Star.
London, England, 1818-08-12 00:00:00

AMERICAN PAPERS,

7rHE'EVENING STAR.

BALTIMORE, JULY 8.
The Spanish Minister passed through this city yes-
terday morning, on his way from Thiladelphia to
Washington, where he probably arrived yesterday
evening. He had received dispatches from the late
Governor of Florida, giving an account of his expul-
sion from his Government by the United States troops
under the command of General Jackson.
• If the Spanish Minister shall ascertain that our
Government has authorised or justifies the whole ex-
tent of hostilities committed by General Jackson, can
he draw any other conclusion, than that the two na-
tions are at war?

LONDON.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1618.
Panics RsAmnia DMZ-MT.—Holiday at the Public Meet.

SOME MORE FACTS IN THE CASE OF
MR. ARBUTHNOT.

1. Mr. 'Animalism. is accused by the Americans
of having incited the Indians to acts of savage war-
' fare against them.
.The utmost, we have reason to believe, that could
be proved against Mr. ARBUTHNOT was, that he
concurred with his Indian neighbours in the pro-
priety of protecting their,property, by force of arms,
when lawlessly invaded. The safety of his own com
mercial store was involved in the issue, and he could
not reasonably do less. If one or more American
marauders have been shot and scalped in their at.'
tempts to carry off the cattle of their Indian neigh-
bours, what pretext can the countrymen of the cattle-
stealers have for complaining of the style in which'
an act of robbery has been very properly punished ?
No rational motive can be assigned why Mr. AR•
aurnnor should have incited the Indians to wanton
hostilities against the Americans. As a private trader,
his interest was to cultivate peace' with all around
him—as a British subject he could have no object in
provoking hostilities which he must have been certain
the British Government would never sanction or abet.
2. Mr. Ansurnsar is farther accused of having
furnished the Indians with munitions of war."
The munitions of war" with which Mr. Anaupt-
Nor furnished the Indians, were no other than On-
ordinary articles of traffic between Europeans and
Indians. The Indians gain their principal means of
subsistence from bunting; it i; an occupation which
they cannot carry on with adeqaate success without
an ample supply of powder and shot, and Mr. An.
nurtixor did no more than aid them with part of
that supply, in return for the skins and furs which
they brought to him. It was a mere transaction of
trade, of which the Americans themselves in all their
intercourse with the Indians are setting a confaant
example, and without which no trade • with the In.
dians can possibly be carried on.
S. Mr. ARBUTHNOT was accused of being a spy
upon the Americans—or rather, according to a qua-
lified version of the offence, which has been reccntly
promulgated, with having given intelligence to the
Indians of the movements of the American force.
The intelligence which Mr. ARBUTHNOT gave the
Indians was simply this: he told them of the cfficial
communication lie had received from the renegadoc
agent, HASIDLY, that the Americans had 'resolved
upon their utter extermination, and were upon the
way to put this barbarous edict into execution.—
What was there in this which is against any one of
the laws of Mimi% ? If it was iudted an act of espia-
,susgs deservingsif death, Heminx, who sent the tid-
ings 'from. the American camp, was the gulki man,
and not. Mr. AasusixOT, who only told what was
officially communicated to him without moving a
step from his own established settlement. But who
. .
can for a moment maintain that it is a crime to warn
an Innocent people of a design to inassacre- and cut
thorn off from the face of the earth?

• ST. JOHN, (N. B.) JUNE r 5.
O Friday last, Captain R. Barr, of the brig Bar-
rasie, and E. Toner, * passenger in that vessel,
charged with ahe murder of IL Douglas, Mate of the
ship Lord Gardner, underwent a long examination
before his Worship the Mayor, and several Magis-
trates.: From the depositions of J. Sugden, Mate of
the brig, and J. Smallborn, a passenger, it appears
that on Wednesday night last, about ten, a dispute
arose between the passengers and crews of the above
vessels, the former frOm Dublin, and the latter from.
Londonderry, both lying at the Breakwater in the.
Lower Cove, which originated in some insulting lan-
guige, through drunkenness, given by the crew of the
brig to that of the ship ; from words they proceeded
to thro* stones, and each party alternately drove the
other on board their respective vessels, in which con-
tests several on both sides were much bruised with
stones and handspikes. The cabin windows of both
vessels were 'broke in ; the Officers were obliged to
extinguish their lights to prevent being aimed at, and
to take shelter in order to screen themselves from the
attack of these infuriate wretches. At the height of
the conflict the Captain of the brig asked for a gun,
which he loaded with ball—that some person took it
on dtck and fired it off—the contents of which lodged
in the breast of Mr. IL Douglas, Mate of the ship.,
Lord Gardner, who had previously received a severe
contusion from a stone, and was, at that instant,
standing near the ship's tafferel, calling to his men,
to desist quarrelling and to come on board; the wound
proved mortal, and this unfortunate young man ex-
pired about three hours after—he was a native of
Ayr, in Scotland. The evidence went on to say, that
the gun was loaded a second and third time, the last
of which is stated to have been discharged by Cap-
tain Barr, in an oblique direction across the Break-
water, to prevent (45 is 'said) its doing further mis-
thief. The prisoners were fully committed to take
their trial at the ensuing Sessions.

NORFOLK, JULY IS.
The United 6ta..L.t. schooner Hornet; Lieutenant
Commandant Ramage, arrived sere yesterday morn-
ing from Annapolis, whither she had last proceeded
with the Commissioners of Government, who had
been engaged since their departure from this place in
taking an accurate survey of the Chesapeake Bay
andits tributary waters, preparatory, to reporting to
Congress on the most eligible position for the
Southern Naval Depot, and such fortifications as
might be requisite to check the incursions of a hostile
force. We understand that the Gentlemen have, after
a most minute examination of the waters and ports
of the Bay, completed their survey, which will no
doubt be submitted to Congress at an early day of
the nest &union. The Board of Commissioners was
cot:mimed of Generals Swift and Bernard, Colonel.
11I411ea mid' Major Kearney, of the corps of Engi-
neett, which have gone f•,-)m Annapolis to Bahimore,
in the United States schooner Dispatch, Lieutenant
Smoot, whither we learn they would immediately
proceed to Washington, to lay the res Alt of the sur-
vey before the President.

NEW ZEALAND.

Extract limn the Sydney Gazette of September 20-: . For these alleged offences, thus so easily and satin-.
o The late Bit ival of the Harriet, from New Zea- factorily refuted, has Mr, ARBUTHNOT been seized,
land, presents us with a picture of the natives of that tried, condemned, and executed. The wanton sacri-
island as by no means flattering to the.humane wish lice of the.life of a British subject, is at any time ag-
which was
for their civeight weeks, ilization. Whil
reater part (the e the Harriet lofy a
which g there, .
re.ssion enough to rouse the Britien nation to make
g
was in the South East River,) Captain Jones received the cause of satisfaction—we will not say of yen-
repeated information of plots formed among the geanco--their own. But looking to the grounds on.
Chiefs for the capture of the vessel ; but being always which the justification of this extraordinary act have
on the alert, the conspirators never had the opportti-
been,placed, they are such as seem to call, in a very
Wiry of making the actual attempt. These islanders
particnlar matiner,vn the British Government, to in-
were aware, of the condition of Captain Jones's crew,
nine of whom had refused duty ; and erirthere were terPoic in the piesent matter.
but few other Europeans, exclusive oil the Officers, if the .Inic,icans are to be allowed to hold that the
on board, she being partly manned with. Lascars, r •
o• tirras1
.1:n of munitions of war to the Indians, is a
they encouraged their treacherous designs until the 0
crime which tntitles them to put the individual en-
last moment of the vessel's stay. ,
." She arrived at the Bay, from hence, the 23d of
gaged in it to death, what is to become of the whole
-
Jtine; and had been more or less agitated with the of our traders along the Canadian frontiers, who are
apprehension of assault, until, the middle of August, in the constant practice, because their whole trade
when the conspirators, becoming iinpatient foe the. depends upon it, of doing as the unfortunate Mr.
perpetration of their design, and finding thaty
!he .
AsetrruNor has done and suffered for ?
could not, by any stratagem, prevail ou the Cantu
or Officers to visit their village, (though frequently' If the Americans are to be permitted to exercise
invited thitler), the treachery assumed a bolder. Cha-' the sight or pursuing any Indian or Indians, whom
outer, and a little after.day-light on the morning or they may contrive to provoke to bloody quarrel, into'
the 9i2d, a fleet of war canoes, 11 in number, ;.ad just a central territory, and to arrest, try, and execute
cleared a point of laa,i that before screened them, and
the subjects of that neutraterritory, for aiding or
l
stood directly towards the vessel, around which a
number of other canoes, with armed natives, were befriending the proscribed fugitives, what security,
already collecte.l. The Chief Bumon•i, of whose per- haye our settlers-find:he remote parts of Canada, that
fidy Captain Jones had received repeated informa- they; may not, at same future period, be visited in the
Lion, at this time drew alongside, intending fame- same' barbarous 'banner that Mr. ARBUTHNOT has
iiarly to go on board as before ; but this being re-
been, at his settlement in the Floridan ?
fused him, and finding the ship in a thorough condi-
tion of defence, they thought prudent to obey Cap- It is well known, that by treaties made with the
tail Jones's orders not to presume to approach, on Indian nations, and according to old and established
the pain of being fired into. The overbearing inso- relations, the British Government is its the practice
pence of the Chief of this inhaman race of people it
of making annual presents to the Indians of blankets,
is impossible to form an adequate idea of.
o Their insults to Captain Jones and his Officers clothing, arms, and ammunition', which are publicly
and people were without parallel : spitting in their delivered by the agents of the Government, at the
faces; and using menacing gestures to them on board ports of Drunimond's Island, on Lake fkaron, Am-
their own vessel, was far from uncommon ; and in brustburg, on Lake Erie, and Forts George and York,
their insolcncies ley appeared to consider themselves
people, on Lake Ontario. If the principle now assumed by
protected by the consciousness of the ship's
the Americans is admitted, will it not be quite as
that the Missionae.. 3 on shore were always in their ,
power, and that to incense these canibal tyrants might ' applicable to the munitions of war furnished by Go-
provoke some acts of vengeance upon them. vernment,‘ as .to those furnished by private indivi-
ridcut off the Harriet was by no means li-
Pla '1 I • to duals?—And may not public agents of the British
mated in its extent, as the Chiefs and their Bangui Government be hung. up, as Mr. ARBUTHNOT has
nary su'ljects were attracted by tune hope of plunder
, been, for only doing what their duty requires of them?
fiom the River Thames, which ii 200, and others
front places upwards of 900 elites distant!' I We submit these considerations as worthy of very

serious attention. To admit the Fight assumed by
the Americans in respect of one British subject, is to
admit the same right in respeit to the whole sub-
jects of the British Empire. If a British subject can-
not be protected by his Government in the lawful
pursuit of an honest occupation in one place, he can
have no reason to claim og expect it in another.
In Florida, in Canada—every where—one general
system of base and abject abandonment of the lives and
properties of its subjects, must,be the consequence.
Mr. ARBUTHNOT was a native' of Montrose, in
Scotland, and was some years resident in Landon as
a merchant. He appears to be well known in the City.

The Paris Papers of Sunday arrived this forenoon,
but furnish us with nothing particularly deserving of
quotation. Our private letter, which we subjoin,
contains, however, some interesting observations on
the secret note, which has just been published, 're-
specting the nature and object of the late Con-
spiracy, and the character of the conflicting par-
ties into which the political portion of the Fiench
people are now divided. Agreeing generally in
the sentiments so ably expressed by our intelligent
coirespundent, we must at the same time remark that
too sweeping a condemnation ought not to he passed
ou either °Hie parties, the Ultras and Independents,
whose extreme principles and designs are threatening
so much danger to France. We know that there are
many worthy men in both these parties. The furmer
demand that the Government should be strong—tke
latter, that it should be Constitutional. The Govern-
ment will unite both these qualities, if it will only sin-
cerely
adopt the letter and spirit of the Charter. Let
Goveriunent grant the people the fair enjoyment
of all the liberty which is provided for them by that
constitutional pact, and it will have nothing to fertr
from enmity or faction.
per Cents. Saturday-7Kr.' C6c.
" PARIS, AUGUST 5.

A Pamphlet, under the title. of " Secret Note og

the Vature and Oleca of late Cunspiracy," was
publi a few days since, many supposed by order
of the Police, until it was seized oiv Monday last by
-the Police itself. I eonfessi I am at a loss to tinder-,
stand the policy of the Nice: it first demands that
five copies shall be deposited before-publication, and
that not a single copy shall be .I:livered until it has
given its receipt for-the five it withholds until
the work is examined. If there be any thing in it
inimical to Government, the publication is prevented:
if there appear nothing reprehensible in it, then the
receipt for the five copies is delivered, and thepubli-
cation permitted. A few days afterwards the work
is seized, by order of that same Police which autho-
, rite,: the publication, and the authors and publishers
are prosecuted for a libel!—This is really like knock-,
in-, a man dovin, and kicking him for falling. The
Conot DECAZII has reformed many important abuses
in the State; and it wetild be well if he would give
a glance at the system of his own rt'nistry. We
have long understood him to be faveurable to the
institution of a Jury for offences of the riess. In a

ported conspiilacies; but is nct the very sending
sudh a paper one? It reminds us c'.." MAnceti.:
letter to the POPE, though there the piriy of her.;
might be alledged as a kind of excuse; but here
terest, vile mercenary motives alone, inspired 11'4
Give these men gold, honour, power, and pus,
and they' will consent again to become Frenci!;
withhold these from them, and they will
all the armies of Eurcpe to attack their country,
consent that it shall be struck for ever GA of the
of European Powers.

" We are told that there exists another party
violent, and much more formidable. On ex

tion, we shall find that this party is traly
by its hatred, as Frenchmen, of its cowardly a-. 1
minal adversaries ; but if the Government IT-

have nothing to fear from either party, k•t
itself firmly on ground of the Charter. 11

then see its partizans multiply daily; numbers
leave the raliks of the extreme pareet; and
except the vicious, the intriguing, and the aniV.:
will range themselves under its b.utzers."

THE QUEEN.

Re ate happy to announce a cr.r.r:-:?..:-71,7, ;• .
provesnent in her MAsasTv's healzh, z
her being able to take an airing ou: of Rew 1•••
lis her usual way. It was not her MAJEirv's is
tion to ride out on Sunday, •as rumour hz,
but on Monday she felt herself so much reci...ercl
from her severe indisposition, the Melical Ge::;!c7.:ra

in attendance allowed her MAJESTY to ride out

garden chair, drawn by her favourite pony, in v.Li
she rode out during he• indisposition at her Mi-
JESTY'S house in St. James's Park, and also s;nee Ler
arrival. at Kew, until prevented by severe idnei
about six weeks ago. It was about lulf-Rt
o'clock on Monday evening her MAJESTY tool lxr
seat in the chair, and was drawn through the wdlo
of Kew Gardens for about half an accompA.
flied by the Duchess of GLOUCESTER. the Pliachi
Aocusxn, the Duke and Duchess of CAkunux.-r,c-
tended by Mr. KeArx, the surgeon, Ind Sir Hem
HA LFORD. Her MAJESTY continued her Airing fix
about half an hour, when the returned to Kew Pa.
lace much refreshed and improved, aad afteazzS
had a very good night.

Lord CASTLEREAOH does not proceed to dit.ll.
Chapelle till the 9.'."-th instant, as the Congress dots
not commence its sittings till the first week in
tember. The Noble Lord is to be attended in ar. oy
Lord CLAN WILLIAM, Lord FRANCIS CONTSGRAI;
Mr. PL ANTA, and Mr. CHAD.
The Dukes of Yostic and CAMBRIDGE visiur: 1.2
PRINCE REGENT yesterday.
Yesterday a foreign Officer was introduced to t'e
PRINCE REGENT at Carlton House, by Lord lcit.
LIAM GORE() N..

Last night the Duke and Duchess of CAVIRIDOI
honoured the Haymarket Theatre with their presence,
accompanied by Prince WILLIAM and Prince far
DSRICK of Heua.

Monday the Duke of WlLLtecrox had an irtn.
♦iew with the Duke of Yoex at lurk Hons.:,
James's Palace, for about two hours, previous to is
leaving London far France and yesterday his Gic
embarked at Dover on board the Lard Duncan pada
for Calais.
The Eail and Countess of HARDWICICE, and Ldi
Siewstftr, arrived on Monday evening at his LC7I.
ship's residence, in St. James's-square, from Poi,.

Itepre,en.•••:ve System, it is a s:le gva n 0,,; ; any
other is a foul anomaly, which it is the duty of an
2.:linister, like M. DEC-1:E, to remove.
" As to the seizure of the. Pam:)hiet in question,
it is one of those back-step measures which appears
to me highly impolitic at this moment. Nothing but
a tight-onward march can sate the country from the
intrigues of the "'Gothic Faction," as it is now very
properly denominated. M. CuATEAuentAND denies
having had any hand in the composition of this Note,
which is attributed to M. de Nlzaotias. Its object
was to Show the necessity of leaving the foreign troops
in France. Dictated by rage and despair, it has
created the strongest sensation.' It is not conceived
how persons calling themselves Frenchmen, several
of whom bear illustrious names, dare demand, con-
trary to the King's will and the most ardent wishes
of the whole natioa, that their country should be stib-
ject still longer to the insult and btuthen of having
its fortresses occupied by foreign troops. The public
indignation against this faction was never carried to
such a height. The Note attacks every sentiment of
honour and•patriotism, and the most barefaced ego-
tism is apparent in every line.
" Force,' say the Ultras, the King of France to

The Earl and Countess of VIMULAM have left tail
for their seat, GorhAmbury, for the season.

dismiss his Ministers and choose us--assist us to esta-

Wish the system of 1815, so that all places of tnist
and profit may be in our hands and those of our
friends, and then do not hesitate to withdraw your

troops. But if the present Ministry remain in power,

If its friends occupy the posts of Government, beware
of leaving us; for under your Tgis we can violate the
laws with impunity, outrage the Government, and
insult the person of the King himself!'
Such is the doctrine of these pretended Royalists,
of those men so eminent for patriotism and loyalty!
Their long diatribe against France, reduced to its
simple meaning, contains nothing else. It is said to
have been remitted to the Emperor ALEXANDER by
the Count de Nzasztnout ; and I have such a high
opinion of the stupidity and folly of the parties who
signed it, that I have no doubt of their having circu-
s lated it themselves in France, as a monument of their
wisdom. What can we call the seizure of it by the
Ministry, but a friendly measure to save the authors
of it from due execration? Yet it is high time for
the Ministry to act with vigour against this party, to
save it from the sacrifice iu which its own extrava-
gance would hurl it.
,g I am always inclined to be incredulous about re-

Lady CR AY: FORD and family, from the
Mr. and MIS. BARKLEY and family, from Bearal;
ItEdJAMES JOH N WILSON, Esq. and family, from Ku :,,,
are arrived at the St. Petersburgh Hotel, Dover-a:tel.
The remains of the late Earl of SANDWICH !:-re
been brought from Italy, where he died, and core
,eyed to the town residence, in Dover-stree:. thee
to remain for some days previous to being centred
to tie family burying-place, in Huntingdonshire.
KING'S THEATRE.—This gay place of public ere
tertainment closed yesterday evening, with that; et
attraction of this and the former seasons, Itloikars
Opera of Ds Giovanni. Notwithstand!ng the Jb.
sence from town of so large a portion of the f.r.fd,r.•
able world, the House was as well attended as i5t....!
period of its greatest novelty and popularity.
Drury-Lane promises to become, ere lag,. 25
amusing, to the LORD Cu SNCELLOR, and bettacial
to the Gentlemen of the long robe, as the Kittfs
Theatre has been.
The fallasing_passage in the speech of E.;ri
TESQI/14 to the Electors of Devonshire, oa their tt•
cent election of his son (Lord Enitt Y.; t! 't,
to be recorded :—" Keep him, and cheril ldri.
" long as he continues to cberiah your iedeperder.a;
" as lon'g as he protects the,:poolost freeholder fr,7l
" petty tyranny and local oppression ; a: long .1i rt
" continues his exertions, whetter t. 7 1::.
" availing, to protect you all from the oFeratico
" those taxes, which are created by an overlavisa
penditure of the public money."
ELECTION BILL.—Copy of a curious Biill.lg
delivered to an Irish Mcniber by a publican:
To eating 16 Freeholders above staff s, Sri Jchn,
at 3s. 3d. a head
To eating 14 more below stairs, and two Clem men,
1 :1 6
after supper
To six beds in one room, and four in anoth,r, at tern
guineas every bed, three or four a led -
To s 3 hones in the yard 4 night, at lid. everr or.e
of them, and for a man wate'.ing n
To beeakfitSt and tea neat day tor every our of them,
and u many as they brought with thcth, as ay.:.
as I can guess
To beer and punch, for the first dav and 'neat ; r am
' not sure, but I think, for the three f. st days and
a half of the Election, as near as I can gu:s., and
be exact, k ht all, or thereabouts
To shaving, dressing, and cropping the iredi of 4t
Freeholders for Sir John, K t sd. for er"ry one
of doe -

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