Star.
London, England, 1817-12-15 00:00:00

ITALY.-ROME. SCPTEMBLR 23.

Highway robbery is carried on systematically here.
and on a grand scale. At Veroli, a sm.ll town, 15
miles from this, a teacher, with twelve spit itual semi-
narists, walking in the environs, were taken prisoners
by the rnbbe rs, and dragged to the monntains. The
rabbets were polite enough to send to Vcroli, and to
offer to give up the pupils for 12,000 scudi, and the
teacher into the bargain. A negotiation was enter-
ed into, and 4eoo scudi were taken.
Szveral days afterwards, a young man of a thick
and heavy make, belonging to Angou, was walking
wit', seven male and female relations, and the whole
party wire taken 200 steps from the gate and carried
off. The alarm sell of the town, which contains
nearly 12,000 inhabitants, was rung ; the robbers
New with their prisoners to the mountains; the young
M4ll not being able to keep up with them, they cut
his throat, and escaped with the other seven persons.
These unfortunate prisoners were afterwards ransomed
by their relatives for 5000 scudi. There are many
hundreds of these robbers, and their 'limbers are
daily increasing. They have their male and female
leaders, -and receive only people of irreproachable
character : the investigation into morals, and the proof
as to ancestry, is very strict on their reception, as
persons of consideration take an interest in it.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

ONLY ONE DAY TO DRAW—NEXT SATURDAY...
FOUR ritIZ.F.S OF ifco,ooo, Sze. IN THE WHEEL.

MONDAY, DECEMBEit 15, 1817.
PRICE OF 5 FUCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK s
Reduced 511--Cone. shut—For Opeishig.
per Cwt. R 9 d-5 per Cent. )lavy shut
&A Leo( Ana& 21 1-16—.1011a Moods 100 1111 pr.
Exchequer !kids 19 25 pr.

The King of SPAIN ha; jest issued a Decree,
(given iu another part of our Paper) which has for
its object to increase the shim population of the
Island of Cuba. This is not the first time that a
similar attempt ha,: been made on the part of Spain,
and it is but fit that our fellow-subjects, puticularly
those cif the Roman Catholic persuasion, should
know whist was the result of a former invitation of
this kind.

When 62 disasters of St. Domingo had begun to
deluge French part of the Island with blood, the
Spanish Government, under similar promises and
allurements, invited the French Colonists to settle in
Cuba, and Puerto Aka, and austerity they did so.
They carried over their implements of tillage and the
slaves who remained faithful to them. Soon was the
Island of Cuba, comparatively speaking, converted
into a garden. Immense coffee plantations were seen
to rise out of desert tracks, and, by the activity of the
new comers, the article of wax was raised from two'
hundred thousand dollars to one million and a half.,
The greatest part of the booty made by the French
privateers was lodged in Cuba; and what was the
result ? When the late war broke out, these peaceful
agriculturalists, these industrious colonists, were driven
from their homes, expelled the island, their estates
confiscated, and to the number of 14,000, obliged to
take refuge in New Orleans. The same thing hap-
pened in Spain. The Central Junta proclaimed that
they waged war against Natroucost, and nut against
the French; yet, in an unexpected moment, the latter,
who bad beep established in the Peninsula for gene%
rations, were pillaged, imprisoned, and driVen away
as vagrants. With these examples on record, we
would ask, what Colonists, whether Irish Catholics or
others, would go and settle in the Island of Cuba
While on Spanish affairs it may be proper to no-
tice some &airs effitsions of a contemporary Evening
Journal of Saturday, which, we presume, prides
itself on being aim .t attached to the cause of the In-
dependents of South America." In the Paper al-
luded to is the subjoined passage
' « The following very remarkable Extract from a
Journal warmly attached to the cause of the Ind,-
pendents of South America, cannot fail to excite ge-
neral animadversion r 1 Notwithstanding that Pro-
clantatiOn, the recruiting for the Patriot standard con-
tinues under various guises to go on with as much spirit
astdsuccess as ever.' If any thing were wanting to prove
a dangerous and revolutionary spirit, that deficiency
is supplied by the preceding most Wand ea ofin,
avowal of a successful violation of the laws of the
Kingdom. This declaration seems friamt/rast/y so
seek ii the'spirit which offers resistance to thelcro-
dia,ooo of the Solereign authority." And again,
our contemporary proceeds thus No country
ever witnessed a more audacious avowal than is con-
tained in the preceding sentence, which 'night lead
to serious alarm, if the firmest confidence in the ta-
lents of the present Administattion did not exist in
all parts of the kingdom).

The Readers of the STAR will immediately per-
ceive that the extract here quoted, is pan or some ob-
servations on the subject wiaich we made in our raper

of Wedneld ty last ; and we are much
will not as instantly occur to them that the
and tendency of our expressions has been
grossly and wantonly misrepresented. The el
in the first plAce is not a fair one—it is called a
tence, but it is not so ; there is both a dai
suppression, and ach fi:tiot erteltt
that suppression. The words quoted lorla

part of a sentence, and that sentence part of a p
graph, the whole members of which bore tip-in
qualified each other, and the whole of all;;II
to have been given together in order to shew the
meaning of any one of them. The parAgr +ph
stood was as follows :

4, The truth we bAieve is, that the Sean':h
vernment in urging our Government to interme
authority against the levying of assistance
country for the cause of the Patriots, has
upon itself an act of such perfect neutrality it
looked for, and which it would now be as well ph
to have nothing to do with, seeing that the

quences must be greatly snore hurtful to i;:clf
they could possibly be to the Patriots. As an
liihed Government, and as having solicited the
claination in question, it is necessarily excluded
resetting to any thing approaching to the least
sien of its injunctions ; while the opposite
from not having any recognized relations with
Government, will feel themselves at liberty to
far as the letter of the Proclamation will

allow them, in prosecuting their objects; anJ
far this can take place may be judged from t!::
that notwithttan4q that Pradamation, the
for the Patriot standard continues under vatious
to go on with as much spirit and success as ever."
Why did not this dealer' in abortive"
sion" state, that in the same paragraph we had
nounced that " the agents of FERDINAND had
nearly as active in levying men fur the
of the question, as other agents have been in .
men for the cause of independence r'—blerely
cause we had only stated the facts without
the conduct of either the one party or the miter;
to have mentioned the fact would have frustrated
opportunity of expressing their " firmest

in the talents of the present Administration !'
serable, contemptible sycophant, you are
imagining that any thing you can state or
will ever induce us for a single mument to
you with, the Ministers of the country, with
talents we are well acquainted—Dut,“ who are

Flemish and Dutch Mails arrivecllast night.
limits do not permit us to offer m.ny remarks
their contents, which are given in the preceding
'lmmo; but everything relating to the Continent I
gins to assume an aspect highly interesting la mai
kind. 'tae inunded Congress of Soverrigni is
meet, it is said, in July or August nest, for the
tion of new and important measures " fa the m:
tenatice and consolidation of legitimate and Cc
tntional Order," and it for the repression of what
remains of revolutionary spirit among ccitain
contents." Do they mean thee, at last to gii
tie people their promised Constitutions founded cri
system of popular representation ? We wish we
add that we believe such to be their intention;
from the evasions and delays that have taken
we can give credit to nothing of this kind till it 2.
tually takes place.—ln Italy the system of ma.
ins is carries' on upon systeM. Se much for a
vernment conducted by the Priesthood. We
like ta hear that these robbers had stolen the 11%,.1
himself, his whole Court, and all their supporters 1

Letters from the French frontiers, by a Dutch
of this morning, announce, that the Prefects, by ors
of the Minibter of War, have again summoned all t':••
old soldiers who desire to be engaged in the ww:..l
Regiments of the Royal Guard to make applicatic7
A great number have complied. Great precautica
is shewn, as before, in the choice. It is expected t!:.:
this summons will shortly be extended to the wlick.
Army.

The Ofßcers on Half-pay still cherish a hope ea:
they will soon be employed in active service—a hop
which, it is said, has operated to ['induce a macr-
ful change ih the opinions of those who formed 6
pan of the Old Army.
The whole right wing of the Army of Oc:upatica.
in Alsace, is now placed in barracks, to the -

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