Star. — London, England, 1822-08-31 00:00:00

• - - • Mince—•l anode testise peculiar enormides which attend the system of slavery amidst the exasperations of this cruel war= rare; and as, in the religious view of the subject, I maintained that all our national exertions for the progress of the Goil were only as a drop in the ocean, when compared with the *it of it extinguished by the delusive dominion of the Turks, so I assert that the Negro Slave Trade was nothiss in the scale of misery and debasement against the horrors which, during this sanguinary contest, must continue for ever. • • • • " Such abominations seldom or never occurred in the Afriollk Slave Trade, detestable as it was. The pies of necessity one , for some time also so plausibly on its side, from the existence of British property in equatorial latitudes, where no other la bour could be so readily obtained, that even a British Parlia ment for a long time continued to sanction it, until the gladioli spring-tide of humanity broke in, at last, like a tomato sweeping away before it whatever interrupted its course. Bit the slavery of the East, my Lord, never had anything to cover the nakedness of its iniquity. The bulk of her slaves were not for labour under suns which Europeans could not endure, but principally for the odious purposes of voluptuovs nese an lust, and aggravated as they now are amidst the rage and bitterness of war, are attended with such brutal and undescribable crimes, as, putting aside all Christian sympa thies, might make us blush that we are men. I feel, whilst I am writing, that the ink must first have become blood, to enable me fitly to express my detestation and abhorrence. It appears t d o me, indeed, that the abolition of the slave trade which raise this nation above all created b ein g s since the beginning of the world, cannot be said to be complete, not only whilst such mon strous abuses of slavery are predominant, but whilst any traffic in human beings whatsoever is suffered to exist. When found among savages, we can do no more than attempt to humanize than, as we have always endeavoured to do; but when encou raged or publicly tolerated by any civilised natioo though Ido not mean to assert it to be a cause of war, yet all such maims ought to be rejected as allies. When we abolished the African Slave Trade by Act of Parliament, it could, in strictness, only apply to prohibit that traffic by our own subjects ; but did we stop there on that ac count ? Did we consider our duty could not extend beyond our own jurisdiction, as the utmost limit of positive law? No, my Lord, to our immortal honour we did not; on the contrary, we have ever since been exerting ourselves, with other nations, to extinguish it throughout the world; and that able and excellent man, Lord Lansdown, when he moved an Addre s o t t o his Ma jesty on the subject, only a few weeks ago, did limit his views to the promotion of amicable arrangements with friendly States, but even extended them to the consideration of compel ling, by the common consent of those Govetaments that had )ilsandoned it, any others which should continue to give it sane- .'~~ t. Mn and support. • • • • ••• • 0 It is objected that the Greeks are not less savagely cruel than the Turks. I will not hear such a charge. The gentlest ani mals which Pasivtnexce has subjected to us, patient of labour, and licking the benevolent hand that feeds them,whon maddened with terror and goaded by barbarous oppression, will change on a sudden all the characteristics of their original natures, and overthrow everything in their course. To judge of what the Greeks, under good Government, are capable of being, we have only to loik back to what they have been. Their pedigrees, in which we can trace so many great men, who never should have died, ought to protect thena-front the Saracens, who cannot show in all their escutcheons a single man who should have lived. " Well, then, may we exclaim to such miscreants, in the len- guage of Milton— " Lift not thy spear against cite Muses' bower— " The great CEmatitian conqueror bid spare " The house of Pindarut, when temple and tower " Went to the ground." " But although I have thus e %:.eavoured, against my most predominant feelings, to expel front my indignant view cruelties by whomsoever commuted, and, in protection of the unfortu nate Greeks, have coveted them with the veil which our im perfect natures entitled me to throw over them; yet let it be remembered, that what I have written concerning them, applies only to unpremeditated inhumanity,, such as, when hunted like wild beats, they have turned upon their pursuers, but that bar barous retaliations can receive no pardon if continued when they are contending as a nation for their religion and freedom. I rejoice that they are advanced to that condition, that they are marshalling armies, that they are laying the foundations of Civil Government, and I feel confident that they will hence forth remember that they are soldiers and Christians. " That our influence could fail, if faithfully exerted, I cannot bring my mind to believe. I might ask those who were the warmest advocates for the war, and who hold the highest its happy telmination, and the eminence on which it has placed us, what. the would think if it could be doubted, that if we spoke the word we should be obeyed ? The misfortune is, my Lord, that we did not speak it at a time when many of the enormities which have taken place, and for a long time must follow, might have been averted ; and I fear chat we may now be under great embarrassment iti holding a different course. lam convinced that it has been entirely owing to the system which the Govern ments of Europe have too long been pursuing, that the great with of humanity and justice has not long ago been complete; and the only difficulty I can foresee 40 its instant accomplishment is. that, perhaps, we ourselves must retrace some of our steps in taking the lead to give it effect. Our alliance with the Porte ought to have been long ago removed out of the way, as being unworthy of the British Government and People; and without contending that we should at once have resented by hostility their monstrous iniquities, yet, if not a man in England were prepared to second my opinion, I should assert that it would have become us to withdraw our Ambassador from Constanti nople, and to reject such a banditti as one Allies. The King of Great Britain ought not to be styled the Brother of the Sultan, whilst the desolation of Scio and the butchery of the hostages are unaton;d for. These authorised murders are not the acts of a civilised nation. ' The voice of their blodd; like that of the first victim of violence,' cries unto GOD out of the ground,' and the judgment of Goa ought to b e an example to the nations whis worship him. Let them be fugitives and vagabonds upon the earth.' • •• • • • " They who are disposed to consider the abatement of this nuisaoce as an undertaking of great expense, difficulty, and dam. gee cannot have sufficiently considered the progress which the Greeks, though unassisted, have already made, and are hourly making, to establish their own independence, nor with how little assistance it might be completed. The only use, indeed, of au immediate decisive force, would be to prevent, in the interval, such an afflicting effusion of blood. Whoever is at all acquainted with naval affairs, must be astonished at the courage and skill with which their infant navies have been conducted, and parti culaly with the art and boldness of grappling as they did so laudy the immense ship of the Turkish Pacha, and accomplish ing he destruction. 44 The very local situations of their conflicts, and the remem brance of the ancient deeds of the same people, is with me a kind of prognostic of success. They are now; I believe, in the citadel, as it is called, of Athens, and although it mustbe a posi tion of no strength, in the fallen condition of that once re- Downed city, yet they may be animated by the sight of Salamis, directly over -.zzir.:t them; and their sailors may be told how 'l'hemistocles, with a most insignificant force, drew the memo rable fleet of Xerxes into a narrow sea, where his large ships could not be conducted, and utterly destroyed them ; a fleet which, according to the historian, was the greatest then known in the history of mankind, yet by such inadequate means over thrown.—' Nam pars modo apud Salamina parvo numero ma vium, maxima post hominum memoriam classis est devicta.' " Marathon also is now directly within their view, only ten miles before them, where Miltiades, instead of intreneling him self behind walls now in the dust, combated in the open plain the Captain of Darius, with only a handful of Athenians, the fa thers of the present Greeks, obtained that immortal victory over a hundred thousand men.—' Quo Fugue nulls mint unguent tans exigua manus camas opts prostravh. • " Signal successes in war, under distinguished Commanders, are as likely t• overthrow the barbarians of the present day as the barbarians of former times; and the rather because examples bare such a powerful influence en all the exertions of mankind. " My observations, my Lord, upon this afflicting 'Object, are drawing fast to their close. It has been for some time no secret that a Congress is to beheld upon the Continent, where the sub ject of the Greeks cannot but come under considered's, and that we are to be represented at it by some Minister of State. It was this which determined me, without a moment's delay, to write and to publish this letter, because it would have been too late to make any useful appeal to sour Lordship or the Public. awe we had taken our part, and perhaps soncurred, ln mea sures which I could this only uselessly dissent from. ••• • • • " 4 cadet InT 901160111 sib your Lordship tiniest' At Prue, viaAo P is nektlasthsl is ve oaf 0 0 4 the Pk** _ 7," en which t tidal' tee4so# Mt, led have fife peasunsed threat myself Or &Woo= Cooke& euggisthq; coarse to be pursued forgivias thestrest West die I have Dot the means, even% BV/ )8110 1181 K oqual decision, of aseeetainittg the Ism rayon:ll*Se +salacious of seconding the noble effoiti . of tbe Greek' for An iramediate invasion, by combined acres ; for she ea, of the Turks from Europe. might be attended witk digit which I cannot correctly estimate, and will** th e home, consequences of that sanguinary conflict, c yniabt. he injurbeis to the great object of bloodless iiberadon ; **its, jr , si rma k„ ain rain to be quite indispensable, is to coital Ivai i i ; e l„,loa by- the Turbo of an dominion over the ipbjects, and to guarantie theft. independence by ail vehich should engage in their support ; with such extent of territory as might be thought 'last, considering their growing population and their former condition, which has ,been overthpyo. Nothing short of this (if it can be brought about by our cot tiding Councils) can deliver our country froth universal teptrdailt,'oe .secure us against cobsequences which might he fatal in the sea tribe best interests of our country." THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. SATURDAY, AUGUST Si, 1322. - - . STOCK EXCHANSIE, ONE O'CLOCK.! Very little has been done in the Market this morning. Con sols remain steady at 80j for the Account, and 801 for Memel; Reduced 81i. Notice has been posted at the Stock Exchange, that Exchequer Bills of October, November, and December , 1821, will be paid off or exchanged. Fosuax FUNDS.—There is some bustle in the above Market this morning, in consequence of its being pay day for all the dif ferences in Foreign Securities, and up to one o'clock we do not hear of any defaulters. Some business is doing this morning in Milian and Spanish Bonds, which maintain their prices.— Chillan 83/ 84, New Spanish 64, Old 85f, New Prussian 87e, Old 90, Russian 85f, Danish SO, Neapolitan 77, Colombian 87, Scrip 87 to 87f. PRICES OF STOCKS AT ONE O'CLOCK. 3 per Ct. Reduced 81 A 1 / 4 -11 per Ct. Cons. 80 1 / 2 14 3/ $ 314 per Cents. 925/ s 4 per Cents. 99% 1 4 4. per Ct. New 99% 1 / 2 —Bank Long Ann. 21 20 15-16 India Stock, 250 251—India Bonds 48s. Exchequer Bills of El,OOO, 3s. 4s. 2s. Ditto Small, 7s. ss. 6s.—Cons. for Acct. 80% 3/4. STOCK EXCHANGE, HALF-PAST ONE. Consols are rather heavy within the last half hour, and are 801 fur the Account ; sOj for Sloney.—Money is scarce in the City. We have received the French Papers of Wednesday . Their intelligence is almost exclusively of a domestic nature. On-Tuesday the KING presided at an Ex traordinary C.aaneil of Ministers, which lasted nearly three hours. It is said to have been held in conse quence of news received by the Government from Madrid, and that the question was discussed whether the new Spanish Ambassador should be received or not. A report was current at Bourdeaux, that the last Messenger from the Spanish Cabinet who passed through that city was the bearer of dispatches of the highest importance. There can be little doubt but that these important dispatches were a demand, on the part of Spain, that the French Government should explain itself on the subject of the Sanitary Cordon, and cease to afford a refuge to Spanish insurgents. In a letter dated from the frontiers of Spain, the 20th instant, it is stated, that the corps of the Army of the Faith, -commanded by QuISADA, consisting of about 2000 men, was completely defeated on the 17th, by about 1500 troops, who arrived from the' interior. It is said that only 400 men remain, and they are in full retreat on Frati. MINA is stated to have arrived at Pampeluna, and to have spread con sternation among the Army of the Faith. The Echo du Midi, on the other hand, announces that the Mar quis of MATA-FLORIDA, ci•clevaut Spanish Minister, had arrived at Urgel on the 13th instant, where he became President of the Junta calling itself Royalist. This Junta, it is added, is desirous of constituting itself a Regency for the kingdom. Commercial letters from Vienna, of the 17th, an nounce, that the Austrian Cabinet is less than ever disposed in favour of the new order of things in Spain. It is also mentioned in these letters, that the Con gress will first meet in that capital, and, after fixing preliminaries, adjourn to Verona, whither orders have been sent to prepare lodgings for the reception of the Sovereigns. The Kings of NAPLES and SARDINIA will, it is said, be invited to this august assembly.— The other Italian Princes may likewise be admitted to have a sight of their masters. The conferences, it is supposed, will begin at Vienna about the middle of September, and at Verona about the beginning of October. Our Ambassador from Constantinople is expected to attend when the affairs of the Greeks come under discussion. The trial of the alleged conspiracy of Rochelle is drawing to a close. The examination of the witnesses (fifty-two in number) is concluded, and the speeches of Counsel were to commence on Wednesday. It would be superfluous to quote any more of those in terrogatories which are called 'evidence. A more ri diculous charge, supported on mere ridiculous testi mony, and developing during its investigation more imbecility and folly in the Public Prosecutor, was never before made the subject of judicial inquiry. It has, however, been ;livening, and that the French public may not have to regret its termination, from the amusement.which it afforded, the Journals are to have an admirable substitute for it, in the pro ceedings of the Court of Assizes of Poitiers, where the trial of Ban TOM and his associates commenced on the 26th inst. These plots appear to be fired off as regularly as minute guns.: The situation of Baavos, the leader of the attack on Saumur, seems to be perfectly distinct from that of the persons tried at Colmar, and under trial at Paris. The evidence will likewise be of a different character.. If, then, the Government have a good case again* the Gensul, wily subject him to those W .. ~ , BarSigker ,whom be might select ? Why refuse a free - communisation between him and his Counsel ; and why subject him to hardships and indignities when the evidence may lead him to the scaffold? Oa the 116th nothing was done but settling points of form rfiding theindictment, and hearing the opening speech of the PkoCurtaua-Geastat. COURT OF ASSIZES AT POITIERS. Am se: TRIAL OF THE CONSPIRATORS OF THOUARS AND OF SAUMUR. i • • The accused (SS of whom were present-18 ahenitt). on being conducted into Court, had places assipat to them according to the nature of their crime. lei -ton was on the left hand, and nearest the Bar; his appearance was animated, and not in the least cast down. He frequently spoke with the accused who were nearest him. The other prisoners appeared generally to be of the lowest class of the people:— their clothes and countenances indicated men seduced by want or the hope of pillage: they appeared calm, and troubled themselves very little with the business. The principal part of the time was occupied selecting and swearing Jurymen, and- in hearing the prisoner Berton state objections to the Advocate whom the Court had named, and urge his claim to the right of choosing M. Mesnard for his defender. His protest was substantially the same as the letter-tu the Presi dent of the Court. The Court refused his request, as well as an application of his Advocate, M. Drault, that the case should be remitted to the Chamber of Peers. k The PROCURATOR-GINZIAL first stated the case for the prosecution, and said, that he was about to charge with different crimes against t 4 safety of the State, Jean Baptiste Berton, an Ex-Major-General, Officer of the Legion of Honour, a .hevalier de St. Louis; and 55 other individuals, who were now to be tried according to law. He said there had been a conspiracy, of which the object was to overturn the King's Government, to excite the citizens to take up arms against the Royal Authority, to stir up civil war, to take the cities and fortresses of the kingdom. This conspiracy was discovered in the month of Fe bruary last, in the Departments of Deux-Sevres, and of the Maine and Loire. Its embers were in the towns of Saumur, Thonars, and Parthena. At the head of 'I it were the Ex-General Berton, and his principal as sociates—the Members of a Secret Society called the Knights of Liberty, or Carbonari, formed with the de sign of overturning the King's Government. The witnesses, to the number of 163 were in at tendance, bat the Court adjourned to the next day. It was observed that General Berton, as indeed all the other prisoners, appeared calm and perfectly easy. There was great difficulty in preserving order.— The Palace, the prisons, and the neighbouring streets, were filled with soldiers. FAIDICH F 1111.24 Awn:sr 48.—FIve per Cents. opened at 93f• 70c.—Cl used at 931. 60c. This forenoon we received a Lisbon Mail, bringing Papers to the 18th inst. The moment for the breaking up of the Cortes being near at hand, the Assembly has been much engaged in terminating the discussion of the Consti tution, particularly in reference to the Brazils. In discussing the third chapter of the Constitution, on the legislative power in the Cortes, M. VILMA pro posed to add to Article 33d, which enumerates the persons who shall be ineligible, the following— , f Slaves who have been made free (Liiertos) shall be absolutely ineligible." A great debate ensued, which was carried on with much warmth. M. BARROZA said—Though so many*Honourable Members spoke in favour of freedmen, and that they .might be chosen Deputies, he could not but differ from them. Respecting the two principles of philan_ thropy and reason, and abhorring that unjust preju dice which would make distinction among men, as men, merely on account of their caste, or race, or co lour, he thought the question one which should be decided on the grounds of propriety and policy ; and he asked the Assembly if it would be decorous for a man marked with the strokes of the whip to come and take his seat there ? He would not object to the election of a freedman, if merit was to be the ground of his election; but it should be remembered, that there are 20 or 30,000 freedmen at Rio, who, if they were allowed to choose freedmen, would never elect any other. The melancholy consequences were very evident. If Bishops cannot be chosen by their Dio ceses, Clergymen by their Parishes, nor Officers by their `soldiers, where is the injustice of prohibiting freed slaves from being elected by those of their own body ?—The proposed addition was rejected. ' In the Sittings of the 14th and 16th, the Articles of the Constitution to N 0.99 inclusive, were approved. The Portuguese galley Sacramento, having arrived from Pernambuco, the Captain being asked if there. were any news, replied in writing, " All goes well without anything new. On the 2d of June, the troops assembled, except the 3d battalion of Yagers, and again took the oath to the. King and the Cortes, and to the Prince Regent, as Chief of the Executive Go vernment at Pernambuco, independently of that of Lisbon. I have no, more to say ; my occupation not allowing me to obtain more paiticalar information.", —The passengers declared, drat what tht Capiaia v tk. r... ~`' corrects that Pernambeco wale a =way ; that the true Portuguese order were insoked by a band of fats seemed to be protected by the pte& mt of the province; that the troops did any suloordiassims sevravde•theielhabi, malasrs e • and moved whelsept*lP they piellaffites , . . —7 An official note from the Minister and iecratart for Foreign Affairs in the Breath, to the British Coe sal-General at Rio Janeiro, on the subject of wow 'rnerce, states, " That the British vessels which WI arrive at the ports in the Brazils, which now are or may hereafter become subject to the command and regency of the said Prince, shall-be admitted inch= pendent of, and although unprovided with, the clear: ance of the said Portuguese Consul in London, as long as the other customary formalities are complied with, and they bring with them their papers in other respects in proper order, and until his Royal Highs ness himself shall be pleased to appoint a Coon& General in England ; k being equally declared, as a consequence of what is above stated, that no qaval and military stores thus imported from Great Britain shall be stopped or seized, or the parties interested herein punished, for the simple want of a permission from' he Government of Portugal." Madrid Papers to the 4th instant Save been re. ceived by express. Their contents are only important as they shew the tranquil state of the capitil, and th e active measures of the new Ministry to put down the faction which seeks to overturn the Constitution,— They contain numerous reports from the Provinces, stating the marauding depredations of bands of the Army of the Faith, but they are none of them cf much consequence. Wherever they have come in contact with the Constitutional forces they have been defeated. As an instance of the conduct of the parti , sans of this " Army of the Faith," we give the fol lowing article from St. Sebastian's, dated August 15 : " The insurgents increase in their fanatic atrocities. Not content with exacting contributions by violence, from those who are pointed out to them as Liberals, they murder with the most refined barbarity. In the mountains of Guercino, they have assassinated nine soldiers and four volunteers of Durengn, hacking their bodies, and tearing out their eyes and tongues. A letter from Malta, dated July 25, says—" The plague has made its appearance on the coasts oppo. site, and within a few miles of Corfu." Letters have been received from Grenada to the 16th of July last, which affirm that the Royalist, Spanish seventy-four, and the br i g Hercules, raised the blockade of Porto Cavello on the 15th of June; and, after defeating the Patriotic force, succeeded in taking in six months' supplies. We were in hopes that the odious combination, the Bridge-street Association, was annihilated; but it ap pears that the liberal part of the Press, which, to its honour, has never ceased to oppose this uncon stitutional Society, hasonly “ scotched the snake, not killed it r' It will be seen in our Report of the pro. ceedings at the Lancaster Assizes last Thursday, that the Agents of this Society are determined to make the last acts of its power as oppressive as any that have distinguished its career.—Rinowar, a poor, ignorant, country bookseller, who being less capable of defence than many of its victims, has long had the whole weight of the Society upon him, is still in its fangs. His trial was to have come on last Wednesday ; and he was in attendance, with twenty witnesses, ready to meet his accusers. The prosecutors, however, begged that it might be put off until the next day, in consequence of the ab sence of a material witness. This, however inconve nient, was agreed to; but when all the parties were in attendance on the following morning, the proceed ings were suddenly stopped, not on account of the absence of a witness—not in order to abandon the pro secution—but because there was a certiorari prepared to have the case removed into the Court of King's Bench. Why, unless for the mere purpose of oppres sion—why, we would ask, was not the action brought in the Court of King's Bench in the first instance, in stead of keeping it so long suspended over the head of the poor fellow, putting him to the expense of con veying 20 witnesses to Lancaster and keeping them for several days, and then putting off the trial and transferring it to another Court, where the expenses will be so augmented as to render it almost impos sible that the poor man can make the necessary de fence? If we may judge by the conduct of the Counsel for the prosecution, they were ashamed of their clients, and of the 'action for which they were retained; and well they might. Yesterday afternoon arrived at Doverthe Chichester Post-Office Packet, having on beard his Royal High ness the Duke of CmosiuDGE and Suite. His Royal Highness landed in the Custom House barge, and proceeded to WRIGHT'S Hotel,where preparations had been for some days making . for his reception. The , Royal Duke appears to be in the enjoyment of the best health and spirits, and bowed very familiarly to the crowds assembled to witness his arrival. His Royal Highness passed the night at the Hotel, and proceeded this morning on his way to the metropolis. The Loan Maxon has ordered out all the City state barges and watermen to be in attendance on Sunday at Blackwall, in their stabs liveries, and his Lordship will there await the arrival., his MAJESTI and conduct-him back to the metropolis. The Duke of Yon& centimes in the happiest .en joyment of good health, at the Pavilion ) Brighton. . , e returned 02 9 petty moons which cannot _ was not et leing =lr._ within the range of to itt. estlispovtlytwisili:iinfierwa.._iiiii iiit s Otelseed stite or complete bdeub. re wpm to the inevitably turn in his favntir Ilk trent *rip -dfriends of or dioacious mode ' libtrty and life. Why ref*** hi, giltrel of bill r*.t. tioue men, who 1 f: l id .. GC the expulaine from the Paris bar, or, if that ' ' ' contralti* semi Government .• with difficultiee t h e ',maw. queue. why deny him the assistance of aajprov_incial not observe any I - • -•• tin. -f.. - -..... r..... lIMIMAIiire_ aftel SIMI F MI