Star.
London, England, 1829-12-04 00:00:00

WOODTHORPE.

WEST INDIA PAPERS.

We yesterday received the Barbadoes Mercury to the
30th September. The following aro extracts :
Sart. I.—lt is with feelings of the most poignant grief and re-
gret we have this day to announce the death of William Walker,
Esq. who departed this life at eleven o'clock last night, at his resi-
dence in Chapel.street, leaving behind a sorrowing and afflicted
family of a wife and six children. Mr. Walker was a native of the
comity of York, in England, and had been a resident in this island
for the last twenty-eight years, during which time he was the pro-
prietor and conductor of this paper. His mortal remains were
this day conveyed, at three o'clock, to the Cathedral, attended by
a numerous assembly of highly respectable persona, and interred in
the family vault.
Sm. 46.—Saint Thomas Papers to the sth instant have reached
us, by which we learn that the internal affairs of Peri are in a
very unprosperous condition. The mines have been very uimro-
ductive, and money was getting very scarce. This we take to be
nearly a good account of thing. in most places at the present mo-
ment. We, Indeed, have no mines 'of gold or silver, but there
is a plentiful scarcity' of money, we believe, to be found (if we
may be allowed to use the expression) • any and every where
amongst us.

The arrival of. the -Alpha mall.boat yesterday 'morning
.has put
us in pouession of Colonial files (tons Leeward. In the island of
-Antigua a very violent and destructive hurricane was exPeriented
on the 4th instant. Some buildings in the town received injury ;•
but fortunately no lives were lost.

LOSS OF THE SCHOONER DRIVER. •
•
From the Royal• St. Vincent -Gazette. ' •
With sorrowful feelings we have to record the loss of the
schooner Driver, of this port. commanded 'by Captain Tannin,
together with eight of the citw and four' passengers.! We 'have
learnt the following particulars from the survivors :—The Driver
took in a cargo of limiber at St. Baits' for this island, and sailed.
about six o'clock in stint evading of Wednesilaj, the Sib inst. with.
a fait wind. At nine Captain Torrance shaped a course and set
the watch, and then went below. Shortly after the vessel luffed in
the wind, when the man at the helm was desired-to hard up, which
he answered ; but the vessel not' falling off immediately the jib-
sheet was seized for the purpo4 of bringing the jib to windward,
and paying off. Unfortur.ately, -before thls -could be effected, a
Yaw struck the vessel, and threw her on her beam-ends just as
Captain Torrance came on deck. At this time there were only
three men below—one of them. boatswain, was in the forecastle,
and the booby-hatch being closed, he could not extricate himself,
and there perished. The other two, Qui; and Ned (the later a
Passenger,) remained below in the cabin antil the following morn-
ing, when Captain Torrance contrived to communicate with them,
and directed them to dive through the cabin door. This they did,
and joined those on the wreck.; but aiaa! they were only reserved
for a severer fine—they both subsequentlY Perished. About ten
o'clock on Thursday morning' the mainmast broke off above the
deck, and the vessel turned over, keel up. Captain Torrance.then
determined upon making a raft, and. trusting to that and a meiciful
Peantozwee for the deliverance of himself and crew, the boats hav-
ing foundered during the night. From the sudden manner In which
the accident bacroccurred, and the lumbered state of the deck, the
crew were unable to provide in any way for their safety, and they
now found themselves without the means of clearing the wreck.--
Fortunately one of the men had an old knife in his pocket. With '
that they set. to work , and, after great exertions, succeeded in
forming a raft of the mainmast, boom, and topmast, and (10 this the
following persons embarkedviz. Capt. Torrance, Jack:Tueker,
Will, George, Lawson, Pawn, Jim; Robin, Ramie, Dick Brown,
Sugar, seaman; klartinburgh, a passenger ; Ned, a esrvant of Mr.
J. W. Brown; John, a servant of Mr. D. Sutherland ; anclloseph,
belonging to Waterloo estate. Ilaillie, Quiz, Walker, and Joseph,
seamen, had previously died from exhaustion. In this manner,
without a morsel of food or a drop of water, were these unhappy
beings tossed upon the billows until Saturday forenoon, at which
time the raft had driven close to the southernmost part of Saba
and was observed from the shore. A boat was instantly sent of;
to. the relief of the suffering survivors, and they were all taken on
shore delirious, but, by the judicious method pursued towards them.,
and the kind attention of the humane inhabitants, they beeame
coon lescent in a day or .two. The survivors state that, after
Thursday, all on the raft were seized with delirium, and that when
they saw the land they felt a strong inclination to throw them-
selves into the water, in the hopeless expectation of swimming on
shore ; and to this they ascsibe many deaths. The fate of Ned
deserved to be particularly mentioned. After many attempts, in
which he was•stopped. he at last threw himself into the water, and
was instantly cut in two by a shark, vast numbers of that voracious
animal having surrounded the raft and actually forced themselves
against it! TheJamentations of the poor -fellow were heard, but
beard in vain. pawn perished in a similar manner. As soon as
Captain Young, of the Sector, heard of the accident at St. Ban's,
where he was sent for a Cargo, he unhesitatingly hastened doter: to
Saba with his vessel, and took on board the survivors of the crew,
viz.--Tucker, Will, Lawson, George, Jim, Ramie, and Robin,
whom he landed here on Sunday last.. Capt., Torrance was too
much bruised to be instantly removed, bet we are happy to say be
was out of danger. Our informant states that at the time of the
accident the breeze was fresh, but not strong, and that there wig
little sea-i-also that the vessel was by no means overloaded on
the deck.
The above le the most circumstantial account. we have been able
to colect of the lamentable catastrophe narrated ; but, as a Vend
, has been despatched for Captain Torrance, we la* we. shall be
able, on his arrival. to add to-lt some more interesting particulars.
On the score of, humanity every: feeling heart musteliMpalblati
wigb. the suffereta,;,, but to those acquainted with the nautical skill
of Captain Torrance. Abe gitiefoslty of his 'citeracter, and his Intre-
pidity on Kenai accede& tier tedsor the=preservation of the ship-
wrecked .adore, thwatiefottooe abat ,has. befallen lam wW, we
are sure, be doubly commiserated.

'SOX Silt

LISBON, Nov. 21.

or THE " MOININO HERALD."

There was a heavy cloud lately hung over the country; by the
Miguelites it was supposed to be the approaching recognition of
" their King" by the British Government, and they hailed it with
rapture—while the Constitutionalists recoiled with horror at the
sight. The cloud has passed over the horizon, and the free
breeze is allowed to blow against Miguel and his sqaudrons, and
there are who imagine be will soon fall from his " to•tering
throne," as he, November last year, fell toppling from his broken
chariot. The change in the feelings of the British Minister
Is attributed to the reports made by Captain Gordon and his
officers respecting the state of the country this honiiurable Cap •
lain, although the brother of Lord Aberdeen, receives, therefore,
the curses of the friends of the usurpation, while the opponents s.y
that he but told the truth. Even Mr. Mackenzie, the newly:
arrived British Consul-General, who at first, hot from the focus
where the rays of Miguel's golden beams were said to be collected,
displayed his wishes in favour of " this Absolute Sun," has, if ru-
mour be credited, changed also. It is, indeed. painful to a prac-
tised diplomatist to find himself duped by the sorry Portuguese :
they who bowed, and saluted, and looked pleased, and promised to
perform every thing which could be asked by the new spot of the
British Government, did so but to cheat him. " The Spanish
refugees were not to be sent to England, because England had
enough of distress without them." The Portuguese Minister pro-
mised to send no more thither ; but they were sent to Havre-de-
Grace—a long distance from the shores of Great Britain. Mr.
Noble of Oporto, was to have the sequestration removed from
his property, and several other British merchants who have been
aggrieved were to have immediate redress. The Portuguese
Minister flew to execute those just and proper commissions—

his Majesty's consent" was instantly obtained. A Royal
Order was procured and exhibited—and the new Consul wrote
certainties of success; but the recognition has not yet come, and,
even if it had, the Royal order, and the bows, and the promises,
are, and will be, mere shams. Mrs. Storey, notwithstanding her
broken limb and her sufferings—notwithstanding her false arrest
and imprisonment, since last August, by Miguel's own personal
orders—still continues, as well as her family, a prisoner in " Ab-
solute gaols," and Mr. Noble's property is still sequestrated, and the
British merchants are unredressed.

The throne of Miguel totters; for even the patty which con-
• tribated to place him on it are dissatisfied. The bluquis of
Ch is pronounced mad, and care is now taken lest he should
approach "his once most magnanimous king ;" and his principal
Partisans io Tres-os- Monte. are really mad with indignation at the
treatment they have received. " Extremes meet" in politics often ;
and some of; the most violent Chavists of 1826 have declared that,
IT an amnesty were assured to them, they would support the Con-
stitution and Maria 11.
The present Intendant General, who is considered to be one of •
the most moderate of the adherents of Miguel, has this week sum-
moned various foreigners before him, to whom various questions
were asked—such as "how long have you been in this country ?
What is your business? You have a correspondence in the coon-
Vies from whence you came ? You send articles to the newspa-
pers?" &c. Some attended, among whom was a German Gentle-
man, whose passport stated him to be native of Potsdam, and to
whom the police had some time since given a licence of re-
sidence as an Englishman, for dam must be English."—
The Intendant expressed his surprise at the mistake of the police,
• and gave him a gentlemanly caution to be careful of what he said
or did at the present critical juncture. Others were soon after
cited to attend, among whom was a British subject, said to be suf-
ficiently cognizant of the rights and privileges of Britons in this
country. Unwilling that any of the rights or privileges of his
countrymen should be injured by his attendance, he asked the
advice of the Consulate, and the correspondence of which I enclose
IVwas the result.
misery of the wretched prisoners confined in the dungeons
lei been Increased by the rainy season. Some young men accused
of political crimes ware lately to be examined in St. Julian's Tower
—for whom, as being under sge, some person was required to
answer; and the Escrivao (attorney) having forgot to take a
Curator (guardian) from Lisbon, asked if any one could be
found at hand. A teaani of the Marquis of Pombal, a Meter
peasant, was forced to enter the cell of the prisoners. He
found them naked, fur the damp had destroyed stye al suits of
clothes. On his return be was asked—" Well, what have you
to say, as solicitor for the young man?"—" Nothing."—" Their
guardians could urge nothing in their detente" was entered
in the process by the Escrivao ; and they will, therefore, be con-
demned. AU the poor creatures could utter teas " Remove us
from this frightful dungeon—we are perishing." But here there
are none to plead for them—" for now the throne and the altar are
to
,flourish." Rumour states to-day that, in consequence of the
storms at the entrance of the Tagus, the sea has broke into the
dungeons; and that many prisoners are up to the neck in water,
and that two have been drowned.

Lemma Evitstum.—The want of money is so severely felt by
the Government, :kat the tobacco contract has.• it is. said, been
extended to the new contractors fur one year more (that is, to
1835) for £20,000, which they have consented to advance. The
Bank, which has about (1,600 in metal more than its notesin
circulation 032,000) refuses to have any thing to do with the
'Government, or even to discount some of the beat bills on the Con-
tinent. Preparations are making for sending 300 soldiers of the
16th regiment of infantry to Madeira, whence nothing satisfactory
is known. Plicards of the most threatening description were every
night posted on the Spanish Minister's dour.
Exchange on England 44i ;
49 to SA Cs.

paper money from

COPY or ♦ y[liCL

TO TIES BRITISH COI

Bairn! WM WT.

,1. IT •

you. as the protector of British rights and privileges,
I hold it my duty to state the following attempts made to weaken
those which we possess by treaties in this country. During the pre-
sent extraordinary crisis, it is incumbent on every Milton to guard
them as well against the assumptions of absolute power as against
the attacks of popular violence.

' After a residence of nearly three years in this city, I vesterday
evening received a domiciliary visit from an Agent of the Police,
Who having examined the license of residence granted to me by the
police, which he found correct, gave me in intimation that the
Intendant-General desired me 'to attend him in 'his office this
day at noon. I remember that on the 2il of December last
the Gazette of Lisbon contained a Royal Order to all the Ma-
gistrates, and to the Intendant-General, ip particular, to have
all the privileges
_enjoyed by us most strictly observed ; when,
asiong._ o beta, the 13th article of the Treaty of 1654 was
spec Leff, wherein it is declared that ' no officer or Magistrate sin
• ..
take or molest any. British subject, unless caught inflogroeUe Micas;
eicept by a written order of the British Conservator.' I am not
conscious of having in the alighest degree offended the laws of For.

legal, and I, therefore, inquired at the British Consulate ii it wa.
proper that I should obey the citrinti ? Having heat infortm d that
as my police-papers came in uttier, the Intendant-General ought
not to demand any such attendance, I wrote to him a note.
which I enclose a copy.
" To me personally the interview with, or the exantivariffil
the Intendant-Geueral, are ranters of little importance ; bur %%!. .
it is considered that many of our fellow-subjects may hete.tE.-1
injured in character, credit, peace of mind, and family coml.. it
any precedent be allowed, you will not regard as an intrusion my
thus offering this subject as well to your attention as to the en-ii
derstion of the British Government."

COPT or T 8 NOTE INCLOSED IN 1115 FOREGOING LETTER.
• " 16th Nov. 182.)
" dlr. having teen called upon at his residence, No. ,
by a person styling himself an officer of the Intendesicis,
w hum he received an intimation to appear this day before th
Intendant-General, presumes that such notice relates to his Chart .
da Legitimacao, which document he possesses, and which will !),
found registered in the Police Office, No. 1129, ful. 112, Lo
and countersigned by the. Minister of the Bairrro do Rom..
lairs, August 11, 1899, and registered in his office, folio R 2
" Mr. begs the Intendant General to receive th.•
assurances of his consideration, and to assure his Excellency that
he would have no difficulty in waiting personally at the Intemint.t's
office, if such a line of conduct was not contrary to the rights .11:.1
privileges of British subjects, and a decided infraction of theirea d.•:
uniting Portugal and Great Britain."