Star.
London, England, 1818-10-22 00:00:00

NORFOLK, SEPTXMBER 21.

MysrEnrovs Arent rt.—Sixteen Spanish seamen
were brought to this place on Saturday night, in the
East River Packet, Captain Turner, from Mathews
county, and put under the care of the Spanish Con-
sul. :These seamen state, that they were part of the
crew of the Spanish schooner called the La Mila,
(alias Sufficiente), commanded by Captain Jose Car-
boner, which sailed from Havannah on the 15th of
August last, bound on a voyage to the coast of
Africa; that on the 31st of the same month, in hit.
32. long. 70. they fell in with an armed brig under
General Artigas's colours, called El Oriental Irre-
sistible, Captain —, a resident at Baltimore, as
they understand from her crew, who captured the
La Mila, and after taking from on board twenty-one
of her crew, leaving the Captain and five men on
board the prize, she was manned with a prize crew,
and ordered for Margaretta. Four days alter their
capture they fell in with the American ship Good
Return, W. C. Sands, master, of and from Baltimore,
and were put immediately on board that vessel ; the
Captain of the privateer furnished Captain Sands at
the same time with plenty of provisions and water to
carry them to St. Bartholomew's, and paying also kir
each man 22 dollats. As soon as Captain Sands had
got the prisoners in charge, he ordered them to bd put
in irons, between decks, and in this situation they re-
mained until the following day, .when they were
brought up and ordered to work, with threats and
menaces that they should lose their lives if they
dared disobey. During the night they remained in
irons, they heard at times considerable bustle upon
deck, and occasionally the rowing of boats, as if
passing from the vessel they were in to some other :
and bags and boxes of money, as they believed, were
repeatedly thrown upon deck, and into the cabin, as
they distinctly heard the noise of dollars jingling
when the bag or box was thrown down.
A few days afterwards some of the crew of the
ship attempted to rise upon the Captain and Officers,
but were overpowered and put in irons; and while
in this situation one of them was repeatedly beaten
and whipped most inlinmanly by sonic of the crew.
After receiving on board the treasure, Captain Sands
steered for Baltimore, and on his passage, a few days
before he arrived in the bay, was boarded by a
schooner from that port, and ordered thither. The

ship accordingly entered the Chesapeake, and an-
chored somewhere near the mouth of East River, on
the 14th instant. The day following the Spanish
seamen were ordered by Captain Sands to be put on
shore, but on their begging that they might he taken
to Baltimore, as they understood the ship was going
there, or to be sent to Norfolk in the pilot-boat which
was in company, Captain Sands threatened them that
if they did not embark immediately on board the
pilot-boat, he would have them tied and thrown over-
boatel. They accordingly went on board the boat

under on escort of. armpd men from the ship, and
were set on shhre without any means of subsistence,
end in • a country where they were entire strangers.
They were soon relieved by the humanity of some of,
the citizens, and taken care of until their situation',
was made known to their Consul in Baltimore, who
lost no time in employing the same person who'
brought him the account of it to return and bring
them to this port.

n.u.Trmonr, SEPTEMBER '2l.
MEMORIAL OF AMIIRIBTER'S FATHER.

•The indifference with which the account of the
execution of•Arbitthnott and Ambrister has been re-
ceived in England, may be taken as evidence of the
fact, that the Government of that country has re•
ceived satisfactory assurances of the justice of the
measure. The subject has given rise to a much
greater degree of excitement in this country : some
of our Newspapers, indeed, have even gone so far as
to condemn the act off hand, as altogether unjustifi-
able and unprecedented. For our own part, we never,
doubted that their punishment, however terrible it
may have been, was authorized by the laws of nations,
as it was merited by the magnitude of their offences;
though we could have wished that the grounds and
proofs upon which they had been tried and condemned
had been officially promulgated.
Some facts connected with the history of one of
these individuals has come to our knowledge, which
may bo interesting to some of our Readers, though
they are entitled to no importance in a political point
of view. They are contained in the following Me-
morial, addressed by the father of the young man,
Ambrister (a resident of the island of New Provi-
dence), to the Governor of the Bahamas. While we
yield our assent to the stern decree of justice pro-
nounced against the son, humanity claims our sym-
pathy in behalf of the afflicted parent :

TILE MEMORIAL OF JAMES AMBRISTER,
OF Tllt num, OF NEW etovizemcc,

Humbly sheirefh, caplets's:
Your Memorialist's youngest son, Roans? CHRISTY'S -beams-
via, was born in this Colony, in the year 1797: he served as a
Midshipman in his Majesty's Navy for about four years; he af-
terwards obtained, under Admiral t'ocitasia, a Lieutenant's
Commission in his Majesty's late Corps or Royal Colonial Ma-
rines, destined to be employed during the late war with the
United States of America, is which capacity he served with
Major NICHOLLS in the Florida', and from thence he returned
to New Providence on the esta►lishment of peace, without hav-
ing been then, or at any time since, confirmed to his last-men-
tioned rank in any way whatever by his Majesty's Government.
Some short time since, your Mernorialist's said son, when on a
visit to the Ploridas, as a passenger in a small trading vessel from
these Islands, certainly on the last occasion without any military
commission or appointment of any kind which your Memorialist
is aware of, was (as your Memorialist with deepest pain has
lately learned from different quarters) seizes' upon at his Catho-
lic Majesty's Fort, St. Mark's, by a military force from the
United States of America, tried by a Court Martial, and con-
demned to be shot, on some pretence of crime not yet known to
your Memorialist, and actually executed in pursuance of his sea-
tence.—As your Memorialist understands, his son had not been
en shore mere than fourteen days when he was thus fatally pro-
ceeded against.
By the same public accounts, your Memorialist further learns,
that Mr. ALZXANDIR Aaauvanors, a trader of this place, who is
well known never to have had any connexion y.rith military life,
was also seized at St. Mark's, at the same time as your Memo-
rialist's son, and executed, in pursuance of a sentence of the
same Court Martial.

Your Memorialist, without being able to conjecture what of-
fence either his son or Mr. A Rbil ?}MOTT could well have been
guilty of, within his Catholic Majesty's dominions, which could,
according to any known principle of natural law, subject their
lives to forfeiture in this instance, within the fair jurisclictian of
the invading force, respectfully represents as a characteristic ag-
gravation of this apparently flagitious mockery of justice (should
the fact prove to be as is represented and believed), that the
principal witness produced against the prisoners, before the ex- I
traerdinary Tribunal which claimed the right of bringing them
Ito trial, was an infamous person of the name of Coma, a vendue
master's clerk, who some time before quitted these islands ftl
consequence of having robbed his master, and who was after-
wards imprisoned at St. Mark's for a similar offence against Mr.
Aasernworr, who had the misfortune to employ him in his mer-
cantile concerns there.

Your Memorialist therefore trusts that your Honour, in kind
indulgence to the natural feelings and solicitude of a parent at so
dark and melancholy an event, as *ell as from motives of a more
important general character, will be pleased to lay this State-
ment before his Majesty's Government ; your Memorialist hum-
bly but anxiously hoping that your Honour's communication
may lead to an inquiry of high authority, which your Memo-
rialist confidently believes must redeem the memory of his son
from all unjust imputations of dishonour, and (your Memorialist
begs he may be excused for adding) the British character also,
from those fabricated tales and foul aspersions with which the
public ear is abused, particularly in the United States of Ame-
rica, in justification of the above-mentioned sanguinary measures
of their present 'Military Commanders.
Your Mentorialkt will ever pray, &c. (Signed 2
Nassau, June 49, In& JAMES AM BLUSTER.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

TUMMY, OCTOBER 22, 1818.
THE FUNDS.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAT AT TWILVI O.CLO:K
Bank Stock shut-3 per Cent. Reduced 76g.
3 per Cent. Consols 77h—for Acc. 771 i. •
3 per Cent. 86i1-1 per Cent.,9sf.
5 per Ct. Navy 107 H—India Bonds 88 89 pre.
Omnium dis.—Exchequer Bills 19 21 prem.

The Paris Papers of Monday arrived this morning.
The report of an intended visit to Paris by the Em-
perorALEXANDER and King of PRUSSIA, is now said
to be premature, in as far as regards the former, but
there appears to be no doubt that the latter will pass
some days in the French capital.
In a circular address by the Prefect of the Mo-
selle to the Mayors of the Communes of his Arron-
dissement, announcing the departure of the Army of
Occupation, it gives us much pleasure to meet with
the following discreet and conciliatory passages :
" In announcing to you this happy event, for
which Frenchmen are indebted to the wisdom of
their King, and to their own conduct, I do not doubt,
Mr. Mayor, that the citizens under your administra-
tion will preserve in the expressiOn of their joy, the
dignity which they have shewn during days of suf-
fering and of sacrifice. I trust they will act in such
a manner that the foreigners shall separate from
them as from hosts by whom they have been honour-
ably entertained, and that they shall go forth and
attest to all Europe that France, the same under all
fortunes, has supported their stay among them with-
out abjectness, and has seem their departure without

exultation. Vial w ill tale care, 'qtr. Mayor, to main-I
tain the good harmony which has hitherto subsisted'
between the inhabitants and the foreign troops, and!
you will enjoin that all foreign soldiers, whether
those which have already been in the occupation of
your department, or those which may be passing
through it on their way home, shall be treated with
respect; you will immediately repre‘s every expres-
sion of joy which may have an offensive air, and you
will be particularly careful that no sort of excess I
'shall be committejj. The orders of the King are
positive on this subject ; you are respon,ible for their I
execution."

A letter from Dona'', of the 15th of October, states
that five Officers of the Douai• Regiment of Artil-
lery, three of whom are Chiefs of Battalion, received
orders on the 14th inst. to repair forthwith to Mau-
' beuge, Conde, Laadrecies, Bouchain, and Cambray,
to take possession of the artillery of these places in
the name of the KING, immediately after the depar-
ture of the Allied troops.
The Austrian cavalry stationed in the neighbour-
hood of Strasburgh, were to commence their march
home on the 15th, and were to be followed by the
rest of the Austrian troops in successive detachments.
The indisposition of the Duke of FELTRE, the late
Minister of War, who continues at his chateau of
Nenviller, near Saverne, has recently assumed a very
serious aspect.

A Flanders Mail has brought us this forenoon
Brussels Papers to the 20th instant. The following
are extracts:

BRUSSELS, OCTOBER io.

His Majesty the King arrived here in the course
of yesterday evening.
OCTOBER l9.—The opening of the annual Session
of the States General of the Kingdom, took place
to-day, with the customary solemnity. Ills Majesty
repaired to the Assembly at one o'clock, and delivered
a very gracious Speech.