Star.
London, England, 1817-03-22 00:00:00

AUGSBURGH, MARCH 9.

RtISI A.—ScArcely have the peasants of Esthonia
been declared free, when already an important step
is taken in Courland, to restore the rights originally
common to all classes 61 society. At the Assembly
of the States at /Aleut), the Military Governor of
the Province, Marquis Palucci, expressed the wish
of the Emperor, 1, that the Nobility of Courland,
following the example of civilized States, might se-
cure the respectable class of husbandmen, in their re-

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THE ARMY.

On T tares, the Officers of the Cold►treant Re-
giment of Fu►,t Guards gave a grand dinner at their
Barracks, in Windsor, to ti►e Officers of the Royal
Horse.

The 50th Regiment, with detachments of several
other Regiments of the Line, have been disembarked
at Dover from Calais, and proceeded on their march
to their respective destinations.
• Saturday a detachment of the Royal Marine Ar.
tilleey marched from Chatham for Fort Moncton,
near Gosport.
Monday, upwards of SOO men of the Invalid Depot
marched from Fort Pitt, Chatham, for Chelsea.

The Regiment of Berwickshire Yeomanry was as-
sembled at Duase, ore Wednesday sennight, when '
Lieutenanr.Colonel Mmtsrama. proposed to them to
extend their services to any part of Great Britain,
which was immediately agreed to with three cheers.
The Yeomanry Cavalry is moot Counties are now
receiving an increase of numbers; the Oxfordshire
Corps, under the command of Lord CHURCHILL, gets
another troop, and the Staffordshire Regiment is also
to have another added.

The Stiff ot the Royal Meath Regiment, under the
command ot Captain 13anttas, are to do duty in Dun.
.shaughlin.
The 9►tlt Regiment are to replace the 9l•th Regi-
ment in Kilkenny.
'The 21st Regiment of Fusileers are to be stationed
in Dublin.

The Officers of the 30th Regiment have liberally
given 451. to the poor of Tralee.
The entice of the 49th Regiment are stationed along
the banks at the Grand Canal, Dublin, to prevent in-
terruption to the transport of corn to the Metropolis.
The 82d Regiment are to sail in a tew days for the
Mesiiterrantnan.

The Por:uguese Government have de'ertined to
present silver medals to the °dicers and privates en-
gaged in the Peninsular wad,

NAVAL lAT2LLIGENCE.

MAlLS—aaa. Due. 4111111. 110 i
Dublin - - - • 1 0 France • - - 0 1
Waterford -- 1 0 i Hambnegls -- 0 0
Guernsey and Jersey 0 0 Clouenburgh • - 0 3
Lisbon - - - 0 i Flanders - - - 1 0
Holland • - - 1 0 New York - - 0 0

Pos;:rsmou CH, MARCH 21.
Arrived the Garlin, TRACItY, irons the Downs for
Boston. Sailed his Majesty's ship Eosin*, for the
West Indies ; Briliiant, Ganges, and London trans..
ports, for Sierra Leone, the Cape, and Ceylon; and
the Georgians, for Madeira and the West In-
dies—Wind N. W.

DEAL, MARCH 21.
Sailed the Ocean, Joitsmos,for St. Helena. Wind N.
HARWICH, MARCH 110.
Arrived the Auckland packet, with passengers,
from Heligoland.— Wind W.
MARCH 21. —Arrived the Union, from London for
Newcastle; and Fortitude, from ditto for Boston,
both with loss of anchors and cables the Lord Nel-
son packet, from Hemburgh ; and Cattlereagh pac-
ket, from Holland, both with Mails.

DOVER, MARCH el.
Arrived this morning the Lord Duncan packet,
'Captain Pascoe. from Ostend, with a Mail and pas-
sesigefs. The wind has blown vetybard irons th
1111.11111-dan sqbalht Orsnow7atid a greiA
manj vessels have taken shelter in our Routs. The
brig Atalanta, from Jamaica, has come round from
the Downs, hiving lost an anchor and cable there.

LIVERPOOL, MARCH so.
A sloop (name unknown) WAS totally last this
morning on Hoyle Bank—the crew perished.
LEEUWARDEN, MARCH to.
A part of a wreck has been cast upon Vlieland, on
which is written ,6 Diligence, of Yarmouth." A body
was found, which. according to a passport found on
it, was that of Gregory Hoffman, a Dutch sailor ; it
was dated London, 25th January, 1817. In another
certificate was the date of .Bth Febru iry List. It is
probably the ship of Captain J. Era" which sailed
oa the 10th February, front Gravesend for Rotterdam

GRAVRSEND, MARCH
Arrived the Chance, hinges, from Rotterdam • the fee..
t.,
Jones, from dine; the Lord Cochrane, Savage, kom Amster-
dam' Vrow Hanks,. bit'Alsa, from ditto ; Orange Boma, At-
kinson, front ditto; Vrow Rolphlos, Rollers, front theologist;
Vrow Retina, Inersh. from ditto; Vrow Gorden, Nagel, lies
ditto; Vrow Grans, Cooper, Harlingen; Clood intent, Wader-
tato, from ditto ilia Colonist, Brareford. for Barbados.
Prince Cobourg, Wier for Sabra Princess of Wales, Pox, for
Chased ; Prince of base-Cobearg, Ladd, for Rotterdam.

CUSTOM-HOUSE, MARCH
Bain INTSaan 'SWARM-jilt hied. Given, from sinew
riffe ; i►ritanoia, Bennet, Irons Waterford ; Venus, from /MIMIC;
Provestar, Alien, from Norway; Margaret, Mann, from Stet-
tin ; anti Union, Gall. way, from Harlingen.
• wrwa ass = I he Pilgrim, Garrick, lot St. Lade; Plannony,
Pratt, tor Teneriffe ; Thomas tiowlan, Peter, for Buenos Ayres;
the John, Pulleys and Midmorning, Veneer, foe Rotterdam;
Thistle, Mirk, tor Eisineur and Dasitsk ; John, Thomas Gor4eis,
for Waterford; and Siiifolkciletenghtholin, for /Wait&

- LATE DISTURSATICEI nr Cuesipae. From the
Cluster CArenkle, Koch 41 i
" la the account of the seditimode our last Chronicle, k was
stated that some pike-heads, and ebb containing dagger-shaped
pieces ef iron bad been founds we feel great pleasure in Wes
enabled to assure our Readers that we were tuisinfurnied, and
/kat only one stick, out of some thousand bludgeons taken from
the mob, contained a weapon of that description.
" The lenkocy of the .oevernineet was aianifested on Wed-
nesday in the instance of the twenty-one prisoners charged with
sedidous pncdces, and lodged fa our Castle she day previous to
our last publication. On lite above day, the Rev. C. PILLICOIT,
ene et the Magistrates, by whom they were committed, accom-
panied by 3.1.10 TD, Esq. visited than in the gaol, and remon-
strated with them en the very dangerous nature of their asset,
which tended to subvert that glorious Cmstitetion, width was
_still the envy. and bad been the safwguard ot Europe.
" The men, generally, expressed pest contrition, sad voles-
luny Glued to take the Oath of Allegiance, which 'lateen of
then wen permitted to do, and were afterwards discharged, on
their own recoguiaanat to appear at the nest Ale Vt. if called
upon. *their mune. are—William Wilcock, William Neal. Jobo
Shaw, Wilder= Marsh. William Smith, John Garlick, John Se-,
Dior, William Punlot, Arthur Irwits. Robert Evans' Matthew
Exley, William Goddard, names) Wlntmore, Benj. Broadbent,
Henry Holding, and George Hyde.
• lbsty were humanely provided with some money, and set
out on the irjourney home, iebitediu their blanket costume.
• Tbe reasalalog eve, via Benjamin Mellor, George Pickup.
Jams Wawa, kleild Jones, and James Callighan, were
ordered to And sureties for their appearance, before they will be
perrittail to leave the prison. 3he Ant Of these is by trade a
allot; he was one el the Captains of Ten, aed Chancellor a!
the blekelonf I''

hONAPARTS AND OtIYERIEL SAVAIit.

The Pasrfthfrfers, No. 18, which bas been just
published, contains an extremely interesting paper,
intituled, " A Yinificaden of she PZikal Candela of Ge-

;sera! Savary, bile of Rov;so," written by the Genera
himself, and printed ertclusively in the Prnolikhker.

tis atated, that eie General had several months

ago transmitted this vindication to the English Go-
verhment, entreating that it might be made public,
through the medium of the daily papers, but that his
request had net been attended to. Having since re-
covered his liberty. he now takes upon himself the
vindication of his character from the aspersions'
which have been cast upon it, particularly with res-
pect to an allege) concern in the deaths of Captain
Wright, Pichegru, and Mr. Bathurst (the courier);
" So far," he says, " from wishing to keep in ob-
scurity the crimes which have been imputed to me,
1 will, with my own hand, draw aside the veil with
which it may, perhaps, be supposed I intended to
envelope them, and pluck the mask from the hypo-
crite ur calumniator, who, believing my voice to be
for ever silenced, has taken advantage of my situa-
tien to draw down the animadversions of the public
upon my head."
The charge which the General proceeds to exa-
mine first is, that of having been privy to the mur.
der of Captain Wright ; and on this he makes the
following remarks;
Frrm what I have heard concerning the death
of this British officer, it must have taken place in the
course of November or December, 1805—that is to
say, whilst the French army were on the campaign
of Austerlitz, where I myself was present with- the
troops. I attended the Emperor thither in the early
part of September, 1805. and did not return to Paris
till the 26th of January following, still in :ateadance
on the Emperor, whom I did not quit for a single
day. If all that the public papers hive said respect.
ing the duce negotiations with which I was charged
to the Emperor of Russia, both before and after the
battle of Austerlitz, can be forgotten, I can bring
the testimony of a great number of respectable per-
sons who saw me many times evesy day during the
whole of that campaign.
64 D'Henout (a French Advocate, who first pub-
licly charged the General with participation in the
murder of Captain Wright) pretends that I searched
the Temple without the concurrence of Fooche. He
may have meant to compliment him by this, but he
is not less incorrect in this point than on others. which
I shall proceed to demonstrate. If any other person
than the Minister of the Police had had power to
open the doors of the Temple, it would of necessity
have given rise to continual intrigues. The Minister,
in order to gain his own ends, would have connived
at the escape of any criminal wham he chose to fa-
vour, and have thrown the blame of the transaction
on his colleague in the office of superintending the
prison ; who might, in like manner, favour an escape
whenever it suited his purpose, and return the com-
pliment tone Minister. No person whatsoever had
the power of opening the gates of the Temple, with-
out an express order from the Minister of the Police,
and I defy M. FouEhe to give me a single instance
,to the contrary. Any other regulation would have
compromised the responsibility of the Minister every
day. .When I was myself invested with this office
this: hind of severity so litdrouiTy htabnited
•Aor
was obliged, whenever circumstances required,
Ilk to give express leave to those employed by diffe-
'rent Ministers, to execute the commissions with which
they were charged from the Minister of War, Sucre-1
temp of State, &c. Ecc."
The fact which follows discloses a very curious
piece of diplomatic intrigue, by which the interests
of this country were in no small degree affected :
44 I stall here proceed to the relation of another
fact, which will prove to what extent the authority
of the Minister of Police was carried io the prison of
the Temple, which Was removed to Vincennes, when
the Einperoi, pulled down the tower of the Temple,
which he regarded as a monument of disgrace to the
nation. France has hitherto been ignorant of the
cause of the removal of M. Fouche, whom I sue-
coded as Minister of Police, the 3d of June, 1810.
Ha was disgraced by the Emperor for having con-
dotted an intrigue, tending to give him credit with
the public for establishing a peace with England;
said it so happened, that, in Onsequence of inter-
fering In what did not concern him, and employing
igents about the Marquis of Wellesley, then Prime
Minister in England, he overthrew, by his intrigues,
an actual negotiation, which was otherwise likely to
'have terminated' favourably. • This negotiation had
been autholized by the Emperor, and had been
opened through the means of a Dutch House, which
had sent one of the partners to London, who was
doing very well there, when the step* taken by the
agent of M. Fouche gave vise to suspicion. (It was
M. Fagan, an old officer of the Irish brigade, in the
French se:vice, who was employed by M. Fouche in
this affair, and to him I am indebted for the account
of his mission). The Marquis of Wellesley found,
in what was said to him on one side by the agent of
M. Fouche, and on the other by the person with whom
he Wps first in treaty, an incoherence which naturally
'excited his suspicions; and nut being able to unravel
the affair, and ignorant in which of the two to place
confidence, he broke off with both of them, and gave
orderifor their quitting the country. The Emperor,
"wile could not conjecture the reason of so abrupt a
conclusion, and one so different from what he had
hoped for, had the matter investigated, and soon
learnt, that M. Fouche had been negotiating on his
own part, and had consequently substituted an in-
trigue in lien of an actual treaty. He was likewise
informed that M. Ouvrard had been the agent of M.
Fouche in England. The Emperor immediately or.
dered his arrest, unknown to the Minister Fonche,
because, it hebadintrusted him with it, he would not
have failed putting Oovrard on his guard ; whereas
the Emperor was desirous to interrogate him before
he could have any cemmunicatien with M. Fouche.
I Consequently an order was immediately forwarded
Ito me from St. Cloud (I was in Paris) to arrest M.
Onward, and to conduct him t 3 Vincennes privately;
and it was enjoined me to do so before the return of
A 4. Fowls,. who -was then, it being Wednesday,
with Abu Coined of Ministers at St. Cloud. 1 trans-
mitted the cider to ono of my Captainh who en-
mad die arrest the more easily as M. Ouvrard. haw
mg ernmitted nu trims, had not concealed himself.
Ilse prisons- was youdtscted to Vincennes. where 4.

1-eepet at tha tetuseJ Fo tetelie. Mai, teems
there was no order to that effect from the Ministet olr
Police. The captain was obliged to write me word
of it, and to p!.ice M. Ouvrard under a guard,' until
I should myself write to St. Cloud, when M. Faiths
was desired to rive an o: der for his cominement, and

Lo abstaig trial all communication with hint. M.

Oavrard it; well known at Paris, and can attest the
fact by which I hare ende ivoured to prove that I

was k strAnger t,i ril that -.as passing at the Temple
and Vincennes. It was afterwards discovered that

M. Ouvrard hsAl b.:: n unjustly suspected in this affair;
and be was OF coo: se released. M. Fouche r'ts dis.
missed t and it teas only a mouth after my possessing
the office, thAt M. FJgan came to me hi.nself and
related die particulars of the whole affair."
Returning to the fate of Captain Wright, the ge-
neralyroceeJs:

44 I believe I have now sufficiently proved that I
could not possibly have bad any concern in the death
of Captain Wright : in the first place I have proved
an alibi. and in the next, I have shewn the impossi-
bility of any one entering the tower of the Temple
without an order from the Minister. But far from
wishing to confine belief to my bare testimony, I
shall point (tut the means by which the truth may be
discovered respecting this transaction :—No one could
be received into the Temple as a state prisoner with.;
out an order from the Minister of Police, which Was
copied by the keeper into a large register, which was
numbered and stamped with the Minister's private
mark, so that no part of it could be altered or dea
stroyed without discovery. The keeper thus became
answerable for every individual entered in this regis-
ter; and at the end of every .noath he made a list of
the existing priinners ; this list was revised by the
'Minister of Police, and then carried by the keeper to
the Cashier of the Minister, who advanced the sum

necess.try for the support of each pristmere and se+
tattled the list as a voucher for the money advanced:

After the general orders issued by the Emperor, it
bccame necessary, upon Vie decease nt any prisoner,
to make out a written report of his death, and a me.
dieal man was summoned to Attend, I believe one

of the Board 4,1 Health, who inspected the body with
the surgeon of the prison. A similar arrangement
took place in cases of suicide or homicide, the report
was signed by the two medical officers, by the keeper,
the turnkey, and lastly by the military governor of
the prison, who was generally an old officer retired
from the service ; the report was transcribed into the
register, and then carries' to the Minister of Police'
' and deposited amongst hi, records. It the report of
the death of Wright is to be (mind, it must be made
out with all the usual form dicks, it it is not so made
out, we may believe whatever we pkase respecting
those who ought to have seen it done; but if it has
been removed from the records, whatever may have
been the motive, and has been likewise effaced from
the •register of the prison, which we mty suppose
would follow, there is yet another way of arriving
at the truth, by the list of the Cashier, alto would,
be very careful how he destroyed any of his epucherse
In ascertaining then the precise day on which pay
meet had ceased to be issued for Captain Wright'.
an insestigatien might be set on foet by examining
those persons who were in the Temple at that period i
the keeper is yet livinv,, ant he ciiuld undoubtedly.
declare the 114le of the regular Attending surgeon,
who could likewise make known the came at the me.
dical Officer who examined: the body with him. 'rhos 1
the truth most infallibly be brought to light ; so great
a crime always leaves sufficient traces ter investiga-
tion; it is only nece,saiy to pursue them. The
whole business would be discovered by producing the
list of the expenditure in the prison for the months of
November and Decerittn-r, 1805, and by turning
over the records of the Minister of Police, and the
I register of that period."—(To be continued).

The Piling Reoert gave an elegant entectaine
meat yesterday to a select Party of the Nos./Pity and
Gentry, at Carlton-House.

The Earl of MACCLtyk•IELD it to have the Lord
Lieutenantcy of Oxfordshire, and will be swam in
on the next Council Day. -
••: .
Thursday Ilse red lins of S:r WILLIAM Isms, Bart.
were interred in the faintly vault, in St. Maiiimeici,
Ipswich. The deceased was 100 years of ;spun tlio
Lit of this month.

An elopement took place a few days ay.+, from
Acton Burnell. near Shrewsbury. The patties are*
A young Lady of l uge expectancy, and a young
stone-mason, who, in a p(ibt•ChAISC akd four, directed
their course towards Gretna-gieen. •
The weather within the present week has thewn all
'the variable characterisuct of our cli.nate t Monday
and Titersd sy were remarkably hoe warm days ;
Wet:nesday the wind %feet ed to a Northern inclioatios;
at night, came on •
A 1 tost—a nipping frust"--
accompanied with a heavy tall of snow and hail.
which, although it did not visit the metropolis, ILA
completely cl.it lied the country in tl;e livery of winter.
fisiTll/00.—qUAft Of ills: ODD., MARCUM—Pte.:IT—.
7 to 1 agst Munn, ; I ly to 1 agst Gazelle; it t to 1 apt
Crispin; tato 1 apt Lashio& ; 1510 I apt Smolensk*.
Oalcs-7} to I apt Neva, by efffiliMS sto l apt Trick
Track (Pope Joao); 10i ro 1 agst Selina; 101 to I apt Sister to
Striosbua; IS to I agst Witchery.
1000 GLILNILAS tivaitas—St to I apt Lavinia; 6 to I 'apt
Smolensk.; I to 1 apt Crispin ; 11 to I apt AlproontiOncy.
Doscastaa Sr. Laosa-7t to I apt Whitalock; 10 to I
agst e by Cerberas.

Wednesday c'nnight,.. mob cut the Canal, on the
level of thirteen miles, between Edenderry and Phi.
lipstown, and let off its whole contents. It tutus take
nearly a fortnight to obtain a fresh supply of water,
and by this a detrimental interruption to trade will
occur. •
The post-boy, conveying the Mail from Ratllikesie
to 'Farhat, was robbed 01 his mire Mail, on Thisrs-
day se'nnight, within a mile of 'the former to.vn.
Thursday saerinight, five porn' men, engaged in
fishing, were lost on the Tyreragh coast of
Three of the unfortunates hare left families to de-
plore their loss. Several fishing boats belonging to
the same quarter are missing.
Friday se'nnight, the house of John Walsh, of Ku.
bree, between Mayo and Westport, was forcibly en-
tered by a gang of twelve men, who, after beating
him severely, robbed him of £6 in cash, 280 dozen
of yarn, seven pieces of beef, and various other articles
It has been stated to us that a considerable number '
of persons (twenty-five in all), said to be implicated
in the horrid murder of Linch, et Wilkoose-loker
have been taken prisoners and brought into Dunshas
--(Neurip Telegraph.)