Star.
London, England, 1818-05-30 00:00:00

PETERSBURGH, MAY I.

The foreign settlers in the three Governments of
New Russia, and in the province of Bessarabia, have
been hither to subjected to different local Authorities.
As their numbers, however, increased, the inconve-
niences of this administration were perceived, and it I
has been thought necessary, as much for their good
government as for their advancement in prosperity,
to make them henceforward &per d only on one au-
thority. This regulation was sanctoned on the22d of
March last; there will be established a Committee
of Guardianship for the Russian settlers; the Com-
mittee is charged with the care of the Colonists who
have already settled, or may settle in these cifstricts.
It is composed of a President and two Members,
with the requisite number of interior Agents.

NUREMBERG, MAY is.
(Sent for irsertion to the Nuremberg Correspondent.)
Our Readers will probably remember that, in the
year 1816, several articles appeared in the various
Papers on the Continent, which were copied into the
English JournAp respecting Dr. Griffiths, and some
other Englishmen, who were treated with much se-
verity by the Vienna Police ; it was, however, sub
sequently proved, by the interference of the British
Ambassador at Vienna, that the Austrian Govern-
ment could not make these Gentlemen the smallest
reproach of criminal conduct, and that the measures
of which they complained arose entirely from some
unfortunate and false representations. Dr. Griffiths
received passports to return to Vienna, to regulate
his affairs, and thus the whole matter ended.

The Editor of the Universal German Gazette, in
which the most calumnious articles against Dr.Grif-
fiths appeared, was called upon to give up his autho-
rity, and publicly to contradict the false statement
which he had made in his Journal. Mr. Stegmann,
however, to the surprise of all those who were ac-
quainted with the affair, refused both. Dr. Griffiths
was obliged to bring an action for calumny against
him before the Civil Tribunal, at Augsburg. Mr.
Stegmann, in reply, called in question the compe.
tency of the Civil Tribunal to try him, because the
Censure had allowed the insertion of the articles in
question, and he was, consequently, amenable to no
other Tribunal.

The following preliminary decision of the Tribunal
at Augsburg will, however, show that, notwithstand-
ing the zgis of an imprimatur, the most sound rights
and most valuable possession of society are not aban-
doned to the will of the Editor of a Newspaper:
The Tribunal decides, that M. Stegmann is bound
to answer the complaint made against him, and to
pay all the costs hitherto incurred. The Tribunal
declares the defence set up, viz. that the Allgen/rime
Zeitung is subect to the Censure, to be inadmissible;
because the Ailgemeine Zeilung is merely a privileged
private concern, not an official establishment gua-
ranteed by the State, and the Censor is charged to
attend only to such articles as are contrary to the
political maxims of State, and to the laws of mora-
lity ; but leaves entirely to the Editor the responsi-
bility for the truth or falsehood of articles relative
to private persons, &c.

AUGSBURG. MAY 27.
We are far from desiring to anticipate the final
decision of this affair, which is now pending before
the Tribunal; but we can positively assert from the
best authority, that Dr. Griffiths w.O not even on the
Continent when tF.- affair in which, according to
Mr. Stegmann's assertion, he was implicated (viz.
the attempt to carry off young Napoleon) is said to
have happened at Vienna. This absence from the
place of the went was proved on oath before the
Tribunal at Augsburg, and can be further attested
by hundreds of Englishmen at Bath and London,
among whom Dr. GrifSths was at that time. —(Sup-
pkwent to the Nuremberg Correrrondeat, 18th May.)