The National Register. — London, England, 1817-09-01 00:00:00

7f)t 491 No. 499.—V0r.. X. POLITICAL DISQUISITION. SOUTH ANIERICAN PIRATES. The daily Papers have been unceasingly oecupied during the week, in discussing the propriety of un appli cation which the Underwriters at Lloyd's have made to government, on the subject of the piracies. coat mitted under the insurgent Spanish flag. The Times gives it as its decided opinion that this government has no right to interfere, and that if underwriters tvill in sure fbreign property, they must abide by the tease quence.. The Chronicle, although everlastingly com plaining of taxes and wasteful expenditure, would have us instantly pillage into a war with Spain, for the sake of the trade with her colonies, and the New Times would have us interfere in repressing the piratical cruizers, without at all meddling with the quarrel be tween New Spain and the Parent State. The French Papers, at the same time,. are. daily calling upon us, first, to preserve a strict neutrality ;—next, to move with our whole power, and overwhelm those "Jaco bins" of the New World, as. we have already those of the Old. In spite of all that certain Patriots have tell us &eau our being a sunken and degraded nation —a r of intirior rank in Europe—it does appear taat our nei4hbours look up to us on all occasions as the arbiters of the world. If the flags of the North are insulted by the piratical marauders of the Mediter ranean, we are straightway applied to for protection ; we are called upon to chastise and subdue them. If the Itinited States of Anavica permit her subjects to tit .out vessels in her ports, and cruize under the insurgent flag, we are invoked, on all hands, to come fitrward and give security to commerce. This is a painful pre eminence, and requires no common skill to carry us through the mititlie course, in which alone is safety.— However mildly we may ba dispoaed towards the cause of the insurgent Spaniards, we cannot give in to that doctrine which is maintained by the Chronicle, that the .llether Country has no claim upon them fur allegiance. 'Plat paper argues as if, not merely the country, but tae colonists, had been conque_red by Spain, forgetting teat the settlements were made by draughts of men :ila.ta the Mother Cvantry, that they are the children of the parent state, and that she has a claim to their allegiance as strong as we have to that of the inhabi tants of Jamaica, or any other af our foreign possessions. The case of North America has been cited in justilitat lien of the conduet of the South Americans, but eer tt.inly without just grounds. The North Americans were /nest unjustly called upon to contribute to the 'support of the state, by taxes, over the expeudi tura of which they were to have no rontroul. South America, on tLe contrary, had no other complaint to eflir, but that the pauctu state denied to foreign let eons the right of trading with her colonies—a right aktays recognised and tasted upon by every nation pets seeing an :milt of colonial territory. This was the ,grownd of quarrel, and though slight, we are disposed to think it has laid these seeds of animosity which will eitimately produce a final separation. However inju imis this event will be to Old Spain, .(we for our parts think it will rail he injurious,) common prudence dic tates a strict neutrality on our parts, we mean a neu trality as for as the colonists are concerned, far we can net cencent that it should extend to those lawless free looters, whose audacity has brought them even into tl.c European seat. It cannot be tolerated that vessels, under a commis on, realm fictitious, ohtainul from Generalsinopenre reiliun agaiust their Sovereign, shall obtain the right of search for, and seizure of, all goods which the com manders may pronounce to be Spanish. Were the yes tr!s and crews bean .I:de South American, it would eteste a shade ofdiiference—they would then be acting (altion.ai .•,tPA'iOttr+ Our tting, eott6titution anb 3taiv6. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1817, as rebels; but, being, as they are, fitted out in foreign ports,. and manned with foreign seamen, they become of a still blacker description—they become pirates, and as such should be treated by every maritime state. Tu this extent we think our interference ought to be cur ried, for the example of these lawless plunderers is calculated to produce the most dreadful effects. On this point, the writer of a tract entitled, " Amerits Espanola," noticed in our last Number, very justly ob• serves—. " Were these vessel, armedand equipped in the Spa nish Colonies themselves, and bcloaging really to Governments permanently established with the object of forming independency, they would respect foreign flags, and nbstain front- doing any thing to excite the indigna tion of States which are able to occasion them much injury: In like manner, such Governments would endeavour, by moderation, to obtain the good will of foreign States, in artier to attain, it not a positive aid, at least a neutrality on their part, that they might not be impeded in the accomplishment of the design pro posed. But in what way do we find these principles followed in the insurgent provinces, or observed by the privateers ? These latter hate, by their scandalous depredations, finally rendered Spanish vessels so careful, as to sail almost always under convoy of ships of war; and thus, not having opportunities to exercise their depraved desire of pillage, by the capture of Spa. nish ships, they have turned their fury. up . ..install flags, plundering and robbing, without reserve, every vmel they fall in with, to whatever nation itmay belong. If any one doubt the truth of this, let him take the trouble to consult the ship news which is daily published in London ; he will there see, that hardly a day passes that some advices are not received of depredations com mitted by these pirates. And with the evidence of these facts, can it be maintained that such privateers have been arn.ed and manned to promote time indepen dence of South America?" In another place this writer contends, that, by the powers of Europe interfering to. crush this piratical warfare, they would not only serve their own mari time interests, but would materially contribute to wards the ultimate triumph of Spain over her rebellions subjects ; for, says Le--- " Were it not for the assistance which the insurgents have derived from the privateers, were it not from the protection and asylum they have received in certain foreign islands and establishments, there would now have been scarcely a trace of insurrection in the Northern America. The main has been two or three times sulatned by the Spanish troops, and as often have we seen the insurrection renewed; but ve arc not to believe that order and tranquillity have in this man ner been overturned by means of efforts made in the centre of the county by the,ialiabitants themselves. If this had been the case, if these people had really been determined upon establishing their independence, they would have succeeded, as we lerie already said. The eNpcilitions that have disembarked on the main, always led by same adventurers. have been in every instance fitted out and arranged in a foreign port, for the lead ers did not find in the country itself sufficient aid to neruit. It is not surprising that, favoured by the ascendancy which the privateers have gained in those seas, they have succeeded in disembarking on some points cf the roast of that vast continent, and obtaining advantages, apparently, tlumgh but tin- a short while, muipposeil by any thing; but before they could succeed in raising the reale. and establishing anv order of things, they have :trews been sought out and attacked by the ,Spanish trot s 's, And compelled to fly, often finding in Ci6ht the 41.siger which they en deavoured to avoid. The liparrioh Government, there fine, ought not to search far the remedy of this evil so much in the interior of those countries, as in the ex tinction of the anivateers, whose aid keeps up, and will keep up, the spirit of insubordination en some print o. other of thvsoest.". hum 90 FOREIGN IN lELLIGENCE. FItANCF. AtGlllllr2o.--411C Tribunal of Correctional l'.11; has sentenced Messieurs Connote and Dunoyer to ow P year' inapt isonment earl), a line of 3000 francs, to be depciseil tee five years of their cis it rights, remain five years how.. r under the surveillance of the High Police, and ',lnd secnri trx in 1000 frolics each. Reinindiere, the printer, is tined llto,. francs, and the seizure of the " Censetir noropecn" is iir chi • .1 to be valid. This sentence goes to the entire suppiessiou o. the third volume of the work. Pan's, Ai:Gust . 21. —The King yesterday, reviewed On whole of the Royal Gnarl in the ('hamp-de-Mars. H' Prussian Nlajesty awl the De.ke of Wellington were presto!. A Ro)al Ordinance has been published, convoking, ac.cor..- ing to the provisions of the Constitutional Charter, the elect oriewl Colleges on the 21111 of next month, for the purpose of comparing the representation of the departments lay the ...- turn of one fifth of the deputies. - Pates. --The hat was bestowed upon his Eminence the Cardinal de la Lucerne yesterday. The same cm, - many was ohserved as before. His Majesty, in reply to the speech ofthe Cardinal on the occasion, said, "t nm vet !- sensible of ft* sentionetsts you express towards me. The it,- Mill purple sits well upon him, who, like St. Paul in bond nee employed the time of his exile in consoling the faithltil. With regard to myself, if I have any value, it is because I have con stantly endeavoured to follow the counsels you ...aye me, now forty-five years ago, at the close of the funeral oration over my grandfather." The French Academy on the suggestion of M. de Laere telle, have proposed fur discussion next year the Institution jut Juries. RUSSIA. PETERgr.rOGII, AUGLAIT 23.• • -Hi% Imperial Majesty has °Mese(' that Lieutenant General Count Oitermann 'Eolsioi, in consideration of his services to his conntry, and of his dis tinguished bravery in the last campaign, especially at shall rf eeive for the purpose of re-establishing his affairs the Milli of 300,000 roubles from the capital of the Invalids as a loan for ten years, on which he is to pay interest, without givit g to other pet suns any title to a similar favour. NETHEAILANI)S. CMENT, ACOEST e3.—Tito celebrated Carnot leads a very retired life at Nlagtleburgli ; he goes but little into compan2., chooses the most retired plates fur his walks, but is much em ployed in his c.rhinet. It is said he is on the point of finishing most important work on the French Revolution : it ens braces, it is said, rimy using of the roost consequence front 17b9 to Mr sceenit restoration in 151.5. Such a work must be highly interesting, the anther Is:tying brava SIIIIIUSi alWlse. all actor or a spectator in the great evens* of that period. We learn from Autiverp,that Rego:toll de St. Jean d'Angely, whom some writers represent as mill, arrived nu Sunday in that city from New York. He is going to Ain-lisChapelle to his wife, who is ill there. SWITZERLAND. LAUSANNE, ALM ST 10.—The Diet, on the 7.th issued a • Decree in commemoration of the glut conduct exhibited by the Royal Swiss Guards in Paris, on the lOth of Angus', 172/. " The memories of those have men who perished in the field of battle, of those wbo afterwards lost their lives ill expiation of their fidelity, and of those oho subsccpiently died, are consecrated by thix act. Their names, as aril as their brellired in arms oho survive, shall be inscribed in a register to be carefully preserved in the archives of the confederation."—The decree then provides, that all °Sem, subalterns, and soldiers, who were present on that day at the Thiiiilerics, and, olio yet live, shall receive a medal, in the name of the Diet, having on one side the miss of the eon reilelation, with the legeud " Fidelity and anti an the other, simply this date," August 10th 6LUURAL'I'ER. We hail great Satisfaction in stating, that by the follow. ing intelligence it appears the apprehension which induced the Spanish Government to interdict all communication be treeti Spain and Gi bralter, was wholly groundless .. LITIIA.Ur Or GillltAl.l - Cll, DATED, AUG. 7.. " We have to notify the opening of the coin' iiiiii ication this day with Spain, by land. The Satelitc Wig of ear, Captain Murray, arrived last night frc!n Timis and Al.zieis. No News has yet transpired by her. 'llw garrison remains very healthy, never more so." bOl•T1I MIERICA. '1 he AliericAn papers of the 2titta.ultirno.contaia the ((Wett ing important hitinutittion revectitag the. agiir• (-mow ry NEW Yoalt, to the news girel yesterday's Gazette, tcc Team fact the Tooker, ft t er the Gulf ni Mexico, that tho Patriot lienenit Pertai!, with about 2Janaiten,. had gone neer to the Royalists, leaving been preci iiii sly assured of the king's pardon ; that ikieuri al (:::n_ dainty, a ith about ZOO menosete Arabi IRO miles °flay - ra hemmed in by the it:widish , ; anti that Citrirtal 31i na's heathinartets were at Sant:, Slossine, altielrelare he had Nit hied, anti left a garrison of Z 4.) nun, and proreeded agat:st St. Luis Potosi. hits rot ttttt 'lineation urn the sea coast aust at • otf by the Itir stints. Au army of:C:1ml 5000 OUCH ass march ing against hint item Veta Coos, and his skit:neon was yea ,idered periliais." LATI.ST ACCOUNTS FOWL AalrLIA ISL.% N fiIIAIII.EsTON, JULY 19.—•• Extract (.1 a letter to the Edi tors of the Goartte :—• We have seen , estial.lults ea from St. .Nlaryb and Anwisa Island, 'reels eJ by yestesflaVa mail, %skid; eoniittii the verbal iiecuatits reef ivied 0 li w slays rinf • • from tht• (pill ter, tilllt prwpeet. of tie atimi rgenvi • by nu means Nu flat''tiug as Lad lira beet' represented. M`tii egor sloshed for St. Au:s:title, immettiat. ly on his • AwcILI lood, wiale tire srairiaids