Star.
London, England, 1815-12-11 00:00:00

FRENCH PROtESTANTS:

By accounts from Nismes of the 22d ultit iO. it ap-
pears that the greatest fermentation still prevails in
that city. We are now informed that the•Natieltal;
Guards,'who have been ordered to be disbanded,
refuse to lay down their arms. This is very intelligible•
These men have yet some work to perform. for they
have Pot yet completely extirpated all the Protestants!
Can we wonder at the Protestants hesitating to deliver
up their ptivate arms, when in the midst of armed
men, who avow their intention to extirpate them ? We
only wonder how the Duke d'Annotmems could ask
them to deliver up private weapons before he had
disarmed their avowed and public enemies. As to
the compliments paid to the Duke by the Prefect
we are not convinced that he deserves them.
How came the murderers to be organised as a body,
with cockades different from those of the KING?—
How happens it that the Protestant temples are still
shut !--that none of the mprdereraof the Protestants
have yet been brought to justice ? NVill the trial and
punishment of a man icr attempting the life of one
of the KINU's Generals purify the City of Nismes,
and atone for the outrages that have been commit-
ted," while the murderers of the Protestants are suf-
fered to walk at large and to boast of their crimes ?
It gives us great pleasure to observe the sympa-
thising spirit which pervades Britain respecting the
unhappy victims of ignorance, superstition, and
fanaticism in Fiance—it can only be equalled by
the kindness and lib.:rality that "was extended to
the persecuted Priests and Roman Catholicc.of
France upwards of twenty years ago, when forced,
by the persecution of infidel demagogues, to
seek an asylum in this country. Did• this country.'
in so exemplary a manner, perform this duty to those
who had even maintained that by extirpating Pro.
testants they were rendering service to Goo ? and
could it now fail its discharging the same duty to its
suffering Protestestant brethren ! to men persecuted
by blind, bigotte4 and ferocious Roman Catholics !
impossible I
Meetings are every where called to consider of the
best means of affording relief to these sufferers for
conscience sake. Last Tuesday the Ministers and
Elders of the Edinburgh Associate riesbytery met
to consider a letter addressed to one of their number,
by the Secretary to the Beard of the Protestant Dis.
senting Ministers in London, containing a copy of
the Resolutions passql by that body on the 28th ult.
respecting the persecution raised against the Protes-
tants in the South of France, when the Associate
Presbytery unanimously approved of the principles
' expressed in said Resolutions ; concurring wi•h these
Ministers in deep and tender sympathy with the per-
seemed Protestants in France ; and earnesuy remit-
mended it to all the congregations under their in
Albedo.

ros puke eolitribatioini in aid of the general
fiaki, which is collecting in London, and other places
Lof the United Kingdom, towards the temporal relief
* their suderiag brethren.

1 A series of Carthagena bulletins have been received
up to the 20th •f September, together with a variety
t.f official papers, and letters relating to the List ope-
rations of Mai illo hi Venezuela, hi► advances to Car-
! thagena, and consetvient places. The Independent'
Govenmient of the latter place had received accounts
from Venezuela, describing the prigress of the patriot
armies there,,and the shifts to which the troops ieft
by Morino wete chiven. A Spanish division had
been completely routed by the Patriots under Snarl,
near the city of Calobogo.- By this victory the latter
had obtained 700 muskets, and opened their way to
Barcelona, where they again defeated 1,200 Spa-
niards, and took all their baggage, &c. Saraza,
after uniting with General Can -don, proceeded to
Cumana which they took, and destroyed two divisions
left there by Morino. The Patriot Chiefs, Ledesma
and Mouagas Lad obtained entire possession of all
Guayana, Otinoko, litc. Guiria and Maturin had
been taken by the Patriot Chiefs Piar and Rideau.
On the side of the west, C'icuta and the province
of Varinas had been recovered by the patriot Chief
Urdaneta, a detachment of whose army, under Cold
nel Rodriguez, had destrOyed the Spanish troops
commanded by the Governor of Maracaybe. ' Flushed
with success, the Independents marched on and took,'
Merido, Truzillo, Barquisetneto, and San Carlos,.
forcing the Spaniards to retreat on V.lencia, where
the patriots were following them up. from the east
and west, the patriots are consequently fast advancing
on Caracas again, to free the whole of Venezuela fur
the third and last time, from the Spanish Yoke.
Unfortunately, every operation discovers some new.
trait of horror and cruelty. The Spaniard's them-
' selves are now tired of the outragei they have ex.
perienced from the acts 'of Mtwillo, rendered the
more humiliating, because, in 1801, they remembered
him in the same country a serjeant of marines. Where.
ever the Spanish flag waves, the prisons are filled
with patriots, and even many Ladies who, on a
pledge of amnesty, had returned to Caracas, had
been thrown into dungeons. In consequence of the
desertion the Spanish garrison left in Margarita ex.
perienced, the following Order was published by order
of hiorillo 1
" Any soldier wisatever of this garrison yrho may desit, as
well as his accomplices, shall be shut, and their 'leach hung upon
hooks: Resides, curt y fifth person !elated to them as tar as the
fifth generation,• shall also be shot ; In said case, one perbou of
each town of the island ilia!l also be shot; and lastlY, the district
of each inhabitant being an accomplice hi the said &tertian shall

I pay a eoatribntloo of !OW dollars, sad all de *tiler towns en!
lectively one of 10,000
.dollars. _

signed) "A N TONI. ER RARaA, COVQtrtur.
" Island of Jargarks, August 2."

Murillo advancing to Carthagena, shot twentv.F.v2.
.pittiots in the village of St: Tharfay.- A physician
of Morillo's army lately killed himself, after declaring
he had poisoned 400 patriots in the hospitals of Tnr.
baco and Buranoa. A variety of di►patrhe' hail
been intercepted, which cause the greatest horror.--
Whiht Morillo is engaged before Carthageoa, the
patriots of New Granada are matching to retake
Santa Martha, ender the command of General B. r.
mudez. The other particulars have already been
given in our late Jamaica extracts.

No Paris Papers have-arrived since cur last, ow; cr,-
to the weather, which has been so very tempestny:s
for some days as to prohibit the packets from putting
to sea. Such vessels-as, being out of port, have beer.
caught in the hur.tic.anes I ave saffered seven.:y, aLd
many have been lost.. Our Poi t Letters continue to
bring the most heart-rending accramts from the coast.
of the ChannA. The' fereign ve.sysis, in particular,
hive be..n the principal suikrers, owing in same mea.
:tire their comparative ignorance or ti:t

EnNAPARTE did not send a single letter to Etimpe
by the ship arrived from St. Helena, nor Wad he
permit one et his Companions to write. So that ay.
thing can be known from themselves of their situa-
tion Or their sentiments. Minutes'of all BoNarairres
politics' conversations were carefully taken. It stems
he spftke with great freedom of the characters ar.l
views of all the Potentates, as well as of their Mita.
stets ; and those Minutes, which are considerel
important, are now in the hands of Ministers. Ake-
corsfing to BUNAI•ARIE'S opinion the confederacy cf
the Allies was on the point of breaking at the eve of
the Battle of Waterloo ; and it he had gaiaei the
ascendant, would have been broken asunder is iTtty.
eight hours.
Extracts from letters received from Officers Lf
Majesty's ship Nowlin:Nitwit-ANL) ;

" His Majesty's ship Nnrtininzberlaai!, Ott. 28. ISt%
" We anived here on the 15th, after rather a
pleasant, though long passage, of ten weeks; and
General B„NApARTE landed on the 16th in the ever-
ingovhen it was quite dal k 3 he was muffled op in a
Loge surtout coat. A guard went below him et
disperse the mob. You must judge of the state of
his mind and spirits by what he did and %that he did
not do during the passage. He never came out of
his cabin but in the evenings alter. dinner ; he then,
almost without exception, went and leant against the
breach of the foremost gun en the weather-side of
the quarter•deck, Whence he never newel Generals
BDRTRAND and LASCANCES always came out with
him, and with whom he ever continued in converse.
don : he appeared to take little notice of his other
companions. His dress, upon these occasions, Kai
invariably a grten coat, with two plain epaulets,
.small-clothes, with silk stockines, and piimes, with
gold buckles. We crossed the 'Me on the 2.W of
September, when the weather was not warmer than
his in the Channel in Slimmer. At ah ee-,e
o'clock in the morning, the well.knewn ceremeny
eminences", by Neptune's ha.lille the ship, when he
was answered* by the C train in the tisii.ti maneer.--
Ahent tioe, lie came over the bows, and procee,sed
to the quarter deck on a gm-carriage, nceemnstare
by the tent!, and about rio ccwstsibio. In the car.
riage were the watery god, .I.is wife and a little
Iblack boy; the Oflieers
,of the ship, and General
l'etsairstere's friends were presented to him, also the
Qtlicers of the 59d Regiment, and all those who had
not before crossed the line, when the c rem°ny cf
shaving and ducking went through the wlik.l ; A
Neptune and his crew w:rc presented by a.oiaeattle
with hundred double Napoleons, and every 0;:e
his suite geve one double Napoleon.
" The Countesi BERTRAND is one of the overt
pleasant and agreeable women I ever conversed tee.
She said she wished we had missed the island And I
do not wonder at it ; for if its boundless craggy tech
and lofty mountains strike the senses of a stranger
who can depart at pleasure with a cold heart-appal.
ling effect, what must be the feelings of hinished
Maiert; ? Nature seems to have formed it i4T secy•
rity to its inhabitants.lHad General llosAraftre ever
entertained a hope of escape, when he came in eot
of this place it must have been banished for ever; the
whole world beside, I-shonld suppose, does not pr•-•
sent such another spot. He denies any knowledge
of the death of captain Whionv, till many molt
after that event occurred ; and on surprise being el:
pressed at this, he observed it was too to N lc%
him.—The destroying his sick and wounded At jars
has been noticed in conversation, which he anti:vies
to justify from neeessite, saying that the Turks would
is short time 'knee isutchered.them in a hornltk
*miner!"
• ltier kumberiand, October 15, :MS.
44
B°WAPARTz wall.ve&y much pleased with the at
tendon 'hewn to hulls swhilst on hoard this ship
however he might have felt upon 'subjects connectet:
with bringing him here. He publicly thanked Car
tain Ross, on the quarser.deck, ft.-r his kindness. ano
requested he would do the* s ime for him to the Ott
cers. . He appeared very solicitoue not to give et
least trouble whilst oft board. Every thing is vel
scarce and dear here. 'the Iteueoca retui to to 1::,;e
land with the Admiral's dispatches."

A requisition has been presented to the Lost
Maxon, for a Court of Common Council, to onud':
the present cruel persecution and sufferings t ii"
Protestants in France R and his Lordchip has :IP
pointed a Court for that purpose on Thursday nil:t;•
Yesterday the Duke of CUIII3:IILAND visited t. 3
ram.* Reos:NT, ai Carlton Horse.
Ducliesi of CeNIBERLAND has been connseL
for some days with a violent
.cold, and severe del.
matte pains in the head. l er Royal flogiiness is.af•
tended by Sir litany HALFORD. The band attends?
the relief of the King's Guard at Sr. Janws's 1'•11,1Ci:
have not played in consequence, after they re:iclit:,
the first entrance to the Palace, in the Mall, now t'''
Parade on mounting guard, or when the guard !.
•.
At tin '
iroi;ie lu
te:liom
from the
cobnasrtriattutoi
s,itlral,lave ceased