Star.
London, England, 1810-06-27 00:00:00

AMERICA

Extract of a letter from a Gentleman h;gh In office in Mexico,
to his friend in this city (Philadelphia), dated 28th December,
11102, received by the way of the Havannalt
,6 The moment his Excellency the Viceroy received
the dispatch from Don Luis de Onis, announcing that
the Government of the United States had refused to
acknowledge him as Envoy Extraordinary and Mini-
ster" Plenipotentiary of our Catholic Monarch, Ferdi-
nand VII. - he adopted every measure which prudence
dictated on the occasion, ordering, at the same time,
the greatest vigilance on our frontiers, and all along
our extensive coast. This unexpected event caused
much indignation among the Royal Mexicans, who
hitherto had flattered themselves that the United
t ties would sympathize with the Spaniards in their
present calamity, and reciprocate that friendship and •
assistance they so liberally afforded the Americans '
during their struggle for liberty and independence ; but
in this hope they now find themselves disappointed,
and the effects thereby produced in the public mind
is by no means favourable towards the United States.
44 On the receipt of Don Luis de Onis's letter, the •
Viceroy convened the Council, together with the three
kiscals (or Attorney-Generals) and laid before them
said dispatch, requesting their opinion on the subject
of its contents, which they delivered unanimously in
the following words on the 22d instant The Mem-
bers assembled in the extraordinary council convened
this day, having taken into consideration the copy of
the letter addressed to your Excellency by Don Luis
de Onis, which your Excellency has laid before them,
are of unanimous opinion, and beg leave to inform
your Excellency, that in the first place he ought to
recognize Don Luis de Onis as Minister Plenipoten-
tiary and Envoy Extraordinary of our Lord the King
Don Ferdinand VII. and, in his name, of the Su-
preme Central Junta, near the United States of Ame-
rica. 2d. That should the United States, contrary to
every expectation and wish, admit a Plenipotentiary
or Envoy fr ,m the intruder Joseph Napoleon, as King
of Si ain, this conduct may be truly considered hos-
tile, ,nd in that case your, Excellency ought. to adopt,
with rt spect to these dominions, a corresponding con-
duct iii regard to the United States. Sdly. In order
that ur Excellency may reghlate your conduct on
this delicate subject, we presume to observe that it is
necessary to request Don Luis de Onis to be pleased
to c ),- municate to your Excellency all such instruc-
tion- and give you such information as he may have or
ihill hereai ter receive from the Supreme Central Junta,
together with such other information as he may ac-
qu;re respecting the United States, their armaments,
and other measures they may now or hereafter adopt
in regard to Spain. Your Excellency may accor-
dingl) communicate this resolution to Don Luis de
Onis, that he may make tl.e necessary use thereof
whenever he thinks proper ; and also to the Comman-
dant of the frontier provinces, that he may be guided
thereby in the several districts under his command.'
,g The Viceroy has also given orders to the Tre.i-
sury to accept and pay all bills drawn by Don Luis
de Onis for objects connected with his mission."

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FARIS, JUNE 18.

The arrival of Lord (Sir J.) Saumarez in the roads
of Gottenburgh, gives birth to a multiplicity of ru
mom in Germany, among which we remark some
that bear the cl.aracter of absurdity which is peciliar
to news of English manufacture, and that have been
hawked about by the incorriAi,sl.2 adversaries of the
common cause of the European Continent. It is in
this point of view we must regard all that has been
rumoured as to the blustering of Admiral Saumarez,
who is said to bare threatened that he would take
possession of the Swedish fleet ; as if the port of Carl-
serona, which is regularly fortified, could be taken by
a sort of coup de main, similar to that which threw in-
to the hands of the English the fleet of Copenhagen,
that had been imprudently left in a city surrounded
by a had rampart, and encumbered with 100,000 in-
habtaats. Expeditions of that description are not
susceptible of repetition. Sweden is prepared against
an attack ; and since Admiral Saumarez has not even
ventured to seize the fortress of Ny-Elfshorg, which
commands the entrance of the port of Gottenhurgh,
it may be presumed that he will reflect seriously before
he undertakes any thing against Carlscrona, which it
should also be observed, is upwards of 100 leagues
from the roads of Gottenburgh, where the English
fleet has for three weeks been making a useless pa-
rade. Admiral Saumarez has only got 4000 land
tr,ops on board his fleet ; but if he brought 40,000,
the largest amount which England has of disposable
force, we may be assured that 10,000 Dalecarlians
would drive them into the sea. The real object of the
presence of Admiral Saumarez seems to relate to the
plot so fortunately detected, and at the head of which
were, it is said, two noblemen of Scania, Counts Ruth
and Delagardie. We can conceive that England
would wish to see Sweden a prey to the agitations in-1
separabie from a minority. Happily this project of a
'few ambitious individuals completely failed; and the
diet, then sitting, rejected the very idea.of such a plan
with indignation.'he melancholy event which has
just deprived Sweden of a Prince eminent for talent
and courage, will doubtless render it necgssary to con-
voke, in a constitutional manner, an extraordinary
Diet, but can have no influence whatsoever upon the
external pilicy of the kingdom; it is 'already fore.
seen that tae suffrages of Swedts can only be di-
vided be, ween Princes who are equally attached to
the cause of the Continent. The competitors, will
probably be a Prince of o.ldenburgh, :ual the King
of Denmark, whom the provinces of Dalecarlia and
Jamtland desired in preference to the deceased Prince
• of Augustenburgh. The English have, at all times,
been alarmed at the union of all the strength of Scan-
. tlinaviu in one political system. They are aware that
the shutting of the Baltic, an active war in the North
Sea, and perpetual alarms with regard to the coasts
of Scotland anctlreland, would be the inevitable conse-
ianences of such a System. Fier the.,e reasons it was
that in 1743 the English Ambassador prevented the
diet, already influenced by the voice of the people,
.:from electie.g the Prince Royal of Denmark as suc-
kesisor to the Ciown. Cut the triumph of the intrigues
of that Ambassador was entirely owing to the support
of a Continental Power which at present is at war with
England. It may easily be conceived, that all the
Swedish patri as are, at this time of day, convhiced
of the fatal effects which the Znglisa intrigue of 1743

has had upon the tranquillity and glory of Sweden.
At present there prevails throughout the whole e(the
north only one national sentiment, that of the neces-
sity of maintaining an united and, vigilant guard
against every suggestion coming from England.
PRIVATE LETTER-PARIS, JUNE 16.
" Reports have been in circulation here, that the
Non-intercourse Act in America has been repealed,
and that this measure will consequently induce Bona-
parte to declare war in the usual form against Ame-
rica. His depredation against American commerce I
has existed now these three years. His treating the
American seamen'like prisoners of war, is certainly
tantamount to a declaration of war. His conduct to
the American Legation was equally outrageous. It
is well known that when Bonaparte was at Bayonne
in 1808, an American flag of truce arrived at Havre
with dispatches for General Armstrong and for Mr.
Pinkney. The dispatches were forcibly taken from
the Messenger, Lieutenant Nourse, and were for.
warded to Bayonne, where they were first broke open
and inspected by his Imperial Majesty, as also a bag
of commercial letters. Mr. O'Mealy, an American,
was sent by the American Minister, to Bayonne, to
claim the dispatches, which were delivered to him ;
but the bag of letters, M. Champagny told him,
were sent to the Ministry of Police.. On arplication
there, some few were delivered ; the remainder were
suppressed, as they were supposed to contain some
political remarks."

SPAIN.

PRIVATE LETTER.-QORUNNA, JUNE 4.

The French are strengthening themselves in As-
turias. We have advice that towards the end of last
month a number of troops marched through Bilboa
for this purpose. The force is not precisely men-
tioned, but it is reported that they are to the number
of nearly 10,000, and that they are under the com-
mand of a French Marshal. The fortifications of this
place are daily improving, and at the top of the,
neighbouring mountain, called Santa Marguerita, the
citadel is nearly completed. General Malin is at
Villa-Franca inspecting the works there. The Galli-
cian army is now very strong, and we have no fear of
the enemy.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27.
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It is confidently rumoured in the circles connected
with Government, that Ministers have resolved im-
mediately to withdraw the British army from Pc,:-tu-
gal. Whether this resolution has been adopted in
consequence of the increase of the French :army being
such as to leave us but little hope of ul:7mate success
from a prolongation of the strug:;ic, or from what
other motive, we know not ; we have reason to
believe the present deternt:nation of Ministers to be
as we have stated.

We hr.ve this morning received an influx of Conti-
nental papers. They consist of French to the 21st,
Dutch to the 24th, and German to the '2oth instant.
The most important article they contain is that in
which we are informed that, by a Treaty of Alliance
between France and Austria, the latter power is bound
to furnish a contingency of 150,000 troops, to co-ope-
rate with the French armies in the vast projects which
still remain to be executed by NAPOLEON.—The fol-
lowing arc extracts from the above journals :

A—
AMERICA
....•••••••ml•••••••••••
Extract of a letter from a Gentleman h;gh In office in Mexico,
to his friend in this city (Philadelphia), dated 28th December,
SSW, received by the way of the Havannah
,s The moment his Excellency the Viceroy received
the dispatch from Don Luis de Onis, announcing that
the Government of the United States had refused to
• acknowledge him as Envoy Extraordinary and Mini-
ster" Plenipotentiary of our Catholic Monarch, Ferdi-
nails'. VII. - he adopted every measure which prudence
dictated on the occasion, ordering, at the same time,l
the greatest vigilance on our frontiers, and all along
our extensive coast. This unexpected event caused
j much indignation among the Royal Mexicans, who
hitherto had flattered themselves that the United
Et rtes would sympathize with the Spaniards in their
present calamity, and reciprocate that friendship and
assistance they so liberally afforded the Americans
during their struggle for libel ty and independence ; but
in this hope they now find themselves disappointed,
and the effects thereby produced in the public mind
is by no means favourable towards the United States.
44 On the receipt of Don Luis de Onis's letter, the
. Viceroy convened the Council, together with the three
kiscals (or Attorney-Generals) and laid before them
said dispatch, requesting their opinion on the subject
of its contents, which they delivered unanimously in
• the following words on the 22d instant The Mem-
bers assembled in the extraordinary council convened
this day, having taken into consideration the copy of
the letter addressed to your Excellency by Don Luis
de Onis, which your Excellency has laid before them,
are of unanimous opinion, and beg leave to inform
your Excellency, that in the first place he ought to
recognize Don Luis de Onis as Minister Plenipoten.
tiary and Envoy Extraordinary of our Lord the King
Don Ferdinand VII. and, in his name, of the Su,
/genie Central Junta, near the United States of Ame
•
rica. 2d. That should the United States, contrary tc
every expectation and wish, admit a Plenipotentiarl
or Envoy trim the intruder Joseph Napoleon, as Kink
of Si ain, this conduct may be truly considered hos
tile, snd in that case your, Excellency ought. to adopt
with rt spect to these dominions, a corresponding con
duct in regard to the United States. Sdly. In orde
that ur Excellency may regidate your conduct o
this delicate subject, we presume to observe that it i
necessary to request Don Luis de Onis to be please
to c•e• municate to your Excellency all such instrui
tion- and give you such information as he may have c
hereat ter receive from the Supreme CentralJunt,
together with such 'other information as he may as
quire respecting the United States, their armament
and other measures they may now or hereafter adoi
in regard to Spain. Your Excellency may acco
ding!} communicate this resolution to Don Lois (
Onis, that he may make the necessary use there
whenever he thinks proper ; and also to the Comma]
dant of the frontier provinces, that he may be guide
thereby in the several districts under his command.
,g The Viceroy has also given orders to the Tre
sury to accept and pay all bills drawn by Don Lt
de Onis for objects connected with his mission."
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
FARIS, JUNE 18.
The arrival of Lord (Sir J.) Saumarez in the roa
of Gottenburgh, gives birth to a multiplicity of r
mom in Germany, among which we remark soy
that bear the earacter of absurdity which is pecili
to news of English manufacture, and that have be
hawked about by the incorriisisk adversaries of t
common cause of the European Continent. It is
this point of view we must regard all that has be
rumoured as to the blustering of Admiral Saumarc
who is said to bare threatened that he would to
possession of the Swedish fleet ; as if the port of Ca
scronat which is regularly fortified, could he taken I
a sort of cots/] de main, similar to that which threw i
to the hands of the English the fleet of Copenhage
that had been imprudently left in a city surrounds
by a tad rampart, and encumbered with 100,000 i
habtants. Expeditions of that description are n
susceptible of repetition. Sweden is prepared again
an attack ; and since Admiral Saumarez has not ev,
ventured to seize the fortress of Ny-Elfshorg, whi,
commands the entrance of the port of Gottenburg
it may be presumed that he will reflect seriously bet„
he undertakes any thing against Carlscrona, which
should also be observed, is upwards of 100 leage
from the roads of Gottenburgh, where the Engli
fleet has for three weeks been making a useless
rade. Admiral Saumarez has only got 4000 la
tr. ,ups on board his fleet ; but if he brought 40,0(
the largest amount which England has of disposal
force, we may be assured that 10,000 Dalecarlis
would drive them into the sea. The real object of I
presence of Admiral Saumarez seems to relate to I
plot so fortunately detected, and at the head of wh
were, it is said, two noblemen of Scania, Counts Ili
and Delagardie. We can conceive that Engb
would wish to see Sweden a prey to the agitations
separabie from j minority. Happily this project (
.few ambitious individuals completely failed; and
diet, then sitting, rejected the very idea.of such a p
with indignation. The melancholy event which
just deprived Sweden of a Prince eminent for tal
and courage, will doubtless render it necessary to c
coke, in a constitutional manner, an extraordin,
Diet, but can have no influence whatsoever upon
external pt•licy of the kingdom ; it ii'already fi
seen that tae suffrages of Swedts can only be
tided between Princes who are equally attache(
the cause of the Continent. The competitors
probably be a Prince of o.ltientitirgll, and the K
of Denmark, whom the provinces of Dalecarlia
Jamtland desired in preference to the deceased Pr
• of Augustenburgh. The English have, at all tir
been alarmed at the union of all the strength of SI
slinaviu in one political system. They are aware
. ,
the shutting of the Baltic, an active war in the N,
• Bea, and perpetual alarms with regard to the cc
• of Scotland anctlreland, would be the inevitable co
iipences of such a system. For the,e reasons it
that in 1743 the English Ambassador prevented
diet, already influenced by the voice of the per
• 'from electitig the Prince Royal of Denmark as
gessor to the Cipwn. Cut the triumph of the intrii
of that Ambassador was entirely owing to the sup
of a Continental Power which at present is at war
England. It may easily be conceived, that all
Swedish pate] its are, at this time of day, convii
ache fatal effects which the Znglis:i intrigue of I
•
Si