Star. — London, England, 1814-11-29 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR. LON DON. e lt-MORIZON'T THE STATE LOTTERY BEGINS DRAW DIG—THE WHOLE IS TO BE DRAWN ON THAT IDAY. . 1 lruEsbAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1814. Mei oar . ”'OCltc THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK: Redubed'6.s*-4'per Cent; 11-5 per Cenr. Navy Kt Consols deft —lbr account, 66 .67—Oirinium disc, Ball Long Anus. 16 1-16th—lndia Bonds 171. 181..pre. . Kacheipier Bills Is. w Ss. prem. UNITED STATES. -Today the ertmets from our American Papers Will be found highly interesting. They refer to the procee4ifigs in several States for calling together a separate Congress. The State of Massachusetts met on. the sth of October, when a Message from the Governor was delivered, informing them of the mea. sure he had adopted for the general safety, and point ing out the necessity of tardier exertions for their own defence. His speech concluded with the fol lowing remaiks : By a law of Congress, passed at its last Session, it is enacted, that in addition to the Officers of the Militia which had before been provided for, there shall be to each Division, one Division Inspector, and one Division Quarter Master, and to each Brigade, one Aid-de-Camp. But no provision has bcen made directing the Manner in which those Officers shall be appointed. GI The situation of this State is peculiarly clan getout and perplexing. We have been led by the terms of the Constitution, to rely on the Government of the Union to provide for our defence. We have resigned to that Government the revenues of the State, with the expectation that this object would not be neglected. But the Government has declared war against the most powerful maritime nation, whose fleets can approach every section of our ex tended sea coast, and we are disappointed in our ex pectations of national defence. But though we may be convinced that the war in its commencement was unnecessary and unjust, and has been prosecuted without any useful or practicable objects against the inhabitants of Canada, while our sea coast has been left almost defenceless ; and although, in a war thus commenced, we may have declined to affor,i our voluntary aid to any offensive operations—yet I presume there will be no_doubt of our rights to defend our dwellings and our possessions against any hostile attack by which their destruction is menaced. Let us then, relying on the support and direction of Pao- YIDENCE I Unite k such measures for oar safety as the times demand, and.tbe principles' of justice and the laws of self-preservation will justify. To your wis. dom and patriotism the interests of the State are con fided, and the more valuable those interests are, the Store solicitous you will be• to guard and preserve them. (Signed) 0 4 eALES MON% October 5, 1814." Soon after the House of Representatives was called to order, Mr. Low, of Leyman, laid the followinz, Motion on the table, viz. •` Moved, That a Committee be appointed to 'confer with all the New England States, and see If they will atree to appoint a Committee to juin them and repair to the City of Washington immediately and without delay, then and there personally to make known to the President the general opinion of all the New England States in retard to the present war, and the manner in 'Which it has been conducted; and inform him, that Lc mutt either resign his office as President, or remove those of his Mi ai•ters or other Officers of the General Government who have by their nefarious plans ruined the nation, with leave to report ?Ny Bill or otherwise." some other business of a local nature w•as pans actcd.—Adjourned at nine o'clock. IN SENA rl.—Ordered, That the Honourable Messrs. Lewis, Blake, ►rd Moody, be a committee to enquire and report whe ther nay Member or Members of the Senate have voluntarily assumed upon themselves any obligation to the King or Govern ment of Great Britain incompatible with their duty as members the Legislature of this Commonwealth, or their oath to sup port the Constitution of the United States, with power to send fur persons and papers. IN SENATE OCTOBER I. The Committee to whom was referred the Message of his Excellency the Governor, reported, " That the suiaoils war, declared against Great Britain, has as ratited an aspect of great and immediate danger to I this Common/Rubin the persevering invasion of Canada has at length produced, as br natural conse quence, the invasion of our Atlintic, tender, and River towns. A portion of the territory of this State is already in the actual occupation of the enemy; and the sea coast, in all such parts as may be deemed as-' sailable, is openly menaced with desolation. To de fend our soil, and to repel the invader, no fcrce er means, bearing any proportion to the emergency, crave been provided by the National Government. It was justly to have been expected, that, before hostilities were provoked from a formidable enemy, or, at least that, at some period subsequent to their commence ment, means of defence and protection would have been afforded to a sea coast so extended, and so ex posed to the ravages of an enemy, as that of Mas sachusetts. But events forbid a reliance on any such expectation." [The Report goes on to mention, that the prin:i 'pal part of the regular force of the State had been withdrawn for the war on the Canada bcrJer ; that the Government had wasted their revenues ; and left them without defence :—and then proceeds thus] : But while your Committee think that the people of this Commonwealth ought to unite, and that they will unite, under any circumstances, at the hazard of all that is dear, in repelling an invading foe, it is not believed that this solemn obligation imposes silence upon their just complaints against the authors of the national misfortunes. It is, on the contrary, a sacred duty to, hold up to view, on all occasions, the de structive policy by which a state of unparalleled na tional felicity, has been converted into one of humi liation and danger ; believing that, unless an almost ruined people will discard the men, and change the measures, which have induced this state of peril and suffering, the day of their political salvation is past. u It should never be forgotten, that this disastrous condition of public affairs has been forced upon Mas sachusetts, not merely against her consent, but in op position to her most earnest protestations. From the moment that the Administration, yielding to its own passions and calculations of party power, commenced its system of commercial hostility to Great Britain, and of conformity to the views of the late tyrant of France, its tendency to involve the nation in the most needless and cruel embarrassments, was distinctly foreseen, and declared by former Legislatures. The insufficiency of our youthful, though flourishing com merce, to cope with that of Great Britain in a struggle of restrictions, was announced by the united warning of those best versed in a knowledge of this subject. 66 It was never doubted by those persons, that a war with Great Britain would be accompanied by an extinction of commerce by the banishment of our sailors ; the desolation of our coast ; the blockade and invasion of our seaports; the failure of national credit ; the necessity of oppressive taxes ; and the con. summation of national ruin s by an alliance with the late Despot of Europe, from which greatest of all ca lamities, we have been preserved only by his fall. Of all these evils, were our rulers forewarned by Massa chusetts whose vital interests were thus put in jeo. pardy ; and they were implored by every considera. tion of policy and humanity, to stay their hands from the cruel and wanton sacrifice of the interests of those, who asked from them, nothing but the privilege of pursuing their own industrious callings. 66 But Government, deaf to this voice, and listen. ing to men distinguished in their native State only by their disloyalty to its interest, and the enjoyment of a patronage bestowed upon them as its price, have affected to consider the patriotic citizens of this great State as tainted with disaffection to the Union and with predeliction for Great Britain, and have lavish ed the public treasure in vain attempts to fix by evi dence this odious imputation. Thus dishonoured and deprived of all influence in the national Council, this State has been dragged into an unnatural and distressing war, and its safety, perhaps its liberties, endangered. 44 It is therefore with great concern, that your committee are obliged to declare their conviction, .that the Constitution of the United States, under the administration of the persons in power, has failed to secure to this Commonweath, and as they believe, to the Eastern Section of the Union, those equal rights and benefits, which were the great objects of its for. /nation, and which they cannot relinquish without ruin to themselves and posterity. These grievances justify and require vigorous, persevering and peace able exertions to unite those who realize the sufferings and foresee the dangers of the country, in some sys- 1 tem of measures, to obtain relief, for which the ordi nary mode of procuring amendments to the Consti tution affords no reasonable expectation, in season to prevent the completion of its ruin. 66 The people, however, possess the means of cer tain redress ; and when their safety, which is the su preme law, is in question, these means should be promptly applied. The framers of the Constitution made provisinns to amend defects which were known to be incident to every human institution; and the provision itself was not less liable to be found defec tive upon experiment, than other parts of the instru ment. When this deficiency becomes apparent, no reason can preclude the right of the whole people, who were parties to it, to adopt another; and it is not a presumptuous expectation, that a spirit of equity and justice, enlighted by experience, would enable them to reconcile conflicting interests, and •bviate the principal causes of those dissentions, which unfit Government tor a state of peace and of war, and so to amend the constitution, as to giVe vigour and durationfrto the union of the States. " nut as a proposition for such a convention from a single State would probably be unsuccessful, and our danger admits not of delay, it is recommended by the 'Committee, that in the first instance a conies retire should be invited between those States, the af finity of whose interests is closest, and whose habits of intercourse, from their local situation and other causes, are most frequent, to the end that, by a com parison of their sentiments and views, some mode of defence, suited to the circumstances and exigencies of thos: States, and measures for accelerating the return of public prosperity, may be devised ; and also to en able the delegates from those States, should they deem it expedient, to lay the foundation for a radical reform in the national compact, by inviting to a fu ture convention a deputation from all the States in the union. They therefore report the following Re solves, which are submitted.—By order, (Signed) 64 G. H. OTIS. 44 Resolved—That the calamities of war being now brought home to the territory of this common wealth—a portion of it being in the occupation of the enemy, our sea coast and rivers being invaded in several places, and in all exposed to immediate dan ger—the people of Massachusetts are impelled, by the duty of self defence, and by all the feelings and attachments which bind good citizens to their coun try, to unite in the most vigorous measures for de fending the State and expelling the invader; and no party feelings or political dissentions can ever inter fere with the discharge of this exalted duty. [" Resolved—That the Governor be authorised to organise a force for the defence of the State—to borrow one million of dollars, Etc.] 4 4 Resolved—That persons be appointed as Dele gates from the Legislature, to meet and confer with Delegates from the States of New England, or any of them, upon the subjects of their public grievances and concerns, and upon the best means of preserving our resources, and of defence against the enemy, and to devise and suggest, for adoption, by those respec tive States, such measures as they may deem expe dient : and also to take measures, if they shall think proper, for procuring a Convention of Delegates from all the United States, in order to revise the Constitu tion thereof, and more effectually to secure the sup port and attachment of all the people, by placing all upon the basis of fair representation. " Resolved—That a circular letter, from this Le gislature, signed by the President of the Senate, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, be addressed io the Executive Government of each of said St ires, to be communicated to their Legislatures, exi)l iining the I objects of the proposed conference, and inviting them to concur in sending Delegates thereto. " Resolved—That, on the .!!iy of -- instant this Legislature will, by joint ballot, elect -- per son, to meet such delegate as may be appointed by the said States, or either of them, at the Suite of —." At a subsequent sitting it was resolved that the legates from the different States should as;crnble on the 12th of December. Five Gottenburgh Mails arrived to-day. The only intelligence of a public nature refers to the Proclama tion of the King of SWEDEN, as Sovereign of Nor way. This event took place on the 4th instant. We also received Brussels and Frankfort Papers this morning, but their contents are unimportant. We have received Paris Papers of Saturday. Their contents, so far as regards the proceedings of Con gress, are important. It is given out by the Russian Ministry, that the sudden departure of CONSTANTINE for Warsaw is merely to take the command of some Russian regiments now on their way home. It is also stated at Vienna, that the Court of London is decidedly hostile to the claims of MURAT to the Crown of . Naples, and has sent dispatches to Vienna to this effect. From Elba we are informed, that BONAPARTE's residence there will be very short : several packages which had arrived from the Continent, had not even been opened. AU article from Vienna (but probably , Paris manufacture), after complimentin g P r i nce TALLEYRAND highly for his remonstrance on the sub ject of the independence of Saxony and Poland, states, and, we apprehend, with perfect truth, that he was warmly seconded by Lord CASTLEREAGH as Mi:tister from England and Hanover. The following communication respecting the fate of some of the Spanish Patriots, victims of the rigr)ut of their own Government, has been received : " PARIS, Nov. 20.—We have received from Spain particulars of the barbarous eentetices pronounced against the f riends of the Constitution (and those of inferior rank) by the Tribunal of Madrid, composed of Captain General ANTEAGO, the Count of PINAR, LASANSA, IVIONCEERA, and GALIANO. Those who are exposed to the least punishment are deprived of their em ployments, subjected to tine, banished from Madrid and the other Royal residences, and arc treated like the meanest culprits . " The Members of the Junta, ANSORIA of Madrid are ba nished, and GAMMA Is erased from the list of Academicians, and fined 4000 dollars. To these add TAPIA, formerly Editor of i the Sastaisarie Patriaice, and lately of the Gazette of the Regency : Baia*, Editor of ' The Friend of the Laws,' a work in high es. timation SAVINOm, translator of the Tragedy, Rome restored to Liberty ; Dossawica, Magistrate of Madrid, condemned for seven years to the Castillo de lad Galeras, and for eight years GALLARDO, brother of the celebrated GALLASDO, who has sought an asylum in London, and to Lis st ntence is added the fol• lowing clause,' with the power of increwing the punishment when the trial shall be concluded which is now in vrogre .; test his brother, the Librarian of the Cones, who has lied irons justice: " 14birAL lIVTBLLIGENCR. The Betsey and Pergy, WI tune, m, arrived in ti:,! Creek from Malaga, was taken and plundered bi tie I.llwrenf:e p!iv..- seer. The Fortuna, GUM, from Petersburgh to C.t as b.en driven ort shore at Shetland In a gale. The Abweil, CALLowov, from lAntlin, 13 arrived at N•tw foundland, with loss of topsatli, bound to Hallfte. The Charlew, louts, from Drogheda to Liverpool, Is lost near Holyhead, with all the crew. The Equator, Jacossou, from Oporto, Is totally last bctwce:a the Tce:land AtitstertlAm. The Provideno., Owe`:., from Waterford to Liverpool, is wrecked near Holyhead : crew and part of the cargo saved. PORTSMOUTH, NOVEMBER 28. Sailed his Majesty's ship PICKLE, for Guernsey, having in charge a few transport. among which tne the Rose and the Duchess of 11 , , , Aford. Went cut or harbour his Majesty's ship T.hs•. The \Veit fleet are still at St. Helen's.—Wind W.N.W. RAMSGATE, NOVEMBER 29. The French brig la Commune de B utrdzinx, men tioned yesterday to be on the Gool.lwin Sand_, has been breught in by the crew of the Galloper light-- she was picked up by themen Saturday mornin . :.; last, with between four and five feet water in her hold.— A few vessels have put in for shelter. DEAL NOVEMnEit 24. Arrived . the French frigite Panther, Capt. O RLEY . AtAN, from Antwerp for Dunkin:.—Sailed the CLO RINDE frigate, for Portsmouth.—Carne down from the River, and sailed with the whole of the outward bound, the ORPHEUS, for the Cape; Welding, for Sierra Leone; Sydney Cove, for Rio Janeiro; Mcr land, for Jamaica ; and the Henry Dundas, for St. Michael's.—Wind North. • GRAVESEND, NOVEMBER 28. Arrived the Leshant, Earths, front Bilboa ; Henry Addington, from Leghorn : Fearless, Thompson; Progress, Crozier; Deda lus, Herman, and &Ilona, Rilt, from Gibraltar; Gurnera,Jack• son, and Diadem, Buck, from the Mediterranean ; his Majesty's ship Nereus from the River Plata ; Eclipse ' Connell, and Lord Cochrane, Jackson, from Halifax; Duke deAngouleme, and An dream Merrile, from France; Agenoria, Capps, front Dunkirk; Prince of Orange, De Bath, from Catwick; Eliza, Owen, and Fame, Williams, from Antwerp. Sailed the Rebecca, Wons, for Naples; Comet, Harrison, for St. Michael's ; Thetis, Lanchis; fir Santander; Hibernia, Tho mas, for liourdeaux ; Aurora, Nichol., for Cork; Victor:.:, Perre, for Calais; Alexandrine, lionionte, for liouen ; Loyisr, Riveire, for Caen ; le Darns Gatheri..e, Boree, for Havre; the Jj!in and :araii, fnr Hacibur t ;ii ; Louisa , Dubbebire, for ArnicerdAni; Vraa• ollanni, De Vries, for ditto; and long. Cornelius, Jange, for Rwt.:rdatn. PAI). I'oW, NOVEMBER el The schooner Faroe, Runmrs mister, from Yon hall for Southampton, Went on shore this evening near this place, and it is feared she will go to pieces —crew saved. Tile ship Commune, of Arunal, Kixo mas ter, also came on share at Morgan Forth ; she is bilged, an,l in a very bad state—crew saveJ. COVE OF CORK, NOVEMBER 24. Came in his Majesty's ship TANAIS from a ervize. NAVAL PROMOTIONS. Rear-Admiral itolles, to command an the Jamaica station the rooto Re:it-Admit al Brown, lately deceased. Captain Lord John iiay, to the Minorca, for rank; H,n. Captain l'robr, to the Asucha; Captains Chicl' t 4 eward to lii Antutun, for rank ; lime:: to the Rover, King to the Snap, Jatu.:4 H. Pluntridge to the Pitilerael. _ _ 12.eutertants John Newton to the Bayne. Enna to the liaroek. George Sviby to bo Flig Lieutenant to Rear-Adlnfral Burhon; !Joeoh Crouch to the rank of a retired Coatinander ; Hopkins to :he Prince. Blake to the Purlpee. Connolly to the Akbar. Bnzan.-- - -This day the LoarrlvlAyou ordered the pric. , to be reduced one penny in the peck loaf. Upon the bringing up the Report of the Committee of Supply, a most interesting discussion occurred last night in the House of Commons, with respect to thu policy of this country on the subject of Sicily, Saxony, and Poland. 'rile sentiments delivered by Ministers on these subjects, particularly relative to the fate of Saxony, will be read with much satisfaction. The ment for the recess to the 9th of February, wid take pl ace next Thursday.. The :olloWing is a copy of the Instructions given by 11:e Emperor ALEXANDER, in the month of July last, to a Committee appointed by his Majesty an Warsaw, to prepare a Constitution f it New Poland, it the idea of the Crown coming to him or his dynasty : I' OJE TS. W :tic 1t THE COMMITTEE ouc:lT TO CONSIDCR. 4 ' I. The catalog system of the interior ailministration of the Duchy Is oitpressive and burthen It would be tvit , e to re place it by another hotter attired to the sta7trutal character, to the habits, and to the pecuniary means the couittry. It ap pears that ' the ancient Cauunissions ut Gond Order,' (e-tablished by the Constitution of the 2d May), the Civil and NV!: try Coin ntissions, as well as the Administrative Citamber, et:otiised i 3 1807, In Grand Poland, and in 1809 In the wmt %V cf..: would answer better to this end, and with in.tre of that simplicity which ought to characterise the laws of an a,,ricultural country. " 2. The Code Napoleon, of civil and judicial procedure ought to be abolished as quickly as possible. There mcy be mediately substituted in its room the Pelonese Laws, end the Statutes of Lithuania, togetha• with the judlcial forms in use before the in troduction of the Frerica procAure. The Committee will eln alder %slit:lex the Codex should be entirely abolished, or only In parr, and at what time the abolition should take place. They will also prepare the plan, and the composition of a Comtni%si on separate irons that which-shall have the charge of digesting anew code of civil and criminal judicature, as well as of the definitive organ' zadoa of the judicial " a. The reform ant reduction of the Civil accorllng to the yew changes that have taken place in the Adatiaistraiot of the country. . . " ♦. Measures to be taken for the rt.:ma:ion of the publi: welfare and public spirit of the towns. `i he re-establithinet.t of their aUc en t Tribunals, in thi:ir judicial ?Magistracy and Nivaiet pa'ities, joined with the resti - ution of the funds that !•.lots; to them, m.l e,s,.may contri'aute to this a. well as the estabtisla ment in the Capital of the National Theatre. " S. Mt:2.o.ires to ba tAkcti to hater the condition of the Pea sants, and to poim lAA to tht m the zUeartS at act progren• sively an independent exi-aence, " 6. The Prtiect cf a new System of Finance, calculated tore. vive agriculture aati commerce. " 7. Measures fur the revival of letter!, of the public Maim. eons, and the dili..rent establishments devoted to educatuon,par ticularly the ancient Academy W Cracovia. " 8. Measures to restore to the Clergy the amulleration and the property that justly belong to the order, and to waging:it then hinds to a polo' that Mali make them truly useful " 9. To guarantee the sacred right of property anainst all r.t• tack by arbitrary requisitious of every kind wbatsoer.r. io. The wish MIAs iniperitd Majesty is, that in gtneral all the cliait3es and all the raurnu In the actual system of the Co. vernment of the Duchy :IA be made with die lead precipitatiun I,usthlit,in order to avoid the consequences of sodden This is the Lest day for purcha s ing--the whPle of the State Lottery will be drawn To-morrow, a n.l 'l'hirty.twu grand Capitals must be distributed atno 4l g the Public! Buttes. The match between Lancaster and Eatis Lie been renewed, and they will contend in the same nag after Putcla Sant and ICoovrimeattliy, un the Bth Decerntur. Even betting. PADAITIIIaIIi•AL—A groom to Mejo• MAR It, of the name of Caunies, completed ajouruey of 60 miles for four days, nit Saturday, for a wagerwagerot 100 ruitivaL He Stilted at the M an i,. gre Lambeth, _at an tang it..ur on Wednesd ty mornirg, a e halted at Warminster, Wilts, after a citcultuus route tbrorgh Se. vs 304 Hants. and signifying tie wish of the tembers tote p 4. mated to keep up their establishment at their own expense. should Parliament withhold the usual al lowances. tit. BARING objected to these corps on the grand of the expense ; and conceived there was no more necessity for Keeping them up now than there was before the breaking out of the French war. The greatest security the country could now enjoy would he by an economical arrangement of the finances ; and he would not vote any money for expenses which were %holly unnecessary. Sir JO iIN NEWPORT was convinced that the necessity or keeping up such a force in Ireland arose out of the misgovernment that existed in that country for centuries past. He thought this vote should not now be put without being accompanied by the docu ments that should shew the reasons for it ; as no sup plies ought ever to be voted without the reasons for them being assigned. An amendment was moved by Mr. PETER MOORE, that £30,000 should be deducted from the grant, so as to leave the sum of 525,000 for the volunteers of Ireland. The question of the amendment being put, the House proceeded to divide upon it—Ayes, 14; Noes, 13—Majority against the amendment, 31. fhe sum of £6760 was then voted for supe rannuat cdpensinns in Ireland. The Report was brought up, and ordered to be received ti-morrow.—Adjourned at One o'Cloele.