of Sweden in a dreadful gloom. His Royal Majesty, with a mind deeply affected by a loss, universally so severely felt, yet mindful of his royal duty, contemplated the state of public affairs, and felt thoroughly convinced, that for the preservation of the independence of the Swedish Empire it became indispensably necessary to secure, without the least delay, the succession to the throne, which appeared to him the only means of preserving the tranquillity of the Empire, by a firm and wise government, founded on the fundamental laws of the constitution of our country. Deeply im pressed with those sentiments, his Majesty perceived with pleasure that the voice of his people, equally aware of the necessity speedily to choose a successor to the Swedish throne, loudly and unanimously de clared in favour of the Prince of Ponte Corvo. Bril liant exploits have illustrated his name as a warrior, at the same time that eminent talents mark him one of the most skilful statesmen of our age. Univer sally admired for the probity of his character and the mildness of his temper, he found opportunities, even in the midst of the misfortunes of war, to shew his attachment to the Swedish nation, by the kind and friendly manner in which he treated the Swedish offi cers and soldiers whom the chance of war subjected to his power. All these circumstances and consider ations could not but fix his Majesty's attention and determine his resolution, when the question was, to propose a successor to the Swedish throne. Yet his Royal Majesty has not failed to take on this important question the sense of the states of the empire, and of the secret committee of the Council of State, a large majority of the former, and the unani mous opinions of the latter perfectly coincided with his Majesty's sentiments on this point. His Royal Majesty thinks,that by confiding the future destinies of Sweden to the Prince of Ponte Corvo, his well earned military fame, while on the one hand it se cured the independence of the state, will on the other hand render it seperfluous for him to engage in fresh wars ; that his strong mind, tutored by long experi ence, will maintain national tranquillity and order, and secure to our faithful subjects a long and undis turbed enjoyment of the blessings of peace ; and, lastly, that his son will remove in future times that uncertainty of succession to the throne which some late lamentable events have rendered still more im portant to this country. " From all these considerations his Royal Majesty feels obliged to propose to the assembled states of the empire, his Serene Highness John Baptist Julian Ber nadotte, Prince of Ponte Corvo, as Crown Prince of Sweden, and his Royal Majesty's successor to the Swedish throne. His Royal Majesty must, however, expressly add the reservation, that should the said Prince be chosen by the states of the empire, succes sor to the Swedish throne, he must, pursuant to the fun damental laws of their kingdom, before helarrives on Swedish ground, adopt the tenets of the pure evange lical creed, and also sign a similar assurance, as the states of the empire formed for the late Crown Prince. His Royal Majesty has now performed the duty pre scribed to him by the Constitution of the Realm, and now expects the resolution of the States. May the choice which they are about to make. secure the glory and prosperity of our beloved country, and thus fulfil the most earnest wish, which his Royal Majesty can ever entertain. " CHARLES." MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3. Lowsou Buawr .-Holiday at the Bank, Exchequer, and Stamp-Office. Since our last arrived a Gottenburgh mail with in telligence from Stockholm to the 21st, from Orebro to the 22d, and from Gottenburgh to the 2'th ult. The event which► we were prepared to expect by the last accounts has actually taken place in Sweden. BSRWADOTTE has been elected Crown Prince. He was proposed to the Diet on the 18th ultimo by the reigning Sovereign in a short speech, and elected after half an hour's deliberation I—The subserviency of the parties, and the facility with which the business has been effected, very much resembles the decision of a representative for one of our rotten boroughs, and the means employed to procure unanimity, were, we doubt not, in some respects, perfectly similar. Similar accounts have been received by 3overnment in dispatches brought by the PRIMROSE gun-brig, ar rived at Yarmouth from Gottenburgh. Im 'Cadiz Gazettes to the 13th ult. with a number of private letters have also arrived, from which we have given some extracts. The recent alteration in the Government of the Caraccas appeals to be considered by the Regency somewhat in the light of an act of rebellion, and is to be punished as such. They have proclaimed that settlement in a state of rigorous blockade, Prohibit ing the introduction of provisions, arms, or ammu nition, and the eeportation of the produce of the country. The usual penalties of revolt are denounced ; against the authors of the late proceedings, who are FrOCItHOLM, AUGUST so. I described as a few persons of unbounded ambition." full , 'wing is the Speech, in which his Majesty, 4n opening, however, is left for reconciliation.— 11 - 444 ' 1 '4 Prcrg4 to the Dies the Pri n c e Thi Revolutionist", on making due subnikicin, are to be admitted to the advantages ea general 2nmeitl. —lt remains to be seen whether the colonists will pay any regard to these denunciations. This unex pected measure will prove a source of considerable embarrassment to this country, and we cannot help thinking it a very unwise exercise of a barren autho rity. The true policy of the Spanish Government would have been to have passed over in silence the events in the Caraccas, and to have waited the oppor milky for conciliation. It is possible, however, that an actual rupture be tween the mother country and the Caraccas may yet be avoided ; for we understand that the deputies from that colony, who were lately in this country, have solicited the mediation of the British Government, and that such concessions are expected to be made to the Co lonies as will prevent any serious rupture. One of the points which the Marquis WELLESLEY, whsle in Spain, pressed upon the attention of the Supreme Junta was, 4 , that the same act of the Junta, by which the Regency shall be appointed, and the Cortes called, shall contain the principal articles of redress of grie vances, correction of abuses, and relief of exactions in Spain and the Indies, and also the heads of such concessions to the Colonies, as shall fully secure to them a due share in the Representative Body of the Spanish Empire." We learn also by letters from Trinidad, that the decision of the inhabitants of Mexico to adhere to the fortune of FERDINAND, and to preserve their loyalty to the Mother Country, so long as it asserted its inde pendence, has been adopted by several other provinces; and amongst them Guayana, which has seat Commis sioners to Cadiz, with assurances of their attachment and zealous co-operation in the glorious struggle, and to inquire in what manner their assistance can be most beneficially employed for the general weal. But, whatever may be the wishes of those who may be desirous that the ancient relations should be maintained between Spain and her colonies, we think an important change cannot be averted, especially when we consider the ♦icinage and interests of the United States, and the influence they will probably exert to excite a separation. A gentleman who lately left Alicant states, that there were 10,000 men in garrison there, and in the neighbourhood, and that 9000 were in Carthagena. They were well clothed, provided, and disciplined, and in high spirits. It was supposed, that General BLAKE would arrive in a few days to assume the command of these forces, with whom it was intended to undertake some offensive operation against Slums. TIAN', The following Extract of a Letter is from a British Naval Officer. " Cadiz, August 12. " The siege proceeds very slowly—the enemy are, either from the want of heavy mortars, or ammuni tion, very quiet, except at night, when they blaze away furiously from Matagorda batteries, to prevent our boats passing Portalis Point, whither we send them, under cover of night, to the watering place— they unfortunately hiLone of our boats a few nights since, and killed two seamen. Portalis and Mata gorda are continually amusing each other. The French are every day strengthening the latter place, by the completion of different batteries ; and I dare say, •when they are all finished, we shall not hare much rest from that quarter. We lie out of sten range from Matagorda, but not of St. Catherine, The enemy have no mortaxs at the latter place, as yet, otherwise we should not lie so quiet. Our bombs and mortar boats have made several attacks on it, but without effect—we must either destoy that fort, or be obliged to shift farther out. " The French force here, including a reinforcement of 4000 that have lately jeined, amounts to 19,000, a number not more than a quarter sufficient to reduce (Cadiz, if the Spaniards here stand true to their cause. 'We have 8000 British, 1500 Portuguese, and 17,000 Spanish regular troops, in the isle Leon, independent of Militia, Volunteers, and many thousand idlers, or lookers-on ; in the whole, a number more than suffi ciesit to eat the force opposed to them i but I do not think they are prime. General GRAHAM has proposed several times to attack the French in their entrench ments, but the Junta are so ti*id they are afraid to try the issue. " The enemy suffer more from the Spanish pea santry than from their regular forces, and are conse quently more afraid of them. Last week they were obliged to send 1700 men to escort a courier through the country. The peasants never spare them when they can lay hold of them, which the enemy know full well. " Our picquets, and those of the enemy, have fre. quent skirmishes, which are scarce worth mentioning as to consequences. The fall of this place certainly depends upon the success of MASSENA over Lord WELLINGTON, (in which case he would be able to detach 30 or 40,000 men here) ; or on the escape of the Toulon fleet ; were they to elude the vigilance of Sir CHARLES Coy- T.oN, and come here with troops, I do not think the Spaniard: would fire a :hot at them ! They would be so pmnic•struck, not one would know how to act. 4i There is a very strong French party still ezisaing here ; some of whom have had the audacity to tell us, that if we (the Navy) take away their ships, they will keep our troops iu the Isle of Lcon ; but I much query whether our 8000 would not beat the whole of their forte; and in spite of their influence and threats) we shall get all thi Simi* ships away- into • The importan v: ke,l, has this c rotalination of a .tic s the Prince c = to fill that exatt . j zsty, nani p;ing,olay which rt..t more than 4 Per . :ltions. imrr Moine.; was dire • the event to the kits. Highness that his Princ . gontaipiStg asset' .• welfare of this I by which he ht.p Psi may be etill loniOraniA, the sate •••.%. at al • —Etst is to be al] • •.• •-•,-,:uriry and (•;tiT :iicssha:e . 20,00(1 1. .t . ,7•Lant. folJnv, ls : r in i 44 3 41 iPO plaeea of fitetp—rneet of them are already and, owing to the great exertions made Admiral, Sir R. KEATS, the remainder for ma this evening ; I expect they will England we furnish an officer and 60 in working them 44 We have no amusements here. The and operas art all stopped on account Trade is rather active, considering the war. Provisions are plentiful, and water at present in abundance, just without the monasteries are converted into magazines, are well-stored with American flour and duce : therefore, while we have the - and keep the port open, no apprehension tertained of a want of provisions. 64 The Cortes are to assemble on the is a day of great expected moment for MSS of the people do not like the Regency so close in their proceedings, that they pect treachery." Government have, at the WELLiNGTON, determined on sending out a considerable supply of gold medals, of being presented to such Officers a, or may hereafter, particularly distinguish by their good conduct before the enem- Portugal; We understand that it is the intention , ment to grant an allowance of five shillings on application being made for the same, cers that were sent home from _ _ charge of, sick soldiers, which allowance tend from the day the Officers left their until that of rejoining them. Thi is given in consideration of the Officers deprived of the benefit of a regiment other extra expenses to which they were , exposed, during the period they were employed duty above mentioned. The Lords of the Admiralty, and Commissioners the Navy, have made a strict survey of ordinary at the different ports. They fins ford, and ordered fifteen ships to be Warrant Officers that are old, disabled, , .wise unfit for sea service, are to be invalided ; the others, with their wives and families, have a ship allotted them to live in, till vacancies fall out. The Morning Star cartel has arrived at Plymouth, from Morlaix, with British prisoners. A Mrs. At: !ARSON and her two children came over in her. Mn.s A. hpd been six years detained in France. The Active cartel was lying at Morlaix when the More. ing Star sailed, for the purpose of bringing dispatches from Mr. /vitKanzie. The Union cartel saikd from Plymouth on Friday, for Morlaix, with an Americas Gentleman, &urged with dispatches from Mr. Pim. NET to the American Minister in Paris. The dispatches from Mr. Macao/am received by this conveyance announce that so lace as Tuesday 10 Mr. MACKENZIE had received no answer to the r6i, • of our Government, which was forwarded c Paris three weeks before. We understand he ha sent home for instructions, and has detained the abaft cartel for the purpose of bringing over any comm. liCatiort he might receive previously to their arrival. Letters from Buenos Ayres of the 12th June, state, that great commercial facilities were expected in can. sequence of the recent revolution. The duties on cx• pals from that settlement had been reduced fifty pa cent. but no alteration in those on imports had Like _ _ _ Letters received on Saturday from Teneriffe, state, that 2,000 French prisoners had been landed at Net Oratava from Cadiz, within the last six weeks. Saturday morning, the PENELOPE frigate, Captain DICK, arrived at Portsmouth from the Halifax Sta. tion, in 27 days. She does not bring any important news. The affairs between this country and Ame. rica were considered as most amicably arranged.— Sir Rims Wannes expects shortly to be relieved.— The garrison under Sir GEORGE Pitevorr was very healthy. Major General Howson, Governor of tier- Much, and suite came home in the PEXILLOPE. The following ships were lying at Halifax, when the Ps. NELOPE sailed :--Gusnatzus, MELAMPM (and her valuable prize from the Isle of France). CLEoptreA, EoLos, HALU/AK, EMULOUS, LITTLE BELT, SI;RISAM, le BERNAIs (lately commissioned) Mast, and SRC& ROCK. The Snassaocx had just captured a very ea• luable ship, from the Cape of Good Hope, bound to Rouen, laden with saltpetre. The DRlvia -and ATA. &ARTA sailed on a cruize on the Sd ult. The Dili gents store-ship, which s a il e d f rom H a lif ax w i t h t he PENELOPE, put into Plymouth. Accounts were received on Saturday from Guada• loupe, dated the 28th of July, at which time a violent gale prevailed, and it was apprehended many ve. , els would be driven on shore off Point-a-Pere, Ind amongs others the St. Andrew, the Elizabeth, and the Sibella, of London. An epidemic fever, supposed to be occasioned by an unusually long want of lain, lately occasioned gri at mortification at the Isleof May ( nne of the Cape de Veld Islands) The island contained about 800 inhabitants, and it is apprehended that more than a fourth part pe• rished. When Captain Clams*, of the Hero, totieted there some weeks since, one of the inhabitants tnl,t Lira he had lost nine sans within a tew d.tys. No rain t.ad fallen in the Isle of May for four years, and tbo hest during the present summer has been unusually gre..•. Three persons who were passengers in tr.e ship Margaret, of Salem, which was stated some tints since to have upset at sea, were picked up by an Amc rican, and landed at Boston. They had been in the hi it thirty-seven days, after having remained by the wreck seventeen ; and seeing 19 of their compaeions pets!' through want of food. At the moment of their deliverance they had been five days without the ka't subsistence; and two of their companions expired is the act of removal. It has been observed by an Author of some.cele brity, that , 4 Chance has more to do in the aff,ors of this world, than the vanity and sell-sufficiency of mankind are willing to allow." Of this many per sons will .00n be satisfactorily convinced, by the drawinz of the present Lottery, which contains more of the highest Class of Capitals than any Lotter! °f so few Tickets was ever ksow so 4 already ge ne; • lade by our new der will be re n d r will proceed k ir • 60 men toad The bull-fi g h i runt of the sie g the state of f ft 1 water to b e at the lines. A, tagazines, and other pr s , command at so, lion need be the 15th, whi c h • for Spain. Ti e egency ; they ate ey naturally sus endation of Loi out immediately for the purpose as have already, gnish themselves ;my in Spain e ntion of Germ, billings per den ame, to all O(. Walcheren, owance is to et. t their regiments, • This allowance cers having bees =nal Mess, and were unavoidably employed on the Commissioners of of all the ships finished at Dept. se sold. All the tbled, and other. e invalided ; the lies, have a ship s fall out. red at Plymouth, re. A Mrs. At: Dyer in her. Mn. in France. The when the More. Pinging dispatches ca r tel sailed from vith an American ; from Mr. Pixel. trig. Mites received by :e as Tuesday lan answer to the siti• was forwarded to r id eritan d he ha etained the above wer any comma. to their arrival. e 12th June, state, in can. T reduced fifty pet mports had take n Tenerife, state, en landed at Pon I SIX weeks. e h x duties cte on cr. d frigate, Captain the Halifax s:a. ag any important suntry and Ame• ably arranged.— to be relieved.-- REVOTT was very Governor of Ber• PENELOPE. The ax, when the Pr ' MOE% (and her ice). CLE,OP VIR At BELT, SUKISAM' ;EPASf, and SIIA ,pcured a very ra• Hope, bound to hi via • an d A TA' d a l t . The DI" Halifax with We