Star.
London, England, 1820-05-03 00:00:00

the lance they nae the lassos (or noose for -catching
wild cattle), and when fixed over theft enemy's head,
turn their horse, ride full speed,• and dispatch the
unhappy creature, after he bas been so exhausted by
dragging him on the ground that he has not the
power to resist or escape. They may be said to live
entirely on beef, seldom hiving any other kind of
food ; even their • Chief (Articles) rarely has the
means of either pricuring bread or sheltering him-
self under a roof ; living chiefly in st. tent, with no
more comforts than the meanest of his soldiers.

" You can easily judge what a rapid depopula-
tion this country is undergoing, and how its wealth
is dissipating, under such circumstances; I think it
may be safely asserted that this unhappy. country
cannot recover itself, and be what it was 60 or 70
years ago, under more than half a century.
" JA NUA RY 14.—Reports have been for some time
in circulation that Lord Comm/ars had failed in a
second attack on Callao ; but the true accounts have
at length reached us: his Lordship's squadron being
in want of spirits and other refreshments, he deter-
mined on attacking a place called Pisco, to the south-
ward of Callao, where he understood he might get
all his wants supplied. He accordingly sent a small
vessel; rd threw some rockets into the town, but
finding Ober did not produce any effect, he resolved
next day to send in a body of men and take posses-
sion of the town.
"In the meantime he captured a mill schooner,
with dispatches on beard from the Viceroy of Lima
to the Commanding Officer at Valdivia, a port con-
siderably to the southward of Valparaiso, informing
him that the St. Thelmo, 74 guns, had been dis-
masted and otherwise much damaged in a gale, in
the latitude of 61, and would arrive at the above
place in a few days, and to give her all the assist-
ance in his power in refitting, and to send her round
to Callao. The dispatches mentioned that the Pluto
frigate was also in company.
, " His Lordship made sail immediately with as
many vessels of war as he could spare, fur the port
of Valdivia, leaving two brigs, which next day landed
200 men, under Colonel CHARLES (formerly Aid-de-
'camp to Sir R. Witsost, in Russia,) at Pisco. The
place was carried against 1200 Spaniards, with the loss
lof Colonel CHARLES, killed on the spot, and ten men;
the second in command, Major MILLER, wounded.
They kept possession of the place three days, and
then embarked without sustaining further loss, after
haring accomplished the object of their landing.
" The schooner which had been captured with the
dispatches was purposely sent out to fall in with the
Chilian fleet,

" The VICEROY being anxious to get into Callao,
from one of the other ports, a large store-ship, with
everything he wanted, was enabled by this well-
planned, and equally well-executed ruse-de-guerre,
practised on his Lordship, to effect his object.
" At what period, or how long the Commander-
in-Chief of the Chilian squadron cruized in the vici-
nity of Valdivia, before he discovered the trick which
had been played upon him by the Viceroy of Lima,
I cannot say, but certain it is he could not get any
further intelligence respecting the St. Thelmo and
Pluto."

We have received a regular file of Charleston
Papers this morning, to the Ist of Aprils
SC:WT:I ANI Entm—Captain Lowe, of the schooner
Betsey, has arrived from Puerto Cabello, left the 29th
January, at which time the place was tranquil, and
appeared to be well garrisoned. On the 18th• of
February left Santa Martha, and on the day previous
an express had arrived fiorn Maracabo, stating the
approach of the Patriots ; a Proclamation was issued,l
the drums beat, &c. It was thought that both Ma-
racabo and Santa Martha would fall into the hands
of the Patriots.

A letter from Amelia Island, received at Wash-
ington, dated the I] th March, states, that informa-
tion had just been • received there of the arrive at
St. Augustine of men and money and other rein,
forcements.

Yesterday, the Earl of LIVERPOOL had an audience
of the K I NG.

Yesterday the Duke of YORK transacted military
business s ith the KING, at his Palacet in Pall-Mall.
The Duke of YORK held a Levee yesterday., as
Commander-iii-Chief, at his Office, is the Horse
Guards ; it was attended by upwards of 30 Officers.
The Duke of CLARENCE and Duchess of Gum-
cEsrEa paid their respects yesterday to his MAJESTY.
Yesterday; the Duke and Duchess of GLOUCESTER
had a dinner party.
Yesterday. the Duchess of CLARENCE visited the
Duchess of KENT, at the King's Palace, at Kensing-
ton, and afterwards gave Princess ALEXANDRINA an'
airing in her carriage.
The arrival of the Duke of CAMBRIDGE at Bruns-
wick, is announced in a Frankfort Paper.
The KING has been pleased to accept the office of
Rector of the University of Gottingen, in Hanover.
The Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE honoured Co-
vent-Garden Theatre with their presence last even-
ins, to see the Play of Heori Quatre. Their Royal
Highnesses sat in the King's box.
When his MAJESTY was last taking an equestrian
airing on the western downs, Brighton, accompanied
by the Right Hon. Sir B. BLOOMFIELD, an opulent
farmer rode up to and addressed jete latter, respect-
fully observing, that the horses, in diverging from
the usual track, had got upon lands where seeds were
sown, the trampling of which might be of some in-
jury to him, the proprietor. Sir BENJAMIN politely,
thanked him for his information, the SOVEREIGN
bowed, indicative of his approbation of the freedom
used, and the horses were instantly prided to the
common road.

iDIEARDS THE SPY!
____

We eluded on Saturday last to the chiliads:tie of four Per-
sons having applied to the Sitting Alderman, of OMldhall. yes-
terday se'ratight, to make depositions again* a man of the name
of Sdnersis, often mentioned in the course of the late trials,
dierslise Ns with instigating varicose baditiduals to join in the
Illendeue Crimes; which intended deposidons, as the trans:
itcdons had all taken place in the county of Middleire, were
conveyed, by Alderman Sir W. Dam= and, yr. Abieffile
Were, to Lord Smatootn, who wrote an:answer, saying, *at
Edwards was one of the witnesses named In the list (on the keg
trials), and was liable to be called on as a witness for the Crown.
it did not appear to him that any milldam ground was laid fee
instituting proceedings against him.

This subject was brought before the House of Gammons last
night, by Mr. Alderman Wooly who stated that this Edwards
was charged, among other things, with instigating men to go
into the Gallery of the House of Commons, at a thue when a
number of Members were present, with boxes made in the shape
of book; filled with gun-barrels, cut down to two or three
inches, hand grenades, phosphorus, &c. for the purpose of effect-
ing the destruction of the Members.

There were certain circumstances stated in the depositions,
which he did not think himself warranted in disclosing, escept
before a Committee of Secret' ; and he should be guided by the
sense of the House in the course he was to pursue—whether

he should move that Edwards be brought to the Bar of the
House for a Breach of Privilege, or move the appointment of a
Committee of Secrecy. The worthy Alderman stated, he could
pledge 1-.:.-nself to prove, that Edwards was the sole plotter or
founder of the Cato-street Conspiracy ; that from a state of the
utmost pverty, he became an of a sudden possessed of property
and that be supplied the Conspirators with the means of pur-
chasing what was considered necessary for carrying the pint into
execution, and advanced to them various sums of money. One
great object he had hi view, Was to ascertain the source from
which this money was detived.

It wag nbsereed by several Blembers, that though the circum-
stances stated by the worthy Alderman were no doubt a breach
of the privileges'of the House, yet it would not be advisable to
proceed against a crime of such magnitude as a Breach of Pri-
vilege. The motion was, on Mr. BIL0110111.1e• recommendation,
withdrawn.

In the course of his *serrations on this subject, Mr. BROSCHAM
said he did not blame Government for employing Edwards as a
spy, or for endeavouring to protect him; that Ministers were
entitled to avail themselves of such men as Edwards, to frustrate
the designs of men like Thistlewood and Ings ; that the office of
executioner was odious, and the office of informer was odious,
but both were necessary ; and no man could consistently say
there ought to be an executioner, without allowing at the same
time of the employment of an informer. The misfortune was,
that persons so employed were often unwilling to confine them-
selves to the specific object for which they were employed, and
'endeavoured to create CTINIC when they found none. A heavy
responsibility, therefore, attached to the Government which em-
ployed spies or Informers. Individuals ought to be selected,
who were net likely to abuse the confidence reposed in them;
but if, instead of confining themselves within proper bounds,
they went about instigating men to perpetrate crimes, they be-
came criminals themselves, and ceased to be any longer entitled
to protection.

This is a subject which, as it appears to as, is involved in
•
considerable difficuky. A spy cannot easily execute his task
without becoming an instigator to crime. Mow is Re to gain
1 and preserve the confidence of men whe entertain guilty de-
signs, but by the zeal with which he espouses their opinions, and
the alacrity with which he acts upon them on all occasions?—
'
We shall suppose two or three of these individuals skiing in a
public-house along with a spy, when they see a person in the
rodeo with them whom they are anxious to gain over to their
views. The spy, from his powers of persuasion, is pitched
upon as the man who is to endeavour to gain over this in-
dividual, and if he were to chew any want of seal in the sae.
cutien of such a commission, he might become an object of
distrust. It may be said, that individuals whose principles are
so precisions that they can be prevailed on in this way to
embrace any such views, would become criminals without any
instigation ; but this ,is a question which it is not necessary for
us to consider. What we wished to observe was merely the
difficulty of drawing a line of di unction between a spy and an
instigator to crime.

Whilst we are on this subject, we may observe, that the " re-
gret and surprise" of The Courier, " at the indecent and cruel
importunities with which Mr. Alterman Woos, thought proper
to beset the dying moments of Tbistlewoed," seem to us very
much. misplaced. Has it not been the constant practice of Cler.
gymen, and all who have access to men convicted of capital
crimes, to elicit from them diking the awful Interval between
their sentence and its execution, a confession of their guilt, and
the disclosure of their accomplices? What Mr. Alderman
Woos here did has been constantly done on similar occasions,
and this is the first time that ever we heard the least attempt
at condemnation of this practice.
The Courier has, we think, trod on dangerous ground last
night ; when he observed, that the reproaches and abuse heaped
on Ministers, on account of the occurrences at Manchester, sti-
mulated to the late Conspiracy. " Which," says The Gurier,
is the greater criminal, infer* eonscientiet—the man who sup-
plies the combustibles, w►o places them, who lays the train, and
who urges the explosion; or the man who, when all these pre-
parations are made, advances with a torch, and fires the whole?"
Aye, who indeed, supplied the combustibles ? Who 1a
the train ?

If the transactions at Manchester were, as we have all along
contended they were, and as the late trial at York proves they
were, of a most unjustifiabk nature—if a gross outrage was then
committed, which afterwards received the enaction of Minis-
ters, then we were warranted in speaking of these transactions
ip the language of condemnation. This outrage was loudly
condemned throughout the country, wherever the public voice II
was allowed to be heard. -If the conspiracy therefore resulted
from the Manchester transactions, the authors and abettors of
these transactions are to blame for the conspiracy, and not
those who disapproved of them. It would be too much to
charge those who disapproved of one outrage with another out-
rage to which it gave dn.—Minting Chronk/a.

Report says, that the Coronation will not take
place this year. The estimate of the expense which
`would be incurred by this gorgeous ceremony amounts
to a sum of from six to eight hundred thousand pounds.
Such an addition to the burthens of the country, in
its present state of financial embarrasTment, was
scarcely to be ventured upon; and it is said, that his
IdAistsry has graciously acceded to the representa-
tions of his official advisers, and postponed the cele-
bration, in his desire of promoting the strictest eco-
nomy in every branch of the public expenditure.
The Dublin Evening Post, of the 29th ult. says—
.o It is with much pleasure we learn, that his Royal
Wighness the Duke of SUSSEX is confidently spoken
of in high political circles, as the personage most
likely to succeed Lord TALBOT, as Viceroy 4f Ireland."