Star.
London, England, 1817-02-11 00:00:00

FREtkH PA PE RS.

We this morning received tl)e P.iris Papers of
-Friday ; but their cbntents are wholly destitute of in-
terest. The KING tratisacted 'business on Thursday.
In the Chamber of D•puties another adjunroment
has taken place on the discussion of the Budget. The
Funds still keep up. On Thqrsday 5 per Cents. left
off at 6U f. 25 c.

• SOUTH AfklEttlCA. • • •• •,
•. Instratt of a Letter from the Agent tO CleldPit ttt
Bu-mess Ayres, dated November 25,
" The Portuguese brig Pensamentu Feb: sailed iritm heitce,
for Rio Janeiro, on the Bth inst. wide a cargo of hides and tal
low, and was captured the sante day, by the Banda Oriental,
privateer Industria, and carried into Colonia del Sacramen•o,
where the cargo has been landed. Oa the 21 1 inst. the Banda
Oriental, privateer Industria, and Dreadnought, wcr- cruising
in sigh: of MIS rlat., With the view of Intercepting the Portal.
gorse trade bound to this place. It Is said that a brig is fitting
out at Monte Weis to cruise. off Rio Janeiro. The Perugintse.
squadron remains inactive at Maldonado. An•action of import •
has taken place between AATICAS and the Portuguese troops,
which ended in favour of the former. The Portuguese trade is
freely admitted into this, anl we du ea hear there is any linen
, tendon on the part of this Gowen:meat to molest than.
" The schooner Leonidas, prize to the Hercules and Havock,
I ems captured a consideranle time since, and was fitted out by;
them to cruise against the'Spaoish trade tia the coast of Chili,
and in which she had no PUCCe a. She brings no later ,
getier of Admiral BOOVIlell squadron, than what we stated to
have bees r. eeiv. d by the prize-ship Consequencia. A trader
from Mreduza, however, states, that advices had been received
from the cunt of Chill, of Admiral Butown, with the Hawk and
lit rcuies, hay.ing,captura:d the Spanish ship Minerva, from Lima,
vtry valuably laden, and that he had succeeded in selling the
cargo he had ttanshipped from the Consequencia on board the
Hawk, on the coast of Ct.li; that he had afterwards proceeded
to aid echoed at Otaheite, and that front thence he had geese to
the port of Choc°, In the province of Popoyan, where she was
with the squadron when the last accounts left that place. It is
understood heee that the private vessel of war C.:ongres. goes off
Dahlia, with the vies• of intercepting several Spanish ships lying
there, and, In the event of her nor succeeding, will proceed to
the coast of Spatn. She bas about one hundred atm on board.
Spanish
.brig Leonidas, from • St, lago de Cuba, boin►d to
Cadiz, with a cargo of cotton, sugar and coffee, was captured Off
•Cupe finisterre, by the private vessel of wait Manimocli, alts
.la independencia del Sud; about three mouths ago. The Maths
anotb had captured four other vessels, two of which were given
up,. and the other ordered for this pert. It is said that the /slant-
mak immodest to proceed to the United States to refit. There
have been new regulations Issued by this Government for priva-
stair.g :

lovtasata 116.—" Arrived the Spanish ship La Primeira,
tire to the Mammoth, alias ha lodependrucia d.l sud, captured
of Culls—she was from tEe Havanna, and is chiefly laden
with sugar. 'Eh, Prise laster reports, that ibe Mammoth had
in all captured 19 vessels, all of which were ransomed except
four, and that the Maxtinoth hadproceeded to the Vatted 9:ates."

NAVAL INIALLIGENCE.

DEAL, FEBELIARY to.

Arrived the Thetis, 'Pace, from Jamaica, in fifteen
with loss of 'wizen-most. boot, galls, &e. and
the Emperor Alexander. Lantz, from Rovigno.—
Came denim from the River. theJane..for JAM2ICI ;
James snd Charlotte. for ifarAnnah; and the Swift,
for St Michaelis.—Wind N. W.
•
DOVER, FEBRUARY: 10.
, Arrived nff here the Jenzinta, Btroww, from Ba-
, mein, in siiteen weeks and boar days. •

ST. IVES, FRBRUARY T.
Arrived last evening the Sophia. ?Amman, of
Hull, from Dublin to London, with provisions, with
loss of sails and other damage.