Star.
London, England, 1818-08-04 00:00:00

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1818.
THB FUND&
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE (*LOU
Reduced 78{—Cans. 77i i—for Aec. 771}
SI per Cents. 8811-4 per Cent. 970
Navy 105 k 106—Bonds 90 92 pre.
Omnium * f dis.—Ex chequer Bills 18 20 pr.

Yesterday the Pumas Ar.osta held a Privy Coun-
cil at Carlton House, when an Order was signed by
his goyal Highness, proroguing for fifty-nine days
the New Parliament, the Writs for the meeting of
which were returnable this day.

The termination of hostilities in India will not pro-
.bably be followed for some time by the dispersion of
the Grand Army. It will necessarily have to keep
the held till the country shall be completely settled,
according to the new arrangements resuking from
the treaties with HOLKAR and Scirrimt. The Go-
vsn:lon-Gtriaaat. was to the south-west of G'w*lior
•on the 7th of January ; and the Madras Courier of
February 24, citing the Calcutta Gazette, states, that
he will pass the ensuing hot months at Gooruckpoore.
It appears *at MEER KUAN submitted with SCIN•
PIA, and Komar CA/LUR with HOLKAR. KURREEM
KHAN and Castro° have abandoned their head-
quarters, and, pursued by many British divisions, are
it once desperate'plunderers and miserable fugitives.
The gallantry of our troops, in the course of these
hostilities, is, we are happy to observe, likely to be
rewarded by a very ample share of prize-money.—
Two hundred camels laden with treasure, partly sil-
ver, belonging to the PEISUWA, are said to have
alen into the hands of the Bombay troops ; and a
private letter from Madras, of February 26, states,
that Major GRANT, commanding the Mysore horse,
had, in the capture of HOLKAR'S jewels, of which
there were no less than fifty camel loads, realized so
immense a booty, that the share alone of the Com-
mander-in-Chief, Sir T. Iltsnor, is estimated to be
worth more than £lOO,OOO sterling.
In the distribuean of the Prize-money taken in this
campaign the Governor-General has appointed a new
rule to be observed. Adverting to the peculiar and
desultory nature of the warfare in which the troops
are engaged, his Excellency, by general orders of
the 9th December, ordained, that all lawful prize
which might be captured from the enemy, should
be consider:A as the property of that division only,
by which, or by detachments from which, it might
happen to have been seized.

New York Papers to the 11th ultimo arrived this
ninruing.

The Spanish Ambassador, Don Lots D'Oens, is
stated to have left Philadelphia for '%Washington on
the sth of July, having previously received two dis-
patches from Spain, which invested him with full
authority to .settle alI matters at variance between
Spain and the United States. It was stated in some
preceding Papers, that Don Or:ts had been super-
seded b: a M. Lr.nera, and that the latter had ac-
tually arrived at Philadelphia; but it would appear
from our present intelligence that it had been so
stated erroneously. Very probably M. LERNA was
only a confidential messenger to Don ()N IS.
The dispatches received by Don ONts from the
Spanish Government of Pensacola, are said to deny
that any aid or countenance was given by the Spa-
nish Authorities to the Seminole Indians. We ex-
pected as much, and should not be surprised to find it
very satisfactorily proved that the Spanish Authuri•-
ties are asserting no more than what is perfectly true.
Tue persecution which these poor Indians have long
experien:ed from the Republiccan back settlers, has
notoriously been of the most dreadful description,
and more than accounts for those savage excesses,
which the :arc e:leans are pleased gratuitously to as-
cribe to the malicious incitement of their Spanish
neighbours. They have been hunted down and shot
wild leas ; they have not been treated as men,
and now they are abused for retaliating like savages.
Nor is this, we are sorry to say, the system of al
few scattered settlers merely ; it appears to be a ge-
neral system, recognized as well by the people 'at
large, as by the Government of the United States.'
We should have been slow indeed to yield credence
to such a charge against a people pretending to the
character of civilized ; but when we find such an
order as the following among the first acts of General
Jaccsot4, after the taking of Pensacola, we can no
longer doubt the fact :

HEAD.QUARTERS, DIVISION OF THE SOUTH.
" Adjutant-General's Me*,
23 mats W. of Pensacola, May 31. 1818.

is Captain ?WOW, of the Territory of Alabama, is autho-
riz:3 and Instructed to raise a company of volunteer mounted
men for the period of six ruonths, unless sooner discharged, to
cz..nsist of two subalterns :and sixty privates, to be under his
cammand, as Captain. As soon as Captain M'Girt raises thirty
men, he will proceed directly to the Perdido, and scour the
country between i• and blobile and Pensacola, putting to death
(ley hoer* worrier Mot could befvund, preserving the women and
children, and delivering them to the Commanding Officer at
Pensacola."
Yet the General who issues this Decree for the
cold-blooded massacre of every male Indian who
may be deemed hostile to the Americans—who shuts
them out from all quarter—from all mere, and com-
passion—who will only allow " women and children'