Star.
London, England, 1814-11-24 00:00:00

ROME, NOVEMBER 7.

Some Courts have demanded the dignity of the
Cardinalate for certain distinguished Prelates. Those
who know the conduct of our Government are per-
suaded that no foreign Cardinals will be nominated
previous to the decisions of the Congress. Those
selected will probably be the persons who have most
zealously defended the rights of the Church.

THE PRINCESS OF WALES.
Her Royac litotiNr.ss is now at Rome, where, ac
cording to the French papers, she has made large
'purchases of Statues and Pictures. Her ROYAL
HIGHNESS has been visited, since her arrival, by the
Ex-KINo and QUEEN of SPAIN, and the QUEEN of
ETRL'RIA. On the 2d instant, she had an audience
of the Pore, who received her with the greatest affa-
bility, and with all the respect due to her rank. The
same day her ROYAL HIGHNESS visited the Vatican,
the workshop of CANOVA the sculptor, and the PRINCY
Of CANINO.

Aref I. INT L IG EtIC R.
PLYMOUTH, NOVEMBER 22.
Came in the BRAZEN brig of war, and WOODLARK
sloop of war, from a cruize. Sailed the EUROTAI
frigate, on a cruize ; and the FOXHOUND and GOLD-
FINCH, for Bourdeaux.
CORK, NOVEMBER ts.
The brig Sir John Sherbrook, Captain DUNCAN,
from Newfoundland, and bound to Alicant, wasl
taken on the 24th September, by the Syren of Balti.,
more, in lat. long. 26, atter an action of one how I
and 44 minutes, when on the point of being boarded,',
the Sir John reluctantly struck. The said privateer
had seventeen 12 pounders and 90 men ; on the 3d of
October met the Grand Turk American privateer, of
New York, had taken seven prizes, burnt three,
and sent four for America. The James, M‘Nzir., in
company with the Swiftsure, both of Port Glasgow,
from Newfoundland, were captured on the 13th of
September, in lat. 39. 50 after an action of near two
hours, by the American privateer Saratoga, of New
York, and sent for America.

DEAL, NOVEMBER 23.
•
Arrived, and sailed for the River, the Earl of
Buckinghamshire, *DONALD, from Quebec. Sailed
the Venus transport, for Aberdeen; and the Anson
transport, for Ramsgate.—Wind S.W.
BOSON, OCTOBER 15.
Arrived the privateer brig Prince of Neufchatel,
Ordonaux commander, of New York, (of 310 tons
and 17 guns) from a cruize, the particulars of which
are taken from her journal, and follow, viz.-
4, Sailed from Cherbourg (France) 4th July. On
the 9:h, captured sloop Jane, Bowen, of Cardigan,
from St. Jean de Luz for Falmouth, cargo timber,
70 tons burthen, five men, burnt her. 11th, captured
brig Steady, Bulky, of Hull, from Bourdeaux for
St. John's, Newfoundland, cargo provisions and bale
goods, took out the latter and some of the former
articles, and burnt her-109 tons burthen, 11 men,
and 4 guns. 22d, captured brig Triton, Blance, of
Peterhead, 127 tons, eight men, two guns, from
Cadiz for London, cargo coffee and wine, took out
part of the cargo, and scuttled her. 24th, captured
transport brig Aaron, Pindall, of Scarborough, 142
tons, eight men, four guns, from Gibraltar for Lis-
bon, in ballast, and scuttled her. 27th, captured brig
Apollo, Hardy, of Hull, 135 tons, seven men, from
St. Übes for Riga, cargo salt, and burnt her.
soners and gave her up. Same day, captured sloop
George, Barber, of Ramsgate, 50 tons, five men,
from Milford Haven for Plymouth, cargo coals, and
scuttled her. 15th, captured brig Sibson, Clark, of
Whitehaven, 200 tons, nine men, four guns, from
Greenock for Cork, in ballast, scuttled her. 18th,
captured brig Nymph, Hutchinson, of Whitehaven,
150 tons, ten men, from St. Jean de Luz for Cork,
cargo provisions and dry goods, took out the latter,
threw overboard the former, put on board a number
of prisoners and gave her up. Same day, captured
brig Albion, Farquhar, of Whitehaven, 185 tons,
eight men, tour guns, from Greenock for Cork, cargo
wine, gin, brandy, and dry goods, took out the latter
and burnt her. 20th, captured ship Harmony, Wil-
son, of Greenock, 290 tons, eight men, three guns,
from Greenock for Cork, cargo dry goods, rum, and
an assortment of other articles, took out part of the
a August 9th, captured the cutter General Doyle,
Simpson, of Bristol, from Leghorn for Bristol, 83
tons, seven men, six guns, coppered, cargo oil, to k
out most of the cargo and burnt her. 14th, captared
brig Berwick Packet; Crosby, of and for Dristol, cop-

plhd,• Ottatito lernt thatt, rot* gtUit, with AO pale
senpra, and ballast put on board a number of pH.
cargo, manned and kept her till the 24th, and sail
her recaptutetl that day by a sloop of war, then eight
leagues south of the Land's End.
" All the foregoing vessels were captuted in the
British and Irish Channels. At the time the Har•

mony was captured, a letter of marque brig was a
little to windward, which rundown towards the ship;
gave her a broadside, when she struck, but wishing
to take out part of the cargo of the Harmony, and
several suspicious sail being in sight 40 windward,
permitted her to
" August 30tgeor:, 1.d45. long. 27. captured the
brig Charlotte, Edwards, of London, 9 men 8 guns,
190 tom, from Rio Janeiro for Greenock, cargo bidts
and Brasil wood—burnt her. _

September 6th, lat. 41i. long. 4.5. captured ship
Douglas, Cameron, of and for Liverpool from De-
merara, with a cargo of 421 bhds. sugar, 190 pun-
cheons rum, 6 hhds. molasses, 254 bkles cotton, 412
bags coffee, 8 bags ginger, and 28 logs of mahoga-
ny—of 420 tons, 21 men, and 4 guns—manned her,
after taking out some coffee, and ordered her to keep

in company.
ig September 30th, lat. 38t. long. 64. captured
the schooner Mary Ann, MgLeod. of and from St.
John's, N. B. for Barbadoes, 103 tons, 6 men, carp
lumber, burnt her.
" July 26th, spoke, under English colours, (and
kept company some time,) an English brig, of eight
luns and SO men, from Lisbon for Gibraltar, in bal.
ast; and ascertaining from her that she had parted
a short time before with several men of war, which
were looking after several American privateers, said
to be in that neighbourhood. and knowing we should
have to put all our prisoners on board and let her go,
by which means the enemy might get information of
us, let her proceed undeceived of our being an Ame.

rican.
66 August 30th, boarded Russian ship Austrian,
from Havannah, with sugar and coffee, bound to
Boerdeaux; informed she had been plundered that
day by an English letter of marque brig under Ante.'
rican colours (American ensign at the peak, an Eng-
lish pendant at the main), but the Captain said he
knew her to be a Guernsey brig, as he saw her in
Havannah.
66 September 3d, lat. 44. long. SA. spoke and
boarded the brig William, prize to the York, of Bal-
timore, and supplied her with bread.
46 On the 9th instant made Nantucket, in com-
pany with our prize the Douglas. On the 1 lth Nan-
tucket bore N. about 1-4 mile distant from the land ;
discovered a frigate off Gayhead, which gave ch.tee,
and came up very fast with a hesh breeze, while we •
were becalmed. At 3 p.m. we took the breeze, and
took the Douglas in tow, the frigate then abut four
leagues from us. At suit-set it fell calm. At 7 P.M.
was obliged, on account of the current, to come to
anchor, about musket-shot of our.prize, and snppos-
ing the frigate would send her barges to attempt to
capture us, called all hands to quarters, and there
kept them.
46 At half-past 8 P.M. a signal was made from the
prize, that the barges were coming, prepared for
them. Soon after discovered them, and commenced
firing, which they disregarded, and were soon along-
side—they were five in number, one on each side,
one oe each bow, and one on the aters•iiwmarat
tion was then kept up with muskets, pistols, cut-
lasses, &c. and in every attempt the enemy made to
board he was promptly met and repulsed. About
twenty minutes after the commencement, the enemy
cried out for quarters, which were granted, and then
ended.

" Of the five barges and launches (which contained
184 men, including officers), at the commencement
of the action one was slink, (with 48 men, two only
of which were saved) three drifted from along-side,
apparently with no living men on board, and one
was taken possession of. She contained 36 Men at
the commencement of the action, eight of which were
killed, twenty wounded, and eight unhurt. It was
then ascertained that they were from the Endymion,
And were all armed with pistols, boarding pikes,
muskets, cutlasses. and blunderbusses.

" The 2d Lieutenant of that frigate, (F. Ormond,
who was unhurt) three midshipmen (two of which
were severely wounded) and one master's mate (also
wounded) were permitted to come on board, the re.
minder of the prisoners, twenty-five seamen and ma-
rines, we kept in the launch astern all night, after
taking out the arms, oars, &c. as the commander
dared not trust them oa board, having only eight men

left fit for duty.
61 The Prince of Neufchatel had only 38 men, itt-
eluding officers, at quarters, at the commencement
of the action, and had on board 37 prisoners. Atter
the action it was ascertained that six of her crew were
killed, (as well as Mr. Charles Hilburn, .3f Nantuc-
ket, a pilot taken out of a fishing vessel), fifteen se•
verely wounded, nine slightly, and eight unhurt.
" The next morning the Lieutenant, Midshipman,
and Master's-mate, signed a paper in behalf of them-
selves, and the seamen and marines, pledging their
honours not to serve against the United States during
the war, unless exchanged, and were towed ashore
to Nantucket in the launch, by the P' ince of Neufcha.
tel's boat. Shortly after, Captain Ordonaux sent 17
of his other prisoners, and his 15 wounded men alse
on shore, and placed the former at the disposal of thd
Marshal, as he did not dare to trust them on board.
" The Prince of Neufchatel has brought in 14(1
bales, 164. boxes, and 156 trunks of dry goods, 2i
casks, and 174 boxes sweet oil, and a large quantity
of coffee, rum, and various other articles, and twenty
prisoners."

We received Brussels and Frankfort Pipers just
as our Paper was going to press. Their contents ale
mostly anticipated by our Extracts from the Fiends
Papers.
Sir Gamma PasvosT is, it is said. to be tried by a
Court-Inertial, on charges preferred by the subordinate
Generals and by Sir JAMBS YEO.
Letters from New Yolk, of the 22d. state, that
GILBERT ROBERTSiIi, Esq. the Agent of Prisoners .sn
the part of the British Government, would nut be
permited to land in the United States. The pretence
tor this refusal is, that he had virtually violated his
parole.
Mr. HAVILAND, of St. John's College, was yestee.
day elected to the Anatomical Professorship ftl e
University of Cambridge, vice Sir Busse% Heap
IsTuoDs daceasadi by a considerable majority.

f I elisILL'S HlS7oltr-011' ARANO.E.
In the new Edition of Sif efikViiitiftWitairatt.4
eallianle History of France. UM, ikblitted, are the
following very curious and inheriting Paeallels be-
tween HENRY 111. and Lows %111.-and between
limey IV. and Lows XVIII. :
o The coincidence between Henry the Third and
Louis the Sixteenth, is so striking in many particu-
lars, as to arrest and impress the least reflecting, mind.
Never, indeed, wore • two Princes more dissimilar in
the great points, of moral character. The one, disso-
lute, enervate, and destitute of principle, or of virtue.
The ether, exemplary in the discharge of his private
as well as of his public duties. But, their resem-
blance on a single article, namely, the supine acqui-
escence under popular innovation, plunged them
both into remediless ruin. The profligate indolence
of Henry, and the inert or sluggish inaptitude of
Louis, who, each, allowed insurrection to organize
itself, without exerting any adequate effort for its
coercion or suppression, produced the same results.—
Both Monarchs acceded to the Throne, in the
bloom of yotith. Henry, at twenty-two : Louis, at
a still earlier period of life ; the one in 1574 :—the
other, in 1774. Each reigned nearly the same num-
ber of years, fifteen. For though the unfortunate
Louis survived down to 1793, he cannot be said to
have reigned beyond 1789. Like Charles the First,
whose reign terminates with his surrender to the Scot-
tish army in 1646, though his /ifs was prolonged down
to 1649.
41 The two Kings remained alike passive specta.
tors of the gathering national convulsion, during se.
veral years. Henry, after 'his brother's decease, in
1584, till 1589. Louis, precisely the same space of
time, between the termination of the American war,
and the fatal era of the French revolution. Both lost
possession of the'capital, by not retaining the Bastile;
which forties), if Henry had entrusted to Ornano, or
if Louis had provided. with an adequate garrison and
the requisite means of defence, would not in either
case have fallen into the hands of the insurgents.—
Each, Soiereign was besieged in his own Palace : the
former, in the Louvre : the latter, in the Tuilleries.—
They alike fall by* violent death, at thirty-eight :
one by the knife of an assassin ; the other, under the
axe of the guillotine ; leaving their dominions in a
state of rebellion, approaching to anarchy.
" Both Princes convoked, in their distress, the
States General of France ; and both fled from their
respective Palaces. But here, the parallel terminates.
For, Henry, though he assembled the Representa-
tives of the nation, did not alloW them to assume all
the prerogatives of the Crown, and then to transfer
him to the scaffold, like his feeble successor. Nor
did he remain in the Louvre, as Louis continued at
Versailles, in October, 1789, to be conducted thence
a prisoner by his own subjects, dishonoured, and vir.
tually dethroned. The last of the Valois race, how.
ever degenerate and effeminate he might be in his
ordinary character, could exert under circumstances
of imperious necessity, an energy and activity ca-
pa he of extricating him from the worst extremities
eF fa'len majesty. But, the last of the Bourbons
seemed to make no effort for redeeming his usnriped
rights, or for stemming the current of insurrection
and Jacobi:limn. Henry, when driven beyond the
laiitads of patience, assassinated his rebellious and
tii:asonable subject. Louis neither arrested, nor
brought to '441 the Duke of Orleans ; the Guise of
the. eighteenth' century. though endowed with very
inferior talents to his prototype. On the extinction
of the fathily of Valois, France, though in a state of
universal rebellion, yet, from the exertions of its So-
vvreign, however tardy, was on the point of being re-
duced into,submission to the Royal authority. At
the subversion of the Bourbon line, the sceptre was
broken ; and many years of sanguinary anarchy,
civil war, and foreign conquest, intervened, before its
scattered fragments were collected and reunited, in
the person of the ruthless and flagitious tyrant, deno-
initiated Emperor of the French.
" Notwithstanding the dissimilarity, or we might
more properly say, the contrast, which the characters
of Henry the Third and of Louis the Sixteenth pre-
sent, considered as ; yet ne have seen that
the unfortunate resemblance existing between them
As sovereigns, produced under both reign;, nearly the
same results. The profligate indolence of the former,
and the passive acquiescence qr inaction of the latter
p ince, during a period- of popular innovation, over-
turned the throne, while it btob,ght• them both to a
tragical ani premature end. It may with equal, truth
be asserted that though Henry the Fourth and Louis
the Eighteenth bear I:ttle sitisilarity to each other in
the leading features of their private and personal cha-
racters as men ; yet. is the analogy, between them in
their kingly capacitor most striking and incontestable.
. Both succeeded nominally, to the French crown, not
in direct but in collateral descent; one as related by
, a remote 'ye of consanguinity in the male line, with
his three precle7essors of the House of Valois; the
other as brother or uncle to the two preceding kings.
They. both passed a great_ portion of their lives in
exile, under sufferings and privations of the' severest
kind. Henry, at the foot of the Pyrennces, exposed
to the secret enmity, of Catherine of Medicis, and to
the open hostility of the Guises: Louis, as 2, fugitive
in the continental:counts,. pursued by she rage of the
Jacobin republicans; or attacked by the more con-
coaled and atrocious. arts of the Italian adventurer,
who, under various Roman designations, consular or
imperial, had seized on the supreme authority in
France. Each of them displayed the utinostconstancy,
equanimity, and superiority. to 'adverse fortune ; re,
jetting with equal firmness, the insidious offers made
to etake, their
piinelpys, or Co bend them- to un-
- worthy renunciations of any kinds The two kings
Me. found in England. their, best- support. One, from
tare policy- of Elisabeth, e Wise and-magnanimous who
extended to him. pecuniary and military assistance;
during_tfie rteribds of his greatest depression. The
other; from the generous protection of George the
hird, or pable sympathy and' fraternal attach.
tient offis.On;l4 Regent oPereat Britain.
Both' pyincit re-ascended the. sobverted throne of
,t. .out. 'PIT first, principally by the persevering
ee‘i of that courage, activity, and energy, with
pantie had in 'eminently endowed him. The
last recalled by the lassitude, exhausture, and abhor-
etaice which the leptematic tyranny as well as the ie-
satiable amititan Of theft Ceirsieati ruler, had- produc-
ed throughout 'France.. If 'Henry overcame and ex-
tinguitka the hydra ti “..the Leeague;" Louie has

beheld the fall of a more destructive and formidable 1
monster, whose sanguinary traces, not confined to the
French territory, are to be found at Madrid, and at
Moscow, marked by massacre, or by conflagration :
a monster, for whom the most sterile rock of the Me-
diterranean, or of the Baltic, would have formed too
mild a prison. Henry and Louis, At the distance of
220 years, have, each, entered Paris, amidst the ac.
clamations of the loyal and the virtuous part of the
inhabitants. Each found a country and a capital,
destitute of morals, habitu tted to revolutionary scenes
of blood, deprived in a great degree of industry, ma-
nufactures, commerce, and all the domestic employ-
ments or occupations, the attendants of peace and in-
ternal tranquillity. Henry, within the space of six-
teen years, by the mixture of wisdom, vigilance, fru-
gality, clemency, and moderation, which met in his
composition; restored France to her just place in the
scale of nationi, chile he diffused, felicity and abun-
dance throughout the interior of his dominions. We
are ecin.iii!, authorised confidently to hope, that a
prince distinguished for his prudence, benignity, en-
largement of mind, oblivion of injuries, and mature
experience ; all which qualities have passed through
the crucible of adversity; will, like his illustrious
prototype and ancestor, erase the memory of past
enormities, resuscitate morals, revivify industry, and
open from the sara of his auspicious return to France,
a new period in the history of Europe, and of the ci-
vilized world."

Monday the Duke of YORK came to town from
Oatlands. Tuesday his Royal Highness held a Mi-
litary Levee, which was attended by Major-General
STEWART, on his return from Canada, Colonel PAL•
hiER, &c. kc.

Tuesday there was some excellent coursing inWind.
sor Park, the hares being very numerous. Princess
AUGUSTA, attended by Sir BRENT SPENCER, General
TAYLOR, and Mr. DISBROW, enjoyed the day's sport,
which they were enabled to do to great advantage, the
day being remarkably tine.

Yeste-day a Court of Ureetors was held at the
East India House, when Captains La BLANC and
JOHN BLANCHARD were sworn into the command of
the Hertfordshire and Carnatic.

DRURY LANE THIATRE.--.The Cattle of Andalusia
was performed last night—BRAHAM was in fine yoke,
and was loudly encored in all his songs. Mrs.
Diocons sung with her usual taste and science. The
pan of Pedri/h, (hitherto so well sustained by Lova-
°nova, who is dangerously ill, from the bursting of a
blood-vessel) was undertaken by OXISENRY, who ac-
quitted himselfto the entiresatislaction of the audience.
In the revived A,fter-piece of The Midnight Hour, Mrs.
EDWIN was highly entertaining, as Flora.
COVENT GARDEN—Miss O'NEILL, in Belvidera, last
night, attracted a crowded and elegant audience :
she sustained the character with her usual excellence.
The feelings of the audience, often restrained in the
progress of the play by the interest of the scene, in-
dulged, at the fall of the curtain, in four rounds of
applause. Mr. CONWAY being ill, Mr. ABBOTT per-
formed the part of Jajier, and with considerable effect.

The Musical World are much indebted to Mr.WAT-
LIN for his new improvement on the Pateat Oblique,
Harmonic, and other Piano. Fortes, which are Ant-
nisbed by the Inventor, at his Manufactory, No. 5,
Leicester-place. These Piano-Fortes claim the supe-
riority over all others; the touch and tone are un-
equalled—the length of time they keep in tune, and
their durability, is astonishing—Sanr tared. •

Conosan's INQlJEST.—Yesterday an Inquest was
held at the Gloucester Arms, Tothill-fields, on Ste.'
phen Oldfield, private of the Ist Guards, who died on
Friday List at the Hospital, under suspicious circum-1
stances. It appeared, that on Thursday night, about
eleven, he went to Ann Cumberlidge's, Great Pye.
street, with whom he used to cohabit. He being in
a state of intoxication, and afterwards found in the
passage, in consequence of Lis groaning, about three
o'clock, it was concluded that Cumbedidge had left
him there, being unable to get him up stairs. He
remained in the passlge till one o'clock on Friday,
was then taken to the Ist Guards' Hospital, where he
died in about four hours. The surgeon discovered
no siound or fracture till he commenced the dissec-
tion of the deceased, and then he found a fracture at
the back of the head about six inches long, and much
extravasated blood and ruptured brains. He did not
think the. fracture resulted from'a blow. Cumber-
lidge stated that he was so much intoxicated as to be
unable to speak or to go up stairs, in which she was
supported by a publican, and the mud on the clothes
of the deceased. Verdict—Accidental Death, from
excess of Drinking. Ann Cumberlidge was diicharg-
ed at Queen-square.
MansioN HOUSE.—Yesterday, John Harrison was'
charged before the LORD MAYOR with offering a bill
for acceptance, which had been lost or stolen in Li-
verpool. The prisoner did not give a, satisfactory ac-
count how he came by the bill, and wanted much to
get back his notes and papers; all which his Lord.
.hip refused till a further investigation should take
place, when his other companions may be found. The
prisoner was remanded for further examination.
HATTON-GARDEN.—Thomar Forgan, a baker, resid-
ing at No. 3, Hatton-garden, appeared to a summons
on an information, charging him with exposing a
quaktity of bread for sale, not the weight ordered by
Act of Parlament. The two Reads, father and son,
officers, who seized the bread, produced it ; it was
upwards of seventy ounces deficient in weight. The
defendant employed Mr. ALLEY as Counsel ; but the
charge being sufficiently proved, the baker was fined
2s. an ounce, being Jr, and the bread was ordered to
be given to the poor.
We have translated the following from the Paris
Journal des Debats of the 15th of November, 1814.

c, Mr. w ILLIAMS,OcuIist of the ROYAL r:
DISPENSARY, London, being desirous of giving irre-
vocable proof of the fficacy and innocency of his me-
dicines, intends that his Assistant shall dress publicly
during the last fifteen days of this month, in the pre-
sence of any professional men who are inclined to
call at his apartments, the whole of his Indigent Pa-
tients (especially one person afflicted thirty-seven
years) ; several of whom have already been restored
to sight by die simple application of his Topic, in ad-
dition, with rational treatment appropriated to the
age and constitution of the person afflicted, without
having recourse to any surgtcal operation.—Tickets
of admission to be procured oldie Porter at Mr. Wtt.-
utors's hotel, rue Nove. St. Etunactie, No. 14, where
he will remain no longer than the Bch January next.

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