Star. — London, England, 1817-03-22 00:00:00

• • IP. EVENING STAR. 0. •9 4 NDO f 4f" " 1 • • : 11 0- f••• , 7 • t SATUR iAY, MARCH 211.-Igf i r "c": F• ,F srt 71(ti THIS DAY AT TWELVE n•ctocx —o,n4. money, 0111 70—fat Att. 70:1 .4 rtr AhUt- - 5 pr Cent. Navy, 991# .Licherp r B Us 44. I la. pr.--India Bonds 34 pr. GERMAN AND DUTCH PAPERS. Gcr mot Papers arrived last night, and this morn_ I.:1 3 Ditch Maul. They still speak of extensive . ~,,„,kno ns i n the North of Germany, occasioned by t%e s%%eiling of the Rivers, which cause great damage ;.I many pbrces. 'D.ere are roAny amiable points about the Emperor which dcvelope themselves from time to. time, AS opportunity offers. By the present Mail we l!‘ve the writ-action to learn. that his Mnjcsty has in tilt Nobility of Courland to enuncip.ste their rts,rorly. Let the Emperor go on thus, and he will credit for the m3tives which induced him to c ri‘rioate the Holy Alliance. Th: price nicorn continues to fsdkat Vienna, Triest, 2 711 ott.cr German maims. qiesuon of the Droit da Tol, on the Scheldt, se Its nut quite settled, but the hope at Antwerp is, st i: still be quite abolished. . BRU3SEL: 2 , MARCH 15. We Imo from the French frontiers that a quantity of Com, w•:hich was on the way from Calais through the Depottuent of the North. was stopped and plum hr some people tumultuously collected loge thu. Same detachments of .1100;s11 Cavalry greatly .3!.tributed to restore order, and have received the Clanks of the French Magistrates for their conduct the occasion. vrNicE, FEBRUARY 26. I,v:tets from the Coast of Albania state, that All Vizier of the Province, is gone from Janina to visit several small towns in his Government. Tkey talk of an attentpt of the Insurgents to seize rn the ion of S anta MAur 4. It is said that several .1 inissaticA have been thrown into the Sea. It is tclieved that the revolt has been excited by the na tives, who greatly complain of the extortions of the I izies's Agents. distinguishes -- :ht your. be to hstat.dtag obstacles and ,tuition ' the irposes recited du- .itle brought Ig- Or LO specs or :m -ot Or Pell the i be arge ;Ms pro. Act: I iaies's Agents. • AUGSBURGH, MARCH 9. RtlSlA.—Scarcely have the peasants of Esthonia been declared free, when already an important step is taken in Courland, to restore the rights originally common to all classes of society. At the Assembly of the States at lqietau, the Military Governor of the Province, Marquis Palucci, expressed the wish of the Emperor." that the Nobility of Courland, following the example of civilized States, might se- cure the respectable class of husbandman, in their re- lations, by express laws."—" Born," said the speaker, win a country (Its! ) wkcsve. without personal Eroo7 , I should feel myself supremely happy, if L cold see is my new cottony, the class of peasanti cheated by giving them a legal existence to a freer sphere of ac- tion, and their lot secured by a law formed with the . assistance of your own deliberations. " The intellectual improvement which has ad- vanced in emulation of the parent state, cannot be deaf to. the imperious voice of the spirit of the times. • With the liberality of sentiments that distinguishes year illustrious body, it must appear. to you a slight sacrifice to transfer the authority exercised by your- aches to the regular appointed judge, as it most be easy for you to renounce the idea, that in order to improve the political existence of the peasantry, a certain maturity must be waited for. 'Whereas it is precisely the state of slavery, which notwithstanding all physical advantages, opposes invincible obstacles to this marmity." The Nobility hereupon declared themselves ready to answer to the paternal desires of the Monarch, and D y contributing to the improvement of the situatior of the peasantry, to these themselves worthy of the Imperor's confidence. A Letter from 'Treed', dated March 1, says : " The 29th of February was a day of terror twos About one, p ; m. a dreadful storm arose, accom panied with thunder, /lightning. snow, and rain. A thunderbolt fell perpendicularly on the church of St ?militias, one of 'HE finest in Germany, and in les than at; boor the whole building was in flames. Thi reaple, and the whole of the roof, which was of corn I,, atible materials, Were consumed ; the interior o c.arcti happily escaped." The Bill introduced by Mr. Lusitorerrow, to ex plain and aniend the existing Laws with regard n the Assessment of Dwelling-houses, proposes to en act, that " all tenements and building! which hair heretofore been occupied as dwelling-houses, or part ct dwelling-houses, and which, from and after the , shall be employed solely for the purpose el trade, shall not be charged to the said reeked du tie', as dwelling-houses."...-But. in order to entitl such premises to exemption, they are to be brough ilto assessment, in the first instance, as dwelling • rises; the occupioe is to give in, to the Assessor o urveyor, a - declaration in writing, of their claim t lee exempted; the Assessor or Suiveyor, is to inspec and report...." And if after any such claim made. c btf , .,r e or after allowance thereof, it shall be discc veseu ghat t h e s ame dwelling-house lath been ear PoPed for any other use than for the purposes c "de, or as a warehouses, for lodging goods, wares, c "rchandit or that any person cloth inhabit or dwe I . Mill except as afore:aids da r am"l i f ' for th Pui pose cat such trade, then, on due proof thereof la I 'te 'he Cornmasioners, they shall assess and charg The sail dwening-house, notwithstanding such claim or any thing to the cor.ttary" contained its the prl , rGifJ Act. AUGSBURGH, MARCH 9. RtISI A.—ScArcely have the peasants of Esthonia been declared free, when already an important step is taken in Courland, to restore the rights originally common to all classes 61 society. At the Assembly of the States at /Aleut), the Military Governor of the Province, Marquis Palucci, expressed the wish of the Emperor, 1 , that the Nobility of Courland, following the example of civilized States, might se cure the respectable class of husbandmen, in their re- IC du ad be :Com- A St. less The cora - of en ore parts ' the THE ARMY. On T tares, the Officers of the Cold►treant Re giment of Fu►,t Guards gave a grand dinner at their Barracks, in Windsor, to ti►e Officers of the Royal Horse. The 50th Regiment, with detachments of several other Regiments of the Line, have been disembarked at Dover from Calais, and proceeded on their march to their respective destinations. • Saturday a detachment of the Royal Marine Ar. tilleey marched from Chatham for Fort Moncton, near Gosport. Monday, upwards of SOO men of the Invalid Depot marched from Fort Pitt, Chatham, for Chelsea. The Regiment of Berwickshire Yeomanry was as sembled at Duase, ore Wednesday sennight, when ' Lieutenanr.Colonel Mmtsrama. proposed to them to extend their services to any part of Great Britain, which was immediately agreed to with three cheers. The Yeomanry Cavalry is moot Counties are now receiving an increase of numbers; the Oxfordshire Corps, under the command of Lord CHURCHILL, gets another troop, and the Staffordshire Regiment is also to have another added. The Stiff ot the Royal Meath Regiment, under the command ot Captain 13anttas, are to do duty in Dun. .shaughlin. The 9►tlt Regiment are to replace the 9l•th Regi ment in Kilkenny. 'The 21st Regiment of Fusileers are to be stationed in Dublin. The Officers of the 30th Regiment have liberally given 451. to the poor of Tralee. The entice of the 49th Regiment are stationed along the banks at the Grand Canal, Dublin, to prevent in terruption to the transport of corn to the Metropolis. The 82d Regiment are to sail in a tew days for the Mesiiterrantnan. The Por:uguese Government have de'ertined to present silver medals to the °dicers and privates en gaged in the Peninsular wad, NAVAL lAT2LLIGENCE. MAlLS—aaa. Due. 4111111. 110 i Dublin - - - • 1 0 France • - - 0 1 Waterford -- 1 0 i Hambnegls -- 0 0 Guernsey and Jersey 0 0 Clouenburgh • - 0 3 Lisbon - - - 0 i Flanders - - - 1 0 Holland • - - 1 0 New York - - 0 0 Pos;:rsmou CH, MARCH 21. Arrived the Garlin, TRACItY, irons the Downs for Boston. Sailed his Majesty's ship Eosin*, for the West Indies ; Briliiant, Ganges, and London trans.. ports, for Sierra Leone, the Cape, and Ceylon; and the Georgians, for Madeira and the West In dies—Wind N. W. DEAL, MARCH 21. Sailed the Ocean, Joitsmos,for St. Helena. Wind N. HARWICH, MARCH 110. Arrived the Auckland packet, with passengers, from Heligoland.— Wind W. MARCH 21. —Arrived the Union, from London for Newcastle; and Fortitude, from ditto for Boston, both with loss of anchors and cables the Lord Nel son packet, from Hemburgh ; and Cattlereagh pac ket, from Holland, both with Mails. DOVER, MARCH el. Arrived this morning the Lord Duncan packet, 'Captain Pascoe. from Ostend, with a Mail and pas sesigefs. The wind has blown vetybard irons th 1111.11111 - dan sqbalht Orsnow7atid a greiA manj vessels have taken shelter in our Routs. The brig Atalanta, from Jamaica, has come round from the Downs, hiving lost an anchor and cable there. LIVERPOOL, MARCH so. A sloop (name unknown) WAS totally last this morning on Hoyle Bank—the crew perished. LEEUWARDEN, MARCH to. A part of a wreck has been cast upon Vlieland, on which is written ,6 Diligence, of Yarmouth." A body was found, which. according to a passport found on it, was that of Gregory Hoffman, a Dutch sailor ; it was dated London, 25th January, 1817. In another certificate was the date of .Bth Febru iry List. It is probably the ship of Captain J. Era" which sailed oa the 10th February, front Gravesend for Rotterdam GRAVRSEND, MARCH Arrived the Chance, hinges, from Rotterdam • the fee.. t., Jones, from dine; the Lord Cochrane, Savage , kom Amster dam' Vrow Hanks,. bit'Alsa , from d itto ; Orange Boma, At kinson, front ditto; Vrow Rolphlos, Rollers, front theologist; Vrow Retina, Inersh. from ditto; Vrow Gorden, Nagel, lies ditto; Vrow Grans, Cooper, Harlingen; Clood intent, Wader tato, from ditto ilia Colonist, Brareford. for Barbados. Prince Cobourg, Wier for Sabra Princess of Wales, Pox, for Chased ; Prince of bas e-Cobearg, Ladd, for Rotterdam. CUSTOM-HOUSE, MARCH Bain INTSaan 'SWARM -jilt hied. Given, from sinew riffe ; i►ritanoia, Bennet, Irons Waterford ; Venus, from /MIMIC; Provestar, Alien, from Norway; Margaret, Mann, from Stet tin ; anti Union, Gall. way, from Harlingen. • wrwa ass = I he Pilgrim, Garrick, lot St. Lade; Plannony, Pratt, tor Teneriffe ; Thomas tiowlan, Peter, for Buenos Ayres; the John, Pulley s and Midmorning, Veneer, foe Rotterdam; Thistle, Mirk, tor Eisineur and Dasitsk ; John, Thomas Gor4eis, for Waterford; and Siiifolk c iletenghtholin, for /Wait& - LATE DISTURSATICEI nr Cuesipae. From the Cluster CArenkle, Koch 41 i " la the account of the seditimode our last Chronicle, k was stated that some pike-heads, and ebb containing dagger-shaped pieces ef iron bad been founds we feel great pleasure in Wes enabled to assure our Readers that we were tuisinfurnied, and /kat only one stick, out of some thousand bludgeons taken from t he mob, contained a weapon of that description. " The lenkocy of the .oevernineet was aianifested on Wed nesday in the instance of the twenty-one prisoners charged with s edidous pncdces, and lodged fa our Castle she day previous to our last publication. On lite above day, the Rev. C. PILLICOIT, ene et the Magistrates, by whom they were committed, accom panied by 3.1.10 TD, Esq. visited than in the gaol, and remon strated with them en the very dangerous nature of their asset, which tended to subvert that glorious Cmstitetion, width was _still the envy. and bad been the safwguard ot Europe. " The men, generally, expressed pest contrition, sad voles luny Glued to take the Oath of Allegiance, which 'lateen of then wen permitted to do, and were afterwards discharged, on their own recoguiaanat to appear at the nest Ale Vt. if called upon. *their mune. are—William Wilcock, William Neal. Jobo Shaw, Wilder= Marsh. William Smith, John Garlick, John Se-, D ior, William Punlot, Arthur Irwits. Robert Evans ' Matthew E x ley, William Goddard, names) Wlntmore, Benj. Broadbent, Henry Holding, and George Hyde. • lbsty were humanely provided with some money, and set out on the irjourney home, iebitediu their blanket costume. • Tbe reasalalog eve, via Benjamin Mellor, George Pickup. Jams Wawa, kleild Jones, and James Callighan, were ordered to And sureties for their appearance, before they will be perrittail to leave the prison. 3he Ant Of these is by trade a allot; he was one el the Captains of Ten, aed Chancellor a! the blekelonf I'' hONAPARTS AND OtIYERIEL SAVAIit. The Pasrfthfrfers, No. 18, which bas been just published, contains an extremely interesting paper, intituled, " A Yinificaden of she PZikal Candela of Ge- ;sera! Savary, bile of Rov;so," written by the Genera himself, and printed ertclusively in the Prnolikhker. tis atated, that eie General had several months ago transmitted this vindication to the English Go verhment, entreating that it might be made public, through the medium of the daily papers, but that his request had net been attended to. Having since re covered his liberty. he now takes upon himself the vindication of his character from the aspersions' which have been cast upon it, particularly with res pect to an allege) concern in the deaths of Captain Wright, Pichegru, and Mr. Bathurst (the courier); " So far," he says, " from wishing to keep in ob scurity the crimes which have been imputed to me, 1 will, with my own hand, draw aside the veil with which it may, perhaps, be supposed I intended to envelope them, and pluck the mask from the hypo crite ur calumniator, who, believing my voice to be for ever silenced, has taken advantage of my situa tien to draw down the animadversions of the public upon my head." The charge which the General proceeds to exa mine first is, that of having been privy to the mur. der of Captain Wright ; and on this he makes the following remarks; Frrm what I have heard concerning the death of this British officer, it must have taken place in the course of November or December, 1805—that is to say, whilst the French army were on the campaign of Austerlitz, where I myself was present with - the troops. I attended the Emperor thither in the early part of September, 1805. and did not return to Paris till the 26th of January following, still in :ateadance on the Emperor, whom I did not quit for a single day. If all that the public papers hive said respect. ing the duce negotiations with which I was charged to the Emperor of Russia, both before and after the battle of Austerlitz, can be forgotten, I can bring the testimony of a great number of respectable per sons who saw me many times evesy day during the whole of that campaign. 6 4 D'Henout (a French Advocate, who first pub licly charged the General with participation in the murder of Captain Wright) pretends that I searched the Temple without the concurrence of Fooche. He may have meant to compliment him by this, but he is not less incorrect in this point than on others. which I shall proceed to demonstrate. If any other person than the Minister of the Police had had power to open the doors of the Temple, it would of necessity have given rise to continual intrigues. The Minister, in order to gain his own ends, would have connived at the escape of any criminal wham he chose to fa vour, and have thrown the blame of the transaction on his colleague in the office of superintending the prison ; who might, in like manner, favour an escape whenever it suited his purpose, and return the com pliment tone Minister. No person whatsoever had the power of opening the gates of the Temple, with out an express order from the Minister of the Police, and I defy M. FouEhe to give me a single instance , to the contrary. Any other regulation would have compromised the responsibility of the Minister every day. .When I was myself invested with this office this: hind of severity so litdrouiTy htabnited •Aor was obliged, whenever circumstances required, Ilk to give express leave to those employed by diffe 'rent Ministers, to execute the commissions with which they were charged from the Minister of War, Sucre- 1 temp of State, &c. Ecc." The fact which follows discloses a very curious piece of diplomatic intrigue, by which the interests of this country were in no small degree affected : 44 I stall here proceed to the relation of another fact, which will prove to what extent the authority of the Minister of Police was carried io the prison of the Temple, which Was removed to Vincennes, when the Einperoi, pulled down the tower of the Temple, which he regarded as a monument of disgrace to the nation. France has hitherto been ignorant of the cause of the removal of M. Fouche, whom I sue coded as Minister of Police, the 3d of June, 1810. Ha was disgraced by the Emperor for having con dotted an intrigue, tending to give him credit with the public for establishing a peace with England; said it so happened, that, in Onsequence of inter fering In what did not concern him, and employing igents about the Marquis of Wellesley, then Prime Minister in England, he overthrew, by his intrigues, an actual negotiation, which was otherwise likely to 'have terminated' favourably. • This negotiation had been autholized by the Emperor, and had been opened through the means of a Dutch House, which had sent one of the partners to London, who was doing very well there, when the step* taken by the agent of M. Fouche gave vise to suspicion. (It was M. Fagan, an old officer of the Irish brigade, in the French se:vice, who was employed by M. Fouche in this affair, and to him I am indebted for the account of his mission). The Marquis of Wellesley found, in what was said to him on one side by the agent of M. Fouche, and on the other by the person with whom he Wps first in treaty, an incoherence which naturally 'excited his suspicions; and nut being able to unravel the affair, and ignorant in which of the two to place confidence, he broke off with both of them, and gave orderifor their quitting the country. The Emperor, "wile could not conjecture the reason of so abrupt a conclusion, and one so different from what he had hoped for, had the matter investigated, and soon learnt, that M. Fouche had been negotiating on his own part, and had consequently substituted an in trigue in lien of an actual treaty. He was likewise informed that M. Ouvrard had been the agent of M. Fouche in England. The Emperor immediately or. dered his arrest, unknown to the Minister Fonche, because, it hebadintrusted him with it, he would not have failed putting Oovrard on his guard ; whereas the Emperor was desirous to interrogate him before he could have any cemmunicatien with M. Fouche. I Consequently an order was immediately forwarded Ito me from St. Cloud (I was in Paris) to arrest M. Onward, and to conduct him t 3 Vincennes privately; and it was enjoined me to do so before the return of A 4. Fowls,. who - was then, it being Wednesday, with Abu Coined of Ministers at St. Cloud. 1 trans mitted the cider to ono of my Captainh who en mad die arrest the more easily as M. Ouvrard. haw mg ernmitted nu trims, had not concealed himself. Ilse prisons- was youdtscted to Vincennes. where 4. 1-eepet at tha tetuseJ Fo tetelie . Mai, teems there was no order to that effect from the Ministet olr Police. The captain was obliged to write me word of it, and to p!.ice M. Ouvrard under a guard,' until I should myself write to St. Cloud, when M. Faiths was desired to rive an o: der for his cominement, and Lo abstaig trial all communication with hint. M. Oavrard it; well known at Paris, and can attest the fact by which I hare ende ivoured to prove that I was k strAnger t , i ril that -.as passing at the Temple and Vincennes. It was afterwards discovered that M. Ouvrard hs A l b.:: n unjustly suspected in this affair; and be was OF coo: se released. M. Fouche r'ts dis. missed t and it teas only a mouth after my possessing the office, thAt M. FJgan came to me hi.nself and related die particulars of the whole affair." Returning to the fate of Captain Wright, the ge neralyroceeJs: 44 I believe I have now sufficiently proved that I could not possibly have bad any concern in the death of Captain Wright : in the first place I have proved an alibi. and in the next, I have shewn the impossi bility of any one entering the tower of the Temple without an order from the Minister. But far from wishing to confine belief to my bare testimony, I shall point (tut the means by which the truth may be discovered respecting this transaction :—No one could be received into the Temple as a state prisoner with.; out an order from the Minister of Police, which Was copied by the keeper into a large register, which was numbered and stamped with the Minister's private mark, so that no part of it could be altered or dea stroyed without discovery. The keeper thus became answerable for every individual entered in this regis ter; and at the end of every .noath he made a list of the existing priinners ; this list was revised by the 'Minister of Police, and then carried by the keeper to the Cashier of the Minister, who advanced the sum necess.try for the support of each pristmer e and se+ tattled the list as a voucher for the money advanced: After the general orders issued by the Emperor, it bccame necessary, upon Vie decease nt any prisoner, to make out a written report of his death, and a me. dieal man was summoned to Attend, I believe one of the Board 4,1 Health, who inspected the body with the surgeon of the prison. A similar arrangement took place in cases of suicide or homicide, the report was signed by the two medical officers, by the keeper, the turnkey, and lastly by the military governor of the prison, who was generally an old officer retired from the service ; the report was transcribed into the register, and then carries' to the Minister of Police ' ' and deposited amongst hi, records. It the report of the death of Wright is to be (mind, it must be made out with all the usual form dicks, it it is not so made out, we may believe whatever we pkase respecting those who ought to have seen it done; but if it has been removed from the records, whatever may have been the motive, and has been likewise effaced from the •register of the prison, which we mty suppose would follow, there is yet another way of arriving at the truth, by the list of the Cashier, alto would, be very careful how he destroyed any of his epucherse In ascertaining then the precise day on which pay meet had ceased to be issued for Captain Wright' . an insestigatien might be set on foet by examining those persons who were in the Temple at that period i the keeper is yet livinv,, ant he ciiuld undoubtedly. declare the 114le of the regular Attending surgeon, who could likewise make known the came at the me. dical Officer who examined: the body with him. 'rhos 1 the truth most infallibly be brought to light ; so great a crime always leaves sufficient traces ter investiga tion; it is only nece,saiy to pursue them. The whole business would be discovered by producing the list of the expenditure in the prison for the months of November and Decerittn-r, 1805, and by turning over the records of the Minister of Police, and the I register of that period."—(To be continued). The Piling Reoert gave an elegant entectaine meat yesterday to a select Party of the Nos./Pity and Gentry, at Carlton-House. The Earl of MACCLtyk•IELD it to have the Lord Lieutenantcy of Oxfordshire, and will be swam in on the next Council Day. - ••: . Thursday Ilse red lins of S:r WILLIAM Isms, Bart. were interred in the faintly vault, in St. Maiiimeic i , Ipswich. The deceased was 100 years of ;spun tlio Lit of this month. An elopement took place a few days ay . +, from Acton Burnell. near Shrewsbury. The patties are * A young Lady of l uge expectancy, and a young stone-mason, who, in a p(ibt•ChAISC akd four, directed their course towards Gretna-gieen. • The weather within the present week has thewn all 'the variable characterisuct of our cli.nate t Monday and Titersd sy were remarkably hoe warm days ; Wet:nesday the wind %feet ed to a Northern inclioatios; at night, came on • A 1 tost—a nipping frust"-- accompanied with a heavy tall of snow and hail. which, although it did not visit the metropolis, ILA completely cl.it lied the country in tl;e livery of winter. fisiTll/00.—qUAft Of ills: ODD., MARCUM—Pte.:IT—. 7 to 1 agst Munn, ; I ly to 1 agst Gazelle; it t to 1 apt Crispin; tato 1 apt Lashio& ; 1510 I apt Smolensk*. Oalcs-7} to I apt Neva, by efffiliMS sto l apt Trick Track (Pope Joao); 10i ro 1 agst Selina; 101 to I apt Sister to Striosbua; IS to I agst Witchery. 1000 GLILNILAS tivaitas—St to I apt Lavinia; 6 to I 'apt Smolensk.; I to 1 apt Crispin ; 11 to I apt AlproontiOncy. Doscastaa Sr. Laosa-7t to I apt Whitalock; 10 to I agst e by Cerberas. Wednesday c'nnight,.. mob cut the Canal, on the level of thirteen miles, between Edenderry and Phi. lipstown, and let off its whole contents. It tutus take nearly a fortnight to obtain a fresh supply of water, and by this a detrimental interruption to trade will occur. • The post-boy, conveying the Mail from Ratllikesie to 'Farhat, was robbed 01 his mire Mail, on Thisrs day se'nnight, within a mile of 'the former to.vn. Thursday saerinight, five porn' men, engaged in fi s hi ng , were lost on the Tyreragh coast of Three o f the unfortunates hare left families to de plore their loss. Several fishing boats belonging to the same quarter are missing. Friday se'nnight, the house of John Walsh, of Ku. bree, between Mayo and Westport, was forcibly en tered by a gang of twelve men, who, after beating him severely, robbed him of £6 in cash, 280 dozen of yarn, seven pieces of beef, and various other articles It has been stated to us that a considerable number ' of persons (twenty-five in all), said to be implicated in the horrid murder of Linch, et Wilkoose-loke r have been taken prisoners and brought into Dunsha s --(Neurip Telegraph.) , I I It , I