Star.
London, England, 1820-12-04 00:00:00

DUTCH MAIL.

A Dutch Mail anived yesterday with Papers to
Wednesday last. The following are extracts :

HAGUE, NOVEMBER 28.
Accounts from Batavia confirm, in a great degree,
the assurance of the American Captain, respecting
the sailing of the squadron against the Sultan of Pa-
lembang, from Batavia Roads. On the 24th of July,
the Nassau, the Wilhelmina, the Ajax, and the Swal-
low, with many other armed vessels, sailed for Banca.
His Majesty's frigate the Vanderwerf, and the Anna
Pawlowna corvette, sailed on the 24th, with troops
for Macassar. The Tromp, with two schooners and
several gun-boats, lay before Batavia the .sth August.
In the year 1819, the changeableness of the wea-
ther, and the entire want of the usual dry season, was
very injurious to several branches of agriculture and
industry, and in particular, entirely prevented the
making of salt along the north coast. The prospect
this year is no better. According to accounts from
all parts of the Island, incessant rains impeded the
labour of the salt•makers, and this weather is at the
same time very unfavourable to the coffee plantations,
which are now in bloom.
We lately received news that his Majesty's cor-
vette the Galatea, struck on the 29th of May on the,
rock li'arang Hadje, near the Island of Banca, so that
that new and handsome vessel was rendered wholly
unserviceable, only the crew and part of the guns,
tackling, &c. being saved. An inquiry is making
into the causes of this misfortune, and into the con-
duct of Captain Hinxt.
Accounts from Banda of the 25th July say, the
eruption of the volcano, the Gcenang Api, still con-
tinued ; but it was hoped that the danger was over.
Many plantations of nutmegs had suffered severely.

SPAIN.

We received yesterday Madrid Journals to the
20th alt. The following are extracts :
MADRID, NOVEMBER Is.
While we were writing last night accounts which
had come to our knowledge, the Permanent Deputa-
tion of the Cortes received a letter from the King,
stating, that in appointing Don Jose Maria Carvajal
to be Captain-General of Madrid, his Majesty never
imagined that this nomination would give rise to the
events that have taken place in the capital. His Ma-
jesty added, that his Ministers meriting his con-
fidence, he charged them to propose persons who may
fill, to the satisfaction of his people, the vacant posts of
Captain-General and Political Chief of Madrid, and
of Inspector-General of Militia.
This morning a day of peace and satisfaction rose
on the capital. The reply of his Majesty to the last
Address sent to him yesterday by the Permanent De-
putation of the Cortes, was known at an early hour.
The King said in it, that he would have flown to his
children in the capital of the State, if his health had
permitted him ; that he will do so as soon as the Per-
manent Deputation of the Cortes assure him that the
uneasiness and effervescence have subsided, since the
acclamations of joy which his return to the capital
would occasion, might perhaps be confounded with
the cries of sedition; that he did not resolve without
grief to remove from him his Confessor and Chief,
Major-domo, the latter of whom had never inter-
fered in political affairs, and the other had never given
him any counsels but conformably to the principles
of piety and virtue, on which the felicity of States
depends ; but that, if the removal of these two indi-
viduals was thought necessary to insure the tranquil-
lity of the people, his Majesty consented to this sacri
fice, to which the two persons interested would teadily
submit. As for the extraordinary convocation of the
Cortes, the King stated that the Permanent Deputa-
tion might point out to him the object for which their
convocation was necessary, and that doing it in this
manner conformably to the provisions of the Consti-
tutional Law, his Majesty would take it into consi-
deration, his sole desire being the prosperity and tran-
quillity of his people. The letter contained also the
most flattering expressions of the interest which his
Majesty takes in those valuable objects. Scarcely
were these sentiments, expressed with royal dignity
and paternal affection, made known, when all the in-
habitants felt perfectly satisfied, blessing at the same
time the ibtesight of the Permanent Deputation of