Star.
London, England, 1820-11-03 00:00:00

SPANISH MAIN.

EXTRACT or A LETTER DATED PORT OF SPA '
TRINIDAD, AUGUST 27, 1820.
" I have great regret in announcing to you the loss
of important dispatches, both from the President at
San Chlistobal, and the Government at Angostura,
which left the latter twelve days ago, -in a DatCh
schooner, which was taken within musket-shot of the
shore, by a Spanish flechera, with 15 men, between
Point ilicacos and Point La Brea. The whole were,
fortunately, thrown overboard, as well as all the Ga-
zettes of Angostura and Bogota, which accompanied
them. We, however, leaf n from the passengers, the
brilliant success obtained by the arms of the Repub- •
lit latterly in New Granada, and the very decisive
answers of General Bolivar and the Congress to Ge-
neral Morillo's overtures on the part of Spain, or .
rather of his royal master, for as yet the Cortes are
to decide. All these details were contained in the
papers. I will give you such as I have received from
an intelligent young Englishman who was a passen-
ger; but I am sorry I can neither fix the dates,. nor
be exact in the topography of many of the events.
For these they trusted to the papers of Bogota and
Angostura, and have preserved little more than the
simple facts they had collected from those, or what •
they learned from the President's dispatches.
" Ist, They state that General Valdez, with the
Army of the South, was on the confines of Quito,
after beating the Spaniards in twenty actions; and
was pushing on victorious for that capital. In tyro
of these Caizada had been severely defeated;
" 2d, That Mompox was taken. The Englishman
says two Officers and several privates of the Regi-
ment of Albion fell on' that occasion.

"3d, That General Bolivar writes, that he had no
doubt, at the date of his dispatches, that Santa Mar-
Lira had fallen to the force sent against it.
" 4th, That Colonel Montilla, after the evacua-
tion of Rio Hacha, had occupied another post nearer
Carthagena, and that his junction with the troops
from the interior marching to join him was consi-
dered secured.

" sth, They say General Urdaneta was moving
upon Maracaybo.
" Gth, That the President remained, with 8000 -
men, at San Christobll, and the ranks of Cucuta, •
ready to act in Venezuela, or New Granada, as cir-
cumstances may require, and the season adwit. ,
" 7th, General Paez's head•quarters were at *Sin
Juan de Payaro; his Guerillas everywhere: 750 Bri-
tish in his ::rmy ; these-are in high health. San Juas ;
de Payaro ;s praised for its salubrity.
" Bth, General I3ermudez's head-quarters are at
Santa Clara.

" 9th, General Soublette gives universal satisfac-
tion for his military arrangements at Guayana, and
his civil administration: an Officer of his talents and
experience was very necessary there, and has inspired
that confidence of security so necessary to trade.
" 10th, Our valuable friend, Mr. Roscio, is re-
established
in hii health, and continues your locum
tenens as. Vice-President of Columbia. Penalver and
all the rest are well, and steady at their posts.
" 11th, General Bolivar has identified himself with
the Congress in his answer to Morillo. Absolute in-
dependence as the basis on Point de Treve. Pate '
.contesto, que pertanecia aun ierno, y que a este le
.tocaba tratar con et gobierno ' anol. All the other
Generals referred Morillo in lie manner to the Go-
vernment. Thus his plan, ' Divide et isepera, was
disappointed. Never was the Government and the
people so united on any one point, as against all union
with Spain or dependence on her.
" 12th, Duane, Cires, and Escurra, Morillo's Com-
missioners, were at the Oronoco, but were not allowed
to proceed beyond Guayana (O'Los Castillos). Their...,
answer was, that no Commissioners could be received,
who had not powers to treat on the basis of the so-
vereignty and absolute independence of Columbia as
a sine qua non."

Saturn, which • ossed the meridian on Thursday
evening, about half-past ten o'clock, may now be
viewed in a clear night with great advantage, by help
of a good telescope. His ring is seen at present a
little obliquely, and consequently of an elliptical form,
quite detached, on two sides, from the body of the ,
planet.a Jupiter, which is farther to the westward, .
crossed the meridian on Thursday evening, two mi-
nutes bef‘re nine.
LATE FROM I NDI A.—We have received Papers from
India (Calcutta), dated June 22;
The Christian. Missionaries have obtained per-
Mission to establish themselves in .the dominions of
his Majesty the King of Ave-, provided they do not .
divulge their opinion of spiritual matters.
se News' from Manilla, 50th May, state, that a •
strong reinforcement from Europe was daily expected,
as the Governor had received a communication from
the Patriots in South America, threatening that place,
and one of Lord Cochrane's frigates had been dis• -
patched' for that purpose ; but soon after she sailed,
she captured a vessel with half a million of dollars
on board, and had Walther into Valparaiso, but had •
she continued her'paSiage, she' must have fell in witla.•
the two ships which arrived there in May from Aca.
pulco, with two millionrof dollars on board. As
there was no military ilirce at Manilla, it was the re.'
solved determination of the Governor, if he received
no assistance from his King,. to surrender it to the
English Government; and had dispatched a message
to Bombay to thateffect."

A.

THE Q VEEN.

The following were among the visitors at Bran-
denhurgh Hobse yesterday :
Earl Thanet, Earl Cowper, Lady Lucy Foley, Mr. Peter
)loore, Mr. Barber Beaumont, Mrs. Beaumont, Miss Beau-
mont, and Sir Gerard Noel.
Her MAJESTY confines herself at home at present,
on account of the approaching anniversary of the
death of the Princess CHARLOTTE; and this it is, we
find, which prevented her MAJESTY going to the
House of Lords yesterday.
Addresses to the QUEEN are still pouring in from
eeerypart of England and Scotland. Alderman WOOD
leas received a considerable number since-Monday last:
one from the East Kent Militia, assembled at Canter
bury, signed by almost all the privates.
Her MAJESTY returned the following Answer
to the Address from the Inhabitants of the Parish of
St. Mary, Islington, presented on Monday last :
" My cordial thanks are due to the Inhabitants of the Parish
of St. Mary, Islington, fur this loyal and affectionate Address.
" If my adversaries had felt any regard for a free Govern-
mopt, they would never have set aside all the forms of the Con-
stitution, and trampled on all the rights of individuals, for the
sake of gratifying she purposes of power, or ministering to the
appetite of revenge !
" My enemies have now done their worst, and we are at li-
berty to contemplate the case they have attempted to establish,
and the effect they have produced. Never was there so much.
assertion and so little proof—such an accumulation of crimi-
nating remark% and such a variety of even specious evidence !
If we take away from this mountain of accusation all the cir-
cumstances that have beeti misrepresented, all the minutia: that
base been exaggerated, what do we leave it but an inflated mass
of the most palpable falsehoods and glaring perjuries that ever
were heaped together by power, instigated by unmitigated ma-
lignity, and assisted by unbounded wealth ?
" In the midst of the many painful circumstances connected
with this unparalleled proceeding, there is one on which I may
congratulate the country: it has produced a degree of excite-
ment throughout the community of the most virtuous and enno-
bling kind ; it has called forth,the most generous sentiments and
the most disinterested efforts. ► All the great principles, a regard
for which most elevates the hUman character, are on the side of
my advocates. Truth, justice, humanity, and that which they
never fail to accompany—liberty—are marshalled in the same
ranks against falsehood, cruelty, and oppression. The best prin-
ciples of human nature are conflicting against the worst : it is
nut a mixed question, in which there is any obscuration of the
wrong, or any ambiguity with respect to the right ; it is not a
question of casuistry, which may confound the simple and puzzle
the wise ;—it is a case of individual oppression, in which power
is labouring to trample upon right : hence all the moral senti-
ments of the people are on the side of the Queen. The Ac-
anonry has, from the foundation of the world, issued his pro-
hibition against injustice, and be has inscribed it in very legible
characters on the human heart."
Her MAJESTY returned' the following Answer to
the Address from the Inha-bitants of Margate:
" I feel much pleasure in receiving this loyal and affectionate
Address from the Inhabitants of Margate.—l trust that the
present conspiracy against my honour and my rights will, indeed,
be the last. So large a portion of my life has been infested
with the inquietude* which this conspiracy has occasioned, that
I cannot, I trust, be deemed presumptuous in hoping that this
effort of malignity will be the last that I am doomed to experi-
ence on this side of the grave. But if the present conspiracy
be the last, it will not be because my adversaries have relented
in their vengeance, or softened in their rancour—because they
haw been changed from persecutors, Or civilized into Christi-
anity—but because the People of F.nglaud have united in my de-
fence with so much ardour and zeal, so much constancy of at-
tathment, and so much intrepidity of resolution. My enemies
must, at length, be impressed with this conviction, that they
cannot degrade the Queen without enslaving the Nation."

Cumt..—Persecution still prevails in this country,
By a letter from a Gentleman at Canton, dated A pri:
2, 1820, we have the following information :—" Last
evening brought me the intelligence of a French
Missionary having been strangled by the order of the
Chinese Government in the province of Hoo-poh.
And L'Aunior, the French Missionary, who had
beets 27 years at Pekin, is expelled from the country.
He arrived at Canton yesterday."
THE BIRTII•DAY OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH.—We
have much pleasure in stating, that it has been re-
solved, by some distinguished friends of taste and
literature in Ireland, to hold a Meeting at Ballyma-
bon, on the 29th November, to celebrate the Anni-
versary of their great naticnal Poet, OLIVER GOLD-
SMITH ; and also for the purpose of devising the most
practical meaos of getting rid of a well-merited re-
proach, under which their country lies in the literary
world, by the erection of a pillar to the memory of
the Poet, on that fascinating spot in Lissoy, which
presehted to his eye the most agreeable horizon in
nsture. Unlike SWIFT, CONGREYE, and other in-
grates, who either denied their country, or left no
traces in their writings by which it could be ascer-
tained, GOLDSMITH identified himself and hit divine
poetry with the localities of his natal spot—his ini-
mitable delineations of which have elicited such uni-
versal feelings of admiration and delight. Iliscrne-
nifty; therefore, is well entitled to some public testi-
m6bial of regard from a country which derives so
siech honour from his birth ; yet in Ireland—warm-
hearted, romantic Ireland—with shame be it spoken,
the only memorial of her GOLDSMITH—buried in a
foreign land—of him whose heart, un[rave]led, still
fondly turned to her, is his own old hawthorn-tree in
Lissoy, now nearly cut away by literary pilgrims,
whose devotion to GOLDSMITH and his Deserted Vil-
lage, shames the apathy of a country which has left
both without a mark of public honour for 2tMost
half a century.
ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY AND Musam—Between
the-hours of two arid three o'clock, last Saturday
morning, Mr. J. P. Tutiort, a Gentleman who Welds
a situation in the Bank, and resides in Bath Terrace,
Newington, was alarmed by a strange noise, which
seemed to proceed from the passage. At first he
thought it was probably caused by the cat, but pre-
sently it seemed to ascend the stairs, and he plainly
beard some One trying his bed-room door; he got
up as cautiously as possible, and endeavoured to open
the door, but his efforts were resisted by some one
optsjde. After much difficulty, he succeeded in
forcing it, and plainly heard a man running down
stairs; he called to his man-servant, who slept below,
19 stop him, and at that instant heard what he con.
ceived to be the report of a pistol close to his head,
apd another man rushed swiftly by him down the
stairs. Having obtained a light, he proceeded to
esamine the house, and discovered that the thieves
entered by cutting a parinel out of the street door;
he then went up stairs to see where the ball had
lodge], but found that the noise which he took to be
that of a pistol, had been caused by a blow which
the ruffian aimed at him with a crow-bar, but which
took effect against the wainscot, and forced one of
tl,e pannels completely oat ! This is the second time
that Mr. TUDOR'S hbuse haste= broken open during
tee last few mouths.

. THR:I4PaCOA.

• • • ,TO THE *DEMEAN ARE STAR
Sin—As a great deal his been said about the tent
in which the QUESH slept on board the polacca, iu
her return from Palestine, and •ery few peopleeeena

to understand what it really was, the following ex-
planation of it will, perhaps, be more intelligible to
the comprehension of those who have never been at
sea, than any which has yet appeared ; and if you
agree with me on that point,•you will, perhaps, oblige
me by giving it a place in your columns.
A slip's awning is a square piece of canvass, in the
form of a ceiling, covering the whole breadth of the
ship, and lashed to the shrouds. In order to form
the tent, another piece of canvass, reaching to the
deck, is suspended from ehe awning, and passed
round as a screen, separating those within it from

those that are without, and extending so far across
the deck as may be convenient to those who make

use of it. It was evidently not nailed, or fixed to
the deck, because is was rolled up every morning,
and let down in the evening. The ATTORNEY-GE-
-24 ERA It says it was fastened (that is, tied) to ring-bolts,

and as there can be no more ring-bolts than there are

guns (or ports for them) in a ship, it follows that it
could only have been tied to the deck (or bolts) in about
four places at the utmost. It was in the power of,
any one of the sailors to untie it whenever he pleased,
and, even without that, he might have lifted it up to
observe or listen to what was taking place within ;
as is evident from the testimony of Majocchi, who
deposed that Bergami sometimes handed the lantern
out through the door, or opening of the tent, and
sometimes lifted up the screen, and handed it out
undeineath. It was in the power, therefore, of any
one of the sailors to put his head under this screen
whenever he pleased ; and, unless Italian sailors have
less curiosity than English, there can be no doubt
that it was frequently done, and, consequently; if an
adulterous intercoufse had been carried on between

the QUEEN and Bergami, it is impossible that the act
could have escaped detection. Will any one, pre-
tending to common sense, believe, for one moment,
that the Mate, if he really had seen what he pretends
to have seen—the QUEEN kissing Bergami in the
day-time—would not have endeavoured to have dis-
covered whether something more than kissing did
not take place under the tent at night ? And as he
did not make any such discoveries, does it not ma-
nifestly follow, that not only nothing of the kind did
take place, but that the other parts of his testimony
are untrue? There was, however, besides, another
communication, constantly kept open, between the
tent and the dining-cabin, where Majocchi and others
occasionally slept; which is proved, not only by Mr.
Hownam, but by the Mate Paturzo, who deposed
that the lantern was sometimes handed down the
hatchway, to some one in the dining-cabin, and he
does not say that the hatch was afterwards put on.—
Both the sailors upon deck, then, and the servants in
the dining-cabin, had the power of overhearing and
detecting everything that took place under the tent,
and yet no discovery was made! How is this to be
accounted for, except upon the presumption of the
QUEEN'S innocence? The ATTORNEY-GENERAL has
here got into a dilemma from which it is impossible
for him to escape ; he must either give up the tent
scene, as an argument of guilt on the part of the
QUEEN, or he must give up his two most respectable
witnesses, De Mont and Majocchi, and then the very
groundwork upon which he has founded his charges
is destroyed, and the superstructure, of course, must
tumble to the ground. Both De Mont and Majoc-
chi* have sworn that they heard whispering in an
adjoining room when the door was shut, and surely
a loose canvass curtain is a less obstruction to sound
than a solid substance. If, then, they really could
hear whispering in an adjoining room, the steersman,
who was constantly stationed within a few feet of
the tent, must also have heard the smallest noise that
took place within it. Whispering and kissing, of
course he must have heard ; and 13ergami could
hardly have moved from his conch to that of the
QUEEN without being overheard, and exciting his
attention and suspicion. If he had heard anything
of the kind, he would, no doubt, have lifted up the
screen, and have detected them in the very act ; but,
at all events, he would have mentioned that he had
heard such things among his comrades, which would
have come to the Captain's, and Mite's ears, and, of
course, he would have been produced as a witness
against her MAJESTY.
He ever the QUEEN might have been indifferent
about appearances, she must have known, that if the
act of adultery could once be proved against her, the
means of continuing her criminal indulgences, at
least, if not her lite, would be taken horn her.—
During the outward voyage, which could not have
heen less than three months, she slept in a cabin be-
low, and nothing whatever was proved against her,
except that she had the means of communicating
with Bergami, without the possibility of a discovery.
Now, Sir, I put it to the good sense of your Readers,
whether it be at all likely, if the QUEEN had any
thing criminal in view, that the noise of the horses,
or the heat of die cabin, would have been sufficient
to drive her from so secure an asylum, to a place
where she must have been constantly under dreadful.
apprehension( which is certainly not consistent with the
love of pleasure) that her crime would be 4etected,
and where it was morally impossible that it could
escape detection? If the QUEEN had an attachment
for Bergami' she would not have been content with
committing the act of adultery only once or twice ;
and if she bad carried on an adulterous intercourse
for the space of five weeks, in such an exposed situa-
tion, surrounded, as she always was, by no less than
ten of the crew, besides her own servants, it must
have been discovered. Take away the screen, and
there was n• indelicacy whatever, and the screen it-
self was no concealment. It is evident, by the QUEEN'S
going upon deck, that she had no criminal desires ;
and it is equally evident that she could not have been
guilty of adultery while she was there, for if she had
she must have been detected.—l am, &c.
• Majocchi, moreover, swore, that on the Rains of Ephesus
(I think), he heard whispering through the tent ; and if so, the
man at the helm, who was stationed within a few feet of the
teat on board the polacca, must also hams heard if anything
im-
proper took plate within it.

. THE ARMY;.

A letter iron) one of the loniaa Isla id% darldlhe
29th of August, says :—.r Mere has been *partial
disturbance at Zante. A private of Captain C-rp—'s
company, of the name. of Quirk, was shot, dead on
his post, on the pier-head. The light company of
the 75th is its the interior, and I understand their
picquets have been fired upon, but sustained no loss.
One of the principal inhabitants, of the name of M—,
has been taken to Corfu by. the Lord. High Commis-
,sioper, who thought it necessary to go to quiet them
with four companies of the 32d Regiment, who are
still doing duty there (Zante) with the 75th, at head-
'quarters. Things wear a more favourable aspect at
present."