Star. — London, England, 1817-12-11 00:00:00

GERMAN PAPEAS. FROM THE PRUSSIAN DOMINIONS, NOVEMBER IN.', The proceedings on the 'Wartburg have given rise to transactions at Konigsberg, which will soon be made known through the press. To prevent mitre piesentation, the following particulars in the mean time may transpire In Ilse Konigsberg Journal there appeared an invec tive against those who took a part in the proceedings on the Wartburg. The words, Barbarians, Vandals, savage hordes who call themselves Sons of the Muses," were used in ibis article. This gave great offence to the Students, and one of them wished to insert an answer in the journal ; but Schmidt, the Director of the Police, wou:d not allow it to pass the censorship. Thai thsy might not be prevented by this partiality and constraint from giving publicity to their opinion, the Students resolved on a procession with flambeaus and a viva in honour of those who participated in the solemnity on the Wartburg. The Senate refused their assent, and threatened even to issue on the fol lowing day a strict prolnbith , n. The Students, by way 01 .nticipating this measure, carried their vivat into execution that very evening,' in the Court of the Old Albet cilia, and concluded with the " Gaudeamus." The folks' ing morning a prohibition appeared against all participation in t h e affair of the Wartburg, on the ground of a highze authority : every Student w.ts ordered, in almost threatening terms, to give up his correspondence, in case lie had received any letters from Jena molting to this affair. In t!.is a. suer a Director of Police, and a Senate oct in the name of him who has deprived them of every pretence for so doing in the words of the law, No. 1(i. of the Bth November, 1817. page 5 ;-4 , No thing is changed in the Ministry of Police ; only the higher and Secret Police, as it is called, is wholly abolished, as it was only a necessary evil in time of hostile oporession and during war." BREMEN. It is affiimrd that a foreign Government has urged ti:e Prthsiao Govern went to punish the Students ot the Iltivci soy ot Berlin who burnt the corporal's cane.— In die second part of the. hold and witty book, 46 lhe World :110 the Times," thirty-eight new worr.s are antlrwrictd for the next Leipsic Fair, ot which we shrill mention a tea:—" The Political Frogs and hlice, 4 heroic poem in six cantos." 64 Private Cur resist %di:nee ot some baptised Jews and Christian Converts, on the purity of their views in the change pct their Cited." 64 Historical Investigation of the year 1900 ; whether A Diet vrAs actually held at ankt or t on al:e Maine, in the y ears 1816 and 1817." On the instinct of the People respecting political S.ilvation." Anti.diplorriatist, or a cullectinn of all the cupid auJ 13... b Treaties and Conventions, whereby Get many has gradually iallen ; with a com plete ezvlatustion iif the private motives which have • led to thuse Trtaties, and a Table of Comparison td the expense of Diplomatists, and the wink performed by them,'! THE EVENING STAR. JA111.41L.4 PAPERS. UTHLR ISXTItACTS. A public notice has been issued, directing the in habitants to make a return tu the Clark of the Com mon Courcil. , •I the slaves possessed by tt.ern up to the `;.hth tai June last. upon pain of incurring the pe nalties attached to the neglect of doing. It appears loom a lis tit the baptisms of slaves during the last 41 b eats, that this P.Crrlntilly is greatly increased. It: 1776 there were only 16 slaves baptized in a par. parish of tie 'bland of Jamaica ; and iii 1816 there were 508. .1 . 11,:5e are gratifying symptoms of an ameliorated treatment sit that class. The fol. lowing Lit, act trum one of these Gazettes relates tu slits sut:j et ; " In contequence of a circular letter from the King's House in M a y last, the clergy o this island made a return, in the fol lowing mouth, of the names of the different livings and Mews'- hems, the number of slaves baptized, and the lees usually re ceived, and other clerical dunes periormed. It fs with much sa tisfaction we can add, that a letter has been addressed to hi. Majesty's Ecclesiastical Cunurissaries, since the snivel of the packet, also from the King's House, and dated she thb instant, stating, that his Royal Highness the Pal NCI REGENT has beets pleased to express his satisfaction at the returns to the inquiries which his Royal Highness bad thought it necessary to hi Acute, which his Royal Highness considers equally creditable to the im • casubents of the several livings, and the Ecclesiastical Establish ment of the Island." Three privates of the Royal York Rangers, named Michael Bryan, John Williams, and John Cunning. ham, underwent the sentence of a General Court martial on Richmond-heights, in the island of Gre• nada, for repeated desertion. The Jamaica Cowan: of the 13th, whilst it gives insertion to the accounts from Curacna, which crave already reached us through the medium of the Ame rican papers, at the same time communicates a letter of the sth of October, from a Gentleman in that island, contradicting the statements in the Caracoa Gasette in several important particulars. The follow ing is an extract from the letter in question: is Do not permit yourself to be surprised at the intelligence p u blished t the Curaroa Conau of the 4th instant, which repre sents Paez to have been defeated by Calzada- 'Phis news was communicated by Mr. Lenz, tram ts.hraccas, and the whole rests sn t hr aetyputiy of rumour brought by him. 1 have perused , the Gramm Gasses of the 24th ultimo, neither of which, our the.. of an antecedent date, publish a single ayllal,le of the 111. moor. 1 will simply observe, that I have conversed with a G •ntlenum of veracity, who quitted Puerto Cabellu the day.he late rater lay, at 5 P. M. and learn from him that there are lin • Amps whatever at.that place; that tLe Patriots have enterestva , sinus villages, amongst others St. Carlos, Miming and destroying • several magazines of previsions, which were immediately abati• Cooed; that Cale.ada, with 700 Creolian troops, had gone over to General Pars, and that both united bail defeated the Spanish Chiefs Correa sod Gorda. . " The cause of Cattalo's desertion to the Pr riots is repro-' • seated to have been in consequence of the misunderstanding which took place between him and Murillo • the latter basing been pro moted to the rank of Brigadier, with a cross from Ferditiand VII. which he did not notify to Calzada, but sent a Courier after bins, sonulltna histommand, and directing that he should he conducted to head-quarters a prisoter ; hence Ins detection. General kioli• star was in Guayana, where the new Governor of Venezuela had, Tor the time being, been established, lie being out of the Execu tive. Generals Plar and Pai z had united their armies in Sab • Felipe, and the former had marched for Car-ems by the way of she Villa de Cara, and the latter for Valencia, where, it Is stated, belied arrived w hen the alarm was beat at Porto Cabello the-day before yesterday. Marino was likewise on his march for Car s-acme, having already taken,pouession of Cumana and Duce lowa. Morino, It is said, was in estrum' carrying off, every thine valuable; and it Is contemplated that be will premed from t h en ce to Porto Cabello, it Whig manned, from every direc tion, that die indepsndents. an( on. their march to Caracas, and tfie lastmatued poet. - The writer • then notices the publication of the in dike, or amnesty, which be predicts will be entirely &availing. LONDON. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1817. THE FUNDS. Price of Stock• this day at Twelve &Clock: Reduced 821- BS—Cons. shut—For Opening, 84 ii 4 per Cent. 99;1-5 per Cent. Navy shut Bank Long Anus. 41 1-16—India Bonds 99 100 pr. Biclacquer Bills t 9 es pr. A great deal of business has been transacted at the Stock Ls• change this morning. Consols last night left off very heavy, at 84 for the account ; but they ripened at 841, and the Market wag brisk at that price. The Commissioners gave 85 money for Re duced, and were served generally by the Jobbers, A few months ago, a new Constitution was, in the benignity and clemency of the Pore, given to his States, and which, it was trumpeted forth, was to raise them to the highest pinnacle of earthly felicity. On that occasion the Arch-Priest thus expressed himself : a The Convitini::n which we give you is not only useful in itself, but is rendered necessary b? tAirtirg ciresmutinces. In a great pact of the provinces recently restored to the Holy See, th e ir long separation from it has caued such an oblivion of ancient institutions and usages, that it would be r;:arlF :n.7:l:sit!e to restore the former order of things. New ha'lits have been formed —new opinions are universally entertained upon the different objects of political administration and cm nomy —new lights have been acquired from the ex ample of other nations of Europe.—Every thing im-• periously commands that we should adopt a new system of Government fur these provinces, agreeable to the existing condition of their inhabitants. We have nothing more earnestly at heart, than to ame liorate the condition of our subjects." Accents like these from a Pope of Rome — the once Infallible of the Earth, could not fail to excite wonder as well as expectation. How vast, indeed, must the change wrought by an age of revolutions have been, to make the most proud and arrogant of human Potentates—him who, in the amplitude of his glory, not only could set himself above all the Powers of the earth, but actually put his feet on the necks of Kings—how great the change that could draw from such a Ruler expressions of such apparent humility ! What! a Priest, and the Prince of Priests, I to become the herald of moderation An acknowledgment from the ancient seat of cor ruption, that a political regeneration was necessary— expedient i that the old order had become, indeed, too old to be any longer maintained—might have in duced a hope that the Italian suns of the Church would not only have abandoned so much at least of their attachment to things ancient, merely bvcause of their antiquity, but have set in earne.t about the establishment of a new system, calculated to secure the happiness of the people more iminectiately under their dominion. This might have been expected from the common sense of the eighteenth century, but was not to be found in the new Constitution held out by the Head of the Roman CiAlich. It presents none of those great political ptinciples which have been developed in other countries : the pmael 5 and attributes of the Sovereign—the responsibility of Mi. nisters—the levying of Taxes—are points passed over in the deadest silence. Neither a free Representation, nor a free Press, nor a free tongue, are to be found among the Holy The Constitution is, in fact, nothing but an admini. strative and judicial code, regulating the organization of the civil and criminal Tribunals, and amending some of the old Laws respecting the pilvate rights of individuals. The " new —" new opinion:" " sew lightt"—have. in short, had but a sorry triumph. The " new system of government agreeable to the existing condition of the inhabitants"—the system which every thing imperiars& commands" should be adopted, has still its appearance to make. His Ho liness, it would seem, has still his own share of " the new light" to obtain, before be can light the way to freedom and independence. In a word, we cannot find that this Constitution, such as it is, has been even acted upon ; or, it it has, we have miserable evidence before our eyes that this is not the age in which the protection and security of the people should be entrusted to the Priesthood—to old women and the dispensers of punishments after men ate dead. A gentleman of the highest respectability has just returned from a long Continental tour. In the pre ceding month, the Banditti had the temerity to enter the Papal States, and even Rome itself, in the open day. Added to the horrors of their ferocious ap pearance is meationed the little dependence which could be placed in the military guard. In one in stance the whule of the latter, near the out-posts, twelve in number, actually joined the insurgents.— Universal dismay was the consequence. General discontent and misery exists among the lower classes ; and the Priesthood are also much dissatisfied with the present order of things. Let the present state of Italy be compared with what it was when even the-tyrant of Europe held the sovereignty, and no one can refuse to admit the la mentable truth that then the people wete in much better circumstances. This is a glaring truth that demands the serious attention of the great European Powers. The people of Italy have a right to expect from them such an attention to their situation as shall secure their emancipation from a condition to which no change of circumstances, respecting sovereignty, could give any man ur setof men, a right to subject them. It is only from such • an abase—such a neglect of the ditties due from Sovereigns to their subjects, that any fears need be entertained of revo lutionary sentiments gaining, any where, such an ascendancy as may threaten the peace of the world. It is high time that the civil authority should in Italy, as well as every where else, be wrested froth the hands of priests, and committed to the hands of proper I. iy Sovereigns and Tribunals, unthwarted by any pi ie,tly interference whatever. Nor is this a subject that, with any kind of prudence, the Lay Pow ers of Europe can pass over without attention, as not concerning them, being confined to another country and other people than those immediately under their controul. They have a direct interest in removing every thing that can keep up or tend to circulate not merely the remembrance but the living example of the evils resulting to mankind from the reign of the priest. hood—that reign, by which, however it may have been overlooked by statesmen, was engendered and nur tured all the evils which led to the late tremendous concussion that shook the civil institutions of Europe to their very foundations. We have given in another column some further extracts from the Papers received yesterday by the Jamaica Mail, from which it will be seen, that the advantages reported to have been gained by the Royalis s over the Patriots, must be taken with very considerable qualifications. Indeed it is somewhat doubtful, whether any such advantages have been gained at all. General CALZADA, who is stated in one account to have gained a victory over PAM is armed in another, of apparently equal credibility, to have, on the contrary, gone over to the party he is preter.ded to bate conquered. By the Brazil packet we have received letters from Rio Janeiro to the 2d October, but they contain no thing new respecting Portuguese affairs. Accoukts to the 11th September had been received from Buenos Ayres, stating, that several very valuable prizes had arrived there; among which was a rich Philippine Company ship, bound to Bengal, captured on the same day she lift Cadiz; also two ships from Vera Cruz and Havanna!), bound to Spain ; two others in ballast ; and a schooner, horn the coast of Afr;ca, bound to Cuba, with a cargo of negroes. The latter were set free on lauding. The Portuguese ships called the Gran Para and Carolina, both bound to Lisbon—the first from Calcutta, having touched at Rio Janeiro, and the other from Macao, captured off the Western Islands—had also entered the River Piate: they were instantly given up by the Supreme Director, who ordered that reasonable damages should be paid by the captors. The Philippine ship above alluded to was called the Esperanza, formerly the British East lotliaman Sir William Pulteney, ;165 tons, teali.built in 1804, and it was considered she would be a valuable acquisition to the naval strength of Buenos Ayres. Charleston Papers to the Bth, New York to the 16th, and Boston to the 18th, arrived this morning. The following arc extracts: " NEW ORLEANS, OCTOBER 9. " The Spanish dispatches respecting Mina, say, that ' on the Isth inst. he, with 600 men, was over taken on the mountains by a Spanish force under General Dc Lilian, and was briskly attacked ; but that he effuted his escape in the night, favoured by the wind and rain, which fell in torrents.' It is yet believed that this dashing partizan's force is far from being annihilated." T_IA . LTINIORE, NOVEMBER 8. " If still continues to be reported that a Commis- 1 sion will be sent to South America to examine into the extent of the exertions of the Patriots to throw off 'he Spanish yoke and maintain their independence; and that Cs.ar A. Rodney, John Graham, and Theodorick Bland, Esqrs. are designated as the Cbm missioners, and are to go out in the Congress ft igate, with Mr. Breckenbrige as their Secretary. The amount of the compensation they are to receive (6000 dollars per annum, and 6000 dollars outfit) has even beet, mcutiqned. No official indication of such a measure being intended has appeared in Washington. Conjectures, however, ate numerous on the subject ; but they are premature, as the President's Message till unquestiontibly indicate the policy the Executive think most necessary to be pursued on the subject." A Letter frown Quebec, dated October 21, says : " On the 19th instant arrived in this City, via 'fo miscuata packet, Celonel Bocc•errrc, Surveyor- General of Lower Canada, accompanied by Captain Cams, late of the 60th Regiment, and Mr. JOSEPII BonoxerTE, jun. We have only been able to learn, respecting the progress of the new boundary-line, that the exploring stave). has been prolonged from the source of Saint Cloix to the river Ristigouche, a distance of one hundred miles ; in the course of which the parties of both nations experienced difficulties and sufferings of then most arduous na tire. The Americans employed in the exploring: survey may be expected here in a few days, by the same route, on their way to the State of Vermont,' the British party having returned to St. Andrew's, New Brunswick, by the River St. Joho.” The famous fortress of Ehrimbreisten, on the Rhine. which had been blown up. is now repairing by the KING 01 Pnussz*. Four hundred men are daily employed at the work. Wi t h this assistance. it saidis it cannot be finished in less than twenty years! with 4,000 awn it might be accomplished in smile THE FLORIDAS. (FAO![ A PHILADELPHIA PAPER.) Captain ARNOLD, of the ship Lucy-Anl, Bourdeaux, has brought out dispatches tor ment, from the American Minister at the Coort Spain. It is presumed that these dispateses relate the negotiations carrying, on between the States and Spain, as to the purchase of the It is distinctly understood, on very goo,{ au! 'hat Great Britain has said to Spain.—..j, v4 a , to keep the Floridas, it is well ; but it you to sell them, we think we have a right to ,I•e rence, and shall expect the first Offs." Ty s visage has offended and emharrassed the Cr.,. Madrid, although we do rict believe it will ; 1 :7,, its determination : indeed we teel eorifidet.;l., determination is made, and is nr,w in the Stares. We come to this conclusion, from . ledge of the fact, that the Spanish Minister, ON's, has at this moment in his posse s _?.• n pan h:•s from his Court, which di,;,;,::hes 1 0: is rected not to open until the meeting Con,g t 1: THE .111 General RANISAY, the Governor of Ant;2l:.i General MURRAY, the Governor of D em . retiornintr, from fte West Indies; ndit I , 1 ,. 1 . 0: that Sir ROBERT BIIOW.ittIG:.: is aboir. to t • t .., 3 , Ceylon. In the event of Lord CoNtorwirite grin... — nada, it is now said t!iat Sir Lowny C r.11: 1 • Commander of the Fu ices in tht-: West N4l 'AI. I.YI ELLIGLATE. MAH.S . 1 HIS DAY. AIM our. ast.nr„ Dub . - I 0 France . . u Waterford - . I 0 auttenburgti .• l 0 Guernsey and Jen.) , 0 I Jam.iiea -- • o 0 Lisbon - - - U I Hani%orgh -- u 0 Holland • • . 0 0 Brazil -- - 0 0 PENZANCE, DECEMBER IL The Sally, OWEN, with oats and bitter Southampton, was totally lost yesterday four from St. Ives—clew saved. PAL'MOUTH, DECEMBER S. It has blown all day a hurricane from W. to N. and still continues %Ali unlhated violence. Tile g commenced about twelve o'clock last nigl4t, hut to this time (9 A. M.) the East and West-lad. ride it out, and no damage 01 any kind has yt: pened. rue ship; that sailed yesteidg have doubt been obliged to bear up for smte iso:t to Eastward. PORTSMOUTH, DEC2MBER to. Wind W. N. W.—Arrived the Lady's Advvir from Newcastle, (or Gibraltar ; Calada trA:: trnm Q.aebec, with troops, in 29 days ; sh , ! t.poke:' Lido, of ..nd for Philadelphia, from I..;verpool, three days, ail well. Tae ship Albion seas on shi at Quebec, hut expcted to be gut otf. Toe Canulf 11u L, was lust abort five miles above Quebec; the Neptune, NEALR, was lost at Point Mill Va: Alexandria. The Thais, APPLEBY, trim londi had experienced a hurricane on Monday last, wI carried away several of her sails; she Ls gone Cowes to repair. DEAL, DECEMBER 10. Wind W.—Came down from the River the JO' Palmer, SAUNDERS, for the Cape and Bvngal,, mains in the Downs with the Russian squadron per but. PAUSTOW, DECEMBER t The Friendship, I .VHEELER, with provisions butter, from Belfast to London, came on shorr. terday near this place, but it is hoptd she will be t , off it the weather moderates. HOLYHEAD, DECEMBER 9. The Mary, HARDISON, from Nev.iourt,iland, Liverpool, drovion shore in this Bay, and is totally lost. All the crew got safe to land ill th boats. Part of the cargo, consisting of fish and (9 have been saved. Arrived the Tartar, &LIKE, IT Washington, with loss of main-mast. CHARLESTON, NOVEMBER 7. The barque Mary, arrived at Norfolk, un States, from Cork, put into St. Michael's (one of , Azores) about 15th September, for provisions; tout there the Dutch brig Adelfen, from Rouk•r. which also put in for supplies. The Ad, hen bound for Philadelphia, with '2OO paseng , r.,. out days, and stopped at St. Michael's, during %ditch of the passengers died, being so thickly etowd:•i gether. CUSTOM HOUSE. DECEMBER In. Stiles it scrritan Itsivaans.— I he Sally, Allan, truniWarrit ilhani and Mary, Forder. from Ross; isrs; 11 !Innings ; and Bideford, Donnell, from Dublin; OWL, ul Irom Rotterdam; and Fly, Kalman, irons Oporto. Ou i wristua—The Bal.te Nlercbant, Laughton, for Cirri sit; Sarah Margaret, Nicholson, for Hamburg!'; and Cotingt Packet, King, for Ostend. We mentioned yesterday the little effect nliich 1 !:° late Proclamation has had in preventing the levle47 of military aid in this country for the cans: :a - ix South American Patriots • and in proof there' t ~e now find it st a t e d, t h at u Monday last the EMERALD, Captain WHP.ATLEY, sailed from the Nom with Colt , - nel Hallam, and a complete establishment of Ur:- cers and Non-commissioned Office's, and men to fAin a band, for a regiment of cavalry, destin-J to j.'n the Insurgents in Smith America. ':.le .. I I . r .tvit4L: . . among other articles, which probably comis:rd of warlike stores, had on board a cons . derahle rai::'s c,f cases containing ride-arms and pistols, a:-..: '—' 9 barrels of gunpowder !" Sir FRANCIS &Tarim. has been recalled tr• - ;.• land. His last visits were to blalahide and .1..-c -hinch, to Mr. GRATTAN and Mr. TALNCT• V: . l . gret to hear, that his sudden departure has b:.:a ct• casioned by th e ill ness o f Lady BeitoETr, at lit::• Sir FRANCIS sailed on Szturday evening in the r2c'ot for Holyhead ; we hear that upwards of three !II"' drcd names had been subscribed for the public 4 ' aer which was t o h ave been given him. The al': man of the M ee ti ng , we understand, was toli4v.:tft. Lord CLONCURILY—th e Vic e- Chairman, Lord motif. if cir cumstances admit of it, the Wt!'!l bonnet hat pledg e d hi mse lf to return. ..-DeS.:/..'.5 1 1, ftc Cnort reldte •311 Fl•• a . t 1 tuts , ,,, z y el "ei Olt wl rtertnt :be pr e s ea rh:: 1 o cr•ir. dr • n. al :r.. tt pe e • ki • ttr, D •ilLd 6 is, lie is tta 1' 2. 1 ara, 1 g 7 1 , •t•or t w •1:1 •rs. = ll 13 liT .7 ! vi •.il •• ft , U 1 0 Li • 0 Ot u 0 • 0 bl :ter 'tool 1 ! nit tv.lt 1 1 . to N. V.' Li gilt t, but s yt:;t?? have s:t to 1 eivvin a trans:us- spoke ;pant, ; slier see an•• lit! Vasil Linden A which gone It the Jo'.n 1, and re 11 cidren s w ions an. 01 bore ill be et tt land, :•1: 1 is now iu tl.eit and til, ■ !tors Unitel me of the is; traol Ittvraisrat Pen out '.l which owthr•l ;••• h %gat wis; k SoA,