Star. — London, England, 1817-12-27 00:00:00

a7* AllioNiiinimmonemasowli AMERICA. I TV$ WATIGNAL 111121.110112111*11.3 We - end...teed that a Treaty was signed at the foot of the. Rapids, of the Miami, of Lake Erie. the 29th alt. by Goesenor.Cass anctGen. M'Arthei. Costagagmen app oieted by the Pretties* of the `limited States, and the Chiefs of the Waindot, Dela. Amm o Shawnee... Paws, °noway, Chippewa, 'aid PeltlleatelltY tribes, kr which the latter bare eededie the United States all the lands which they claimed Within the limits of the State of Ohio. It is understood, that she Indians now residing ot the sedid lands will net remove Irons them, bet will remain and be-subject. cvatetreetht to the 'ewe of d the State of Ohio, and those of the United States.... They have reserved to thentselves, within the ceded territory, a number of separate track' of land, atom. Ling altogether to MAO acres, which is to be held by them in fee tiotple,ander a patent from the Pled. dent of the United States. and subject to be alienated with his approbetion, but to be exempted from mew lion, so long as% remains Indian property, This Treaty, whether considered in its fiscal, pool tittal, or moral offsets, may be considered as one of the most important which has ever been entered into - with our red brethren. The quantity of land ac quired is between seven and eight millions of acres, equal in quality and-titivation to any other track of land of similar ext.ot in the United State!) and will, front the facility *afforded to emigrants from the New England States Sind that of New York, by means of the Lake navigation, be settled with an unexampled rapidity, end will bind\togetber and strengthen the whole extent of our north-west frontier, in such a manner as to make the acquisition, in a military point of view; invaluable:* The Treaty lately concluded with the Cherokees, and that now alluded to, forms the commencement of a system by which the white and red population of our country will be amalgamated by a gradual but sure process t the foundation of which was laid by Mr. Jefferson, when he introduced his systeto for the promotion of civilization among the Indians—a system that has diffused among them a knowledge of the value of property, created a corresponding desire to appropriate it spectfically, and impressed them with the necessity of adequate lash for its protection. Those Treaties were entered into under instruc. dons issued into through the Department of War, and will evince to the citizens of the Western States that their essential interests ere understood and at. tended to by the Government. GENISSEE, NOVEMBER S. On Friday lett a storm of rain commenced, which ' co,.n tinned with little intermiuion until Sunday morn. lag, and occasioned a freshet, which, for height of water and destructive effects, has not been equalled since the settlement of this •country. The Genoese. • river was on Monday last at 11 , htiht which had not been known since the great fl nearly 58 years ago, and which is recollected by some of our oldest bodkins to have swept off several of their habitations, - sod in which many of the tribe then residing at their mtdernent en the tits abotit two and a half miles above ibis place. lost tkeir lives. Weisser sof the loss °Tuttle in many places. On • Allah Cask in bilisidkbury. in one instance.. a whole ahicit sheep was Cardiett off, and parts of several other Socks were destroyed. It would be haposeible to enumerate the various individsal loins that have occurred, or to estimate the meant. The calamity has bun distressiag and extensive beyond precedent. ' BALTIMORE, NOVEMBER 14. CBI Sunday morning last. the schooner Traveller'i, Captain Allen, sailed from a port on the' 'share, of this State, near to New .Market. i a lter. 'county, .boand for Petersburgh in vie sad theoce for a port in Georgia, having on besidee the Captain, two white men and 27 heroes,' mea, women, and children, claimed as slaves by the white passengers. On Tuesday morning, in ;the enough of the Patuxent, where the schooner was .altiacher. while the Captain and his two white pas. illeges‘irers below at breakfast, ten of the men; slaves vibe woti .manacled, broke their fetters, de. eland thesoselvee free. put . the white men it irons, hoisted anchor and sail, and brought the schooner to iti ll p re t. where Ay Arrived early this morning.— n, passengers, ant nearly all the slaves, t weets this day brought before the Judges of Baltimore faCovet. for the pupate of investigating the trans. a. The two pass ners state, that during their viten up from Penmen:, they were robbed by the across of nearly all their wearing apparel, a large is. sum of money, and an. their papers. They claim to 114 1, 4 purchased the negroes as slaves from various *sous co the caste's shots. • SLAVE TRADE 111011:91IED I • Frew the VIDZIAL Raeusucaa sad Barmiooes TBLIOILATI. - It is a'mniark whiels4 have often heard made; and • alis.l also 'seen verifted, that avarice knows no bounds. He who-t0e...10m.y better than his fellow. aostonta,•erni•oot hesitate to sacrifice the one to the nehee...a astailetiSitilko-ioada'oo to a greater, until • Mort trear loath aqe commas riga friendi; and 6 fs>Yvictilns to.apseity. May corroborations' of his fact fatly to broom ainong the traffickers in human blood, **which Maryland abounds. A slight observation will conviocees, that ties of kindred are tow weak to decd the brother from sacrificing the brothei, or the father belts iiiittOiSatiag the son. A raufattu yonth . came.* few days ago toe . reqiectalsie gesideman of &hinters, and, with tears in his epee. toilts gestapo. - ' 6 My father and mother (says are about Endtig ~, :LONDON. ' SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, UM. ST. Jess.--iloiday at the Bank, Excbaquer, and Beoth•ies Home The two days Paris Papers which were in smear. have arrived just as we are about going to peen. Their columns are almost wholly occupied with the continued Debates of the Chambers on the Pro jects of Law suspecting the Liberty of the Press, and the Finances.• In the Chamber of Deputiei on Monday, M. Put brought under reconsideration the singular manner in which the part of the Project on the Liberty of the Press, which relatedtothe,lournals, had been detached from the rest, and passed en the instant as a distinct law by itself. TheChansber. after many discussions, bad been on thdpoint of proceeding to the determine don of thq whole articles of the Project in regular order, when a nkotion was made to separate the 27th Article and vote Upon it first $ this motion was carried, and the question being then put on the Amendment pro- posed by the Commission on Article 27, tbet &bend ment was carried, and a deilaration added in the Minutes of the Sitting that it should be emitlerd es . law. M. Fur pratested that such a mode of proce-' dare was utterly illegal—that, in order to convert into a law the Amendment oftbe would be nectresart also to bawl, an'Ordonnenets of the King convertinir it into a Project of Law, as the right of initiating laws Tested exclusively 'with his Majesty. In this objection M. PUT was supported by M. Vp.t.aca and. several other Members phut us the previous question being moved (no very credit- Able way, as M. de Pter Observed, of getting rid of a question of such vital iniportaece) it was carried by a great majority. . The Chamber neat proceeded to the discussion of an interim Project of Law connected with the Bud• get, which, after some discussion passed, is the fol lowing terms:-Ist, Provisionally, and until the completion of the Assessment Rolls of 1818, the first six • twelfths of the direct contributions for 1818 shall be levied upon the Rolls for 1817. 2d. Until the promulgation of the new law of Finances, all the indirect imposts shall be received in 1818, according to the laws in force for the service of 1817. 3. In consequence of the two.preceding articles, the Mini ster of Finances shall have a provisionary credit of 200 millions of francs, reserving to the Chamber the right of afterwards regufeting the appropriation shat credit. The consideration of the remaining articles of the Project of Law was afterwards resumed, and in eon sequence doom doubti occurring ona division taking place on a new amendment proposed by the Com mission as to the numbers on each side. a scene of great a m id e ,' gamed, which ended in the Chambers being obliged to 410fer,...ti1l the following day, no. , stied appeal, farthe-putpoonif ascertaining thi tia l sense of the Assembly. The appeal lain accordingly put on Tuesdair, the. amendment was declared to be carried by a mejerhy of 128 'avian 114. ' The effect of it is that no per son shall be permed for a printed writing, unless a whole or 'pan of it has bees published, and that the fact of publication shall not be inferred except from she Wed distriboden of such whole or pan. Of the other Articles of the Project, the roost im portant was that which involved the question, whe ther Trial by Jury should be introduced in cans of &dicta of the resat The question was nor, bow. ens, met ee its merits, bet encountered bra motion for the pievions question, which, we revet *Rye was carried, and the conned of the press tins lift in tba bands of a partial and oakum police. The Chamber did pot. at this Bitting, get through the whole of the remaining Articles, and deferred the dud conclusion of this long-nratened matter till the following day. A Report from the Conenissioaen Of the Sinking Fund was, at thesaate sitting, presented to the Chin*. her, and ordered to be ptinird. It appears to involve materials for considerable discus ion. The pars of the Project 01 . Law on the Press re spectingthe Journals, which had been passed as a dig- Cunt law, was presented to thethavnber of Peers on Tuesday, but instead of entering into a public discui iion upon it, they hive remitted it to . a spacial Com mittee, composed of the following Members s-i-Mar. leis Dissom,s, Marquis de LALLY TOLLIDIDALp Marquis de MARBOIip Count ABIUAL, and Viscount de LAMOIGNON. An opposition was raised by some Members to the reception of the Project, on the sane ground of un constitutional informality which had been mooed in the Chamber of Deputies, but without effect. The Funds have had a partial rise. The 5 per Cents. vase on Tuesday at 641 r. 10c. A Letter from Berlin, brought by the last Mail, states, that the Anti• Anglo Manufacture Association makes more noise than converts. There are, it is said, some Prussians, who would rather ruin them selves than wear any thing not of German manufac ture; but in general the buyers prefer, as might reasonably be expected, those articles which, tweeds paritsu, they can buy cheapest, never troubling them selves to enquire whether manufactured at Potsdam or Birmingham. Our Readers have been before • informed, that a very essential change has lately taken place in the Prussian Cabinet. Baron SCHEICKMAtiN o the Minister of the Interior, is no longer at the head of that de partment, and his place has been given to Baron ALT/Miran!, who had for some years been out of the Cabinet ; during, and indeed before that time, he has been much devoted to literary pursuits, and to Botany and other blanches of Natural History. in another colUmn we have given the reasoning advanced by Judge WASHINGTON, as preliminary to his committal of eleven British officers to prison at Phi ladelphia, on the allegation that the transporting their own bodies through the United States, in a journey, presumed to have for its ultimate result a junction with the Patriots of South America, .amounts to a breach of the Law of the United States of 1794, in asmuch as the removing of Asir own bodies to the scene of warfare is Enmeshing the principal means of war, military weapons being very harmless articles, when not accompanied by bands to - wield them. In spite of this weak man's reasoning, the fact remains as we stated it on Tuesday. All travellers have * right so pass unmolested through any country with which we are at peace, nor has that country any thing vdo with the ultimate object of their jonswey, but only with vinlation of the laws of the traversed sanitary. I It is not pretended that these Officers were levying recruits in the United States or fitting' out arme4l vessels. They were oittlkaansPoniPtiheis own. Par. sons, and only carried with them their aide arm% which every half pay British Officer has aright it? wear t nor were they even taking out a passage di. rut for South America (but for the West Indies), tbough,as this “ second bAHLICL" must have known, there were abundance of vessels then clearing out directly and openly for South America ! though he has ant presumed to interfere with the voyage or des tioation of those vessels—and though it is notorious th a t these vessels carry with them arms and muni tions of war. The meaning of the law is obvious: it is in effect and principle, the same as the laws of the European States respecting neutral belligerents--that arma• meats shall not be fined out in their ports avowedly for the berviee of either of the parties. How would Imams look, were he to learn that eleven subjecti of the United States, taking a passage from England for the West Indies, bad been cast into prison -on the pretext or suspicion, aye or even the certainty, that their ultimate object was to join themselves to the army of Faantsaun or of the Patriots-in South A awe .rica Is such a case we mould have abundance of Yanky slang in the columns of the American papers, , respecting thelawlass arrogance of the English Judge who presumed to imprison an American subject. However, we feel quite Confident that our Govern= went will not suffer this act of foreign oppression so pen without due reprehetuion and satisfaction. This morning we received American- Papers one day later than our last supply. The iiTerionkirst4. - `go war of the 24th ultimo, states, that several Agents from South America are at present in the United States, with whose names and capacities .the Editor professes to-be but little known, but promises to make mot &ries for the information of his Readers. He 1 1 adds.-4 M. Germ who bad been lo ng in tlati United States, and whom we have always respected for every thing we. know of him, formerly seat as Mi nister from Venezuela, is Dow stated by the Aram to have been appointed Governor of Amelia Island, under the flag of Mexico." Of this appointment the' Southern paper gives us no information. The same paper informs us, that Se Don Maxim. de Aomays, Commissioner from the Independent Governments of South America, Buenos Ayres, and Chili, has appointed Don Kamm Movsoto to be his Agent in Baltimore." M. Away:, of whose official capacity we are thus apprised was, we under stand. lately in London. We do not learn from the papers before us that Judge WASHINGTON batiet cast any of these avowed agents into prison ; but, of cot.:se, eie may expect soon to have this ettdeneeof forte the law of 1794 —according lightened interpretation of its he can how quote a precedent Accounts of the llth instant capital state, that the usual -' 'the whole country, and the experienced inlublie affairs. the acknowledgment of the plan of Way', and Meatus to create for the liquidation of the same, moon for nearly the last eighteen Jess it is no farther advanced tbz This subject, in short, it would ! nal, .but it is a curious fact, 11i creditors of the Spanish Crown lidgmeot of their debts, nor - fumble security for the payment credit of the Minister is not now worse than it' was last year, because the Ling only can bring him to account. A Council•of State had been held c 2 the 10th, respecting this same affair, but it was ,pected it would not be more conclusive than the au. krous former ones.. The sitting had been elliciy Inecupled in the perusal of a Memoir, written by the Duke de SAN FenstAnoo, President of the en:flea cf Ordenes, in which he endeavoured to prove the sanc tity of the origin of miltary encentiendas, the invio lability of the sacred property appropriated for their support, (which, it will be remembered, is consider. ably affected by Gasawe's new plan), the utility of the resources which these said military orders hao furnished to the Government on various occasiOns emergency, the little necessity of disposing of property for the present, and la, policy of retaining it for more Noble Orator, however, agreed, might be mongaged, en masse, tee for such wears as the under, or serve, in the way for any future operations into wished to enters This Memoir sensation - in the Council, and had requested a copy of it, as a Prince LeOPOLD has dined Duchess of Gun:corm nt Duke nod Duchess pi Yost at fess dap. • The etpoft that Prince LIMIPOLD Cletemo,t, has beeis nth i..ly ford House, and no Claremont, Royal Highness is quitiing. Some materiel erects were from Windsor, . which appeeped Thursday last, respecting our justly happily a:flirted Monarch: His sent state of seclusion, we can gives no orders himself ; but real is anticipated as far as‘ possible ' the persons about his bA AJMITT I DOT WS he been made sensible of the &enmity of the Queen's absence frau Windsor for a time, on account of her MAJcset's health. The Queen's going to Bath, therefore, and her Iblisiesee's return from thence, ace alike utterly unknown to the Roo, and canna, of course, have given occasion to any irritation in his MAJESTY'S mind. Upon the truth of this statement the public may in *eery particular-most perfectly rely. An excellent full-length likeneu of MARY Queen of Scots, taken shortly before her decapitation, sad presented to. the Scots College at Doug, was hid during the furor of the Revolution in a chimney a the College, but has lately been la aught from its place of concealment, and seat to the Scots College in Pak, where it has been repaired, and is now an attractive object to visitors. The VICE.CHANCELLOR returned to town on Thurs. day, from a visit to the Earl and Countess of Esse; it their seat, Cashiobury Park. Lord and Lady ELLitsmottonon are entertaining a party of fashionables at their villa in Roehamptoa. A poor but sturdy author once presented a book to JAMES the Second, in the great Chamber at White. ball, as he passed from tho Chapel, but owitied the usual ceremony of kneeling to the lima The Dull of RICHMOND, who was in attendance, said, u Sir, where did you learn the manners not to kneel 1" The author replied, 4, If it please your Grace. I do lice now ; but when I come to be: any thing, they will I kneel." The late Sir TfICOIAS COULSON being present with a friend at the burning of. Drury-lane Theatre, and observing several engines hastening to the spot, after the fire had been extinguished, remarked, that they were " in:nu cui lumen ademptuns." Yesterday, at 12 o'clock, the following Centimes waited upon the Cnawcia.toa.of the Exciatera,l o contract fer a New-Lottery :—Me. Ban, Mr. ROLL, Mesas. HAZARD and Co. Ids. SIVEWRICRIP and Mr. Mum, when all the Gentlemen united, and entered into a Contract for Forty Thousand Ticket , ' at £l4 per Ticket. Some time since a Member of the American Con gress who was not content with the usual drink el lowed by the House (molasses and water) begged for a little *irksome mixture. The door-keeper remon strated against this innovation, on the ground of not knowing to what account be should charge the et penditare. "To which account do you charge the customary drink ?" said the honourable Member. "To that of statiosary," replied the doorkeeper: " Then charge the brandy," rejoined the Memberf " to that of fad." Dr. FRANKLIN himself, with all his sanguine pre dictions of America becoming a great independent power, could scarcely h ave ant i ci pated that an Ara rims els* of else Eat, beating his own name, would roc voy the American Minister to England in the yen 1817. A more extraordinary instance of sudden dczth than the following has not recently occurred s—Mr. Clark, toll•keeper of the Greenwich Trust, alo is also a hair-dresser, was shaving a Gentleman a lew days ago, and was suddenly taken ill; he said Oh! In; head," and falling on tLe ground,:nstantly •to pawn to Georgia."--0 Your father a mother I" replied the redeuseu, with surprise, a what right • have they to sell you My Lather," answered de boy, »is a 'whits ma, Mr. a averricos in this ' *ea. My mother is a yellow woman, with whoni my. father ohm cohabited. She has had several chit. dos by his., all af . wboat have been sold to Georgia but osysell. He is this moesem Jhergoiiiiirrwith a Slave., Trader for Meo w The_podeinas prosittil his emit- Noe but tab - late. The bargain was already made. 21‘.14aforinnam youth was immediately home off in efiliffeeers, execrations end intrude', baadsiged sad driven lint* Is a &Int •- • r =.61••• we see am ezipeole of the destructive 100ssee if smirks an tbilmaim trued. The 1110 St gins die which Cliklied;b11111118 WilltiTOS tog,. . dor, ate vidleidy brakes s tie fts is sold by the pa. • r WA, shunt desire to media' to Ms own e , s meaning, especially rx Of his own makinp. sr 'ant from the Sitini gloom still hangs us ik same proantinatian The great question t Public Debt, and ti create a Sinking Fun e, has now ken in agi hem months, newat e than when it first begs old appear will be tree that though the :town have no acknre, or any axed nr tran Al neat of the same, the Cl d lastly. the preferab re urgent wants. Th th eed, that the proper p i e, as a kind of guaran. Government laboure of collateral security s ) o which the Treaso. it had created a mon d the Finance Minister A a guidance to hisphr. tw d with the Duke an * Bagshot, and with di t Outlands, within th 11 0 111. D h removint r A contradicted. Came f, Dont, is the house Es: ; wo e contained in the L sod in our Papet r justly beloved but on A , if MAJZSTY, in his , e now confidently state to , very wish he may bare As by the attention of .`~ , not, the brother by the brother. Such isaelPluc are net rare. They often occur, and to the disgrace of our county', excite scarcely an expression of disap probation. The meter cobalfits with his dove. The °Espies of soak illicit commerce, are treated in all respects as if they were unconnected with their permits ; as if they were brutes—one would think that they might receive acme small mid. gation of their calamities. But no, they are driven with the common driver. By their father, the nearest relation they have in the world, they are enslaved, tortuted, and doomed to die-by inches. As mach es' the guilt of a parricide exceeds the guilt of an ordi nary murderer, so much does the guilt of such a fa ther exceed that of en ordinary slave trader. I defy any man to point out a single example in Savage life, among the whole catalogue of -their crimes, so flagrant as this. They bind their prisoners to the stake, but they do not bind-cuff and fetter their children.. They drink the blood of their ene mies, but they do not immolate their offspring.— They scorn to burst asunder the ties of human Datum. They scorn to violate the rights of kindred: Blush for thyselfobecause that thou, with an thy boasted re. finements ? in more savage than the savages of the wilderness. But'l cannot but cherish the hope, that this foul stain on the honour of our country will soon be washed away; and that the next Legislature of Maryland, sensible that the glory of every Govern ment consists in cultivating this happiness of the go verned, will abolish this infamous. traffic in human blood, which now stands like a mighty nsonueneat of our disgrace and our csuelty. MUSIANITAI. THE EVENING STAR: '