Star.
London, England, 1818-09-25 00:00:00

NEW ORLEANS GAZETTE, JULY 34.

ABOMINABLE Tacrste.—The slave market ap-
pears to be very brisk, a constant demand, and high
prices, notwithstanding the arrivals lately of thirty.
six in the brig Mary Ann, thirty-nine in the sisop
Thom, ninety-seven in the chip Virgin, nirdetem
the schooner Lea, seventeen in the schooner Fame,
34 in the brig Venus, 38 in the Franklin, r is ;he
schooner Humming-bird, all from the States; and
159 in the brig Jo:4h, from Africa :--1110Neproes
Were offered for sale at the Sheriff's Home, in New
Orleans, on the 20th of July, for cash.

• Sixty thousand dollars in French francs arrived atl
New Yost .on the 7th August, in the ship linbicoa,l
from Havre de Grace, all for the United States Bank.

Among the vlifilita,paeri lately taken fiom their
enewies by the Petriets of Venezuela, is the otigiul
of.a Memorial presented, in 1812, by General Mt-
sant& to the High Court of Justice in Caracas, rt.
acting to the gross violation of the Capitulation et-
tiered into the preceding year with the Spanish Coe.
mender in Chief; on behalf of the inhabitants of bee
provinces. It will be remembered that in 1812, C -
r..cet, as well as the Capitals of some of the cthe
Provinces, was visited with a dreadful earthquals
which spread alarm and desolation among all orders.
of society, and rendered it impossible for the cause it
Independence to proceed. General MIRANDA %lc
theri at the head of affairs, and fully sensible of the
state of public feeling, and supported by the concur-
rence of all the leading characters, who judged that
a cordial reconciliation with the parent State would:
best accord with the situation of both parties, he un-
dertook and carried into effect a Capitulation, which
was afterwards solemnly exchanged and ratified,befo
the country was delivered up to the Spanish Chiefs.
And what was the result of this reconciliation ?
It will be seen by the Exposition of General M
BANDA, an eye-witness, which will be found in a.
ther part of our columns, and certainly the el,
hardened will shudder at the re.ital. The facts •
states are incontrovertible. They are not asserted
a man out of the reach of the Spanish Government
but by an individual at the time confined in a ho
dungeon, whose life, in such hands, was not safe
moment. There is no exaggeration in the picture
draws of those receptacles of misery, which resernb •
the black hole of Calcutta, from the numbers at
fined in them, and owing to the state of the
phere, which m La Guayra, where Mteaena hi P• •
was confined, HUMBOLDT says, is the hottest in
world. All ranks and colours were imprisoned '
discriminately together, which the Spaniards did t
chew their contempt of Liberty and Equality.
MIRANDA'S predictions have, however, been r..
fied, for the conduct of the Spaniards at the time
hided to, and itubsequently, has been such that :J
eternal and implacable hatred pervades the 10.151"
the South Americans ; a hatred which all the Mil
sels and admonitions of the Allied Sovereigns id
never remove.

FRARKPORT, SEPTEMBER 17.
In the Sitting of the Diet on the 10th, it heard the
complaint of the Jewish community, respecting the
late measures of the governinent of the city in regard
to them. We learn that the Diet has. appOinted a Com-
mittee, to endeavour to terminate the affair amicably.
A respectable Paper saye-4. It is now beyond a
doubt that the Austrian Goiernment will take, in the A rumour has been for some time in circulricc
course of this year, measures to putnschecli ripen the that material changes are about to take place in_
rth
injurious unsteadiness of the exchange on paper cur- Law Courts of Scotland. It is said, that the L
rency, and to place it in a reasoaahle nnd.fixed pro- b
Lor.4 Vesident ; • Lord Justice Clerk Bow:
portion to Convention money.-
“ With respect to.the tate of exchange to he flied Chief Baron will retire, and be succeeded brth
President' Lord PITMILLY to be Lord Justice t
the Lord Advocate to succeed Lord PirsciciA'•
opinions are divided, some are for having.it between WILLIAM RAE to be Lord Advocate; and Mi. 9'l
l 300 and 400, in order, as •they say, to plamithe hot- to be Sheriff of Ldiabu