Star. — London, England, 1817-12-15 00:00:00

LIWORT4NT DECRAE of the KING of SPAIN. MADRID, NOVEMBER U. His Majesty, animated with a desire to increase the white population of the island of Cuba, on the 21st of October nit. issued a decree, in which he an on* as far as the 'said island is concerned, all the anterior laws which forbid foreigners to have access into the Spanish settlements in America, and to re side there. By the new Royal Order various grants are now made tosuch foreigners as may wish to esta blish there, and the condittons fixed to which they are to conform, viz. they are to profess the Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman religion ; swear fidelity and obedience to his Majesty, give proofs of their means to subsist, as well as of their talents, industry, and good conduct. The new foreign colonists, from the moment gat their arrival, having previously taken the cash of allegiance, shall be placed under the protec tion of the law, have a certain portion of lands al lotted to them, the piuduce of which is for ever to be tree of duties, and inr fifteen years of tythes, a favour which is not panted to the natives of the i.land. The said foreigners, from the first day of their landing, shall but allowed to truffle, buy, and freely 4rpese of their property, and alter living five years an the island, they shall acquire the full title of Spanish citizens, without any other formality or ex pease, and from that moment they shall be autho rized to open comnsetcial houses, and fill all civil and military employments. From dur first day of their arrival they shall also enjoy the power of testatipg and disposing of their property in behalf of whom suever they please, and in case a war should arise betwets hiseatholic Majesty and the . Sovereigns of their native .euntries, and the said colonists should wish to continue their residence in the island, they I shall in no way be disturbed ; and if, on the con. teary, they should wish to quit it, a certain time shall bedflowed them to realize their fortunes, and export the proceeds of the sante, where and in the manner they may deem fit. " Such ate principal favours conferred by his Ma. jesty on the subjects of friendly Powers desirous of settling in the island.of Cuba. The greatest pro e tec. (ion and encouragement are promieed to those going over to this important colotil. the produce of which is already immense, and capable of the greatest in. grease, so much so, that the said island, as well on account of the fertility of soil as its geographical po sition may be considered as one of the most produc. live establishments io the Wedeln Hemisphere, and the NMI suitable fox the exercise of national and fo. reign industry. klis Majesty concludes his Royal Order by inviting the local authorities of the island of Cuba and the Supreme Council of the Indies,. to a tacit to him other means more efficacious, in (Wei to attain the objet: his Majesty bats in view, via. the iremest possible increase of white colonists, such as stray be reodered useful in the said island of Cuba, as well as in Puerto Kilo and the Spanish part of Alatitigo." FRINCH PAPERS. PARIS, DROINARAR After Mass the King yesterday transacted Mines troth the Keeper of the Seal.. At ors o'clock _ his Majesty presided at a Council of Ministers. The Princes set off at seven o'clock yesterday morning. They will return to.morrow. The Duke and Duchess of Berry have sent to Count .du Hathel, Prefect of the Department of Vienau, the yinv of 2.000 francs, for the eeliel al the poor of the towlis leiotien and ofChatellereolt. On-the flub inst. the de* of the feast of the Con ception. a yonng Lady took the veil, in the Convent whore Mademoiselle of Conde resides. It was the -Duchess of Bourbon who handed the veil tap the young xecluse. Letters from Aix-latChapelle state, that M. de Las %sus, accompanied by his son, twelve years of age, arr ived there on the id instant, and that they set off vest day for Germany. Hi's Holiness bat nominated M. Serra Cassano, A potolic Nuncio to the Court of Bavaria. A n ew Congress of the Sovereigns is still talked of- It will; it is said, meet in July or August, and take important n enures for the maintenance and consoli. dation of the legitimate and contitntional order of E uro pe. and for the repression of whatever remains . of the gnetillutionary spirit among a few malcontents. CHAMBER OF IlarpUTlF,s, DECEMBER so. The Committee appointed to examine the Projet of the Law.latiee to the erg** law of the Concordat assembled this day at noon. In their Bureaus, The Commission charged with the examination of the Project of Law on the mode of Recruiting the Army. assembled tchday at eleven o'clock. The pre. Ea s =y examination of the Priejact of Law on the t tit proceeds. The Comminien asermbles ever y day. Ti;. result of die& tilikation ls Scot fet known ; it is believed that it will be declared to. stsonow by its Reporter. To-morrow there will be a antetieg of the &mates at eleven o'clock to nomi nate their Presidents and Secretaries, as likewise a sew Commission of Petitions. At noon, in a public 'silting, these will be a Report from the present Com mission of Petitions, by M. le Cooke Bruyeres Cha. labia. Tbeliscassion on the Liberty of the Prep Brill the* be opened. According to the order of the inscription of the names of the speakers, Messrs. Mania de Gray, Savo;e-hollin,Joilieet, an d B eet not, w4l he heard first ; the two tomer against the Project of lam a and the two latter in auppet of it. ETIWIADDRO. Digt,/ABER & A frightful cause, the details of which make to shedder with horror. was brought" to-day before the c ourt of tiesiees of ibis eitx- 41 person named Guth, a daplabourer. left his village oo the 14th-of July lot to go a begging oa the other side of the Rbbs with his eldest son, luting with his wife two o th er children, a girl and a bat of 14 years of age. At his MUM oft the 16th of the same month. not MO* ing theloonett of his Oilcloth be asked his w if e where he was,, and be answered, be gum of red.-- The father insisted. She at last r*ied, that the c hild was lath* kitchen. lie went tbMwr, and *pea. * cu pboard. discovered in a tub the unfortunate 0704 ', G ibed in blood, wanting the right leg, which Kati bens totally amputated. At this horrible speCtacle the (mbar flied Out in his wife, " Ah, wretch ' - what , Dave youalone?" and went immediately to declare the deed to the Mayor. The woman, being interrogated, declared that, driven by famine, she had cut the in• Pant's throat with a pruning knife, and had detached the thigh, apart of which the had cooked with cabbage and eaten. There were found, in fact, boiled greens which she pointed out,with a gnawed bone beside them, which was recognized to be the femur of the infant. It was not hunger which armed the band of this un natural mother. It was proved that she had still fowls, a goat, and vegetables. But skilful physicians, examined on the trial, proved that so monstrous an action on the part of a woman who had till then lived an irreproachable life could only be the effect of a sudden attack of delirium. The Judge, in addressing the Jury, after summing up the evidence, said, You will declare, without doubt, the accused guilty of vo luntary homicide, and with primeditation, committed on her own child, because this fact, with its holt ie.. circumstances, is but ton well established ; but oit the question whether she was in a state of mental aliena tion at the time of the action, which the law requirtsyou to determine, and which is the only defence in this caw, you will not do human nature the is 'justice of doubting. No I human nature can nut ptoduce monsters capable of tliv. crime imputed to the prisoner. Not even among cannibals do they kill their own children to devour them. No, no ! this unheard-of crime, which can never be imitated, must be the effect of &range ' ment. We may lament her fate, but we cannot dis pense with the necessity of separating her from so• ciety for ever, that she may never cease to be an ob ject of horror, as she is at this moment to us all." The verdict of the Jury was, that she was guilty of assassination, but that she was in a state vd de rangement at the time of the action. She was there fore ;equities', but put at the disposal of the authori ties, fur confinement in a mad-house. FMNDERS AND DUTCH MAIL. BBUBSELS, DECEMBER Q. A letter from Milan of the 26th November, con tains the following passage : " The Princess of WALIIS received yesterday, by a Courier dispatched from London, the deplorable news of the death of her beloved daughter the Prin cess CsraeLorrs. This creel event made such a pro found impression upon her, that she fainted away several times succestivelY." Within these few days we have seen a great many Russian, English and German Couriers pass through here, mostly going to London or coming from it ; a great many Couriers from Paris and the grand Head Quarters have likewise passed through. This leads to suppose that must importat4 negociations are on toot between several Powers, which opinion is con firmed by letters from France. Duke Bernard of Saxe Weimar, Major-General in the service of the King of the Netherlands, arrived here yesterday ; also several Russians of distinction from St. Petersburgh. One of our Journals. has publislizd some letters of Count Las Casas, the first addressed to Lord Sid• mouth, and a seenuJ to 1,.0rd Holland. These letters are corroborated by the following : " Ail the public Papers gave at the time erroneous accounts of the reasons of my departure from Long wood. The following will establish the truth : " MT Cana COUNT 1.A3 CAl.ts—My heart sensibly fi•e:s what you experience. Torn front me sixteen ur seventeen days ago, you have been confined as t, without being permitted to receive any information about me, or to communicate with any person whatever, either French or English, and even destitute of a *runt of your own choice. Tone alaedtsstett Lp Helena has been like your life—honour able and without rtproacb ; I take pleasure in telling you (Here three-fourths of the letter are wanting.) " Your company was necessary to fie ; you alone could 'peek and uudcrstand Est%lisb. How many nights have you pawed with me in my illness. However, I advise you and if needful I order you to require the Governor of this Isl a nd to send you to the Continent. He aunt refuse this, baying no power over you, but your voluntary consent, which has placed you under his anther y. My heart will MOM+ tu know "Mat you areas the way to countria. " Whether you go to England, or whether you return to your country, forget the recollection of the 110 which you bare bees ma& t sutler. Boast pi the fidelity whids you have sheers he I me. ensl of the entire &motion which I bear you. " If you should we day see my wife and my son, salute them fewiraases-14, tor mese than two years I have no news of dooll e either directly or indirectly • (Thee lints alit ' loos wanting.] However, comfort yourself sad console my My body, Is is troy is in the power of my enemies; W~ tags forgets nothing t hat ca UMW their revenge ; they bill me by Inches (ik boss fos s swim. a mob d:pingle) • ba PROVIVOLINCS is cos just, lam see-able a it, to eruct adi le I astimisbig in the midst of this consuming climate, deprived of every Wog that sumo. life --(Haeaz a New are wantiog .) " As there is every reason to believe that you win not be per pained to come before 'spur departure, receive my embraces, the assurances of my esteem. and of my lilendship, be happy. " Your alfectittuate, " Longwood, Dec. l INAPOLZOO." The local authority detained at St. Helepa the original of this letter, and allowed only that part to be communicated which is found here. It is said that several Officers on half-pay have received orders to repair to the Ten', to make part of as expedition for the Island of Jaya. The birth-day of his Royal Highness the Prince of Orange was kept it Brussels with every demonstra tion ut joy. The while city was illumigated. [These Papers make no location of the Count de Golt x.] Letters from Batavia, of the month of Tune, which have been received within these few days, represent in no favourable light the state of our Colonies in th e East Indies. At Batavia they expected mon to rc naive inmetous reinforcements of troops from V.urope. This unfortunate circumstance (says the (fhent Jour nal). makes us sensible of all the perfidy of the pre-, caution of England, which, by depriving us of the Cape, has not left us any point to touch at b etween this Kingdom and the Sunda Islands. The posses-' sion of this Colony in Africa would enable us to send speedy succours to the East Indies, but our generous protecton have left es only what they can easily take back from us whenever they please, because they have placed ue in a situation in which it is kopossible to defend them. - HAGUE, DECEMBER. 4. The appe‘l to public opinion, and to the States. General of the Ningcloni of the Netherlands, in fa vow of the proscribed French, against those who proscribe them, by Messrs. Courtots, Lemaire, and Guyet, who resided 17 months at &owls, under the guarantee of the 4th /kaiak of the fundament a l Lai and also the Pamphlet wbi:h bears the tide of " fetitions presented And disuibuted to an' Mtl22- hers of the :iecond Chamber of the States-Central, by Messrs. Guyer and Courtois Lemaire, exiled from the Kingdom of the Netherlands, in contempt of the fourth Article of the Fundamental Law, followed by their protest." • People are extremely anxious to see under what point of view tile Committee will consider these two Petitions,and the report which it will make upon them. Dimmest 7.—Tbe work of Messrs. Courtois Le maire and Guyet, gg Appeal," &c. as well as their Petition, after being addressed to the Second Cham ber of the States-General, are now sent to the First. The editor has prefixed to these Petitions a letter to , Count Thiennes, President of the First Chamber. — ' We hardly know how to characterise this epistle. ITALY.-ROME. SCPTEMBLR 23. Highway robbery is carried on systematically here. and on a grand scale. At Veroli, a sm.ll town, 15 miles from this, a teacher, with twelve spit itual semi narists, walking in the environs, were taken prisoners by the rnbbe rs, and dragged to the monntains. The rabbets were polite enough to send to Vcroli, and to offer to give up the pupils for 12,000 scudi, and the teacher into the bargain. A negotiation was enter ed into, and 4eoo scudi were taken. Szveral days afterwards, a young man of a thick and heavy make, belonging to Angou, was walking wit', seven male and female relations, and the whole party wire taken 200 steps from the gate and carried off. The alarm sell of the town, which contains nearly 12,000 inhabitants, was rung ; the robbers New with their prisoners to the mountains; the young M4ll not being able to keep up with them, they cut his throat, and escaped with the other seven persons. These unfortunate prisoners were afterwards ransomed by their relatives for 5000 scudi. There are many hundreds of these robbers, and their 'limbers are daily increasing. They have their male and female leaders, -and receive only people of irreproachable character : the investigation into morals, and the proof as to ancestry, is very strict on their reception, as persons of consideration take an interest in it. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. ONLY ONE DAY TO DRAW—NEXT SATURDAY... FOUR ritIZ.F.S OF ifco,ooo, Sze. IN THE WHEEL. MONDAY, DECEMBEit 15, 1817. PRICE OF 5 FUCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK s Reduced 511--Cone. shut—For Opeishig. per Cwt. R 9 d-5 per Cent. )lavy shut &A Leo( Ana& 21 1-16—.1011a Moods 100 1111 pr. Exchequer !kids 19 25 pr. The King of SPAIN ha; jest issued a Decree, (given iu another part of our Paper) which has for its object to increase the shim population of the Island of Cuba. This is not the first time that a similar attempt ha,: been made on the part of Spain, and it is but fit that our fellow-subjects, puticularly those cif the Roman Catholic persuasion, should know whist was the result of a former invitation of this kind. When 62 disasters of St. Domingo had begun to deluge French part of the Island with blood, the Spanish Government, under similar promises and allurements, invited the French Colonists to settle in Cuba, and Puerto Aka, and austerity they did so. They carried over their implements of tillage and the slaves who remained faithful to them. Soon was the Island of Cuba, comparatively speaking, converted into a garden. Immense coffee plantations were seen to rise out of desert tracks, and, by the activity of the new comers, the article of wax was raised from two' hundred thousand dollars to one million and a half., The greatest part of the booty made by the French privateers was lodged in Cuba; and what was the result ? When the late war broke out, these peaceful agriculturalists, these industrious colonists, were driven from their homes, expelled the island, their estates confiscated, and to the number of 14,000, obliged to take refuge in New Orleans. The same thing hap pened in Spain. The Central Junta proclaimed that they waged war against Natroucost, and nut against the French; yet, in an unexpected moment, the latter, who bad beep established in the Peninsula for gene% rations, were pillaged, imprisoned, and driVen away as vagrants. With these examples on record, we would ask, what Colonists, whether Irish Catholics or others, would go and settle in the Island of Cuba While on Spanish affairs it may be proper to no tice some &airs effitsions of a contemporary Evening Journal of Saturday, which, we presume, prides itself on being aim .t attached to the cause of the In dependents of South America." In the Paper al luded to is the subjoined passage ' « The following very remarkable Extract from a Journal warmly attached to the cause of the Ind,- pendents of South America, cannot fail to excite ge neral animadversion r 1 Notwithstanding that Pro clantatiOn, the recruiting for the Patriot standard con tinues under various guises to go on with as much spirit astdsuccess as ever.' If any thing were wanting to prove a dangerous and revolutionary spirit, that deficiency is supplied by the preceding most Wand ea ofin, avowal of a successful violation of the laws of the Kingdom. This declaration seems friamt/rast/y so seek ii the'spirit which offers resistance to thelcro dia,ooo of the Solereign authority." And again, our contemporary proceeds thus No country ever witnessed a more audacious avowal than is con tained in the preceding sentence, which 'night lead to serious alarm, if the firmest confidence in the ta lents of the present Administattion did not exist in all parts of the kingdom). The Readers of the STAR will immediately per ceive that the extract here quoted, is pan or some ob servations on the subject wiaich we made in our raper of Wedneld ty last ; and we are much will not as instantly occur to them that the and tendency of our expressions has been grossly and wantonly misrepresented. The el in the first plAce is not a fair one—it is called a tence, but it is not so ; there is both a dai suppression, and ac h fi:tiot erteltt that suppression. The words quoted lorla part of a sentence, and that sentence part of a p graph, the whole members of which bore tip-in qualified each other, and the whole of all; ; I I to have been given together in order to shew the meaning of any one of them. The parAgr +ph stood was as follows : 4 , The truth we bAieve is, that the Sean':h vernment in urging our Government to interm e authority against the levying of assistance country for the cause of the Patriots, has upon itself an act of such perfect neutrality it looked for, and which it would now be as well ph to have nothing to do with, seeing that the quences must be greatly snore hurtful to i;:clf they could possibly be to the Patriots. As an liihed Government, and as having solicited the claination in question, it is necessarily excluded resetting to any thing approaching to the least sien of its injunctions ; while the opposite from not having any recognized relations with Government, will feel themselves at liberty to far as the letter of the Proclamation will allow them, in prosecuting their objects; anJ far this can take place may be judged from t!:: that notwithttan4q that Pradamation, the for the Patriot standard continues under vatious to go on with as much spirit and success as ever." Why did not this dealer' in abortive" sion" state, that in the same paragraph we had nounced that " the agents of FERDINAND had nearly as active in levying men fur the of the question, as other agents have been in . men for the cause of independence r'—blerely cause we had only stated the facts without the conduct of either the one party or the miter; to have mentioned the fact would have frustrated opportunity of expressing their " firmest in the talents of the present Administration !' serable, contemptible sycophant, you are imagining that any thing you can state or will ever induce us for a single mument to you with , the Ministers of the country, with talents we are well acquainted—Dut,“ who are Flemish and Dutch Mails arrivecllast night. limits do not permit us to offer m.ny remarks their contents, which are given in the preceding 'lmmo; but everything relating to the Continent I gins to assume an aspect highly interesting la mai kind. 'tae inunded Congress of Soverrigni is meet, it is said, in July or August nest, for the tion of new and important measures " fa the m: tenatice and consolidation of legitimate and Cc tntional Order," and it for the repression of what remains of revolutionary spirit among cci tain contents." Do they mean thee, at last to gii tie people their promised Constitutions founded cri system of popular representation ? We wish we add that we believe such to be their intention; from the evasions and delays that have taken we can give credit to nothing of this kind till it 2. tually takes place.—ln Italy the system of ma. ins is carries' on upon systeM. Se much for a vernment conducted by the Priesthood. We like ta hear that these robbers had stolen the 11% , .1 himself, his whole Court, and all their supporters 1 Letters from the French frontiers, by a Dutch of this morning, announce, that the Prefects, by ors of the Minibter of War, have again summoned all t':•• old soldiers who desire to be engaged in the w w:..l Regiments of the Royal Guard to make applicatic 7 A great number have complied. Great precautica is shewn, as before, in the choice. It is expected t!:.: this summons will shortly be extended to the wlick. Army. The Ofßcers on Half-pay still cherish a hope ea: they will soon be employed in active service—a hop which, it is said, has operated to ['induce a macr ful change ih the opinions of those who formed 6 pan of the Old Army. The whole right wing of the Army of Oc:upatica. in Alsace, is now placed in barracks, to the - the s been The ex• .! calle.d a rri dal ;cnu ern!itenr es forted art t , f a p , r Ire np sn an whith vat Sera':? s 'th a i n n e w e t e Pcl h i ! le i I ‘S' ics it • 113$ bto li'y it lit s well plea ra it the co, to is;;lf t!: A 3 an es:: of ited the P:. xcluded frc. -e he least e; posite party vi .ions with c iet ty to go • will posii l :: :ts ; and „ from the se f: rations s as ever." Scaniusadte h we had co ND had ba Royalist 0 d ea in leryi-. —Merely tit approvi.: 4 odser; 6 frustrated est confi Won !" • d c mistaken . * to or mist tit to ident4 s with whew rho are you? ( night. Oat r remarks a preceding es.- COntinent le. ring 1,.• nu, 'ertigns is to for the ailrp• fa the main- c and Con> i , n a what sill cei tain ast to give to founded on a wish we could tention; but, taken platy ind till it a:- 1 of no a-sted• ich for a Gc- , We should )lea the i' ;'.e upporters I a Dutch ects, by on! r moned all t!;.• in the sew:A e applicant: . at precautitn expected th.: to the whcle i a hope ti.a: rvice—a hop ice a wonder- rho formed Occupaticos to the gad res are taking -talents, toe , 1, and British at his heg- net he will go but hithco mite. :he Rotter4 o of Hollaar he time of t.e ay, const: 4l the friga ;, which, st'...Le satisfaction of the inhabitants. Measures are in I,orraine, and in the Northern Departmnts, too the same with the Prussian and Russian, and British troops. The Duke of WELLINGTON remains at his hel , Tuners, at Cambray. It is reported that he wtgio I to Park at the beginning of the year; but hithct' nothing indicates his approaching departure. Amanita have been published in the Ratkrij Courant, which state that 4 4 the King of Hollaas naval force in the Molucca Islands at the time oft 4 insurrection which broke out there lately, consi!ted of she shifts of war Nassau and Evertsou, the frigge Maria Reigersberg, and the corvette Iris, which, s if.se the death of Captain Dietz, has been under the c: l ' !nand of Captain Stolerdyk. The Expediticn 9 Saporea consisted of 125 sailors, 50 European s' l * and 100 Javanese soldiers, of whom, accrdirg to the official Report, 159 are missing. Atm ng officers killed is, besides those who have been b;;;1 named, Captain Staalman. The attacks made 1 the insurgents of Harooka, in the island of 00 ,4, bad been re?ulsed by captain Van Dial, at,o .04