Star.
London, England, 1814-12-19 00:00:00

spies and arrested. The Marshal hes taken proper
steps to ascertain their true character.
Two new batteries on each side of the haehour are
newly completed ; and a line of handsome and effi-
cient breast-works finished, almost circumvallating
the south line of this town : all of which has been
effected in a very short time, by the voluntary labour
of the citizens of this place.

NEW YORK, OCTOBER al.
RICH CAPTURES PROM TM! 8R1T1051...-The priva-
teer brig Portsmouth, Shaw, arrived at Portsmouth
on Weduesday, the 19th of October, bringing in 260
bales and cases of British goods, said to be valued at
260,000 dollars, which she took out of the James,',
Messenger, bound from London to Quebec, and laden
with dry goods, rum, gin, brandy, and 80 casks of
gun-powder, besides clothes, &c. for the army in
CAnada. The James sailed with a fleet of 44 sail,
6om Plymouth, under protection of a frigate, and
parted in a gale about the 4th of October off the
Banks of Newfoundland. The James was throws
on her beam-ends. and nearly the whole convoy was
dispersed. The fleet convoyed 8000 troops. Cap-
tain Messenger has stated, that the cargo on board
the James was invoiced at £lOO,OOO sterling, of
which the Portsmouth took out ,835,000 worth, is
per invoice. The sale of the goods, at Durham, wet
Thursday, captured by the Portsmouth, on her for-
mer cruise, amounted to upwards of 190,000 dollars;
and allowing the goods she has now brought in to
average as much at the sale as those at Durham, (and
there is no doubt they will more, as they are better
adapted, too the season) they will amount to more than
562,000 dollars ; thus netting to the owners, and all
concerned in that vessel, upwards of 512,000 dollars
in the short space of thirty-three days.
The privateer schooner, Grampus, late Murphy,
belonging to Baltimore, consigned to John White and
Co. arrived in this port yesterday, from a five months
cruise off the Western Islands, during which she made'
six prizes, manned four of them, and ordered them in.
On the 4th of September fell in with the Ariel, dis-
guised, and after a severe engagement, in which she
received several shot between wind and water, suc-
ceeded in beating her off. Captain Murphy, during
the engagement. received a grape shot, which carried
away part of his right jaw and tongue; and a musket
ball, at the same instant, in his right thigh, but reluc-
tantly permitted himself to be carried below. He sur-
vived three days afterwards. H. Young and J. Ab-
bott were also killed in the engagement.
PHILADELPHIA, OCT. at.
The Itutrudions.—Our readers cannot reasonably
suppose thar what we have said in exposure of the
shameless versatility disclosed by our Cabinet ip the
'instructions to our Commissioners, was thrown out by
way of censure on its dereliction of the pretexts so
unrighteously set up, and subsequently so mischie-
fsouily insisted upon, for a time so pertinaciously
maintained, and of a sudden abandoned with such
hardened disregard of shame. Our aaimadversions
were intended to prove, what we have repeatedly
asserted, that the President never was sincere in the
prefenions he made of a wish for peace, till he found
that his real object in going to war, that is to say, an
effective co-operation with Buonaparte against Eu-
ropean independence, was no longer practicable; and
'that the omission to Gottenburgh was a mere strata.
Ism to answer party purposes at horns, not without a
collateral object of sneaking by extra diplomatic adu-
lation into the favour of Russia—of that same Alex-
ander whom the hypocrite of Monticello had the au-
dacious craftiness to insult with a fulsome compliment
—(44 the virtuotu Alexander")—whom all the press
agents of Madison and his faction were in the daily
habit of reviling,—and the report of whOse capture
in Paris, by Buonaparte, filled them all with a mad

tumult of joy.
A retrospect of our President's conduct on this
point will lay a very curious patch of political sce-
nery before the reader. Buonaparte having failed in
a conspiracy he had formed in the very heart of the
capital of Russia, to seize the person of the Emperor,
in order to destroy him, and place one of his own vile
creatures upon the throne of Peter the Great, resolved
to accomplish by force what he found unattainable by
fraud, and marched against Moscow the most nu-
merous, highly disciplined, and best appointed army
that had ever before existed in the world. To aid
him in encountering this force, deemed-irresistible by
the far greater part of Europe, the magnanimous
'Alexander had only the fidelity of his people, the ge-
nius and courage of his officers, and the co-operation
sad assistance of Great Britain. In that critical mo-
ssiest, when, to all on this side of the Atlantic, the
fall of Russia seemed next to inevitable, and weal
peognosticated with joy and triumph by Jefferson,
Madison, and other noted Jacobins who composer'
their unhallowed faction, our government, in order to
divert away as much as possible the force of Great
Britain from the aid of the virtuour Alexander, deul
dared war against her upon that false and foul pee.'
text—the orders in council ; and when those were
found to be repealed, continued that war upon ano-
ther pretext, still more false and foul, and which
baring adhered to so long as it promised to an-1
swer the original purpose of laying Alexander and
Britain both at the feet of Napoleon, has been with
as ceremony abandoned the very moment It was
foetid that that purpose could not be accomplished.
Such were the pretensions with which obr Cabinet had
the audacity to hope they could obtain favour in the'
sight of Russia, and turn that Monarch against his
best and most substantial friend, Great Britain, when,
having occasion to cajole this infatuated people with
a show of pacification, he appointed Commissioners
to repair to Gottenburgb. His instructions to those
Commissioners, in April, ISIS, are already pub=
fibbed ; but wishing to remiod our readers of, and to
'fair a few remake upon them, we will extract some
of their most prominent passages. By way of open.
iog the crocodile battery against the Emperor, Mr.
mentoe says, 44 in accepting this overture, he (the
President) has been particularly gratified to evince, by
the manner of it, the distinguished consideration
which the United States entertain far the Emperor
Alexander."
Stupid aggressor ! to imagine that the Emperor
was ignorant of the base machinations put in prac.
lice by the American friend and slave of Bonaparte,
or knowing them could receive such homage but with
indignation or scorn. Without any consideration of
this natural kind, the Secretary, on behalf of the
President, pours out a torrent of sycophantic, treacher-
ous flattery on Alexander; but so far from furnishing