Star. — London, England, 1814-11-22 00:00:00

1 THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. r , the 2-1411 of June; also a sltni of £200,000 for Gene ral Officers employed in Fb.spitals ant - Garri.on for the same term. A sum of £tio,ooo Was likewise voted for the pay of retired Half-pay Officers ; also ' £lOO,OOO for allowances to the principal C./Akers of several public Departments; also £70,000 for fees expected to be paid at the Exchequer, on account of army payments. On the motion for granting a sum of £218,000 for paying the half-pay of reduced Officers in the land service, General GASCOIGNE enquired why the order was issued from the Treasury for taking a poundage out of these Officers' pensions, and asked what be- c of it ? Lord PALMERSTQN assured the• Honourable General that the sums were estimated mini: the poundage. In respect to the future issue of half-pay, it was in the contemplation of Government to direct that those Officers should be paid quarterly from the 25th of December next.—The motion was agreed to. A sum of £7OOO was then voted for m►litary al lowances to reduced Officers. The sum of a£l; 2,000 was granted for Chelsea and Rilmainham Hospitals. A sum of R 30,006 was voted to the object of pay ing certain Pensions to the Officers and Widows of Officers of the Land and Marine Service. It was proposed to vote a sum of £lOO,OOO to pay certain Volunteer Corps, which produced some ob jections on the part of Mr. WHITBREAD and some other Members. At length, after some conversa tion, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER agreed to withdraw this vote for the present. The following sums were also toted For the Local Militia, Lt 50,000. For Foreign Corps, i£237,(100. For the Royal Military College, L 14,601. For the Royal Asylum at Chelsea, X 15,000. Allowance to retired Chaplains, and those officiating at home, Including the Chaplain General, Lt 2,000. For Medicines, Surgical Assistance, Hospitals, &c..£66,000. For the Compasslovate List, £25,000. For the Commissariat hi Ireland, .SlOO,OOO. For the Barracks hi Ireland, X200,000._ _ _ On this last Vote, Mr. BARING recommended a reduction in this part of the Military Establishment. Lord PALMERSTON said, Government was not inattentive to the subject. The sum now voted was £20,000 less that the preceding year. A sum of E 7500 was then moved for paying or al lowing compensation to certain retired persons in the public, departments. This sum was objected to by Mr. WHITBREAD, on account of the item: not being furnished. Lord PALMERSTON therefore did not press it, and it was consequently withdrawn. The House then resumed, the Report was brought up, and ordered to be taken into consideration to morrow.—Adjourned at Ten o'clock. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1814. PRICE OF S rocks THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK: Reduced 6431-4 Fer Cent. 11 1 11-5 per Cent. Navy 9511 Consols 64;1,,• , —f0r acco4nt s die. Sank Long Anns.l4 5-16ths—Indic Bondi 15s. 161. pre. Exchequer Bills Is. the. to 4s. prem. We have received Paris Papers of Friday. On Thursday the Chamber of Deputies took into consi deration a proposition for prohibiting the entry into France of English refined sugars. No law on this subject has yet passed, but it would be well in our Legislators speedily to direct their particular attention to this subject. No commercial treaty as ybt exists between the two countries : in the mean time the French Government continues to sanction laws, which must inevitably bear very hard upon cur commerce and manufactures ; and the misfortune is, that when our negotiators sue for a relaxation, they will be re ferred to the existing laws of France as. barring all temonstrance.—This will be precisely the gratitude which we may expect for our profuse liberality to France in the retoration of her colonies. A treaty of Commerce might surely be concluded without the necessity of any appeal to the Congress at Vienna. With respect to Poland, it is now said in the French Papers, that the Emperor ALEXANDER demands it to cover his frontier ; but he is willing to give it a new Constitution, and a Viceroy. Prussia makes no ob jection, but solicits a small portion, pour Parrontrure meat ; that is to say, to enable her subjects to travel from &eslaw to Konigsberg without quitting the Prussian territory. Austria, on her part, keeps some part of Gallicia. An article from is the frontiers of Saxony" corn. plains sadly of the fate of that kingdom. We suspect all these frontier articles to be like frontier towns— excellent barriers in time of war, but mere depots for contrabandists in time of peace. The fact is, that some discontented Garreteer of Paris is the author of all these invectives. We subjoin the article to which we have alluded : FRONTIERS OF .SAXONY, NOV. 7. The official declaration which Prince Repnin has made to the Provincial States and Authorities of Saxony, concerning the cession r f this country to the King of Pruasia, has put an end to all uncertainty. There is one remark, however, which opens a vast field for conjecture ; namely, that in this declaration Governor Repnin, speaks only of the assent given by Russia and England, and says nothing of Austria, France, or Spain. The public infer from this that these Powers have not yet recognised the cession of Saxony. Prince Repnin does not cease to lavish on' the Saxons fine pmmises in the name of their new So vereign :—tbis is the custom on all similar occasions. It is certain that the good King of Saxony is kept id profound ignorance of every thing relative to his country. We know from a very good source that at the beginhing of the mon* of October, be still Bat , tcred himself with having it in his power to return to his capital shortly to resume the reins of Government. He always pertinaciously refused to consent to any cession whatever, either of the whole or part of his territory. We are, therefore, very curious to know in what manner the King of Prussia will explain him self in his Proclamations to justify the rights which he pretends to have over Saxony. The Last Leipsic fair has unhappily proved that we cannot Hatter ourselves with speedily having any commercial intercourse with Russia :—the Ukase which prohibits the importation of foreign manufac tures into the Russian States, still exists in full force. it is even to be feared that this Ukase will be exten ded to Poland, if that country passes entirely under the dominion of Russia. The merchants and Jews of the Duchy of Warsaw hive also profited of the present freedom of . com merce, to make great purchases at Leipsic ; most of them paying ready money. It is not the same with respect to the Merchants of Buda, who have fre quented, in great numbers, the fair of Leipsic, but having no friends, they could not obtain any credit. The Greeks and Jews of Moldavia have made good bargains, because they paid ready money for every thing. Brussels and Frankfort Papers arrived this morning, From which we make the following extracts : FRANKFORT, NOVEMBER 8. One of the most important subjects to be treated at the Congress, is doubtless the new :r man Cnn federation. The Belgians, the Dutch, and the Ger man inhabitants of the Left Bank of the Rhine, feel how much it would be for their interest to see the ancient provinces, which once formed a part of Ger. many, under the name of the. Circle of Burgundy, united in one State. These countries have not for gotten the advantages and the power they enjoyed at that happy period of their history. In the present state of things it becomes more and more necessary to strengthen the frontiers of Belgium on the side of France in order to place an iron bul wark between the two countries. The new Sove reign called to the Government of the fine kingdom between the Rhine and the German Ocean, would have a still stronger security for his power and his in- dependence, if these fine countries were joined to the German Confederation as was formerly the case with, the circle of Burgundy. It is certain that this highly important question is at this moment laid before the Congress at Vienna. VIENNA, NOV. 7. The French Minister M. de Noailles has, it is said, presented a note, in very strong terms, respecting a certain country.—lmportant conferences are held daily. It is supposed that the German Committee will turn its attention to the concerns of the Church in the Catholic part of Germany, which have fallen into such confusion in these latter times. Among the various objects relative to a future German Constitution, and concerning which some ge neral principles at last will be fixed, none is more weighty than die renewed sanction, in conformity to the circumstances of the present time, of an unlimi ted religious liberty, and the perfect equality of both religions, in all states and countries of Germany. The Documents published by Mr. MADISON are so necessary to be known, that we have continued our extracts from the American Papers, of which we have received additional files to the 23d ultimo.-- The state of the Negociation, and the publication of these Documents by the American Goiernment, ex cited some conversation in both Houses last night, to which we must refer our Readers. It is urged on one side, that the publication of proceedings, pend ing a negociation, is unusual, and therefore not to be followed by this country : on the other—that the pub, lication in America has had the effect to unite the Americans against us. If so, let us make the proper use of the fact. Are the Americans uni ted ?—ls not this a reason why the people of this country should act with union and energy ? At this moment, it is of little importance to settle, whether the American Commissioners and Govern ment have, or have net, acted in a mannner con sonant to the usages of civilized nations ? or, whe ther our Plenipotentiaries acted with that circumspec tion which the known American character should have dictated ? These questions will hereafter be discus sed. But, foe argument's sake, let it be supposed; that in every step of the negociation our Government has acted as unjustifiably as the American Government did in the rise of the war : if the Americans, not withstanding the misconduct of their Government, can be united against us, the British may, and must be united, to bridg the war to a prosperous issue. The Americans launched a 74, at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on the 20th of September. They have named her the Washington. It is stated in the New York Papers, that no sooner had the refusal of FERDINAND to accept the Constitu tion become known in Mexico, thAn all parties in that country unanimously resolved on independence.— What degree of credit may be attached to this infor mation we know not ; but the event, if true, will be one of the most important in its results to Spain that has ever occurred. It is extremely doubtful whether the Spanish finances will be able, without the support of the Mexican remittances, to maintain the ordinary expsnses of the government. HALIFAX PAPERS. The Duke of Montrose packet hal arrived at Fal mouth, from Halifax, after•a very quick passage of sixteen days. Papers to the 31st ultimo, and letters to the 2d instant, have been received by this oppor tunity. They mention, as a report, the capture of Sackett's Harbour by the combined naval and mili tary British forces. We hope this intellgence will soon be confirmed. The following arc extracts from the Halifax Papers: FROM THE NOVA SCOTIA GAZETTE OF NOV. 2. A Gentleman has arrived in town this morning from New Brunswick, who obligingly favwred us with the following extract from the St. John's Paper of the 29th ultimo : A report reached town last evening from Fredric ton, brought by two gentlemen who left that place on Wednesday evening last, stating, that an express had arrived there from Quebec, with the pleasing intelli gence of the capture of ,Sackett's Harbour and the whole of Chauncy's Fleet—they further add, that hand-bills to that effect were in Fredricton, which they endeavoured to obtain, but could not. There are letters in Town from Quebec of the 20th ult. but the Express from thence to Fredricton may have been two days later. The assemblage of a large military force at Kingston, the readiness of our fleet at sea, and the return.of CHAUNCEY to Sac kett's Harbour, are circumstances much in favour of this report. The British are building another squadron at Lake Champlain. The keels of two large vessels are al ready laid down. FROM THE ONTARIO REPOSITORY OF OCTOBER 11. " From the West we learn nothing of importance. Gen. Izard has arrived at Lewistown with his forces. " The British are said to be at Chippewa. About 700 regular troops arrived at Fort Erie, from Detroit and Erie, on the Gth instant. Colonel Fenwick's re giment of the light artillery, about 400 men, passed through this village yesterday, on their way to the Western frontier." HALIFAX, NOVEMBER 2. Arrived on Saturday, the ships Havannah and Diadem from Liverpool, and the schooner William from Jamaica; on Sunday, his Majesty's ship Pene lope from Quebec in eleven days, and the brig Jane from Liverpool ; and on Monday, his Majesty's ships Junon and Pylades, from Quebec in 12 days. The transport ship Mentor, from London, bound to Quebec, was captured on the 6th ult. in lat. 43. 49. N. long. 45. W. by the privateer schooner Mammoth, of Baltimore, and recaptured last week by his Majes ty's ship Maidstone; on the 14th she was boarded from the privateer brig Harpy, 7 days from Ports. mouth ; she had captured 4 vessels, burnt 3 of them, and ordered the other to the United States. The Mammoth had made the following captures: Britannia, from St. Andrews, bound to Liverpool, cargo timber, burnt her ; Urania, from St. John's for Mehimechi, in ballast, burnt her ; Alexander, from St. Thomas's, for England, cargo rum, sugar, and fustic, ordered her to United States; Sir Home Popham, from Lis bon for London, cargo fruit, gave her, up; Salus, from Quebec for Liverpool, cargo timber, gave her up to fifty prisoners ; Ann Eliza, from St. John's for Mirimachi, in ballast, burnt; the Eliza, from St. John's for Prince Edward's Island, gave her up to SO prisoners; the Sarah, from Cork for Quebec,' with a cargo of flour, burnt her ; the Ainslie, from Quebec for Barbadoes, cargo of timber and 3 , 1. horses,. scuttled her ; the Charlotte, from Antigua for Gree. nock, cargo of rum and sugar, ordered to the United States; the hatque Mary,from St. John's for Water_ ford, cargo oil and seal skins, ordered to United States; the schooners Good Intent, and Brothers, from St. John's, on fishing voyages—gave them up to 25 pri soners ; schooner Rapid, from St. John's for Lisbon, cargo cod fish—burnt her ; sloop Farmer, from New York to Newport, prize so the Liverpool packet, being dismasted, scuttled her; the Russian galliot Gepel, last from Lisbon, to Plymouth, with a cargo ; British Government stores, threw her cargo over board, and then gave up the vessel : same day, brig Friends, from Newcastle; brig Augustus, from Li. verpool ; and American brig Black Swan, from Bos ton, bound to the Havanna!), prize to the Maidstone : yesterday, his Majesty's brig Arab, from a cruize. The Lords of the Treasury have extended the in dulgence to Merchants having goods on bond, to the Ist of December, to afford greater facility to the Revenue Officers, and at the same time to afford greater accommodation to the Merchants themselves. BREAM—No alteration in the price Os week. The following is the Additional Article to the Treaty concluded at Chaumont, the first of March, 1814, between his Britannic Majesty and the Emperor of all the Russi.as " Ills Britannic Majesty engages, for the year 1814, to provide fur the maintenance of the ittn•sian Beet, and its crews, row in the ports of England. The expense is estimated at five hundred thowand pounds sterling. " In the event of peace with France, or of the departure of the said fleet on its return to Russia in the course of the year, his Britannic Majesty shall provide for i7s maintenance for four months reckoning frem the ,lay of the qmiture of the peace, or of the departure of the fleet from the pouts of England. " The present Additional Article shall have the same force and validity as If it were inverted word for word in vie Treaty Patent of this day. It shall he ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged at +he same time. " In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed and affixed to it the seal of their arms. " Done at Chaumont the tit March, in the year of our Letd one thousand eight hundred and (uinata. Cooed) • " CA4I (L. P ettaai.iis RUI4ART CUNT a I.lk :stutopt. (L.S.)" • TN! ARM? THE MIIATIA. OPINION OP VIE ATTORNEY AND oiILICITOR ov.rrvAci. (azTßAcr.)—.. We have accordingly considered the tat and beg leave to report to your Lordship, thac we are of opini,. l , ' that when once the Militia have been embrdied upo n th e ticra sions stated in, and according to the provisions of the Acts, Noes is nothing imperative in the Act, as to the time at, oroccasion upon which the Militia is to be &ens!: lied : there is a discre. tion upon the subject of disembodying the Militia, vested in Ws MAJtsvr subject always to the responsibility w hi c h attaches upon the Ministers of his MAjasTY, if they shall advise him continue the Militia embodied when no circumstances exist, in which the external relations, or internal situation of the entirety could make the continuance of the Militia in their embodied state a matter of expedience for the general welfare a •cl benefit of his MAJESTY'S and Dominions." The Dorset Regiment are arrived at Seven Oaks, in Kent. The 22d Regiment of Foot, and the Buckinghap. shire Militia, are arrived at Portsmouth. Tuesday marched into Winchester, a detachment of the 22d Regiment of Foot, on their route f rry n Chester, to embark for the Mauritius. Same day the depot of •the 89th Regiment of Foot lunched iitto Wiachester. Thursday, the 2d Battalion of the 91st Regiment, consisting of the Staff, &c. and about 30 privates, marched from Edinburgh Castle for Ayr. NAVAL !NTBLLIGENCR. By accounts from Boardeaut, of the 25th of Oct.. her, three large ships from Lisbon to Low-di:aux, wcre 'lost near that place. The Hope, ftEvxot.ns, from Liverpool to Rcttn. darn ; Two Brothers, FeI:STER, of Sunduland ; and Twee Gebroders, Vanxt tioni London to Amster. dam, are stranded on the coast of i The Leo, FA LK, from St. Martin's to Stromstadt, was loast near Calais, on the llth inst. FALMOUTH, NOVEMBER 19. Arrived the Adonis, httunt, from Buenos Ayres, in 13 weeks. Sailed a few coasters and others. Since writing the above the Duke of Montrose packet has arrived, with Mails from Haltiaz, in 16 days, and the Duke of Kent packet, with is Mail from Surinam, last from Guadaloope, in 29 days. PORTSMOUTH, NOVEMBER si. No a•rivals that we hear of but we expect the ships from the Downs early in the morning. Sailed his Majesty's ships MEANDER, AMA ItA NTH K g and BADGE.; frpm St. Helen's Roads, with a convoy for Spain, Portugal and the Mediterranean ; also his Majesty's ship TYNE, with dispatches for the East Indies. The West India fleet remains.—Wind Northerly. DEAL, NOVEMBER 21. Arrived the Oakes, PAssioue, from St. Petersburgh fcr Bristol. Came down from the River sever it sail of West.lndiamen ; also, his Majesty's ships C. NWAY and TamEtt, and sailed with the wh )1e of the outward bound for Portsmouth ; also sailed his Majesty's ship DANNEMARK for ditto.—Wind North. HARWICH, NOVEMBER AI. Arrived the Thetis and Earl of Leicester packets; both with mails and passengers from H,:llaud. Admiral Routs is apprinttd to command at Ja. maica, in the room of the late Admiral .13it•Avs. Mr. MARSDEN, Chief Commissioner of the Irish Board of Excise, has sent in his resignation. A MOST REMARKABLE CASE.—S:ittaddy the Lords of the Council met in the Council Chamber, White hall, to hear a charge of murder committed beyond seas. The person charged was brought from Tothill - Bridewell : He is a gentleman in the Commis sariat Department, and was in the army under the Duke of WELLINGTON. He is charged with shooting a female with a pistol, while in Portugal; to prove w!.ich, three witnesses were produced, who stated, that after the prisoner had shot tne female, he cut tug own throat with a razor, and it was only lately hehad recovered to as to be able to sralti. Tne defence see up by the prisoner was, that the deceased cohabited with another Gentleman in the Commissariat ; t!.at he and deceased, after being acquainted, became passionately attached to each other, but deceased had so much honour that she would not leave the othet gentleman even to marry the prisoner, and, as they could not live together, they agreed to kill each osDer: they accordingly met for that purpose, when he shot her so effectually that she could not slow it him ; he attempted to shoot him-elt, but the bit let w. 4 ti large for the pistol ; he then put the bullet °tulle top of his head, and cndeay. tired to place t e nuzzle t,f the pistol on it, but not succeeding, he cut L rust. —The investig:itiun occupied trout vue o'clock till three. There were present the Lord Chancol r. the Lord Chief Justices of die King's Bench. avd mon Pleas, Lord Chid baton, Sec. &c. The A t r ney and Solicitor General also attended.—Tin soner was remanded to Tuthill-fields Bt i.!ewed. Collar or KINO'S folltswing judgments were passed yesterday :—John Wilson, a marine s'. re di tier, from Greenwich, was sentenced to be imprisoned its ii:onth. in the itaol oc Maidstone, for having Kitiz's mid-es in his puss. stion.— C1i.t... - les Morgan, a pilot, was sentenced to pay a fine of £lO , for refusing to bring-tn, when called upon SO `0 do'shoe pilo trig a vessel in the port ot Gloucester. lie was further sentenced to be imprisoned three monthis tor obstructing the othcet to di* execution ot his duty on that oc asior.—Walhani R hi a was stn.. tenced to be imprisoned three months, in the pot at tin county of Dorset, for making fires as inputs to solugolers, on Purtlattd• Hills tit-----Major De Blaquiere appsarrd in per.on bi u ,to chew cause ag.tinst a Rule ',bushed 'or fillsig a crirunial tuforni.• tion against him, for an assault on Mr. ' , crown, an attonies, to whose charge the case of hit.. I.er, a I.ady uuder the prolec ioa of the Major, had been confided by the I.oed Chancellor. Tbt Rule was enlarged, to afford an opportunity for an amicable ad. juatitsent ot the at air. BIRTH. I.nst week, Lady 1 hurlow, (lite Miss Bolton, of Covent garden I heatre), of a son avid hear. NIARKIED. At Winchester, on Tuesday last, The Rev. George Dina y. d Per.liore, to Miss Coates, only daughter of Mr. James Coa;:•, of former place. DIED. On Sunday the 6th instant, at beauty, near Richmond, Tort dike, in the *reentrant year of ton age, aar ituuert Hihlyard, hart. COAL-MAELKE l , Nil VEMI3hK al. Ships at Market Ships 101 0 i riCt • 301 Newcastle - V' . Sg• 6'l to et •%. 94 1 Sunderland - it's Ad. to tn , •I ' HIGH WA . Ett Al' LONDON BR MOE I O Atlo4 Marini% - - 41 tionutes a ler Afternoon - 9 minutes ft.:, t t LONDON a Printed by Levet Kafir, Pte►ett I to • publifled there, and at the dtaz USteatexple ht.