Star.
London, England, 1826-04-25 00:00:00

ANTIGUA, MARCH 5.

About four weeks since, there. was a yearly general
meeting at St. Kitt's of the Methodist Missionaries from
the neighbouring islands ; from this place went tt'e
Rev. Mr. White, wife, three children, and servant ;
Rev. Mr. Hilliar, Rev. Mr. Oake, Rev. Mr.J.mes, wife,
and infant child. They left St. Kitt's a few days since
to return to the island, having added to their number
Mr. —; ano.her missionary and his w ife. The vessel
in which they embarked called at'Montserrar. Some
of theii friends advised th• m to leave the vessel in
which they were, (being a dull sailer), and go on hoard
the mail-boat Maria, then ready to sail for this island.
They did so; and a young lady also took passage with
.them. The sehooom which they bad left arrived here
seasonably, the ordinary passage licing only a few
hours. Some alarm, after the schooaer's arrival, was
felt for the safety of the mail.buit, and on Friday p.m.
the 3d instant, word was brought to own, that part of
the wreck was seen on the Weymouth (a shoal about
four miles from the harbour, and only half a mile
from a shoal island called Sandy Island), with two
persons on it. Two or three boats immediately went
down to her, and found it to be the wreck of the mail-
boat Maria, sad the only survivor of 21 souls was Mrs.
Jones, in. a srate of insensibility. She had been placed
by the Captain (Whitney) between the bowsprit bitts,
where she could not wash away. She was in her night
dress only, with her husband's cloak or coat on, and a
sailor's cap on her head. The body of Captain Whitney,
the only one found, was lying near the wreck. He was
buried yesterday. The vessel struck on the reef in the
night. Three or four days had elapsed when she was
taken off. Mr. White, his wife, three children, and
servant, were all swept away together, clinging to each
other; Mr. Hilliar attempted to swim to Sandy Island,l
and,was drowned in her sight; her infant was washed
away from her arms; her husband died in her lap the,
night before she was taken off, and was washed away. I
Mrs. Jones, a delicate slender woman,' of 20 years, wail
four days without sustenance, exposed to the inclemency
of the weather.

FRENCH PAPERS.
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The P.ris Journals of the 2.2 a contain the close of
the public proceedings on the prosecution of the Abbe
de la Mermais ; but the Etat slung has the sentence,
which is as follows:

Sentence in the *fair of the Abbe de la Mennais.-1-
And ence of 22d April t
Y With reipect to tae accuestion of excitement to disobedience
of the laws, • •

"Seeing that the Edict of March, 1682, registered
in the Parliament of Paris the 23d of the same month,
proclaims the declaration of the Clergy of France in
1682 to be a general law of the State, and that the four
propositions which it lays down form the fundamental')
basis of our political institutions and of our public law
on this subject; that this declaration constitutes the
liberties of the Gallican Church and States in its first
ptoposition; that St. Peter, his predecessors, and the
Church itself, have received no authority from GOD,
except over things spiritual, and not over things tem-
poral and civil ; and declares, in consequence, that
Kings are not subject to any ecclesiastical power by
the order of Goo in things which concern temporal
matters; that they cannot be deposed directly or indi-
rectly br the authority of the head of the Church ; and
that their subjects cannot be exempted from -submis-
sion and obedience which they owe them, or dispensed
from their oath of allegiancet---
" That the execution of this Declaration, and of this
Edict, is commanded by the Decree of the King's
Council, 24th May, 1766, which forbids all the King's
subjects to maintain, write, or print anything contrary
to the maxims and principles of this Declaration, and
which may tend to renew disputes, or give rise to dif-
ferent opinions on this subject.
4 That this Edict and this Declaration have never Men expressly
or legally revoked, or fallen lute desuetude.
46 That, on the contrary, their execution has been
ordered in divers acts of the legislative power and the
judicial authority, and that even at this day the Bulls
are not published in France except with the reserve of
the maxims, franchises, and liberties of the Galilean
Church. That thequestion is not to ex twine the pro-
positions laid in this declaration, and of which the
Clergy of France were the only judge, or to decide
on any dogma or article of faith ; but merely to decide
whether the Edict of 1682, relative to the declaration
of the Clergy, such as it exists, has the force of a law
which forms a legal question within the competency of
the judicial authority which is:especially charged with
the execution of the laws.
" Considering that the work, entitled 4 On Religion,
considered in its Relations with Political and Civil
Order,' of which the Abbe de La Mennais has acknow-
ledged himself the author, presents in several chapters
the character of a direct and formal attick on the
declaration of 1682, and the edict of the 23d March the
same year, which constitutes the crime designated by
articles 1,3, and 6, of the law of 17th of May, 1819;
that the Abbe de la Mennais, in two works, the one
entitled, • Some Reflections on the Trial of. the Gossit-
isstionsel and the thatrier and the other, eAphorionata
adjuniores Theologos,' has professed the same principles,
and attacked the same edict and declaration :

4► With respect to the accusations of attacks on the
dignity of the King, on the order of • succession to the
throne, or the rights which the king derives from bis
birth, and others, mentioned in article 2 of the laws of
16th March, 1822:
" Seeing that the passages inculpated ate rather an
attack on the declaration of 1682, and then a di.cussion
of the first proprisition contained in that deci ration,
than a direct, positive, ,nd actual attack against the
King, the lights he derives from his birth, and the order
of succession to the throne.:
" TULA. character of the Abbe de Is Peen* his religious end

asonarchical opinions and sentiments, do not permit even the sup-.
position of the intention of such a crime s

" Acquits the Abbe de la Mennais of the charge contained in
tie second count of the indictment.

" Deciding on the first count—
" Considering that the passages inculpat,d Form a
very small portion of the work, that the remainder is
,devoted to the examination of theological qulstions on
which discussion and controversy are permitted, and
not within the resort af the tribunals; that the work of
his composition can be read and appreciated only by
well-informed and enlightened persons; that the re-
spectable character of she Abbe de ht Mennais ought to
be particularly taken into consideration.

" Applying the Articles 1 and 3 of she law of May 17, mooed
a Article 26 of the law of May 26,12111--
" Condemns the Abbe de la Mennais to a fine of 90
francs; orders that the work called, Os
considered in its relation with Political and Civil Or_dell;
by the Abbe de la Mennais, shall be seized wheresoever
it may be necessary, by all officers of judicial police,
legally required by virtue of this sentence • orders the
destimetiost in the °Scent' the Register of ibe Court of
the copies which shall be seized.
" Orders that the present sentence shall be nude pane, con-
formably to Ankle 26 of the law ofll6th May, 111111.
" Condemns the Abbe de la Mennais in the costs."