Star.
London, England, 1819-01-07 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The opinion of the patriotic writer, M. ETIESKII
on the late changes in the French Administration,
will give to our Readers the most satisfactory account
of the sentiment with which the result of the convul-
sion is contemplated by the great party of the friends
of the Constitution in France. We extract it from
the last Minerve :
" PARTS, DRCEMBRR so.
ig All uncertainty ceases; after eight days of an-
guish, the-new Administration is at last formed : the
Royal. Ordonnance has been this night signed. The,
Lieutenant-General Dessolles is President of the'
Council, and Minister of Foreign Affairs ; M. de
Cazes, Minister of the Interior ; M. Louis, Minister
of Finance; M. Portal, Minister of Marine; M. de
Serre is the Keeper of the Seals ;- and Marshal St.
Cyr remains Minister of War. Every one knows
now to whom to address himself; the ensign of
power is displayed, and the crowds flock to it. Those
who had removed return ; all protest that they have
not for a moment changed. The party which flat-
tered itself loftily with the triumph, and which
threatened before it was .victorious, is thunderstruck
with this unforeseen result.—The true Independents,
that is to say; the friends of the Charter, are the only
one; who have neither changed their posture, nor
their language, because their principles will be al-
ways the same, whatever circumstances and whoever
the men may be.
.‘ The new Ministry is called to great works ; let
us hope that those who compose it. will not be below
their mission. General Dessolles owes his reputa-
tion, his fortune, and his rank, to the French army ;
no one disputes either his mind or his moderation, and
the National Girard of Paris knolvs that he loves jus-
tice, and that he hates persecution. M. de Serre
gave, as President of the Chamber of Deputies, strik-
in? proofs of impartiality and wisdom, and there is
no bne in France who does not rejoice to see placed
at the head of the Magistracy, a man of impartiality
and wisdom.
" M. Louis had made on a former occasion, before
entering into the Ministry, conditions which do not
allow us to question his constitutional principles.—
M. Portal has the reputation of a skilful merchant
sr..' a good administrator. Marshal St. Cyr is gifted
with a great firmness of mind, and a firm character;
the .trmy places its hopes in him, and France sees
with joy that he remain at a post in which he has
repaired as many acts of injustice as he possibly could.
It would have been lamentable that the author of the
law of recruiting should not complete his work. M.
d? Coxes is entrusted with two great burthens of the
administration and of public Favour; he has enemies
and flatterers ; the first wilt perhaps be more useful
to him than the second.
" The hatred of the party which would proscribe
all new men and new interests began his popularity ;
laws of exception, and some inconsiderate proceed-
ings, bad excited the distrust of the true Constitu-
tioaals ; but at the decisive moment when our Na-
tional Institutions were to be shaken, M. De Cazes
:hewed himself their firm support and sincere de-
fender. His resolution, loudly declared, of retiring
from the Administration if the Election Law was
attacked, and the fury of a party which seemed
already to mark out its victims, have conciliated for
him in the highest degree the general interest. Ile
owes much tai public opinion ; but lie must pay his
debt. A man who is in his situation is almost re-
sponsible for the good which he does not dos this is
sufficient to expre,s what France expects from him.
" We shall speak of the new Ministry with as
much freedom as of the former one ; we shall not be
afritid to point out its faults, nor to praise what it
dues well. Unchangeable defenders of principles,
we shall incessantly demand from it Institutions, Iv:-
cause .suers _pan awy, end laws alone ranala. In
short, we shall keep ourselves, as in the past time,
within the line of a wise criticism, and shall never
be towards the possessors of power, enemies who
threaten, but sentinels who wasn.
" The Duke of Richelieu, whose noble and ho-
nest character the Frenchmen of the most opposite
political opinions love to proclaim, carries with him
the esteem of all worthy man. Ile signed the inde-
pendence of his country before leaving the adminis-
tration of it. He retires at the moment of the finest

triumph which a public man c,m obtain. Them was,
perhaps, only wanting to him a better knowledge of
France; the other Ministers bare not the same
• excuse ; but they cease to be powerful, and I forbear
to speak of them.
M. Roy accepted, perhaps rather too lightly,
the administration of Finance. at a moment when it
appeared impossible that the administration should •
not be changed ; but he remained a stranger to all
the intrigues of these last days ; on undertaking a
troublesome burthen, he only took counsel from his '
attachment to the public. The Ministry of the Ma-
rine was offered to him, and he refused it ; lie did
not think himself called to it by hi former labours,
and by his practical knowledge. M. Roy has dis-
pensed with being a Minister ; he enjoys a great
fortune ; and the tope alone of being useful to his
country could make him renounce the charms of
liberty, and the sweetness of independence.
" Now that all this great political intrigue is un-
folded, we look out for the cause of so many rumours,
and find it difficult to explain them. France enjoyed
the most profound calm, there was not remarked the
slightest symptom of trouble ; there was not a pro-
vince which was not quiet, nor a hamlet which was
nut at peace. The taxes were paid with regularity,
the young citizens marched away with spirit; never
did the means of Government appear so easy; never
did more attachment call for more confidence; on a
sudden a thousand insidious cries were repeated ; dis-
quiet and alarm spread ; had twenty Deloartapentz
been in open revolt, more alarm could not hpe been
shewn. We with to know whence so mueN mirror
originated ; nothing authorizes, nothing justifies it.
A faction had announced to Europe that the evacua-
tion of the French territory would be the signal of
trouble and civil war; did it wish to realize ita sinis-
ter auguries ? The attitude of the French is the
finest answer which could be made to it. If the na-
tion remained quid in spite of so many provocations,
if it has shesvn ilssible in spite of so much tenor,
the trial of old Nance and new France is irrevoca—
bly decided.
I knew tlsa( there has been a wish to attribute
this extraordinary movement to foreign influence,

LONDON.

BOTH THE THIRTY THOUSAND POUNDS !RAZES
MUST BE DRAWN NEXT TUESDAY,
BEING THE LAST DAY.
1

THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1819.
THE FUNDS.
PM* OW STOOKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLGCK :
Reduced 78i-3 per Cent. Cons. 77/i ex. div.
Cons. for Account, 791i-3i per Cent. SThip
4 per Cent. 9.50-5 per sent. Navy 1041 ex. div.
,India Bonds 93 95 pre.—Oninium pre.
Exchequer Bills IS 20 pre.

The Paris Papers of Monday arrived this forenoon.
The KING had his usual grand Levee on Sunday :
the only one of the Er-Ministers mentioned to have
been present was M. LAINE.

The new Minister of Finance, Baron Louis, has
recalled M. JOURDAN to the post of Cashier of the
Treasury.
Count C:: ABIMT, de CRousAL is stated to have given
in his resignation as Under Secretary to the Ministry
of the Interior : no person has yet been designated as
his successor.

'lle fact cc the i iilure of eight considerable houses
in Pari:. of which we were two days ago apprised by
Private Letter, is mentioned in these Papers as one
of the rumours afloat, but no names are given.
Ti)e Duke of Gi.oucrs I'ER dined, Q 1 I Sattird.ty,
the 'Nineties, wizb the K Kt: and Royal Family.

The Emperor of rainAus. has conferred the Grand
Cross of the Order of Saint Etienne of Hungary on
the Duke of RICIIELIEV. His Grace's health is said
to be almost entirely re-established.

The Kt v.. has granted a free pardon to M. Dogma,
Advocate, condemned. in 1810, to tran.seortation.
13y the private letters from Paris, it appears that
since the appointment of the new Ministry the Funds
have continued to improve. On the sth the price
was 68. Four or five other houses have stopped
payments in Paris, and two or three in Amsterdam.

A Flanlets Mail arrived this forenoon; bat, ex-
cepting the following enumeration of ships that en-
tered tlic. port of Antwerp, from the Ist of January
to the 31st of December, 1818, it brings nothing of
importance:—The ships were-352 of the Nether-
lands, '297. English, 31 Americans, 27 Danish, 21
French, t:2 Ilanoverians.

We have received New York Papers to the 11th
ultimo, the contents of which arc interesting; as they
present a detail of tl. Trial [read Mt;RDEII] of our
countrymen, Army:ll\oT and AMIMISTER. The
great length of the document% renders it impossible
to lay them entire before our Readers this day; but
the whole shall appear as quickly as we can make
room for them.

These Papers also connin some intelligence re-
specting affairs in South Antn-iza ; not, however, of
such importance as to danand the exclusion of any
part of the proceedings against our countrymen, to
make room for them.

FROM THE NEW rvENI.Nr; OF 71f£ 7711 DEMME&
CONC. itESS, DEC.OniElt 3.
The following Message n as read from the Presi-
dent of the United States:—
" n sitere if the Lit:ted States,
" I transmit to the Senate Copies of such of the
Documents referred to in the Message of the 17th
ult. as have been prepared since that period. They
contain a Copy of the Report of Mr. RODNEY and
Mr. GRAHAM, two of the Commissioners to South
America, who returned first from the Mission, and of
the Papers connected with those Reports. They also
present a full view of the operations of our troops
employed in the Seminole war in Florida.
It would have been gratifying to me to have com-
municated with the Message all the Documents re-
ferred to in it, but as two cf our Commissioners
from South America made their Reports a few days
only before the meeting of Congress, and the third
on the day of its meeting, it was impossible to' trans-
mit at that time more than one Copy of the two Re-
ports first made. The residot of the Documents
will be communicated as soon as they are prepared.
Dec. s; isle. (Signed) "JAMES MONROE."
The Papers accompanying the Message, so far as
they relate to South America, are those which wore
previously laid before the other House ; and so far
as respects the Seminole war, of letters between the
War Department and General GAINES, and the War
Department and General JACKSON, and of the pro-
ceedings of the Court Martial for the trial of AR-
BUTHNOT and AmitIOTER.
The Message and Documents were ordered to lie
on the table. The following Message was also re-
ceived
from the Pasemityrof the United States :
" To ens mesa Or mes mesa anus.
" In.convitanceebb the Resolution of the SS* of but moth,
requestios to be faraisked with suds informatin as may be pg.-

mused by the ineentlee, Mains the execution of so smelt of
the first Article of the late Treaty of Peace and Amit7 between
his Britannic Majesty and the United States as relates to the re-
*autism of Sian% and which has not heretofore been comm.
pleated, Nay before the Senate a Report made by the Secretary
of State on the Ist Instant in relation to that subject.

(SiPed) " JAW= 110NROL

" December 5,,1 iu s."

PROM TOR

ENQUIRER.

"The correspondence between Gov. Raburn and
General Jackson, about the murder at Chehaw town,
is laid before the Legislature of Georgia. One of
the letters of Jackson is calculated to excite astonish-
ment and indignation. We shall lay them before the
reader; and the intemperate style in which they are
written will speak for itself. There is one position
against which we solemnly protest. " You, Sir, as
Governor of a State within my military division,
have no right to give a military order whilst I am in
the field." If General Jackson means to the Militia,
we repel the assertion with indignation. What !
when did the States part with the power to defend
themselves in any cases of extreme emergency ? Sup-
pose an invasion from a foreign foe, must we quietly
wait till we send off to the Commander of the Mili-
tary Division, and ask his leave to save our lives?
What would have. become of us, on several occasions
during the late war, if this doctrine bad been admit-
ted ? :we will obey the United States when they
call upon us—vie will ask them, when the time ad-
mits, for aid; but in extreme emergencies, we mug
defend ourselves. general Jackson speaks in too high
a tone. The last of all species of dictation which a
free people will submit to, is that of military autho-
rity. General Jackson must change his tone, or his
reputation will seriously suffer."
The Senate of Georgia, says a letter, has approved
of the conduct of Governor Raburn towards General
.Jackson, and there is no doubt but our House will
concur in the same opinion.

TRIAL OF ARBUTHNOT AND AMR R IST UR.
MIN CTRS OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF A SPECIAL COURT,
onGAKIZED AGREEABLY TO THE FOLLOWING Gni) En:
" Adjutant-General's Mut, Fort St. 114 r Ls, April .2G, I Lb.
" arras —Dtvistos or Tilt SUI.III.
" GIMBAL OILDti.

" The fcUowing Detail will compose a Special Court, to con-
lien!' at this Post at the hour of Twelve o'clock, m. fur the pur-
po.e of investigating the charge against A. Arbuthnot. Ro►ert
Ansbristcr, and such others, who arc similarly situated,
as May be brought before it. The Court will rec-ad .111 the
Atxumeuts and testimony in the several cases, and their opinion
as to the guilt of innocrimc of the Prisoner., and what punish-
moat (if any) should be inflicted.
" Major-General E. P. G President.
"Col. Xing, 4th InfmrrY, " Col. D;er, Ten. Vt.l.
" Col. Williams, Ten. Vol. " Lindsay, Cur. A'y.
" Lt..-Ccl. Gibson, Ten. Vol. " Lt.-Cul. Elreut, Ten. Vol.
" Nial. Muhlenberg, 4th 111. " Nlaj. Fanning, Cor.
" May. Muntrornery, 7th It:f. " Maj. Minton, Geo. Militia.
Vashoa, 7th Inf. " Capt. Crittenden, K'y Vol.
" Lt. J. M. Grxic-.1., 7th Infantry, Recorder.

" An Orderly will be detailed trona Gen. Gatnes's Brigade,
a al the Coutt will sit wit/toot regard to hours.
" By order of Maj.-Gen. Jackson,
" LIMIT 131;TLEA, Adjt.-Cen."
" Fort St. Marks, u6tt, April, 1818.

a The Court convened pursuant to the foregoing
order, when, being duly sworn in the presence of the
prisoner, and he being asked if he had any objections
to any members thereof, and rcpl)ing in ti:- negatise,
the following Charges and Specifications were read :
CHARGES nuatxs? A. ARIUJTHNOT, NOW IN CV4TODY.

AND WHO SAYS la: IS A BRITISH SUBJECT.

" Charge lat.—Exciting and stirring up the Creek
Indians to war against the United States, and her ci-
tizens, he (A. Arbuthnot) being a subject of Great
Britain, with whom the United States are at peace.
64 Spectication.—That the said A. Arbuthnot, be
tween the months of April and July, or sometime in
June, 1817, wrote a letter to the Little Prince, ex-
horting and advising him not to comply with the
Treaty of Fort Jackson, stating that the citizens
of the United States were infringing on the Treaty
of Ghent, and, as he believed, without the knowledge
of the Chief Magistrate of the United States; and ad-
vising the Upper and Lower Creeks to unite and be
friendly, stating that William Hambly was the cause
of their disputes; also advising the Little Prince to
write to the Governor of New Providence, who would
write to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent,
through whom the United States would be called to
a compliance with the Treaty of Ghent, and advising
them not to give up their lands, under the Treaty of
Fort Jackson, for that the American Citizens would
be compelled to give up to them all their lands, un-
der the Treaty of Ghent.

" Charge id.—Acting as a spy, and aiding, abet-
ting, and comforting the enemy, supplying them With
the means of war.

Specification lst.--In writing a letter from the
Fort of St. Marks, dated 2d April, 1818, to his son
John, at Suwany (marked A.), detailin,: the advance
of the army under General Jackson, stating their
force, probable movements, and intentions, to be
communicated to Bowleggs, the Chief of the Suwany
Towns, fur his government.
Specification 2cl.—ln writing the letters marked
B. without date, and C. with enclosures, 27th Ja-
nuary, 1818, and D. called a Note of Indian Talks,' i
and E. without date, applying to the British Govern-
ment, through Governor Cameron, for munitions of
war, and assistance for our enemies ; making false
representations; and also applying to Mr. liagot,
British Ambassador, for his interference, with a state-
ment, on the back :done of the letters, of munitions
of war for the enemy.
" Cha erre 9d.—Exciting the Indians to murder and
destroy William Hambly and Edmund Doyle, and
causing their arrest, with a view to their condemna-
tion to death, and the seizure of their property, on
account of their active and zealous exertions to main-
tain peace between Spain, the United States, and the
Indians, they being Citizens of the Spanish Go-
vernment.

" Spectfteation lst.—ln writing the letters marked
F. dated 26th August, 1817, G. dated 13th May,
1817, and H. threatening them with death, alleging
against them false and ir.Tamous charges, and wing

evert means in his power, to procure their arrest.
All which writings and sayings excited, and h.t
tendency to excite, the Negroes and Indians to a
of hostility against the United States.— By order
the Court, " J. M. GLAbSELL. Recorder.'
To which charges and specifications the priso:
pleaded—Not Guilty.
The prisoner having made application for Colin
it was granted him ; when the Court proceeded
the examination of the evidence.

John Winslei, a witness on the part of the pi
cution, being duly sworn, stated, that some time be;
last July, the Little Prince received a letter, sig,;.
by a Mr. Arbuthnot, advising the ripper part of t
nation to unite with the lower chiefs in amity ;
stating, the best mode for them to re-possess the:
selves of their lands would be to wthe to him (A
buthnot) and he would send their complaints to t
Governor of Providence, whence it would be fi
warded to his Britannic Majesty, and he would ha
the terms of the Treaty of Ghent attended to. I
moreover stated his belief, that the encroachntee•
An the Indian lands were unknown to toe Preside:.
of the United States. The witness a!so identified II
signature of the prisoner in a letter :obis son, markt
A. and referred to in the first peciti..ation, in the s
cond charge; and heretofore noticed as the same wit
that sent to the Little Prince.

The witness, on being further interrogated, state
the language of the iezter alluded to, to be, that tl
British Government, on application, would cause
be restcred to them their lands, held iu 1811, ag:c,
ably to the forms of the treaty of Ghent.,
b 1 tile pri•oner.—Who is the Little Prince, Or
he knov:n by any other name?--He is known by
name of kky I lopin, and is the second Chi.
of the nation.

Q. the priconer.—W!ereii the linter you alluk
to, of in whose possession ?—it was left in posse,..sio.
of Little Prince when !act caw it.

Q. by the prisoner...4l3s this Little Prince no otht
name than what you state ?—Not that I know of.
Q. by the prisoner.—Do you cwear that the let c•
alluded to was addressed to the Little Prince ?-1 d •
not ; it was presented me by the Little Prince to real
and interpret for him, which I did.
_ .

Q. by the prisoner.—Are you certain that die lett,
,rate.l that the Chief Magistrate of the United S:att
could have no knowledge of settlements made o
Indian lands or injuries committed ?—The lett<
stated chat to be the belief of the writer.

John Lewis Phenix, a witness on the.part of tb
prosecution, being duly sworn, stated, with regard t
the Ist Specification of the 2cl Charge, that being
Suwany, in the town, about the Gth or ith of Apri
he was awakened in the mottling by Mr. Ambrister
receiving, by the hands of a negro, who got it frcr
an Indian, a letter front St. Mar ks, at that time state
by Ambrister ;,o be from the prisoner.
Q. by the Prisoner.—Did you see that letter c•
hfar it read ?—I did see the paper, but did not hea
it read.
by the Prisoner.—Did you state that the lent
was received by an Indian express ?—go the blaci
man that delivered it said.

A questicn being raised by a Member of the Com
as to the jurisdiction en the third Cl:arge and its six
cification. the dcors were dosed, and, after math!'
deliberatica, the; ded.led that this Court are incorn
potent to take ccznizance of the offences alleged
that charge and specification.
Peter B. Cook, a former clerk to tile prisoner, anc
a witness on the part of the prosecution, being did:-
sworn, stated, that about Detember or January last
the prisoner had a large quantit: of powder and lead
brought to Suss-any in his vessel, which he sold to
Indians and negroes; that, subse.quent to that time.
which he cannot recollect, Ambrister brought for th
prisoner in his (the prisoner's) vessel, nine kegs c •
powder, and a large quantity of lead, which wa
taken possession of by the negroes. The witness als -
identified the following letters, referred to in th,
foregoing charges aid specifications, marked A, P.
C, D, E, F, G, and 11. as being the prisoner's hand-
writing ; also the Power of Attorney, No. 1, granteil
by the Indians to A. Arbuthnot:

(A.)—From AaArbuthrlot to hi% •on, John krbuthnot, .i.treL

Rat St. Mark, April 2, 1814, ill. the Mot-nillt,

" Dear John—As lam ill able t.) write along let
ter. it is necessary to be brief. Before my arrival her,
the Commandant had received an express from th.
Governor of Pensacola, informing him of a large em
barkation of troops, &c. under the imme.liate corn
mand of General Jackson, and the boat that brutigh
the dispatch reckoned eighteen sail of vessels, on
Appalichacola. By a deserter that was brought her(
by the Indians, the Commandant was informed tha
3000 men, under the orders of General Jackson, 100(
foot and 1600 horse, under General Gaines, 500 unde
another General, were at Prospect Blur, where the:
are rebuilding the burnt fort ; that 1000 Indians, o
different nations, were at Spanish Bluff, buildinl
another fort, under direction of American officers
that as soon as these forts were built they intended ti
march. They have commenced. Yesterday morn
ing advice was received that they had appeared nea
and taken two of the sons of M'Queen an,'
an fadian. Late in the afternoon three schooners cam
to anchor at the mouth of the River, and this mot'
ing the American flag is seen frying on the largest.
I am blocked here ; no Indians will come with me
and I am now suffering from the fatigue of comin.
here alone.—The main drift of the Americans is t
destroy the black population of Suwany. Tell inn.
friend Bole: k, that it is throwing away his people t..
attempt to resist such a powerful force as will Ie
down on Sahwahnee; and as the troops advance by
land, so will the vessels by sea. Endeavour to gee
all the Foods over the River in a place of .securn) ,
as also the skins of all sorts ; the.tni‘n must be left I.
its fate. So soon as the Sahwanee is-destroyed, Y es-
pect the Americans will be satisfied and retire: this
is only my opinion, but I think it is conformable to
the demand made by General Gaines to King Ha tchy
some months since; in fact, do all you can to say,:
all you can save, the hooks particularly.
" It is probable the Commandant will receive
some communication from the vessels to-day, %the!.
he will know more certainly what are their motives in
coming off the fort. I think it is only to shut up th"
passage to-the Indians. Twenty canoes went clOw,
yesterday, and were forced to return. The road be
tween'this and Mickasucky is said to be stopped.-
Hillisajo and Him;thlo iklico were here last tight, t
hear what vessels; they will remove all their caul(