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AMERICA. The followisu are the remaiks of an American I Paper on the President's Proclamation : 44 The President says, the enemy wantonly de. stroyed the public edifices, having no relation in their .structure to operations of war ; and adds, that the destruction was under the insulting pretext of retali ation, for a wanton destruction committed by the army of the United States in Upper Canada, 44 is it supposed that the capture of York is al ready forgotten ? York was the capital of Upper Canada, and there ALL the.public buildings were de stroyed, including the Capitol, where a Scalp was , found in the Executive ind Legislative Chamber , sus- ' pended near the Speaker's chair, in company with the mace and other emblems of royalty.—(Vide Dearborn's letter.] " This destruction was not only nevet g sliewn to be unauthorised,' but was the theme of continued ex ultation during the whole of the second year of the war. We regret as much as Mr. Madison himself the destruction of the costly monuments of taste and of the arts at Washington, and more particularly of the' public archives,' because we fear that the con. flagration has removed evidence of the 4 original transactions ) which ought to be preserved ; but corn. plaint certainly comes with an ill grace from the Captain General of our armies, under whose auspices similar atrocities have been committed." ME EVENING STAR. LON DON. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1814. PRICE OF THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK Reduced 641-4 per Cent. 8I —5 per Cent. Navy 96i Couto.% 6.5M —for account, obi-omm 21i Bal.k Loos Anne. /6 1-16th—Bontis 14s. ISt. pr. We have received Paris Papers of Sunday. The most interesting article they contain is that in which the subject of Washington is again taken up. There is a sympathetic feeling between the Editor of the ,Vurnal de Paris and Mr. MADISON, which deserves to he noticed. The former, in the subjoined article, and the later, in his Proclamation, which we gave yester day, breathe precisely the same sentiments. Both, bo e ever, have, as usual, lost sight of the Laws of War and of Nations —from MADISON we could ex pert no depth of erudition on this or on any other subject ; but from the writer who quotes the atroci ties of Generic and Attila, something like an acquain tenCe with Grotto,: may have been reasonably expected. Now this most enlightened, and certainly the most respectable of all the authorities on the subject, ex sressly leys it down as a principle, that, if in war we have a right to kill our enemy, ®fortiori, have we the tight of carrying off and destroying bis property: the latter is, indeed, pointed at as the humaner method *of carrying on the war. Those who wish to see the authority of this venerable Civilian on the subject, may turn to his chapter De rebus vastandis eritsiesefisque. Here he expressly says, that it is lawful to destroy 44 stores, harbours, cities, men, ships, fruits of the earth, and every thing thin like thim (si qua own winailia)." He even does not clearly except churches built for pnblie worship, from the vengeance of an enemy; end he adds that, with respect to their images, ind ,other decorations, it is perfectly consistent with the Law of. Nations to destroy them if the conqueror is of sse different religious persuasion. But the tender misty she by the French Generals to the Church of St. Peter's, at Rome, does not bear upon the ques. tion : the French entered Rome as robbers and assas sins ; they entered it anima renal:null ; but, first, it was recessary to cut the throats of the inhabitants ; which they set about with all due diligence. The chief glory of the conquest lap in the occupation of the Pa laces of Rome and tl.eir spl:ndid furniture, by the banditti, the Bout, and the Canaille of Paris, who then composed the Officers of the French Army. The capture of Washinron by the British has no analogy with that of Rome, Madrid, Berlin, Mos cow, Vienna, or any others of what the French call their glorious conquests. The object of the British in, their contest with America, is to disarm a wicked and most mischievous enemy, and to put down some most daring and unprincipled interpretations of the code of nations. $o hr from lamenting the dowafal of the Capitol of Washington, that Temple of blasphemy, impiety, and false philosophy, it is, perhaps, to be regretted, that the industry of the inhabitants was not inverted from supplying the equipments for continuing the war, to the more peaceable occupation of rebuilding their demolished houses ! The article about Washington s not the only one in which the French Journalists display their malig nity against England. Mach agitation is said to pre vail in Saxony —the affairs of Norway Are by no means settled-the Belgians are discontented—and, last of all, comes Monsieur TALLrfamtn with a most furious note to the Cougreu at Vienna, from the early deliberations of which be has it seems been ex cluded. Once more we must be allowed to doubt the tguth of all these vague insinuations, PARIS, OCTOBER 14. Yesterday there was a Secret Committee of the Chamber of Deputies. It is said that they delibe rated upon the four amendments appended by the Chamber of Peers to the proposition for the itikrpre tation of the Laws ; and that they have been adopted unanimously. The Chamber afterwards heard several opinions on the proposal of the law relative to the responsibility of the Ministers. Much has been said, wiain these ire dar t of ;be arrest of a General Officer on the Italian Boulevards. This pretended officer was nothing else than a swind ler, who wore a military habit, decorated with various French and other Orders. He was a Serjeant in the army, and has been guilty of robberies, forgeries, and frauds innumerable. [FRONI TFIE JOURNAL DE PARIS.] The Gassetie de France, which cannot shake off the habit of changing every thing which it touches, yes terday addressed some reproaches to us. which we are forced to answer ; and, as usual, our answer shall be moderate. 44 All this Rhetoric of the Journal de Paris," says the Gazette de France, " has for its object to prove that the taking of Washington was not only a violation of the received laws of war, but an attack upon the rights of humanity." There is very little good faith in this assertion. It was not of the capture of Washington that we were speaking ; we know, as well as the Editor of the Gazette, that it was a natural consequence of the war ; but we were surprized stile destruction of the public buildings, and particularly of the Capitol, the resi dence of the President, where the Congress used to hold its Sittings. What should we say of a General who, after having entered Rome, should blow up the Pantheon, cr the Church of St. F.:tcr ? There is no man of sense who has not remarked the absurdity of the language of the Gazette. " The public edifices of a country belong," it says, " to the conqueror who takes possession of it." Here we have a new maxim to add to the law of nations ! Without doubt a Conqueror may dispose of the fortresses and arsenals which force has put into his hands, but the edifices destined to public utility, and which cannot injure the enemy, ought to be respected. Such at least is the rule of conduct which the Gene rals of civilized nations have been accustomed to fo;- low. It would be grievous to adopt other maxims at the commencement of the nineteenth century. The surprise which we felt and expressed does ho nour to the English character; and the Journalists of London would have had the right to be offended if we had regarded the destruction of Washington as an event which we ought naturally to have expected on the part of any General of that nation. As to the interest which we take in the Americans, it is quite natural ; it is the leaning of generous minds in fadour of the weakest. We desire anxiously that Peace should be reestablished between the United Stat and Great Britain ; but if the war is to continue, we put up the most earnest wishes that the country of Washington and Franklin should preserve its inde pendence, and not fall again under the yoke of Eng land, We shall never be so base as to forget the true' interests of France. This is all that we have to say to the Gazette de France, and its English coadjutors. 'Pope Benedict XIV. in :7.53. united the Isles of, France and Bourbon to the Diocese of Paris: conse quently, the Metropolitan Chapter of Paris has nomi nated to one of the vacant Cures in the Island of Bourbon M. Delmotte, Vicar of St. Vincent-de-Paule. The restoration of Marseilles to the privileges of a free port has been solemnly proclainied there by the public functionaries, amidst the greatest acclamations- Notwithstanding the state of disorder which France has recently experienced, the crimes for trial at the Courts of Assizes have been comparatively few of late ; and what is peculiArly honourable to the cha- racter of the French army, no soldiers appear among the criminals. A small vessel which lately arrived at Ostend has imparted a vast qqantity of false coin, bearing the effigy of Louis XVIII. and particularly five-frank pieces. Every individual having them in his posses sion, without being able to say where he got them, will be arrested by order of the Government of the Low Countries. LEIPSIC, OC fOBE I. We have received more' po.itive intelligence re specting General Lecocq and C , ilonel de Zeschwity (for it is the 1 ttter, and not the Genet al, of that name who is involved in the business). It was General Thielman who caused them to be arrested, and they say that it was the l'russian General Kleist who de manded this arrest. General Lecocq was sent to Torgau, and Colonel Zeschwity to Wittenberg. They are not locked up, for these towns are occupied by Prussian troops. Upper Lusatia has been requested to send Deputies to Dresden to regulate their system of credit.--their discussions have commenced. VIENNA, OCTOBER S. It is said that the Ministers of die Italian Courts demandto be admitted to the conferences of the Con gress ; but we are ignorant here if their demand has been assented to. We are assured, that the Ministers who will parti cipate in the conferences relative to the future organi. zation of Germany, are those of Austria, Prussia; B. varia, Wurtemberg, Hanover, the two Houses of Hesse. Assau, Brunswick, and some other great vassals of the Empire. The Ministers of Powers who have no States or interests in Germany, will take no share in the discussions. Prince Talleyrand Perigord has been received with great distinction by the two Emperors and by the King of Prussia. The Powers which have the greatest number of Ministers and Diplomatists here are England and, Russia; but k should seem, that many have been attracted isither from motives 9f pure curiosity, and that several of those of Russia have been invited by the Emperor Alexander to be near his person. M. Capo d'lstria, Russian Minister in Switzerland, who is to be consulted on the affairs of that country, and M. de Bublen, rho was formerly accredited to the Diet c,f Ratisbon, have lately increased the number. Prince Talleyrand Perigord will give in, it is saM, on the opening of the Congress, a note of the highest importance. CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 10. The Governor of Egypt and Arabia still finds it very difficult to make head against the Wecha'aes, who have obtained several successes against him.— They lately surprized Cumpida, containing all his military stores, and situated near Djedda, where his head-quarters were. It is rumoured here that the Persians have made an irruption into the Ottoman territories. One of the Schah's sons surprized the small Turkish fortress of Urumkir, on the frontiers of Grand Armenia, but he was soon driven out by the Turkish troops. The public regard this act as one of the young Persian's own contrivance, and we hope that the good under standing between the two countries will not be in terrupted. The Persian Minister at our Court has nevertheless quitted the Capital, on the pretext of being afraid of the plague. He has entrusted his affairs to Hussein Effendi, formerly our Resident at his Court. The Captain Pacha returned yesterday With the fleet, after his successful expedition against the rebels of Satalia. He has been most favourably received. The plague has greatly diminished its ravages for the last fortnight. We hope that the case is the same in the Provinces: intelligence from Adrianople, how ever, of t h e 11th August, inform us, that this scourge has extended to Phillippopoli. PRIVATZ LETTER. " Pius. OCTiliti 17. 44 I am sorry to remark, that there notoriously is great dissatisfaction at the return of the ancient dy ti..sty among the military, especially among the corps d'elite. The young and old imperial guard approach not the metropolis. The cuirassiers still - withhold joining in the cry Vive le Roi 1 and I fear no chance remains of extinguishing, when these corps exist, the deep-rooted affection for him who formed them. In the mean time, foreigners are dismissed, and congh for a twelvemonth (well understood to be for ever) given to those who asked for them. The King's guard is committed to troops of the line and the national guard, in equal proportions ; but as the former are perhaps not wholly relied on, notwithstanding the white ribhand in many of their button-holes, and as the latter serve without pay, this system cannot go on for ever. Here are three or four handsome Swiss regiments of the line, and the gardes du corps (for merly but four companies) are again formed, aug mented to six, and splendid barracks fitted up for them. The company now on duty, the Paris Papers took care to inform us, is commanded by I3erthier. 1 have good hopes from the loyalty of the ladies; and the tourgethe are in general well affected. Their national air of 44 Vive Henri Quatre," is often called for at the Theatre, bona fide, and loudly applauded ; and stills a tumult. 44 You may rely on it that the Netherlands regret their change of Rulers—they complain that the House of Orange is unable to protect them ; that they shall continue the sport of war, and that their interests in the mean time will be sacrificed to Dutch commercial monopoly—either Austria, or England, they conceive would protect and govern them better. •6 This is not an energetic government—the King a most worthy man ; but to rule this nation of devils King Log is not in season. A measure, which would give universal satisfaction, and I am very fearful would be politic, and probably successful, would be an immediate rupture with Austria. At the ap proach►ng Congress, very probably we shall hear France speak out. No doubt it would conciliate the army ; and woe be to the nations on which falls the first burst of indignation from the humiliated wounded pride, and disappointed ambition' of this dangerous people. The Drama has not yet reached the end of the sth Act. In the mean time, certainly the people are civil to us visitors, and we are very numerous." Her MAJESTY and the Princess ELIZABETH arrived at the Queen's Palace yesterday morning, soon after eleven o'clock. They remained till half-past two o'clock, when they left on their return to Windsor. The QUEEN'S visit to Brighton is, we hear, to be at tended with all the magnificence of the Court. The Chamberlain and Steward of the Household are to be present : additional articles of furniture have already been forwarded from London. Her Majesty is to be accommodated in the Pavilion, the Princesses at Mari. borough-house. It is rumoured that the Quin and Princesses go to Brighton on Monday. GIBRALTAR, Serrastate 25.—The following are the cases of fever and deaths since the 18th ultimo : August 18 to September 2 . 42 Cues-11 Deaths. September 3 to September 9 43 Ditto-16 Ditto. September 10 to September 16 70 Ditto-22 Ditto. These de not include the Military. 17th to 23d, including what/ remained on 16th. 295 cases, 41 deaths. The last report includes the ndlienry,in which were 136 uses, and 17 deaths. Extract of a letter from Cadiz, dated September 27, 1814 :••• 41 I regret having to acquaint you, the, the epidemical distemper has made its appearancv here within these few days, and bills of health wer, . issued to-day the fact. Eight Monsan.. tree Pis destined of en expedition to South America, and which were about to be embarked, hart been just marched out of the town.". SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING, et 4, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19. The Pint Class of the Oathods Stakes of logs. each. B. M. Lord G. H. Cavendish's Cat, b yrs old, act Sib - . Duke of Rutland's Osman ' 3 yrs old, 7st 11 1 b - - 11 to 8 agst Cat-5 to 2 asst Oman. Three others started. but the Judge placed only t-vo. Mr. Rassiinson's c. by Whiskey, out of Ares, ist 71b. aphis: Lord Y. fitentinck's Monkey, Bot Slb. Ab.M. 100 gs. OA by consent. NAVAL INTELLIGENCR. CAPTURES BY T IE AMERICANS. The Pallas, from Quebec to London; Favourite. from France to Newfoundland; and Maria, from St. Andrew's to ditto, were captured previous to il.e 16th August by the Adams. American corvette—tle two latter destroyed. The Charlotte schooner, from Newfoundland to Halifax, is taken and burnt by the Surprise privateer. The Kingston packet, from Nova Scotia to the West Indies, and a brig of about 170 tons, laden with fish, from East Port to Grenada, were taken in Au gust by the Fox privateer, and carried into Portlan.l. The Stranger, WATTS, from London to Quebec; the Susan and Jane, from St. John's to Sydney ; and the Retrieve, Geonou, from St. John's to Martinique, have been- all taken of the Coast of Newfoundland since the Ist ult. by this Surprise American privateer. The Columbia, from Halifax to Barbadoes, was taken 9:11 ult. by the Portsmouth American privateer, and sent for America. The Alexander, frora Mirsmiehi to Ayr, was esp. tured previous to the 9th August, by the Ida Aft can privateer, and abandoned after cutting away her masts. The Five Sisters, BIDDING, from Jamaica to Hal:. fax, was taken 21st August by the Dash American lettea,of marque, and given op after taking out 200 puucbeons of rum, and is arrived at Bermuda. FALMOUTH. OCTOBU 176 Arrived the Dolphin, Cox, and Speculation, Dime, from London; and the Prince Regent, Burson, from Dartmouth ; also arrival a man of war brig from the Eastward, to take the homeward-bound Brazil ships to Liverpool.—Wind S.S.W. fresh breezes, with rain. PORTSMOUTH. OCTOBER 19. Arrived this day a fleet of transports, &c. from Lisbon : sailed the 2d instant, under convoy of his Majesty's ships REDWING, CONSUCT, and Kira— consisting together of twenty-five tad —amongst them are the Mary Ann (agent ship), Emperor Alexander, Harvest, Millbank, Rose, Ranger, Amphion, Peter Proctor, and the Peace.—The KTE is put under qua rantine, having been in the Mediterranean.—Carve into harbour his Majesty's ship PlLOT.—Sailed his Majesty's ships HOPE and PICKLE, on a cruize.— Wind S.W. blows strong, with rain. DEAL, OCTOBER. io. Remain in the Downs his Majesty's ships MON. MOUTH, MERMAID, ARCHER, AMARANTHS, BERMUDA, CORDELIA, ROSARIO, REDPOLE, and GRIFFON, and several sail of outward-bound. Sailed the DUNCAN and PERSEVLTANCE transports for the River. HARWICH, OCTOBER 19. Arrived the La r« packet, wiih a mail from Hot. land ; I Inrper transport, No. 690, with prisoners and invalids, from Ostend. Sailed :he Prince of Orange packet for Gottenburgh ; Alliance packet for Cuxha ven ' • and the Earl Leicester packet for Holland, with mails.—Wind West. RAMSGATE, OCTOBER 19. The following vessels have put into this harbour for sh•lter : Goede HOOP, for Bilboa ; Sally, for Havre ; Concord, and the Bee, f"r Portsmouth ; Sisters, for St. lye's ; Maria, for Liverpool ; and the Dove, for . Wind South, blows very strong. The Attention, SNIT, from Lisbon to Copenhagen, foundered the 10th instant, off the Cape of Man— crew saved. The Friends, DAWSON. from Memel to Liverpool, is on shore in Murtle Bay, Loch Dunnett. The Ann, Jzwittwa, from Liverpool to Newfound land; Victoria, from London to ditto ; and Young William, of Hull, hive been taken, retaken, and car ried into Newfoundland. The ship that arrived at Southampton from Ame. rice was not the Fingal, as mentioned in the Papers, it was the Dutch frigate Ajar, that carried out the Dutch Ambassador. The Fingal is expected every hour, as she waits for the President's Message. The following are further particulars , 1 the de struction of the General Armstrong American pri- vateer, in the port of Fayal appears, that about the 28th ultimo, the PLANTAtietscr, of 74 guns, Captain LLOYD, RoTA, Captain SOMERVILLE, and CARNATION, Captain BENTHAM, arriving off Fayal, a neutral port belonging to the Portuguese, and one of the Azores, perceived a large schooner laying ta the roads. A boat with a Lieutenant was imme diately dispatched to the shore to ascertain her force, and to whit nation she belonged ; but the tide run ning strong the boat drifted near the schooner, which was then getting under weigh; after bailing her, and desiring the boat to keep off, which was im practicable from the schooner having so much stern way, she fired into the boat and killed seven men.— The remainder returned with the boat to the up: drop. and the Commodore considering the neutral' :y broken by this outrage, immediately ordered the C A it- NATION in to destroy the privateer; but die winds la, light and variable, the CARNATION made a sigisat for boats to tow : nine boats were accordingly dispatctedi with three Lieutenants and about 200 men ; but 11,3 being able to get the CARNATION near enough, is being rocky, the boats proceeded to destroy die re sel, and finally set her on fire, but not till we had s :t -iered a most severe loss in men and officers. Oa approach of the boats a most destructive fire U 4 S opened from a S2-pounder a-midships on board ue privateer, filled with langrige, nails, knives, On:v(15, and other destructive matter. The crew of the priva teer then escaped on shore, and fired on our men, wi: o were ultimately destroying the American. Lieutenants MATTERFACE aid Non:NAN:of the ROTA, wet. killed; and Lieutenant BoWERRANK • of the PLANTAtiks :retired a shot througu his lungs : altogether we tered a lama 135 killed and wounded. Par. of ine wounded are arrived at Plymouth in the Toms, and the remainder, including Lieutenant Bowititis N gone an to Portsmouth, in th e C ALYPEO , whial joined soon after this uhiottuhato i