Star.
London, England, 1816-02-12 00:00:00

PROTEST.;NTS IN FRANCE.

Letter from a Protestant at Nismes, containing a
particular Account et the destruction of one it the
Churches, on the 12th N,,vember.--11rought by a Re-
fugee from Switzerlitud :

'ts NIMES. NOV. 23, 1813.

" You have heard that after tout months inrerrup-
don of our public waship, and after resisting for
two months by bumble remonstrances the invitations
of the public Authorities, we yielded to the pressing
request of the Duke d'Angoulease to celebrate divine
service.
" The fermentation among our fanatical neigh-
bours and enemies increased to such a degiee alter
the departure of the Duke, Arid we decided against
the re-opessing of our temples, on account of the ab-
scoot of the General La Garde, though by so doing
we exposed ourselves to the displeasure of the public
Authorities, who blamed, or affected to blame, our
delay, attributing it to a design to oppose them, by
sausing it to be said that our worship was proscribed.
" On Sunday, the 12th of Vovember, at eight in
the morning, we heard of the arrival of the G.:octal,
who told wire was come expressly to cause the re-
opening of our temples .
.4 He wished es to _ open both Of them, and only
expressed his rtgret at our prudent remonstrance for
cynfining it to one at first. The small church was
accoraingly opened at ten, and we took care not to
ring the bell to give any-warning to our enemies, or
to offend them.. I arrived at the Temple after en-
dutlug multiplied insults from the fanatics who were
crowding together, but hail ourselves fortified by
the presence pf the brave General La Garde, whb
harangued the people at the bead of his troop, we
commenced divine service, notwithstan4ing t..e tu-
mult which kept increasing in the sweets, until a
number of furious wretches (lined their way into the'
church, with most horeid cries threatening to kill us,
'This threw the assembly into a fright, and piit a slop
to the service, until they were driven. out and the
doors fastened, which.. Weft assailed by theita with,

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violent kneckingt lektillk to nub in again upon se
and cut our ahroats.
.01 We pawed thin quarters of an hour in this sort
of siege, net bloyfing.what would become of us, de-
prived of all communication with our friends in she
town, and trembling for fear that our brave defender,
the General, might not haveit in his power tosnate.b
us from death. Frightful situation I—the horror of
which is not to be described. At length the doors
were opened under the protection of- the . General,
and we endeavoured to get each to his own home,
loaded with insult and outrage, and showers of stones
throwing at us, from Which many of our people are
yet ill and three dead. Our brave General was shot
by a pistol.
't lit the course of the day some of the mob with a
hatchet demolished the door, and forced their way
into the. Temple, devastating it in every possible way
which the rage and fury of the fanatics could sug-
gest, tearing down the•box for the alms for the poor,
destroying our register books, pillaging a closet
which contained garments for the poor, tearing off
the drapery round the pulpit, which was quite new,
' taking away our gowns, and in a word every thing.
Our venerable President, Olivier, was conducted to
his own house by eight or ten Officers by a circuitous
way, but the mobfollowed with horrid imprecations.
The Pastor who officiated that day did not descend
hom the pulpit till the last moment, when the vio-
lent knocking at the door and the crii.s of our own
people drowned his voice.
" I was one of the last who went out of the Tem.
ple with my wife at my side and my child in my
arm; and though without an escort of officers (for
it was evident that the troops sided with the mob).
I was mercifully preserved. If the General had been
wounded half an hour sooner, we should infallibly
have been all massacred. Our assembly was large,
and consisted chiefly of the more respectable sort.—
Almost all the ladies received blows from stones. My
mother was struck on the head. The excellent Count
Lagarde, from whom, happily, "the ball was ex-
traeted, .was found to be in the shape elan
ingot, while• fluctuating between life and death, would
write to Paris, to give his testimony in our favour to
,the• Govern:nen., in case of his death. He had
before saved us from the massacre that was to have
been general on the night of the 16th October. As
soon as the Duke heard of these events he returned
from Thnulouse, and with hauteur directed the re.
opening of the Templcs. We remonstrated, being
persuaded that we should all be murdered, uuless he
had sufficient force to protect us.
46 Thus we continue indefinitely deprived of our
worship, ill proper measures are taken. One of
our friends chew up a memoir on the events of the
and on our miscrics in general, but it must rest
in Ills bureau till the moment arrives when the whole
truth shall be tcid. He also addressed a letter to the
Duke, entreating him to pity us, for be must know
that we deserved none of these miseries.

" Nothing tau express tltt miserable condition to
which the unturtuni:te Protestants are reduced. No
one can conceive the deceit, the perfidy, the savage
ferocity of our mernies, who are under powerful lea-
ders. We are not ignorant how we are calumniated;
but we can't speak in our defence ; we cannot write
or mint here a memoir in justification of ourselves,
because it would be attended with the greatest dan-
ger to state even the most notorious I.,:ts. We will
prepare it, however, though it should not appear
these ten years, and though in the mean time
we suffer reproach and every evil. Still I trust in
GOD to bring forth our righteousness as the sun to
confound our oppressors. Perhaps the day is not so
far off. There are different retorts in circulation;
one is, that one of the chief authors of our misery is
in disgrace. GOD grant it. I expect nothing from
man, but all front GOD."

EAST INDIA INTELLIGINCE.

cALcurrA, oc rOBER 3.

We learn that the Right Honourable the G e.ver-
n-r•Gener al (Lad Mena) arrived at Sultanpore on
the 3d September, and proceeded on his voyage to
Bemires the same day. His Lordship and Lady
Loudon visited the numerous manufactories of that
celeLrated city. The fleet continued its course down
the river on the following day, and was expected to
reach Dinapure on the tith.

FROM TILE CALCUTTA GAZETTE, SEPT. 49 1315.
" The ships lately arrived from Java have bronAht
letters from Macassar of the 20th and 27th of June,
which communicate the melancholy intelltence of
the death of Lieutenant 'l'. C. Jackson, of the Ist re.
gimetit Bengal native infantry, and assistant resident
of Macassar, during an attack on a fortified village
dependent
.on the dethroned Rajah of Boni. The
following are the particulars of the untimely fate of
this ze.tlous and intelligera ()dicer and amiatale man :
The inhabitants of two villages, named Sooppa and
Langa, situate on the cost o. Celebes, about 70 or 80
miles north of Macassar, having been instigated by
the emissaries of the expelled Rajah, had commenced
a system of piracy,. seized several trading vessels be.
longing to the subjects of the Company, and sold their
crews as slaves to the neighbouring Rajahs. Captain
Wood, the resident, deeming it necessary to take some
measures to put a step to these unwarraptable depreda..
dons, detached Lieutenant Jacksoa, with Ensign Da-
vison, and a party of sixty Europeans and thirty se.
pot's to root out the marauders. On the 7th May
they embarked on board tile Honourable Company's
cruizer Teignmouth, and on the 9th arrived at Soop.
pa: next day Lieutenant Jackson wrote to the Resi.
dent, that the strength of the village rendered it im.
.pregnable, except -to a larger force furnished with
gnus. A reinforcement, with some pieces of field
artillery, was instantly' sent to their assistance; but,
before their arrival, die original party sailed (or
Lang, which hieing within the reach of the ship's,
guns, would, it was supposed, surrender immediately
upon being sutnmuned. The Teignmouth anchored
before Langa about ten in the Morning of the 12th.
The detachment immediately landed, and having
driven the enemy from behind a high sand-bank near
the beach, closely pursued theist to the village. This
was stirrouaded by strong stockades, the only inlet to
which was a closely barricadoed gateway, which
could not be forced. Lietnenant Jackson, finding he
could not gain entrance by this ;mouse, attempted to
Orli his way by cutting a road with his swordbirough
the brushwood which idtersectecl the paling. He had
made considerable progress and was in the act of
pulling op one of the &tallest when he satins, a

fatal woad from a (pear. pasha by an onlmairn
hand through the bushes. He fell into the arm. of
two sailors, and expired immediately after being con*.
,',eyed on board the Teignmouth. Thus, in the ha
nourable discharge of his duty, died a young officer
whose honourable principles and benevolent disposi.
lion had gained the esteem of all who knew him, and
whose intimate acquaintance with the language of
the natives of Celebes, and history of its inhabitants,
had peculiarly qualified him for the responsible situa•
tion which he held. His body was conveyed to Ma-
cassar, and interred. with the usual military honours.
Ensign Davison having been likewise wounded in
the head by a spear, the attacking party was left
without a leading officer, and forced to retire with-
out the accomplishment of its object.
44 We are happy to contradict the report previ-
ously circulated here of Lieutenant Brook Watson,
of the 24th regiment of native infantry, having met
his death on this expedition. That officer was per-
fectly well, and had been provisionally appointed as.
sistant resident Commissary, Paymaster, and Inter-
preter. at Macassar."
The demi-official account of the affair between the
Nautilus and Peacock nearly confirms our former
statements of that affair. Thifollowing is an eztract
" I avail myself of the earliest oFportunity to in•
form you of the capture of the Company's ct uizer Nau.
tilus, by the American sloop of war Peacock, Capt.
Warrington, mounting 22 guns and 230 men, on the
30th June, off Anjeir, in the :knits of Sunda, after
a gallant and spirited defence of a quarter of an
hour against so superior a force. I regret to report,
that the Nautilus had seven men killed, and seven se-
verely wounded. Amongst the latter, Lieut. Boyce,
the Commander, and Mr. Mayston, First Lieutenant.
1 am happy to say that the latest accounts from An.
Per-give great hopes of Lieutenant payee's recovery.
His leg had been amputated above the knee, and he
was as well as could be expected. The Fait Lieu-1
tenant, whose wound at first was thought to be mor-
tal, had been declared out of all danger; the rest of
the Wounded were doing well."

FRENCH PAPERS.
•

CHAMBIR OF PEERS, FEBRUARY 6.
The Resolutions adopted by the Chamber of Depu-
ties on the 25th ult. relative to the situation of the
Clergy, were received, and ordered to the considera-
tion of the Committees. They will be discussed in
a general assembly on Saturday next.

CHAMBER OF DEFUYIES, FEBRUARY 6.
M. de VILLILE, in the name of the Central Com-
mission, presented a preliminary Report on the Law
concerning Elections; and observed that the Royal
Ordinance of the ISth of July, 1815, having dis-
solved the preceding Chamber of Deputies, the Con-
vocation of the Electoral Colleges which this Cham-
ber appointed, has resolved, in the 14th Ankle, that
many Articles of the Charter should be submitted to
the revision of the legislative porter present
Session.

The Articles 12 and 15 of ti,is Project of Law,
relative to Elections, colairin the 37th Article of the
Charter, but proposes to reform the 36th and 3Sth
Articles.-

The Committee has not forgot the sage dicta of
the King, •"" that the advantages of amelioration,
and the dangers of innovation, lie very close." In
this view, it is proposed to continue the pi incipal pro-
vision of the 38th Art. which precludes persons, un-
der the age of forty, from sitting in the Chamber :
thus establishing maturity of age as a check upon the
stational vivacity
The modification proposed for the Stith Article of
the Charter goes no farther than that the number of
Deputies from La Seine Department shall be aug-
mented.

The 37th Article, which now provides that the
Deputies shall be elected every five years, but in such
a way that the Chamber shall be changed as to cue-
fifth of its Members every year.
This, after much deliberation, the Committee pro-
pose to have altered thus :

That the Deputies shall be elected for five years.
Ent the Chamber shall be renewed in totality, either
at the end of five years, or when dissolved by the
Royal prerogative.
The report of the Committee was ordered to be
taken into consideration on Monday.
M. MALLner, Chevalier de St. Louis, demanded
that the knights of that Order be assimihted to those
of the Legion of Honour,. as to the privilege of sit.
ting in the Electoral Colleges, upon the condition of
their being possessed of a certain portion of property.
The proposition was referred to the Committee on
Elections.

A petition from the inhabitants of des Bouches dp
Rhone, complaining of the conduct of M. Massena,
while Governor of the Department, and during the
invasion of Bonaparte, and dernand:ng that ho should
be brought to trial, as the most culpable of all the re-
bels, created much debate. It tc.ts at length deter-
mined by the Chamber that the petition should be re-
ferred to the Minister of Nair.—Adjourned ti►l to-

TRIBUNAL DU PREMIERE INSTANCE.

The cause so long in agitation respecting the tak-
ing away from the widow of General Lasnes, a child
alleged to have been the issue of a former marriage
of that officer, was entered upon 'this day. Some
preliminary proceedings only took place this day, as
the legitimacy of the child's birth was disputed, and
the Court adjourned the farther proceedings in the
case till Tuesday, the 13th, to afford time for the ad-
duction of prools.

PARIS, 'FEBRUARY 7.
It appears that the Englishmen, Wilson, Hutchin-
son, and Bruce, have appealed against the deem of
the tribunal of premiere :mance, which rejected their
demand of being at large on bail. This appeal has
been laid before The Cent Royale. This circumstance
will of course retard the indictment; but the delay
will not prejudice the accused, with respect to whom
another indictment is in process, in consequence of
which their case will be brought before the Court of
Assize. The public, always impatient, wishes already
to be put in possession of all the details of this in-
teresting affair; but the established forms of the law,
sod its prudent slowness, are the safeguard of in-
nocence.

The first indictment, (isutrvaion ,) as is well known,
is drawn -up in the Court of premiere ingance ; when
the witnesses and' the persons suspected (ftrevenut)
have been interrogated and heard, the Chamber de•

termines whether there was ground ot.jsm..
decree is laid before the Cour A
ale -rmi
whether there is ground of arcur.l whicin
affirmative, the the act of accusation is dragp—`
Procureirr•Gener al : afterwards this riec,,,llP
ans,ut
i documents of the process, ate made k• -..1
eased, and the•atiair is carried before the
of As:ize. All these forms cause d' i4l '
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gorously exacted, under pain of the juvi...
proceedings. • NI
The Chamber of Peers itself cannot .40,''
them; and though the accusatory pptes, F 4
ment or instrwcricn) might be complete er4
betin before them, judgment could not bet.
in less than a month. Foreigners, what,.
()fence against the Government may be, wee.,
same protection bcfore the French tribunal:4
French themselves : and, we are assure, u 4
only all the protecting forms will beioi:oad.4
case, but that they will be sal tenet ar:d 444
if we may so say, as far as their pieucttki,
and the public interest will permit: in sliortoZ
other case will have been more de:int:1.44,17
or more promptly decided ufron.—/,,,na1::
PARI3, Fii!littlAltY K.
An inaccuracy in the drawii.,t tip of thepl,
relative to the three accused
.EnglishenenL,
rise to a remonstrance on thel. part. We .
an information, in consequence of which Li:
would be (sera porta) brought before thr cut
Assize. We Gnglit to h.tve taid, mi,g,,i
(pourra erre puller). Messieurs Wilson, Sri,.
.Hutchinson, have done right in calittl; cur'
to it. In correcting this ei for, r:e rnu,r oh,
the sense of the whole plssAge ini,;ht has,
any mistake. The details into which we ,
might have shown that we were not ignored,
willing to keep others in ignorance, that rho;
could not be brought (*tote the Court cf Assik
the tribunal of premiere its:ranee had found 1,4
cause of charge against them, and the Cote t
had given orders for putting them in a states:,
sation.—Jcurnal del Debars.

The represe.ntatilw at the Academie dr Al •
the night of the attendance of the Royal}
produced a receipt of 1'2,000 francs.
An evening paper contains the following:—.
morning, while the King was passing tienso
Hall of the Marshals on his way to mass, 4
was presented to him, begging him to "ft:
David, the painter, to reside in France. It wasi
by all the pupils of that painter, and a nowt
persons distinguished for their rank, and taste ta
tine arts. Tile King promised that he waal4i
at it."

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The Departmental Legions present abed!
effective force of more than 50,00) mat, all
armed and equipped. The Royal Guard amq
to nearly UAW') men.
VIENNA, JANUARY 27.
• M. Fonche, Duke of Otranto, applied to aerC
vernrn,..nt for leave to retire into Austria. }j
quest has beet. ccaaplied with, and he will repaiti
Dresden to Prague, where M. Thibaudeau basalts
been for some time,
The banishment of the Jesuits from St. Petroa
and Moscow has produced a liv4ly sensation
saw and Vienna.

It is stated tram Warsaw, that the ex•cnnrar:l
alist, Carnot, has applied to the Russian Courriicr
favour of being employed in some Asiatic goivarg
MADRID, JANUARY 11.5.
Every day something new cccurs astonisEll
the annals of despotism.
Yesterday evening a compete change sot:
took place in the unfortunate Ministry cf
happy nation.
The Miurs:er or State, Cevallos, has Irma !rai
to the distance of 60 leagues from the cap;tal, •
the intendant Lozano de Torres appoir.ted to=
him.

Moyanno, the Minister of Justice, his beet
banislieJ, and the Bishop of Mychocau is u 0
to till his situ.stion.

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The Minister t t Marine, M. Saluzar, is diets
Bilboa. \Tice-Admiral Figueora is the new Mi
And in the Mike of M. Marra, Adn;inistree
the Finances, who bad not been many days a
ed, M. Aranzo, Director-'General of the Loney,
placed. In the short spate of two months, auk •
than three different Ministers have been seen
department.
The public opinion is every where in favour oy
Deputies of the Cortes, and those other
Isteiy sent away in irons, by the order < oar
beloved King Ferdinand. All thr.;;noce bf•
teccived on their routes every V.:,'..imony oldie
good-will and affection of e people.
LLTTER.
'6 PAttis. FEBRUARY $.
a On Tuesday evening Lord Kinnaird
an invitation from M. d'Anglas, Prefect of tlar•
lice, to wait on him. 'His Lordship had an Weir
with the Minister on Wednesday morning, stir
was intimated to him that it was the
French Government that I.e should quit the tarn'
po.ls without delay. Oa inquiring the mond 3
measure, he was informed that it originated is
general sentiments of dislike to the establieied
vernment which were am ibuted to him, as W.;11 a
the society lie saw, notoriously hostile to the
of Bourbon. Oa Lord Kinnaird revestior-•
statement of any ptecise facts,. the Minister sfP
that this resolution had bees adopted on to
grounds; and then largely expt.tiaLed on the
dente of by far the greater pm t of the English ic,
dent in Fronce, who take every opportunity of to
culing certain branches of the Royal Family; Of*
vidieuily contrasting acts of the present will'
of the Usiirpees government ; and treating the O'
stituted A.ottiorit;es with unftiseuised cnnfemPr.
" Lord Kinsiand, on qv :Ring the Ministit,
municated Vie event to Sir C. Stuart and the 41
of Wellington, the former ut whom had rec.:4.017
official intormation on the subject. He imial
addressed the Duc de Richelieu on the subject.
next morning Lord Kinnaird rect ived an officia'l4,
ter, enclosing his passport, from tl:e Prefect of r.
Two days atter the British Amb; .ssador recci‘6l
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acknowledgment of his letter. It r this the tlimsl
confined himself to general topics ; no specific clia9,,
WI
were made, but the general accit ,ation of
opinions unfavout able to the exit Ling Gortolw
acd visiting persons atteine par la ri rueur der kii•
Kinnaird, through the British Awliassiiclor, is sugi'l

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;fecoraL He in consequence quits Paris in the course
ow (lariat Englund.
.0 it is staged ill the Paris Jountals, that copies and
rigrnals of a very extensive correspondence have
I
wn fund among Sir Robert Wilson's papers. His.
fiends confidently assure rage', that what has been,
covered is little else than .flattering testimonies of
card frnm the Emperor of Russia and other dis-
sgaislied foreigners.
0 I informed you in my last, that the Tribunal of
premiere listmate bad refused accepting bail, assigning
fis Nilson the additional charge of corrupting the
. The same Court has hitherto refused ail com-
nication of the proceedings to tie Counsel of the
Ssoners, and a remonstrance has been sent to Sir
teoles Stuart upon this occasion. - An appeal her
en made to the Corr Royale against the decision of
is Tribunal of Premiere .liutagee ; the question will
determined toemorrow : the general idea is, that
French government are not willing to allow them
heat large previous to the trial."