Star. — London, England, 1814-12-21 00:00:00

• RED RIVER- EMIGRANTS, - • t" • TO THE. BIWA OF THE TAR. Sin—As I have ever been, now am,-and ever shall be warmly attached to the Highlanders of Sutherland. shire, whereever . they may be scattered over the fate • of the globe, on my perfect knowledge that as a body they are a religious, moral, loyal and brave, though of late, an.illjated people ; ani the settlers on Red River form a part of that body ; you will readily conceive that I could not but feel highly shocked by the statement contained in a letter dated Quebec, 18th O_tc.ber, which appeared in your very respectable Paper of the 9th instant. Having the honour to be slightly known to the Noble Lord who was in that article so strongly, and, as it appears now, most unwarrantably alluded to; in justice to him, and under previous considerations net necessary to be here brought into view, I lost no time in apprising his Lordship that such an article had appeared ; and requested that he would be so good as to favour me with what information his Lord ship was possessed of, on the actual state and condi tion of a body in whose welfare he knew that I took uo ordinary interest. In consequence, I bad the honour to receive from that Noble Lord, by the worn of the post, a letter on the subject, of which. I give you here a faithful copy ; and I reqnest, that for the satisfaction of all those interested in the Colony in questions you will give it, and this communication, insertion: syttenhon, Dee. 12. 44 Sta—l have received your letter of the 10th, and ant much obliged to you for informing me of the article in the STAt. bast not siren ; but I have no doubt that it proceeds from a trading Company, who conceive their interests to be injured by the tiettletheut in question, and who have inserted in the Canada Newspapers some very gross misrt presentations on the subject. " 1 he misfortunes of the Kildonan emigrants on their voyage, were fully and correctly stated in most of the Newpinvers iv No vember last year. They originated, in a great measure, in the foolish obstinacy of the people themselves, who would not at mid to the regulaions laid down tor the preservation of their health on hoard the ship. ' Though this untoward event prevented their reaching their destination at the time expected, they were well taken care of in their *low quarters, where they lived io plenty, and soon re covered their h:alth.. They proceeded on their journey in the spring, and at tl. e date of the last advice' (July 25th) they were established on their re.pective allotments of land, a•siduously engaged in their work, in very good spirits, and highly satisfied wilt the r satiation. The crops, at that time, were in a very promising state, some of them nearly ripe; and leaving Ito doubt of a superabundant supply for all the settlers. As the usual re turns of bailey are thirty for one, and potatoes fifty for one, it must be a man's own fault if he has to complam of want." However highly satisfactory his Lordship's state. scent WAS PntiLied to be considered, as far as it went, I sent him the paper containing the article, with an expression of my hearty wishes, that, on all the ob vi6us and strum import of it, the whole article might be as pcblicly contradicted as it was promulgated.: and I CPoc.eire. that the question has been most satis factorily spoken to; and, in as far as regards its false- Wood, pin to definitive rest, by the manly and firm Iclteen l Mr. A.tu.n, which appeared us your Paper of the 17th instant. It is imrsbible, Mr. editor, to reprehend, in too see c re tares, a ii.thritious act of tl.e nature of the article in question; because the highly injurious im. pressions which it' was calculated to excite on the public mind, were naturally increased by the cons!. &ration that the midicious author of it, did not pur port to state any part of it en report, but the whole a: the mat ti his own person4l observation : and whoever the man was who hashed it, he does but little credit to a British 7 ruder. With respect to ti:e remarks with which you, Sir, announced the article, they were qualified and con diticinal, and entirely wotthy of an old established Journalist. You gave the article naked as it appeared, stating the source whence you had it; and iu doing so, gave opportunity to those whom it most behoved, to speak to its truth or falsehood ; and your apparent purpose has been satisfactorily accomplished. Sit.ce I am on this subject, it may not be unsea sonable to remind you, Sir, that the Colony here in dicsisslon is composed of sixty families, or part: of families, who emigrated last year from Sutherland shire, under the auspices of my - 4‘ord bauciax, in oonsequence of an extensive removal of the tenantry en that noble and populuds estate, under a new system dt husbandry ; on which • subject, several letters ap peared iri your Journal, in time months of March and April lap year. In some of which letters, without questioning the point of "i/ukviffea/ riglur," all the evils, immediate and prospective, likely to arise out of that new system, to the pppulation of that County, Isere predicted. And, sorry lam to say, that if the statements from that County, are even partially stir sect (and that they are, I have no doubt on my mind), you will probably awe,: with. me, that these predic-. tons are already but too fatally verified I The same year, ninety-two families more of this ill fated people, comprising a collective population of five hundred old apd young, were removed to ac commodate one individw.l with a Sheep Farm. Notwit;istanding the plausible but illusory assn. • rances then held nut to us, 46 that these removals were not intended to encrease the rent-roll of that but to AMELIORATE the condition of the Tenantry I" it now appears that those removed LiSt year and this, are in a state of beggary—with the ex ' eeption of the Colony on Red River : and, thonsb am any thing but an advocate for emigration, me thinks, situated as they are, " it were a consumma. iion devoutly to be wished," that all of them were on the shores of Red kiver. • 'And as to the pledge then given, 6 4 that no harsh ness or inhumanity had been, or should•bs :hewn, in carrying the new system into effect," you will see by the documents herewith transmitted for your private inspection, that, but very tecently, a subscription has been strongly implored in London, to enable a law Gentleman of a con:iguous County, and whom, on enquiry, I find to be a very respectable Mali, to in ghate a criminal prosecution against the individual alluded to above, for the manner in Which he took possession of low Farm ! ! ! A SINCZni FRIEND TO 1116LILANDIRS. 0 .• It appears by the docurnenn sent with We letter, If cor rect. tint the best act of the new tenant, on j o y o y bas form, was, to consign all the ilorelling-houses other httild ;op AU It, to indiscriminate esologrative alt .by the law and cu tern itamernoriai of the laud, she nutgoing tenants were • eiAtet to an appraised valise fan all the timber contained boil Wight with *dr money, or s, h o uses, Witch they u rzbteed from the axone lay their industry, Or to carry that timber off the promises. On this topic rice et the letters states, iff.o4ll Otliel facto, Aids for the rake of humanity we hope are • sly void of truth, that . 4 4 Mt moues Woe was set on Any • i t~ fiengit his wife was in the Musa is ehlia-bed; that she Wu iv. I Moved from the dames, while In labour, to her garden, wham 4e was delivered, and where , in two hours thereafter, she and 44 infant died." !turbid it, HeAveN, that such cruelty amok' 'Oats perpetrated in any corner of Greacßritsin! AMERICA. FROM A BOSTON PAPER, OCT. St. ! • GENERAL MARIA ARMY. • Extract of a letter to the Editor of the Patriot, dated Dead Creek, (U. C.) October 19, 1814. 14 The army under command of Major-General Izard, atvanced as far as Chippewa Plains, on the llth inst. having to replace the bridges, which the enemy destroyed, and driving in his out-posts, after some sharp skirmishing with our light corps in the afternoon of that day. On the 15th, the enemy ap peared in force at the village of Chippewa, but thew ed no disposition to give us battle. The bridge had also been destroyed, and no means were then possess ed of reaching hint, but by our artillery, which was brought up and ably directed by Captains Towson and Archer—disabling his batteries, and almost si lencing his field artillery before night, when we re turned to the encampment, On the 16th we again showed him our front in order of battle, and al though reinforced, he -could,not be grown into the contest. On the 17th, the UM, changed position, and retired seven miles up the Nit; -Ara. General Bissell was detached with his brigade on the morning of the 18th, to watch the effect of this movement, while the main body continued on its ground, in the hope of drawing the enemy from his position. The brigade of Gen. Bissell, had, by a circuitous route through the woods, gained the vicinity of a draw. bridge, about three miles above the mouth of Chip pewa River, and allowing but a part of his force to be discovered. At day-break, the enemy threw over a strong column to destroy what he considered a re connoitering party, and was instataly received by the brigade; and though far superior in numbers, he was beaten with great slaughter, driven over his bridge, and pqrsued so closely as to leave no time for its removal. The battery which defended the passage was gallantly carried, giving time only to discharge two rounds before it was occupied by our troops. The enemy WAS reinforced. but obliged to give ground, and retired with a loss estimated at nearly ‘2OO in killed, wounded, and prisoners; ourk is stated at 11. killed and 54. wounded. The main lvaly ail , march iminedfately, and reinforcements Are a lready gone to support him; but the enemy has prchably retreated beyond a prospect of successful pursuit. The action lasted three qa.tit,n-s of an hour, and was princil:ally fought beyond the liver." EXTRACf OF A LETTER FROM BUYIPALO, HATED OCT. 2 0 . 6 6 Yesterday Gen. Bissell, with his brigade, forced the Chippewa, eight lies above the enemy's poi. tion, with the lus of 6a men, 11 of whom were killed. This morning the army were on the rn.ve from Black Creek down the Niagara upon the Cliip pews. 66 General Ripley is better, and I think fast upon the recovery." • FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLICENCER. THE FOURTEENTH CONGRESS. Much exultation has been displayed to the Federal Prints on the occasion of the acquisition of Federalism in the recent Congressional Elections in Mary laud and Pennsylvania. Without at present exanilnitig the causes of the ascendancy of Fede: alism in Mary kind, and proving that it must be temporary ; with out deploring the misguided zeal on the one side or the other, of tlic two sections of the Republican 'party in Pennsylvania, which has enabled the Fede ralists to elect members in two or three districts,' in which they ate the, minority, we proceed to :hew to our readers, not only that the Federalists cannot hare a majority in the next Congress, but to skew that their numbers will not be greater iu that than in the present. 'inc election in New Hampshirehas jnst terminated, and resillteJ in the reelection, by a small majority, of six Federal Representatives to Congress. In ,Massachusetts, the eleetian talcs place this Ml, and will give at least the present prupurtion of Re publican members, if not an increased number. In Vermont, though the Ccngressionat Election has taken place, the votes are not yet known to have been counted out ; but, as there i' reason to fear* May eventuate in the choice of Federalists, we shall so estimate. it. Rhode Island, always eccentric, has re-elected two Federal Representatives. That Connecticut will re eject seven Federal Representatives, there can be nu doubt. The powerful State of New York has given her zealous support to the present Administration, and to the war, by choosing twenty Republican and seven Federal.iiirrobers, of the last of %shorn it is said the seats of two will be vacated in f ivour of their Re. publican opponents. New-Jersey has just, almost unexpectedly to us, chosen six decidedly Republican Representatives. Feign Pens) Ward,' all the returns have not yet come to Laud ; but it is believes! that six out of her -to Re presentatives will be Federal.• Delaware has chosen, as usual, Federal Represtn• tatives. . In Maryland, the Federalists have obtained five, the Republicans lour members. In Virginia, the election des not tnke place until April next. We may reckon on her delegation, as it Low stands, 17 and six, though it will probably not result so favourably to Federalism. The North Carolina election does not take place until next August. Her d I,:gation will probably stand as at present, ten to three ; but, making allow. once for possible changes, we will set it down at eight to five. In South Carolina the election has taken place so recently, that we have the returns only from one (the must Federal) district, in which the Republican candidate is chosen+ There is no doubt, therefore, that the whole Representation of that. State will be democratic. In Georgia it is ascertained that six Republicans Tare just chosen, to represent .that State, its the next Congress. In Tennessee the elections do not take place until the spring. There is no doubt, however, that Repub licans will be Litosen from every district. Kentucky has a/ready; as usual, chosen a delege- Lion of unmixed democratic character. The electien in Ohio hai just ended, and there is II little doubt but eat Republicanvamt *gain chows for that State. 6.)16 Louisiana has elected bqtprisent Republican Re presentative. It will be seen then, that diongh partial changes favourable to Federalism may have taken place in Vermont, Pensylvania, and Maryland, they are much more than counterbalanced, by changes the other way in New York and New Jersey, besides what may be expected even from Massachusetts. The result of our estimate will appear in the fol. lowing Recapitulation :. ELECTIONS ALREADY DECIDED. New Hampshire 6 Federalists; Rhode Island 2 Federalist.; New York 20 Republicans I Federalists; New Jersey 6 Repub licans; Pen:ylvauia 17 Republicans, 6 Federalists ; Delaware 2 Federalists; Maryland 4 Republicans t Federalists; South Ca rolina 9, Georgia 6, Kentucky 10, Ohio 6, and LAmisaanis 1, Republicans. ESTIMATE OF PENDING ELECTIONS. Massachusetts 4 Republicans 16 Federalists ; Connecticut 7, Vermont 6, Federalists; Virginia 17 Republicans 6 Federalists; North Carolina S Republicans S Federalists ; and Tennessee ti Republicans. Elections decided, 79 Republicans SR Federalists. Elsctions estimated, Si Republicans 40 Federalist.. Total-114 Republicans 68 Federalists. This sort of estimate of party power 1; rather in invidious task, particularly at this moment, when on had rather see the two great parties striving which shall most zealously serve and promote the common good, than counting noses to asreriam which is the' strongest—but as our opponents are already singing hallelujahs for their vast acquisition c.f strength, it would be wrong not to expose their unfortmitate tots take. We have, therefore, made a simple statement of . facts, which cannot but operate as a st:dative to their premature transports. We need not add, after the above estimate, that in the Senate of the United State, there mast be, for two or three years at 'cast, a decided Republican ma - poriiy. PHILATILITICA, OCTOBER te; Great adtiitiona are , peei3ily to be made lsy Con. Kress to the direct taxes ; additions which, if we are correctly informed, will • more than double the land fax of the present year. The direct tax of this ) ear was, in its terms and provisions, extremely oppressive on tins city. We were charged with a much larger sum than our fair proportion of the State's quota. — The whole sum charged on the State of Pennsylvania for the direct tax of the present }'ear was 365,479 dollars 16 cents. The tax of next year will probably be 630,958 dollars 32 cents. at least. The proportion fixed on the city of Philadelphia, by the act of Congress, was 79,000 dollars—between a touith and fifth pact of the tee paid by the whole State. 'rue AMERICAN Pnestnear.—The George Town Fe. derdl Republican contains the following article :- 1!‘ We speak it. not in the joy at our hearts, because it ispei:s a prospect of relieving the country from tyranny Ind jecoainitm, but in the bitterness at our sorrow, 1 - ec4use it iota induce consequences the most griev- Oh.; and asetul; hut, we believe, and for some time b , ve believed, that there is no hope of preservii,g this union six mow lis it six weeks, unless Mr. Madison iesvis, or is reniovtd from office. The storm is cUs tinctiy seen above the horizon —that it will pass inr,r, and may lay waste our country, there ceases to be a doubt. We give it distinctly as our belief, fonnded upon o bservation, with good opportunities of forming an opinini', that the general g o vernment will dissolvt in its own weakness before the Ist at July, if there be not peace, or Mr. Madison is not out uf office beore unit day. Our object, we aver, is not to excite a false alarm. We speak not in a menacing, but a monitory spirit. That in our hearts we oepiorc, and would unite in the most energetic measures to avert such a calamity, we trust no one is disposed to doubt, but we helieve it to be inevitable. The obstinacy of the President, his i„tuorance of human nature, and his total destitution of sensibility, will ensure the pur ' suit of a policy which will hasten instead of averting the catastiophe which we would stave off." FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, DECEMBER 16. The King and Royal Family went yesterday to the Theatre Franc tis. The audience was numerous and William, and expressed, by the loudest acclamations, the sentiments with which they were filled. . The King has named a Commission for ecclesiasti cal affairs, presided by M. de Talleyrand Perigord, p f Rh e ims. • Count de Vichoncii:l and Marshal Oudinot will, it is said, be the two Commandants of the regiments of Guards so hick his Majesty is about to create. By a Royal Ordoinionce it is permitted to Sieur NOEL GUILLAUME IVANGIBAU, Chef de Bataillon, to add to his name tact of CoNsTaNce, as a mai k of the Royal favour, tor saveig the lives of several French Emigrants, a; the hazard of leis own, what serving in the French armies at Constaue, in Switzerland. M. D'ANGisau has since distinguished himself by many other acts of heroism and intrepidity in the service of his country and of his legitimate Princes. We learn from Colmar, that the appointment of 'the Duke of Albufera to the command of the s:h mi litary division causes general satisfaction in Alsace, and a feeling of confidence which greatly facilitates the public administration, and the re-organization of the army. CHAMBER OF PEERS.—Srrrino or DECEMSER 10. Marshal the Duke of rarentum, in his noble speech on the,3d, had proposed in principle a general system of indemnity for the emigrants deprived of their pro. perty by confiscation, and for the military deprived of their endowments by the last events of the war. He appeared in the Tribune to-day, to fulfil the engage ment he had made, to establish the calculations that were to serve as a bassi► for this operation, and to point out the means that were to ensure the execution of it. At the close of his speech, the Marshal made the fol lowing proposition : FilorosirluN Of A RESOLUTION FOR ►RAYING NIS MAJESTY To F►ESENT TOR FLAN Of A LAW ooIITAININo Till FOL. LOWING DISPOSITIONS: Art. I. Before the Ist of January, 1816, provision shall be made by law : 1. For the replacing of the property arising from confiscations which may have been ceded to the Caine d'Amortissement. Q. for the increase of endowment necessary to replace the value of such of the said property as has bees, provisionally ap pi wiated to the use of Hospitals, Houses of Charity, and other Benevolent Establishments. 3. For that part of the espences of the Legion of Honour, for the defraying of which, shares representing the value of naviga bfe canals are appropriated. The said pill'lei king made La oFder that there share, aid that property Ivey be immediately goateed to tissir Mimi pre, prietors, conformably to the • of articles 4,8, and le of the Law of the Sth of Dect=l:l4l. 11. Before the °peeler of she Seolloo of 1111.11 ? Ile illillister a rinancestsall cause to be prepare& a Report tioNvi•to dew thet ecnonnt of the property &dams front confisfieiNot sad tbeAplgt . due by the former proprietors which have besodiseharged.' 111. 1 he Budget of 1 4 1 6 , shall include a mitt appropeatstit—.' 1. To tne creation of annuides to favour d dila* peplum • of the said property. ts r • • ' • 2. To the replacing of endoessolota which, by the decrees g approprlrion, do not exceed 4000 frame+ a year. IV. The proportion of the annuities to be created shall be cal culated either according to the reveune, valved as in I '7 go, o the' ' alienated property; and In that case, the debts of the proprietor; of the gild property shall Le reduced to one-third, or on the foot in; of t- pet cent. of the said property in the same period of 179 U i and in this case the eredirm a avioae claim; remain umatiaEeti; ' shall preserve their rizhvt, it being well undereicrod in either. lyr. . ' puttied' tLat there ~hall tte ma is MI the value of the aid properir • a deduction of the debts extinguished by liquidation. A Member of the Chamber of Peers, equally dist • guished by the greatness of 11:s name and thel9phi of his character, the Duke de Choiseul, included id the two words, reparation and Areurvatioss, the entire express iou of the duties of the Chamber. The Marshal Duke of Tareutum l•as Pagetly adopted this noble motto, and it may b. said that his speech forms at. one its most exact coailnerttary and most happy ap. plication. - - BO U RDV.AUK, DECEMB:R 11. On the Both of April last, E.:l Sluniards or Porn. geese went to a public-lit-use, kept by one lleyeart. in the Commune of Bar. Alter eating their supper, they started up all nt once, about itaMpast Pita. o'clock, murdeted the landlady and a • traveller. • stabbed with their knives the tts o eaughters of bey eart, and a man named Ai:fans, leaving them fey' dead. After this horrible massacre they plundered. the honse rf a great quantit: - of linen, and a tonti. • k!erable stnn of money. " ' Several SpAniards and Portuguese were apprehend ed, and one • them, Antoine Causseyre, was triad' in the Cana of Assl!e. lie ackanwledged that he was one tit t'le six who supped at Deyeates, but pre tended, that havia7 heard his companions propose to assassiaate the people of the house, and rob it after. watch, he got up and ran away.. The Ater found him guilty, and the Court. oa the 4ait inat.setameed him to death. Several persons of the town of Langon having as. sembled, on the 15th of . August last, at a public house, went out in the evening upon the quays, and there set up shouts of—" Long live Napnlenn I—The Isle of Elba for ever ! —Down with the King and the Royalists I—The blood-thirsty fr.r ever I"—These exclamations were repeated the following night, and it appears chat the seditious paraded the streets of Langon with a fiddler at their head. For this misde meanour eleven persons were apprehended. and nine of them tried in the Court of Assize. ',nine, fencing master, and Planty, carpenter, were found guilty, but as theirmiseonduct had not been productore any consequences, the Conn sentenced them both to. , be banished five years, and to pay the costs of the proceedings. The seven others were acquitted and released. PALERMO, NOVEMBER In. The Parini:tient continues its Sittings. It has already discussed several important questions, and passed, among others, the following Decree : " The Parliament decrees, that it recognises as a national debt the loan negociated with Great Britain by the Ministers, the Princes of Castelnovo and Bo.' nano, for the sum which shall be left, aftet sabstract• ing the lawful compensations acknowledged by the liquidation which shall take place between the Mini. *ters of his Britannic Majesty and those of his Sicilian Majesty, and the result of which will be communi. : sated to Parliament. The Parliament does not mean to authorise by this Decree the illegal conduct of the Ministers, who,' by eft - meeting this debt without it; censent, violated its constitutional prerogatives." ST. PEIERSBURGH, NOVEMBER 18. Our official Gazette publishes to-day the following letter from Feld Marshal Barclay de Tay to Count PlatofF, dated Bruchsal, July 6th : " At the ever memorable period when the ;twin. cible Russian Army delivered the country from the presence of a formidable enemy who wished to sub. jugate it, the corps of Cossacks of the Don, under ) cur Excellency's orders, distinguished ittielf by new and innumerable proofs of attachment to oar august Monarch, and of zeal for the public icr'vice. Besides the regiments which gloriously combated the impos ing masses of the enemy from his first entrance on 1 1 our territory, the old warriors of the Don, who re. posed in the bosom of their families under the shade of the laurels which they had long before gathered, as well as the young men scarcely strong enough to bear the fatigues of war—all, at the first call of the Monarch, flew to the defence of the prosperity and glory of the Russian Empire. " When they arrived on the plains of Taratia, they formed a powerful reinforcement for the mint, after the bloody battles which it had fought. Soon afterwards, when the enemy of our repose, and of the general tranquillity, after experiencing the 'orce and constancy of the army and of the whole Russian peo pia, took to flight, the warriors of the Don, who threw themselves on him to annihilate him, covered the roads by which he was retiring with the trophies of their victories, stripped them of the treasures they were carrying off from Moscow, and uniting to mili tary glory the piety of Christians, dedicated them to the Most High. These offerings, which (Ailment the temple of the Deity, in the capital of the Empire, will for ever be irrefragable proofs of their zeal for the true religion. " When at last the victorious troops of our mo narch, full of affection for us, and touched with COno passion for the misfortunes of other nations, alter driving the enemy from their own territory, were Cr:. ployed to deliver foreign countries from his yoke; the regiments of the Don shared in the valour and glory of the defenders of Germany, the deliverers of france, and the restorers of peace. Yes, dear Count, at that memorable period, there was not an affair 1 3 which the heroes of the Don were not signalised by their military exploits, not a battle'in which they I not triumph, not an obstacle which they did , ior mount, not a danger which they did not vanquish. " Now that, coveted with glory, they are returning to their fine climate, and that from the banks n 1 tilt' Seine to those of the Don, they carry with them we ice and happiness, I cannot conceal my sincere grAtintoe for their immortal exploits. Their glory, it is me , does not stand in need of my acknowledgment, 01 order to be known to all the world ; but I coneider ;t