Star.
London, England, 1814-12-09 00:00:00

GHENT, NOVEMBER 29.

The American Negotiators have received the dis-
patches from their Government, brought by the Fin-
gal. It is certain that the propositions sent by Mr.
Dallas to America have been rejected by the United
States, and that they have resolved to prosecute the
war with the greatest vigour. We hope, however, that
the Congress will not be dissolved, and that the con-
tinuation of the conferences will finally reach the de-
sired object of peace.
The Princess of Wales remained at Naples on the
18th, enjoying the festivities of that gay capital. Her
Royal Highness had visited Portici, and was preparing
for a visit to Herculaneum and Pompeia.
" BRUSSELS, Nov. 26.—A Frauconial G47ette
affirms, that there is in Switzerland a a bk.
party who desire a Constitutional King.
MADRID, NOVEMBER 20.

The Marquis de Santa Cruz is appointed Ambas-1
sador to France. This is the fourth Grandee of ..ipain
who has been nominated In that post.
It is said the Duke of San Carlos has been refused
•
the embassy to Paris, which he had solicited.
The return to the ministry of M. de Cevalkm en-
courages us to hope for more moderate councils in
future. We anxiously lot k for the tins[ proceedings
of our new Secretary of t.ite, to abCCILAIII the inten-
tions of the existing administration.
We dare nut credit the news in circulation respect-
ing Mexico: After the mistortunes of the Peninsula,
it would be too digressing to have yet to deplore the
lon of our finest colony.

THE EVENINGS'

LONDON.

'AIL

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1814.
PRICE OP STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK;
Reduced 651-4 per Cent.:4l-5 per Cent. Navy shut
Consols abut—foe amount, et—Osnniuus die.
Bank Long Amt. 161—India Bonds 17s. 18s. pre,
Exchequer BiUs par, to Ss. prern:

We have received since yesterday Paris P.lpers of
three days in succession. Their chief contents relate
to the proceedings of the Congress at Vienna, w!.;,',
we have carefully selected. The Moniteur, which ()qt.
Readers will recollect was long since formally .1-.
aoanced as the only official Journal, now seem; to
argue for the annexation of Saxony to Prussia, as
necessary to render the latter Power eventually kr-
midable both against Russia and France.

A Gentleman, who left Quebec on the Bth of No.
vesnber, and on whose information we place every ye,
liaace, has sent us the followiog particulars respectisg
the state of affairs at the time of his departure :
‘‘ The Americans on the Niagara frontier, after a
trifling demonstration of attack, had re-crossed part
of their army, leaving a force to garrison Fort Erie,
but which, it is more than probable, they will destroy
and evacuate, from the great reinforcements the na.
val superiority on Lake Ontario gives us the °mar.
tunity of sending.

•' No operations, upon any scale, can take place
with the right division, after the 25th of December.
The kft division is already in winter quarters, about
Isle-au•lgoix, St. John's,' L'Acadie, La Cole, Sorrel,
Montreal, &c. The advance at Odd Town,. oteeke
Plattsburg-road, 40 miles from Usavgal. and '3O
from Plattsburg.
“ I do not profess, even privately, togive an opt.
nion of the general state of things Isere, but I cannot
help joining in the universal prayer for a change of
men and measures.

CHAUNCZY was in the outer anchorage of Sac.
kett's, ready for sea, but shelved no disposition to
fight.. Sir JAM Yao's fleet consists of seven sail,
well manned, and in high orders be has several then
carried up stores and reinforcements unmolested.
8 Sackett's Harbour is very strong,. and wilt new
require a regular attack. A gross mistake baser,*
into some of our prints, stating Sir J 4 its Yze tablet
got under weigh, with 150 sail ! I w.ss present when
the fleet sailed, winch was composed of one 100.ein
ship, two large frigates, and two sloops of war, .nd
convoying a Mosquito fleet of stores of tan sail,
making 15 in tote—but a cypher is nothing !"

While on the subject of our North American pos-
sessions, we feel ourselves called upon by a sense of
duty to lay before the public the following *tail
which appears in The Quebec Mercury of the 18th of
October. We wish to persoade ourselves that the
picture of misery and injustice which it exhibits is
overcharged, but hoWeier this may be, the subject
calls loudly for inquiry. it a tenth part of the tale
be true, the indignation of the country should reach
the authors of such an iniquitous system with earn-
plary punishment.' The free-born sons of Britain,
wherever aituited, have indelible claims ol the
mo-
ther-country, nor end she ever be indifferent to the
circumstances of her children.
The subject of emigration frOtit Use Highlintlso
Scotland has been often met ti6dl but, alas! while
we have taken tip the cause ot•diMricans and h.
..:
dians, no due share of commisratitoo has Ter bp,
excited in favour of our own liomi'-born children I
Let us hope that some humane associat •.,, may soon
be formed, to watch over the interests of this sulk*
but meritorious people'.

" QUEBEC, OCTOBER 11.
IXTRACT OF A LETTER TO A ItHIEND IN THIS CITY:

41 In June last I paid a visit to that unfortunate
colony in Red River; curiosity led me to examine
more minutely the situation of those poor deluded
people, severed from their native country, with the
hope of ameliorating their condition in life. But, alas !
what a disappointment to them : 'how miserable to
what they possibly could be in any other country
and with the prospect before them of never again
seeing civilized life. I have seen the young and
aged in huts, exposed to famine and the fury of
the savage tribes, without one pleasing hope before
them. Surely humanity shudders at the idea of
transporting innocent people, whose only crime is
poverty, to such a country, so remote from the ciri•
rind world.

" I have conversed with them ; they compla:a
much of their treatment, of the -horrors of the H thl•
son Bay climate ; their miserable acconunodatim
and their being very ill fed. They have the voy.•::
to the interior to perform, exposed to the inclemen.i,
of the weather; with little or no c vering but C.,'
canopy of Firosyss 1 When at last they reach ice
land of promise, the land flowing with milk :till
honey ; but what is their disappointment ! They hire
to looksin the waters for tneir support : perhaps their
roi-di:amt Governor may give them a little (yzretal
sv,ci it, or a little of the prov.sion, c.,,:ritry.
if
he happen to have any. 'rimy Lave huts to
when they can spare a moment from their se.uch •
lAnd : they pass the winter G n knows 11(1W, in it Slate
of stttrvatian : they have been known often to enter
the houses of the North-west Company, to beg Or .5"
.monthful. Willingly would they return to their cam

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Liberty, sonsttch the beast:dee British stkeee4oo
relti:ludiOntillaY,if they shear any sydsika'nsa of
discontent, they -are threatened with Impiisonment
from the frigate at anchor; nay; it is well known
those threats have been put in etechtiod ; fathers se-
:Painted from their children, and hugiands froth their
wive* for ever. Time it is ; the influence of a Lard
prevents their haitinkthat proteetion from a British
ship of war which they have a right. to expect : and
thus it is, that the Hudson's Bay Company, under
the total influence of a Lord Selkirk, have the:means
of preventing hundreds of their servants from return-
ing to their friends and families. Is this to be suffer-
ed by the Government of a nation which boasts of
liberty ? When once in the interior, they can never
hope, as the means are entirely out of their power,
' The arbitrary will of a Governor, who thinks he
has the power of life and death from an old charter,
keeps them in a state of vassalage unknown in history. ,
They have so many acres of land given them by
order of this Lord : they feebly and unwillingly begin
to hoe up a little patch of this land—(a plough is
unknown among them)—a frost cones--4 have seen
their hopes of a little harvest blasted.
" I should wish to know if the Constitution we
hciast of, gives the right to Lord Selkirk ofttie die.{
posal of lands never his without the will and consent
of their lawful owners, driving them, with their fami.
lies, off their hunting and fishing grounds ? I have
heard loud complaints of the natives against this
• encroachment. This it following up American policy
perfectly ; a policy which h..s made se many tribes,
-.:With great justice, their enemies. These grievances
Idiots datives can never redress, unless they commit
itioteam tarhith I think they must do :sooner or later.
'they are tempelkd to leave their on lands and,
hunting grounds to hunt upon the lands of their
enemies, by which they often fall a sacrifice : nay at
every step they are in danger of their lives.
I should like to knoiv what the intentions of our
Government can be to allow so many valuable peo-
ple to be transported for life to a country where
Ahoy blit seen-held any use to themselves or their
country ; whilst so many lands lie waste in these two
-prtsvinceslthe 'Canadasj open to commerce. I can
only attribute to ignorance the true situation in which
these poor people ate placed. Zvi: too long for me
to be more particular than merely to inform you that
they ate eaten already nearly in a state of nakedness;
-that Wont the difficulties of the navigation from
-Hudson's Bay, theY can never get their necessaries ;
say, Mat they can neater potters she means of gettins those.
hettilaries. They may live, perhaps, like savage? in
this naked sfate; yet this is impossible—the savages
are hunters, and by that means supply the wants of
t uropean manuflacturers, which they dreis fit for
their purpose. Yfai may tell me that they may have
10141.• Atiht.ffitilt,Opeissot. essay have srool, astd4tiii
Aso Isar that Toplisdoi 'fool will make good cloth.
• • •
441 ft iiisitioski, tficy,!2a.v.e a, few Merino
steep, "is;bielt tbtsttat arttet ftor a. moment lase sight
bt:—lsideed; deieritiffiethent to go out of doors, for
the Wolves and India; dogs will speedily make a
:prey of them: In the, next ilistance, buffalo wool
will be as *caret with theM as silk ; as that animal is,
already driven beyond theirtatath, .and into tummies'
lands, where the aitly,s gamma:vet Aare not go iii
Watch of theni sellout the utkost danger.

" Att instance hametted last year where a party Of
ism Canedials Trent Ippon a hunting excursion for the
ise of the t01e:441,12nd were totally cut off by the
Vials, a warble' and a numerous tribe, enemies to'
As Ogles upon Red ltiver from tiMe immemorial, a:
Tribe' t tate 'no doubt will find their way.
the COlonlsts also, ere long. The more as:.
those Colonists become the more difficult it
will be to supply their wants. There is not the least
Aka_ ti but a generation or two will make them la,
'singes : they have examples of indolence befesei
them which they will be *pc to follow, as they wry'
have 'nothing to induce them to industry.
" It may be said that laws will make them s.ubosir
to industry. Impassible, they have the wide plains
before them, which, with the waters, can alwaye
afford a scanty meal, and which will make them in.
dependent of all laws, and it is well known that the
actives will always assist a people leading the sane
life thty do themselves, by which means interns's--
riages will naturally take place. Whoever may live
a few years in that country will, undoubtedly, live to
see a pretty Scotch girl in the arms of a handsome
young Indian and, eice vont, a pretty Squaw in the
arms Of a robitst Scotch or Irishman 1"

Yesterday Mr. Coup, a King's Messenger, at--
lived in Dawning-street, with dispatches from Lord
CAsuenramt, at Vienna.

The couriers between Ghent and London are con-
stantly on the road. One arrived here on Monday, at
tight o'clock in the morning, and another on Tuesday,
whose dispatches an answer was seat the same night.
third reached town on Wednesday evening, and
this morning another arrived.

It is now generally known that the late purchases
'U the Funds have been principally made by the hol.
slers of American produce. In the event of a peace
hey presume Stocks must rise ; and if the war be
mtiaued the imports in their possession will indem-
fy them for the speculation.
At the Admiralty, we are told, they have been ex-
* finely busy to accelerate and complete the out-fits
-or *aerie&

Americas President most either double the
ways and means, or quit his chair..ag that, with him,
double w

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liktiSStlaS Al PR AgittOid PAPERS.
111b4 bioining we ieCeited a suNly of brussels and
Frankfort papers, frorri which we subjoin a few ex-
tracts. The report of sitobg reinonstrances being
made aßainst BoNaPanTe's occupation of Elba gains
ground on the Continent daily :
BRUSSELS. DECEMBER 9.

The Spe:ulatar, by Mr. Mane Bruan, of which the
t.'2d number is ju►; published, contains an excellent
essay on the political interests of Europe. " The
plicy of Europe," says Mr. M. Bruan, de requires
tl:.e aggrandisement of Holland, which can be effect-
ed by no other means than the union of Belgium.
—This union of two nations, of the same descent,
speaking the same language, having the same cha-
ratter for industry and patriotism ; we are persuaded
that the Bourbons, when they ceded Belgium, were
far from retaining the idea of reacquisition, which
too many ambitious Frenchmen still have the auda-
city to proclaim. We know that these wishes to
recover a province solemnly ceded, would not find in
Belgium the support that is vainly expected."

Mr. M. Brunn alludes to several articles from
Brussels in the Journal de Petrie, which are equally
malicious and false. Mr. M. Brunn thinks the order
of Malta ought to be re-established, but disapproves
of fixing the residence of the order in the lonian
Islands, which are too remote from Algiers and
Tunis ; and being almost joined to Turkey, would
require, an army to defend them, or would become
vassals of the Porte.—He proposes Corsica, which
unites every advantage.