Star.
London, England, 1817-12-11 00:00:00

JA111.41L.4 PAPERS.

UTHLR ISXTItACTS.
A public notice has been issued, directing the in-
habitants to make a return tu the Clark of the Com-
mon Courcil. ,•I the slaves possessed by tt.ern up to
the `;.hth tai June last. upon pain of incurring the pe-
nalties attached to the neglect of doing. It appears
loom a lis tit the baptisms of slaves during the
last 41 beats, that this P.Crrlntilly is greatly increased.
It: 1776 there were only 16 slaves baptized in a par.
parish of tie 'bland of Jamaica ; and iii 1816
there were 508. .1.11,:5e are gratifying symptoms of
an ameliorated treatment sit that class. The fol.
lowing Lit, act trum one of these Gazettes relates tu
slits sut:j et ;
" In contequence of a circular letter from the King's House in
May last, the clergy o this island made a return, in the fol-
lowing mouth, of the names of the different livings and Mews'-
hems, the number of slaves baptized, and the lees usually re-
ceived, and other clerical dunes periormed. It fs with much sa-
tisfaction we can add, that a letter has been addressed to hi.
Majesty's Ecclesiastical Cunurissaries, since the snivel of the
packet, also from the King's House, and dated she thb instant,
stating, that his Royal Highness the Pal NCI REGENT has beets
pleased to express his satisfaction at the returns to the inquiries
which his Royal Highness bad thought it necessary to hi Acute,
which his Royal Highness considers equally creditable to the im
• casubents of the several livings, and the Ecclesiastical Establish-
ment of the Island."
Three privates of the Royal York Rangers, named
Michael Bryan, John Williams, and John Cunning.
ham, underwent the sentence of a General Court-
martial on Richmond-heights, in the island of Gre•
nada, for repeated desertion.
The Jamaica Cowan: of the 13th, whilst it gives
insertion to the accounts from Curacna, which crave
already reached us through the medium of the Ame-
rican papers, at the same time communicates a letter
of the sth of October, from a Gentleman in that
island, contradicting the statements in the Caracoa
Gasette in several important particulars. The follow-
ing is an extract from the letter in question:
is Do not permit yourself to be surprised at the intelligence
published t the Curaroa Conau of the 4th instant, which repre-
sents Paez to have been defeated by Calzada- 'Phis news was
communicated by Mr. Lenz, tram ts.hraccas, and the whole rests
sn thr aetyputiy of rumour brought by him. 1 have perused,
the Gramm Gasses of the 24th ultimo, neither of which, our
the.. of an antecedent date, publish a single ayllal,le of the 111.
moor. 1 will simply observe, that I have conversed with a
G •ntlenum of veracity, who quitted Puerto Cabellu the day.he-
late rater lay, at 5 P. M. and learn from him that there are lin
• Amps whatever at.that place; that tLe Patriots have enterestva-
, sinus villages, amongst others St. Carlos, Miming and destroying
• several magazines of previsions, which were immediately abati•
Cooed; that Cale.ada, with 700 Creolian troops, had gone over
to General Pars, and that both united bail defeated the Spanish
Chiefs Correa sod Gorda.
. " The cause of Cattalo's desertion to the Pr riots is repro-'
• seated to have been in consequence of the misunderstanding which
took place between him and Murillo • the latter basing been pro-
moted to the rank of Brigadier, with a cross from Ferditiand VII.
which he did not notify to Calzada, but sent a Courier after bins,
sonulltna histommand, and directing that he should he conducted
to head-quarters a prisoter ; hence Ins detection. General kioli•
star was in Guayana, where the new Governor of Venezuela had,
Tor the time being, been established, lie being out of the Execu-
tive. Generals Plar and Pai z had united their armies in Sab
• Felipe, and the former had marched for Car-ems by the way of
she Villa de Cara, and the latter for Valencia, where, it Is stated,
belied arrived when the alarm was beat at Porto Cabello the-day
before yesterday. Marino was likewise on his march for Car-
s-acme, having already taken,pouession of Cumana and Duce-
lowa. Morino, It is said, was in estrum' carrying off, every
thine valuable; and it Is contemplated that be will premed from
thence to Porto Cabello, it Whig manned, from every direc-
tion, that die indepsndents. an( on. their march to Caracas, and
tfie lastmatued poet.-
The writer• then notices the publication of the in-
dike, or amnesty, which be predicts will be entirely
&availing.

LONDON.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1817.
THE FUNDS.
Price of Stock• this day at Twelve &Clock:

Reduced 821- BS—Cons. shut—For Opening, 84 ii
4 per Cent. 99;1-5 per Cent. Navy shut
Bank Long Anus. 41 1-16—India Bonds 99 100 pr.

Biclacquer Bills t 9 es pr.

A great deal of business has been transacted at the Stock Ls•
change this morning. Consols last night left off very heavy, at
84 for the account ; but they ripened at 841, and the Market wag
brisk at that price. The Commissioners gave 85 money for Re-
duced, and were served generally by the Jobbers,

A few months ago, a new Constitution was, in
the benignity and clemency of the Pore, given to his
States, and which, it was trumpeted forth, was to raise
them to the highest pinnacle of earthly felicity. On
that occasion the Arch-Priest thus expressed himself :
a The Convitini::n which we give you is not only
useful in itself, but is rendered necessary b? tAirtirg
ciresmutinces. In a great pact of the provinces recently
restored to the Holy See, their long separation from
it has caued such an oblivion of ancient institutions
and usages, that it would be r;:arlF :n.7:l:sit!e to restore
the former order of things. New ha'lits have been formed
—new opinions are universally entertained upon the
different objects of political administration and cm-
nomy —new lights have been acquired from the ex-
ample of other nations of Europe.—Every thing im-•
periously commands that we should adopt a new
system of Government fur these provinces, agreeable
to the existing condition of their inhabitants. We
have nothing more earnestly at heart, than to ame-
liorate the condition of our subjects."
Accents like these from a Pope of Rome—the
once Infallible of the Earth, could not fail to excite
wonder as well as expectation. How vast, indeed,
must the change wrought by an age of revolutions
have been, to make the most proud and arrogant
of human Potentates—him who, in the amplitude
of his glory, not only could set himself above all the
Powers of the earth, but actually put his feet on the
necks of Kings—how great the change that could
draw from such a Ruler expressions of such apparent
humility ! What! a Priest, and the Prince of Priests,
I to become the herald of moderation

An acknowledgment from the ancient seat of cor-
ruption, that a political regeneration was necessary—
expedient i that the old order had become, indeed,
too old to be any longer maintained—might have in-
duced a hope that the Italian suns of the Church
would not only have abandoned so much at least of
their attachment to things ancient, merely bvcause
of their antiquity, but have set in earne.t about the
establishment of a new system, calculated to secure
the happiness of the people more iminectiately under
their dominion. This might have been expected
from the common sense of the eighteenth century,
but was not to be found in the new Constitution held
out by the Head of the Roman CiAlich. It presents
none of those great political ptinciples which have
been developed in other countries : the pmael 5 and
attributes of the Sovereign—the responsibility of Mi.
nisters—the levying of Taxes—are points passed over
in the deadest silence. Neither a free Representation,
nor a free Press, nor a free tongue, are to be found
among the Holy
The Constitution is, in fact, nothing but an admini.
strative and judicial code, regulating the organization
of the civil and criminal Tribunals, and amending
some of the old Laws respecting the pilvate rights of
individuals. The " new —" new opinion:"
" sew lightt"—have. in short, had but a sorry triumph.
The " new system of government agreeable to the
existing condition of the inhabitants"—the system
which every thing imperiars& commands" should be
adopted, has still its appearance to make. His Ho-
liness, it would seem, has still his own share of " the
new light" to obtain, before be can light the way to
freedom and independence.
In a word, we cannot find that this Constitution,
such as it is, has been even acted upon ; or, it it has,
we have miserable evidence before our eyes that this
is not the age in which the protection and security of
the people should be entrusted to the Priesthood—to
old women and the dispensers of punishments after
men ate dead.

A gentleman of the highest respectability has just
returned from a long Continental tour. In the pre-
ceding month, the Banditti had the temerity to enter
the Papal States, and even Rome itself, in the open
day. Added to the horrors of their ferocious ap-
pearance is meationed the little dependence which
could be placed in the military guard. In one in-
stance the whule of the latter, near the out-posts,
twelve in number, actually joined the insurgents.—
Universal dismay was the consequence. General
discontent and misery exists among the lower classes ;
and the Priesthood are also much dissatisfied with the
present order of things.

Let the present state of Italy be compared with
what it was when even the-tyrant of Europe held the
sovereignty, and no one can refuse to admit the la-
mentable truth that then the people wete in much
better circumstances. This is a glaring truth that
demands the serious attention of the great European
Powers. The people of Italy have a right to expect
from them such an attention to their situation as shall
secure their emancipation from a condition to which
no change of circumstances, respecting sovereignty,
could give any man ur setof men, a right to subject

them. It is only from such• an abase—such a
neglect of the ditties due from Sovereigns to their
subjects, that any fears need be entertained of revo-
lutionary sentiments gaining, any where, such an
ascendancy as may threaten the peace of the world.
It is high time that the civil authority should in
Italy, as well as every where else, be wrested froth
the hands of priests, and committed to the hands of
proper I. iy Sovereigns and Tribunals, unthwarted
by any pi ie,tly interference whatever. Nor is this a
subject that, with any kind of prudence, the Lay Pow-
ers of Europe can pass over without attention, as not
concerning them, being confined to another country
and other people than those immediately under their
controul. They have a direct interest in removing
every thing that can keep up or tend to circulate not
merely the remembrance but the living example of the
evils resulting to mankind from the reign of the priest.
hood—that reign, by which, however it may have been
overlooked by statesmen, was engendered and nur-
tured all the evils which led to the late tremendous
concussion that shook the civil institutions of Europe
to their very foundations.

We have given in another column some further
extracts from the Papers received yesterday by the
Jamaica Mail, from which it will be seen, that the
advantages reported to have been gained by the
Royalis s over the Patriots, must be taken with very
considerable qualifications. Indeed it is somewhat
doubtful, whether any such advantages have been
gained at all. General CALZADA, who is stated in
one account to have gained a victory over PAM is
armed in another, of apparently equal credibility,
to have, on the contrary, gone over to the party he
is preter.ded to bate conquered.

By the Brazil packet we have received letters from
Rio Janeiro to the 2d October, but they contain no-
thing new respecting Portuguese affairs. Accoukts
to the 11th September had been received from Buenos
Ayres, stating, that several very valuable prizes had
arrived there; among which was a rich Philippine
Company ship, bound to Bengal, captured on the
same day she lift Cadiz; also two ships from Vera
Cruz and Havanna!), bound to Spain ; two others in
ballast ; and a schooner, horn the coast of Afr;ca,
bound to Cuba, with a cargo of negroes. The latter
were set free on lauding. The Portuguese ships
called the Gran Para and Carolina, both bound to
Lisbon—the first from Calcutta, having touched at
Rio Janeiro, and the other from Macao, captured off
the Western Islands—had also entered the River
Piate: they were instantly given up by the Supreme
Director, who ordered that reasonable damages
should be paid by the captors. The Philippine ship
above alluded to was called the Esperanza, formerly
the British East lotliaman Sir William Pulteney,
;165 tons, teali.built in 1804, and it was considered
she would be a valuable acquisition to the naval
strength of Buenos Ayres.

Charleston Papers to the Bth, New York to the 16th,
and Boston to the 18th, arrived this morning. The
following arc extracts:

" NEW ORLEANS, OCTOBER 9.

" The Spanish dispatches respecting Mina, say,
that ' on the Isth inst. he, with 600 men, was over-
taken on the mountains by a Spanish force under
General Dc Lilian, and was briskly attacked ; but
that he effuted his escape in the night, favoured by
the wind and rain, which fell in torrents.' It is yet
believed that this dashing partizan's force is far from
being annihilated."

T_IA.LTINIORE, NOVEMBER 8.

" If still continues to be reported that a Commis-1
sion will be sent to South America to examine into
the extent of the exertions of the Patriots to throw
off 'he Spanish yoke and maintain their independence;
and that Cs.ar A. Rodney, John Graham, and
Theodorick Bland, Esqrs. are designated as the Cbm-
missioners, and are to go out in the Congress ft igate,
with Mr. Breckenbrige as their Secretary. The
amount of the compensation they are to receive (6000
dollars per annum, and 6000 dollars outfit) has even
beet, mcutiqned. No official indication of such a
measure being intended has appeared in Washington.
Conjectures, however, ate numerous on the subject ;
but they are premature, as the President's Message
till unquestiontibly indicate the policy the Executive
think most necessary to be pursued on the subject."
A Letter frown Quebec, dated October 21, says :
" On the 19th instant arrived in this City, via 'fo-
miscuata packet, Celonel Bocc•errrc, Surveyor-
General of Lower Canada, accompanied by Captain
Cams, late of the 60th Regiment, and Mr. JOSEPII
BonoxerTE, jun. We have only been able to learn,
respecting the progress of the new boundary-line,
that the exploring stave). has been prolonged from
the source of Saint Cloix to the river Ristigouche,
a distance of one hundred miles ; in the course
of which the parties of both nations experienced
difficulties and sufferings of then most arduous na-
tire. The Americans employed in the exploring:
survey may be expected here in a few days, by the
same route, on their way to the State of Vermont,'
the British party having returned to St. Andrew's,
New Brunswick, by the River St. Joho.”

The famous fortress of Ehrimbreisten, on the
Rhine. which had been blown up. is now repairing
by the KING 01 Pnussz*. Four hundred men are
daily employed at the work. With this assistance. it
saidis
it cannot be finished in less than twenty years!
with 4,000 awn it might be accomplished in smile