Star.
London, England, 1822-01-29 00:00:00

DECREE.

" DITA RTibmve or Waa.—One of the resources which the
unfortunate tights of war have made legal, and its object neces-
sary, is privateering.
" The war of the independence of the Provinces of Holland
and that of the United States of North America have proved
this kind of hostility to be the most advantageous for a country
that prepares to defend its independence against a more ancient
and remote country that has governed it.
" It is impossible to foresee or repress any abuse that may be
occasioned by privateering. The Government that finds itself
under the painful necessity of authorising, and even promoting,
this system of warfare, has hut two means whereby it can lessen
its illegal consequences, and consequently is only bound by two
obligations respecting it. The first is to dictate such regulations,
and take such precautions, as may correct those abuses, not suf-'
fering them to be committed with impunity. In this respect the
Government has fulfilled its duty. The privateering regulations
prove it. The second is to put an end to this kind of warfare as
soon as it becomes no longer necessary, or when the result does
not compensate (or the risks and difficulties it may produce. The
Government consiaers these two events to have arrived, and con-
sequently has agreed upon, and decrees, the following articles;
" Ist. In future no *nee of marque and reprisal shall be
granted without previously and solemnly publishing the cause
°that obliges the Government to have recourse to the measure.
" 2d. Every person within the territory of this province who
may be in possession of any letter of marque, must present it to
the Slinister of the Navy within fifteen days from the date of
this Decree. _ _

" 3d. Those persons in countries situated beyond the equinoc-
tial line, or on the east of the Pacific, must present said letter of
marque at the Navy Office within eight months.
" 4th. The securities given shall become responsible for the
fulfilment of the two foregoing articles.
" sth. Every Commander of a privateer, cruising in virtue of
a letter of marque, granted by any of the Governments that have
existed in this capital, at sight of this Decree, shall cease to cruise,
and shall put into port to disarm, and return the license.
" 6th. Any one who shall transgress the foregoing article will
incur the guilt of piracy.
" 7th. Every privateer that shall continue to cruise after the
expiration of eight months from the date of this Decree, autho-
rised by licenses from the Government of this country, will be
treated as a pirate.
" Bth. The Minister of War and Navy is charged with the
execution of this Decree.

(Signed) " MARTIN RODRIGUEZ.
" Buenos Ayres, October 6, 1821."

last week, the HIND sloop of war, Sir CHARLES
BUNRARD, Bart. returned from New York. She ar-
rived these on the '2sth of December, and sailed on
the 2d of January. The sum recovered from Tweedie
was £lB,OOO, and this was effected by intimidation.
Within an hour and a half after the arrival of the
HIND, by the vigilance of the British Consul, and the
offer of 500 dollars to the Magistrates, Tweedie was
traced to his lodgings, and the option offered him
of either being sent on board the HIND or giving up
the money ; he acted upon the latter, the amount
being in bills. On the following day to that on which
the money was restored, the American Judges said,
that if they had been consulted, they would have
contended against the right of exacting the money
from, him in that country ; the Government would
not permit his person to be given up. The HIND is
come into Portsmouth harbour.

DISSIPATIONEXTRAORDINA !—.A sprightly mon-
key, belonging to a Gentleman at Washington, was
accidentally left alone in a room where a pitcher of
choice whiskey punch was brewing by the fire. Mas-
ter Jack, after tasting the beverage, found it so deli-
cious, that he was tempted to repeat his draught, until
he became half-seas over. lie then, by way of a
joke, caught a parrot, which was also a member of '
the family, and slily taking poor Poll to a retired
closet, divested her of her plumage, and then let her
go. The next morning, Jack suffered severely for his
debauch—he would swallow nothing but cold water,
of which he drank large quantities, and, with most
dejected physiognomy, sat for hours applying both
hands to his throbbing temples !—Antericeso Payer.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1821.
Hu Ithaurry's Accussut.-.-Holiday at tLe Hook.

The French Papers of Saturday and Sunday last
have been received; the latter by express, They are
filled with the proceedings in the Chamber of Depu-
ties on Friday and Saturday, when M. de Staaa's
project on the Press was still under discussion. The
speeches on Friday were more violent than on the
preceding day. The debate was commenced by M.
CuterLar, the Reporter, who entered into an exami-
nation of the objections that had been made to the
project; and concluded by supporting the project as
amended in the Committee. He was followed by
M. B. CONSTANT, who, in a very able speech, opposed
the new law, particularly the first article, which in-
flicted penalties for attacks on religion. 66 So eager,"
he said, " was the desire to transform a present from
HEAVEN into an instrument of tyranny, that the
right divine of the Turks was proclaimed against
assassinated Christians." Ile then noticed the resto-
ration of the Jesuits, and said, " Will it be allowable
to write against those Corporations which are reviv-
ing, in contempt of the Charter, and to the great
danger of the Monarchy—Corporations which must
make the manes of Henry 111. and Henry IV. look
down with indignation on the proceedings of the
Chamber, and which it is astonishing the Ministers
of a King should re-establish in the midst of a king-
dom which their regicide poniards have stained with
blood ?—(Murmurs on the right).—These regicide
Corporations have already been justly banished from
France"—(lncreased murmurs on the right).
A voice on the right.—" The regicides were the
Jacobins."

M. B. CONSTANT.—" Yes, indeed, they were Ja-
cobins !—for instance, Jacqucs Clement • * • •"
( Violent agitation).
M. de MAncELLus argued, that the restraint of the
Press was beneficial to literature. The ages in which
the Press had been placed under the severest restric-
tions were those in which learning had most flourished.
Since the Press had been let loose by the Revolution,
literature was ruined. He regretted that the Project
did not go further : it only provided against future
attacks on Religion, but he wished it had adverted to
those which are passed—to attacks which are con-
stantly renewed by reprinting. He hoped this neglect
would be repaired.
A long and warm discussion ensued, in which Ge-
neral FOY opposed the Project, and complained of
the usurping power of the Catholic Religion, which
had occasioned great disorders in the provinces.
M. DELALOT defended the Law Project and the
Jesuits.

M. de KERATRY attacked the Jesuits and the old
Government, and said, the law proposed was absurd
on the face of it, unless it was really meant to forbid
Catholic Priests from launching their anathemas
against all other religions, and denouncing damna-
tion to all out of the Catholic Religion. Was this
intended ? According to this law, the Tartadie could
not have been published. The acting it must soon be
prohibited.
After MM. de COURVOISIER, de LABOURDONNATE,
and Count de SERRES, had spoken in favour of the
Law, and MM. de ST. AULAIRE, de SEBASTIAN!,
and MANUEL, had opposed it, the Chamber ad-
journed at six o'clock.
Saturday the Chamber again met, when the debate
was resumed.—The PRESIDENT stated, that the Com-
mittee thought fit to withdraw the Amendment on
the second Article, which increased the fine from
6000 to 8000 francs. Two Amendments had been
proposed by Deputies ; one, by General SEBASTIAN!,
for inserting the word " Constitutional" after " Royal
Authority ;" the other, by General For, affected the
form of the Article, and would render it necessary
that it should be drawn up anew. It resolved into
these terms :—" All forntal attacks by one of the said
means against the inviolability of the King's person,
the order of succession to the Throne, the Constitu-
tional authority of the King, and the Chambers, shall
be punished, &c."
General Foy spoke at considerable length in sup-
port of his amendment. He insisted on the neces-
sity of suppressing the phrase " Royal dignity" as
vague. He also proposed to omit the words " attacks
on the rights of the King," as those words were liable
to arbitrary interpretation. The words " inviolabi-
lity of the King's person," which he wished to remain,
were the most proper for the support of a constitu-
tional throne. He insisted upon substituting for the
words " authority of the King," " constitutional au-
thority of the King:' In taking away the word
" constitutional," the hand appeared which wished to
revoke the Charter in spite of the King. Neither the
Chambers nor the King have any other authority
than that which is constitutional. (This speech was
frequently interrupted by murmurs and marks of im-
patience on the right side).
The Minister of Finance supported the Article.—
With regard to the omission of the word " consti-
tutional," he frankly declared that in the Fourth Bu-
reau he had been of opinion that it ought to be re-
inserted; but when in the Council of Ministers, he
afterwards, learned that writings which attacked the
authority of the King had escaped condemnation,

because a the constitutional authority" of the Xi'
was not attacked.

M. de CrAtivatta apologized Cur reading, Coe.
trary to his usual practice, a speech. He did this,
because he wished to incur the whole responsibility
of what he said, without being exposed to the ri,it
of misrepresentation. He insisted, in a long arra-
ment, on the necessity of restoring the tVord
COn.
stitutiontl,‘ and observed that the King had been
ilf4advited when he dated his Ordinances g. the 2fith
year of his reign"—(This observation excited a yin.
lent agitation).—The word " reign" had quite an.
other acceptation than that of a right founded on hen.
ditary nieces:ion.

M. de Sella! replied to General For and NI.
CHAUVIMIL—The restoration of the word " consti;
totional," he contended, was altogether unnpce,„rT.
No unconstitutional authority could be recognizid
in France, because no such authority existed.

General SEBASTIAN' argued for adding 6.! a•.rd
" con stit ut ion al," according to his own amendrner.t.
M. DELALOT spoke in support of the article.

M. Mmiutr. spoke against the article, and argue,'
that the proposed Law was destructive of the Chatter.
M. de PETRONNET opposed all the amendment,.
M. Dm?Aux then supported an Amendmert which
he had proposed; and which resembled General 4-
BASTIANI9S.

The debate was then closed, and the PRESIDEXT
put the question on the different Amendments trl.icit
had been moved, paragraph by paragrAph. TNT
were all rejected : the Members of the extierne !tft
only voting for them.
The PRESIDENT then notified that he was 7-;rz to
put the question on the 2d article. Almost a7l
Members of the left immediately withdrew i; •Je
passages and the conference-chamber. The
was unanimously adopted by the rernai&n:z
hers, in number about 250 or 260. The rlet
then loudly demanded that the 3d article s!,oull be
put to the vote:
All the amendments were then rejecte.l: the ;::rd
article was carried, and at seven o'clock the Cll.in,l:rr
adjourned to Monday.

One of the French Papers states, that of tl:e
two young persons arrested for the conspiracy at SA::
mur, five had been discharged.
French Funds.—Jan. 25, Five per Cents.
Jan. 26, 861..50c.

Extract of a private letter from Park, dated Si;:.
day last :.••44 For these some days past there haTe
been various rumours, in the best informed circle‘
of movements in several parts of the west and <crat
of France. Brest was said, in the beginning, r: t::e
week, to have been the scene of a great conspiracy;
Rochelle was described as participating :—.l7:d
telegraphic dispatch is said, on Friday, to have .Ir.-
flounced that a movement had taken place at
lon, in which the garrison and the fleet had joirtd•':.e
people. I have not been able to ascertain the tr4'l
the falsehood of these statements ; I merely mert'ou
them as reports very generally spread in wel•inromel
circles, and as generally believed. Sir Ro! ert i rcn
and Mr. Lambtan leave Paris on Tuesday, fol Lon.l,n.
—The discussion on M. Loveday's Petition has taken
place in the Chamber of Peers. A Liberal (the Duke
de Broglie) proposed the order of the day."

Extract of a letter from New Providence, dated
December 26th :—" I have to inform you that not
less than twenty vessels, some of them very 1.1:7e,
were on the coast of Guinea between the months rt
July and October, loading their holds with slave,;
in five of these vessels not less than 3,600 of
unhappy victims were conveyed from their Ittl'vo
soil, to be sold in foreign lands; and among t:
poor sufferers hundreds have been torn from ti:cir
husbands, and how many children for ever separate/
from their parents, by the hand of unfeeling avarice:'
PORT OF NEW BEDFORD, DEC. 26.--By the arrival
lof the brig Elizabeth, from Benavista, we have the
disagreeable intelligence of a mutiny of the crew of
the brig Cornelia, of this pot t,which sailed ou a sealing
voyage to the New Shetland Islands. It appears that,
two days after the vessel left the port, the crew took
possession of the quarter-deck, and altered her course;
they were not driven from their quarters for two hours,
and not till force had been used by the Captain ani
Officers, and many of the crew knocked down. Or
the 22d October the Cornelia arrived at Benavi,ta,
and the five ringleaders were given up to the .tme-
rican Consul.

The Irish Papers received this morning give an
alarming picture of the state of society in that coun-
try. In Dublin we see parties run so high OLE it is
even dreaded to hold a public dinner on an occa,:oo
when it might be supposed all parties would be united
—the celebration of the Accession of his MAJESTY
to the Throne. In Tipperary, and some other Coun-
ties, the Yeomanry are accused of goading the
reqie
to excesses, and of exercising a severity uncalled tor
by existing circumstances; while, in the County of
Cork, the Whiteboys assemble in such numbers as
almost to give defiance to the military. In another
part of this day's Paper will be found an account of
a serious affray near Macroom, where a large bay
of the insurgents attacked the mail-coach while on
its way from Cork, which they entirely destroyed,
wounding the guard and coachman severely.—
A detachment of military was immediately sent, to
whom they gave battle, and were dispersed with the
loss, it is said, of seven men killed, and twenty-ons
taken prisoners. This defeat, however, did not dis-
hearten them, and they re-assembled in a few hours
after in still greater numbers. It is probable that the
next arrivals will bring accounts of another reucontrc
with the military.

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