Star.
London, England, 1814-02-10 00:00:00

cliys of Dunkirk also being betttpieci W the'
adventurans Cossacks:
General BULOW Coltman& the allied force
Is advaticing upon Ostend and Dunkirk.
The whole of the Netherlands is thus cleared from
The enemieirof commerce, and the intelligence has
given much satisfaction to the mercantile interest.
Indeed, the agreeable communications of yesterday
from Ostend, Were brought by a "vessel Which was
.diipatched by the Brabanters expressly for the pur-
pose.- The French Dottanier who furnished the clear-
ance coolly.remarked, that he presumed this was the
last document of the kind he would-have to sign.
Letters of the 4th inst. from Holland, speak of a
defeat which the FrenCh have sustained, with the loss,
of 85,000 men, and a great number of cannon; but as
they do not specify the time or place of this important
event, we fear it may prove an exaggeration.

Madrid Papers to the 22d ult. have been received.
Their chief contents relate to the proceedings of the
Government on the subject of the mock Treaty be-
tween BONAPARTE and FERDINAND VII. L they also
-announce the arrival of the celebrated PALAFOX, the
Hero of Saragossa, in Spain. He has been released
by BONAPARTE, 4,5 a coadjutor to the Duke of SAN
CARLOS in the insidious attempt to detach Spain from
she cause of the Allies ; but from the sentiments ex--
presied by the Cortes, and the language held by the
Spanish Journals, there is no chance that BONAPARTE
will succeed in this pitiful ruse. Indeed, we cannot
believe that the brave PALAFOX will be aiding and
abetting to such an atrocious fraud. The example of
the captive Roman General Rucuurs will not be lost
upon the Hero of Saragossa,

To•day we have given some further extracts from

the Halifax Papers,.received yesterday. The disas-
ters of the Americans are not confined, it would ap-
pear, to their land operations. Their fleets on Lakes
Erie and Ontario have been nearly annihilated by
tremendous hUrricanes. Two vessels are said to have
been drifted down the Falls of Niagara ! Ten ves-

sett were lost on Lake Erie, and five on Lake Onta

riovall of them of the largest class. All these mis.
fortunes have tended to make the war more unpopu
lar than ever in the Northern States.

Our Readers hive seen that the American General,
WrutiNsom, igs officially declared the PRESIDENT'S
resolution to imprison British Officers, on the mon-
strous plea of protecting British traitors from punish-
meet. If the PRESIDENT'S resolution be unalterable—
and, from his stupid and mulish obstinacy, we can
easily believe it is so—the American people, the re-
flecting and influential part of them at least, are the
more imp.einocly called upon to review the grounds
on which that resolution is formed. Is it founded on
precedent, on authority, on reason, on analogy? If-a'
son has fled from hit father, if an indented servant or
apprentice has run away from his master, if a wife
has eloped from her husband, does it follow, that the
person to whom the fugitive chooses to resort has a
right to consider his or her prior obligations and
duties as absolutely annihilated ?

The American professor of improvement in civili-
zation and morals, however, holds, that there is, in the
.ptescut case, no duty, no obligation ; that every in-
ditidual of full.sage and reasonable capacity has.a
tight to elect his country. It may be so in the united
States, because dielaw of the United States may have
permitted its nativehorn citizens to make such glee.
'don ; but if the law of the individual's native country
has giveshim- so, such right, in what code is it to be
found ? in none, no, not even in tha,t monstrous pro.
duction of crazy philosophy,the French Rights of Man.
Actording to the American philosopher, it is to be
found in the abstract nature of man ; man in.the ab-
stract having no country, no sovereign, no allegiance.
—Grant this, and what comes of MADISON'S logic ?

Let these traitors be considered in their abstract state;
and what relation can e exist between. them and. the
American Government ? Man in the case put by the
President has no relation, no duty, no right, no coun-
try ; and; if this wiseacre insists on giving to such
America as a country, he destroys his abstract qualities.
It is impossible that avnan can be without a country,
a Sovereign, and the duties of allegiance, and at the
same. time have America for his country, MADISON
for his Sovereign, and owe allegiance •to the United
States.

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By. accounts from Jersey yesterday we learn that
since the arrival of-the Duke of BERRI in that island,
he has been visited by a Priest from the coast of Nor-
mandy, who had cautioned him against landing
either. in that province, or the adjacent districts of
Brittany. The clergyman says, that through the
entire line of the coast an extra guard has been esta-
blished for the express purpose of entrapping him,
and that a number of -persons have suffered military
execution in the neighbourhood, who have been sus-
pected of a disposition to aid and abet the appearance
of any branch of the BOURBON family within the
French territory. The Duke, we are told, has listen-
ed to this .advice, and has for the present abandoned
the purpose of 'hazarding his person on French
ground; until he can accomplish his design with less
danger to the friends and supporters of his family.
The Castle, or Chateau, of 'Brienne, which the
Moniteur represents as a late conquest of BONAPARTE,
,is by no means a fortified place, but a stately man-
sion, or castle, belonging to the Brienne family. As
well might we say, that the PRINCk REGENT took the
Castle of Belvoir by Capitulation, because the key of
the strong tower was presented to hirnly the War-
den. The Cassie of Brief= has still less the appear
ante of a fortifieationi