Star.
London, England, 1811-01-25 00:00:00


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CATALOPILIN PiiPtlte'r

XELVA, NOV. 111. • •
General Belford, Governor of Madrid, it is repor-
ted, has been killed in the Absence of King Joseph
with his royal gUard. He was universally hated, on
account of his cruelties, At one time, he murdered
in cold blood 151 persons taken by his soldiers in
Castile.
By accounts from Fremwell, it should seem that
the greater part of the French garrison there has left
it, for the purpose to oppose a body of about a thou-
sand patriots, who have taken a great number of pri-
soners an.l a large booty.
The narrow escape of Joseph in the end of Octo-
ber has occasioned many thousands to rise even in the
heart of Castile ; near Pragoe, a body of 500 •French
were beaten by about halt as many Spaniards, who
killed 30, and took 90 primers. The half of the re-
mainder were killed in the sequel by the pesantry.
In the neighbour/y:lNi of Ordima, a French escort
has been intercepted, and the valuable acquisition
made of 10,000 muskets and 14,000 suits of clothing.
Letters from other parts of Biscay mention that the
new duty on colonial produce is so unpopular, that
every man that could escape has joined the skirmish-
ing parties. The atrocities of the French, without
respect either to sex or age, are continued. If Eu-
rope does not soon open her eyes to our calamities,
she will soon have another employment for then', in
weeping for her own distresses.
MANRESA, NOV. CO.
Fourteen waggon loads of provisions, sir pieces of
artillery, and seven carriages of ammunition, were
sent into Barcelona by the enemy on the 20th instant.
—They were escorted all the way from Lerida by
5500 men.
From Urgel, we find that a body of only about 70
patriots] have crossed the Pyrennecs, and commit-
ted much depredation in the rich French provinces.
The met with little or no resistance, at►d have acqUi.
red booty to the value of 20,000 dollars. A very no-
ted Captain is at the head of them, named Philip de
Polgrado, who has been wounded in different engage-
ments during the war.
The enemy possesses no ground in the whole of
Arragon but Saragossa and Daroca, and two or
three small places near the frontiers ; the patriots
have driven the French out of All the rest.

TARRAGONA, DEC. I.
The force of the French army before the brave
Tortosa has been found hitherto inadequate to their
purposes, and will remain so. It has been augmented
by Me French and Italians, who it appears have ar-
rived from the south of Italy, where they before were
engaged against the English. The latter were disaf-
fected to the French cause, and have already begun
to desert. They joined Suchet on the 21th Novem-
ber. The garrison of Tortosa amounts to between
I() and 12,000 men, but the Fi each are nearly 17,000
si rong.

AMERICAN PAPERS.

MR. PIWKNEY TO MR. SMITH.

" SIR—On the 27th November, Mr. Brownell de-
livered to me your letters of the 11th, 14th, and 23d,
of the preceding month, and on the Saturday follow-
ing I had a conference with the Marquis Wellesley,
in the course of which I explained to him fully the
grounds upon,which I was instructed to request Mr.
Jackson's immediate recall, and upon which the offi-
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cial intercourse between that Minister and the Ame-
rican Government has been suspended.
“ Lord Wellesley's reception of what I said to him
was frank and friendly, and I left him with a persua-
sion that we should have no cause to be dissatisfied

with the final course of his Government on the sub-
jects of our conference.
66 We agreed that the interview could only be in-
troductory to a more formal proceeding on my part ;
and it was accordingly settled between uc,that I should
present an official letter to the effect of my verbal
communication. •
66 Having prepared such a letter, I carried it my-
self to Downing-street a few days afterwards, and ac-
companied the delivery to Lord Wellesley with some
explanatory observations, with which it is not, I pre-
sume, necessary to trouble you. You will find a copy
of this letter inclosed, and will be able to collect from
it the substance of the greater part of the statements
and remarks which I thought it my duty to make in
tl,e conversation above mentioned. •
66 Although I w,as aware that the answer to my
letter would not be very hastily given, I certainly was I
not prepared to expect the delay which has actually
occurred. The President will do. me the justice to
believe, that I have used every exertion consistent
with discretion, and the nature of the occasion, us
shorten that delay, which though not ascribable, as.l
persuade myself, to any motive unfriendly or disre•
spectful to the United States, may, I am persuaded,
have been productive of some disadvantage. A
copy of the answer received on the day of its date, is
inclosed.
66 Between the delivery of my letter and the receipt
of the reply, I had frequent conversations with Lord
Wellesley, some of which were at his own request,
eind related altogether to the subject of my letter.—
The rest were on other subjects, but Mr. Jackson's
• affair was incidentally mentioned in all. A particu-
lar account of what was said on these several occa-
sions, would scarcely be useful, and would not fail
to be tedious. It will, perhaps, be sufficient to ob-
serve, that although these conversations were less sa-
tisfactory to me than the .first, there was always ap-
parent anxiety on the part of Lord Wellesley to do
what was conciliatory ; and that in the share in which
I took in them, I was governed in the opinion, that
although it might become my duty to avoid with
more than ordinary care the appearance of my being
a party to the ultimate proceeding of the British Go-
vernment on my official representation, it could not
be otherwise than proper in any turn which the affair
could take, that I should avail myself-of every op-
portunity of bringing to Lord Wellesley's mind such
considerations as were calculated to produce a bene-
ficial influence on the form and character of the pro-
ceeding.
6.6 .In. what light the President will view the course,
which after so much consideration, this Governnient
has adopted, it will not become me even to conjec.

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tare.: tf its manner or effect it -should urn A
expectations, I shall have to regret, that the %
of my humble endeavours to make it what it t
to be; has not been proportioned to nay aril 4A. ..-
ligence.
4g Of my letter to Lord Wellesley of the 2d of Ja-
nuary, I have very little to say. I trust it will be
found faithful to my. instructions; and that while it
maintains-the honour of my Government, it does nit
neglect what is due to conciliation.
I ant not sure that I ought to have quoted in it
your letter to me, of the Ist November, of which the
substance of it is undoubtedly given in the quotation
of your subsequent letter of the 2d of the same
month. But I saw no objection to a repetition of the
just and amicable sentiments expressed in these quo-
tations ; and as I had been induced, at my first inter-
view with Lcrd Wellesley, to read to his loirddiip
each of the passages, I thought that I was in some
sort bound to the introduction of bOth in my written
communication.
soMy letter avoids all discussion, and all• invita-
tions to discussions op the business of the Chesapeake,
on the Orders in Council, and on topics which cir-
cumstances have connected with both. It does not,
however, entirely pass them by, but contains such
references to them, as I had supposed were likely to
be useful. lam assured that in this respect I have
acted in conformity with the President's intentions.—
Indeed, if I had acted otherwise, I should have com-
plicated and embarrassed a question which I was or-
dered to simplify, and forced into combination the
peculiar difficulties of several subjects, to counteract
the wishes of my Government on each. I should have
done so too without inducement; for I had no authority
to make any demand or proposal in the crises of the
Chesapeake and Orders in Council, or to act on any
proposal which Lord Vtrellesley might be inclined to
make to me—and it is perfectly clear that these sub-
jects were not susceptible of any very material written
illlustrations which they had not already received. I
do not, however, imagine that I was to make no use
of the reflections upon them which you have furnished
in your letter of the 23c1 November. I was, on the
contrary, convinced that it would be proper to sug-
gest them occasionally in conversation, with a view
to dispose Lord Wellesley, and through him the
British Government, to seek such fair and liberal
adjustments with us as would once more make us
friends.

" Accordingly in my first conference I spoke of
the affair of the Chesapeake and the Orders in Conn.
cil, and concluded my explanations, which did not
lose sight of your letter of the 23d November, by ex-
pressing.a wish that L9rd Wellesley would allow me
an early opportunity of a recommuuication with him
on these heads.
" From the dispositions evinced by Lord Welles-
ley in the notice he took of these suggestions of that
wish, I was inclined to hope that it might be in my
power to announce to you by the return of the cot.
vette, that a new Envoy would be charged, as the
successor of Mr. Jackson, with instruction adapted
to the purpose of lion hirable accommodation. My
letter to his Lordship was written under the influence
of this hope, and concludes, as you will pm ceive,
with as strong an appeal to the disposition on which
it rested, as could with propriety be made.
a I recurred in subsequent conversations as often
as occasion presented itself, to the attack on theChesa-
prake, and to the Orders in Council. It soon ap.
peared, however, that a new Envoy would not in the
first instance be sent out to replace Mr. Jackson, and
consequently that arrangement of these subjects was
not in that mode to be expected. A special mission
would still less be resorted to, and it. was not likely
that approaches to negociation would be made thro'
a Charge-d'Affaires.
" It was still barely possible that though I had so
powers to negotiate and conclude, the British Go-
vernment might not be disinclined to make advances
through.me, or that Lord Wellesley would suffer me
so far to nnderstand the views of his Government, as
that I might enable you to judge upon what condi.
tions, and in what mode, arrangement was practica-
ble. This was possible, though not very probable ;
hat it finally became certain that no definite pro.
posal would, for the present at least, be made to us
through any channel, and that LordW.eljesley would
not commit himself on the details to which I wi.h I
him to speak, but upon which, of course, I did not
press him.
" It only remains to refer you for the actual senti-
ments of this Government, with regard to future tie.
gociations ; with regard to the concluding paragraph
of Lord Wellesley's letter to me, which is substan-
Wally the same with his recent verbal explanations;
land to add, that in a short conversation since the re-
ceipt of his letter, he told me that if I thought myself
!:empowered to enter upon and to adjust the case of the
Chesapeake, he would proceed without delay to con-
sider it with me.
" I have not supposed that Lord Wellesley's letter
requires any other than the common answer, and I
I.have accordingly given the reply, 'of which a copy is
'bow transmitted.
" I have the honour to be, with great consideration,
Sir, your most obedient humble servant,
(Signed) " WILLIAM PINKNEY.
" The Honourable Robert Smith, &c. &c.

The following is an extract of a letter from a re-
spectable Gentleman at Fort Stoddert, M. T. dated
Nov. 12, 1810:
" The account of Pensacola being in possession of
the British, is false. Should England be disposed to
take pOssession of that place, and of Mobilee, this is
doubtless the period at which such a step seems most
probable most to be apprehended. The Baton-Rouge
Floridan Army is said to be on its march to take
these•places. Col. Kemper, and some other Chiefs
of this new army, are now in the vicinity of the fort,
associating with such of our citizens as affords much
ground to apprehend there is something wrong
amongst them.. If we have a war with England,
Pensacola and Mobilee must be mire, or New Orleans
will fall, At no place could the enemy find so con-
venient I rendezvous for his vessels horn which to
senoy. New Orleans as Pensacola, an the cattle and
hay and corn of this country, and the Cteek and
Chocktaw Nations and the savages of these nations,
.who love the English, would contribute not a little
towards the support of such a rendezvous."