Star.
London, England, 1815-06-12 00:00:00

PALERMO, MAY 16.

The French frigate Melpomene. captured by the
English, entered this port yesterday. The English
say that the capture was merely made through a mss
take.

The French Captain was reposing on the ezirting
peace ; and sneered himself to be approached by the
Itivoli. The frigate hoisted the tri•eoloured fl g,
and did not bring to till after a combat of lontteen
minutes, in which she received several balls be.
tween wind and water, and had 7 men killed, anJ
minded ; the kivoli had one killed, and ma
wounded.

On their arrival at Palermo, the Captain and the
Officers were put (in board a transport; the crew,
2:10 in number, Were landed under a guard; the
sounded were taken to the hospital.
Admiral Penrose lately chased a French frgre
Under the tri!cuiiinred flag. This frigate (sappo64
to be the. Nereide) took restage in Sardinia. T
wounded men .f the Melpomene h4ye been refusA
leave to return to Fianc%

THE EVENING STAR.

- LONDON.

MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1811.
RICE 01 STOCKS THIS D tY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Reduced 56111-4 pa CL 701—Cons. shot—for on. 861,1
Duds es. dui.—Excheturt Bills as. to 10s. di,.

Hamburg!) Mail arrived this morning. The
:pens brought by it are, as usual, filled with ac.
Juts of preparations kg war in every part of Ger-
From Vienna 0 learn, that Messrs. CARROT

FOCCHE. having failed in all their attempts to
..rry off' MARIA LOUISA and her Son, have since
.ide proposals to the Austrian Cabinet, by which
,ey stipulate, in the first place, for an amnesty for
.emselves personally, on which being granted, they
-omise to deliver up their Master ...LANZAPARTE'S dead
,Jv to the Allied Sovereigns. They seek further to
lisde the Emperor of AUSTRIA into an acquiescence
their project, by proclaiming his infant Grand-
Eniveaoa of FRANCE, under a Regency, to con-
;;of coarse of the two worthy Intriguers themselves.
The staff and field equipage of all the Russian
.:inces have reached Sweden by sea, from Cronstadt
.:ey are on their way to Frankfort on the Maine.

An additional day's papers from Paris have reached
since our last, and enabled us to lay before our
tders a tolerable account of the opening of the
ession of the French Parliament. The speech of
:.JNAPARTZ on the occasion is very guarded, but,
lined with all the circumstances of the opening, will
:cure none. There seems to have been, even in
early stage, something like a trial of the strength
pirties—a 66 pulse-feeling" on the part of BONA-
) usrz—a 41 rejection of the prescription" on the part
;f the Delegates. To their messenger informing
aim of the election of a Presiden►, and request-
to know his will, he gave for answer that
t would be made known by a Chamberlain !
the answer gave offence. ig The Assembly had
right to communicate directly with the Est.
'mots or with a Minister." The great man having
'ventured more than would be borne, he was
:::spelled to have it explained away ! it was all a
al;.take. This lesson was not lost on BONAPARTI.,
::ad no doubt contributed to decide the tone of his
,perch. "He now commences a constitutional tno.
tarchy !!" Indeed l How then has he hitherto
:eined In his opening speech he admits the
-ruth of the charges so long brought against him,
,hat he ruled without law—that his will was the
only law—that he was a tyrant ! That his pretended
rtrachment to former constitutions was a mockery—
delusion —a fraud upon the French and upon man.
The Jacobins knew this before he told them ;
ani they know that for this confession they are not
:nbted to any change in his principles, but to
.;,angel in his and their relative circumstances.—
They cotdially bate each other, and each still en-
I-avours to overreach the other; but what may be
•::.! result time only can explain.

It 14 clear that BONAPARTE is in great dread of the
powzr of 6. Jacobins. At prcseut he is dependent
.r.-!.1 them. This is the " Constitutional Monarchy"
if which he is now forced to boast. The picture
which be draws of hio.situation and icsources is far
:rinn encouraging to his friends. He says, " the
faiances,woold be in a satisfactory state—tut ;"
and again, is atll might be toot—if." These buts
and ifs are lamentably in the way. They afford bad
omens to a nation plunging headlong into a most
deiperato war against all the world. They amount
to this—that iat• foe the increase of expenditure,
and if the estssiiAted etceipts could be real,zed.
the finances would be in a satisfactory state.—
lie states, alluiing to the capture of the Melpo.
.n.ine, that blood has been shed during peace—that
during the existence of a Treaty by which peace
was estahlis'ied. But who broke the Treaty That
eery treaty banished him from the Throne vio-
!ttiun of the Treaty he has again usurped that
Tartar'. tint, notwithstanding all the provocation
E:ven by him to the Allies, we have yet no evidence
our Gov:rnmeni has authorised actual hostilities,
!-,,we..r they might be justified; for the capture
!if dAtt Mclpmcile hcts not yet been approved of ;
ir,d, as in the case of unauthor.xed captures, it is
ichsible she w. ty be revtored, as has been the case
with the captures sent into British ports. This very
day we have received information that the two French
sent in the beginning 61 last week to Ply.
nouth, by the RHIN frigate, have been released by
Irder of eovernm-Jnt, and sailed on Friday last for
3rest. The case of the Melpomene may, however,
,t very different. She was. perhaps, really or con-
:ractively e..gAged in warfare against our Allies at
'he time of her capture.
The contest for the choice of a President may be
slipposed to have called out the force of the respec.
ire parties; and the election of M. LAW:RAU by
very large majority cannot have been very gratehil
tither to BONAPARTE or to the violent Jacobins.—
.ANatonats, as a Senator, had often the boldness
•-) oppose BON/WARTS', will : and in the earlier
art of the Revolution, though of republican prin.
iples, yet he resisted all the atrocious measures
I the Terrorists with remarkable energy and perste
- eranse. The voting fur Vicoirresidents also affords
simJat info ranee. A eery large majority was for

M. llkauammies, who, in the latter end of 1813,
wis one of the few Members of the Chamber of
Deputies who showed a determined resistance to
BONAPARTX.

Just as this Paper was putting to Press we received
another day's Paris Papers. We can only give short
extracts:

HOUSE OF PEERS-MING or JUNE 7.

Count LACIIPZDZ took the Chair.

The VICE•PRICSIDENT acquainted the Chamber, that
the present meeting had simply in view to repair in a
body to the Chamber of the Deputies, where the
Session would be opened by the EMPEROR.

JuNa B.—The Sitting was opened at a quarter be.
fore one o'clock. The ARCU.CIIANCELLOR presided.
—His Highness communicated to the Chamber the
regret felt by Count DECROIX and Cardinal CAM.
&scans, whose health did not permit them to be pre-
sent at the Sitting.

A third Member also acquainted the President by
letter that he was obliged to absent himself, on ac-
count of a mission entrusted o him by the Emperor.
M. THIBAUDICAU, in announcing to the Chamber
the reading of the Address drawn up by the Com-
mittee appointed for that purpose, demanded that it
should be read in a Secret Committee. Granted.—
The Galleries were cleared.

At half after two the strangers were again admit-
ted. On their entrance, the ('resident was engaged
in drawing by lot the names of twenty Members to
be joined to the Commission by which the Address
had been drawn up, to form a p.irt of the Deputa-
tion which was to have the honour to present it to his
Majesty.

This being concluder, the PRESIDENT observed,
that the Commission charged with the management
of the internal Police would forthwith submit its
labours to the Chamber.

M. FAZRZ Ds L'Amsa proposed, to facilitate the
discussion, that the plan of the regulation should he
printed and submitted to each Member.—Rejected•

Count VALENCE demanded that the President should
be requested to send a message to the House of Re-
presentatives, to announce that the House of Peers
was constituted.—Adopted.

The PAWN= declared, that he should take the
Emperor's order to know when the Commission could
be admitted to present to him the Address of the
Chamber. The siuing broke up.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES—SITTING JUNE s.

At one o'clock the Sitting was opened by the
reading of the Proves Verbal of the Sitting of the 6th.

M. GAANIER demanded that the Declaration should
be inserted, that the resolution taken in that memorable
Sitting, relative to the administration of the oath, was
unanimous. This declaration appeared to him to he
necessary, to give to France and to Europe the true
esti,nate of the energetic sentiments of all the Mem-
bers of the Assembly.

The PRISIDINT•••" It is a principle that, in deli.
berating assemblies, the decisions are never considered
otherwise than as the expression of the wishes of the
majority. It is on this account chat the old regulations
enact, that mention should never be made in the pro-
ces-veroaux of any thing beside the simple plurality
of suffrages. This homage is due to the individual
liberty ot the Members."
M. DU:Me/LARD. An Assembly merely pro-
nounces by the majority. Without doubt the senti-
ments which dictated our decision of the day before
)e.terday were unanimous. We were desirous to de-
clare to all Europe, that, without pretending to rule
without our territory, we had but one will : that of
defending our independence. We wished to declare
that we would adhere to our oath. (Murmurs). These
murmurs do not surprize me ; they are to me a fresh
proof ot the concordance of our wills. But I repeat,
when the public interest is in the question we ought not
Ito stop at the present. Our foresight ought to em-
brace every case, and to extend itselt to the future.
In coutormity to the principle laid down by the Pre-
sident, out of respect to the freedom of the Assembly,
I call for the order of the day."—Adopted.
“ The PazsmENT.— By the interpretations given to

the different propositions which the administration of
the oath has given rise to, you have seen the clouds
dispersed which hostile prejudices endeavoured to
torus in this Assembly. The most pressing business
now is to reply by an Address, to the sentiments
which the Emperor manifested yesterday in our pre-
sence. This Addiess should be drawn up by a Com-
mittee appointed for that purpose."

The PS/OIDZNT proposed several modes of forming
the Commission.

The Assembly resolved that it should be composed
of five Members, to be added to the six who compote
the Bureau, and who should be named by the Bureau
itself.
The Bureau annexed to its Body the Representa-
tives Garet, Durbach, Gamon, Laforet, and Du-
rand of La Marne.

M. LiPaLLETIZa.-4 propose, that as the tide of
k Pak; was given to Louis XVIII. the title of
SAUVLUA as LA PATRIE (Saviour of the Country) be
given to Napoleon. (Order, order I from all parts).
The noise then became so violent, that not a voice
could be distinguished for half an hour.
Ths PAISPENT succeeded; however, in calling the
votes ; when the Assembly unanimously voted to
pass to the Order of the Day.
The Sitting was then ad)ourned, after Messrs. Du-

KOLAR% CLIIMINT, and General CAftwort were
elected Secretaries.

comas UTRILORDINART OF FRIDAY MORNING.
They write from Metz, on the Sth of June, that
the Russians are going towards Luzemburgh.
All the Allied Sovereigns are gone from Vienna
to Frankfort.
By a Decree of the 4th, M. L'Apparent has been
named Prefect of L'Herault, in the place of M. Al-
phonse.

Bayonne, St. Jean Pied de Port, and Blaye, have
been put in a state of siege.
They write from Valenciennes on the 6th of June,
that all the line is in movement.
L, The French Funds km fallen to 54.

By the Fox packet, which has arrived at Edmond)
from Antigua, we learn that the French troops in
Martinique and Guadaloupe had exhibited the tri-
coloured itig and cockade immediately on hearing
of BONAPARTB'S arrival in France. Admiral LINOIF,
the Governor of Martinique, whose loyalty to his
lawful Sovereign remains unshaken, immediately
solicited the assistance of Sir JANES LEITU, the Bri-
tish Governor of Antigua, who was preparing a force
in the beginning of MAy to assist Litiots in preserving
the Islands for the BOURBON Family. There were
not more than 700 French soldiers in both the above
Island;, and it was considered as highly improbable
that their rebellion would be successful.

The latest intelligence received from India is rather
of a threatening aspect. With the failure of our
enterprize in the Nepaul Country, conducted by the
gallant but unfortunate General GILLESPIE, our Rea-
ders are already acquainted. Our reverses have, it
seems, called out & INnratt, the inveterate enemy of
The British power in the East. He was cotectiv a
most formidable and overwhelming force, under the
pretext, as usual, of defending his own territory, but
really with the object of pouring down upon the Bri-
tish settlements.

On the side of Madras the Rajah BAIIRAR has also
taken the field, as if to act in concert with &INDIAN 1
and General Dovirrox has been obliged to move for.
ward the Madras army to watch Ms motions. The
Bombay and Coast Armies are also in motion, and
Lord MotnA was about to take the field in person.
We regret to add, that in consequence of this gloomy
state cf things, specie has become extremely scarce
in India, and the Company's Bonds are at a very
eavy discount.