Star. — London, England, 1817-08-27 00:00:00

FRAIVCA. PRIVATE LETTER FROM PARIS, AUGUST U. if The zeal wen which the Missionary Societies in France are animated, has net been daunted by the progress of irreligion and fr ee thinkin g during the a gevolutii n. They justly determined on visiting the Provinces in which still existed some of the blood stained criniitials of .1793, and their first endeavour was to awaken ti, s entiments, of orthodox faith and repentance the accomplices of Fouche at Nantes, and of Tallinn and Isabean at Bourdeaux. The effect of their religious labours was instantaneous and asto nishing. The inveterate culprits of ancient times were limited from their apathy and stung with re morse, and at Nantes, in an age of incredulity, cross of 40 feet in length was voluntarily conveyed through the city to Mount Calvary by penitent male factors, unc“vered, with naked feet, and a halter sus pended to their neeks, manifesting every mark of proteutid and bitter contrition. In a short time the cliniches could scarcely contain the crow-s that flocked t hear ti.ese rude but eloquent preachers, who tied timed against the fouler crimes, and who spared not the reprehensible licenses to which the relaxed state of morality lisJ accustomed the public. Talma was making a dietetical tour at this critical moment, and so trernend.us were the denunciations on the head of the Actor, that he effected a precipi tate mottle hal retreat to avoid popular outrage. At boordeaux s milar scenes have occurred. The ambulant Fria; s have converted some of the deep, rate ruffians of the days of terror, viho have publiely aided ii, the re-construction of the Cross they formerly trairipleel under loot. Above 2,0(X) persons pay nightly visits to the Place of St. Andre, where the Cross has been erected, and alter hymns and prayers, j nu in a general chorus of Demme/at solvent Rtgeor. The day of the Ascension, the Archbishop hini,elt was at the head of the procession, and a multitude nil females of all classes and descriptions. " The Missiontnies having proscribed the waltz, it was remarked at the last ball of the Prefect's, this species of dancing *as excluded." 'I HE EVENING STALL I.OiN +N. WEDNESI...Y, AUGUST 27, 1817. PRICE UI• I oCK • THIS DAY AT Twzi.vii O'CLOCK Rafixed 111 Cumob, 110iF—Do. for Oct. slit 4 pct. lent Witt —Navy, 1054 —ltalia lion& i us pr. Ractryurr bill., so. sc.. pr. It has long been a must desirable object in the Commercial world, and one in which the prosperity of the United Kingdoms is very essentially involved, •to obtain An assimilation of the two currencies of Engl.o.o And Leland. The late consolidation of the two Exch.-quer' was a measure which could not fail to base an immediate and powerful tendency to bring about the Accomplishment of this important improve met.t ; and we are happy to learn, by. the following announcement in the Dahlia Journal, received this day, that something like an approximation to it has at last been actually effected : " MOST INPURTANT.....The Bank of Sleeted has agreed to receive the Notes of the Bonk of Ireland the same as their own. To illustrate this subject it is on 1) necessary to state, that a. merchant in Dublin, instead of paying lu per Cent.•tor a Nil to meet his engagement in London, may transmit loith Notes, and they will be received as British Current". It may be a " a °oiler of nine days," but Ireland reaps the advantage—it raises her property 10 per Cent. in price, in the great market of the wcrli, and if it be true, its we are confident .it is, eve owe so the present Minisery, ea this meow alone, more than to all their predecessors since the Revolution." We have been favoured with the following extract of a letter train Trinidad, received by the last vessel, which, though not of so recent a date by three days as our own communications, furnishes some addi tional information respecting the affairs of the Main, which will be acceptable to our manufacturers; a PORT Of STAIN (TRINIDAD), JOLT G. • WAs an Englishman, I look forward to the rasa emancipa tion of Spanish Amer.ca as identified with oar best hit/nests, mid as far as relates to the inhabitants Nothing can tend :u • mock to their improvement as being relieved from that state of bigotry and profound ignorance with regard to the principles of pod government, and the eserul arts of life, in which the Spa. Mat t.ovemment has kept them lur 300 years, and I see no rea• DOS to suppose that the persevering efforts of BOLIVAR and the friends of freedom will not eventually triumph over all opposi tion. Ti.e Creole troops fight with such determined valour, that the :•paniards cannot stand the shock, and bents no Spanish army no. ells ain the field any where. The fall of the capital Guayana may be looked for every moment, as the Indepen- dent squailiou from Margarita had reached•tha Orinoko. and the Spanish garrisons, even previously, bad been driven to the (realest distress. lie trade of Gnayana, when taken, will not be confined to that rich province, but will take in that of Various and part of Soma Fe, which are a'rrody hi the hands of this Patriots. To give you some idea of the subject, the independent General PA Occupies ibe rrovince of Vannes, all the Lower Apure, and as far a. lalabiao, about siaty leagues from Caracas, with 5000 casalr,, compesed of the Sambos of Doves and i'vloitabss, and others of that crass. He defeated Mos ILL* completely in Janu ary, at seen by his own reports BOLIVAR, PIAII, Itsaatuots, Cabana, sod a host of other good linkers, besiege the two es. hles of titia)ima. On :he IWs of April, Plait destroyed the fipassi.ll division tat I Gt , O men, most M 01111111.04 veterans, so come pktely, that an Englishman, who was at the city of Angustura, who saw them match out and return, says that not fifty etcaped, and only Brigadier La FOR ac and two Officers. This English man, who was shoe with ei, brig, was embargoed till the ad of May, sail fir the last mouth lived on jerked beef alone, without bread, and witnessed people dying daily of hunger. In comet justice or this, all who could desert have gone UeeT to the Pa triot,, and the last are vat gave a far more dreadful account of the scarcity. Ihr surrender is therefore looked for momently, as Ba lON's Oil, et n.isting of tour liewiy brigs and tix schooner , and stoups, well armed, and den heavy gun-boats, tittered the Otintakai three weeks ago. about San Carlo., 60 leag ues Vtlitt•Ettina is to the ,Uaotta, from OSMIMI; N•WATS Pratt hat driven the Spaniards mato( the provinces of Cannon and Ton* in New Granada; Socorro Las also freed lberself. ROZA* commands at Maturin ; Mauna, sad Monona% occupy the plains in the rearof Same lona and Cuanza; Margarita bids defiance to the Spaniards and their paltry expedition, and, in a Word, the Doss are every where quite perplexed and undone. I see every probability of their shortly being quite driven out of Vet:noels and New Granada, and good care will be taken they do not return. The Spaniards have lately shot General Fain as, and three or four other Inde pendent Officers, taken at Barcelona. This operation was per formed on their backs, for Spaniards will never cease to be brutes to the conquered. MARINO offered to exchange a Spanish Co. lona. Lugano for &cites, but Moat tto preferred shooting him, and letting the Spanish Colonel take his chance, which I fear will be a bad one. In short, so long as the Spaniards put their priso ners to death, they can expect no quarter; nor, Indeed, do they deserve any. If the Spaniards bad my means to carry on the war beyond their garrisons, they would have, no doubt, attempted are relief of Guayana ; instead of that, they blockadbd Margarita for IS days, but dared not to land." A Lisbon Mail which arrived this morning, brings the following intelligence respecting the operations of the Independent Army in Venezuela. It is contain ed k the subjoined extract from a private leuer, dated 12th August : “ The last accounts from South America mention,' that a severe battle has been fought on the Banks of the River Oronoko, between the Patriotic and the Royal forces. The Royal party were so strongly en trenched on the grand Bank, that an attempt to dis lodge them was thought to be an hopeless experiment. - The Patriots endeavoured to gain the other bank of the River, by which means it was hoped they would be able to draw the enemy from their entrench menu, where they could not be attacked but with manifest disadvantage; the artifice succeeded, the Royalists were thus drawn from their strong hold, and a general battle was fought at the point of the bayonet. The Royalists sustained the impetuosity of repeated charges with the greatest firmness, and when overpowered, !lowly and reluctantly retired from the field ; at length the Patriots, flushed with success, and confident of victory, charged the retreat. ing columns of the enemy with redoubled fury, and complied them to fly in every direction.” The above account, we have to observe, is defec- tive in one essential particular, namely, the date of the battle. It is possible, therefore, that this may refer to the battle fought last spring, and not to that of which accounts are daily expected, from the known position of the contending armies. Five persons were burned to death by the explo. lion of the fire-damp in a coal pit, near Bradford. Ynkshge, on tie 21st ult. owing to the bottom of one of the safety-lamps of Sir HUMPHILPY DAVY having been separated from the body. from its being soldered instead of rivetted—thereby forming a com munication between the internal and outward air. A most shocking accident happened on Monday itr'nnitght. to on unf..etundae man named &oleo., working at Riddell's Walltend Colliery, near Ken ton. He was employed, along with another man, in* -*king the small coals from the ecreens and throwing them upon the heap, which, as is %AN! known, is ge nerally on fire in the inside. On this occasion he bad left the security of the wall, along which the barrows are trundled,, and was proceeding over the top of the heap to throw his load more over it, when, as he was passing over its centre, the surface suddenly fell in with its weight, the inside being burnt quite hollow, and he was engulfed in the burning abyss, which instantly closed in upon him, and tent forth a volume of flame and smoke like the crater of a volcano. The person who was working aloug with him was not aware of the fate of his companion till he perceived the flames bursting from the opening made in the heap ; any assistance to the unfortunate sufferer was entirely out of his power. Not,a vestige of the body has been seen. Tile fire was, we understand, be lieved to be neatly exhausted, and the heap had been passed over only very lately. The deceased had been A soldier, and had served under the Duke of Wet.- LINGTON during the whole of the Peninsular war.— He has left a widow to lament his death. DUBLIN, AUGUST ?S.—Farther particulars of the descent of the Aeronauts :—ln about eleven minutes after the ascent, Miss Toturson and Mr. LIVINGSTON descended, in perlect safety, in a shrubbery, which was divided by a quick-set hedge from the Park of Marlay, the seat of Mr. LATOICHP., about five miles from Dublin. A person having immediately come up, Mr. Ltvrtrewrom threw him a cord, requesting him to hold it fast, and then throwing out a little ballast, ascended about twenty feet, when the man drew the balloon by the rope over the trees into the field. The balloon had never been out of sight from the time of its ascent until it reached Marlay. It•fsad got to the height of something better than two miles. An immense concourse assembled at Marlay, having followed the direction o 1 the Balloon. Miss Testes's: was conducted to the hospitable house of Mr. LA. Toucue, and Mr. Liviscasvori retrained with the Balloon, to get it secured ; every possible assistance being afforded him, it was soon accomplished and packed up in the car; the populace tfien placed Mr. Liviricsvosi on the top of the car, and carried I:im with shouts and huzzas round the roads, for a dis tance of nearly two miles, and at length brought him to Mr. Laroucire's, where Miss Towson and he dined. In the evening they took leave of Mr. LA TOUCH E% family, and arrived in town about I Oo'cloc k. Laminar, Auouar 16.—Yesterday was commit , ed tc the county gaol, by the Rev. J. Crampton, J. Ma. key, charged with breaking into the house of W. Brazil, of Collie, parish of Capamore, and forcibly carrying off his daughter, about IS years of age.— Malony brought the girl into the neighbourhood of Castle Connell, where Mr. C. was walking with a Gentleman, and having by accident met Malony, he instantly ran away ; he pursued him, and after a smart run took him, brought him to his house, and from thence conveyed him in a jaunting-car to the jail. From Makin', Mr. Crampton ascertained where the girl Was concealed, and returned her safe to her friends. NAVAL INTBLLIGENCL FAST-INDIA SHIPPING. The ships Vaaroan and Auaoaa arrived yester. day; the former in the Downs, the latter at Ports mouth. They left China the Ist April, and St. He lena the 10th July. The Amelia, MAITLAND, arrived from Bengal, sailed on the 3d of April ; touched at the Mauritius on the 25th of May, and found there the Triton, of Liverpool, to sail for England in about ten days ; and the True Briton, for Liverpool, which sailed for Bengal the following day. The Alexander, ( Dutch ship), BORSCH, for Amsterdam, was nearly ready for sea. The Durah, EDWARDS, was at the Isle of France. Passed the Tyne, BELL, from Bengal for London, in lat. 2d. 20. S. long. 47. 22. E. ; passed St. Helena on the 6th ult. ; was boarded by the Gairrox brig ; and informed, that the Moira, from Bengal, with troops, had arrived the day before; and that the Ca tharine, GRIFFITHS, was also at St. Helena. FALMOU'T'H, AUGUST 24. Arrived the Prince Ernest packet, with a Mail, from Lisbon, in eleven days. Sailed the Duke of Kent packet, for Lisbon ; and the Walsingham packet, for Gibraltar and Malta, both with Mails ; also the John, Rosaars, for Jamaica.—Wind S. E. to N. E. PLYMOUTH, AUGUST 10. Arrived the LSE bionp of wAr born a cruize. Sailed the Lord Cochrane, WAR, for Newlitandlond. I/3K SMOUTH, AUGUST 26. Arrived his Majesty's ship GIHCCIAN from a cruirl and the Aurora, Havising, from China—she sailed on the Ist of April, in company with the Wexford ; left St. Helen t on the 10th of July, and parted from the Wexford on the 22d inst. The American slips Indus and Caledonia were left at Canton. The Dora, MOIRA ; and Catharine, GRIFFITHS, were to leave St. Helena for England, about the 22d of July ; and his Majesty's ship FALMOUTH about the 17111, DEAL, AUGUST 26. Arrived the Dutch ship Amelia, MAITLAND, from Bengal ; Isis, • MELVIN, from Quebec ; Aurora, PRARsoN, from St. Kitt's ; And 1) ageniad, Ruccims, from Holland, 'for the West Indies. The ships for London have sailed for the River.—Five o'Clock.— Arrived the Wexford, BARNARD, from China ; she will proceed immedately for the River.—Wind S. DOVER. AUGUST 26., Arrived off this port,"the brig Fortitude Increased, MANNING, froth St. Christopher's. HARWICH, AUGUST es. Arrived the l'hetis packet, with a Mail, from Got lenburgh. HULL, AUGUST 23. Arrived the Laurel, CLARKII, from Davis Straits, with seven fish, 230 butts. CORK, AUGUST 111.. Arrived the Integrity transport, from the Downs, to take horses. JERSEY, AUGUST SO. Yesterday the Eliza, one of the St. Maine's traders, with passengers, in going from hence, struck on a rock near Elizabeth Castle ; she immediately tacked, and stood in for the pier, but had scarcely entered it when she sunk. No lives we►e lost ; as soon as she was seen to touch the rocks, upwards of twenty boats went to her assistance. GRAVBSENIN AUGUST 26. Arrived the Dart, Bedwell, front Antwerp; Jane, Richards, from Amsterdam; and W Boone Henrietta, Pantep, from Rouen. Sailed the Fortuna, Wye, for Gamla Carlby ; Canadian packet, iteniw, for Riga; William. Dampon. for Rotterdam ; Martha, l'honsat, for ditto ; Fotachon, Notzeke, for ditto ; Livinpton, May, fur Stralsund; Dispatch, Whiainshant, foe 'Frieste; and the Active, Palmer, for Lisbon. CUSTOM-HOUSE. AUGU3T N. Sates INT rain itierearis--The Suffolk, Kerr, from Quebec; Meanwell, Morgan, from Rio de Janeiro; Maria, 'Eau, from St. I.ucia ; the Sally, Morley, Prinecs. Mary, Nicholson, and Harmonic, : , uhr, from Hamburgh ; Edward. —, from Virgi nia; %Vibram and Mary, Trewhel a, from Gotteuburgh ; Young William, I wiled'', from Virginia ; the Agenorla, Leggett, from Amsterdam; Wakefield, Aaron, jug. Irons Havre ; Magnus, Or lai,dcr, from W yburg ; Christian August, Krogh, from Norway; and Robert and Martha, Summers. from Calais. Ow-manna—The Fortitude, Shepherd, for Nevis and St. Kitt's ; Mary, Foe, fnr Ostend; the Mary, Wilson, for Madeira and Forts St. George and William; Montreal packet, Dennis, for the Havannas ; Medd, and Susan Freeman, fur Rot terdam ; Spectrhuion, Taylor, for Cork ; and Zephyr, Cos, for the Bay of Honduras. NAVAL APPOINTMENTS. Mr. Mks, Master of the Newcastle, appointed to the Hyxna. Mr. Carmichael, of the Julia, to be Master of the Newcastle. Mr. C. Cleveland. Master of the Hope, to the Icara.. Mr. Edward Makin, from the Icarus to the Hope. Monday a boat, containing four men, returning (rem Exmouth to Stanton, was upset, and one of them WAS drowned. In the gale of Saturday se'nnight, a fishing-boat, of Sandgate, was sank off Dymcnurch, and one of the two persons on board drowned. The Captain Cook, ARMSTRONG. of North Shields, ran on ,;bore yesterday morniog,.near Orford Light; but was got off again, and was riding clear of the beach at three P. ra. The following is a list of the Independent squadron under Admiral Billow, that sailed on the sth of June from Pampatar, in the island of Margarita, to block ade Angustuta, and co-operate with the besieging army under Generals DottyAn and PlAR:—brig In dio Libre, ditto America Libre, ditto Conquistador, ditto Buenos Ayres, under command of Captain Ec- Trudi ; schooner Diana, ditto Sarasa, ditto Rosales; cutter Aurora; five/alum, or armed launches of extraordinary size; a gun-boat and several transports. It. is confidently stated in the City, that so exten sive and valuable have been the captures made by the Insurgent privateers of South America, that the Committee of LLOYD% Coffee-House have, for some time past, given the circumstance the most serious consideration. A deputation from the Committee have made application to Government ; and the reply is said to give the Gentlemen of Li.ovu's not the slightest encouragement to expect that Go vernment will take any step en their behalf. It is reported to be in effect, that Portuguese and Spanish vessels, sailing under the flag of each nation, and the property on board being apparently foreign, after their capture under such circumstances it is impos sible that the Government of England can interfere. It the Mercbillts insure property not under t.l* Bri tish flag, it is an individual concern, and not at all a notional question. THE ARMY. The Ist Battatinn of the Royal Sots, now I;z, land, having, at the time of t!irir leatirg F.l. . • , Castle, received a supply nt BihI• s and Tes from the Naval and Military able Society, 1i iv 1 . j uerously subscribed a day's pay to that valu tbie tution, amounting to £57 12s. H i d. hich has bem j remitted by Liewenant-Cult nel Nix to Elie Committee 01 the Society at Ediubsogb. Two companies nt the 13th regiment if at present qu irtered in St. Pi.tcr's Bairack , ..l•• They are shortly to be relieved by two con , t...:tir • the 55th, from Alderney. Odom! Sir V,' !‘ WILLIANC3, and the other officers the 11ti!J, received the thanks of the itiliabitanis if .i their urbanity, and for the excellent discipline u•at been maintained in the regiment during the taro yi:.!. j they had been qua; teed in the Istaiid. The following► official document wll t idea of the warfare now carrying on in En. 11.4, chew that in s erne shape or other toe ever keep our Indian army upon the alert, .. 1 the field, or in the mlre perplexing -.salt fle?.ITI:Is• character of hordes of banditti; ie.tring t" th.• India Company no alternative hut tt,e m on . of numerous advanced poste, at a great military establishment, or the expntlng to nin . jects and more d.i . ...ncelcss Allies to ih. te. ; sionally virprized and overran:hued by , the rapidity of whose moti , ns can Filly t.e t quo,: by the utu:der•+os a d predator; furs w loth irtr t .. their course. LI the present instance, it is sAi.f, t•i••e were not noire than 150 men will Msj••r Oliver, when a great ly,sly of horse suiprised the t.tw•u Kinirdy, and succeeded in burning much of it, al. though their itbject of plonder was defeated by the courage of this small lace. The town tea: enter,d at eleven iii the forenoon ; by about tise the afternoon Major Oiiver's strength it id foes 4:el to 350 men, by the forced matches of his out-posts; this gallant Officer, knowing the reliance which he could place on his little baud, determined on Attempt ing to surfrize their camp, consisting if 5000 men; in this he so effectually succeeded, that their first ►n timation of his visit were vollies of shot from the British ; they fled in all directions, leaving the greater part of their baggage on the grotoid, and many horst s to their conquimrs. The sribalteins menti.ined in general orders are said to be ad v. ry )(Nag m n ; Lieutenant Jackson is, we believe, the nephew ut M. Randle Jackson. " Fort St. Ct Grp, lin. 7. " G. o.—By Government.—The Honour able the Governor in Coonol is pleal its p„biir. in General Orders, the fo:lowing extract irons a !watch received from Major• General Ito nby, stir OfTice' in command of the Northet n Divistots et the Army, under date of the 24th ultimo ; " Copy of a Letter hum Major Oliva, commanding a Cetnr 4 :- Inent of the Ctls Regiment of Notre Infantry, to the Qtynter- Master (A Brii ade, Northern I.:mt.:on. SJR—I Wave - the liiinvor tii acquaint you, for tl'e information of the Officer commending the divisiiali that about five o'clock yesterday evening, we were surprized by the Mahratta horse entering this town. Having only Lieutenant Tulloli with mL., I List him to take post at the other end of it, and born both our divisions parties were sent out to the different streets to endeavour to keep them out of the tune.. We had continual skirmishing for about two nourc, and some men and horses were killed is the streets. A little after six, Lieutenant Tweedie, who had re. treated upon my detachment, arrived, having mar clic I all night and that day, having been surroundtel by thesis from eleven o'clock in the morning, I iound it impossible to save the town, as they galloped through and set fire to it in several places. " At eleven o'clock, p. m. Lieutenant Jackson, who had been stationed with his company about It; miles off, arrived ; when considering myself strong enough to give them an alert, I left Lieut. Twe:the with two companies, in a strong position, and having procured two peons from Mr. Spottiswood, who pro. mired to sheer me the road to their camp, atc)at a mile off, I put myself under their guidance, and am happy to say, we succeeded beyond my exp,mta tion ; we were actually in the middle of their camp before they discovered us, and we gave them two vollies from the companies within ten yards, which did great execution ; and it caused such contusion among them, brat they fled in every dizection. We traversed their camp, and killed. I should imagine, from 20 to U 0 df them s they left the greatest part of their baggage on the ground, and this morning there were about /00 horses running loose about the town, and we have killed and taken about 70 horse. Lieu tenant Tweedie, when he heard the filing, detached Lieutenant Tufloh with a company to take post on the banks of a tank for which they appealed to Lz making ; this was such an unexpected mainzai;rP, that a party of them galloped up close to Lieutcaar... Tullois without discovering him, when he gave t;:yr.: a vo lley, and killed some glen and horses. The,. have been drawn up in front of us this morning. i. should suppose there arc about iOOO of them, and they are now moving off in the direction of Timsoor and Saricottah; and I shall march this evening for Chicacole, as I conceive it probable they will men in that direction. We have taken a standard ardl trumpet.—l have the honour .to be, Sir, your r.: ,a obedient servant, W. C. OLIVEtt • " Captain commanding 6th De:4L:iil: .1.. Klawdy, December 21.), The following extract of a letter from an 0"T: r commanding a Battalion of Native Infantry cn t!-.c Madras Establishment, tends to increase our exptc tation of an immediate war in India with the Mal.- rattas. It is dated, Camp near fitutinabad, ^n Ow Nurbuddah River, Feb.‘2S:—" We have of lite had a very active time in hunting Pindnies, but wa l l little success in our quarters ; much, however. I been done in others, vast numbers of them having been killed, and thousands of their horses taken, so that I imagine their day is past. A Bengal force is now come to relieve this, and we are c,ll, Beal knows where, in a few days. In the mean time, Cie horizon is clouded in SCINDIAII% ditt:Ctit'll, air a Maliratta war becomes daily more and more rol. , :ae. unless he consents to subsidize a Lice of nue:. has certainly aided and abetted the !litanies, t. ho have committed dreadful our agrs in our North Di vision this season, aid I know net how we can be off punishing the tasc..T. I shall write to you again, :ti soon as matters develops themselves a little ; at Iv:- scut we are all much in the. dark."