Star. — London, England, 1817-09-13 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS PARIS, SEPTEMBER 9. - The.-Count de Ruppin (King of Prussia), accent. pit:led - by the Duke of Wellington and Karshal the Duke de Reggio, art ived at Mezieres net hel th inst. ait-hall-past seven. in the morning. Tlwy set mitt at eight tor Maubeuge and Valenciennes. The sth, at four in the afternoon, the Duke of Wellington arrived at Valenciennes. The Count de Ruppin arrived three hours afterwards. The next day 20,004 men, consisting of the English tr o ops, Hanoverians, &c. were reviewed in.the presence of t're any ost traveller. The Maiquis de Jumilhac, Commandant of the 16th Division, and the Prefect of the Department do Nord, proceeded to Valen. denim, at the moment of the arrival of the Count de Ruppin. L has been remarked, that all the Presidents of Electoral Colleges appointed this year are upward► of 46 )ears of age, and unite in themselves the other conditions of eligibility. Several of the Presidents appointed. by the Ordonnante of the Sth Sept. 1816, were not eligible. The Count de Fernand Nunez, the Spanish Am bassador, has had the honour of presenting to his Majesty, and also to the Princes and Princesses of the Royal Family, the Duke de San Carlos, his Catholic Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to' the Court of The) write from Bourgogne, that the heat for Same d. past has coloured tie grapes with incre dible rapidity ; and that if the fine weather continues during a v.ilt of this month, the vintage w;11 be in quantity and quality superior to what could have been hoped.' tile Military route for the Russian troops stationed in France has been newly arranged, by Lqwer Lu satia and Lower Silesia, and on to Poland. The Prince de Taiteyrand is at Montpellier, where he arrived un the Slst ultimo. We learn from the Hague. that nerci.ifions were commenced several days since, between the Plenipo. tentiaries of the King of the Netherlands, and those of the United bones of America, for the renewal of a Treaty of Commerce. At half past twelve yesterday, Mc Paulmier, the assistant of M. Sicard, conductor of the Institution of the Deal and Dumb, presented to the King two of his pupils whom he had taught to speak. They both made use of their newly-acquired faculty in addresses to his Majesty. The King desired them to return thanks to those who had so highly succeeded in in structing them. Many of the persons of the Court, who witnessed this species of prodigy proposed clues. firms to these pupils, which being put to them by their teacher, were answered iu a manner. and with an intelligence, that astonished the auditors. His Highness the Prince of Orange . arrived at Paris yesterday evening. A guard of honour was sent to The epidemic of Vie small-pot . causes at present fatal ravages at Paris. French Five per Cents.—Monday,6Bl. 6.sc.—Ditto div. BERLIN, AUGUST •0. "The 515th, in the afternoon, the christening took place of the new-horn Prince, son of the Prince and 'Princess William, of Prussia. He was baptised by *the names of Frederic William Waldemar. Amongst the sponsors by proxy were the Princess Charlotte of England, Prince Leopold, her consort, and the Duchess of York. BRESLAU, AUGUST ss. Order and tranquillity have been completely re stored here. VIENNA, AUGUST SS. The Count de Carman, French Minister Plenipo tentiary to this Court. and the Baron de Krusemark, Prussian Minister. arrived here the day belote yester day, from Carlsbad. HAGUE. SEPTEMBER 3. The Plenipotetitiaries appointed by the King of the Netherlands to negociate a Treaty of Commerce with the Plenipotentiaries of the United States of Ame• rice. are M. J. Golberg, Chevalier of the Order of the Belgic Lion. Councillor of State. and Director• Gen eral of the Pepartment of Commerce and the Cul°. Pies, and ht. J. C. Van der Kemp. Chevalier of the Older of the Belgic Lion, Advocate General and Member of the Council of Commerce and the Colonies. PEZARO, AUGUST 14. *. The Princess of Wales has resided since Monday last in the delightful •illa of Caprile. It appears to be the intention of her Royal Highness to make a long stay there. She has sent to Milan for the rest of her equipages, and is making great improvements in the MADRID, AUGUST res. A circular has been issued by the Ministry of Fi. tune, requiring prompt payment of two.thirds of the general eontiibution (under the new plan of France). an the• lit of September next. • Auourr 26.—The success gained over the Insur gents by the Royal Army of New Spain, in May, was celebrated at Mexico on the Bth of the Caine month by a n Deem in The Cathedral. This country advances every day towards tranquillity, and this pAcificution itowing to the Viceroy Apodaca, whose *me measures have produced the best effect. The march of our financial administration is active and decided ; the ship is hunched; the impulse is 4iven. Addresses of approbation multiply; that of Saragossa is grave and setttentious. That city speaks modestly of what it perfOrmed ,fqr the Royal cause; it los no need of boasting ; the worldltnows how far' .it eiriiad its devotion. • The Piedmontese Gazette complains bitterly of a *French Journal which tries to make war on Italy, 'and wisher t o. frighten all travellers from it, by a n .. ... unc i ag that the high=ways arc infested with bri gands, and at other times that the route by the Sim. pen; and the other passages across the Alps, are im ; practicable, Thq Gazelle contradicts all these filse reports, an d p os i l ie t iy assures us that travelling is as safe in Italy tail Trance. The snsuggkra alone ex perience opposi4et os the demand of tboir pass.; porta. LON DON. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 13, 1817. PRICY. OF a rock.; THIS DAV A I VA' EINE O'CLOCK s edueril shut—Consols, 790 —Do. fur Oct so 1 per Cent abut—Vary, 1o:01 —Indio 1i0nt.1,74 pre. Bank Loog Ann'. shut—Exchequer tills, 20s. to 255. pr. A Dutch Mail, which arrived this morning, has brought us an authentic copy of the Sentence pm nouticed in the Action of Libel at the instance of the Duke of WELLINGTON, which, we find, differs in no miterial respect from the statement of it which we commuaicated yesterday. It is in the following terms: . • SEN I ENCE OF THE COURT, IN THE CAUSII OF TOE DUKE OF WELLIKUTON AGAINST MR tiE MASA:DLR. " The Tribunal, considering that in the Article of the Journal which is the suliji cc of the action, there Is not imputed to the Noble Lord any act which could captor him to a criminal or correctional action; that neither are there imputed to his Grace any aces which could repose him to the contempt or hatred of the Publk—that, besides, its speaking of a desire, his Grace is not reproached with having sought to inductee the Government of France to retain Mr. Dubree in his once of Intendant of Mar tinique; and that it is not said that his Grace bad any know ledge of Mr. Dubree's having prevaricated in the exercise of his said place : • "Considering besides that if his Grace hat manifested the said desire, it. should be attributed to powerful recommendations, representing Debree under colours quite different from what are found in the article of the Journal in question, so that in this point of view, and in the tense of the article, it cannot be con cluded that his Grace would hive commit ed an act unworthy i of himsilf, even It lie bad manifested such a desire, because Mr. Dubree had very well administered the Colony its favour of a foreign Government; and the more so as one may well admi nister a Colony in fasoiir of a foreign Power, without its neer.- sarily following that one would administer it ill, or traitorously towards one's own Government, since it is of importance to every, Government to have its colonies admicistered is a manner fa vourable to foreigners, in order more effectutily to draw them thither, and to increase by that very means, the commerce and prmperity ot theeaid Colonies; whence it results, that the desire which the Noble Lord may have manifested to see Mr. Dubree retained in his place, ought not, and cannot expose bins to the contempt, or to the hatred of the public; and the less. as 'he high deeds, and the eminent qualities, as well moral as p.tlPkil and military, of the Duke of Wellington, place him beyond the reach of every suspicion of attempting to set otherwise than as a man of honour; and as it is impossible that his brilliant reputa tion can suffer any injury from pamphl teen ( ev ea if their repressions should be ambiguous or equivocal in gbh re spect. For these reasons the 'tribunal acquits the accused of :hit inculpations laid to his charge: And deciding on the prayer of the Plaintiff, declares it inadmissible. And further, doing jug. , nee to the prayer of the Defendant, to obtain damages " Considering that the action brought on the part of his Grace cannot be regarded.as calumniatory, in as mach as it merely sub mits to a Court of Justine Rho sense of an article inserted In a public Journal; declares the said prayer of the Defendant mad nsissible; and, seeing the 194th Atticle of the Code of Criminal Procedure, condemns the Plaintiff in the costs, both towards the Public, axed at two twins and twelve cents, and towards the Defendant, Aced at one dorm 57 cents. " Done and proaaincLd in the Public Sitting+ of the tiel of September, is I 7 ; present, Messrs. Viepeel, President of the Sitting; Lebegue, Camberlys, and Parts, Judges; and &net, Substitute of the King's AttornerOmereL (Signed) "1. Vitro r&, " 1.. Leixoes, "3. B. CAMSCILTif, , "H. Pease." The result of this action has afforded, as might be 'expected, matter of no small exultation to the Con tinental Journalists. The Ghent Journal, by way of commentary, we presume, on the propriety of his Grace's submitting his character to the ordeal of a Court of Law, quotes another paper, the Philaashro jtut, which asserts, that in answer to a question put to the Duke of Wellington, tending to obtain his permission for the publication of a letter to him on the spoliation of the Museum of Paris, his Grace had declared, under his own hand, his absolute indiffe rence as to all that may is said or written of hies. —lf his Grace did make such an' answer, and we can very readily believe be did, be only assumed that degree of elevation which became his illustrious cha racter ; and we are willing lb own, that in pursuing a different line of conduct in the present instance, he has somewhat descended from that elevation. Yet however erroneously the Duke may have been ad vised both in paint of law and of propriety in insti tuting this legal process, we scarcely think the public will be less disposed to a belief in the real malignity of the libel, oy a judgment, which, from the whole of its manner and substance, may be considered rather as kaing thanjadjia: the question. The Aarau Jerrold contains a long letter from one of the Ex-Wirtemberg Deputies, on the subject of the political differences in that State, which are still far from approaching to a happy termination. The votes of almost all the Communes, on the plan ul Constitution proposed by the KtNo, have now, it ap pears, been collected ; and it turns out, that while these of the new Provinces have declared themselves unanimously in its favour, not a single Commune in the old territory has voted for its acceptance. The cause of this local difference of opinion, we find, has been greatly misunderstood—becanse, in .fact, it has been very grossly misrepreiented. Ac cording to the complexion which the Knio and his advisers have uniformly endeavosned, in their various addresses and publications. to give to the matter, the Deputies, and through them the people of Old Wk. temberg, refuse acceding to the proposed Constitn *ln for no better reason than that in consequence of its involving an integral union between the old and the new Provinces, and of the Deputies for the new, teiritories'eiceeding in number those of the old, such an union would tend to lessen the individual as well as aggregate importance of the latter. Now this ib very tar incl. el hens being the real state of the case. The Deputies of the ancient Provinces do.not objet t 1 to an unio ► from any thing in to mere matter o union itself—they only object to an union under sod , a Constitution as that which is now endeavoured to le it on th:m. Nor is it from any thing like prejudice or factiousness, that they alone object to the Constitu tion, while the new Deputies as unanimously approve it ; but from a great and essential difference between th e political circumstances of the two divisions of old and new Wirtemberg, which is not more justifica tory of the unanimous rejection of the one, than (in the view of expediency) it is of the unanimous ac ptance of the other. The new Provinces, a• collection of scattered par cels, the fruits of recent conquest and negociation, have never yet had any national consolidation, any constitutional system of government at all—but the old Provinces, forming what was anciently the Duchy of Wirtemberg, are able to boast of having once en joyed a more perfect civil organization, and a more ii.;eral plan of Constitution, thin any other ttrritory in Germany, or perhaps in the o hole Continent. In the ancient Provinces of Wirtemberg, the No bles bad no peculiar power or privileges of any kind. The people were under the protection of a represen tative body, which bad not only the power of grant ing or refusing taxes, and through this the superin cndance of the public expenditare, but authority to watch over the integrity of the State, the rigid of a free emigration to other coinstria, and in general to guard .against all abuses of power either towards indivi di or in transactions with foreign States. No - ooner, however, had the last Duke attached himself o the late Scourge of Europe, and been raised by . ins to the Royal dignity, than, acting up to the despotic principles to which he owed his elevation, he immediately issued a proclamation, declaring the Constitutico. of the Duchy abolished, and that his now loyal Will should in future be the only law fur his subjects. And so his royal will did continue to govern, while the star of OONAPARTE remained in the ascendant ; but when the powerful arm which .tad hitherto sustained, could no longer render him any assistance, finding it impossible to replenish his exhausted treasury without the consent of the States, •e was reluctantly compelled again to convoke that nody. The States, with great propriety, insisted as sine gun non, tin the re-establishment of the ancient Constitution ; but this the Km refused. A Project t a new Constitution was then submitted to the States, which they unanimously rejected. If the 4onarch had dared, it is supposed the States would now have been dissolved, but the public opinion was ,o strong in their favour to permit this step to be taken. Even after they had nobly and constitution aity declared that if the Keno should attempt to levy. • me taxa, die imposition of whit!) he had threat -ned, they would absolve the people from every' .bligation to pay them, they still continued to meet and to deliberate for the public good. On the accession of the reigning Sovereign to the throne, it was expected, from the high character he Had previously acquired, that he would have adopted a more constitutional line of conduct. But, instead of restoring the ancient Constitution, and incorpo. rating, as might have been and may still be done, ! the lately acquired territories into the benefit of it, he thought proper to repeat the experiment of im posing a quite new Constitution upon the whole people under his dominion. Into the •merits of the plan he proposed, it is at present unnecessary to enter. It is enough to state that it was also rejected by a very great majority of the Delegates, who, by so doing, conceived they were conferring an essential benefit on their constituents. Although thus, like his father, bailed in his design on the liberties of his people, the KIND felt himself in a position which enabled him to do what his father dared not venture in the same situation. With a large army, kept up on a pretence of external danger, with Austria and Prussia linked to him by the closest family connection, to back hits in any case of emer• gency ; with great resources in his own personal intel_ ligence and ability and courage, he felt confidence enough in his own strength arbitrarily to dissolve that Assembly whose suffrages he could neither conciliate nor command. Still desirous. however. of keeping up a semblance of constitutional principle in his proceedings, he im mediately qualified this dispersion of the representa tives of the people by an appeal to the people them selves. The result of that appeal we have previously stated; and from the explanations we have given, our Readers will now see, without surprize, how it hap pens that the people of the old and new Province s are so completely divided on the :abject. To the new Provinces, who have never hid any .Constitution att all, it is evidently se matter of some expediency to take whatever they can get in the first instance, relying, as they may safely do, on the course of events for the ultimate attainment of a system more. suitable to their wishes ; bat to the old Pro vines, who have already long enjoyed one of the best of Constitutions—to a people who have inherited the blessings of liberty in a state of high and enviab/e perfection, it becomes no less evidently sidut y in which every noble and patriotic feeling unites to struggle for the preservation ut dial Constitution in all . its iir.t grity. to the last ; to hold firmly the vantage ground on which, their forefathers have left them, and to con- sent to no sort of modifitaeon or affiliation, which can lower them one single step in the scale of civil digrity and happintqc., let tl.e new territoriPs, :t justly contendA, be aden:tte,f, if they desire it, to participation in the benefl3 of the Constitution Oih, belonged, and estiil b;::ongs of right to the 013 ; let nut the incorp , utttion of new territories be ttipd an excuse fur m.iking one common jumble of rights and pretensions of both—for milking a nra and imperfect beginning of mitten, which in rest; of one of the parties, are already bo well rerlec:e, and established. Nor is it to be supposed, on account cf the untc. mity with which the new Provinces have voted for the new Constitution, th it they approve of i: so pr : f : rably as to object to such an incorporation into old as is here pointed out. It is because they wrs without choice that they have been unanimous-,.be. cause possessing nothing they have been glad to ac• cept ut any thing. Let the KING only give then the option of adopting either, and it will be seen cf what value their present suffrages are; and until Le does give them this option indeed ; nohidy tan ascribe to their suffrages, either for or against Ca new plan of Constitution, the least value whatever. What the issue of this contest between the pc,p: e of Wirtemberg and their Sovereign may be, we cannot trust ourselves to anticipates of this we feel well assured, that it foreign Powers were not to in. terfere—it the people were to have no such examphi as tgat of MASSENZACII to teach them, that the onil refuge from their sovereign's displeasure may be foreign dungeos, the contest would be soon er‘t::::: the way that all honest men would desire. All the accounts which we have yet seen of C.e arrest of Colonel VoN IslassENnacir, bear on the face of them evident marks of having originated with the Prussian Government. There is an endeavour in all of them to withdraw our attention from the odium and disgrace of the transaction to the joersonal merit or demerit of Colonel VON MasseNiactr, which h quite a separate consideration. It Colonel Vw MASSENBACII were an individual of the very lowest character, it Was not the less disgraceful in a State calling itself free, to give him up without trial or in• vestigation, on the mere requisition of another Co. vernment. We cannot believe, if Colonel Masscs. Bawl is the man which these Prussian accounts would make him, if he could descend to an act of such meanness as to demand money for the suppres. sion of a work, that in a small State, like Wirtent. berg. where a people of simple manners have -not yet acquired that indifference to private character which is too often found in great capitals, he weal! have enjoyed such a high degree of popularity, or that in his complaint to the Diet, he would have had the assurance to boast of the uniform purity of his motives. But were he ten times more base than his accusers state him to be, he had a right to the protec• tion of the laws of his country, which all agree have in this instance been grievously violated. The French Papers of Tuesday arrived last night; in a preceding column we have given some extracts from them. We have today also received those of Wednesday, of which the following are the princi t ial contents. The Spanish news from Mexico are, it will be observed, like all their accounts, of a se7 , old date. 7 1WE EViNING STAR. PARIS, SEPTEMBER 9. The Ministers Plenipotentiary, and Agents for i 7.). reign Powers, had this day the honour of being pre sented to the King. The King afterwards transacted business with the Duke de Richelieu and Marshal the Duke of Tarentum. On the 3d instant the Duke of Ragusa arrived at Lyons. ' His EXcellency made his entry accompa• nied by a squadron of chasseurs. The Prefect, tile Mayor, the Clergy, and all the Civil and Military Authorities, immediately waited on his Excellency, to offer him the tribute of their devotion. VIENNA, AUGUST SO. The Prussian Minister, Count Markoff, has q&:!vd Vienna. He will proceed directly to Moscow, wl.r , he will await the Emperor of Russia, whose arrival there is announced for the beginning of October: MADRID, A U GUST se. Letters from Gibraltar, of the 15th of last mnnth, state, that the Plague, after having exercised its r:• vages in the city or Algiets, has spread througl:( ct the whole of that Regency. fren►ezen and UzdA have experienced a touch of the infection, and it feared that the whole Empire of Morocco will 11;1 successively a prey to it, in consequence of all ma sures of precaution being so much neglected. M. Garay, we are assured, bas received tl;e Cirrl Corden of the Royal Order of Charles The last arrival at Cadiz from Vera Cruz fits brought letters from that port, and even from Nlexivi down. to the end of April. The Royal Troops cc stated to have gained many advantages over t!:e deperulenti: One of the Chiefs of the latter. V' commanded a corps of between 300 and 400 rge• on the road from Mexico to Vera Cruz, was b ur!...:'. ded on the Nth of April. On his refusal to war. der; a combat commenced,...st ten . in the merai . g , which continued till midday ; when the Mrs ; c' s tiishing sword lit hand into the ranks 00 1 Insurgents cut the half of them, with their Chief. pieceii i . and put the rest to Hight. The disco:lsis"' ` f this body has opened up the communications bc:%ve , ' Veri busk and Mexico, and will inspire. a terror flit° the coentry. Every day corps of '." rodents acce a ; we enterta pletel y pAci! r. t ceroy has den r now nonce' longer insists .r n the Sitting ».1 v.ed the Repi Federal PAC grain. The Commit! ef trot pinch ten MUMS at ed. It .prl itar to ttlnte r, the Diet e .c. cnnsidcr of crest. Fos tl cf Le teen votes—t in ten, was trfc :e The !tins It 'meat of Ca, nquillity of se vineial milli xi Ouvinces in the n. sir many banal it 'face, and each see Cant. ns. , a out including battalions, or t Aa Ordonnal at ant•it by land i ' :e ; French Fund ee c ezc. div. ti he ill 4 General Yeti! M aucatus, it at rit tal of Pet si a. capacity as ad is not only a !sr Ricers employ its • Persia, and v in• e exception of ;o. e, but is ass s. that mission t Its to Russia at tl cf ring. the reit s. hese reports ; re• at the expedit lot a positive fad, et nited Russian Id case Russia L . 's terms. The ad ousstAN, Secri us Anittl, Interpt lit , .NTIU4s, Vs an T . • • ILI, MARION, se uished Officer' ported that st on tonne of ti tTehiran, the it; of BRIG, al it The weather ith drizzling I 1 he Cliff, lodise .tat this vessel ppeared, and , oyal Highnes • tentien of visi •as generally aclit and the —uth-east. A • assed the tot at ance westwan royal Pages, oyal Establis le I oyal George tl nformation tha ea another nig • lat his Royal rale of Wight Albion Hon to aged for a me i:e Arclibistoi l e Viscount Ex 1 011 N DUCKWOI • mouth Dock. • The weather I;ttle doubt of ch r i va s ss i r t : e g g:lg : ia t rge t e l: s 2 p . as the deman d a fnlrkets are de The fine w 4 Ciente upon Mr. Ews, ro England, c . The letters t a account of the of Holland. • The Americ . Ist Havre from telligence that from 100 to 2L • English. . Early on tho Harrison's Zit; St. Alban's. Waggon, leavis Wow person t waggon, and t though he had discovered thrt Aims Unlllercill get off. The v