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London, England, 1814-11-05 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5,1814.
GUNPOWDER Purr.—Holiday at the Stock Eschew.

The Mail from Halifax, which arrived yesterday, I
brings the most recent details from Sir ALEXANDER
COCHRANE, with the usual lists of captures, &c. ad.
dressed to the Naval Commander in Chief, by the su-
bordinate Officers, commanding on different stations.
We have also received, by the above arrival, Ha
lifax Papers to the 29th of September, but neither the
Dispatches nor the Journals, furnish any particulars
of consequence regarding the operations on the Ca.
nadian borders, or on the coasts of North America.
The Expedition, prepared on the return of Sir
ALEXANDER COCHRANE to Nova Scotia, was enabled
to proceed, on the 2d or 3d ult. in a southerly direc-
tion. In the opinion of some, it was returning to the
Chesapeake, though it was the most probable opinion
that the enterprise was destined against Rhode Island.

The Paris Papers of Thursday reached us this
morning. The article of principal interest, in a poli-
tical point of view, presented in these papers, is a
letter of Parisian manufacture, but dated Imm Vienna,
21st October, explaining, a little, the system of policy
by which the French diplomatists would inflame the
proceedings of the Coligress. The principle avowed
in the account of what is pretended to be actually
passing, amounts, though not so intended, to a direct
avowal, that, if possible, France will arm the world
against Great Britain to annihilate her maritime sulteriority.
Let every Briton mark the expressions made use
of in this letter, and let him make up his mind to
every exertion —every sacrifice which the honour, the
dignity and the safety of his country may call for, at
no very rvrec•te period, if France shall succeed in the
views ascribed to her in her own Journals—which—

let every Briton constantly recollect—are all published
so der an avowed censorship.
In the letter alluded to, we are told that the Conti-
nental Powers, represented at the Congress, 41 are now
making war against England as England did against
BONAPARTE. He wished to extend his despotism
over the Continent, and it is wished to persuade Eng-
land to renounce her supremacy over the sea."—How
was BONAPARTE'S despotism brought to an end ? Was
it by persuading him to lay down his power ?—By ca-
joling him to renounce his schemes of boundless am-'
bition ?—No, but by arming the world against him.
AU our diplomacy was exerted at the different Courts
to induce them to arm for the common deliverance.
What then do these writers mean ? Their aim cannot
be misunderstood. England is to be held up to
the view of the world as exercising the same law-
less power upon dr! sea that BONAPARTE did upon
land ; and of course, if the Powers of Europe can
be "persuaded" that this is true, they are next to be
persraded to arm against her, that she may be pea-
WADED to renounce her supremacy over the sea. This
language needs no comment.—The kind of persua-
sion aimed at, is to place a pistol at each ear and
one in the mouth of John Bull, to bring him to this
reasonable concession.
But look at the exercise and effect of-the two
species of power thus attempted to be brought into a
state of parallelism. The Power of NAPOLEON was
created and maintained for no other purpose but to
enslave the nations While it existed they had not
a moment's respite from insult, degradation, rob-
bery, and violence.
But how has the great power of Britain—that
power, the object of French jealousy and envy, been
exerted ? In succouring the oppreised, assisting the
weak, cheering the disconsolate, emancipating those
who were degraded and enslaved by the power of

BmiaPAitrg !
In its very nature the power of NAPOLEON could
not rest for a moment—could not cease from acts of
i►.jury.—While it continued in existence there could
be no cessation of hostilities—no Peace. It has been
annihilated. Has the Maritime Superiority of Eng-

land been, since that period, a dispenser of desolation I
and misery to the Continental Powers ? If not, its
elements and functions are essentially different from
' that which BONAPARTE reared and put in exercise.—
The latter was, in its very nature, a polutual
meiioe—
the former is never put in action but for legitimate
and laudable purposes. Europe has experienced the
truth of this statement. _ _

Where would the Powers which are now repre-
sented in Congress at Vienna have been ! what the
circumstances in which they would now have been

found! but for the unwearied and unceasing exertions

of Britain to deliver them, by the efforts of her power,

from the gripe of that Tyrant whose power was ex-

erted only for their destruction ?
Persuade England to renounce her maritime supe•
riority I When the same species of argument by which
it was created, shall be found sufficiently weighty in

the opposite scale to wrest it from her—and not till
then will she cease to maintain her superiority,
for her own safety and glory, and for the defence

of the Nations of Europe against every machination

of France again to enslave them.
The holders of colonial produce in this country
will rejoice to heir that the demand for cotton wool

upon the Continent has greatly enhanced the price.
In the hope of a cheaper !supply, the manufacturers
had allowed themselves to get bare of the article ;
and the interruption to commerce, by the plague in

the Levant, has increased the scarcity.
Our statement of yesterday, that MURAT only
waited for an indemnity to give up the Throne of
Naples, is repeated in the French Journals before us.
We hope the Allied Sovereigns, for the honour of
humanity, will remind this gentleman, that he has
enjoyed the kingly dignity for six years, during which
he has doubtless filled his private Treasury to an
overflow; and though last, not least, that he has the
honour to be married to a sister of the invincible NA-
POLEON. What can he require in addition to these
dignities ?
FERDINAND of Spain has affected to signalize his
birth-day by a general amnesty to criminals. On
looking over the list of offences excepted from this
Act of Grace, it really appears that a Bill of Excep-
tions ought to be its title.
In the Chamber of Deputies, on Wednesday, the
subject of the unsold Property of Emigrants was
again agitated. Baron Louts, the Finance Minister,
according to appointment, ascended the Tribune,
He stated, that nothing could be more judicious than
the idea of indemnifying, by inscriptions on the great
book of France. such persons as might be losers by
the restitution of some descriptions of property. But
in thus disposing of a part of the revenues of the
State, it might perhaps be necessary to find an equi.

valent. He avowed his willingness to do all in his
power to facilitate any Arrangements which the Chan.
ber might make as to the Emigrants.
M. Banco, the original reporter from the Com-
mittee, then delivered a long and eloquent harangue,
as a kind of reply to or summing up of the arguments
against the amendments. He contended for conti-
nuing the words restitution instead of remission. Hu
thought that there were strong reasons why the emi•
grants should be formally relieved from the penalties
of civil death pronounced against them, and quoted
the opinion of Chancellor Aggresseau, who, in writing

to the Parliament of Besancon, on civil death and its
effects,lhas established that it necessarily resulted from
a confiscation pronounced. He thought the hospitals
should not be deprived of what had been given to
them from the emigrant funds.
Every tenant of these Hospitals, in his opinion,
stood in the shoes of an individual possessor of emi-
grant property. He thought it wrong to reimburse
some individuals and not others : all ought to be re-
imbursed, or:none, and he preferred the latter alter.
native.

The property in Canals, held by emigrants, was
all transferred to widows, orphans, and wounded sol-
diers : bad as Bonaparte was, it ought to be admit-
ted, in fairness, that this was a proper disposal, and
it ought, by no means, to be touched.
He admitted that by the law as amended by the
Committee, many emigrants would get nothing, ut
he thought they would be easily resigned to their lot.
M. &moat spoke upwards of three hours, and the
Chamber broke vp to hear him out next day.
VIENNA, OCTOBER 21.

Report states, that the Marquis del Gallo, Minister
for foreign affairs to the Kingdom of Naples, set out
in great baste, in the night of the 17th instant, on his
way to the Congress of Vienna—he did not wish him-
self to be known.
The demands of the Court of Sicily on the King-
dom of Naples, assume an alarming character for
King Joachim. Several persons even think that the
stay of the Neapolitan troops in the Marches, and in
Romagna, are prolonged, because these countries will
form part of the indemnities which are proposed to be
given to King Murat.
The cause of the country at large is in the mean
time advocated by several good writers—they de-
mand the liberty and independence of Italy. We
know well that it is impossible for the inhabitants to
live happy in the midst of the uncertainties to which
they are abandoned. They constantly appeal to the
magnanimity of the Allied Sovereigns, who ought to
have no other object but the repose and happiness of
mankind, and who will not attempt to treat Italy as
a province which conquerors divide among themselves.
According to appearances, they make war at the

Congress against England precisely as England did
against Bonaparte. He w,s7,ed to extend his des•
potism over the whole Continent, and it is wished to
persuade England to renounce the supremacy which
she wishes to exercise over the seas; but will she he
so persuaded ? The Ministers work more than ever,
but the public is not better instructed as to the results
of their discussions.

Prince Talleyrand and Lord Castlereagh have sent
Couriers to their respective Courts to demand instruc-
tions in sevcral important points. These Couriers
will return, it i; said, before the end cf the month.

Cotton is very dear here, in consequcnt_e of the
large demands which have been made for it, and it
is to be feared that they will still increase, for the ma-
gazines are exhausted ; there is none at Trieste, and
the plague, which has desolated Smyrna and the Le-
vant, will prevent all arrivals from that quarter be-
fore the bad weather. No colonial produce has been
received at Trieste yet, but the trade with the shores
of Italy and the Greek Islands is very animated.
The affairs of Southern Italy are, it is said, now
settled : the changes which will result from the ar-
rangements made, will be effected without difficulty.
Prince Metternich has received the diputation of
German Booksellers with many marks of good will,
and has pledged himself as the protector of the lite-
rature of Germany.
Cardinal Oppizoni is expected here every day.
Yesterday the Emperor and the Allied Sovereigns
hunted in the Prater.