Star.
London, England, 1817-12-29 00:00:00

FRANKFORT, DECEMBER 18.

In the numerous confidential -confetences which
hive lately been held by the members of the German
Diet, two questions have been the chief objects ofl
discussion—l st, The organization of the Army of the
Confederation and its military-force, in order to in-
sure its safety in respect to foreign powers ; and se-
cundly, the establishment of Provincial Assemblies
;nd representation in all the German States, in order
to provide for the execution of the ISth Article of
the Act of Confederation, and establish internal or-
(ler in the States forming part of the Confederation,
!Ton solid foundations. These two subjects will soon
discusscd in the Assembly of the Diet.

The journals have lately published a resolution of
the Prussian Minister of Justice, addressed to the
ITO) Court of Naumburg, relative to the state of
the Westphalian domains.

According to information derived from a good
source it may be affismadythas the Prussian Govern-
ment has not the least doubt but that all sales, which
were made conformably to the constitution and the
;aws, under the late Westphalian Government, ought
obe maintained. It has added to this decision the
following, which is analogous to it, namely, that in
cite there should have been remonstrances against
ire primitive validity of these-sales, the principles on
which a decision should be made, shall be discussed,
but in the interval, this previous protest shall be in-
stoned in the Register of the Mortgage office, as is
said in the Resolution above-mentioned, in cases of
this detription.

LAUSANNE, DEC. 16.
A detailed account has just been published in the
Canton of Argovia, of the unhappy fate of a great
many emigrants from that Canton, having been al-
ready overtaken in Holland by the most dieadful
distress. The generous care of the Swiss Consul at.
Amsterdam, was insufficient to save them from
misery. Some of them embarked under melancholy
sespices which have been since but too tally access.
plished; others have continued to drag on a wretched
eiistence in the Netherlands; others, in fine, have
returned home in the most cruel penury, and are now
• to their parishes.

details respecting this
rid Gazette :
At.aszas, Nachos's. 16.
proceeding from Chit
the comitterce
of all public scourges
unfortunate Government.
daily the population.
his tyranny in such-a
bodies and 'lives. In?
disasters of those whose
is occupied with no other
consolidating his own by
of October last. he
numerous family, all .the
treasures of the palace to the
on an eminence which
the following day. at
loaded with balls an-

change of residence of
circumference of this fortress,
quadrangle, is of a very coosi- ,
on the hod side US
curtains which look ts-1
but they are nevertbe-
labitants of Algiers, who
streets that ate entirely
cannon of large calibre,
and stores of provisions,
devoted to him, pro-
The Turks have be-
which deprives them

that they cannot now
he is not now in an
she mercy of the aesliJ
to excite a commie.
October. The Dey was
beforehand. By his or
E the city were shut, the
ordered to give an ito.
• soldiers, end to deliver
was necessary to obey ;•
latter were beheided at
and .their heads exposed
Janiesarils murmured
punishment, to which they were
hitherto the privilege
quarters ; but they were
under pain of death, sad
further resistance, al.
who were suspected of
insurrection, which was thus
present Government,
adopted measures of rigour,
s support itself ; before its
to be feared that the
hassle the- theatre of the

This day we received Philadelphia Nets to th.
30th ultimo. We confine our extractit, for the pre.
sent, to the most prominent articles ; but we add,.
that we seriously hope the intelligence will prove as
undeserving of credit as many of the accounts that
were wantonly sported by American Captains daring
the late wars
ST. HELENA SWALLOWED UP BY AN
EARTHQUAKE!

'NIA, NOVEMBER ell.

" The ship Palladium, which arrived at Salem
on Friday, in IA days, from Calcutta, touched at
the Island of Ascension on the 11th October, and
visited the English garrison stationed there. She
states, in substance, that the Settlement consists of five
or six buildings, in an area of almost 300 yards square,
which has been cleared of cinders by the soldiers.
This consists off' the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor,
and fifty seamen, boys, and marines. They have
one fort of ten, and another of five or six guns.
es Apprehensions were entertained by the Officers,
that Bonaparte and the island of St. Helena, were
swallowed up by an earthquake. It seems that three
transporti, the Ocean, London, and Alexander, from
the Isle of France for England, with part of the
12th Regiment, touched at Ascension on the 27th of
September, having on the 19th sailed from the island
of St. Helena; but on the 20th, 70 miles N.W. of
the island, they were alarmed by several violent
shocks of an earthquake, repeated at short intervals,
which threw several persons out of their beds. Four
days afterwards the ship General Graham endea-
voured to make the island, but could not find it.—
They bad, it was said, excellent chronometers en
board, and had taken some sets of lunar observations."
The Editor,, in his remarks upon the above infor-
mation respecting the swallowing up of St. Helena,
states the.Marvellons account to be incorrect—that
on the 12th October Mr. Rawer, the supercargo of
the ship 'Trident, Captain, Rms, which arrived on
Saturday morning in 102 days from Calcutta, in-
forms the Editor of the Mercer file Advertiser that she
Ifassed the Island of St. Helena on the south side.
distant about three leagues; and at eight o'clock ou
the following morning the Island was visible from the
ship's deck.—Thus the bane and antidote are both
before us."

SOUTH AMERICA.
The Madrid Gazette of the 10th December, pub.
fishes some intelligence from Mexico, and prefaces it
with the following reflections:
•, As the mad• projects' of the rebellion* and in-
famous Mina have served as a pretext for some to
'reign journalists (Who have made it their business to
foment all the insorrections of the globe) to sive-
nest, as more distressing than ever, the political sites-
non of New Sri% ft. tir titeessary to talky, thi;rl-
- and perfidious impressions, by publishing certain
facts which leave no doubt about thesituation of that
rebel, which has never ceased to be desperate since
his debarkation, or rather his precipitate flight, which
alone was able to save him from the destruction with
which he was menaced by the maritime force* of the
King, the latter being able only to seize hislranspott
vessels."
The iatelligence alluded to it extracted irons the
Extraordinary Gazette of Mexico of the litth of An
gust last, and confirins what we already Invite of the.
liege of Foil Cosnanja, into which Mina had thrown
himself with between 7 and 800 wen. Marina' de
Campo Linen communicates to the Viceroy, by dis-
panties, dated the let of August. that be was block-
ading the fortress, and that Mina was elrnolet with-
out provisions. By dispatches, dated' the sth of tio
same month, it is stated, that the fort was hernial
in on all sides ; that Mina was still in it with three of
the rebel chiefs; that not a man of them would be
able to escape, and that the artillery of the Royal
troops was within pistei-shot of the walls. It is to
be regretted, that the details do not extend down to
August 11, to explain a rumour in circulation here,
that Mina has had the good fortune to escape, and
that the troops whom he left behind in the garrison
bad been put to the edge of the sword.
We ar► still ignorant of the state of affairs in Ve.l
'nesuele. The nevi Governor-General of these Pro.

vines, M. de Cagigal. has Dot yet set out.
It is said here, that at the time that orders were
of to magnate the trials of the persons involvedi
hit the affair of Lacy, a similar resolution Wall t‘ke.
regarding the numerous Officers still in the prison of
gonmae, since the attempt of the unfortunate Porlier.
Yesterday the Court celebrated the b:rth•day of the
august Mother of our King. Neither this Princess,
soeher husband, our former King, will probably raw
return to Spain.

The Paris Papers of Thursday arrived last night.
From the extracts whicb.we have given its a pre•
.ieding4loblMn it will be seen, that the Debate in the
Chamber of Deputies, on the project of law relative
to the Press, terminated on Wednesday, and that on
the votes being taken on the whole of the law,, there
appeared Dot of 253 members present, 122 for and
111 against it.—Five per Cents. 24 Dec. 641.10 c.
w PARIS. DEC. It.

“ The storm which raged in the night between the
7th and 9th instant, destroyed in the Channel twenty
vessels, from the coast of Brest to St. bfaloe's—one
warseen to founder before the isle of Bass.”

returned home in the most cruel p
%burden to their pariah's.
ALGIERS.
The following interesting deft
et app? City, appear in the Mach
" Amu
te While Wheedle of pirates,
pert, eedeennesn-ilsireseurisrof t
.cent European Mations, a union o
oppreaes the capital of this unfori
Famine, and pestilence diminish d
r The new Dry has organized his
way as to, reign over dead bodi
traded by the successive disast
d throne be has ascended, he is oec
Ll implement than that of consol
a terror. In the night of the Slit
a tamed to be transported his num
arms, the furniture, and treasures
x knits of Aleruva, 'situated oa
w commands all the city ; and on tl
a —break, I salvo of artillery le
minced to the Algerines the ch
their master. The circumferen
hich forma s• long quadrangle
able extent. The ramparts
4 a solid emutroction s the cur
is de the city are less solid, but
t. impregnable to the inhabits
a approach them but by stn
A number of cant
a s munitions of war, and
a garrison which 'appears" de
t the existence of the Dry.
.d with pain this resoletion,
is their influence s they End th
d tate laws to their Noses as
e ' palace where he was at th
s The-troops endeavoured
on the day of the 4d Octt
'primed of their intention bef
is .st therefore, the gates of the
fiefs of the barracks were arsi
'ant of the conduck,of their soh
of the must madmen& •It wa
d immediately aiz of the let
a
entrance of the forums, awl
the view of the people. The
2e
first against this punishment
3f
accustomed, for Cheri had b
being decapitated in their qui
tg
compelled to be silent wadi
4f in consequence, without ft
h ,
ed all these to be arrested w
rs.
ng taken put in the insurre
of put ilatin. Although the
will be seen, have adopted
fa
,ut which it could not sup
re.
• system is established, it is
et'
of Algiers .may still bosom
!it!. nest disorders."

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