Star.
London, England, 1814-03-10 00:00:00

IVINDSOIt, illi4Rdl! '

Monday Dr. HEBERDEN arrived ak the Castle, Eo
be in attendance on the KtNa. The weather being
sn very cold, together with the fall of snow, the Royal
raniily do not leave the Castle.
Yesterday the QuEkN, accompanied by Dr. HE-
aims:, went to the King's apartments in the Castle,
to see his MiJESTY. In the evening the QUEEN had
a select party to tea.

Yesterday, about three o'clock, Baron DOREN-
!WIWI', the new Hessian Minister, was introduced to
his Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT, at Carlton
House, by t 11,.! Earl of LIVERPOOL, officiating as Se-
cret iry of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted
by Mr. CHESS It, the Assistant Master of the Cere,
monies. Fl!s Excellency had a private audience of
his Royal Highness to deliver his credentials, and
was most graciously received.--Mr. Faqtu., on his
return from Holland, and another Gentleman from
Holland (the Baron VaxmttnowN), were introduced
to his Royal Highness in a similar manner.
The Cihinet Ministers dined yesterday with Vis-
count MEL-rita.r.:, at his house in the Admiralty.

The Earl Conntess of Sr.t,MF•ottD and family
are expected in town in a few days, from their seat,
Enville Hall, Staffordshire.
The Duke of KEN r honoured the CHANCELLOR of
the EXCHEQUER with his company to breakfast yester-
day morning.

The infant son of Mr. POLE TYLNEY LONG WEL...
LESLEY, is to be christened by the names of WILLIAM
RICHARD AILTIIni, after his rrrandfather Mr. WIL•
/Am,' POLE, and his uncles the narquisses WELLESLEY
and WELL IYGTON.

MAY() Et.EcrtoN.—Total, .55th day, March 2 :
Mr. B;:OWNE. 4388 ; Mr. ICtitwAhr, 4321 ; majority
for Mr. BROWNE, 67.—.N1r. KirtwAN had not polled a
roan for the last three (tar, and it was expected that
on Friday the election would close.

The faowing is said to he a literal copy of an order
directed by Marshal VICTOR to the Mayors of the towns
in the districts occupied by his corps, in the middle
of January, and is given as a proof of the shifts to
which BovapanTe and 1-is agents have had recourse,
to secure the obedience of the people, by exaggerated
lepresetations of the forces which he was about to
bring into action t
Mr. MAYOR—His Excellency the Marshal Duke
of BELLITNO charges me to announce to you, that he
Ins received official intelligence of the sign•sture of a
treaty of peace with King FERDINAND VII. ; and
that 200,000 men, of which our armies in Spain con.
'fisted, are in full march towards Paris and Lyons.
His Excellency invites you to make this intelligence
(Signed, &c.)
Four lkssels,-vii. two sloops and two gun-brigs,
which have been formed for the Lakes in America,
were on Saturday put on board some transports ; the
greatest exertions were used to complete them—they
ate to be ice-formed on the Lakes by shipwrights, who
Pte to accninfrany them, and they will be taken over-
land, piece-meal, to their destination.
By a private letter from Helvoetsluys, of the 2d
instant, we )earn, that the undermentioned transports.
laden With ordnance stores, are totally lost at Goree,
Flaxton, 545 tons, marked J. J. Mathwin master;
and Mary, 204 ditto, Robert Smith. Several
others were in imminent danger of sharing the same
fate, particularly the Neptune, marked J. V. James
Dicey master, whose cargo consisted if two iron 10.
inch mortars, with their stores complete: and 250
barrels of gun-powder; all of which, with the ship,
would most inevitably have been lost, but fol. the
Hon. Captain King, of the Jason frigate, by whose
intrepidity and exertions she was brought through
the ice into a place of perfect. safety, after having
lost her rudder, and sustained other damage.
A Sub-CoMmittee having -been commissioned to
examine the documental papers and other sources
from which Mr. Ackermann's Narrative of the most
remarkable events in and near Leipzig, &c. is com-
piled, as some insinuations have been thrown out
that much of what is therein related is rather exalt
gerated, and Mr. -Ackermann having furnished them
with the said papers, they were found to consist of—

1. A Pamphlet, printed at Leipzig, entitled, " Leipzig,
svihrend der Schreckenstage der Scillachten, ina Monat Octo-
ber, 1813; als Beytrag zur Chronik dieser Stade." (" Leipzig,
during the terrible Days of the Battles in the Month of October,
1813; being a Supplement to the History of this City.")
2. A printed Advertisement of a large Work, to be accom-
panied with Nine Plates, the Advertisement itself giving a brief
tut comprehensive account of the battle of Leipzig.
3. A second Advertisement, giving a similar description of
these ba'tles in German and Preneh.
4. A I.etrer from Count Scbonfeld to Mr. Ackerniann, de-
scribing the dreadful condition of the villages In the neighbour•
hod ut I.eipzig, especially of those over which the scorns of the
battle pavied.

5. An Official Paper, signed by some of the principal Bankers
and Merchants at Leipzig, containing an appeal to the benevo-
lence of the British Public, in behalf of the sufferers.

6. An Official Attestation of the truth of the statement made
is the said Appeal, signed by the acting Burgomaster of Leipzig,
with the City Seal affixed.

7. Several private Letters, entering more or less into the
d_tail.

The Sub-Committee, having read and considered
the chief parts of these several sources of information,
were unanimous in their opinion, that far from any
txaggeriition of facts having been resorted to, in pre.
senting this Narrative to the British Public, facts
have been suppressed, under an idea that they might
shock the feelings of Englishmen, who, in general,
by Gon's mercy, have so imperfect an idea of the
aorrqrs of a campaign, and the unspeakable suffer-
ings occasioned by the presence of contending armies,
that, to hear more of the detail 'contained in the said
papers, might destroy the effect of exciting compas-
sion by creating disgust, and doubts of the possibility
of the existence of such enormities.

The Sub-Committee were likewise fully persuaded
Cut the acceuuts contained in these official and print-
ed Papers could not have been published at Leipzig
itself, without being acknowledged.by all as authen-
tic, as they .vnitld otherwise have been liable to the
censure of every reader and reviewer; and therefore,
comparing them also with various similar accounts,
received from other places, they feel ng hesitation in
.►xprtssiug-their opinion, that the Narrative published
by Mr. Ackermann is a true and faithful represerita-
ti,n of such facts as came within the Reporter's own
obsery 36 at.

REV. WM. ICCP:HI. REV. C. F. STEINICOFF.
)UV. DR. SCHWABE. Rk.V. C. J. LATROBE.

buteff POtITICAL CoMTITI,77O7V.

THE HAMM, MARCH s, item
tt We, Wtt.t.tmn, by the grace df gm), Prince of
Orange Nassau, Sovereign Prince of the United Ne-
therlands, &c.
" Invited to the Sovereignty of these States by
your confidence and your attachment, we from the
first declared, that we would undertake the same only
under the guarantee of a wise constitution, which
might secure your freedom against all possible
abuses ; and we have ever since continued to feel the
necessity thereof.

" We regarded it, therefore, as one of the first and
most sacred of our duties, to summon together some
men of consideration, and to charze them with the
weighty task of establishing a fundamental code, built
upon your manners, your habits, and corresponding
to the wants of the present time.
" They cheerfully took upon themselves this office,
performed it with zeal, and have submitted to us the
fruits of their uninterrupted labours.
" After a careful examination of this work, we
have given it our approbation. But this does not sa-
tisfy our heat t. It respects the concerns of the whole
Netherlands. The whole Dutch people must be re-
cognised in this important work. That people must
receive the strongest possible assurance, that their
dearest interests are sufficiently attended to therein ;
that religion, as the fountain of all goad, is thereby
honobred and maintained, and religious freedom dis-
turbed by no:hing of temporal concerns, but secured
in the most ample manner ; that the education of
youth, and the spread of scientific knowledge, shall
be attended to by the Government, and freed from all
those vexatious regulations which oppress the genius
and subdue the spirit ; that personal freedom shall no
longer be an empty name, and dependent on the ca-
prices of a suspicious and crafty police ; that an im•
partial administration of justice, guided by fixed prin-
ciples, secure to every man his property ; that com-
merce, agriculture, and manufactures be no longer
obstructed, but h►ve free course, like rich springs of
public and private prosperity : that, therefore, no
restraint be -imposed on the domestic economy of the
higher and lower classes of the state, but that they be
conformable to the general laws and the general go-
vernment ; that the movements of the general Go
vernment l not palsied by too great a zeal for local
interests, but rather receive from it an additional im-
pulse ; that ihe general laws, by means of an harmo-
nious co-operation of the two principal branches of the
Government, be founded on the true interests of the
State ; that the finances and the arming of the people,
the main pillars of the body politic, be placed in that
central point, Jpon which the greatest and most in-
valuable privilege of every free people—their inde-
pendence—may be firmly fixed. Which of you can
doubt of this truth, atter the terrible experience you
have had of a foreign tyranny, which acknowledged
no right when it wanted means for its own mainte-
nance by violence ; after having sighed, of Tate years,
under the most oppressive yoke that ever was imposed
since the Spanish times ?
" Now at least you know the true value of those
precious rights for which our fathers sacrificed their
property and blood, of that happiness which they be-.
queathed to their descendants, and which we saw lost
through the adversity of the times !
" Following, therefore, and deriving encourage-
ment from their example, it becomes my duty, in
imitation of those whose name I bear, and whose
memory I honour, to restore that which is lost : it is
your duty to support me therein with all your efforts,
that under the blessing of Divine PROVIDENCE, who
summons us to this task, we may leave our beloved
country completely reconquered and re-established to
our children.

We have for that purpose appointed a special
commission, who are to choose, out of a numerous
-list given in to us, six hundred persons, in due to-
portion to the population of each of the now existing
departments.
" Honoured with your confidence, they shall, on
the '2Bth of tnis month, assemble in the metropolis of
Amsterdam, to come to a determination upon this
weighty business.
6, They shall in like manner, with the letter of con-
vocation, receive the plan of the constitution, that
they may be able to prepare their decision thereon
with maturity and calmness of deliberation; and for
the more effectual attainment of this object, a copy of
the same shall be sent to each member previously.
64 And as it is of the first importance that these
Members be possessed of the general confidence, • we
drder that a list of the persons chosen for each de-
partment be made public, and that to all the inhabi-
tants of the same, being housekeepers, an opportunity
shall be afforded, by signing his n tme without any
other addition, in a register which shall lie
.open in
each canton for eight days, to disapprove of any such
person or persons as he may deem unqualified.
" No inhabitant is deprived of this right, with the
exception of domestic servants, valets, bankrupts,
persons in a state of nonage, or under accusation.
6, When it shall appear to us, from the summing
up of the registers, that the majority are satisfied
with the persons thus submitted to their election, we
shall consider them as the representatives of the whole
Dutch people, call them together,'appear in the midst
of them, and salute them as constituting the great
assembly, representing the United Netherlands.
66 They shall then commence their labours in
freedom, and give us an account of their progress by
a committee appointed to that effect ; and as soon as
the adoption of the constitutional code is the result of
their deliberations, we shall make the necessary ar-,
rangements for taking the oath prescribed to us by the
constitution with all due solemnity, in the midst of
the assembly, and after that be installed in state.
" In the adoption of thesr measures, worthy coun-
trymen, you must feel convinced, that the welfare of
our beloved country is my first ind only .Object ; that
your interests and mine are the same; and how can
they be more manifestly promoted, than by the intro-
duction of Constitutional rules, in which you will find
the guarantee of your dearest rights ? They will fur-
nish me %t it)) the advantage of conducting, on fixed
principles, the charge and responsibility of Govern-I
ment, assisted by the best and most inulligent of the
citizens ; and will secure to me the continuance of
that affection, the expressions of which rejoice my
heart, animate my courage, lighten my burthen, and.
bind me and my house for ever to our regenerated
country.
44 Given at the Hague this 2d of March, 1814, and
of our reign the Ist. (Signed) 66 Wuwie.