Star.
London, England, 1824-02-02 00:00:00

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REVOLT AT PARA AND DREADFUL
CATASTROPHE.

The fa/lowing is an extract from a letter received from
Para, tontaining a detailed narrative of an insurrection
amongst the soldiery there, to expel or murder die Por-
tuguese; and of a consequent deplorable catastrophe,
by which upwards of 200 beings came to a horrible
death. The letter is dated the 20th of November, and
was received by the Unity, which arrived at Liverpool
on Wednesday.
From the 14th of the month to the 20th (the date of
the letter) the inhabitants of Para had been held in the
most unpleasant apprehension and alarm, owing to in-
subordination amongst the troops, who, on the night
of the former day, beat to arms, and declared their
determination to turn out or murder every Portuguese
in the place. They commenced by taking possession
of the forts, barracks, and depositories of arms and
artillery, armed all who joined ahem, and broke open •
the taverns and shops of the Europeans, which became
scenes of drunkenness, robbery, and general destruction.
They afterwards marched through the town with fixed
bayonets, &c. calling out, " Death to the Europeans!
Long live independence and the Emperor Pedro!" un-
til they reached the Palace of Government, where they
deposed the President, and elected another of their own
choice—a Priest, then a member of Government, and
well-known for his hatred to the Portuguese. They then
demanded the proscription of nearly all the Government
officers, and the confiscation of their property ; the whole
of which was promised them. They continued all night
and next day rioting and drinking, and the utmost con-
fusion prevailed throughout the town. Families fled to
the country or on board ship ; the houses and shops were
shut up, and no persons were seen in the streets but
these ruffians, with bludgeons, swords, &c. in small
gangs, pillaging, fighting amongst themselves, stabbing
each other, and knocking down every Portuguese they
met. They thus kept possession of the town till the 15th,
when Captain Grenfell, of a brig of war of Cochrane's
squadron, landed, with 40 or 50 seamen, and after one
Fallout but unsuccessful attempt, got possession of the
I:rain, or repository of arms, by surprise; and thence dis-
patched a detachment of English sailors against a strong
body of the rioters, who were robbing two large stores.
—After a sharp contest, the sailors obliged them to
fly, having killed five or six, and wounded sixteen or
eighteen. They also took about forty or fifty prisoners.
The greater part of the soldiers then retired ; and early
next morning (the 16th) Captain Grenfell sent round
to invite the inhabitants to meet at the Train, where
they all received arms and ammunition, and, when
formed, jointly with the militia, and eight pieces of ar-
tillery, manned by Englishmen, the soldiers were or-
dered to lay down their arms in their quarters, and sur-
render themselves prisoners; which, contrary to general
expectation, they immediately did, arid were marched
between two columns of volunteers to the Palace-square,
headed and flanked by volunteers, artillery, and militia.
They were ranged in a column with the militia in front
of them, and the loaded artillery heal fug upon them, to
fire ills:ant-Iy, should they resist the sentences about to
be pas,ed. S ion after, a body of cavalry, for ty to fifty
strong, who had not yet ,uriende: ed, galloped up
With an intention to charge and throw the irilartry
into confusion, that their comrades might escape;
but seeing an unexpected force opposed to them
(Captain Grenfell having had two pieces of arullery
pointed against them) they drew op, and surrendered.
—There were then 500 unarmed men on the ground,
and the orders to the writer, who was Captain of a gun,
were, if they stint:A from their ranks, to tire upon them.
Ever ything was as still as death. A council of war was
held before the Palace, and it was determined that five
of the ringleaders should
tion. The serjeant who commanded the cavalry, a
notorious character, one of the heads of the rebellion,
and a reputed murderer, was selected as the fist to
suffer. He, at first, conceived the whole was a joke,
but finding the case desperate, he only begged to be con-
fessed, and was allowed five minutes. He knelt down
at the month of a gun, with a pi icst at his side. The
moment the time had expired, he was taken to the front,
and shot by a file of soldiers. Tire four others were
then brought out and dispatched in the same way. The
whole five were nototiodsly wicked and murderous cha-
racters. About 150 of the known rioters were their picked
from the ranks, and sent to prison, whence, with about
100 others of all sorts, taken robbing or receiving stolen
goods they were next day sent on board a prize-ship,
Intim harbour. Tue remainder of the troops were, after
a severe reprimand, ordered to their quarters.
The writer then proceeds to relate a most horrible oc-
currence on board of the prison-ship, which contained
about 256 individuals. About nine, on the night of the
19th, the sentinels on deck heard a great noise below,
and repeatedly ordered quietness, without effect. In a
short time, they found the prisoners were forcing the
hatches, and they immediately fired one or two volleys
among them, after which, everything was quiet. In
the morning, they took off the hatchet, to remove the
dead, if any, when they found only fore r nut of the 256
alive! The place presented a most appalling spectacle
of lacerated and mangled bodies. Some had their eyes
thrust out ; the tongues cif some hung nut of thcir
mouths: others had their ribs stove in: mouths torn
from ear to ear. Some were hanging Ly their ham-
mock• strings by the neck ; others by their middle, with
their heads down ; an .I some had under gin:o mutilation
too hot rible to be The writer had this ac-
count,at rnich human nature sliiiddvrs, horn an eye-
witness, the nist Lieutenant of the b. ig, w ho was first
on board in the nrrn fling. It aprear s the carnage com-
menced by a party of them wishing to murder all the
Europeans who were their fellow-prisoners (about, per-
haps, ten or twelve in nu rube:), but that being in the
tho k, they dispatched ninny who were not, which ex-
cited ill-blood. They did not, moreover, all ag,ree upon
escaping by force, which inc.eased the animosity
amongst them, and a mutual n:assacre of the most
savage nature commenced; for they had no edged
weapons, nor anything, but their hands and their
hammock-ropes. They were all naked, their clothes
being torn from their backs. They had piled up the
dead bodies under the hatches to form a kind of plat-
form to enable them to reach the gi atings, and most of
these bodies were of Europeans. About 20 were killed
by the discharges of musketry. The four who were
found alive bad hidden themselves under the water-
casks at the commencement of the fray, and had not, it
appeared, suffered in health. One man was found nearly
strangled, but still alive ; but be died on the way to the
hospital, from a slight fall. It is the writer's opinion,
that, shocking as this catastrophe was, it was probably
fortunate for the friends of order, as it appeared that
these wretches bad formed the most diabolical plans of

massacre and plunder. (The other account to which we
have alluded, states that the English, too, were marked
out amongst their victims). Another account supposes
they had destroyed each other in a fit of insanity.

Co.

PIRACY IN LOMBARDY.
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The Journal des Debats of Friday contains the sen-
tence of the Imperial Senate of Lombardy on twenty-
five persons accused of high treason, including among
them several Noblemen : of these, nine have been ac-
quitted, and sixteen condemned to capital punishment.
Ten of the latter class have made their escape, and have
been condemned par contumace. Nine have been ac-
quitted, and only seven are in the hands of the Austrian
Government. The sentence of five of them has been
commuted into imprisonnkent. The following is an
analysis of the facts and poceedings in this case, ex-
tracted from the !toile of Saturday's date :
" It may be recollected that a little before the return
of Bonaparte to France, a plot, formed in Lombardy,
was baffled, and the Emperor at that time pardoned
the chief authors of those criminal intrigues. In 1815,
Murat revived all the secret societies, aad they had ac.
knowledged him for their chief in all Italy, when he was
overcome by the Austrian arms. His fall rendered the
factious more circumspect, but they worked in the dark.
" Carbonarism and Adelfilme were in 1816 the secret
Societies which predominated in Italy: Entirely simi-
lar in their demagogical tendency, the one proclaimed
the institution of the Agrarian law, the other regicide.
They varied from each other only in the different ce-
remonies which they had adopted. The centre of the
-first was at Naples; that of the second in France.
" In 1819, the existence of these sects was manifested
by plots: thirteen of the principal sectaries were art ested,
and the Emperor again commuted the capital punish.
ment to imprisonment.
" The revolution at Naples in 1820 gave new activity
to all the intrigues of the Carbdriari. Count Louis Porro
Lamberlaqui placed himself at their head in 1820. He
fled in 1821, and was condemned, par contumace, to the
penalty of death.
66 At Rome,•Milan, and Twin, Ade/fist/re, which had
assumed the title of the Society of Sublime Perfect Mas-
ters, and which was connected with France through Ge•
noa, excited the revolution in Piedmont. The sectaries
of the several States -had provided their satellites with
arms and ammunition ; they intended to raise Italy, and
that Peninsula was to be politically divided by the Po,
and governed by the Spanish Constitution and a Feder
ml Union. A Junta of Government, divided into seven
different sections, was to be formed. The sectaries had
already arranged a plan for a national guard. The in-
vasion of Lombardy by the Piedmontese army was fixed
upon as the time of the combined movement which was
to take place. The Piedmontese army would have
marched in two columns into the states of Italy. The
first was to penetrate into Lombardy—the second to enter
the States of Parma and Modena, and endeavour to se-
duce the Papal garrison of Bologna. The reader re-
. members the events at Aleiandria and Tut in, and the
entrance of the revolutionists into Novara. The project
was then formed to excite popular tumult at Milan.
" At the same time written notice was sent to the
conspirators of Brescia, desiring them to accelerate the
revolt in that province. 'Lie leiter addressed to them
contained precise instructions relative to the disarming
of the garrison, whi At they were to effect; to the ex-
pedition, the object of which was to surprise the for-
tresses of Peschtera and Rocca d'Aufo; to the carrying
off the public coffers, which they were to seize upon ;
and while on the one hand they pressed the insurrection
of several provinces of Lombardy, on the other, letters
after letters, and emissaries alter emissaries, were sent
to call in the enemy and hasten the invasion.
" Count Frederick Confalonieri, accused by the pub-
lic voice of the assassination of Prina, was at the head
of the conspiracy.
" The Liberals ~f France recommended him, at the
beginning of the month of January, 18'21, to the con-
spirators of Piedmont, and Confalonieri constituted
'himself the supreme centre of the conspiracy in Lom-
bardy. Pecchio, Vegoni, Demeester, Pallavicini, be-
came his most active agents.
" Confalonieri, far from manifesting the smallest re-
pentance or the whole cons se of the proceedings, con-
stantly displayed the most invincible obstinacy in his
crime, of which he made a complete confession with a
sot tof boasting. A Ftencliman (Alexander Philip An-
dryane, at Paris) was one of the most ardent sectaries:
—Being suspected, after several journies in France,
Switzeiland, and Italy, his papers were seized, and it
was found that the Grand Firmament, founding its hopes
on the Spanish revolution, still entertained, pi eviously
to the latter part of 1822, the hope of renewing the in-
trigue which the political events of Naples and Pied-
mont had broken ; and now there was fo, med at Genoa,
under its auspices, an active centre of co-operation,
which powerfully seconded its revolutionary vi,:ws di-
rected against the tranquillity of Italy.
" The conspiring party which w.ts at Geneva had the
name of Congtess ;' Andryane was initiated, in
the quality of extraordinary Dzacon, into the frightful
mysteries of the sect.
" His arrest at Milan prevented all the operations
which he was to attempt. Legally convicted by his
own confession of the enot mous crime of which he has
been guilty, he has been condemned to the punishment
which was his due."

Danirl Grims',ire has been committed to Berks
County ja:l, charged ..vith the wifful murder of his in-
fant son, by pouting a quantity of boiling water from
die tea-kettle into the &iild's throat.

It may be remai ked, as an instance of the successful
enter prise of the Whale-fishing Associations of Dundee,
that the quantity of whale-fins imported last season,
amounted to upwards of 125 tons—one-fifth of the
quantity brought to Britain from the Arctic seas. The
number of vessels engaged in the fishing was ten ; and
the number of tons brought by each, ranges front 7 to
16.—Dundee Paper.
urlos.--BEARs' GREASE.--J. ATKINSON, Impor-
ter of the Genuine BEARS' GREASE, respectfully cau-
tions the Public against numerous Counterfeits of the above Ar-
ticle ; many of these Counterfeits are sold as low as is. and are
only lard, marrow, &c. and some are very injurious to the Hair.
The Genuine of his importation has a Bear printed on the top of the
pot, and a printed Bill round the pot with his Signature and Address.
—The high estimation this Article has long held for the Growth
of Hair, and the remarks of a celebrated Modern Lecturer on
Physiology, that " BEARS' GREASE from the Animal in its
native climate possesses very remarkable properties for regene-
rating the Hair," supersedes the necessity. of further remark.—
J. Atkinson will add that this is a genuine article, which he
regularly receives once in six or eight weeks frodi his Correspon-
dents in Russia. It is of the very finest quality, and very pleasant
for dressing the Hair, making it beautifully soft and glossy. Sold
by the Importer, Jaatis Avemsou, Perfumer, 44, Gerard-street,
Soho, London ; and by Appointment. For the Venders' names
see the Advertisement.

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THE EVENING STIR,.

LONDON.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2. 1524.

Nurse...vox or roe VIRGIN MAlLY.—Holiday at the Bank.
THE FUNDS.

STOCK EXCHANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Consols opened this morning at 901, 91, but soon after lowered
to 901 for the Account.
The Expresses from Paris have brought the French Rentes of
Saturday, four o'clock, at 96f. 60c. Spanish 241; &rip 81.