Star.
London, England, 1815-02-27 00:00:00

FRENCH 114,111,f.

VIENNA, nu VARY is.
81.Averanon.—Tho discussions on thetlatietratiel
have been very warm at the Congress. LOW Cud.-
reagh was extreme!y anxious to take with hint Its abo-
lition, but he met with opponents worthy of hint. It
was in vain that he made a pompous display of phi.,
lanthropy ; it was thought to be visible that he was
more occupied by the interest of his owa country,
tblb by the love of humanity. The discussions on
the subject drierve to be recorded.
There had been previously a question on different
occasions, among the principal Ministers. about for-
ming a Committee to decide of the fate of the negroes,
an object which an article of the Treaty of Paris re.
fared to the Congress. Though France, Spain, and
yortuzil insisted that the Minasterrof powers without
:.,10,11vi or slaves had no claim to deliberate on the
;:abject, Lord Castlereagh constantly returned to the
,:mge, and at last triumphed over the opposition of
lis opponents, who objected that a Congress was not
philanthropic institution, otherwise it would be its
iustness to deliberate also on the improvement of any.
instruments, vaccination, the means of preset-
'•in,g shipwrecked mariners, *c.
At last a Committee was appointed, consisting of
ralleyrand, Metternich, Nesselrode, Humboldt,l.a.
gador, Castlereagh, Loweabielin, and Palmella. On
:he first conference, which took place on the 14th of
lanuary, France, Spain and Portugal declared that
hey acknowledged the principle of the abolition, but
-hat the interest of their subjects, who had estates in
Ae Monies, obliged them to proceed with much
loon, lest by benefiting the blacks they should ruin
he whites.
On the 20th Lord Castlereagh attempted to th-
in an immmediate abolition ; but he found a strong
pposition to the measure on the part of Spain and
gortugal.
M. Labrador declared, that Spain had en.
;aged, by the Treaty of July 8, 1814, only to take
nto consideration, the means of abolishing the trade;
hat the Court of Spain had, however, in come-
luence of the application of the English Ambassa-
:or, fixed the definitive abolition at the end of eight
ears, and in the mean dime had confined the trade
the coasts of Africa situated between the Equator
ud the tenth degree of North latitude; that
that
his was all that could be granted, considering the
:nation of the colonies of Cuba and Porto Rico.
M. Palmclla Souza, the Portuguese Envoy, üb.
•erved, that Portugal, by the Treaty of the 19th of
February, 1410, had promised only a gradual abo-
-11011 of the trade; that the Prince Regent of Brazil
sd already confined 'it to his possessions in Africa,
,nd had ordered such regulations to be made as
qould tend to preserve the health of the negroes.
lie complained that the English cruisers, disregard.
ag the treaty of commerce, has in time of peace
iken away from his subjects 10 or 12,000 oegroes,
'h.e value of which amounted to three millions of
:laitres ; and that these negroes, if they bad arrived
it Brazil, would have accelerated the period of the
abolition.
Portugal, however, agrees to abolish the Slave
Trade at the expiration of eight years, on condition
:Ist England will renounce several oppressve clauses
1 the Treaty of 1810. Lord Castlereagh applied to
:ardinal Gonsalvi to obtain from him a declaration
idle immorality and wickedness of the trade ; but
ere are assured that the Cardinal soak -that opportn.
ty of complaining that England tolerates, in some
cr,se, the barbarians that at this time infest the
toasts of Italy.
At the fourth sitting, held on the Sd of February,
:,.,ard Castlereagh proposed that a Committee of Am-
lissadors should be appointed at Paris or London, to
!dictintend the execution of the arrangements that
'night be adopted. This proposal was rejected. On
ihe 7th of February, the Negotiators at last agreed
.o draw ap a Convention foe the gradual abolition of
be trade.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1815.
TitE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Re :need 61ii--4 per Cu sqi—s per Ct. Navy 941
Lot 0:. 64(1—for
Lank Long Anns. 16 5-l6lbs—monde 7s. M. pre.
Esc4tquer Bills Is. (Its. Si. prem.

Since Saturday we have received the Paris Papers
i Ilursday, the 24th. They repeat that the affairs
Saxony are settled, but they are unable to furnish
with any document on the subject. We suspect
Sat the eagerness of the French Journalists to an-
+ounce the triumphs of the new Preach Politics"
44 led them into an anticipation of the decision of
.ongress in this respect. We have ens-acted an
.nicle on the subject of the Slave Trade, in which
'‘e humane excrticns of the English to abolish this
.famous traffic are treated with all the insoleuce of
Philesethia of &NAVA ItTaill school.

A Hamburgh Mail with German Papers, and a
batch Mail with Brussels and Frankfort Papers,
arrived this morning. They have brought us no in-
Elligcnce of a novel or striking kind. The fate of
Ilelgium is decided by Congress; and the event, &c-
-ording to the Brussels Papers, when it was officially
made known, excited a burst of universal joy through-
it the Netherlands : Belgium is, of course, annexed
.:sv uc ably to Holland-

It is conaJently asse:ted by well informed persons,
4t Government have received positive intelligence
f the final and happy decision of the grand.questions
tl:s Coogrca.

The CLI'AISR, Captain 'Eta.Lime, arrived at Ports-
...3oth rom Halifat, brought dispatches from Admiral
• 4311111 and Sir J. COAPt SUER/11MR'. COMIIIO-
- OWES and Major-General Sir GEOROR MURRAY
Erived at Halifax, in the Ntoax, Cassia Ductosr
on the 26th ultimo, in 58 days from Spitbead. The
nen was seven days beating about upon the coast,

amidst the. ite, ere she one obtain an anetserage
Halifax Harbour. Fourteen of her men wets frost-
bitten, in the ieverity of use weather. Captain PATIO'.
Hof the 'Commodore's ship, set of froii Halifax (over.'
tad) for Quebec, on the Ist instant. The Cow
modore and Sir GEOIIOI MURRAY intended to follow
in a day or two. Lieutenant-Colonel Animas, 100th
regiment, Major Jones,. Lieutenants GRANT* Toa-
:daub, and Gatremi, Assistant.l3urgeon BLOXIIAM,
and ISO non•commissioned officers and privates, and
140 amuses for the ships on the Lakes, Igloo also went
out in the Nzoar, bad landed safe. The dispatches
by the CUNKER. we understand, do not cosumunicate
any intelligence of great importance to Government.
Indeed, the Halifax Papers state, that the severity of
the weather—frost, snow, and fogs—bad shut out all
intelligence from the port. It was only with the as.
sistance of a strong breeze, and many boats breaking
away the ice, that the Custom was extricated from
that hermetically sealed state in the harbour, in which
the elements bad placed her, to bring home the mails.
The CMITUIRION, ESCORT. Suaursitoovaa, and Do.
Numb were left at Halifax. We make the follow.

ing extracts from the Halifax Papers* which we have
now received to the 17th January ;

HALIFAX, JANWARY IS.

The mail from Canada, which mind dug•
left Quebec the 7th of December. •
A Boston Paper of December SO, states accounts
from Phttaburgh to the 43d of that Month when
the British troops from the Upper Country, dec. were
said to be collecting at Montreal, from which they
were led to expect that another attack cn Platsburgh,
or t'be American fleet upon Lake Champlain, was
contemplated ; but we observe nothing to support
that conjecture, either from Montreal or Quebec.

HALIFAX, JANUARY 311.
Tuesday, arrived the brig Freetown, Archibald;
from Jamaica, in 24 days.
Wednesday, arrived his M jesty's ship Cossack,
the Hen. Captain Rodney, from Bermuda ; the brig
Duke of lent. O'Brien, from St. Domingo, in 22
days; and the American privateer Guenisee, prize
to the Junon. . _

Thursday, arrived the schooner Eliza-Ann, Vent,
from the West Indies ; and the schooner Franklin,
with a flag of truce, from Nantucret, in four days.
We have been favoured with Boston Papers to the
31st December, and New Bedford to the 6th instant,
received by the Franklin. They mention the arrival
of a large British Naval and Military force at the Da-
lize (mouth of the Mississippi), and, in consequence,
*express much anxiety for the safety of New Orleans.
The New Bedford Paper of the 6th, speaking of
New Orleans, says—a We are induced to fear that
it will fall—and if it does, we have no hopes of being
able to wrest it from the enemy. This would lead to
consequences of a most serious nature. New Orleans,
is the Key of the West; and we apprehend, that the
power which holds it, cannot long want means to in-
fluence and controul the country west of the Alle-
ghanies."
The Conscription Bill, at the last accounts, had
not passed Congress.