Star.
London, England, 1811-12-04 00:00:00

WEENLSDA.Y, DECEMBER 4.

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BOSTON, OC I'OBER so.
MORE FRENCH PLIJNDERING.—Captain Elijah Beal,
of this town, arrived on Tuesday evening in the brig
Factor, of Newbury Port, from Lisbon, and has en-
tered his protest against the robbery committei on
hint by a French frigate, (the Clorinde, no doubt,)
which he fell in with on the 19th of October, in lat.
42. long. 29. The Frenchman sent a Lieuteaant
40 Men on board the Factor, an 1 having ascertained
she was from Lisbon, the Lieutenaut declared she
should be burnt, and made the preparations to sct
tire to her. Captain Beal was then sent on board the
frigate, where he saw a great number of prisoners in
irons, whom he took to lie Americans, but to whom
he was not permitted to speak ; and whale on board
the frigate his chest and those of his mate and people
were broken open and plundered of clothes, watches,
nearly 5000 dollars in specie, and the principal part
of tiv stores; but a strange sail appearing in stet,
the robbers lett Capt. Beal to continue his passage.
BOSTON, NOVEMBER 2.
Accounts from Norfolk state, that the frigate Er,-
sex having completed her rep iirs, was about to sail
for New York, to join the squadron under the com-
mand of Commodore Rogers.
The trial of Captain Grassin, of the French priva-
teer Diligente, for a viol tion. of the laws of the
United States, his been proceeding these three days
pasti before tht District Court; Judge Washington.
Last evening his Honour delivered his charge, and
the Jury retired. This morning, wlien the Court
opened, the. Jury attended, and being asked if they
Lad made up their verdict, answered in the negative)
not having .been able to come to any agreement.--
They were remanded to their chamber.—[The Jury'
in the above case sat es days, but not agreeing, were
dismissed, and another impanelled.]
A Goon Tunco.—The Legislature of Vermont is-,
now in session. In the course of legislative business,
Mr. Smith introduced the following Resolution, which '
was read, and ordered to lie on the table: •I
" Resolved,l hat his Excellency the tioveniur be requested to
lay before this House such Documents and l'apers as he may
have in ithettands, cantaiii rig the Evidenccof the Repeal or Mo-
didcation of lie Berlin and Milan-Decrees, so that they lease
ceased to operate against the United States."
YEUDENTMESSAGE.-.—IS it probable that from habit,
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(certainly for no other reason,) the Message of the I
Boston papers have been received to I
the 6th ult.
I President, on the opening of the Congress, will, be)
looked for with considerable solicitudel Tills habit The PIIESIDAT'S speech was expected el be delivered
was formed during the Federal Administrations, in Congress on the sth, but it has not yet arrived.—
, when the Chief Magistrate of the Nation, being the At New York, and other ports, vessels were prepared
organ of communication with Foreign Government., ready to start the moment it could be obtained.—
of course knew more of our external relations than
There was no material variationin the price of Arne-
any other individual in the nation, and felt it his duty
ratan produce in the market to warrant the opinion
to communicate openly or confidentially a true and
explicit statement of affairs to the .Legislative Body, that the contents of the Speech were known : altholiOr
generally with such suggestions as to measures as in rumour ascribed to it a great deal of invective against
his opinion arose from the circumstances be commu- this country. The Democratic papers, on one hand,
nicated. But the period of honest plain dealing is
past. For many years
endeavour as much as possible to criminate the con -
mere matter of form, years,
our Messages have been a
which an anxious public duct of the British Government, and of all acting un.
receive an light, and can form no conjecture. It is der its authority; whilst the Pederalist papers equally
now a never.tailing part of Executive policy to mist censure that of the French. The latter contain a
represent the situation of our public concerns; to st p-
correspondence, and other information, to :hew un-
press, mutilate, and pervert official documents, and
so cautiously to avoid all responsibility, or to clothe tier what frivolous pretences the French m ike prizes
every recommendation in such vague terms, that the of their ships. The Atlantic, was condemned by
utmost ingenuity cannot divine what course (if policy the Court t f Priers, (-41 the 10th of September, on
the President his 1., view. We expect eothing that the plea that she had been under English convoy,
can give the least satisfaction from Mr. Madison's
Mess ige ; but from Gallatin's Report, which gene-
which was considered as a denationalizatii n. The ship
'
rally appears pretty early in the Session, we anticipate Hercules, brig Juliana, and brig Cather ne, at DAM.
statements which wilt bring our fellow-citizens to eic, shared the sI me fate. On these casts tLe New.
their senses. We shall se by that whether our coon- 2.erk Everting Pert briefly observes : " Now let ti e
try is in a situation to engage in an expensive and French tory papers make' what
bloody war ; we shall see too by 4u what have been pretences in behalf of
their master they please ; here are two cases which
the nappy consequences of those domestic restrictions
which have interdicted the only commerce we might [challenge all their skill and their impudence to
have enjoyed with perfect security. dispose of, The ships have been captured since the

As we stated yesterd•ty the dispatches fmm Lord
WELLINGTON, brought by the Marlborough, are dated
on the 13th ult. An extract from them will be
found in our columns of to-day, as taken from the
Gazette of last night. BONAPARTE, it will he seen,

.has made over to Marshal MARMONT both sides of the
Tagus": far up as Aranjuez, for the support of the
army of Portugal—an arrangement which has of
l'eOUrie reduced the intruder JOSEPH &NAPA era to the
I.greatest distress, as the produce of that towntry (ob.
[serves Lord WiLLINGTON) vras all that he bad to de.
pend upon, and he.wAs actually subsisting upon the
money produced by the retail sale of the grain for-
cibly levied from the people. This grain (adds his
Lordship) having been thus levied and sold hydostru,
has been seized again by MARAIONT'S orders, and
'taken from the people, who had purchased it from
JosEra's magazines, who have been informed that
i the Ktwo bad no right to sell it !
I The letter of'Lord WELLINGTON to the Portuguese
government, communicating general Htu.'s di,-
. patches, contains the following paragraph adlitional
to what appeared in our. Gazette

" The new Governot"ot Liudad Rodrigo, General
Burrir, set out from Salamanca on the SO.h of Goo.
ber, and arrived on the night of the Ist inst. at the
-above fortress, escorted by a division of infantry, and
600 cavalry, drawn from their can.onmet.ts in Upper
'Formes, and conveying with him a considerable num-
ber of cattle. The state of the fords of the Agneda,
up to the 2d inst. prevented any movement of our
troops for the purpose of cutting off their communica-
tion with the fortress ; and the enemy had returned
before the morning of the 2d. There has been no
movement in the North since my precetFrg dispatch
to your Excellency."