Star. — London, England, 1817-12-16 00:00:00

11.1MBDRI;II MAIL. GOTTENBURGII. NOVEMBER 24. Thirteen ships stranded in the last storm. on the oast of Bohn. liartburgh.— Etchiinge on London„ S. 6.-33. 9. FROM THE MAINE, DECEMBER 'S. In Witrtemberg, the Citiz-nb of s,:veriii towns, for instance, Caunstadt and Esslingen, have protested a ga inst the annu a l tax t;rdered by the King, because it is done without the cencurrence of the Statts.— They have been warn:d not to expose themselves to the punialiments fixed by t h e laves. COPENHAGEN, DECEMBER 6. The pops lAtion of D. noilrk is flow 1,700,000. Cur course of exchange is still filling. WEIMAR, DECEMBER I: The Journal called the Opposit . Paper, contains the following article " The Government of the Most Serene Grand Duke has, on the 20th November, " Ist, Signified to the Editor if the Opposition Paper its most serious disappro!ratinn of the insetting of the article contained in Nos. 245, 246, and 247,, Upon the presert relations of France to Foreign - Countries, and particularly to Germany ;' because it riot only contains expressions and injurious opinions, of the kind against which the Ordinance issued under the date of the 3d of May, this year, in the Govern ment Paper, gives serious warning, but also attributed to the actions of the High Allied Powers, motives which are as improperly expressed as they are in tl:t•mselves unfounded ; and because just complaints have, in e'ect, been made against this unbecoming article. " 2dl), Threatened, in case of a repetition of well fniirided complaints of the same nature, that the Paper shall be suppressed. " 3.11 y, Commanded the Editor to insert in-the Opposition Paper, the official reprimand hereby pro nounced.—Weimar, Nov. 25." STOCKHOLM, NOVEMBER 28. Yesterday, as had been hnnonnced, the solemn opening of the Diet of the Kingdom took place.— The Court, the Supreme Tribunal, the Council of State, acc. after attending Divine Service in St. Ni cholas Churi.h, proceeded to the Hall of the Diet, in theyalace, where the ginister of StAe, Count Eng strom, read a Royal Letter, announcing that his Majesty, on account of indisposition, was not able to attend the opening of the Liet, but that he commis sioned the Duke of Suderrnania (Prince Oscar) to read his speech, by which his Majesty intended to give a new proof of his love to that Prince, and his ce.lorieeoce in his people. The Hereditary Prince Oscar hereupon read the Speech, which contained a concise view of all that his Majesty has done for the •iod of the country, and what he still intends to do; and what related to the support of agriculture and commerce, of the manufactories of cloth, &c. His Majesty has aimed at improving the condition of the troops by sea and land ; he has endeavoured to open the way to promotion, to those who shed their blood for their country, and to remove all the obstacles which must oppose the soldier, whose fortune did not Omit of his obtaining the rank of Colonel or Lieute nant Colonel. The pay of the Generals has been in creased, and provision made for their widows, as well es the widows of other Otheers. The Lazarettos and Hospitals, the Academies of Music and the Fine Arts, have received sums of money for their support, and the capital has been adorned with several new buildings. His Majesty hal constantly endeavoured to !Allow the general opinion and the spirit of the times—not to suppress them. His Majesty, in pro. poking to the consideration of the Diet a new and very detailed plan of finance, is far from thinking it so perfect as he could wish, but be thinks the means he proposes are for the present best adapted to cir- 1 cumstances ; and that it will be proper to make a tend of them till the next Diet. His Majesty will be happy if- this project can be useful to the Diet, and if . their own' determinations should be found superior, he will thank Paoviosees for having given their meditation on this important subject, a more advan tageous direction. Let the slave," .says: his Ma jesty, ‘, who sinks beneath the weight of - temporary embarrassment, seck in hope alone the jiiissibility of relief ; the : free citizen himself, .thelopuder of the laws • which he obeys, hims e lf the'difender of the rights to which he appeals, meets the most difficult conjunctures with composure, sure of conquering them, as his fathers have done before him ; sure of leaving this fruits of his cautions and of his fulfilled duties as an inheritance to his posterity." Hereupon the Chancellor Baron Wetterstcdt read the royal pro posals, of which the Land Marshal. and each of the speakers, received copies from the hands of the Crown Prince; they then replied to his Majesty's Speech, and kissed the band of the Crown Prince.— After this was over, the Court withdrew, add the Deputies of the States repaired each to their particu. lar places of meeting. In the evening there was a splendid entertainment at the Palace, io•WhiciP al/ the States participated. The King's Speech contains the following data : g , The amount of the paper currency, which in 1802 was only 14,000,000 of Bank dollars, is now about• 5U,000,000. 44 His Majesty has made many sacrifices to main tain the public credit, and by these, as well as by the advantageous Treaties of Commerce concluded with foreign Powers, has endeavoured to give new life to trade. But bow can either natives or foreigners, says his Majesty, have any confidence in a curreucy which rises or falls SO per cent. in one month? In 1813 the value of corn imported was three millions of Hansborgh Bank dollars f 8750,000). which proves that much is still necessary to be done to encourage agrisaltute. Yet while distress has visited other more favoured hinds, .no inhabitant of Sweden has been the pray of 'famine I nu sea has beheld the natives of Scandinavia hasneo to distant countries, to find the swags pf subsioence, which their 'country denied. ee foreige Subsidiesi and payment of' foreign debt, his Majesty has procured for the Kingdom, with i n ass pears, a sum of near twenty-five Miiiiol2s ot Bank dollars." The levying . of the usual tales to the Crown, and particularly taking the effects of the debtors in exe- Ceiloay has been wholly stopped by his Majesty'u conunied i account of the great scarcity of usoni.y. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. ONLY• ONE DAY TO DRAW—NEXT SATURDAY.— POUR PRIZES Ok Au: woo, ace. IN THE WHEEL. TUESIMY, DECEMBER 16, 1817.' 'RICE. OF 61'OCKS THIS DAY Al' TWEI.VE O'CLOCK Reduced N3#—Cons. shut—Far Opening, 84i 4 per Cent. 99n-5 per Cent. Navy shut Back Long Anne. 21 1-16—India Bonds 100 101 pr. Lxchequer Bills 19 25 pr. In the afflicting details which we yesterday laid betoie our Readers, respecting the desolating hurri. cane of the 21st of October, we were obliged to omit the particulars of damage done at Barbadoes, owing to the want of one paper in the file of American Papers from which we made our extracts. That omission we now supply. Letters received at Nlrfolk, (North America) from Btrhadoes, dated the 22d of October, and carried to the former place by the British cutter George and Ro ert, state, that in the hurricane of the preceding day, fourteen sail of vessels were driven on shore, the greater part of which would be lost ; and that some damage had been sustained in the interior. One let ter, dated Bridgetown, October 21, contains the fol., lowing paragraph : " During the greater part of last night and this day, we have experienced very tempestuous weather from various points of the compass, and whilst it prevailed from the Southward, we have to regret that several vessels were driven on shore. The following are those that we have heard of t—Barque Crown Prince; bril•s Adelphl and Greyhound; schooners Hawed. lacy Nelson,and Fly ; sloops Mantas Spencer, Earl Sandwich, and Economy; and sonic others whose names we have sot yet been able to learn. We are informed that no lives were lost ea thew vessels going ashore ; but one or two Negroes, who he. seeded themselves to pr .cure WOW shingles that were laming user the pier bead, w re drowned, owing to the tremendous surge that they bad to encounter. A guard from the 63d Real. matt has been sent :or the protection of the property that may be saved from those wrecks, and the drums are now summoning a pert of the Royal Regiment for the same purpose." A letter irom Piiii4d-lphia. dated November 23, mentions the arrival of the schooner Josephine, Cap tain Kira, in fiiteen days from Laguira, and twelve from Porto Rico. The Captain stated, that on the 22d October there was a heavy gale, which drove twelve Spanish ships on shore at Laguira, in which one hundred•lives were lost. The American Papers also furnish a confirmation of our former accounts of a war between the United States and the Seminole Indians being deemed inevi table. The grounds of this war, it will be recollected, were correctly stated by us a few days ago. General GAIN= made a demand upon the Seminoles for the murderers of seven whites. They refused, and. in reply, stated, that the Anseticans had killed ten of their tribe, and demanded th i s balance to be given up to them, as the only condition on which they would make peace. The General immediately put his troops in motion, and was shortly expected to be joined by General JACRSoN. Among other topics noticed in the American Pa pers and private letters, Ihe following are most de. serving of attention. The New Yid Goodie of the 22d ult. mentions a report circulated with such circumstances as lo induce a belief that the Government of the United States is '44 determined to take immediate possession of Amelia Island." The Wallas:ft Casette presents the following pa ragraph : , g Istroamsm.—liis circulated among the know ing ones of Washington, that the Spanish Minister has been authorized by his master, Fza.tutioun VII. to make an offer of Florida to the United States, upon terms that our Government will find it advantageous to accept. It is also conjectured the purchase will speedily be effected." The Minister of Portugal, the Chevalier CORYEA DE SaKRA, has taken up his winter residence at Washington. In the Comasirsia/ Aftwtirff of the 21st ult. we meet with the following paragraph In the last Congress was passed • An Act to preserve snore effectually the neutral relations of the United States e we never recollect one instance of this Act having been put in force, although opportunities enough have not been wanting, till lately in the case of the brig Bee, of Bristol, ft. I. which, it appears, was seized by the revenue caner Vigilant, for augment.' ing the number of her ciew and guns after leaving port. Shall we ,guess from this instance, that Spain and her rebellious colonies will be left to fight their own battles, like a couple of pugilists within a circle of spectators, till one or other ot them give up ? If to obtain liberty, as it is calltuf, for the Patriots, was the only prize to he contended fur, this might happen, but the charms of plunder and booty are irresistible," —a pretty cotrect experi of the motives which induce some of our own countrymen, as well as the Ameri cans, to take an active part in the controversy. The only interesting intelligence from South Am. rice is contained in the following letter kom New York, dated November 23: " A , 71 red last evening the ship America. bream?. 97 days from Pernambuco. The captain states, that the Patriotic nose was pinks string* daily, sad that the *bolo of the emit ot Club was in possession ot the fodependente. While air Cape Henry spoke a sloop, which the Captain stated had been cap turd by a Vatrivrlo privauter, aid plundered of every a , dela or value, and foam( his men. 1 be saw Frimws bat how eve. tae In csezpauy Midi Ise tea to he Oat& Praia L. IMAM him with water znd provisions. Ai ssas quiet In the Braziis when the America sailed. The markets were well supplied with all kinds of provisions. Flour was selling at Pernambuco at IS dot. lass and 75 cents. per barrel." We beg our Readers to correct one error in the STAR of yesterday—For 4 4 Kingston, (Jamaica) Oc tober 2 4 2," read Kingston, St. rincenes. By accounts from Port Louis, (Isle of France)'of the 26th August, we learn, that part of the town of Putt Louis, which was consumed by fire in October, 151 6, had not been rebuilt, although there was no want of materials fur that purpose. Lumber and bricks had been imported in great quantities from England, as also frames cf houses and window frames, together with all sorts of kitchen furniture. There are now fire companies established at Pot t Louis, furnished with engines and fire-hooks, the good effects of which have already been experienced.— There was an alarming fire on the 2d of July list, about two o'clock in the morning, which destroyed a very valuable dwelling-house and magazine, with several out-houses, and damaged the adjoining building. There were 500 casks of claret, and 200 bales of cotton in the magazine, besides other merchan dise, all of which was consumed. The wind had been very strong during the fore part of the night. and blew hard when the alarm was first given, which added much to the fears of the inhabitants, as the fire was to windward; bat fortunately the wind fell almost to a calm before the fire was at its height.— The persons having charge of the fire engines and hooks, were very active on this occasion. Sixty-five English and French ships arrived at Port Louis during the month of June last. from Europe. Several American vessels arrived there in July and August. A Hamburgh Mad arrived at a late hour last night, and from the Papers brought by it, we have given some extracts in a a preceding column. The abstract of the Speech of the KING of SWEDEN, on the opening of the Diet of that Kingdom, will, we think, be read with more than ordinary interest. It breathes a spirit of Constitutional liberality and deference which we do not often meet with in such productions. His MAJESTY has constantly endea. voured, be states, to follow the general opinion and the spirit of the times—not to suppress them. —To proposing to the consideration of the Diet a new plan of finance, he professes himself far from thinking it so perfect as he could wish, but trusts the project will be of some use to the Din, as a basis for their deliberations t and it their own determinations should be found superior, his MAJESTY avows that be will feel grateful to Puovinstrcs for having given their meditation on this important subject a more ad vantageous direction. Many sacrifices, he states, have been made by the Crown to maintain the public cre dit, and by these, as well as by advantageous trea. ties of commerce, concluded with foreign Powers, every thing has been done to give a new life to trade. By means also of foreign subsidies and payment of fo rain dk , his MAJESTY has procured for the kingdom within 'is years a sum of near twenty-five millions of Bank dollars. The relief which his MAJESTY has thus been enabled to give his subjects is very striking, and may afford to other Governments, not very dif ferently situated, an instructive lesson.—" The levy ing of the usual taxes to the Crown, and particularly tang the ewe o/she dekors in execution, has been wholly stopped by his MAJESTY'S command, on account of the great scarcity of money." What has been the result ?..-A result which the King of SWEDEN may may well be permitted to boast of—a While distress has visited other more favoured lands no inhabitant of Sweden bas bees the prey of famine—no sea has beheld the natives of Scanainavia h asten to distant countries, to find the means of subsistence, which their own country denied." We regret to have to add to the number of recent losses at sea, that of his Majesty's ship Timm, which was wrecked on the Island of Tristan da Cunha on the Ist of October. Onfy the Captain, two Midship. men, and about twenty-one of the crew, were saved, and these have come home in his Majesty's ship Mu.vu.tx, which arrived yesterday at Portsmouth. Extract of a letter from the Agent to LLovu's, at Poole, dated 15th December, half-past three. P. el Within this hoot we have been visited by a most tremendous storm of wind, rain, hail, thunder, and lightning —the latter awful in the extreme. It is now breaking a little away to the westward." Sunday Mr. Htta., the King's Messenger, arrived in town with dispatches from Cambray. Yesterday morning Mr. Dykes, the King's Mes senger, returned to town from having taken the dis patches to the Princess of MILO announcing the drath of the Princess CUARLOTtg. The sciences have lately sustained a great In:s by the death of the Alibe SCOPPA t at Naples. He was a Nobleman of Messina, and Director of the Schools on the English system, lately established in the king dem—he was in the very prime of life. His work, " On the Poetical Beauties of all Languages, consi-1 dered in respect to the Accent, and iihrhinur," ob tained in 1815 tie prize given by the }tench Insti tution. SCOTCH BURGH BEFORHI. The confirmaticn of the Poll Election of Montrose. by the Patrhcc Ramp? and Privy Council. was received i n Montroar on Monday, the 6th instant, and immediately proclaimed to the inhabitants. The Agent in London, who trans- milted this act of contirmati )))) , expressed at the stme time his doubts of nog noodar extertrioa of 6yr:4 right: iriog grams, from oohed Issued at the Pntis C9 4 26/. (sOl4 Piper.) NAVAL lATELLIGENCP. DEAL, DECEMBER 15, Wind S.W.—Cam e d own Irom theltirer for Madras and B enga l ; an d S tandard, force Arrived e ay—sbe sailed dthel3 I)3T Metcha e r, C ie:et:sae, Orli Aereist, :eel groin t i , Gth October:—on the 31st October, in lat. I lang 23. W. she spoke the Lucy Maria, P. for Bengal.—The Bombay Merchant has rnee voyage from the 1) awns to 1: entry and bate in nine months and five days. POItTeMOUTH, Deamnr.r. Wind S.W.—Arriv e d his Nl•ij , sstre Ehir from India : sail e d f rom Bombay 2 , ..hh M e a. comalee 2Gth July, Cap e 9 t h O cto b er, are" se Ist November. The Ch ar l es Grate ard :he Lad arrived at Bo m b a y 17 t h M ey, from Etr; tn, The Lowjee Family sa il e d from Bo t el ey h r C I on 19th May. Left a: Trincomalee his ships Mnattee and CHALeztecen. His Majesty's ORLANDO sailed from thence on 14th June for' and China. The Gran!, Bell'Ant, and o eor tw of transports, sailed from the Cape for Colombo on ' Octo'rer, with the 83.1 Regime'''. The Ganges arrived at the Cape from England, and was to for Bombay about the loth October. His M tie ship Mow /n.O, and the French frigate N, both from the Isle of France, and the Ha l - Seaman, from the Isle of Tristan du Cunha, at the Cape about 7th October. Left at the his Majesty's ship EURYDICE. The Astrea trat sailed from the Cape about Bth October, and , St. Helena 30th October, for England : left at Helena his Majesty's ships CONQUEROR. ItAcoom, Laymen.. The Friendship, convict ship, ha rived at St. Helena, and sailed for New South k about 18th October ; also another convict ship ( 1 unknown), with male convicts from England, arrived at St. Helena on the Ist November. Majesty's ship JULIA was wrecked on the Ill s Tristan da Cunha on the Ist October, and only Captain, two Midshipmen, and about 21 of the were saved, 'rho cause home in the Mrevuee; parted company from his Majesty's ship Inn, on Ist Dec. off St. Mary's, bound to England. FALMOUTH, DECEMBER ht. Wind S.—Arrived the Duke of Kent Packer, a mail from Lishen, in nine days; she sp-ke Lizard the Hanier, from Quebec for Guernsey. MILFORD HAVEN, DECEMBER le. This afternoon art ived at the Quarantine Stat here the brig Leviathan, JOHN BA LINES Master, Smyrna, with a clean bill of health, bound to Li , pool; sailed thence the 28th October he: ; the on board a cargo of vislorta and Inuit; it lat. long. 7. 19. on the 12th ultimo, spoke the Christoph, of and from L-ndon, for N tples, all well ; left Smyrna, loading, the Eliza Ann, WISE. to Li , pool, and the Argo, of Workington, JAcesox, London.—Arrived also the Hope, CASHMAN, Youghall for Dublin, with grain, having lost . cable and anchor, and foresail split; and the Diii gence Admiralty cutter, from a crurze.—Sailed Sunbury, CRAY% from Liverpool for the Brazils Agenora, BAYNON, from L"ndon for Dublin; Betty, WEDGWO'ID, from Smyrna for Liverpool; Levant, M'INTCSH, from Palermo for Belfast. LIMERICK, DECEMBER to. On the evening of Sunday last, we were visitec with a very heavy gale from S.W. to, N.N.W. Az eight A.M. a vessel drove from her moorings MARK. Fistiaer, and Mtatt's Quay, and ran foal the brig Nancy, o f Greenock, NICHOLAS Coss Master, which carried away her bowsprit, sprites: yard, covering board, topstreak, starboard chain. plates, and stove her yern.boat and lung.hoat. TLe Nancy also breaking loose, carried away the Lowset:t and past of the carved work of the head of the brie Hero, of Chepstow, which breaking loose, ran ua board the sloop Raven, of Liverpool, and sem: her stern ; and last evening the sloop Neptnee of Yar mouth, Jolts/ *Canby Master, arrived at the Quay, having cut both her cables at Scatters., in teeg , le ct wind, at ten A.M. yesterday. At a Lee h , or yes terday tl.eevind had not ceased to blow here, several shop windows were closed, bolt this morning all is again calm. The damage done its our harbour is, however, but trivial ebbed compared with the felher ing melancholy intelligence which has just been com municated to the Chamber of Commerce of this City 'from their Agent at Scattery SCATTERY, Dec. 8.-1 beg leave to state, that at ten o'clock last night, wo were visited by a .c In re 7 . d't from S.W. to N.N.W. which continued welt unangted violence, until day-fight this morning. The Wands letir and Minerva cruisers, with the blies the Jame; Berridge and the Venerable, and the sloop 1'1(7 , 11e. weathered out the gale in Scattery roads; the N-e -tone ran up the river at 9 A.M. this day, and 1 believe must have parted her anchors. The Mary Connors, from Glasgow, also weathered out the gale at the fcor of Capp*, but I ant sorry to intortn sett, that see M 'ry, Caneaes, for Galway, was drove on shore at low water last night, between the Revenue Baat-hou.e and Captain irwre's, where she sees store to pieces; the crew and materials are saved.—The shop Uriret and brig Fame, which lay in the Cre, k of Kilrush. were driven to the opposite side. Tie Union has set. lered materially, but the Fame has received little, it any damage. The sloop Eozabetli and Sally, whirr. WAS loaded 'in the Creek, was drove up under the CM Watch House, at tl.e creek's mouth, and will he gie off witticut injury. 'The William, Hero, and LiSer7 were also in the Creek, and esca f ed without injury. •• I have further to add, the melerchrly 2cco•:"t of the loss of his Majesty's ship of war Wiens, which was lost last night off Kilkee, sit! in miles a o p t ta K in ii ( u M sh t — ecil Pa e r e t t) of bas just ecre%lrre „i fs il Wins ;"is h a tu a ials d irydn t risslretesialestaigent itve 7 oewtrai ) had • tsuur ß Ain i i t :o:yri o ther further covering e c r t In t in ttuo.namteorciiorw.cu,towsith teleleurn,"Vene .rat i sia .T nut:* : * tatice, s actou F n l t ‘ s lt w o h ,c ic i l . i vc l Ke,a tAt,..piri.oe_ulr,e).t.trogeeklaelesnt..,tislc)eonseatianz::., b h u nut with sue:, • wine • wits, `' •• lent squalls and min. vessels ID CV 104 s Au-ridge, Which area!! side." •a .1110 44. . B. lee r t4.' C. for Clic,. roll) („? 11 Idt. 15. ' A, back le i 15. gir d , e En2Jiod. ay tor CFI; his M.:jt:st lajesty's sl le for Ben, ue ot. mbo on -, Gang es I. was to s its f‘lijest a Norinan %an; Sou t arriv. 1. • at the C 6 ea transp. • f s and frc, g : left at S twcoom, ar ip, had u iotorh %Fl a ship ( ni A 'gland, ha. I tuber. Ii le Island nd only it if the crew ' ,VILLE I ;land. ?Acker, ei uff • , ernsey, te. tine Stati [Aster, Ire d to Live: t; the hie ih lat. ;hristoph:r di ; left a. to Liver . cn...iox, VAN, fre g lost in I the Diii. .Sailed the e Brazils ; obiin ; the rpnol; the ast. !re visited sI.W. A: lorings at an tool of Cot.t.t!3 spritsai- rd oat. Tf.e Lowsp:t f the innt e, rAn c)3 .207: her , of Far- !:e Quay, et '1: ur yes- e, several ing all is rbour is, tr fril- leetl COM. this City that at vtreN!.• unabated te Jame; e, the N-p- -1 believe Connor, !helm that 'i.e shore at • pieces; p Ur.ir,n has sat. little., it y, • the Cid I he E a! LiSert i , jory. Nimrs, in ejc: :Flied •••..-aL