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I THE,EVT,NING STAR. • : t 4j°l6oN. ON. • „.• WEDNESDAY, iIOVEMIIER So, 1814. ST. ANDILIIreII Pt the Sulk. A Hamburgh Mail arrived this morning. From the German Papers which it has brought, we select the following articles. Our Readers wilt not fail to temark, that the report from Vienna that the Allied sovereigns will remain in that capital until the end of January, is in perfect unison with the measure of adjourning Parliament until the 9th of February. We must presume that by that period Lord CASTLEREAGH will be able to appear in his place, after accomplish ing the great mission with which he is entrusted t VIENNA, NOV. M. We hear that the apartments, &c. which were taken by our Court for the suites of the foreign Sovereigns, till the end of November, are, by a fresh contract, engaged till the end of January. A numerous levy of recruits has been ordered in the kingdom of Ba varia- Nov. 14.—Persons who are well informed, believe that no decision, in the most important affairs before the Congress, can be expected before New Year at the soonest. The Austrian military force was never on so for midable a footing as now ; it was scarcely so nume rous even in 1809, yet it is expected that a general and numerous levy of recruits will be made shortly. NOVINTIER 15. The principal Mars advance rather slowly. Sere tal objects of deliberation bare lately become more complicated, France, Bavaria, and another German State, have, it is said, lately protested against a mea sure which was considered as settled. Since a short time some coin:ions have arisen, which indeed, among such various interests of nu merous states, could not be otherwise, but without in the smallest . degree disturbing the harmony that reigns at the. Congress. gutnerous books ate in circulation here without any obstruction, that relate to the affairs of Germany, which- is the more remarkable as. our Government was formerly very cautious and strict about books 'on political stibiects ; there is one 'written with much energy, that is generally read, while it is prohibited in the neighbouring states. Numerous couriers pass between Vienna and Paris. All the French in the service of the ilittbdochess Maria Louisa are now returning to Frame. COPENHAGEN, NOVEMBER HO. *wit lir tome frotn °den see; that the Lancigrave, ?since Christian of Hesse, brother of her Majesty the Qom, flied there on the 14th instant, in the 88th yer of bin age. Ptinee Christian arrived here on the 13th, and holds 63 afternoon a levee, 'Mel:waves are shut for some days, and the Court goes into mourning for eight weeks, from the 20th instant. LEIPSIC, NOVEMBER Is. The Prussian authorities have now taken possession Of the whole kingdom. It is reported that after the Congress is ended. our University will be removed to Draciau ' 7 • NOVEMBER 12. -77- ' l l 11 44 * His ROyalltlglasees the Crown Prince was already arrived at Christiania, where he was received in the , Most splautid manner. LEtPSIC, NbIiTkIBER 16. The Magistrates of this city have presented the rreedom of the city to the Russian Colonel Prendel, as a testimony of gratitude for his conduct while Commandant. The Colonel returned thanks to the agistrates of Leipsic in the lollowing note At the end of the memorable period in which I had the honour to be Commandant of Leipsic, I. cbuld receive no greater and more honourable dis tinction than that Which the Magistrates of this city have conferred on me, by giving me the rights of citizenship. When his Majesty the Emperor Alex ander, my august master, was pleased to cbnfer on me the post of Commandant of the city of Leipsic, he commanded me to treat with the greate.t delicacy and mildness this ancient and celebrated place, whoa sestiments. were air well known to him as the dlttsisseis which it had suffered. " thnuie therefore done no more than fulfil the commands of my humane and generous master I and to him, not to me, Leipsic is indebted fur all the al leviations which it has been possible for me to afford' in these difficult and oppressive times: and if my heart called on me to make what was unavoidable as easy as possible, it arose from the heartfelt esteem and attachment with which the citizens of Leipsic had inspired me. " I shall always consider it as the highest honour, and as the fairest testimony of my having discharged my duty, that my name has been deemed worthy d being enrolled among the worthy citizens of Leipsic. May I live in their remembrance! as this good city, which has honoured me with the name of its citizen, will be ever present to my mind. 44 Leipme, November IS, 1614. (Signed) U PRENDEL " Colonel io the Service d the Emperor of Russia." • A Bible o . M ety is now established in Lubec. TREATY OP diktriiiiilt As this treaty, which is made so conspicuous in the late conferences at Ghent, may not be in the hands of all our Readers, we transcribe whit relates to the boundary line : •6 The general bcundary line between the lands of the United. States and the lands of the. said Indian tribes, shall begin at the mouth of Cayahoga River, and run thence up the same to the portage between that and the Tuscarawas branch of the Muskingum ; thence down that branch to the crossing place above Fort Lawrence; thence westerly to a fork of that branch of the great Miami River running into the Ohio, at nr near which fork stood Loromies' store, anti 1411 ,. re commences the portage between the Ohio, and St. Mary's River, which is a br.t:.cli (.1 die Miami, which runs into Lake Erie ; thence a westerly course to Fort Recovery, which stands on a branch of the Wabash ; then sonth-wes- terly in a direct line to the Ohio, so as to intersect that river, opposite the mouth of Kentucke or Cut- tawa River." Several tracks of land within these limits hay esince ceded to the United States by the Indians, principally the sites of the different forts. Detroit, and its district, and Machillimackinac, are among the posts thus ceded. The Indians stipulated to allow the United States a free passage by Land or water through their country, and along the chain of forts. The United States by article 4th relinquished all claim to Indian Lands be yond the boundary line, thus designated, with cer tain exceptions, which relinquishment is explained by article 5, to mean as follows : g. The Indian tribes, who have a right to those [ands, are quietly to enjoy them, hunting, planting, and dwelling thereon, so long as they please, without any molestation from the United States ; but when those tribes or any of them shall be disposed to sell their lands, or any part of them, they are to be sold only to the United States ; and until such sale the United States will protect all the said Indian tribes in the quiet enjoyment of their lands against all citi. tizens of the United States, and against all other white persons who intrude upon the same. And the said Indian tribes again acknowledge themselves to be undLr the protection of the said United States, and no other Power whatever." Art. 6 gives the Indians a right to expel or punish, as they may think fit, all such citizens of the United States, as may settle on their lands without their consent. Reasoning on this Treaty, the Americans argue. that by it the territory in question belongs to them, in as much as the Indians can only sell to them, and acknowledge themselves to be under the protection of , the United States : and to this they tack another cu rious argument, fit only for the mouths of thieves and robbers. " Has it ever been heard of (say they) that Indians are considered as independant nations i France, when in possession of Canada, never treated them as such ; and certain it is that Great Britain never treated them as such." On the same subject one of their writers farther remarks—" I confess my self utterly astonished that the British Commissioners should propose a measure to ours, which, if accepted, it would be morally impossible to observe ; for the inevitable encroachment of civilized people on savage nations, and the retreat of the latter, can no more be prevented, than cause and effect can be separated : and moreover, such a stipulation would only be the cause of another war 'in less than five years. It is, therefore, inadmissible on every ground." In offering a few remarks on these dogmas, for they arc not arguments, Ati shall invert the order adopted by the writer s 4 4 Such a stipulation is" it seems 44 inadmissible on every ground"—we except, against this stseeping negative, one ground, which appears to be avowed in the very proposition. h would, we are told, bring on a war in less than five years ! mark the undisguised declaration. It amounts to this, that the Ames jeans are so much in the habit of making encroachments on the Indian territories, that, were the boundary defined and a protecting power at hand, they could not refrain, even for five years,* from furnishing causes for a quarrel on this very ground. In no other view of the statement has it any meaning ; for it is evident, were the boundar y declared inviolable by Treaty, nothing but encroach ments on the boundary could endanger a rupture of the Treaty I But," who ever heard of Indians being considered civilized n ations ?" " The encroachments of civilized people on savage nations, are like cause and effect." flow diabolical ! Is not this a direct perversion of the use of lauguage, to tell us that civilisation teaches men and states to commit acts of oppression and robbery. This principle, if fully acted upon, would bring back the ages of the foulest crime, when force was the only law. For " savage people" read " the weak and unfiretectfil,!' for why do they retire and give up their lands ? Is it out of compliment to the civifisrad invader ? The cause that operates is force, not civilization, or we must allow the highwayman, who extorts our purse, to owe his prize ti: his superior attainments in the be nefits of civilised life. France, however, and England were guilty of similar enormities, and, therefore, neither have any right to interfere. We admit the fact, but we deny the inference. The doctrine which the proposition defends would bar, for ever, the hope of justice being allowed to preside over the aiNiss of nations. It begs what the progress of csenization absolutely Genres : and would undo all that has been effected for the general amelioration of the . cendition of mankind by the progress of reason and truth. Are nations who have committed crimes never to mend their manners ? Let the axiom be but once admitrefl and acted upon, and in the end it would tear civilized society up by the roots. But happily for mankind the thing is im possible. As nations improve in knot:JP:lp they also improve in public twat:. 44 This Can no more be prevented than cause and effect can be separated." In proof we might refer to the history of Europe, for the last two centuries—not even excepting the pe riod of the Trench Revolution ; for what mast have been its conseqnences but for the general stock of knowledge, and consequent public morality, of the family of Europe ? But as we cannot enter into this subject at present, we shall content ourselves with the mention of one striking fact to establish our general position—that acquisitions of knowledge become pro ductive of benefits to the weak and the helpless.— Any person but a rank American would under stand our allusion, without its being stated.-- -Look to the sable sons of Africa—these " savage nations" emancipated from systematic slavery by a . 44 civilized people !"—by the very nation which was formerly the moat guilty in this traffic in human misery and blood, and which, therefore, according to the logic of the Americans, should have been the last to render them justice or to endeavour to atone to out raged humanity for the crimes perpetrated against her, But we are perfectly aware that cre talk incompre hensibly to a thorough-bred citizen of " the only free nation upon earth,"—for such they call their own community, 44 the only men who understand the prin ciples of true freedom ! !" and yet they keep negro es in slavery under their own roofs ! But enough of this. Let us now look at their other question,—How a boundary, once settled by treaty, can afterward: be interrned died wills, under any pretence or in any ship& Now this question is plain and perfectly intelli gible; and it is certainly just and equitable, after possessions and boundaries have been settled by treaty, that they should not be wantonly disturbed. —We ask, then, who first dared to disturb the 16. pulations of the Treaty ? Was not Canada acknow ledged by the Treaty to belong to Great Britain ? —And yet these honest Americans, taking. advan tage of our embroiled circumstances—perhaps consi dering us as a savage nation ! attempted not only to violate the boundary but to wrest from us -he entire possession !—We admit, with the Americans, that the Treaty should not have been violated t But, bow come these fellows to argue as if the Treaty were binding only on England ? Who violated the boundary ? The Americans.—Who made it necessary that the question of boun dary should ever again come into discussion ? The Americans. Who chewed that the piece of parch ment with seals dangling at its corner was nut a suf. ficient defence for the boundary line? The Ameri cans. We give them credit for their sagacity, ut let them not conclude that, excepting the Chinese, the ) are the only people who possess two eyes. Sir HENRY Voi T ELLESLEY, our. Ambassador at Ma drid, has solicited and obtained permission to retire from a situation, which recent events in Spain have long since rendered irksome and disagreeable to an honourable mind, such as he is universally known to possess. He has had the mortification to find all his endeavours fruitless to inspire our ally FERDINAND, with those distinctions of right and wrong for which, we apprehend, the revival of the Inquisition and the extinction of the liberty of the Press will be found but sorry substitutes, even to an absolute Monarch ; for of this bad eminence FERDINAND is evidently am ' bitious. The best answer we can give to any charges against our worthy and enlightened Minister, if we know of the existence of any expression of disappro bation, would be to refer to the recent intelligence from Spain, scanty as it has been. We have received Batavia Papers, including the Java Government Gazettes, t 9 the 17th of July. They contain the official details of the Expedition under General NIGHTINGALL against Macassar. It appears , from them, that the object of the Expedition has been fully attained, the Rajah of Boni having been dis possessed of the throne, of which his cruelty and treachery rendered him unworthy. We are happy to learn that this brilliant exploit, which astonished the natives of Celebes, has been performed almost with out any loss on our part. The captured property is, • we •understand, inconsiderable, and has been gene rously devoted by our brave troops to the rebuilding a part of the town that was burned. General NIGH 11NuA Lec dispatch is dated from Head•quarters, Fort Rotterdam, Bth June, 1814: it states, that having ar rived at Boni on the 6th, he demanded reparation from the Rajah, together with the Sondong (or Re galia) of Goa, for the insults committed again-t the British Government; which being refused, !Ire at'ack commenced the next day, and in one hour the whole town and residence of the Rijah were in the posses sion of the British forces. The Palace of the Rajah was burned, aF a punishment for his cruelty. The British General had not to regret the loss of a single officer belonging to the troops. Mr. WHITE, second officer of the Fleetwood, was the only officer wounded. He received a severe wound in the shoulder. The force engaged in this affair consisted of the 59th and 78th Regiments, the Bengal Volunteers, and Amboy nese corps. The principal Officers who commanded under General NIGHTINGALE were Lieutenant-Colo nels MACLEOD and MACGREGOR, Captain CAMERON, Lieutenant WATSON, &c. The enemy's force is esti mated at three thousand men. Celebes is an island in the Eastern Indian Ocean, about 500 miles long and 200 broad. It is situated under the equator, between the Island of Borneo and the Spice Islands. ; This island is also called Macassar, (ram a town a that name in the southern part of the island. • . -....... :- ..,., ..: , Yesterday afternoon the Duke bf Yoeic held Mi:• litary Levee at his Office in the How Gua-dt,wh7th • was attended by the Doke of Araot„ the Earl of KINGSTON, Major General Sus rii. on his re nrn from Gibraltar. Colonel KELsO, on is retu.n from the E. Ist Indies. AL', Mai •r G . nerlls GRAN T s STRETCHER. and FuLt.kß ; I. ' Jtenaill limit GA ,INtELL, eitc. &c. Colonel Robert WRICHIT has been appointed Cos& mander of the R iyal Artillery in Holland. The Scotch Greys, which het ly arrived at Exeter barracks, marched last week in Otee divisions, for Bristol, where they expect to receive orders to embark fir Ireland. . Saturday se'nnight, a squadron of the 18th Light Dragoons arrived in Limerick fr.an Cork, wherrt they recently landed from Englin.% a Id a.e to d i duty there in place of two troops of the Ist Dra goon Guards, which have proceed..,l from that city for Cork, where they will embark In Bristol. Extract of a letter frrrn an Officer of the 81st Re giment to his father in Glasgow, dated M. , ntreal, August 26, 1814. I scisli it wet e not so moth my painful task to inform you of melancholy occur rences, and the one I have just now to relate, is sin cerely to be lamented. On the Ilth inst. the detach ment that preceded us, under the command of Cap tain STKVENSON, had got on in high health and spirits, as far as Black River, which is very broach and close to a town called Three Rivers. To cross which there were no boats to transport the troops but a very crazy flat or scow, as they here term it, which only could contain about fifty men. On this flat or scow, the first party got over safe. The second, con sisting of fifty men, and Lieutenant HENolittias, gat about half way across, when .the watermen, .froth some unaccountable cause, took fright, and plunged into the river. This desperate action threw the men completely into confusion, and they rushed with meis precipitation to one side of the flat, that every person on board was instantly plunged into the merciless ele6 ment. Some, however, although loaded with their knapsacks and ammunition, got to the shore by swimming, others clung to the sides of the flat, and in this way were saved. But no less than thirty-lour of our poor fellows, and as worthy a young officer ever breathed, were drowned. The inhabitants of the town of Three Rivers began to drag lot the bodies, as soon as boats and other necessary apparatus could be procured ; but before these could be got it was • afternoon, though the melancholy accident happened at ten in the morning. They, however, succeeded in finding the body of Lieutenant HeNDELSON. and 19 of the unfortunate men, whom we interred with the accustomed ceremonies next day. Ail the other bodies, together with the ferryman and his two sons, have since been found, except one. So energetic have the Gentlemen of that town been, that they have re solved to erect a monument to the memory of the unfortunate sufferers. The Regiment has sustained a severe loss by this unfortunate accident—but the loss of Lieutenant JAMES HaNDEKSON is irretrievable. He was the third son of the late Mr. lixsounson, far mer, in Guaree-hill, a very worthy and respectable character." Ni 1,411. IMI isLLIGENCE. LOSSES AND DAMAGE AT SEA: The Ellen. Dosm.nsoN, aim Surinam to Halifax, sunk off St. Vincent's ; crew saved. The Cor.staltia, VANOLRLAAG, put back to Peters burgh 17th o.;tober, haring struck on a sunken rock near Thorko S;;und, on the 10th, lost t NO anc•.o s and cables, and. thn,wn b dl of her caw overboard. The Hit or Miss, rUSHELL, caught ate AL riatwerp 24th instant. The St. ]Petersbur g , bound to London, is put back to Archangel, leaky, and winters there. The Catharine, Forms, has discharged her cargo at Archangel, haviug been run foul vi, and winters there. The RIMOUSTABLZ is ord-red to be prepare] for launching at Woolwich, and the HAwge to be built on the slip she now occupies. FALMOUTH, NOVEMBER 27. Nothing arrived. Sailed the Lliaab:•th packet for Lisbon, and the Princess Charlotte packet for the West Indies, both with Mails. PORTSMOUCH, NOVEMBER _2i. Nothing arrived or sailed to-day. His Majesty's ship PICKLE, that sailed yesterday, is now in Saint Helen's Roads with her convoy, bound to Guernsey. Came into harbour the Lauftec.—Wind W.N.W. DEAL, NOVEMBER ER. Came down from the River the FAVOURITE sloop of war, and remains . wind-bound ; ani the Bultner transport, bound to Portsmouth. Put back by coo• trary winds, the Orpheus fcr the Cape, and Welding for Sierra Leone, and several others, particiii.trs nut. known.—Wind W. HARWICH, NOVEMBER 29. Arrived the Henry Fretting and Auckland packets, with mails and passengers, from Guttenburgh. SOUTHAMPTON. NOVEMBErt 29. The sloop Veynal, MOaGAN master, from Lo n d ol to Havre, with sugar, &c. was totally lost at Havre Pier on Saturday afternoon last : the Master drowr. e 3, two Frenchmen who were assisting were washed off the pier and lost their lives, and several &Wish. men were ve,y much injured in their ent.eavoars to save their mint' ymea. GRA F.SEND, NOVENIBER 19. Sailed the Otrekd packet Sarah, Captain Cole, with Colonel Edward• tanl family, Colonel Lindsay of the 78tb, and a number of othtir oiliesr, and pusengers hound ter Flanders. Amsted :he Scipio, Smart, from Amsterdam; Fergus, feat; Laurel, Btu melt, and James, Reed, bons Antwerp; Praxis, Legg, from Rotterdam; Ants, Wilson, from Passage.; swallow, Reiveur, from Harliug ; Clyde, Kerely, from Amsterdam; Ede lard, Shoal-, from Dantsic ; Matto CbrOtana, Kroeft, from St. Ander(); vaut, Ovenstone, Irons Hamburgh ; Rose, Robinson, from Bourdeauz ; Perseverance, Richmond, from St. Petersburgh; Survara, Dale, from Amsterdam ; Industry, Farrell, from Ar.tw.np.—Sailed due Oldfriend, Ha.laway, for Hamburg!: ; Cotnwalht , Brown, for Antwerp ; Zuteaurn, Zo.irtveld, for Terceira ; Sage, Odle, for Dieppe; Eole, Romans, for Valey ; Peter Frederick Ludwig, Focken, for Bremen; Minerva, Forges, for Drain ; Goodfriends, Lockerly; Vrindschap, Bakker; and Hoop, Visman, for Am. sterdam ; Hoop, Haasnoot, for Rotterdam ; Vrow Zona, Bon, for Haniburgh. CORN EXCHANGE, NOVEMBER SO. We had a good supply of Wheat, fresh in this morning, aad a large quantity being lefc unsold on Monday, caused very dull ale ler that article, and Monday's prices are, with d loeuk y, sup ported. Barley is rather cheaper than on Monday, having a to . ierable large arrival from Suffolk. White Peas are is. t er dram. In Bons, Oats, and oder article's)* Tanaka,