Star. — London, England, 1817-01-31 00:00:00

I % KINGDOM OF HAYTI. We have received a copy of the Declaration issued by King Cmusiortie on the occasiun of certain French Commissaries haiing conveyed to him a let ter inviiitig his submission to the Government of France. Alter a long 'detail of the trinsactioas which had taken place beta ern France and St. Do. ming°, the declaration proceeds: " For us nothing is changed. The Government of Louis XVIII. is no ;niter than that of Bonaparte. l Her (France's) artt'il policy is always the same—by deceivin, and dividing, to reduce us to slavery—ever the same calculation of guilt and blood. It they cannot succeed in disuniting us lay arming one part of the population against the other, they strive to sep trate the cause of the people from that of the Goveroment, as if the cause of the one were not that of the other, or the ruin of the one did not produce the ruin of the other. The French will be always French, as far as we are concerned—that is. our most cruel tyrants, and most implacable enemies. What treaty could exist between us and the ex-colonists—that is, the fl aunters and the ci-devant slaves who have broke their chains ? What could be the terms of such a treaty t what could be its guarantees? That which is the cause of our happiness, is to them a source of misery and torment ; they therefore cannot wish for our liberty and independence ; we therefore neither can our ought to treat with them without having pre viously obtained the guarantee of a great maritime State, and such terms as it would be beyond their power to violate. For if they treated with us with out these guarantees of facts and principles, it would be with the view to having the 'means of deceiving us. It is our business, therefore, to insist upon them, as without them you could have neither security nor a durable peace." The Paper concludes as follows : " Such is the fair and honest statement of the real situation in which the people of Hayti find themselves placed in respect to France. We have not only to laboor for the purpose of ensuring the life, the liberty, and the independence of the existing generation, we, must still further exert ourselves to ensure the pos amnion and enjoyment of these precious bleu*. 101 our posterity, and this we can attain by wisdoms, prudence, and perseverance. " The Sovereign of France has declared, that hi treating with us he shall do nothing derog atory to the dignity of bib Crown, the principles of justice, and the interest of his people. And we too—we declare, that we shall not derogate from the interests of our people, the principles of justice, and the dig-' any of our Crown. ca Th e great interests of the Haytian people, and our duties, oblige us to make known to the world the powerful motives which have induced us to take that resolution, in order to put a stop to all the aggres sions, injuries, and sanguinary outrages, which the Government of France has never ceased to commit 1 upon the people of Hayti. and the unjust and vain pretensions of Sovereignty which the French GOllllll. mess mold still entertain on the**, and Vapsimit Sind= of Hayti. H For these reasons we have declared, mad do Onion solemnly, that we will aft Meat with the Faith Government on any other feedag than dial of Gra; Power with another—one Sovereign with en., either—that no negotiation shall be entered into bp' us with that Power which shall not have for its .ba sis' independence of the Kingdom of Hayti, as well In respect to its Government as its trade—and that se definitive treaty shall be concluded by us with that Government, without having previously obtain- ed the good officei of a great maritime Power, which should gearantee to us that the faith of the treaty should not be violated by the French Cabinet. " In treating we shall consent to no treaty what• . ever wh:ch shall not comprehend the liberty and ifi. depeedence im general of the Haytians, who inhabit the these provinces of the empire, known under the names Of those of the North, Eiet. aid South, our territory. the cause of the people of. Hayti being one sod radivisillie. ir All overtures or conflouole.3ers tirade by the French Government to the Hiyuais Government, whether verbally or in writing, shall be received only 90 far as they shall have cenfornsed with the forms ano. usages established in the kingdom for diplomatic K The French flag shall be admitted into no port of the kingdom, nor shall any individual native of that country, until the independence of Hayti shall have first been acknowledged by the Government of France. We declare anew, that our invariable ism lion is not to interfere, directly it indirectly, with any Mum without the kingdosp. « That our constant *foe shall be directed olive id amity and good understanding with friendly . powers, and their colonies in our nelghbonehood, to reserve the most exact neutrality, and to chew than by the wisdom of our conduct, our laws, and our labours, that we are deserving of liberty and inde pendeoce. « We declare and protest, in the face of the Az.- moors of Nations and Sovereigns, that we have been moved to this 'declaration only, by the general jaw mu of the Haytian people; to the peesisrvation of their existence and their rights. ' « We declare and pont, tb;t whatever may he the menaces of the French to intimidate us, or their attempts to subdue us—whatever son of attpdt, crime, or barbarity, they may calculate upon ozg: ins to reach us, still nothing shall shake our don. -Should the universe be leagued against us, the last Hayden will breathe his last rather than cease to be free and independent. . O We trust the_ ustice of ON caule to the hands of GeD, who always punishes the aggressors and the m ks& We shall sustain the dignity of our Crown, ... . . 5 . and interests of the Hayden people, and we anp y rely upon their cedar, zeal, and pp,. • • to aid us with all theif might in defence of ilieir rights, liberties, and independence. • 'a Given at ape Palace of Sala souci. November ft, 916, IStlt year of indepetaiee, gad s i xt h of war (Sight) ' " mum irig a. ' Ify ills King, ,“ DI LIMONAD4 • fas famotattof State, alladtei of Pordign Affairs." PAEAN 1.4* *1; CHAMBER 0? DAPVIVLS. lIITTINO OS Tilt 9.6ess•los SaNDAILY. The discussion was opened on the Project relative to the Public Journals. M. Ds Sr. ALDEOOII/Dt dwelt on the effects pro duced in the Revolutionary times by the unlimited liberty of the Journals. and thence argued for the proposed restriction, with the following Amendments: 1. That there should be provisionally appointed s gamines or ten Members to tnterdse the censure of the Journals 'cotes tively. s. That weer Provider eta Journal should glee security for 40 or 80,000 franea. M. Fromm. also supported the Project. M. DS CASTILBAJAC quoted Montesquieu and De Lolme in favour of the Liberty of the Press ; dwelt much opon the libels which had been circulated with impunity against the Royalists without their being allowed to answer them I complained of the neglect experienced by the true friends of the Ring, and con eluded by opposin_g the Project. M. JACQUINOT I'AIIPILLDIZ supported the Project, deprecating the idea of exposing the nation to new horrori, by allowing an unlimited Liberty of the Press. The Comet de la Bnuanosnnys contended against the Project; that the Liberty of the Press was conse crated by the Charter ; that it was necessary, and that , to grant the Liberty of the Press, and at the same time enslave the public Journals, was a mockery lad illusion. M. BARU'S LA &WIDE contended, that if the Journals were not free the troth could not be told. He thought merely that the Proprietors and Printers should be responsible. M. DOVIAGIER Ds HAURAONI maintained, that there was a great difference between Pamphlets and the public Journals, the former were free, and an swered all the purposes of the Liberty of the Press but the latter, if entirely free, might do much mis chief without its being possible to prevent it. The discussion was adjourned till Monday. Pia* JANUARY U. Monsieur, the Count d'Artois, the Duke d'Angon. kw, and the Disko of Wellington, set out the day before yesterday, is the evening, for Compeigne. The Austrian troops have not yet quitted the southern part of Italy, although their departure was pbsitively announced. Jonvonv 27.—According to the determination of the Prince Regent, the Hanoverian army will in fu ture consist of 20,000 men in time of peace. The King heard mass yesterday in his apartments. His Majesty afterwards received the Ministers, Mar shah, Foreign Ambassadors, &c. VIENNA, JANUARY 1.5. The negociations which have taken place here be- 1 tween the two Courts of Rio Janeiro and Madrid will, there is no doubt, be soon terminated to the sa tisfaction of both parties. The two Ministers of these Courts here see each other frequently, and it is cer tain that the intervention of our Cabinet will not fail to remove the difficulties that have hitherto existed. Last Sunday Marshal the Prince of Schwutzen-' berg was struck with apoplexy, from which the moist serious consequences were apprehended. `kiii High ness was, however, much better yesterday.. FRANKFORT, JANUARY as. The bid hold yesterday its Ant Sitting Of lit?. MADRID. JANUARY 10. Private letters announce. that the Portuguese expe dition is making a rapid progress in the provinces of Rio de la Plata.• THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. We vseild eels* oblige eat Cerreepeotlest, who bas comaseieed wki rotation how tbe "Bride of ilbotes," U be would sake a little palm old' ble MIL We eau Deltbeir RAW to was sot ear NM eyes, or to employ a deeypiterer. FRIDAY, JANUARY 31. Isl 7. • PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK s Rodrorad —Cam ow 41114.—.C444, for ice. 4 par Coot. SOl-5 for Com. Hwy 11411 Es.eboloor Pak la& Ifs. pr...sisas Sos 6, SI& 975. pre. In the debates on Wednesday night, Lord BA TIMM in the Peen, and Mr. C•ln11110 in the COM dions, distinctly stated that reductions bad been made, since last Semi* in the public expenditure. and that other reductions were in contemplation, as far as the safety of the Empire would permit. This is as it ought to be. Let Ministers only stew a firm deter mination to reduce !be apnoea of the Bate, and to reform, as speedily as may be consistent with pru dence, every thing that can be considered as a devia tion from mad principles. and they bare nothing to fear from the ekrwand elements of malesolent Wen. We under mAiraii itli also intended to intiOdifike such a ersteara,will, at least. prevent the sudden` growth, irnot . the immediate reduction of ainecureit. Ministers, tyre have been rightly informed, have re stdeed en a plsn which will in a . great degree free 'them from the unceasing solicitations of the raps eines herd which daily besieges them, and, on pre mace of giving support to Government, would fatten on the very vitals of the country. In future, it is said, no sinecure mill be granted without being sub. intitted to Parliament. This will, indeed, be a radical reform. All abuses stir from the controul of the National purse being, directly orindirectly. too often wrested from, or abandoned. by Parliament. Hardly any but fools could bare aimed that the state of die country, after terminating a war of such unexampled importance as has, (or many years, oc cupied, almost exclosinly, the attention of Govern ment, would be foiled such as it was before attiring ' on the contest. And, on the other hand. none bet those who can persuade themselves that the great mama( the community are entirely void of common understanding, will contend that the present situation of the country is not alarming, or that it does not • , e for ate sated efforts and co-operation of an the Willem, the energy, gni the patriotism, which the Empire tan boast, to retrieve our circumstances. If,the dictates of wisdom and prudence are to hate their full effect, it will be necessary that those who wish wake a proper view of the subject avoid and oppose all unnecessary blending of topics which are in themselves perfectly distinct, and which, by being brought into the same discussion, only tend to divert from the real question. For example—many people, as often as the circumstances of the country are spokea ef. instantly fly off to the origin and causes end nedbe of conducting the past war. On that topic .there are many, and quite opposite, opinions enter tained—but, whichever of these is right or whichever is wrong, alters not the fact as to the preuat condition of the country. The question ought simply to be : In the circumstances in which we now find ourselves, what would be the best practical means to remove the present difficulties and distress ; and what, the best adapted to insure the general welfare and pro sperity of the country ? Here is simple field for discussion—and we add, for the correction of error and the diffeion of truth. To make ourselves perfectly understood—The nation has incurred a great debt : will wrangles about the causes or the propriety of the late war lessen that debt, or pay any part of the interest ? When a man finds himself imprisoned for debt, will the claim of his creditor be lessened by his wife and him squab bling about which of them spent the money ?-13titad is dear: will burning barns and corn-stacks make it cheaper ?—Let the sober and temperate part of the community (a great aad powerful majority) tale unceasing pains to impress upon their mote ignorant and passionate neighbours the necessity of discrimi nation. Let them not imagine because the 'kind of illustrations we have offered are, it may be said, absolute truisms, that therefore they are not of the kind to be urged. It is for this very reason we have selected them; for. palpable as they are, have we not all seen them acted upon ? But on the other hand let not those who ought to be first in seeking out and applying remedies suited to the public distress, persuade themselves, that, by attempting to identity the great mass of the people with such besotted and ignorant fools—or with the turbulent, the seditious, and the traitorous, that they will succeed in stifling their complaints. None but men who are very ignorant of the real state of the country, will venture so to traduce the great body of the people, which is now suffering, and which im plores that s coastittstional remedy may be applied to the present evils. No tench Papers have arrived this morning ; but we 'have extracted from those which came to hand yesterday, and which the great length of our Parlia mentary Reports prevented as from noticing parti citlarly, every thing deserving of the least attention. It 'will be seen by a Document from Hayti, of which we have given an'abstract, that the French bare as little probability of regaining that part of St. Domingo by negociation as they had of subduing it by Ergot. The Panics Rum= left town yesterday, at two o'clock, for Windsor. His Royal Highness called.at Gloucester House, Piccadilly, and took the Duchess with him on a visit to their Royal Mother. The Report yesterday of the Physicians in atten dance upon the Duchess of CUMURLAND was as fol lows :—" Her Royal Highness the Duchess of CUM , onatAnocontinues to go on well." Yesterday morning, at half past eleven o'clock, the Grand Duke NICHOLAS, attended by his suite, went So Drury-lane Theatre. They were received by Mr. Ran, the Manager, who conducted his Imperial Highness over the interior of the building, and on the roof of the Theatre, where an immense body of water was set to work, to the great amazement of the GRAND DUKE, who repeatedly expressed his asto nishment to Sir WILLIAM Covoszve. His Imperial Highness took leave of the Manager, politely acknow ledging the high gratification lie had expetienced.— The GRAND DUES and suite went from the Theatre to inspect Mears brew-house. Yesterday a Court of Aldermen was held at GuildbaU, in consequence of the late outrage offered to the Panics REMIT on his passage fiom the House of Parliament on Tuesday last, and the Court numinous), *freed to present an Address. expressing their indignation at so atrocious an act I—and the Sheriffs, attended by the Rensembrancer, were direc ted to wait upon his Royal Highness to know when he would be pleased to receive the Court with the same. No other business was transacted. Issue or TRI NEw Com.—Each Binker, upon giving a written undertaking to return the same va lue in old silver of the realm, yesterday received from the Bank of - England an issue of the new Coin to the amount of £1,200: ss gn a wed. 30th January, 1817. of the Master of his Majesty's Mint, by the hands of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, ;100 in new silver Coinage, which we promise to return in the same currency in the legal Cola of the Realm." LIATH OF THC DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH.—The Duke of MARLBOROUGH, without much serious ill ness, was found dead in his bed yesterday morning. His Grace is succeeded in his titles, &c. by his eldest sou, the Marquis of BLANDFORD. The titles, besides those of the Dukedom and Marquisate, are, Earl of Sunderland and Earl of Marlborough, Baron Chur chill and Baron Spencer. The deceased died in the 80th year of his age. He bad for some time been in a very infirm state, though he had experienced very little severe indisposition. By the death of the late Duke there becomes vacant a Blue Ribbon of the Order of the Garter, the Lord Lieutenancy of Ox fordshire, the Rangership of Whichwood Forest, and the High Stewdship of Oxford aful Woodstock. SPAIN. We some time ago announced, on the adthority rf intelligence from Madrid, that reams:lona had re. solved to make up the deficiencies in his Exchequer ,rmous revenues instead f irn. b of y t a h p e p c m h p u t r i c a h tin to g s t o i m ie e p p u ar b t li e c if se th r e vi e: , posing anx new burthens on the people, already irh_ poverihed beyond all former example : but we nos, regret to find that fame has been kinder to this llt.yal Friar than the fact will authorise. It appears that four different plans to supply the deficit in the public revenue; a deficit amounting to upwards of 260 mi:. lions of reals, or £2,703,335 sterlirg, were submitted to FERDINAND by his Ministers. Three concurred in selecting the revenues of the Church as the most avail; able coulee of supply, and only differed as to the nom expedient mode of attaching them, while the preferred an extraordinary contribution from, or mere properly speaking, an extraordinary imposition upia the people at large to every thing else.—Now, it i s not any one of these dime plans which touched en the exorbitances of the Clergy—but the last, which i s to fall wholely on the people that I:no:NAND h as adopted. His Majesty, it is said, has had considera. tion for the sufferings of the Clergy during the late troubles of the country."—But what are all the snf. feting: of a pampered and ovtigrown Pilesthood ..) 7 the sufferings of the people at large ? Is it not true, , that notwithstanding all the Clergy of 6pain pretend to have suffered, that they still absorb more than a seventh of the whole revenues of the country ? BONAPARTE. The Larkins Easssindiaman, which left St. Helena on the 15th of December, and reached Portsmouth last Tuesday, is said to have brought intelligence to Government which, if true, is of some importance:, The rumour is, that a secret correspondence has been ' carried on by LAS CASAs, who accompanied him to that island as his Counsellor of State ; that the Civil and Military Authorities there, who detected the cor respondence, have discovered the names of several pap sons of note, both in France and in England, who were engaged in it; that the subject related to means for effecting the escape of BONAPARTE from S. He. lens, and ensuring his return to France. On the discovery being made, LAS CAS AS, as 'night be expected, was imprisoned, and is to be sent to Europe; and increased vigilance was instituted ;or the secure detention of BONAPARM " Persons of note in England" concerned in a ti respondence for such an object as the above !--'l . l thing is not possible, and such an assertion goes isir discredit the whole statemert. We confess that are very incredulous on the present occasion. are we sceptics on slight grounds ; for it can be secret to any one, that a part of the arrangemeN the safe custody of Bo mar= consisted in are;: order, that no letters of any kind should be deliver , to him or any of his suite without a previous in! lion: nor is it such an easy matter as some may ii gine for any person to gain admission to Lungw It cannot be obtained witltuut a special perms, from the Governor. It is possible, indeed, that LAS CASAS. tired of paradise, may have hatched up a sham conspiracy effect his own return to Europe; as has been t quently the case with sailors longing fo. see native home on any terms. Have not several , duals accused themselves of madets and crimes, which, when investignted, it was proved they tr not hAve been present—having been at the time King's ship then on foreign service?—But, closer to the point : it is known that the Polish who also accompanied BONAPARTZ to St. Hi effected his awn expulsion from St. Helena by hit ing up a sham plot pretended to be with same diers of the 53,1 Regiment. The Pole 11171 a scat the Cape of Good Hope, and is now on his way thi;c•iuntry, having first announced by letter !: success of his disingenuous contrivance to his • and friends in London I ! Yesterday morning the Lotto CHANCELLOR hid audience of tbe PRINCE RECENT. Yesterday the Cabinet Ministers entertainectt' Ministerial friends with grand dinners, at tbri: . spect iv e a rs;dences. Yesterday Earl GREY entertained a large pars the Opposition Noblemen and Gentlemon, at -:•s c gant mansion in Portman-square, with a sum:sq; dinner. It was ordered in the House of Comments oa 5 ' nesday, that no Petitions for private Bills shell bt.• eeived alter Friday, the 14th day of geb,ua,y; no private Bill shall be read a first time after the of March • and that no report of a private bill th be receive d after the 12th of May next. Letters have been received in town ft em so late a date as the Bth instant. Ti'e Arit: squadron had been off that port, and a new , it Peace bad been signed on terms dica;; , l Americans. The American sloop Spay k 5. I'd Algiers (or the United States on the 25Ci nt ber. and it is supposed she took out the Treat-. Letter; just received from Port Loltis, MA"' give al description of the late kre 3t place. ft appears that about half the tovi ' stroyed; I,lioo houses were burnt to the grit' , '. the loss in property consumed is supposed to eight millions of dollars ; business was cmple.: a stead, ell payments were to be suipended :ot* of January, by an order from Givernment: destruction of property some individuals base more unfortunate than others. digglif . ; ECLCIIa than a ielena • mouth race to ate :•-• as been him to e Civil he cor- ral pop I, wig) means 3... He. s might sent to ,ted fur D a tor. :—Tre es kr n) that ye I. ,•:,/ in be no neat far rezie elivett,l inspet. 'ay ite. , - Igssno,t. rmissiea !cl of Vs airacy reit 1:c ee tho, 'al indi imes, ey crat: me it; to CAM Offic• He :.er h.itt ifirDe SC:11. s way Met . his ati st had nectt l their par , t-:•s c. on • ,all aty ; r t s :,e • , • • e d 'y Pest • $ Dt easy ,lanti; 'e ! g un is • r,•J, to es , jj ;t: to tag