Star.
London, England, 1817-11-03 00:00:00

DRESDEN, OCTOBER 19.

To-day the Session of the General Assembly of
the States, convoked in the Hereditary Circles, and
in Upper Lusatia, was solemnly opened berg.

On the 26th of this month, her Highness the third
daughter of Prince Maximilian, is to be betrothed
by proxy to the Hereditary Prince of Tuscany, in
the chapel of the Royal Palace, at six o'clock in the
evening. The next morning the august bride will
leave this city, and it is hoped she will arrive in 16
days at Down, where she will be received by the'
ToscA Commissioners. The Princess travels by
way of Munich, where she intends to stay two days.
PETIESBUROH, OCTOBER. 7.

Count Zainoloff is commissioned tp engage at
Cabal and Ispahaa a number of workmen, who are

to establish, under very advantageous conditions, in
manufactories of shawls and carpets at Casan. That
this is an important object, is evident from the fact
that 80,000 shawls are annually exported from Bur,
sorah, which cost on an average 1000 roubles each ;
so that from 60 to 80,000,000 of roubles come into
the country for this one article of luxury.
At Astrachan trials have been made of the culti-
vation of the common tea shrub, which have proved'
eery successful, and are therefore particularly (a-
vowed by the Governmen;.

Since Our last.a Lisbon Mail has been received.
The accounts which it brings relate chiefly to the
' visit paid to Madeira by the consort of the PRINCB
ROYAL Of PORTIA; tL, on her voyage to Rio Janeiro ;
and to the execution of the Conspirators, who in May
last had planned the overthrow of the Portuguese
Governmint, in which they were happily frustrated
by a timeous discovery of their intentions. They
were brought to trial on the 15th of September,
when General GAME FRIERS DE ANDRADE, the leader
of the conspirarr, ansieleven of his accomplices in
guilt, were sentenced to suffer death ; and on Sa-
turday the 18th ultimo, their execution took place,
as stated-in another column. The following addi-
tional particola::. art from a private letter :
" Gomez Paine and seven others were flanged and
burnt, and their ashes thrown into the Tagus ; but
the bodies of the remaining four (whose guilt wale not
so strikingly marked as that of their associates) were
delivered to their friends for interment. General
Gomsz Fame was executed near the Fort of St.
Julian, iu which he had been imprisoned. lie died
with great fortitude and resignation, acknowledging
his guilt and the justice of his sentence. The others
were executed in the Campo di Saint Anna, on the
other (the eastern) side of Lisbon. The repentant
traitors were attended to their respective places of
execution by a number of Monks, who very be-
comingly did every thing in their power to prep*
the unhappy men for due pious submission to their
awful fate. The slowness of the execution must have
greatly aggravated theit: sufferings.. • One only was
executed at a time ; and full six hours were consumed
ere the close of the dreadful scene took place—the
last who were in succession to suffer witnessing pre-
viously the agonies of those who died before them."
From the preceding account, our Readers will see
that the Portuguese have lost nothing of die charac-
ter which they have long since vindicated to them-
selves, of being in their State executions the most
sanguinary people in Europe.

According to the Baltimore Papers to the 7th ult.
the tumour that Spain is on the point of ceding West
Plcuida to the United St -rtes, there obtains general
credence- The purchase-nsoney is said to be 6,000,000
of chairs. The Agtots appointed by the PRESIDENT,
last June, to proceed to St vtli America, but whose
departure had been delay e., by various causes, were
about to set nut on their mission.—lt is, however,
pssible, that Florida may be the price ir,tended
to be paid for the Russian squadron transferred to
Spain ; for it is well known that Russia has long
wished to gain a better footing on the American Con-
tinent. But may not the right of Spain to cede that
country to any Power whatever be fairly questioned ?
There is a third party who may protest against the
transfer, and who have a rigl:t to say, a It shill not
be !" There is no right existing on the face of the
earth by which the inhabitants of any country can be
transferred, like cattle, at the will of any Sovereign
whatever. It-is an thumped power, wherever, when.
ever, and by whomsoever exerted; and has no analogy
whatever to possession obtained by conquest, and
afterwards acceded to by the expelled sovereignty.

The Paris Papers from the i:Sth to the 30th, inclu-
sive, have arrived since our last. Frcm their con-
tents, which are of less interest than usual, we have
extracted in our preceding columns the only articles
'worth notice. The fact of the death of the Da vet
Accaitts has, it will be observed, been officially con-
firmed by a commuication from the English Consul
at Algiers, to the English Consul at Mallon ; but,
df the rumour that his successor has since shared the
same fate, there is no sort of confirmation, but on the
contrary, much to discredit it eatilely.

Another (Lays Paris Papers have arrived at a Late
hour to. Jay.

but apparently on no sufficiest anthcety.
tendered his resignation.

A Weimar Journal has published uste
reflections on the state of Switzetland,V '
to have excited a very lively sensation in ,
try. The Journalist maintains, that Swot_`.,,
its present state, is exposed to the risk of
the victim of any conqueror who may turn
against it, and that to prevent a chanre r,f
the political balance of Europe, the t,tv,s
Germany ought to combine in giving to 5.,4
a Sovereign in the person of some German
along with a representative government,
he endeavours to bbe w, would be more *spy
such a dominion than in their present
and he cites as evidence of their diwtv,.,l
numerous emigrations which are daily talc,
To this Project the Gazette of Aran replies
equal spirit and truth, that the Cntif
twenty-two Swiss Republics, under 4
knowledged by ail ,he Powews, c ineot 5.
either of jealousy rr ambition, and "right ,
fore to have any thing to fear to the pre,qi
independence that tpe tural pi:rtrty of
try is such, that no prince could draw from
/maw; < f maintainirg a Conrt—that a
cor,*rd of poor shepherds and artisans can ill+,
expense of a complicated Governmeot.-and
therefore better and wiser tor them, in every
to hold fast by their present system of muniej,si
paternal administration. The emigrations 7.t
it is admitted, to be numerous ; but these, it i!
tended, ought to be ascribed, not to any dticct,
the mode of government, but to the ticcii;4 in
manufactures, resulting from those pro! i!‘'
which, in all the surrounding countries, ha.re zt
ed the products of industry.
Fiends Five per Cents. 30th October, i.',11";.

NO'vElpfßEß 2.
Sunday, I,our o'Clack, P. 31,
Yesterday, the weather proving remarksLly 1
the PiiilCUS CHARLOTTE to-•k her usual air:rig
chaise, and consumed for about two hours.
morning the solemnities of the thy were observed
the l'it:NcrAs And Prince LEopor.9 assernhiir

Fincipal .tt..ndants and all their dome,tics: .
Service, which was pot-formed by the ker.
SIInRT. S .on after the c•:nclusion 0: the ser.i:
Royal HiBhness walked in the pleacure ru::
Prince LE.4•ToLD Accompanied Lis Royal Ci
The air is temai kably mild today, although tilc
has scarcely shone.

Ye%terday the following Bulletin was sSi•-!:1 r
James's Palace : “ Windsor Castle, Noss:•:L:s
" His MAJESTY has passed the last month in Ar
tram:oil manner, and continues to enjoy a firm it
nf health. His MaJerry's disorder remains unalticii.

Seven years elapsed on Saturday since his
last appeared in public.
His Royal Highvess the Duke of CLARENCT:.".I
has been sor some time past on a visit .it the tf
the Earl and Countess of llArmours.. at Y.wrifiars,
left Oxfordshire early this morning. in Inkier to
prese it to receive her NlAssErt and the Princess ELio.
zarsarss, on their arrival at Bath.

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