Star.
London, England, 1814-12-17 00:00:00

EVERY MAN HIS OWN DOCTOR.

BY the EFFICACY of Dr. BOERHAAVE'S
INFALLIBLE RED PILL, es. Gd. only per box, persons
of either Sex, assisted by the invaluable copious direetions there-
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Disease, and to facilit• te the recovery of health, with ease and
safety, cell aint y and secrecy, in a few days.
For Bilious Diseases, Scurvy, Scrofula, and impurity of Blood,
the efficacy of.this medicine is so well known and highly attested
•for 50 years past, that any further comment is rendered unne-

cessary.
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6, College-green ; at Davison's, No. 1, Parhament-strut ; and of
Messrs. F. Newbury and Son, Dublin ; and other M..d.cine Ven-
ders in Europe an& America.

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ever can be discovered by the researches of science; they act not
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the benign influence of this medicine.
At Montpelier these lozenges acquired a degree of celebrity
unequalled in the annals of medicine, and many persons who
have gone there from this counts", attribute their recovery more
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and retail by his Agent, Mr. Gifford, 58, Strand, London, In
poxes at 7s. and Ns. atilt also by Davison's, 1, Parliament-
street, Dublin, (Agents for Ireland) ; Baxter, Edinburgh ; Mun.
day and Co. Oxford; Meggy and Co. Chelmsford; Cruttwell,
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• ro prevent impesidon, each box •is signed by the: Propristos
(I. P. Seddon) in his own head writing, without whieb nose con
pOssibly be genuine.

AMA RICAN PAPERS.

CONGRESS.-HOUSE OE REPRESENTATIVES.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 17.
r. Wright, of Maryland, presented the petition
of Thomas Bill; inventor of the method of manu-
facturing bullets and shot by compression. stating
the 'destruction of certain of his mac:itnery proposed
to have been connected with the steam engine belong.
ing to the late Navy-yard in this city ; and praying
that Congress wiil take his case into consideration.—
Referred to a select Committee.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18.
Mr. Lewis, of Virginia, presented the Memorial
of a number of inhabitants of Alexandria, stating
'their indignant surpri,e at the slanders in circulation
respecting that city, and praying a full and fair in-
vestigation of their conduct during the late visit of
the enemy to that ton. The Memorial was read.
Mr. Lewis moved to refer the Memorial to the Com-
mittee of investigation appointed on the subject—
which motion, after some desultory conversation,
was agreed to.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOSIDI% 19.
The joint resolution from the Semite. authorising
the joint Library Committee of Congress to contract
far the purchase of the Library of Mr. Jefferson, was
read a third time as amended, and passed. .
PEACOCK AND RPERYIER.
The House resolved itself into a Committee of the
whole, Mr. Desha, of Kentycky, in the Chair, On
the resolution from the &mate, expressive of the
sense of Congress, relative to the victtary of the Pea-
cock owes the Epervier. The resolution having
been read—
Mr. Pleasants, of Virginia, (the Chairman of the
Naval Committee) said it was not his intention to de-
tain the Committee by any extended remarks on this
subject. The action to which this resolution referred,
more particularly, perhaps, than any which preceded
it, demonstrated the superiority of American gun-
nery. To shew this, Mr. Pleasants quoted Captain
Warrington's letter to the Secretary of the navy, an-
nouncing the victory—and interred from it that no
action had ever taken place, between ves,els of any
thing like equal force, in which there had been so
great a disparity of execution.

BOSTON, OCTOBER 17.
LEGISLATURE OF MASSACHUSETTS.
• IN SENATE.--.-SATURDAY, OCT. 15.
The Committee appointed to enquire whether
any Members of the Senate have voluntarily assumed
upon themselves any obligation to the King or Go-
vernment of Great Britain, incompatible with their
duty as Members of the Legislature of the Common-
wealth, or their oath to support the Constitution of
;the United States,
Reported, a statement of facts relative to the Hon.
Messrs. Fulger, of Nantucket, and Campbell, from
the district of Lincoln, Hancock, and Washington.
That the said Campbell having voluntarily en-
gaged not to bear arms, or in any way to serve,
against his Britannic Majesty, his successors and
allies, and to consider himself under the British Go-
vernment until further orders, has thereby assumed
upon himself obligations incompatible with his duty'
as a Member of the Legislature, and has vacated his
seat as a Senator of this Commonwealth. They there-
fore recommended that the seat of the Hon. James
Campbell, a Senator of this Commcinwealth, from
the district composed of the counties of Lincoln, Han-
cock and Washington, be declared vacant, which re-
port was read, and Monday, at twelve o'clock, as-
signed ler the consideration of the same.
OCTOBEIt 18.
That part of the report which was published yes.
terday relative to the seat eS the Honourable Mr.
Campbell, a Senator from the district cf Lincoln,
Hancock, and Washington, was debated, and finally
'referred to the next Session.
NEW YORK, OCTOBER 22.
It is rumours.d (says the Philadelphia Democratic
Peen) that Thomas Jefferson, late President of the
United States, has consented to acospt the office of
Secretary of State. This appointment, however un-
expected, would not surprise us in the least. Mr.
Jefferson sees the difficulties his old friend is strug-
gling with, and it is but just, as well as generous, to
help him through them.
G. W. Erving, late special Minister to Denmark,
is appointed by the President of the United States,
with the consent of the Senate, to .be our Minister.to
the Court of Madrid.
PE 'PIA OF COLOUR.—.A Bill is before the Senate of
this State, fur raising two regiments of people of co-
lour, to consist of 1080 each, by voluntary enlistment,
commissioned Officers to consist of white men.
SEA FENCIBLES.—A Bill is also before the Senate,
for raising 21 companies of Sea Fencibles, for the
term of three years, for the defence of the port and
harbour of New York.
And a Bill for granting additional pay to the
volunteers raised by general orders of the 13th of
March last, serjeants to be equal to fifteen dollars
per month, corporals and musicians fourteen, and
privates thirteen.
The 12,000 Conscription Bill was yesterday taken
up in the House of Assembly, in Committee of the
whole, and so much of the first clause was carried as
authorises the raising of this force. The C Immittee
then rose. The details of this Bill, many of which
are extremely objectionable, will, we have no doubt,
be ably discussed and manfully combated, and we
trust and hope, will be finally expunged, or so
amended as that our civil rights and privileges may
yet be preserved to us a little longer.
A Bill, declaratory of the assent of the I.egislature
to the establishment of a National Bank by Congress
in this State; a Bill for encouraging privateern ;
and a Bill extending the time of payment of monies
loaned by the State, have been reported, and are now
under consideration. As is also a Bill postponing
the next term of the Supreme Court at New York, to
the 26th instant.

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BRITISH SETTLEMENIS IN AMBRIC4.
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. - '")2l'
SlR—Having seen your paper of the 9th ;ottani,
find you have inserted a letter, copied from the Quebec
Mercury, with certain preliminary observations of
your own. Knowing, as I do, that the Quebec let-
ter-writerhas asserted, as true, circumstances which
are false and wholly groundless, I hope you will have
no hesitation in making room for this, which has for
its object to shew, if not the libellous malignity of
that writer, the perfect innocence of the officers and
servants of the Hudson's Bay Company in their terri-
tories in North America.
There was not at any time threats made use of to
sthe settlers to send them on board the ship of war ;
nor were any settlers ever sent on board that or any
other ship. No father was ever separated from his
offspring; and no husband was ever disjoined from
his wife. None of these settlers ever needed or dreamt
of asking for protection from a British ship of war.—
These settlers had experienced from the generous and
humane Commander (Captain STIRLING) much real
and substantial assistance, both on the voyage and
after their arrival in Hudson's Bay. Every tender
attention, and the securest protection in the power of
the Hudson's Bay Company's servants, and they had
much in their power, were afforded bountifully and
liberally to those settlers, at all times, and in all cases.
Neither is there an influence in the territories of the
Hudson's Bay Company operating to prevent their
servants from returning to their friends and families
at the expiration of their engagements, which termi-
nate always at the end of every three years : and
even during their contracts, it is not uncommon to
permit servants quitting the country, when a rea-
sonable motive has been urged for the indulgence.
Tie writer of the Quebec letter, who is a Canadian
trader, must have known he was writing a deliberate
falsehood, when he said the Company's servants were
hindered tram returning to their country and friends.
As 1 was on the spot at the time when the other cir-
cumstances above are said to have occurred, I pub-
licly declare they are also utterly false. They could
not have happened without my knowledge, nor been
executed without my express permission.
Unlike the writer of the Quebec letter, I shall no'
anunym,usly appeal to the:Government, nor to the
people of this country : but after having shewn me the
ssay, let him and his colleagues tremble, when I
make my next appeal to a British public, for they
ought to know that from this bar no delinquent, how.
ever p iwerlul or wicked, has ever been able to retire
in triumph.
For your satisfaction, I have added my name and
address, which is also very much at the service of
the Quebec. letter-writer, who may possibly be now
in London.—l am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
WILLIAM AULD,
Late Superintendant of the Nor hern District of the
Company's Territories.
Jules Coffee-bouse, Dec. 18, 1814.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER. It i I4r
PRICE OF STOCX3 THIS DAY•AT TWEICAMOVateIt:
Reduced 65+4-4 per Cent. 821+-5 per Cent: Nay Ant'
. Cou.4)ls .but—for account, 66+ 67-omnium 111 dis.
!milk Long Arms. 16 3. I 6ths +--India Bonds 19s. pre.
Exchequer Bills 2s. dis. ss. prem.

Jamaica Gazettes have arrived this mornin&, from
which we select the following :

Several privateers have lately been cruizing in the
neighbourhood (.f. St. Thomas, and the depredations
cnmmitttd by them on the small craft, appear to
have been of a serious and alarming nature.

Yesterday we• bad two arrivals from Margarita,
and it appears that Bermudos had obtained a most
glorious victory over Merak's Army. He put 1000
people to death, took 1000 stand of arms, and with
1000 cavalry, and 400 infantry, he is advancing on
Carracas from Ca agent.

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• SEPT. 24.—We learn did a cessation of hostilities
has t tken place at Santa •Fse, between the Royalist
anc Independent f.oreei. The line of demarcation is
pos vn.—Gsnerml lilartas commands the former, and
General Montt* was be, ttleased from captivity the
moment the articles fix the armistice were signed,
and would thea take the command of the indepen-
dent force*.
We are informed, that letters from Carthagena of
the iii instant, state, that the interiiir provinces of
sew Granada have ta length come to the resolution
of contributing, in proportion to their respective
means, to the support of the Government of Cartha-
gena ; and that such contributions were actually
going on at the date of the communication.

From some additional files of American Papers,
received by the last arrival from Halifax, we have
selected some interesting extracts. It will be seen
that the Americans did not come off so triumphantly
at Baltimore as their friends have represented : while .
their armies were covered with glory, their ►hipping
and merchandize were in flames ; and now that their
exultation has somewhat abated, they begin to calcu-
late their loss.
With respect to the general state of the public
mind throughout the United States : that it is highly,
unfavourable to the existing Government cannot be
doubted : their papers teem with expressions of dissa-
tisfaction with the taxes, and nice calculations of their
relative pressure ; distrust in the talent; or integrity
of the Executive; threats to dissolve the union in the
lehupe of predictions, ,if the Administration is not
altered; and, on the side of Government, preposte•
rpus exultation on account of partial or supposed sec.
ceases in the war, urgeunded calumnies. against Eng.
land, and assertions of loyalty in behalf (A American

citirxns.
Amid this conflicting scene, the eyes of au on the

other side of the Atlantic ate directed with anxious
solicitude to Ghent, where, 'notwithstanding all their
blustering, the people look for a termination of all
their sufferings• These feelings cannot be concealed,
'notwithstanding all the " glozing lies" of the arch
Bend at Washington and those of his out-riders at
Ghent. In the mean time the interchange of Couriers
is incessant between the latter place and London, and
from the additional speed of a few hours or even a
few minutes with which a Messenger travels, it is
gravely inferred that he is the bearer of dispatches
still more closely approximating to a pacification.
From the frequency of the interchange of Couriers,
inferences of this nature certainly may fairly be drawn'
but the speed with which a British Messenger travels
is a circumstance of an ordinary nature.
A most spirited and still more extended plan of
operations, we have reason to believe, will be acted
upon instantly in Canada and on the Lakes. Com-
modore OWEN took leave yesterday of the Lords of
the Admiralty, for Portsmouth, previous to his im.
mediate embarkation for Cauada, where he will pro-
ceed in the Mons. He will then transfer his flag to
the Lakes, where, we have no doubt he will effect
more in twenty-four hours than all the Negotiators at
Ghent will do in twice twenty-four months.
FROM THE AMERICAN PAPERS.
EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM BALTIMORE TO A MER-
CHANT IN NEW-YORK.
" In answer to your enquiry respecting The To-
bacco purchased by you, which was stored" in the
Lower Marlborough warehouse, I am sorry to inform
you that the whole of yours, with fifteen thousand
hogsheads belonging to others, has been burnt by the
invaders, in the different inspecting warehouses which
,have been destroyed with their contents, with the ex-
ception of four or five hundred hogsheads, which the
enemy carried off.

The whole stock of Tobacco in the Nottingham,
Upper and Lower Marlborough warehouses, and all
the warehouses on the Potowmac, has been wantonly
destroyed; and what is still a more lasting injury to
this part of the country, is the taking off the black
people : a great number of the Planters here have not
only lost their whole stock of tobacco, but most of
their slaves, and some have not one left. The dis-
tress in this part of the country is not to be described,
and no prospect of relief. Piscataway and Benedict
warehouses have also shared the same fate; Colonel
Lyles has lost every slave he had."
WASHINGTON, OCTOBER 22.
Our readers have all seen the account of the enter-
prise against the Pirates of Barrataria. But few, we
believe, were informed of the situation, history, or na-
ture of that establishment. For the information of
such as were unacquainted with it, we have procured
firom a friend the following interesting narrative of
'the main facts of which he has personal knowledge,
*eft which cannot fail to interest some of our readers
. Barrataria, is a Bay, or a narrow arm of the Gulf
tof Mexico. It runs tivough a rich but very flat
`country, until it reaches within a mile or two of the
Missisippi river, 15 miles below the city of New.
Orleans. The Bayou has branches almost innume-
rable, in which persons can lie concealed from the
severest scrutiny. It communicates with three lakes
which lie on the southwest side, and these, with the
lake of the same name, and which lies contiguous to
the sea, where there is an island formed by the two
arms of this lake and the sea. The east and west
points of this island were fortified in the year 1811'
by a band-of pirates, under the command of one
Monsieur La Fitte. A large majority of these out-
laws are of that class of the population of the
state of Louisiana, who fled from the Island
:of St. Domingo during the troubles there, and
took refuge in the island of Cuba. And when the
.last'war between France and Spain commenced, they
were compelled to have that islald with the short
notice of a few days. Without ceremony►, they en-
tered the United States, the most of them the State
of Louisiana, with all the negroes they had possessed
in Cuba. They were notified by the Governor of that
State of the clause in the constitution which forbade
the importation of slaves ; but, at the same time, re-
ceived the assurance of the Governor that he would
obtain, if possible, the approbation of the general
Government for their retaining this property. The
conduct of this part of the favoured emigrants, and
the refusal of those who could not, from local causes;
join in the illicit confederacy to obey the draft in that
State, which was required by the General Govern-
ment and ordered by the State herself, prove the
fidelity of the allegiance which was promised by these
fugitives to the United States.
The Island of Barrataria is situated about lat. 29
deg. 15 min. long. 92 30, and is as remarkable for
its health as for the superior scale and shell fish with
which its waters abound. The chief of this horde,
like Charles de Moor; had mixed with his many vices
some transcendent virtues. In the year 1813, this
party had, from its turpitude and boldness, claimed
the attention of the Governor of Louisiana; and to
break up the establishment, he thought proper to
strike at the head. I-le therefore offered a reward of
500 dollars for the head of Monsieur La Fitte, who
was well known to the inhabitants of the city of New
Orleans, from his immediate connexion, and his once
having been a fencing master in that city of great
reputation, which art he learnt in Bonaparte's army,
where he was a Captain, The reward, which was
offered by the Governor for the head of La Fitte,
was answered by the offer of a reward from the latter

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of 15,000 for the bead 61-' Doveniitt. The Go-
vernor ordered outs Company to march from the
city to La Fitte'claiiidNind to burn and destroy all
the property, and to bring to the city-Of New Orleans
all his banditti. This company; under the command
of a man who had been the intimate associate of this
hold Captain, approached very near to the fortified
island before he saw a man, or heard a sound, until
he heard a whistle, not unlike a 'boatswain's call.-
-Then it was he found himself suiroundeJ by armed
men who had emerged from the secret avenues which
led into Bayou. Here it was that the modern Charles
de Moor developed his few noble traits ; for to this
man who had come to destroy his life and all that was
dear to him, he not only spared his life, but offered
him that which would have made the honest soldier
easy for the remainder of his days, which was indig-
nantly refused. He then, with the approbation of
his captor, returned to the city. This circumstance,
and some concomitant events, proved that this band
of pirates are not to be taken by land. Our naval force
having always been small in that quarter, exertions
for the destruction of this illicit establishment could not
be expected from them until augmt.nted ; for an
officer of the navy, with most of the gun-boats on
that station had to retreat from an overwhelming
force of La Fitte's. So soon as the augmentation
of the navy 'authorized an attack, one was mac!e ; the
overthrow of this banditti has been the result; and
now this almost invulnerable point and key to N.:W-
Orleans is clear of an enemy, it is to be hoped the
government will hold it by a strong militar) force.

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