Star. — London, England, 1814-12-16 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, WIC PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK: Reduced 65t1-4 per Cent. Stii—.s per Cent. Navy shut Cccis,4s shut—for account, 6612—Otunium Ift did. Lank Long Anus. 16.1 3-16thl—India LuntLi 14s. pre. The ARGO frigate which has arrived at Portsmouth from Jamaica, brings Papers from that Island to the `2.3d of October. The Port Royal Gazette, of Octo ber 22, states, that CHRISTOPHE and PeTwx, the ' rival Chiefs of St. Domingo, had agreed to surrender , that island to Louts XVIII. and to acknowledge his Sovereignty on certain conditions favourable to them- , selves individually, and advantageoui to the popula tion at large, as well as to the mother country. The Jamaica Paper states in substance, that the VIGILANT had arrived at that island from St. Domingo with in telligence ig that a general Treaty of Peace had been signed between PETION and CHRISTOPIIE, and pub lished previously to the sailing of the VIGILANT, in which it is said that they had mutually agreed to surrender St. Domingo to the French Government, on certain conditions, and that all the property, ex cepting that possessed by General and other (Mats; was to be given ap to their respective owners." The same Gazette also states,.that 4 ' on the Mon day previous the Due de Manchester schooner, bearing the colours of his Most Christian MAJESTY, and hav ing on board M. AUXIoN LAVAISSE, Adjutant-Gene. ral in the French service, and one of the Commis sioners from the King of FRANCE to St. Domingo, proceeded for Port-au-Prince." Ou the above intelligence we have to remark, that it is in opposition to the sentiments conveyed in the manifesto of King HENRY of Hayti, oc the I Stli of September last; but it will be recollected At tie same time, that by a previous declaration, issued by the Haytian Government, while his sable Majesty stre• nuously and indignantly threatened to oppose 'force by force, he stated that matters were still open to ne gotiation ; thereby implying a disposition towards conciliation. On this hint the French Commissary above alluded to, was sent out, and if his instructions authorised him to grant all that the inhabitants desir ed, it is probable that the arrangements above men tioned may have been made. From a supply of German Papers which we re. teived this morning, we have :Limed the following rhapsody, as bearing most strongly on the points still under discussion at Vienna PROM THE RHENISH MERCURY. 66 Frost the very beginning there has been two opi nions concerning the manner of disposing of Saxony and rehisd. 'obi& wash( b. UMW conducive to the general good! Some believe that Poland moat re. main divided, for the safety of Europe would be highly endangrzi if that country, so-powerful by its tesources, and by the warlike spirit of its inhabitants, should be placed under the protection of Russia, and Its King become a vassal of that gigantic empire. They point to maps, and shew the enormous mass which presses upon Europe from the east ; they shew the great Forelands and Islands which branch out from its source, that Eastern Sclavonian Em pire into Bohemia, and southwards into the German soil, and the possibility that if that last inter mediate king.doin vanishes, all will coalesce in one prodigious mass, which will prepare the ruin of Ger many. Therefore, say they, Poland must remain as far as possible subject to Germany, which will then be spared the injustice of swallowing up Saxony. " The other party maintain, 6 It is not so ; what you wish to prevent by this division, you will rather promote. A spirit of unity has arisen in Poland ; a love of independence, which so many years of misery and shame, far from weakening, have strengthened and confirmed—would you tear in pieces this body so full of life ? its bleeding and convulsed members, in which you cannot smother the vital spark, will grow together again, and before you are aware of it the wound will be closed. " At the slightest movement in Europe the thirst of independence will be then renewed; the East will take advantage of the spirit of discontent, the West will build plans upon it, and eventually the very thing will happen which you in yoer wisdom think to pre vent. Nature Inman here, as every where else, the curse, that he who sows injustice shall reap ruidor• tune; the sword with which you divide Poland will cut asunder the bonds of your internal union which were on the point of uniting you. " We have from the very first agreed with the lat ter, for the simple reason, that in our opinion to do right and execute justice precedes all policy. It ib t inssible to find any other principle that is a cer t itu guile of action, both in public life, than that voice which speaks in the breast of every one, the Prince, the Minister, and the Citizen. " All your wisdom, which pretends to extend unto' another century, will be put to shame ; and your pro vidence becomes a laughing stock, if you once depart from that line of justice and truth which GOD bas marked out for yon. " In your unsteady march you may deviate to the right and to the left; but naked swords are pointed at you in the gloom, and when your arrogant self vinfidence dreams securely, the steel is in your breast, and the avenging Nemesis has overtaken you. " The partition of Poland was the first youthful , . ssai of this age ; ii has since, indeed, grown grey In sin ; but let us nbt Suffer. the dew era, which is now, beginning, to take on itself the crimes of its prole. cessor. We must go back to the root of the evil,' to make a perfect cure possible. Let Poland have a Russian Prince if you will ; before two generations are passed, he will b., himself a Pole, and enter into all the interests of the country to which he is attach eJ. This will happen sooner if l►e is a constitutional King, limited by the peculiar spirit of the country. — That the Sclavonian nation should hold together is natural, and we cannot silence this natural impulse by our jealousy ; but what we can do is, not to be guilty of injustice towards them, that those who are free may not become our enemies, and those who are under the yoke revolt against us.** * * * * " Truly, there is no other clue to guide us out of the labyrinth in which we are, than after the plain old , fashion as we Germans have been used to do, to give and take what is strictly just, and to consider, that as often as we have been misled by covetousness and greediness to pass the just bounds, punishment has never failed to follow. If Poland remains divided, Prussia will be a mixed Sclavonian German State, without any natural bond of internal union, as Au stria has unhappily been since the Goths went to re-'' mote countries, and the Huns and Sclavonians souk their places. How can Prussia cover the eastern frontitrs of Germany with the one discontented half nfa Sclavonian nation against the other half, inviting it from beyond the Vistula, united with the friendly nations to the east ? No, the north must be on that frontier as an uncompounded German Power ; and to this end it is necessary that Saxony should be more nearly connected with it. _ 'here is nothing unjust in this union ; the King of the country set his fate on the point of the sword, and was overcome in fair'open combat, even against his own people—he has saved his life because he knew nut how to die ; but the Crown must be lost to him, because the judgment of the gods has been against him. But the Conqueror's possession to be legal must be founded on a convention with the peo ple, the conditions of which must be settled by com mon consent. So it has been done in Norway, where the weakness of the Chiefs was overcome by strata gem, and the Nation secures its rights at the Diet. The same must be done in Italy also, if any good is to be produced there. There also victory has expelled the foreign usurpers; the dominion is fallen to the victors ; but the new Princes can reign there only by a formal contract, and the new dominion of a foreign race can be founded only on the consent of the people. —The booty in money and effects may be divided by the law of force ; but nations solely according to justice, and to their consent solemnly given. .4 Prussia has, therefore, a right to insist on the unity of Poland, and * she incorporation of Saxony : the honour of dermarsy commands the one—its wel fare, its security, imperiously demand the other ; and those who counsel otherwise, are either confounded by the cunning of France, or gained over to it by their self-interest. But he who is with France is against Germany, and undone in the public opinion. " The decision of England, which seems to be ex- pected, may turn out as it will, Germany must know what is becoming and advantageous for it, and im. movably abide by what it has once recognised to be for the best." Yesterday the Russian Ambassador paid his re spects to the PRINCE itEGENT. Earl BATHURST Lad all audience of the PRINCE REGENT yesterday. At the Grand Ball given by the PRINCE Raousv at Brighton, yesterday se'nnight, he retired when the supper was announced, and the Duke of CLA RENCE took the chair. The PRINCE regularly with drew at one o'clock from the evening parties, during all the time et his residence at Brighton, leaving his guests to prolong their amusement at cards or music to their own hour. At a meeting of the Inhabitants of Westminster, on Wednesday evening, at the Crown and Anchor, it was agreed to send a Requisition to the High Bai liff, to call a meeting of that City to consider the pro priety of the continuance of the Income Tax. PARISIAN MODEL—The milliners use, for the most part, black, white, pink, and grey velvet. They some times adopt a cap of tulle to pink and black bonnets- When a bonnet is ornamented with flowers, they are genet illy red rows. White feathers are still worn in black %elvet bonnets. Merino pelisses are made with the c.yes of Maio*, and an open velvet collar. A lounge to the eatacontee in the morning, and a 'visit to the Opera At night; complete the fashionable tour of a Parisian belle. This is certairly one way of following the Poet's example—" From grave to gay." In the late battle, the Jew could not complain that the Baker's blows were short of weight I A PEDESTRIAN Fare.--Wednesday last, a young man, • for a wager of £5O, undertook to walk 70 , miles in 24 hours, and started at eight o'clock on that evening at the two-mile-stone on the Brixton road, going one mile out and one mile in, and notwithstand ing the inclemency of the season, he at 20 minutes before seven o'clock last night completed his under taking. Considerable sums have been lost and won on this occasion. A few days since, the cotton mills of Messrs. Tun- N rit and Co. at Llangollen, Denbighshire, were to tally destroyed by tire. Yesterday morning, about half past six, a fire broke out at the Plough and Sinuses public-house, Rose mary-lane, which in a short time consumed the same, with the test part of the furniture. So rapid were the devastating flames,that it was with difficulty the family escaped with their lives. BANKRUPTS, DIVIDENDS, and CERTIP/CATES.-...The only complete Annual Lists of these, so necessary in every Countinghouse, are to be found in the MINIM% and MiltallANT'S ALMANACELfOf 1516 e just published. NAVAL IATELLIGENct • ' FiLmotrat, DF.CEMBER 13. Arrived a man of war brig, name unkndwn. Last night it blew a very Wail' gale, and this morning, when it fell nearly a calm, several of the ships got tool of each other. Thl ship John &awe, GREEN- Naas, fell on board the ARA las frigate, wl.en the crew of the King's ship cut away the brigs mizenmast.— The ship Charlene (a Prussian) bas lost her bowsprit and foremast. The ship Prince, Hanotr.ov, having sprung a leak, will be obliged to discharge her cargo. Accounts reach-di us this [adorning that a Prussian vessel, from St. Übt's,was lo,t at Portleaver the 'llth instant—the Captain, Mate, and three men drowued, four men saved.—Wind W. to S.W. PLYMOUTH, DECEMBER 14. THE GAM—The vessel that was lost on the New stone yesterday, proves to be the French bri„c , Jean Adelle, Captain DuvAL , P2O tons, from Opoir.o, bound to Havre-de-Grace, with 700 chests of oranges and lemons, the whole of which, with the ship. are totally lost—the Captain and three men drowred ; the Mate and two men saved themselves on the rock, from whence they were taken last evening much bruized. The Swedish galitot S! , phia. from Liver pool for Hamburg's, with a valuable cargo, is now riding in Whitsund Bay, wiih all her masts and bow sprit gone ; should the weather moderate, the pilots will endeavour to bring her into port, but at present it blows a most furious gale tr.;nl the The brig Providence, Canto, which went shore Fester- I day at Teatshilt, still remains tlierebtath little pro- spect of getting off; about two thirds of her cargo' have been got on shore, and the remainder expected to be saved. 0. P. schooner, of this Port, hav ing on board i;00 bags of cocoa, from Bourdeaux, was put on the beach to stop a leak, by some acci dent filled with water, and the cargo is now unload ing for its presavat:ott. The Anna, of London, G. S. BROWNE, Master, fired several guns this afternoon, which appeared to be for assistance—several Pilots went off, when they were informed it was lor the fsfaster's amusement :—such conduct is highly blame able during a gale. Five o'CLoct.—The gale still continues, with every prospect of a very boisterous night. PORTSMOUTH, DECEMBER is. Arrived his Majesty's ship ZEALOUS from Halifax, Antelope transport from Cork, and the Hope schoo ner from France, with loss of anchor and cable—she is bound to London, with wheat. Came into harbour the OLYMPIA cutter, having been on slime, during the gale yesterday evening, (in the Spit. It has .blown a gale die whole of yesterday and to.day until towards the evening, when it became more mo.lerate. We have heard of no other daniagx than above stated.—Wind W. The Afton, 44, Captain FOTIIERGILL, late the Rag chip of the late Admiral BitOwN, at Jamaica, is ar rived at this port, with the An.. CIINv, 18, C iptain Goortmv, from the same srati ,n. They s tiled with a convoy of thirty merchantmen, but meeting m very tempestuous gales on the passage, they all parted company helot e the Anim into the Chan nel. There WAS no enemy CrUi4itlg in the Atlantic. Captain I..tOrn, of the PLANTACSSLT, was the senior officer on the station. Dg4,..DN.4'1141.14..a 4 r«w:s was • Arrived the Hacults fwm , twerilife . ' 1)46 * I° ., Pro, JANSEN, from St. MiChstel's 1,. Corrieh 4ryl__4 A . alas ar, from Citraccia, alter being captortd by an American privateer, and recaptured by his gijiiitri! ship CASTILIAN. It bas blowtt a gale . 41)1 , , list night and to-day—the ships in the Downs ride it ,oct re markably well : most of theta have two anchor's ahead' and their top-gallant-masts struck.—, Wind StW• BRIGHTON, DECEMBER 14. • * 4. Several casks, containing potter, and the menu of a wreck, ware picked up yesterday; by water's edge, and floating between this place an Howe. The casks have. the name of Barclay and. Perkins on them. A boat, laden with contraband property, spitits, with several individuals belonging to this place, on board, it 'opposed to have foundered in the squalls of Monday or last night. His Majesty's ship hhottt is appointed convoy at Spithead lot the East Indies. An intelligent Correspondent, alluding to the cap.l tures of our merchantmen by American privateers, remarks—that as the hope of gain sweetens labo ur, it is obvious that the Americans have a strong inc ite. ment to fit out privateers, the ocean in every direc. tion being covered with British traders, some of which they have a chance to capture : on the other hand, as there are but few American merchantmen oa the sea, private individuals have no induce. ment to fit out privateers to ctuize ogainso them.- -It is also certain, on the same principle, that our naval commanders, whatever may be their zeal from the mere love of fighting, have no stimulus, from the bnpe of gain, to ferret out American privateers, by the capture of which they can only gain hard blows and a few rusty guns. Let a bounty or pre- Veinot,proportioned to the tonnage and guns of every piiraleer tams from the enemy, be paid to the cap tor); Aulitsiiican be little doubt about the issue...-- If such an adequate reward cannot, for any reason, be proposed by the Government, let a private sub scription be set on foot by the Committee at Lloyd's for the purpose, and it will act as a power fill stimulus to our floating warriors. In the war 1757 a similar plan was,resorted to against the French, and proved highly beneficial in its result. In the STAR of the 9th instant we copied an article from the Quebec Mercury 'of the 18th of October, relative to emigrants from the Highlands . of Scot land to Red River, in the territory of the Hudson's Bay Company. We then expressed our hope that the picture given in that article would he found much overcharged ; and we are happy tc, be able to sate, that our hope has proved well feundeci. The fact appears to be this—that the article was inserted in the Quebec Mercury for some sinister purpose, from a mistaken idea that by injuring the interests of the Hudson's Bay Company, those of some rival esta blishment would be proportionably benefited. We understand that every passible aid is given to the settlers, and it is certainly in every view desirable that emigrants from this country should be encou raged to prefer our own settlements to taking up their residence in territories subject to the United states. tint JP mr. i l he General Court MiniAl which assembled on Tuesday last, at the OfEce of the Muster-Master- General, Whitehall, to investigate a ch : g • pr,ferred by Major Guise, of the 3 i Re: t iment of FootGirtrds, against; Ensign W. G. S. COWELL, belOngiOß to the said rektnent, st (or misconduct whilst in the The ilre at Boulogne, in the month of July last," yesteteay afternoon finally closed their invustigatien ; the result tlf which will not be promulgated till sanctioned by his Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT. Detachments of the following litiliments have been landed from this country at Ostend within these tew days, viet—lst and Si Guards; Ist and 2d Dragoons King's German Legion ; Ist and 2d Kissers ditto; Ist end 9.. d Battalions ditto, light •nfentry . ; lit, 2d, 3d, sth, and Bth Battalions ditto, line ; also A small det tchment of the Ist Foreign Veteran Battalion. A large equipment of arms is in preparation for the service of Hanover. By the LIFFTY'S convora great number of invalids fr )m our arm) in Canada have arrived at the Isle of 'Vight. A detachment of the 42d arrived at Harwich on the 14th instant, from Aberdeen. The expenses for the naval department in Ho are estimated in the Budget for 1815 A, only fly licos, whilst those for Cie war department Are taken at re Millions of florins, thong') England maintains • the troops in Belgium, and which .f rrn, in cc4;junc tion with the Blgic and Dutch army, under the com mand of the Hereditary Prince of °Kano& INDIA.—The following are some additional p7rtia cillAts en the subject of the War betel-An the rival Princes in India, to which we killtieed v : About the `20.11 of January, MIitINIX•D 8 RA:t, who was then encamped at Pt. siviwur, i.rd.rs to the Wuzeer Furred KHAN to . ‘. ill all his troops. The SIIAHZ %DU K %%In tit had a. rtvg-tf ac Cabul, to quell the disturbances in that ci.y. it ap pears that at this date the tort of Attock ',fill gar risoned by the troops of RUNJEIiT Sison. Furrrit littAN had written to ItLINJILET Stsuii. regurging him to send troops to take posstssion of Moolan, in the occupation of which he would receive as-iszatice from the troops of Furrur Kirmi. A proposal had been agreed to by Muitsiouo SHAH and Rux.rtxr Smits, that the tort of Attock was to be given by the latter in exchange for Mooltan, and that on these terms hostilities had ceased—the Sikh army having re turned to Labor. Tne.cession of A stock by Rt'N.TEET SINGII would have beet (notwithstanding the pruposA exchange) an act of great imprudence. Attila. s;tuated on the eastern bank ot the Sind, is provertiaky one tf the paws of liindoostan ; and the crcupation of it by the .afghans would have weakened RuNiktes line ot dew fence on that frontier. L“ Suatt &lowan. the Ez • King of Cabul, was on his way from Rawzlpindee to Labor attacked by a body of 21X) Sikh hone, at the instigation of some petty chiefs. who are the vassals of Rotuma SINS; some of his baggage was taken, and the followers plundered. When this account was received at Labor, tetters of condolence were dispatched to the Prince. and ktters of equir . 9 to the ingigators of the robb.ry. agave& oft 1 , -e Do gte (...,4 t.tarch 4ii AII SiI .. OO.TA : . lAA • . , 1):1!Ilai Of Ilailith*t. opposite to Labor, and trifling isiittrotginers!:ere Tail: for l','ti reception. vl.ti itEle HAWP.UX43:T, eer Vlkeel of Donut" RAO N.DI; ILA, had remised' his pees:Norm and the elitnipfi• `use:vary prose:us usual on takitlg leave. 44 At this list dare -intelligence arrived that Mut ' noun SnAtt had' advAnceal one stage from Peshawar towards Attock, and detacked SOns) men to cross die -river at that place; KUICItET Siwn in conseqence sent positive instructions to the Killedar to oppose their pass rge. The \V uzern FUTTSH KHAN WAS Ako approaching the Sikh territories with a Liege force. arid had received the submission of some of the chi.lfs who are feudatories to RuNfewr Simon, who published his intend , n of moving with his army far the conquest of Cashmere. 64 The writers of the Abbot': (Newspapers) make ru, scruple of accusing Runjeet Singh of having him. self instigated the attack on Shah Shooja, when ap proaching to dwell under the shadow M his hospita lity ; and moreover state that he had instructed some thieves to .pilfer the jewels in the family of Shala Shooja, as soon as he shall be settled in Labor. 44 From the camp of Mather Rao Holkar the ac counts nr3 to the 7th of March. A body of Pin darehs had been plundering the country in the vici. afty of lndor and Oogyon, and it is somewhat re markabl,3 that there are no means of knowing to. whom this ruffian banditti belonged. On the first intelligence of their devAnations, Ameer Khan wrote to Scindbia, complaining that these people were in his employ, and requesting they might be withdrawn. In the Latest Akliblr we find that a letter was nytived Jrons Doulut Ran St.inclhia, complaining in the same terms, and threatening Holku's family with the dis pleasure of the Pesbwa.''.‘, A GLUTTON 4 —A few days ago, John Lilley, of Loughton, near Gainsbro', cut fin his breakfast IS penny-louver;' aud for his dinner, die saose day, he eat and drank, in one bouvitnd a 11.11 f. as follqw—ten pounds of bread, half a pound of cheese, a quartern of boiled potatoes, a qi:art.r of a pound of bt,v, , r, two quarts of broth, tuo quarts of ale, and one quart of small beer. DISVILS PREFERRED TO S AMTS.—From an old Manu scrim—A farmer rented e :-,ratr , e, haunted by Faire:, tor a great rent, which he ptiid every hare yeare. One asking him how tic durst be so bold to live in that place, and whether he saw none ? " No," saith the farmer ; there bee t v.o saints 'in Heaven that trouble tne more than all the divells in h. ti, narn.:7, St. Mary and S. Michael, which bee my rent dayesf" SMITHFIELD MARKET, DECENUCE 16 Beef — is OS to Gs Od Veal 74 1%1 to as od Mutton fa Od to 6s b I P.rk Gs Od to 7. 6ef Baum 1103--11 seep and Lambs 6,450 —Calves 100—Pigs 340 HAY AND STRAW, PER LOAD. Meadow Hay 41 to 11 Oaf Clover 51 os to 61 1111 Straw 11 tot to 11 16s CORN EXCHANGE, DECEMBER 16. Although we have had no frr'h arrivals of Wheat since Mon day, the trade continues exceedingly heavy, and very little Call be dispose d o f , e v en at a ra duettots of trona us. to 4s per quaver. Barley hilly maintains Mand:q.'s prices, basin's but Link a. mar ket. Good Oats are r;.ther dearer, but the or.ileary Ems are duU sale at a decline of P. per quarter. La Peas, Beam s and other article;, :hire .1 as alt .11' ion.