Star.
London, England, 1823-10-30 00:00:00

OPOItTO, OCTOBER 10.

We have before mentioned that some persons
had been arrested for having sold or mariufactured
daggers prohibited by the laws of the kingdom : the
Magistrates made the necessary investigation, and
the persons principally implicated have been con-
demned as follows:—the seller, as the owner of them, to
six years transportation to Angola, and 100 milrees for
the costs; the cutler, two years transportation to Cape
Verd, and twenty milrees costs ; and the manufacturer
of the sheaths to two years transportation to Castro
Marion, and fifteen milrees costs. Strict investigations
are making respectiqg the propagators of the celebrated
news which were circulated on the 28th and 29th of
last month. Some of the persons arrested have been
sent to Lisbon, and we are informed that others will be
sent there to await the destiny due to their crimes.

We stated yesterday, in part of our impression, and
have to repeat, from the best authority, that the
statement of the salaries of the South American Con-
suls and Commissioners, contained in a letter in the
Morning Chronicle of Tuesday, signed " A Looker
on," is quite incorrect, and for the most part utterly false.

We• quote from the Caledonian Mercury the follow-
ing extract of a letter from Jamaica, to a Gentleman
in Aberdeen, dated August 9, 1823. The matter of
fact, as our Readers will perceive, is grossly exag-
gerated ; let us hope that so also are the fears of the
writer.--,, At the time I am 'now writing, we are on the
eve of an awful crisis, and ruin, absolute ruin, is un-
avoidable. How it will end, GOD alone knows. You
will have heard, how the Government (the Parliament)
at home has interfered with our internal legislation, and
how those in power herehave complied with all their regu-
lations about the negroes. But their compliance has done
us no good ; for we have had evil upon evil, and vexation
upon vexation, heaped upon our heads, and the grossest
and most unfounded calumaies repeated against us.—
Everything is tried to be kept secret, till some mea-
sures can be adopted for our safety. The Assembly has
met at an unusual time to deliberate what can be done
for our very lives are at stake Even although negt oeman-
cidation is put off for a few years,we can eipect no good
from it, as property here will then be worth nothing. The
tidings that have thrown us into this consternation came
out in a ship of war on Monday, the Governor's negroes
having been the first to rebel, and gone to him in a
body,• saying, King had given shim liberty they
were, however, prevailed on to return to their duty.
Several other alarming symptoms have broken out,•but'
have hitherto been quelled without bloodshed ; and Goo
forbid that the dreadful scenes that were acted in 4E:
Domingo, '27 years seo, should take place here."
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THE ARMY.

His Royal Highness the COMMAIMIII sx CMS? Is expected to 0;
rive at York House on Saturday next.
The detachments belonging to the 27th and 64th net'manta a(
Foot, which embarked at Cowes on board the Friendsbury trans.
port, for Gibraltar, and the detachments belonging to the Bth, leek
28th, 52d, 36th, 51st, 80th, 85th, and 90th Regiments of Infas,,
try, which also embarked on board the same transport for the Ns.
diterranean, have arrived at their several destinations, and ialaid
their respective Regiments.
The duty recently performed by the 12th (East Suffolit)itsti.
ment of Foot (ordered to Gibraltar), at Sheerness and Chatb*.
is to be executed, fur the present, by detachments from the It
Artillery and Marines. . . • - -
The 7th Royal Fusileers, Who starched on Wednesday semi,*
on their route to Portsmouth, there to embark fur Gibraltar, ra,
turned to Brighton on Saturday, in consequence of rectivilis
countermand. It appears that the 12th Infantry will now preset
Ito Gibraltar, instead of the above Regiment. The head-quarters 4
the 7th are consequently once more at Windsor.
The late General Nisserr Bai.rona was a member of the Ca..
' solidated Board of General Officers for the Inspection and Reguis,
:io:: of the Clothing of the Army, the Investigation of Claims/sr.
Losses, and for all I)uties heretofore performed by the Clothis:
Board, Board of Claims, and other Boards of General Officers.