Star.
London, England, 1811-11-26 00:00:00

CASSEL, NOVEMBER t

The following Decree has been published to day in
the Official Journal :

The Commission of Government established on the
18th of December, 1810, witn a reference to:the De-
cree of his Majesty the King of Westphalia, of tht-
ha of Decernba, 1816, ordering the suppression of
all the Chapters, Abbeys, Priories, Monasteries,
Convents, and other Ecclesiastical Establishments;
except those destined for public education • in conse-
quence cif the 4th article of this Decree, which unites
to the Domains of the State all the revenues of die
aforesaid ; in consequence of the article 159 of the
Imperial Decree of the 4th of July, which orders the
liquidation of Pensbni, Civil, Ecclesiastib and Mi-
litary, in the HanseatiO Departments, w ever may
be their nature ; and in consequence of the Decree of
tile 25th of July, which enjoins the Commission of
Liquidatirn instituted by the 160th article of the
aforesaid Desiree of the fth of July to liquidate thos
pensions—Order,
1 hat the Administrators of the Registry and of
the National Domains, be invested with the adminis-
tratkm of the revenues of all the ChMers, Abbeys,
Priories, Monasferies, Convents, and other Ecclesias-
tical establishments, whatsoever may be their nature,
united to the National Domain by virtue of the Royal
Decree aforesaid of the Ist of December, 1810, as
well as with the recovery of their produce, and the
caritals attached to them.
The Titularies and other individuals of the suppref-
sed establishments of both sexes will continue to enjoy
their revenues with the deduction of the tenth, and
charges to which they were subject. There will be
also a deduction proportioned to the part which was
possessed of these revenues by individuals of the afore-
paid Monasteries, who have died since the Royal De-
cree of the sth f Febsuary, 1808.
AMSTERDAM, NOVEMBER. it

On the 15th, the first payment for 1811 will be
made to maimed seamen, and to the widows, parents,
and children of seamen killed, or otherwise lost in the
service of the State f of the pensions granted by the
fi-devatii Commissioners of the Patriotic Fund for the
Promotion of the Naval service, patablisbed in Hol-
land in 1781.
Those itho have been employed in the different ad-
, ministrations of the former Qovernment,,Who, whe-
Pier by contribution or by the sacrifice of entolurnents,
have co-nperated is the formation of the fund for the
support of widows and orebans, hirsbeen authorised
ro'form a commission for the administration and the
Maintenance -of' the said fund, -in unison with two
,Members of the tuticipal Coanaft Of Amstridani.
• The foliating article hai been already inserted in
differentiournals, but with some inaccuracies which
ttli.pretier nicarrect. ' The following is .a fsl and
aothent4 On of OA 4401 tent i • -
it Since tbp mouth of ,May, 1811 t the British Go.
11M112111t has devised, in favour of those 'soldiers is

its Lind-service- who from infirmities or wounds have
become incapable of further service, a plan of provi-
sion on their retiring from service, which, if it does
not reflect lonctur on its humanity, does credit to its
epnomy, at least, and secures for it the unquestiena.
rile advantage cf retarding, for three or four day:,
the fall of the tinonciirl system.
4. Soldiers whd have served 20 or SO years, covered
with wounds, but who belonged to some provinces
subject to England before the Revolution changed
Cie Canine:nal System. or who under any other. cio
cumstances were ingaged in the service of Great
taut, are consWered past the :tee and condition fir
bearing longer thesfatigues of war, and diseharLeat
f.om their eng igeraeots. •
I f, In France, every soldier that is discharged is ad-
mitted into the Hotel of Invalids; or if he pr fers re-
turning to his Emily, is granted an amount in p iy ch
his retiring from the service sufficient to insure him
lionoprahle subsistence. Even useful offices were
often elFered to these venerable servants wh .1 they
N..\!te judged competent to fill tht m. There is not
s ngle I);srict Ati:Maistration that does not aft' rl
ottna'rer. or examples. But these strict and meth...-
1 dical calculations 4 a father of a family, wisely di. -
t' ibuting amongst his children the produce of Ls eco-
rrmy, not suit the magnificence and luxury of tis-
Government. Emicted by all the trea, ere.
of Indi it is with a portion of these riches II: it the
( British Government pretends to provide for the rode.
peadence and establish the (orturs cf all these ad. e
have shed their blood in conquering it f.r them.-
1 Tney sown he released learn the necessity of h tying
recourse to the ht.-mots, and protection of t'io
ender where sovereignty they aro again al,out to
lace. thbrr.seives ; they must b; made secret prin.:ea
for thettiture : bat this must not be at the esp:nce
any sacrifice t such are the suggestions of ::tie
and pride of the Oale..net of lemadon.
44 Thirty-six francs are advanced to each of the,"
old soldi;rs ; thirty-six francs are to be to Oran et
p-oyisiJn in lieu of cc retry, family, and native co,
dition—to secure for their old• age an asylum from
suffering and misery—and even to serve as an ir.clem-
niiy for the dangers to which they are exposed by
having secretly insinuated into their bage,ar, when.
ever the Captains who convey them do not plunder it,
s tch libellous publications as a strong and generuut
G may be satisfied to treat with contempt;
but for the introdnceon of which into any o:hrr roar..
try in the world, the bearers would be most certainly
treated as spies.
,With thirty-six francs, and clothed with the rig.
ged rem tins of old scarlet uniform; which they are
to drag along all the roads Of 'the C -rat:nn,t of
Lt:-
rope, in testimony of the high-minded generosity ri
the Government e•ey have served, these unhappy
beings are co.‘ye)edov;-;r by hundreds to lirligiland.
Thence, when the mi merit is safe, and it is %tote cer.
tun that there is no Fiench detachment in the i•l..inds
that border upon the ancient East Frier-land, daring
Captains approach by night fur the purp.)se cf put-
ting them ashore on vie deserted (oasts of I,ange-
roog and Baltrum. Some of them are often (iron n-
el there even at the moment of their debarkation, so
great is the apprehension and precipitancy in :recoil).-
phshing the objet.; many abet's, either invalids or
unable to proceed, perish (*the sands, over m
leaentes of which they have to pass: the reminder.
0
' perishing with hunger, are soon picked up by the
military posts, by the police, or by the pf4cers Gf
customs, happy to the indebted fox. their lives' to the
precautions generosity to-preserve their lives by the
Government against whrop they have long been
fighting.
" It is well known that the tredve English are r.ot
treated with this barbarity; and that in the same
manner as the British Government exposes enly fo-
reign ttoops so the &tigers of battle, it is likewise for
foreign soldiers that it reserves the privilege of being
treated *n t're manner above described, when they
Are no longer good for any thing. Hanoverianar
Wes-plialiaos, Prussians, Swiss, I-Inngarians, Poles,
and Russians, ate all t'eated in the same manner.—
Thirty-six francs wipe cif the. demand of every one
of them, whatever may be the event of their age, of
the severity of their wounds. Eight hundred decla-
rations received by a commission appo•nted by his
Majesty to decide upon the fate of these unfortunates,
c Infirm the fact, and the real state of dies • prisoners;
witich has been communicated to us, a;;c1 we shall
successively publish, in painting ow the pl ice whies
they hive cho.;.en fbr their retreat, will leave no dotibt
in skis respect in the mind of any man.
66 Whilst such scenes are taking place on the
eastern shores of the Ems, couriers from Harwich.
Gravesend, and Lond,m, eager to second the gene-
rous views of their Governmeat, perform the s inr•
duty on a small scale, but in a manner equally pro-
ductive, but not less cruel, on the coasts of the North
Sea, situate between the mouths of the Meuse ant
the Texel. These wretches seek out every where
passengers who are anxious to proceed to the Conti-
nent, and'boasting of having the means of conveying
them in spite of the measures taken to prevent all
'communication, shamefully impose upon their cre-
dulity, and engage to convey them at an enormous
price.
66 These passengers are crowded into fishing-bnats,
and taken to within a few leagues of the Dutch
—it is only then that they are made acgitai:stAl with
the certain danger they ruts of being arrested, if they
do not attend to all the precautions which are pre-
scribed to therh, In sitch a cruel situ ition what are
they to do ? 'they are directed in the middle of the
night,- and sometimes at half a league distance front
tire beach, to descend from the vessel,' and make tor
the shore, with the water often up to their shoulders ;
if they do not obey with a good grace force is em-
ployed to compel them. Soetimesin these unhappy
beings are cast upon the ridge of a sand-bank at low
water, so that when the tide flows their destruction is
inevitable; if there be a ford it is impossible for thin
to find it in the dark, and in that case also they ate
sure to perish.
64 About one fifth of such passengers at most
nrdioarily attire on shore, and bless the agents
of authority. who, eetployed to prevent all illicit
communieations, take them up in the execution of
their 'orders. Being almost in every instance in a
situation in which -th cannot bear with them their
baggage' they are obliged to leave it on board the
verse that brings them, and in case of ter afterwards
(lemandingitt the cossfusioo that reigns at the moment
of hurrying them 'Awls& Into the boat, affords a
opportune u of -ploideriog them of It."

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TIIC ,VENT ;G STAR.

LONAQN.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26.
Paten OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
s per Ct. Cons. for money 6511—DItto for accoupt 630
3 per Ct. Reduced 621-4 per Cent. 780
Navy 5 per Ct. 961—Bonds 16 s. I 7s.pr.—Omnlum
Eich. Bills (31) Is. dis. to Is. pre.—Ditto (Std.) 3s.to de. pre.

Our Plymouth Correspondent informs us that there
was a report in circulation at that place, of a general
action having been fought between the armies under
MARNIONT and Lord WELLINGTON, in which the lat-
ter was victorious, and the enemy defeated with great
less. There has been no arrival at any of the out.
ports, however, on which to ground such a report.

The question. between the Catholic Delegates and
the Irish Government, which has lately excited so
much of the public attention, is now decided, and a
•erdict of acquittal has been pronounced in favour of
the former, as we stated in part of our impression of
yesterday. In our columns of to-day will be found
a detail of the proceedings which took place in the',
Court of King's Bench on the occasion.