Star. — London, England, 1814-01-04 00:00:00

. ,I rat i on of virtue unfelt, are to enter . pour ways, Co i. tens : they ate to pillage out heirses,t Ind to fob you not only of yoirr ptolierfy, brit of the keno& of your chldren—they are to illstr*t you how to he free and happy. Such Masteyi, itty good Citizens of Antwerp, you will. be the lett to receive. id • But those who' stould eornpel you to ahindon your own, and to embrace their principles of morals and Governmen4 must have some pretence for their conduct. and what is it ? What is the slavery *hith t hey would convince you yob ought to them* off ? In one word, it is the Coriicaption. It is not you selm co mplain :--it is not those whows they say are most affected by the Conscription this complain, hit Great Britain and her Allies that comp/ght. Truly ; and well they may. It is not wondetfdl that they should object to a system upon which the liheities of Europe have been built, and by which they are maintained : it is not surprizing that they should resist the conti. nuance of a plan which has hitherto ditaippointeti their dearest projects, and which will yet compel them more fitly to estimate its utility. 'B4 What do they offer you as a stitittitutei tp which freemen may submit? They tell you that it is very, horrible slavery for a man to fight for the coup. 1)t thargaVe him birth, and gives him happineii : but whit ikti expedient do they offer ? It is not, indeed, a ne* expedient—it has before been tiled among the tyrannical Governments of the North s it is not putting arms into the hands of one man out of 50, or 4.0, or 30, but it is a scheme by which all are compelled, are indiscriminately driven into battle ;-.. compulsory volunteers, like their other contradictory . absurdities, who are forced to enter. a service they abhor, Under pretence of being called upon to fight fOr their country. The Landwehr is not only what they forge the Conscription to be, but something in describably worse, as you by better experience might find, if his Majesty the Emperor had not timely sent you aid to avert so dreadful a calamity. , (4 Crrizr.ss or Aravezar—As I have before re hiar!:ed, you are not so easily to be improsed upon: experience will guide you to a safe conclusion. Ask those who have tasted the benefits of British policy whether .they admire _the alteration ? The meanness and dtepticity of the conduct of England cannot be bettel• characterized than by this circumstance, that ekile sl.e has been by her arts deluging the North with blood, burning the capitals of mighty Empires, and mit only destroying population but life through out the countries her Allies have traversed, she with little dunning, but with much impudence. attributes all these Mueries.to the policy of France. " Stich an antagonist, viewed in a true light. you itiielts of Antwerp, will be ever ready to resist with firmness and resolution, supported as you are, .and shall still further be, by the power and abilities of the Einperot and King, who relies with confident secu rity upon the loyalty .and -affection you have ewer evince, k : ,Signed) 44 4 DECAENS. " Antwerp, Dec. 21, 1813: " Tn addition, it appears froin the accounts brought ity these who hare escaped,.that there was every dis position on the part of the French Generals to defend Art`twerp to the last extremity ; such was understood -to be the command of the French Ritter. The reports respeettng tuttults antnng the-inhabitants in order to ihroh , off the yoke of the enemy, does not receive' tie slightest countenance, nor do we believe it proba ble, in a place to long subject to Wench discipline, incl.'s() well acquainted with French punishments.— ' bides the 21 ships ;of the fine afloat, the' ts are tive tfprin the stock's, foot of which are readYetobo launch - ed, acid two of those dute-deckerl. • ' 'l l No intelligent; e - Of'the. Oirder of. Gorcum has been received. The °AGO t prevailed 'a week that this place 'Would bon be in the hands of the Allies, originated in I Vapposition that the karri snit would accept the tern is o ff ered ;be fi t: 'fltrie ins effectual attempts by lags of truce.have been made by tltte Allies, and Oxelaombarciment. N . at my last lettet •snkrmed you, war to commence iminediately ; bat had not been 'seriou,sly "begun the day before yes teretait, althongh most of the al eatery had been placed upon the. batteries. The sealing-ladders and *other implements had 1116 arrived, but the Allies were Yet in no situation to tinploy diem Lattgroi, the French Corntanders is said to be of a most undaunted spirit, very . erne, and not likely to have any consideration for the unfortnnateinhabitants•of Gotcum. " A. Very ,sticcessful 'enterpriZe of the totaseks under the *ails of Hamburg recently took plade,' which has not been noticed vopst hes swept away' ah6ut 8000 houses, for Mint a suburb between Ham burgh and Altona, on which he ordered batteries to 'be raised. The inhabitants-of Alton'a remonstrated very strongly against this undertaking, since the artil lery, if planted and discharged from thence, would inevitably destroy their town: Davoust, however, was inflexible, and sent out of Hamburgh between 4 and 500 workmen to accomplish his design. A body of Cossacks, however, under the orders of the intrepid Count Luning, had penetrated to the immediate vici nity, and under the'very walls of Hamburgh, within sight of the garrison, carried away as prisoners the workmen, who had just begun to open the trenches, without the loss of a single life on either side. " The period for raising and embodying the troops under the Decree of the_Landsturm has not yet bees' fixed; but preparations for that purpose are making. The volunteers are summoned, and are daily marched ; to the various depicts. There ate already two regi ments ofinfantry ar Breda, One at Dordrecht ) and a troop of newlrraised cavalry at the Briel. " The Hereditary Prince of Orange has recently paid his respects to Sir Thomai Graham, and the rest of the British Officers at Tholen, inspecting the military condition of the country through which he . . plocceadi." .; I N. ~ FURTHER EXTRACTS rROM THE DUTCH PAPERS. BREDA, DECEMBER 26. • . " A - conrier, in two days from Bremen, has brought here the important intelUgeoce; that Denrrtark has at last joined the allies ; and that Davotot, forsaken by: ' all the Danish troops, has shut himself up, with WOO men, in Hamburgh. 'This event, it is said, has deter.. alined the Crowu Prince of Sweden to follow General Winriogerode.in person, with his principal force, to this quarter, leaving only thitseeessary troops to be 4 siege Hamburgh. The last %motioned General, with, a..considerable corps, has already arrived on our iron. tiers. The French, after their retreat from hence, formed came R.hetween West-Wesel end Antwerp, where • . aisd last night they were joined by some troop Astweriri Theo - &Thad or chili City h hence , i *such diminished, th a t it silently amounts to 1200 men. The enemy; to prod eitiVisti this side, 'has broken up the cansema . behind Which.. he has erected a battery : his' right wing snits on a wood, and on Hoogstrateti: It is understood, that Bergen-op-Zoom is new in. 'vested by the English. , Some vessels, laden with flour and property which the douaniers and other French administrations carried off in their ffight, and which were to proceed &owl Bergen.op-Zoom to Flushing and Antwerp, have tken cdpuared by the English. 3/ 1 / 4 CHEI., On tlic twin), 4 leagues above Bais-te.Dtre, Deceitther 2t. •On 'the 10th inst. the first Cossacks, whotame from the side of Werkendam, made their appearance be fote Bois-le-Duc. On the .1 Ithr 150 of them entered Boxtel ; and, on the 12th, they were spread in various villages to the east of Bois-le-Duc. On that. day a very severe affair took plate at Hinthem, between a detachment of the Cossacks and a number aFrench gens d'armes. .On 'the 13th, the whole country round Bois-le-Duc was cleared of the French and their pub lic,agents. On the 16th, the French troops came flying out of Bommelward, and arched by Orten and Rosmalen to Grave. The country on this occasion suffered a great deal from the malignity of the enemy, Bhortly after, the Prussians came in strength out of the Bommelward, and have since blockaded Bais-le- Dat for some days., The hewl-quarters' of General Bulow are at Orten. On lie 19th Bois-le -Dat Was summoned ; but the reply of the French Commeethant is not yet known. On the 20th, a divisionof the besieging corps broke up from before BoisOrDuc, for the purpose of a ge neral chase•of the French, who still, with some de tachments out of - Grate, continued to plunder as far as Heesch, in Maasland. That whole country, as well as the districts of Ravistein and Kayk, have suf fered greatly by their rapines. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1814. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY 4'T TWELVE OVLOCit. Reduced 62 --Cons for sec. 64f1-4 per Ct. 78f Omn. 1241 I sf—Exchequer Bills Se. ss. pre. Lobs Anus. 15 S-16th, 4--Bonds psr le. dl.. ACCESSION OF DENMARK TO *THE CAUSE OF THE ALLIES. We have to announce the accession of another Ally and of another Combatant for the . Repose of Europe. Denmark has joined the good cause—we stated the simple fact yesterday, but we were not then in possession of any other particulars respecting this : important event.. We now _ from I ielieland brought away it 4 aidisis Oifeer, Cap+ taro KROICOER, who oar fremlin suriiiiihat island, in a flag of truce. He is the bearer of a copy of the Treaty of:Alliance concluded between the Caowil Patna/ of Swiping and the Court of Denmark .; 1: , as we understand, 'the object of bis visit to sndon is to solicit `4 4 e approval, by;.the British vernment; of the be rms granted. ils:Deninark,—_ These, we have reason to believe, are ikeeisely the 1 H same which were offered to the King of Dr?!stAnK. by ... fithe Prince Royal of SWEDEN some - time since, and. ' e.... ply the - cession of the greater part, 'of Norway to eden, in return for certain territorial acquisition oft; Pornerania or Holstein', as may be hereafter named. .;iiiien the Balance of Europe comes to I* finally ar . .. 4a. • DLit the Mott gloribus part of the Treaty is thatin ..,es ber whole military and other resources to the grand cause of Europe. The Danish Sovereign has at length, in fact, taken the hints which his subjects have so often given him, and joined the sacred league for the ci extirpation of the Tyrant." We cannot doubt his sincerity, and we receive him therefor; .into the bosom of the Grand Confederation with the watch-word of the Dutch Patriots, is Foacat AND FORGIVE." It it worse than useless, therefore ) to reproach him with his obstinate adherence to the French cause, or to mark him out for an object of punishment by degrading him from the rank he ought to hold in the scale of the Sovereign Princes of Europe ; and be it remembered, that he is nearly related to our own Sovereign, and that the common interests of the two Kingdoms demand that a liberal and enlightened policy &could guide the Plenipotentiaries of the Allies in their negociations with Denmark. We trust, therefore, that the eqtki• valents for Norway will, be such as to allay the jea lousies of the Dames, and enable them to make com mon cause with Europe in the attitude of a formi dable Power. . One of the Immediate results of this auspkioni event will be the submission of Hamburgh, and the consequent advance of the PRINCE ROYAL at the head of his army, to the Rhine. With respect to Ha burgh, we have been informed that it forms part of the military arrangement between the Danish Cos* mandes and the PRINCE ROYAL, that the Dane army should have the post of honour assigned 4: .. humbling DAVOUST. They will be assisted by at. petent force from the allied Russian, Pfussian, anal Swedish armies. The Swedish artillery, which isfiti • • din th e b 1 presented ste as the most d st an comp lete in Europe, will be po trenches, and regular ap proaches are about to be made. • The French have not been able, it seems, to make Hamburgh so s as their pi - I -deans have artfully givittout.; al* occupation as a military post could only be reliett4n while the countries between it and kiblianokrinne* . . 1 ~__,.. „'. .. . .* under the French yoke. it ;0 ad, via to attack frogs e;erfbrat - 4 , even io the depth' Winter, and tall itztiutt; within g few Weer's. *ails Upoti this subject we cannot help expressing: r . • r 4 . egret, thai the infamatis trociarintions of Dll - and hii clorthless coadjutor, Yost HOOCTIDORP, have gni been met by i ceirrespondingl shew of vi gonroft the part of the Allies. It it the essence df absurtliti, and perhaps of cruelty, to put to death any Frencl soldier iti cold blodd— z ie retaliation fdr the most dreadful of all Murders, that Of starving a human being iS death—but in the name of humanity we have a right td demand, that DAvoirsT and VON 110G6NDORP sbotild be instantly by name put hors de /oi, and driven beydnd the bani dt humanity: We sayin plain English that instead of putting to death some hundreds or thousands of French priso stets, a Proclamation ought to be issued by the Al ' 5, offering hdnours; dignities, and rewards to the Philanthropists who will bring the headi of bayousr and his Milite.-y Tribunal io the Allied Camp. • The belch will tell us, and their partisan Sin thii cotter will echo the Jacobin morality, that this is !baking warlike savages. What is the life of Davciusx, Vox HodaNzionr, or fifty such villains, to that of a single honest Burger of Hamburgh, or his helpless children ? Where did these execrable naiscreants,ac e quire their title to be treated according to the laws lot civilized nations upon which they trample ? To which of the European writers on public law will their advocates refer as authorities for granting thilm Mercy ? From VAITEL, the favourite Jurist of the Jacobin faction' in all countries, down to the humble authot of the Vindiciz Gallicz, and the soli tary English defender of the armed Cordon of Neu trality of Switzerland, there is not a single insinua: tion, that armed men who make war the scourge of the whole human race, are to be treated with the respect due from civilized nations even to Savages when in a state of warfare. Let us hear no more, therefore, of simple retaliation for the sufferings of the Hamburghers, or the unarmed citizens of any other part of Europe. Let us strike at the root of the evil—A bar be: Tyrans—Down with the execrable wretches, from whose savage and fero cious dispositions such sanguinary Decrees emanate. .:,Eretthose who have it in their power look well to the guilty responsibility they incur by marring such monsters td escape with life when they have them in their power. . . Our cola mess Again teemwith intelligeneefrem Hol land. That part which relateslo the success of tits Pa cause, speaks for itielf-Lit requires no eincra .,Thereis a F'roclemation t hoeteviannilitht Nit - eh ,encral D RCA strovhich will not fail - 14 - attriat cular notice. • He assures the-inhatitititi df ifie therlands, that they will be much Nippier. under . • yoke of France, than by, forming- pan b(; Vii. ' it . family of Europe, urnfer:.th e ausiiicefpf, the-Alliet . This document eviociptAipw.aourA 4N a has puroit _ the insane resolution of expeadinfehhalottainhign. sources in wantonly retgining• dit/ncliassesetbr4,lae. ther than direct his attention the ibaini~naoce is his tottering dynisty. We like this, sifilliVn3.`:! " madness and folly l" lt.:augurs .speedy overthrow I . •••*. - 0 1 7- . . • h110•11OMMI the Funds:expettenced a little advance this mera4 lug. The Three per Centts which left off yesterday at 634, were 641 at twelve O'clock ; and Omniuni,, which was rose to In for the payment.—The rise is ascribed_ to the receipt of letters from the French coast, which, we are inforined ) announce the - French Funds to have risen per cent. We have received a Swedish Bulletin, - dated on the gist ult. from Kiel, in Holstein. It announces the Surrender of Frederickstadt, and states that Gluckstadt will be stormed when the ice is strong enough to carry over the storming parties. Relative. to the victory obtained in Canada, on the 11th of November, of which we have given an ample account, the following letter has been received at Liverpool, dated Quebec, November 26, 1813 : ••••• 46 . The enemy's whole force was about eight thou oind men, under the command. of General Wilkin son. The division under the command of General Boyd, consisting of about 3 or IWO infantry, cavalry, etc. was alone engaged upon the 11th. inst. The 'stem Jost in the action Brigadier General Coving ton and Colonel Preston, killed—probably 600 men lied, wounded, and taken. The consequence was a precipitate retreat, across the St,. Lawrence at Corn wall,.on the 13th, acid evacuating the prodnee;" Dnx..-Tbis place, to. which Souvr has retreated, is a town of Trance, and principal place of a district,, in the department of -ths , Landees, situated on the Admit., surrounded with walls, flanked with towers, and containing about 500 p inhabitants, celebrated for warm baths, the spring of which discharges 54S 'cubic feet of water in fifteen minutes. Before the Ike volution, it was, the See of a Bishop, Suffragan of Aucb. This town was destroyed by the Saracens in the year 9W. It was a longtime in the possession of the. English, frpm whom it was taken in the year 1461, by •the .Feench, and has remained annexed to that country ever since, It is 22 miles N. E. of Bay.' onne, and _Di S. W. of Monte de Marsau... The French prisoners stationed at Whitchurch,4 Hants, appear much chagrined, at the annihilation the military power of NneoLitoN. Despicable as the weetckis, he is still popular with these soldiers. .Patce Or • BREAn.—This day the Lottn MAYON.. ~ptving inspected the Mealweigher's Returns, ordered the price of Bread to be raised one Assize the Pere Loaf, or one haltpenoy in the Quartern, -which takes' place on Thursday next, when the Quartern Wheaten Loaf will be 1 • • • ..:; .- , ~~- - • EDI' ' I OND ••=•••• -.••••• IiRENCH PAPERS. - - STA R-OFFICX FOV We itoP the erest td *lie, that French Papers have b'eeni reiviied in it appears, so strong is the expectal P4risi that the French Funds had Cent. • . • influelsieed by the above igieni Ftirids etperienced a coasicterable tine pait three amnion); which hati been NAVAL Mir ELLICE, ' • . , MAIL& I 1-; .• • - Alta: "is. . . Dublin: .;" .t • ' b gallgoland • Waterford 4' • : '!Cottettiftirgh Leeward Iskirafi 4; - o thiertiset Passage - .4 0. o I lersei CROCiltHlffill; - IACEMSEit '.. The VFFNUS frigate; and PERVVIA: with about 20 sail under convoy, from Islands, are just ariivecl off this may be hourly expected in the Channel. • The James, GRES/MIMI, and the from Batbadoes to Demerara, were t. mer the 28th September,. and the latter bet‘Veen Surinam and Demerara, by American privateer, of 18 guns, and The latter giten up, and arrived ' 11th October. FALMOUTH, JANi3Att . Ariived the SANDWICH lugger . of " SURLY cutter of 12 guns, from a cruize lator, PHILLIPS, from Bristol, bound the Mary Ann, HARDINO, from the Thames. --. • . the Diana picket, PARSONS, with a mail PORTSMOUTH; JANUAR' Arrived the Jane (a collier), from Nothing sailed today. Came into harbour Cathcart transport '(No. 161), with Dock-yard, from Quebec. No further pointed. . . DEAL, JANUARY s. Arrived. from' Ramsgate, the *General •BIiOCKLIVISSY, for Cadii ; 'and 15 sail part of them with the Derby Militia, Ireland. Remain all his Majesty" war.l bound, as per last -,Wind W. ORBENOCK, DEC.EMBEIt Arrived 'at Port Glasgow on Monday, Ktuar., from Miilrnachi 29thiatinio j a single ship. On the in with tbg Wellington, of and for • .days. Same dayi si tittths to s...aecoates; rfa e me tultbolyp. Jtstaiii .144 1 NIA;#4.#41.iat ttTlk *ailed from:tifiriavg:tl4lll. — asiti keel?* 41; ..The:rhomii k La Irds?),, del; was driven on Aits2att qaifif; kt a violent ic4 4.e.141011;14 to • 141AYAL PROMOTIOkS* AND 'APPOINTMENTS ; • Lieutenants--R: Finnis • Bowden, Pilch, M ar ! f7 , presoaked to the rank of Cintinainier.-" Maddiignagn.--George Synte, J. IL Be,ilatrs _ S. Vieddk,, and Robert ' T. !hush, promoted Lieutenant. Captain John Maitland, to the Barfleur, ' E. Berry, appointed to a Yacht. Lieutenants—P. Fitzgibbon. to the Myrmidon the Dasher; J. S. Smith, to the Terror; F. nlcus; B. Afaniell, to the Saturn rate; the Penelope. The Rev. J. Radfgrd, to be Chaplain of , Mr. Crawford, Surgeon, to.the Venerable. Acolupeusatton of ACSOO per annum, is l ed to Admirals second in canna:ad, strioned sea-ports in England, In order to defray the t dwelling-house to reside in. Captain CHARLES JAMES JOHNST ONE i. the SCARBOROUGH * of 74 guns, Admiral the Texel. Sir ALEXANDER COCHRANE is Rppointed air JOHN WARREN in the command America. Sit ALEXANDER takes hi diately, and no man has more perfect lb* American coast. The ship. Southampton, of Loudon, matter, which was lost the same nir off Newfoundland, struck ou a rock , Island,•abOut a mile to tl.e southward the master and crew remained to rock, suffering most severely from and were relieved by the humane 1). CHASE, •of Petty Harbour, from ceived the kindest treatment. F , nately perished. . Wednesday se'nnight a Tine bOy head of the brig Traveller, then Dundee, and lighted lifeless at his piring without a sigh. He had just prenticeship as a seaman. .We refer to a Spanish account 0.. in Frame, in another part of our columns, with Infi nite pleasure—not only as marking the cordial and amicable spirit of .the Spanish nation, but al contain ing irrefragable proofs that the successes of the AUies are known throughout the French Armies. In the .recent operations with the enemt under Marshal gouty., we learn, that six companies of the '7lst Foot. and Lieutenant-Colonel TuLtocu'a Bri gade of Nine.pounders, under the command of Sir k4ATHANIML PEACOCK; covered the passage of the lit.Brigatle, and that, in consequence of disposi tion and well-direcled fire of the Artillery and Light Companiee, few lives Were lost crossing, the river. • . - • ..., . ITION. • ERS. UR OtLocK. it regular sets of i town ; bywh'c't ation of Pe.sce at aim= fall S per, . igence, our own se aho. At half- en at 14., left off • • ENCAL ' Ott s. Dilk % ; 0 • 0 rib 0 • 1 . 1 1• SEM .27. • AN &Nil% of war, rom th e Leeward hattoan. s Tbcy noel. • e Joseph, HA?* e taken (the for- atter Sd October) by the garitaga nd full of ma). — at Demerara the .RY 12 guns, and the .uize ; the Specn- d to Bilboa ; and Thames. Sailed mail for lialifax. FRY s. gunderland.— harbour thf Lord th timber for the rther convoys ap- s. • )eneral Grenfield, ail of Transports, tic, in . board, for 's ships and out- '. and a thick fog. st: fostila)•, the *ship Iti ; sailed * theism to 4th instant fell for Newcastle for • spoke brig hertz +yell-140th 200114 , 16 of Pprt - r0i.46,- long: 111... ns Port . Glasgtiw, rsioos to the Atm- ps,"l - tagfitx to liris- Fciis the 12th alt. 9be-got ofE ' 'POINTMENTS ; lett, ma W. Marl% airs H.T, Leassaw "A 4 4!. U . ur, in de , etiad rtnidoo ; Hancock, to . Seymour, to the Gra- and W. Richards, to the Presiaent. &tie. in future to be grata- Awed at the different ie cxpence of a suitable ON! is appointed to . imiral FEttaunt, off 4 '. ppointed to succeed nd on the coast of tis departure imam- Ifect knowledge of • Won, HENRY Lag tight as the Tweed, L called Longpoint ward of the tweed : two nights on the n cold and hunger, e extftions of Mr. • rom whom they re- Four men onfoftu- . ft4l from the mast- lying in bock, at is master's foot, ex. ust finished his ap- ' t of Lb*. late actions etllitmnc_ trai th 611 i.