Star.
London, England, 1828-06-13 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

PROM THE GAZETTE DE FRANC; JUNE 11.
PARIS, Jess 10.
We have receiied the following letters from Con-.
ttantinoplr :
•1 ."11The following are the .declarations which the Reis
gifelkll has over, in the name of the Sultan, to the
Malawi of th'e Netherlands, and to M. de Caniti, and
which he Was 'repeated 'to M. d'Oitenfels :
•" All the TreAties with the European Powers are, in
the eyes of the Porte, as sacred as Islamism; the Treaty
if A ke,mann must, therefore, be executed, and a Erman
an this subject will shortly appear. France, England,
wad &flail., Mire coodmied a Convention relative to
flteesie.; Which is'aistrary M Islamism. 'Now, as Islam;
wit is lowoutable," and title Porte is, hoWever, disposed
to negotiate on the basis of iheTreaty of the 6th of July, it
is necessary to modify that Convention as far as may be."
The Augsburg Gazette contains the following article
The Emperor of Russia will go to Bucharest,
• where he is expected on the 28th of May.' The Boyards
or the Divan of Moldavia have asked permission of
Count Pahlen, who is gone to' meet the Emperor, to
appoint a deputation to felicitate his Maje.ty in the'
Imperial Camp. Prince Ghika hat resolved to remain
in the principality as a private individual."
His Majesty's ship L'Africane sailed on the 2d of
June from Toulon for Marseilles. It is said that it had
orders to the vessels that have been freighted to return
lo Marseilles.
M. J. Lafitte, Member of the Chamber of Deputies,
has published his three speeches on the loan of eighty
Initltons.
flasncm Forms—Five per Cents. 104 f. 10c.—Three per Cents.
70f. 20c.—Bank Actfoos, 1,927 f. 50e.—Nespolitoul, 15f. 10c.—
Svanisn (1523), 73f. I.6—Exchange on London, one month, 25f.
23c.—"Ilree duty, 2Sf. 15c..

iERMAN PAPERS.

ST. PETERSBURG H. ).1.6e 44.

WITILSOROTIORT SVITLCMINT TO THE 301/11SAL Di IT. TZTZWORGII

or KAT 24.

His Majesty the Emperor received, on the.lBth, at
Tiraspol, a report from Count Wittgenstein, dated May
16, which contains the following details:
"The city of Bucharest was occupied on the 12th by
the vanguard of the 6th Corps of Infantry, commanded
by Ittijor•General Baron Geismar. The movement,
executed with so much rapidity, has prevented all hos-
tile attacks, and saved the capital of Moldavia from the
ruin with which it was threatened by the Turks.
" The inhabitants received our troops with. the most
lively marks of sincere joy. The Metropolitan of Wal-
lechiA, accompanied by all his clergy, came out
.to re-
ceive them, and afterwards performed a solemn
hum, to return th.anks for this event.
" The fortress of Brailow was invested already on the
11th 11117, and the preparatisms for the siege are pro,-
ceeding with great activity. The heavy artillery arrived

Tie .tatou ielaatim
The Muse met this morning.at ten ceklek, and sat in a COM,.
ntittetillif Privilege; the Earl bt s -.ll(ASTlSlatall in the chair. Their
Lordships 'proceeded with the further inquiry respecting the claim
of Mr. Leigh to the tides 'and estates of Baron Leigh, of Stoneky.
Several whom*s were examined in support of the claith, amongst.
whom vtap.a Gentleman named Catiado, who, in, answer to cues-
-time by.the Loan CMIJICELLOa, admitted that he supplied Mr.
Leigh with meaty to enable him to prosecute this inquiry, mad
that'll Wintered successful, he (Mr. Leigh) bad agreed. to pay
aOOl. (or eeellylolll.- he advanced for that purpose. ThiaCitsiont'
meet appeared to ,excit.e.gr,it su. prise in the. Howie. •
3113141111 FROM 1411.COMUUNS. • • •
Sr Actualities GaAs: and other Members, preeented..a, Copy
of the Report of-the Committee of the House of Commons on the
Salmon Fisheries of Great Britain, pursuant.to the requeat of their
Lordships,
Sir Atazamixa Gaartr and other Members also brought up
Several Private Bills.
Mr. Miami presented the monthly return of .Salaries and Pen-
sions granted ,ny the iiirectini of the East Ina* Company.
The Earl of DERBY presented a Petition from the woollen?,
manufacturers of Lancaster against any additional tax upon Foreign
WooL ' •-•
A Nowt Pass. not known at the Bar, presented a Petition
from the Wool-growers of a district in the county of Sussex, stat-
ing that they had laid nut large sums of money in the improvement
of their farms, complaining of distress, and praying for adequate
protection to kitish Wool.
The Duke of NEWCASTLE presented Petitions front Dor-
chester and front Lenham, in the county of Kent, against the im-
portation of,Foreign Wool.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE presented Petitions from tett
owners and occupiers of land in the vicinity of Whitby, and from
Long Beringsoo, in the county of Lincoln, against the proposed
scale of duties in the importation of Foreign Corn.
The Earl of MALMESBU RY presented Petitions from seve-
ral parishes in the county of Lincoln against the proposed Coin
Bill, and more particularly against the system of taking the gel.,
The Norma Rana presented a similar Petition from Banbury in
the county of Oxford. •
The Earl of BROWNLOW presented similar Petitions from
several parishes Lathe county of Lincoln.
The Duke of NEWCASTLE presented similar Petitions from
the owners and occupiers of land in the northern part of the county
of Nottingham, in the vicinity of Dorchester, and of Kilby and
other parishes in the county of Lincoln.
Earl STANHOPE, in the absence of a Noble Duke, presented
a Petition very numerously signed, from the owners and occupiers
°nand in the county of Bedford, praying that there might not be
any alteration in the Corn Laws, and that if an alteration was de-
termined on, that the scale of duties might be higher than that pro-
posed, that the averages might be computed from the prices actu-
ally received by the growers, and that the duty on Foreign Corn
might be paid at the time of importation.
The Noble Eau, presented a similar Petition from the Agricul-
tural Association, which also prayed, that if the proposed Bill
passed into a law, they might be permitted to void their leases on
giving six months' notice io their landlords; and a Petition from
the Agricultural Society of Holderness, stating that Si. a bushel
was the lowest remunerating price to the Britishiarmer. ;
Lord DE DUNSTAN VILLE presented a Petition from a,
place in Cornwall, for the Abolition of Slavery In the West Indies..
The Earl of CLARENDON presented a similar Petition from
•Cockeledge, in the county of Olantergan.
. Lord DURHAM presented Petitions to the same Asa from
Sunderland and Bishop Wearmoutk.
Lord DUNDAS presented similar Petitions from Wakefield
and Gilderston, in the comity of. York.
Earl GROSVIANOE begg to inquire of the Noble Duke if "it
would be convenient to him on an early day to give an answer to
the questiona upon this subject, which had bees put to him a short
time ago.
The Duke of WELLINGTON stated, that he should be pre-
: pared SO answer tilost questions on Thursday next.
Lord Viscount GODERICH. presented a Petition from an in-

. • .

Lord STRANGFORD rose and spoke to the follow-
ing effect : My Lords—l have the hunour to present
to your Lordships three Petitions, relating to matters
which do deserve, I humbly conceive, your Lordships
most serious attention. The first is from a very nu•
merous body of. the Merchants and Ship Owners of the
City Of London, and among the Signatures annexed .to,
it are those of some of the most wealthy and most re.
spectable individuals in the empire. They complain oi
the vase and 'Multiplied losses which they continue to
sustain from the system of piracy and depredation still
carried-On by armed vessels, cruising under • the Raga
of some of the Republics of South America. They.
complain of the suspension; almost of the annihilation,
of theirAwnitterce with that portion of the globe.. .But
they complain yet less of their own losses and injuries.
in a commercial and pecuniary sense, great and grievous
though they be, than' of the revolting atrocities which
bare been perpetrated on some of their fellow subjects
•-•:-.4-trofities, which, in one instance at least (that of iitivp
called the Morning Star, bound from Ceylon to this
country), were of such a nature that. a sentiment of
respect for your Lordships, and of common decency,
mast prevent me (as it has prevented the Petitioners)
from describing them ; and from stating to .your Lord-
ships the manner in Which Englishmen have been treated
by, the subjects' of States which England herself briasts
to have called into being!' It will, 1 know, be' said
by those who are inclined to discover nothing but
beauty and virtue in republican institutions (and who
think that
_the crintea of these young. States are but ju-
venile'delioquencies, which ought to be passed' over, in
consideration of the extreme ycnith atadinexperiene7 of
the offenders), that it is very unfair to • judge of the
many by the few, and to stigmatize whole Governments'
for the acts of some of their servants. But when I. pet -
ceive that nn effectual step whatever has been taken' to
punish, or even to detect,-the authors of those enormi-
ties; when I am asstued,that some of them, after re•
.
turning to port, have been promoted to the command
of other vessel:, furnished with fresh commissions, and
again sent a roving and a buccaneering against the
commerce and navigation of neutral Posiers ; When 1
know that redress has in no one instance been obtained,
and that remonstrance and representation have been in
vain, I contend that I have a right to say what I did
say on Arformer.occasion (however decideJly it may
have been contradicted elsewhere), that some of .these
' Reitiblics, originally founded in revolution, ase now
fostered by robbery, and that the vice of theirfwas for-
tuition stilt cleaves to them; and brands: their proteed-
iniki si Wilts ..oirr pee-tither and distinctiee charaetiti:?'
tics. Lads, w,e boast and we brag Of shisureition ;
"bat be assured that we have begotten no healthful nor
creditable progeny. We have evoked (I Use strong lan-
gnage, for I feel and always have felt strongly on this
pArticular subject)---we have ev(lted a spit it which wv
shall not always be able to controul,• as we shall learn
to our cost on that unfortunate, I do. trust that roost
distant day, when we may again have to contend with
the United States of ,Northern America, tor whose
navies we shall find that we have been recruiting, and
for whose behoif and benefit the Spanish Coroniea will
haVe been torn from that Spain tinder whosedominion,
inefficient though it was, and ,ender whose responsibi-
lity, which at least was real and effectual, we shall one
day most heartily wish that they hid been suffered
quietly to remain. Thesecond Petition is from several
shi po o•ers Mid 'rtierchents in the idand.P(Jersey. On
this head it will suffice to say, that the islatid of Jersey
employs (I ant afraid I should say didemploy) upward.
'of twenty vessels, great and small, in the &Kith Arne-
ricahtrade alone. Now, my L6rds, I am instructed to
'say, that out of those vessel: scarcely one half have ever
been able to proceed. to or horn their several destink-
tions:iwipiout having 'been molested in 'swim shipe or
other, either by detention or• by 'actual violence, bjr
armed vessels, sailing under the flags of the States' to
which 1 have more particularly alluded. These are nrit
cases of any infraction of blockade; these aie, not base:
ineoliing any of the metaphysics of maritime law. Thee
is DO Auustion hereof effective blockade Or non-effective
-blockade, or goods contraband of wer or 'not contras;
band of war ; they are plain cases of ships stopped add
pillaged on the ocean, or what is called the high mai
of tuitions, 'having lawful merchandize on board, an
proceeding on lawful purpose!. The petitioners ofJer-
sey coMplaksas well they may, of these facts in gene 4
sal; btu' they complain more specifically of the very;
recent ease Of one of ,the ships belonging to their own
island, called the Gaspe, whidh was plundered by a Bite.
-nos Ayres armed ship, and out of which the' mate and
crearlseritarken;.ind turned ach ift on the coast of Brazil.
The third Petitioh is from a most unfortunate indivi-
dual, Ale Commander of a :hip called the Huskisson.
lfje 'dues not himself address the House. He appeals to
your Lordships' compassion through the medium of a
Mr. Duke, of this city,. his agent and part-owner—and
be does so for the best possible reason, that he is at this
moment, and has been for several months, kept in du-
rance by some of the petty-local authorities, acting under
what is called, I believe, the Supreme Goiernment of
I .
Buenos Ayres. His ship was first plundered to a ce6.
ruin extent by a Buenos Ayres privateer ; she was then
carried into Rio Negro, on the coast of Patagonia,
where the robbery' was completed—by whom? Why,
by the Commanders of two regulaily commissioned'
public vessels of war belonging to Buenos Ayres, whose
protection this unfortunate person hiclvainly solicited.
The Huskisson was subst.quentl,fdemanded by his Ma-
jesty's ship Cadmus, which :Nis ;eat round Cape Horn
on purpose ; but the mothenit theeradmus left Rio Negro,
.the condemnation and conlicadon of the ship and cargo
were proclaimed, and shewas given up to the captors
so that her Commander and his crew are thus prevented)
from returning to their country and their home. This,
too, was no caie of :a violated blockade, nor of a sus-
pected cargo. There was no pretext for the detention
and pillage,uf the ship, except the law of the strongest.
The captors wanted the ship and cargo, and ship and
cargo they were determined to have—thinkihg, I sup-
pose, that bOng called the Huskisson, she was a fair
subject for the application of their principle: of free
trade.. But Huskisson though she was, no explanations

little chaoce of a Government being sincerely disposed
to conclude it--some pf the individual; composing
iwbileh are said, I know not how truly, to detive a direct
y profit from the mode in which the 'War is
carried on. But supposing the peaceto be 'made to-
morrow (as T deifirthly believe it will not be made to-
morrow twelvelnonthq, and ihat'the war and its con-
sequent barbarities should terminate together, surely
the Noble Earl will never suppose that the mere abate-
ment of the nuisance is sufficient, and that no account
is to be taken of that vast arrear of wrongs Which has
been accumulated during its continuance. The Noble
Earl belongs to an Administration which commands
and deserves the confidence of the country, beta use the
country feels Omits honour is sell arid wisell entrusted
to one, every act of *hose glorious life haslsienisconse-
crated to maintain and to extend it. And With those
feelings of national honour which such an 'Administra-
tion must entertain, and in which the Noble Earl him-
self Must individuAlly and personally so largely share,
he will not, I am sure, 'forget that word which 'all in-
jured or insulted States have a right to' pronounce and
to exemplify—the 'word repprationfok he Will 'find
on that inquiry, which I iniplore. him to make, that
there are cases which do call forrePiation-i-reparatke
for the outragicl' liberties. Of Englisbmea.--reparation
for the violence and injustice which 'they have sustain-
ed.-=.reparati;in; so far as it can be given; and GOD
knows that little can' be given,' far the shame arid. the
misery which hive becabrought"upon the innocent fa-
milies of Inch. who,` whatever their class or condition of
life' may be,• ate tittir I.2stllatiOs' tellow4iitijects; and
ark as much *ntitred as yea* sire to%the Ow:otitis, of
.• , ,
their Sovereign and` their cciutftry. •
Lord 4 BERDFAN tpoitn to the following effeet—l
wish, my. Lords, it was m,m,y power to give
Lord the complete and satir,facsory answer vobich the
importance of the subj ct he'llipsnjOiessed. your Lord-
ships demand(. 1 know SlAt injuries bave.beett sus'.
tained,and i beg .10. assure. the Noble Lord and ,the
flouseobat die requisitionfif proper and suitable satis-
faction has not been omitted, but 'thee repeatedand
urgent reclamation; uppn the subject have been made by
my Noble Predeceor.in tifice. I am tißppy at Abe same
time to intorm Your Lordships, that the Government of
Brazil has protested, its readiness to make the necessary
reparation, and that I have no reason to think that there
will be any great reluctance to.do,all that justice re-
quires, on. the part .of the. Government of
..BUenos
Ayres. At any rate, I can assure my Noble Friend, that
no efforts will be wanting on my part to procore lull
reparation'so the British merchants for whatever, join-
ries they may have sustained. With respect to the
probability of peace, to which the Noble Lord had
alluded, my Noble Friend. stated some time agithat
very strong hopes were entertained of the speedy resto-
ration of peace, and I have certainly learned nothing of
a nature calculated to damp those hopes ; on the con-
trary, all the recent information I have acquired, tends
not only to fortify the hopes then expressed by my
Noble Friend, but to warrant the expectation of peace
within a shorter, petiod than was anticipated tat that
time. The Noble Lord entered in some detail into
the various cases of,injury arising horn the detention of
British ships.. Into these details it is not my pit; pose to
follow him, There, may be, and I believe there ate.
capes whicb cannot be justified upon any principle; but
the instasncep of detention which have come to my
kntinleckge,do for this greaterpart involve the principles
of the law of ,blitckadeTiorinciples which this country
has herself strenuously maintained and rigorously en-
forced, and the. advantages of which she cannot now in
justice.,or consistency, or, policy, refuse to all other na-
tions.. • ; .

Lord STRANGFORD--44 I specified a great number
of cases of detention ind confiscation, which had no-
thing to do with the law of blockade."
Viscount GODERICH lamented that his ~Note
Friend, the late Foreign Secretary, was not present. He
took it for granted that the, Noble Lord had ap.prized
him of his intention, to enter so largely as he had done
into the discussion of a subject which. involved ;he
manner in which he) lud discharged his public; duties.
He fully agreed with.tbot Noble Lord that sec hada
right to demand compensation for the injuitesAcifd
upon our commerce. But he, utterly denied the jostipsi
of the imputation which the Noble Lord seemed de-
sirous to convey, that these injuries had arisen from the
recognition of the South American States,, fl!r ip such
circumstances as now•existed between Br and and Buenos
Ayres, injuries to neutral Powers, like thwe complained
of, were sate to arise; and, in point of fact, simliar
enormities had been committed previously to ,the re-
cognition. To recognize the independence o( those
States was a measure, at the period when it was adopted,
demanded by the interest of this country, and justified
by the law of nations; and nothing could be mote un-
fouitded in fact„or more unjust and unreasonable in
argunient, than to impute the outrages which had taken
place to that recognition.
Earl GREY had perused the Petition from the men.
hants of the city of London, and he observed Certain
brOrds interlined in a different hand writing from the
liody *of the Petition. If this interlineation had taken
place subsequently to the signatures being affixed to the
Petition, it would be an informality which must prevent
its reception.
Lord STRANGFOBD admitted tbat those words
were written by him, and declared thielhey were.in-
tended mezely as memorandum for himself. But as