Star.
London, England, 1817-12-25 00:00:00

SAXONY. DECEMBIR 10.

What is said in some journals that a number of great
mercantile houses have left Leipsic, is unfounded,
As not .►roe house of consequence has removed its
backless from that city. It is only tree that the trade
in colonial articles has been mostly transferred from
Leipsie to Altenburg, &c. This is chiefly caused by
the dreadful roads about Leipsic, that to Dresden
only excepted. In every other direction the roads,
after rain, are nearly impassable, and even dangerous.
It is often necessary to put ten or twelve horses to a
waggon, on the Saxon roads leading to I.eipsic.

The Crown Prince of Bavaria, now in Sicily, known
for dis love of the 6ne arts, intends to employ la-
bonrers, to d;g in certAin places in search of remains
of antiquity.
Exchange on London, Dec. 19, 33 5 ; 33 R.

A Flanders Mail has also this day arrived, from
which we learn, chat the Duke of Vir.. ZLLIWGTuti, on
Friday last, appealed to the Courtof Cessation against
the decision of the High Court, given the preceding
day, respecting the alleged libel for which he has
been prosecuting a Journalist, in •the Netherlands.
The ciestiob hinges in the first instance on a point of
law..-.whether the Agent of the Plaintiff bad power
to appeal for his client, without a special power Inc
that purpose' The Advocates hiving a good client,
will be fools if they do not argue the case fully.

SPAIN AND _PORTUGAL.
The following facts are stated with confidence re-
lative to the state of the negotiation between these
Powers respecting Monte Video s
Spain and Portsigel hare re yet come to arty accord on -
the edgers of the reifies:tips of 11:oate Video. On the
contrary, Portugal, by authentic advice' received by
the last Mails from Rio Janeiro. , and confirmed by
letters from Madrid, realer se ads shat fortren usynt
Simi,: he tetanal,' the gurstioa with her Colonies, either
ay conjurer .r association.
Spain urges the immediate restitution, as a situ gua
nia, that she may at that station land and re-organize
the force which is ultimately to attempt the subjuga-
tion of Buenos Ayres. a It is in the confidences& that
restitution she has procured the Russian fleet, sub-
jected her policy to the regulation of the Russian
Antocrat, and equipped, with great sacrifices, several
thousand men to make the /wintery lodgment. With-
out that station as an harlr3ur for the sacred fleet,
without that city as a place erenati, she cannot put sue
the enterprise."
Portugal replies—•, Monte Video was not occu •
pied is a spirit of ambition or hostility to any of the
belligerents, but became an aufuftensiik measure of
reffdefeuss to prevent the revolutionary war'infecting
the Brazilian Provinces. It cannot be ceded to Spain
under missing circumstances (a noble invention of mo-
dern diplomacy, committing nothing and signifying
every thing) without being resented by the Spanish
Americans as an act of hostility.

Portugal- did une haw- bleats 'Video .from Abe
aithorities or troops of Spain, but from the Covers-
iftnt of Animas, who if Dot directly acknowledg.
ing obedience to Buenos Ayres was neverthelasa atr
afly against FIRDIMAXD, and a guardian of Spanish
American Independence. To restore Monte Video
to Spain as a boon for her emewrisv operations, would
be virtually to engage thst.King of the Balsas and
Potrzynas in a contest which his policy, as an ausi-1
nig or principal, must avoid. •

•• If the troops of FIRDIWAND did re-possess Monte
Video, what confideace could the Brasiliaa Cabinet
repose is the succeeds' issue eau expedition, lc
flick
balled s much larger British armament Chap- Spain
eidreard,whea the defensive means of ityrei
wertfaitei Au than at the present moment ! •
In.ease of failure, what protection could Spain
aflVed the Maffei the Beams against the vengranee.l
of theinkreed sad victorious Spanish Americans f"
-Yesterday morning Lord CArrxxxxAon, accom-
partied by his brother, Lord fiTSSVAILT, set off for
Brighton, no doubt for the purpose of communicating
to she Panics RONKs the late important matters
epos which the cousaltations. bare been held, and
the dispatches sent of.
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Georg's..
art Craw, Mr. William Wallace, Min Isabella C.
NOS% MRS Clarissa B. Williams.
Pea Wagon OR Hs s - Lir —For Bombay, Mr. bin PM,
writer.

Pea BecattlfasAmsatfte—Por Bombay, William Geis.
Extract of a' letter from the British Consul 1c
New Orleans, dated August 25 In 'respect to
the Insurgent privateers, L beg leave to mention inr
TQPr.iof,straation, that this port has been the rendep
vnui for a great many of those under the Mexican 04g,
where they have'been refitted, and been equipped with
,warlike stores. As these pirates, however, arc saw
-is the habit of plundering, American vessels, zne
lately took a large sum of specie out of one Selo'
ing to the merchants of this place, tae same
gence will no longer be granted 49 them.
guidance I have also to observe, that ahnr
British vessel bound here is detained and or
by them; and from the representations
captaids, I hfve no doubt that, bad they
any thing suitable to their purpose, it wow
been taken without ceremony. It wouldbe ver
in favour of tlle British interests here if the
intititt sweet kroni thy
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' ferences on the Mediation between Spain and Pcrt.,
should be held in London--not in Paris, bee,:,,*
negotiation fur a point so strongly insisted on by
branch of the House of Bouneon should not be
tied on at the Court of another. On the c •oalm . sae
en
ment of the business it sheers a leaning. 5.1
The most material point in the matter of itedi ;1
non is, that Spain suppetted by Russia i • ' tese eel X
expedite their armament to South America, at tb P`
same time that the question is submitted to ?elan .
The English Ministers justly say, that all Medan: VO
is hopeless, if this threatening course be p .
Ct
But, alas I the remsertrestes of oar Misider: ere .11
elitregerded.
A letter from New York, dated the 14th 'Attu, bl
Ithat advice. had been received there from .
Yao, at Sierra Leone, in which Sir Inns min re
a strong conviction that the object aitne.l ai by t A
friends of humanity in establishing and maintain'.
so expensive a Settlement in so unhealthy a iito„d„ , fa
would certainly be followed with complete din fa
pointalent. If the Civilization of Attica be the o
jeer aimed at, Sit :AMES is decidedly an opinion, a
strongly recommends the Gold Coast as g tnue; be
ter situation in point of health, and AS presenting u d
merous facilities for gaining a free and bele6cial • I,
tercoorse with the inhabitants; sad as being a f
more eligible situation fur contracting, and, eve,
tually, eradicatiag the Slave trade.
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THE. AUX,:
The Sflth Regiment, the head-quarters of *lt' I
were transferred from Gloucester to Bch, ituri
the Royal visit, have received orders to mach
Plymouth Barracks. to relieve the 64 Is Regi
about to embark for Gibraltar.
At the time the Ellrce transport was wrecked, t
was on board a detachment of the 75th Raga
which left Edinburgh some weeks since, acid *
proceeding to join the RvOment at COftt, ; and
regret to learn that the following individuals, !ma
part of the detachment. were drowned. viz.
Wal•er Robb, James Brandon, Richard Riddle, David Ma
Gawp Davis Peter I ayior, John Reid, James kills, 1 '
Clarke, and Valliant Moody.
BruGwrom, De:cat:am 23.—Yesterday and to.d I
the RnolNT exercised in the Riding School, and a 4
terwards his Royal Highness promenaded the
sure grounds ut the place for tett h.oirs each day. 3
s 'WINDSOR, DFCESIDEK 2S —Her MAJESTY rein
at the Castle during the whole of tills day. In
course of the morning the Queen visited the Kim.
A few days ago, the KING expressed a wish to ha
a chair made of a peculiar shape, from an idea
feeling more ease when sitting. Mr. Bawl-tan,
upholsterer, waft directed to mike.a model agrees.,
rto the instructions of the Movalten. The mod• ..`
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was produced and explained to his AILITY, lit
gave his approval, anJ the chair was made.
week this piece of turniture was sent to Irlindscr
placed in his apartments, and the Kota estates'• t
himself highly pleased with its construction, fro "
the cue and comfort he experienced. I have bee
told that the KING missed the absence of his fmtilr
and every morning he would make the most An:irn
enquiries, repeatedly expressing his tears of the', el
death. It was fax this purpose of relieving his In!,
that the Query visited him this morning. It tssi• c
that the unexpected apprise' of the Quasa's p tf
has been accompanied with much improvement
tranquillising the Kruo.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Ammons
left town for their uat, the Priory.
' Yesterday, being Christmas Eve, Viseounten C 411
motors continued to distribute, at her house in = I
hope*treet, to thirty Irish chairmen past their u
bout, the annual bounty heretofore given arm ' • is
day by her late Lord, consisting of meat, lot II
coals, and money. Her Ladyship also continues • 't
aonual Christmas charities at Chelsea. . b
The Governors of the Watch of the parish of '
Clement Danes have lately made a minute and an
tive investigation into the coadoct of the patrole, a h
two watchmen of that parish, who were cnnsid
as having behaved with great inhumanity and era
of feeling towards a man, who a few days since
killed by falling out of his cart, in the Strand ;—t
result of which was, that the patrols and one of e h
watchmen have been entirely dismissed from the tin I
ploy of the parish, and the other watchman has beet a
discontinued serving for the present.
Yesterday the dispatches were closed at the Es- II
India House, and delivered to the Pursers of %lief'
lowing ships; viz.
' Duke of York, Captain. A. IL Campbell; Earl of Bakstre
Captain J. Jameson ; Marquis of Huntly, Captain D. M•Lvid t
Iberitingbanwhire, Lhiptain R Aslansa—sliombag and Mos.
PAUSNOrA; eat BALCAtIA4.-411C Bombers 'Nits FT,
M. A. Gower, Miss Isabella Omer, Mr George P. If yew'. L
Sarah Hughes, Mrs. Isabella Hiqbes, Mrs. Anr!ina ItUI
'Mrs. Isabella Wyse, Mrs. Hardee Woodhouse. Mrs Csroiref.
West, Lieutenant Robert William Cillinns, Petias Isabaa Oro- I
stantis Williams, Miss Clarissa E. Williams, Mr. Wi3"
lace, Mrs. Robert Craw, Mrs. Ellsa Georgina O'aniilt M
Isabella Glencairn Hawkins, Mrs. Eliza °to H ren' o•Hasini

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NAJ;dit INTELLIGENCE.

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FALMOU 111, DECEMBER 22.

E. N. E.—Arrived the Duke of Kent pie-
ict ( I v,ith a M•sil Iron; Lisbon in eight days...-.
the Duke of Kent packet (2) with a Mail,
Lisbon;nr also the Mary and Eliza, for Naples;
iy mph, .or Leghorn; Edisha, for Buenos Ayres ;
*noir, for the. Mediterranean; Flora, for Lisbon ;
Ni, CCSI Cil f low, Betsey, Atalanta, Enterprise,
and Catherine Green, for Jamaica; Britan-
5jA, for St. Thomas's; Atalanta, for Rio-Janeiro ;
gillington, for the Brazils; Golden Grove, for the
rape ;. Forteise store ship, for Rio Janeiro ; .and the
American schooner Hunter. fir Antwerp.

PLYMOUTH, DECEMBER 23.
Arrived the Isabella, tlicar.q.s. from Archangel;
goira, Lowey, from St. Lawrence ; the Regent, from
Lisbon for Lind n ; and the Industry, DREW, from
5. Michaet's.—Sailed the following outward-bound
l'he Frederica Charlotte, for Rio Janeiro;
Akron, for J traaica ; George, for Gibraltar • Queen,
tor Honduras; Su.annah, for Leghorn; Beaufort.
for
.1,,m llca ; Nautilus, for Grenada ; Favourite. for
Cayenne; Hester, for Naples; Curlew, for Charles-
ton ; Hercules, for Barrel. ; Braganca. for Oporto;
Joseglii for Jamaica ; Amphitrite, fir Gibraltar;
ra;:tta, for Balboa ; John and William, and Menai,
Cadir ; Gleaner, tor Lisbon ; Betsey, for Ma-
Oira ; Economy,for Trieste; George, tor Rio JA
040 ; Adhorelia Havannah ; • for ditto; and
ratty Lass,forTvieste.