Star.
London, England, 1817-10-30 00:00:00

NAIIG4TIOY.

From a Circular issued by the American Trea-
sury respecting the provisions of the new Naviga-
tion Act of the Ist day of March last, which will
be in force from the Ist day of October instant, it
appears that its chief object is to protect the eau, -
ing trade of America, as against those nations who
have heretofore adopted a similar expedient for tht
protection of their own The principal clause in
' this Act is a transcript, almost verbatim, bons the
English Navigation Act passed during the Cm-
monwealth, in 1652, and which was 1. welled against
the c .prying trade of the Dutch, prohibiting all nations
from importing into England, in their bottoms, any
commodity which was not the growth or manutac
lure of their own country. The American Act eon.
tains a similar prohibition as to imports into the United
States from foreign countries; no goods being sut-
fered to enter in any foreign bottom. ereept the pro-
ductions or manufactures of the country to which the
vessel shall belong ; but with this proviso, that the Act
shall nut in any manner operate against countries
which have not passed or shall not pass a law of the
same nature, for the regulation of their foreign
commerce. England, and we believe, SweJen, are
the only States to which the above restriction is at
present applicable; and we are not prepared to say
to what extent the carrying trade of this country may
be a practical sufferer from its enforcement; but,
reasoning generally, we art' indined to think that, as
an English merchantman goes to sea at a greater ex-
pense than the ships of most other nations, we cannot
reasonably expect to be carriers, during peace, though
Congress should repeal to-morrow this measure of
seeming retaliation. We consider it therefore as
fulmen eiee ictu.

The celebrated KOSCUISKO died at So:cure, in
Swim. ;Lind on the Inch of this mouth.

At Sydney, on the 10th of August, Lieutenant
WALKER, of the 62d regiment, and Mr. JOHN
Srsovs, of the Commissary Department, were un-
fortunately drowned by the upsetting of a boat in
which they weie sailing.
A fishing-.mack of Brigham, it appears, spoke a
vessel the other day, off that pert, from St. Helena ;
And, on Inquiring ‘. What news r, was answ.red,
that 44 B )NAPARTIC was dead l"—An announcement,
made in ail probability in mere sport, with a view of
Isoaxing.the good folk, of Brieham ; nut considered
by them of such State importance, that it was torth-
with communicated to toe Post-Office, And thence
with due dispatch to Downing-street. Nerd we say
how little credit the report deserves? Ta,e LYRA,
which is the latest vessel from St. Helena, left there
on the 18th August, when BONAPARTE Was IR excel
lent health. .

MAMA Louts*, Duchess of Parma, (the late Em-
press ut Fraoce,) .has issued An esker, forbidding her
subjects to kneel to her—an horn ige which, stie justly
says, is due only to GOD. She Calls upon the Clergy
in her dominions to make her subjects sensible of this,
which hitherto she has been unable to do.

The Russi in Ambassador and his Lady are arrived.'
at their house in Harley-strut, from

Baron FAGCL, An;assadur from the K:ng of the
NETHLELLANDS, gives a grand entertainment this
tventrg to a large party of distinction, at his resi-
dence, Whitehall-place.
The Quebec Gazette of September '3O. mentions that
the fur trade began to be hi-lA.—A schooner, with
32:: packs of fur, bear skins, buffalo robes, otter,
beavers, atc. had sprung a leak in corning down the
Tigris, anti best part of lit r cargo was landed in a
damaged state. The furs were estimated at 150,00
dollars, and the damage is supposed to amount to,
ten or twelve thousand dollars.

A private letter from Algiers, dated August 24,
says--.. 4 The pl rpm appears rather to increase than to
abate, notwithstanding the excessive heat of the sea-
son. The number el deaths his been almost since
the beginning of the month, between 150 and 200
persons every day ; during the last se'unight this
nu nber appears to be rather still more considerable,
as far as it is possible to have correct id irmation.
In tact the mortality is so great that it is with diffi•
cult), people can be got to bury the dead bodies, and
the burial grounds are quite filled up. The present
p„polation of -Lit;iers casein'', be calculated at more
than 60,U04) p rst).,s, t)a ,ccount of the great number
of emigration, that t.p,/c place in the beginning of
the "streamer. When ..ut of that population the daily
mortality is so great, you may conclude to what trio-
' leuce the sickness has arrived. If it goes on in the
same proportion for some months, this town will soon
afford plenty of room for its remaining inhabitants.
41 I have not got exact information as to the extent
of the malady in the Western or Oran Province, but
there is no doubt of the plague being spread over the
whole country, as no sort of precautions are taken.
Nevertheless it has been observed that this dreadful
scourge never reached Morocco when it has afflicted
Algiers, because the two kingdoms are separated
from each otter by a great desart, and there is little
communication between their inhabitants.

" The misery among the people here is beyond
description ; it is especially the lower ranks that are
devoted to destruction, but it is a matter of the greatest
astonishment to witness the indifference and careless-
ness of Government, as well as individuals, in leaving
every thin in the hands of PROVIDENCE, and not
taking the least step to arrest the progress of this
dreadful calamity.
The unfortunate crew of the Hamburger vessel
Lately captured are treated very badly, put to hard
labour, without any other food than bread and water,
exactly in the same nrtnner as the slaves formerly—
there is not the least distinction."

In addition to the foregoing, we have the following
,iateiligence, dated September 14 and 26, from Oran :
,"fhat on the Bth September the Dry had been
strangled by a number of Janissaries, on the pretence
of his reign having been nothing but a series of dis-
asters by sea and land; . . .

'That Ali Colon, a retired merchant, had been
declared his successor ; and the Ministers of die late
Dey exiled to different ctt►es of the regency;
" That by a letter from Algiers, of the 21st Sep•
tember, the number of daily deaths was stated not to
exceed 35."

by fetters from Fez, of a late date, k appears that
no infection had been communic.ited from the caravan
with merchandise, arrived there about the Ist of that
monO4 ; and the Emperor of Morocco has taken elfgc-
mai steps to prevent all further c'.inmunication.