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DUTCH MAIL. BRUSSELS, AUGUST 16. The taking into active service the Of f icers on ball. pay has had so favourable an effect on the minds of the military, that thsise who two years ago obstinately refused to serve under the present Government, are now very happy to be engaged. In the choice of them less attention is paid to their former political opmi .ois than to gond conduct. The number of offi cers on h alt pay so put into activescrvice is said to be 600 of different racks ; but there are no Generals or Colonels among them. It is generally supposed in France, that in the autumn the arty will be aug mented by '2O men in each coillp,atty of foot, and ten nun in each company of horse. MIDDLEBURG, AUGUST 11. On the 9th our new harbour was opened with great solemnity, its the •presence of the King and Prince Frederick. THE EVENING STAR. I.ONDON. MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1817. PR:CE OF oTOCK • THIS DAY AI TWELVE O'CLOCK s Consols Suit—Do. for Aug. 801 t —Do. for Oct. 811 Re used thei 81--4 per Cent. 9811—Navy, Mit India Bonds 1111 pr.—Exchequer Edi., 31.4. 341. pr. The Paris Papers of Thursday and Friday have arrived since our last. Messrs. CoNITY and Dmiotten, the Editors of the Claw Aurersen, who have been for some time under prosecution twi a libel contained in that work on the Roy-if authority, have been sentenced to one year's imprisonnient each, a fine of 1000 francs, deprivation of their civil rights for five years, and other penalties imposed by the Criminal Code. At Rouen .54. and at Orleans nine persons con victed of of arising out of the late dearness of provisions, have been liberated, in pursuance of the humane Act of Amnesty recently issued by the King. Accounts from Malta are said to represent the Misery there as very great, in consequence of the re moval of trade to other cleaners. It tbay possibly be nue that the inhabitants of Malta have not been ezemptes; from a participation in those privations to which the rest of the British Empire has been for some tune ezpdsed 1 but with the peculiar facilities and encouragements which have been lately conceded to this important Island, particularly on respect of the East Indian trade,' we doubt whether its dim:eases can be so fairly attributed to a local transfer as to a general suspension of commerce. • A dispatch which has been scut by the Austrian Commandant of Semlin, to the Vice President of the Ault: Council at Vienna, gives an account of the death of the famous Utast! Gnaw's, Chief of the Bervians, somewhat diffeteitt from that with which the last Earns Papers supplied us. It appears that Gronuas had gone to Seniehdria under a false name, and concealed himself there in the house of a friend and that the object of this hazardous st p was to re cover a treasure of 50,000 ducats, which he had hid before quitting Solna, and with which be now de- signed to retire into Russia. The trieud, however, in whom be trusted, was Moos weak ui wicked enough to denounce him to the Pacha of Belgrade, who im mediately came to Semendria -with au escort of Ja nissaries, arrested Gammas, and also a Greek who accompanied him, made them. be beheaded, and sent their heads to Cuostantinople. The Archduchess hiatus LEOPOLOINE, Princess of Brasil, with the Archduchesses her sistets,and Prince Lamm) of Naples, set out from Flotsam on the Bth inst. for Leghorn, where the Partugoete squadron wow waits to convey the Princesifo thf Brazils.—, Priace blerrEarocu had set out 'for the same place, some time before, in order to officiate as Imperial Commissary in the delivery of the Princess. French Funds, 21st August-68 fr. 30 c. We have this morning received Hamburgk Papers to the 20th and Dutch to the 25d instant. The fol lowing are extracts; STOCKHOLM, AUGUST S. An account ut a law suit between the land-owner Redress and the Rev. Provost Iledreen, has been published here under the title of u The Axe to the Root," and is considered as the most important cause relative to the affairs of the Clergy that has happened since the Reformation. The tithes were at that time fixed by Gustava Vasa, so that two thirds fell to the Drown, and one third remained to the Clergy, which last tithe was usually paid, according to an amicable arrangement between the clergymen and their pa. rishioners. The above-named Provost, however, has demanded the payment in kind by counting the sheaves in the field, taking the tithe cf the great and small cattle; Ike. as well as of the butter, milk, ficc. h the fat m.yard ; and besides this he has demanded by an action at law, a cow for every funeral, six ells of linen for every marriage certificate, sue the Odor mance of a certain quantity of labour. The public are not a little antiailt`rwecting the issue of this affair. The lowef,cuurts Ipgre already decided in favour of the Provo ;, The 64a1 decision s vrhich is important to every landttaiderin the king dom, is shortly expected to be given b 7 the superior Court. COPENHAGEN. AUGUST IS. On the 6th of tins month the Jews celebrated, for the second time, Divine Service in the Danish h a . gunge. The puce of meeting was crowded to ex. cess. The admiiable sermon of the Rev. Mr. Map_ beimer, on this occasion, gained him tie beans of all the persons preent. The prayers, psalms, and sermon, being in the language of the country, and consequently intelligible to every body, is doubtless an improvement which must be particularly advan tageons to the young, and therefore certain of obtain. ing the approbation of every unprejudiced person. PETERSSURGH, AUOLtST 1. • T.Tp to the 12th of July there had arrived at Cron stadt 1107 ships. In the circle of Mostock there have. appeared, as last year, such immerse quantities of grasshoppers, that it has been accessary w take serious measures for their destruction, as they do infinite damage to the fruits of the earth. DESSAU, AUGUST 10. Yesterday evening, at halt r past six o'clock, died in his 77th year, his Serene Highness our reigning Duke Leopold Frederick Francis. after a few days illness, to the great affliction of the inhabitants of this city, and of the country. The young Duke, his grandson and succecsor, being now absent, an ex• press was immediately sent to him. The late Duke was born on the lOth of August, 1740, and succeeded his father, Leopold Maximilian, on the 16th of December, 1756. He was, therefore, reckoning by the years of his Government, though not of his age, the senior of all the Sovereigns of Europe. On the 20th October, 1808, the late Duke cele brated the fiftieth anniversary of his reign ; on which occasion be received the sincerest proofs of the re tpect and love of his subjects, to whom his excellent government was in all respects a blessing. To him Dessau owes its improvements, its Woerlitz and its Luisium, its fine roads, and the appearance of a beautiful garden. But his particular attention was directed to the system of education and schools : he employed Basedow, Campe, a►:d Tillich, to realize his idea of the physical and moral education of man. CASSEL, AUGUST It. This evening his Royal Highness the Grand Duke at Meckle^burgh•Strelitz was solemnly betrothed to her Highness the Princess Maria, daughter of the 1 1.andgrate Frederick of Hesse. WISBADEN, AUGUR 14. The union of the Reformed in the Lutheran Churches, which has been so frequently attempted without success, has been now happily effected in the Duchy of Vassau, in the following manners When deliberating on the best way of celebrating the third Centenary of the Reformation, the two General Su perintendents, Muller and Giese, conceived the idea of giving the ceremony the greatest solemnity, by uniting the two Protestant Confessions. The reigning Duke having received this idea with particular satis faction, immediately called together a general Sped, which consisted of the two Superintendents, all the Inspectors, and SS Preachers, of whom 20 wars Lu therans, and 18 Reformed. The sittings of the Synod lasted from the sth to the 9th of this month, in the presence of a Commis sion named by the Duke, which kept the Journal of the proceedings. As all scholastic subtleties were put aside; and we were agreed in essential points, the whole turned on two questions-Ist, Whether we shall join in one Church ? 2,1, How this union was to be effected ? The first question was decided in the very first sitting in the affirmative a and to an swer the second, the whole Assembly was divided into seven Committees, which considered the various points and delivered their op►nion in writing. The result was, an agreement in unite the two Churches under theoname of the Evangefical Chriaias Ciurch, for which seven points were settled. • : BRUSSELS, AUGUST SO. If seems that the Duke of Wellington attaches mach importance to his action against the Editor of the Journal. His Counsel have received a consultation Of the most celebrated lawyeis of Paris fir this pur pose. It is said that the Journalist pretends that be received from Paris the report on which the complaint is founded, but he does not know the author's name. An account which appeared in an American Pa per, stating that Margaritta bad been captured by Monuxo, the Royalist General, is quite unfounded. This news was give on the authority of pretended letters from St. Thomas's, of the date of the 2d of July. The last Leeward Island Mall brought, letters to the 19th of July, and none of them mentioned any such event. The following letters set this point at rest. The affairs of the Insurgents prosper every where; nor have we the least apprehension that any of the machinations carrying on ir. Europe, whether directly between the Courts of Madrid and St. Peters burg!), or among the diplomatists assembled and assembling at Carlsbad, will be productive of any change calculated to restore the sovereignty of Fin. DINAND over the South American Provinces. Respecting this assemblage, the Gazette dr Fume of Thursday last announces that the Count di Caso :16 ,dlivritis (as Representative of Russia) i n j a d asm i (of England); the Cokint de CARAMAIq Ifla i i4 the ?Once de MoTrxantcn (of Austr i ii.), and , the. Prince de HARDBDISERG (of Prussia) amosbout to Assemble at Carlsbad, and that it is believedthey will be occupied with the affairs of the Spanish Colonies, and the discussions between Spain and Portugal— but, notwithstanding the surve dance exercised over the French press, we consider the present statement as only the echo of the London Pdpers of last week ; and as neither adding to nor taking from any im portance attached to this ernbrio Congress: If it. has any views respecting South America, it may just as well occupy itself in an attempt to alter the hours, for the rising and setting of the Sun, as preparatory to the publication of the Almanack for next year. es PORT OF SPAIN, (TRINIDAD) JULY 9. " We are every moment in expectation of the fall of the capital of Guayana,. and that will make a clean sweep of our Roods here for that province and the interior. Burnt brandy, in my opinion, will not now save the Spaniards, and a free trade will do more to relieve our manufacturers, than all the talents on both si d es of the House without it, but we can only . have a free trade with the natives themselves." 44 TRINIDAD JULY 9. I _ . _ ei Letters have been received here this day from Angustera, the capital of Guayana, dated the 27th ultimo. On that day the Spaniards had eaten their last horse, and as there were no hopes of succour it was supposed an immediate surrender would be the consequence. " Governor Fitzgerald, who had been deposed by Colonel Cerrute, and sent a prisoner to St. Fernando de Apure, has been replaced since the defeat of the former on the 11th April, and his subsequent death, and commanded on the 27th (the date of the letters) in Angostura ; but Brigadier Latorre, who is also shut up in Old Guayana, commands in chief there. An American Captain, who is the writer of one of the letters, paid 1.5M/dollars for his passport, so anzi. ous was Brother Jonathan to get away; but as he has not arrived, it is supposed he has been probably detained by Brion's squadron. The fall of Guayana will sweep all our warehouses of goods for that pro vince anti the interior. " After Brion sailed for Guayana, the two Spa nish corvettes that cunv.yed the troops from Spain, viz. the Destubicrta and Domente. with another corvette and some sloops and schooners, blockaded Margarita fur thirteen days, but never attempted to land. The Margaretanians were very anxious to re. loeive them at the point of the barinet. Two thou sand five hundred infantry and cavalry, well armed. les about the strength of the island, and to these 500 may be added on an emergency. Nothing mews the weakness of the Spaniards so much as their wasting their time in this neighbourhood, when every principle of policy would call them to succour Guayana if they possibly could. But to throw them oelves into the towns, where the garrisons are stare ing,unless they could raise 'besiege, would do no good -Nor would it be easy for them to escape the mounted Tartars of Monagas and Sarasa, in march ing through the plains of Cumana or Barcelona to reach Guayana. The reduction of the two remain ing towns of Guayana will open to the Patriots an extensive trade with Varinas and all the interior, as far as New Granada; all that country being in the hands of General Paez and Colonel Nonato Perez. Independent Chiefs ; and accounts are daily expected of the surrender of the said towns, as the ladepen• dent squadron had reached the river. and would cut off all resource." Jamaica Papers to the 14th ult. arrived this; morn ing, but bring no news from the Spanish Main. The following are extracts : KINGSTON, JULY 12. By the passengers ha tbe Veins, we learn that the Active fe:gate, of 46 guns, Captain C.arbenet. with eight Spanish merchantmen under her protection, anchored off the Moro Castle, Havannab, on the I.sth ult. and that the frigate sailed the same afternoon for Port Royal. The Esk port ship, of 20 guns, Captain Lennock, sailed from Port Royal on Monday morning for Carthagena, in search of a person who had commit ted some criminal act in this city, and afterwards proceeded to that place. The Beaver. of 10 guns, Captain Duff, arrived in this port on Friday, alter seeing the Venezuelian schooner Candor clear of the coast. Extract of a letter from a passenger who sailed from Royal on the 4th June in the schooner Bar. bara for the Havannah, dated Havannah, June 18 : " On our passage along the south side of Cobs, we witnessed a most distressing spectacle, Apt of;'a Int Jamaicaman being a total wreck in the course of a few minutes ! she hoisted signals of distress, which we attended to and approached her until we consi- dered it imprudent to go any further lest we should have been embayed like herself, therefore we did not learn her name, but suppose all hands were lost." On Saturday the Endeavour fell in with the bri• gantine Decouverte, bound for Carthagena, and about SO miles astern spoke the Esk Port sloop, of 20 guns, under a heavy press of sail, in chace of her. The Endeavour informed Captain Lennock of their hair. ing spoken her, and it was most probable she would overtake her before getting into the above port. The Decouverte is the vessel of which the Esk had been sent out in pursuit. The ROYAL GRORGE yacht, commanded by the Hon. CHARMS PAGETp arrived at Portsmouth on Saturday evening from off Brighton. It was the in tention of his Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT to have embarked in this superb vessel on Wednes day last, on a visit to the Isle of Wight, but he was 'prevented by an attack of the gout. His Royal Highness, however, we have the pleasure to add, is recovered from his indisposition and able to travel. He left the Pavilion yesterday morning for London, and arrived at twenty minutes past eight o'clock last n' hi at Carlton House, acco m p an i e d by Sir Bansor, • BuSosirret.v. We unde rstan d his Royal High ' TViill immediately pr ocee d to R agley 11111, th e Sear of the Marquis of H RRTFORD ; and alter. making a:northern tour of about sixteen days, it is his inten tion to proceed to Portsmouth, to embark in the ROYAL GEORGE, on an excursion westward. The RovAL Gaonoa tar surpasses, in beauty of model and external bi iliancy, any vessel ever seen at that port. The PRINCRSS of Warm lett Rome on the 2d in stant, with the intenti.n ul proceeding to Bologna. Mr. Boom?, Under Secretary of State, arrived on Wednesday last in Paris, on his return from Switzer land and Italy. TAM,4. LETTER FROM M. TALMA TO THE EDITOR OF THE M ONITEU R. " PA all, Auct:!r 2!, tSI7. " .Stit—l learn upon my return from Englat:o, •Ir. :,;• credit of certain Journal-, lam publicly assail .! wi h reproadt, s of which I feel it my duty to take immedta . notice. " It is pretended that I wished •o smuggt tom Cale:. some article* of English merchandise striven were seized —ln a Fr to this Linn charge, I have only to say, In the accww ert is wholly without foundation My effects were examinest much politeness by the Custom House °Meer- s •l s s did not discover that In any respect I tel contrave• of di • " The second ascii:anon wh:ch is brought asainse u e is t.„, nature more serious; and the high value which 1 attach :n ks esteem of the Public—au übj, ct to which the whole cff...T. of my life have been devoted—the duty which t owe to tit, rect.'s and to myself, make it imperative upon me to justny mystic in this particular more explicitly. eh After the last representation of Mr. Join Ktstaz.r. 1::e first Actor of the English Ilmatre, as justly Scar tor !.. • ohie character as for his rare talent., hi, mend, and a.lnttrer• a••••rn. bled at a farewell dinner, in order to testify to him in a s manner, their attachment and their regret. 'lb.:protest Noh.e men, the most distinguished Artist, and Men of Letters were present. According to the English cu-tom, roasts were given ; and ti, the midst of three or four hut cited persons at Little, ic.l of a great number of •pectarort, it AA :A dented to re.,:... n i n object of particular distioctioa. The Nob e Ler f who w 're sident of the Fete, pro osed a toast to Ey / hoic.r .iod to the : rf the French 71.ratre. I revel by some ;, • o to. h e!oucly received, and in which I enJeacistin:d to thude for the recepron, so full 1, 1 • kindne.s, which I had a,.e• deuced, and my wishes for the prosperity ot the E.netsh a• are. 1 his return of puliiene•s was, in a manner, a duty which the most sev, re observer of propriety could shit co n d e m n . " Some fognsh Journals which have not repotted with *cra pulous exactness the sat. mpeire speeches at the• assembly li..ve hot reported mine mote correctly titan other., a.ci tee French Papers in translating them have not sliewn eleatir (Mel ty " To join a political wish ••• tie coact which I proposed, in the ntida of persons who were only assembled to cekbrate .he arts and to honour particularly my profession would have here, to ~ ay the lea•r, a lolly; to forger in.tbc same situation hat I was a Frenchman, would have been something more than absence of wind; and this double untuitablecess would hare beta tacitly blamed eceo by those to whom I addressed myself. •` l'am del ewed to make known the reception, truly rater nil, which I. embirtenced from the artists ot London—the flat tering distinctions, the eager attentions of which I have been the object in the highest classes of society ; hut the predoundgrai• tads which I feel for these testimonies oh affection and esteem honourable alike to the French lheatre wad to my.elt) has never made and never win make me forget that eel timeut, wit out a rival—the priedelletiou which every good man owes to th•• coots try of his birtb.-1 have the honour to be, &c. " f 'Asa." Yesterday the once celebrated Mad4me STORACt died at her house on Herne-hill, near Dulwich. Accounts were received in town from Ragley-hall, in Warwickshire, on Saturday, that the Marquis of HIRTIOND was sudd my attacked with a very dan gerous indisposition. The same day information was received of the de chniag health of Sir JOHN M•MAftox, now at his cottage in Kent. A Court-Martial was held on S.rturday morning:, at Portsmouth, on board the QUEEN CHARLoTTE, to try Captain MURRAY MAXWELL, and the Officers and crew of his Majesty's late frigate Acceere, for the loss of that ship in the Straits of Gaspar, on the 18th of February last, when returning from China, with Lord AMHERST and suite on bo trd. The senterce of the Court was a frill and entire Acquittal of Cap tain MAXWELL, his Officers, and crew. The opinion of the Cant was most handsomely expressed, that Captain MAXWELL had, before the loss of the ship, conducted himself in the most zealous and officer. like manner; and that, after the sti king of the ship, hii coolness. selt-collection, and exertions, were highly conspicuous, and that every thing was done by him, his Officers, and ship's company, within the power cf men to execute, to preserve the ship and her stores; and that to such conduct alone, is to be attributed the saving of all their lives. Lord Astuansr was present; and examined by the Court in the course t t the enquity. A saline was fired by the Queen Char lotteton his Lordship's leavinethe ship. The C plain's narrative Mal In affecting detail of the exertions and sufferidO t ol'himself, Officers, and crew, and record. ed his warmest thanks to his Officers and crew, who had looked up to him in the hour of distress with it,: most submissive confidence. A most peculiar goca:- look-out was kept up, when the accident happened; and, but for the circumstance that the sea was, a: the moment of her striking, covered with fish-spawri the rock would doubtless have been seen. Ti.: ship had no more sail on her than enabled her tr withstand an unfavourably strong current : and C.e very track she was pursuing was laid down for 0-.1 ship, by Lieutenant Ross, of the Bombay Marine. who had been ten years surveying the Chinese Sea-, At the moment of their deliverance from the wreck they were surrounded by sixty two prows, mantle! with 600 Malays. Their whole stock of ammuititirn consisted of only 72 ball cartridges, and a few cdr ronado cartridges, which were drawn from the qt.:v ier-deck guns on leaving the ship : from tl:c.e t!'e gunner made up 1600 rounds, and,balls were majc from the marines' buttons, and whatever other lead or pewter could be cut off from the wreck. A fel boarding pikes were saved ; the rest of the men were armed with dirks stuck on sticks, and sticks with t!.e points tempered by fire. An abattis of wood-wetk was formed by the carpenter, and a diagonal trench cut from the hill, on which they fixed their abode t" the only landing place, which -enabled them to bid defiance to the ferocious savages who surroust!ea them, and who several times attempted to cut elf their boats.. The presents exchanged by the Eyr , '• non Cmis*, Nnd his letter to the PRISCE RUH.Nr, levitlbj.ord AMHERST'S own documents, relating to the ego?bassy s . were all saved from the wreck of ALefulfgS..bilt the specimens of the GeoloAto, neralogist, and the Botanist, were lost ; the sltamnis of those Gentlemen were saved. 'Pine prevnts the Eateenot are said to be of very trifling the articles consist of purses, a.id a large Ate; which latter article derives its chi, I value to. rte kind, whenever discovered, be iivered or to the EMPEII , It, and, therefore, c.ti: ;hily be best ", by hint ; invariably gives Oat as test 17 " satisfaction, wizen any service is tender e d to tot 6ttitc' ■ la IN PI w~ L A L en tAlar. Csl L', .plain's f „, Lions and : d record- Ha vw, who . to with t7,-1 b ar iar goc,d- Amu tppened; kid' t was, at Cz, h-spawr, n. ed her tr and C.e n for . ..he er; n esr: Sea-, • t' tee he wreck is rnuvitirm :on few cdr- -1:e cz.r . rcn the bi .'re maje tit her tend • 1, a , A fe•T men were with t!..! . ,od.wetk of ml trench • abode M 71 TO bid 1.1 7roust , !ei nd ) cut cri le EYrr• tin ItLot.Nr, ere sting to crr :k ut et 4 ,,t, Jrawini s r ) .nts r r4r, u Ate; m : • tee or , to • " y f st I 6tge• e