Star.
London, England, 1816-08-16 00:00:00

' PROU Till IZERCAWPILI ADVIIIRTISZN, AT JULY IS.

Captain Fosdick, irbm Rio Janeiro. states, tha on
the night. of the 30th of March lase, Captain E. Bets-
num late of New Haven, Commander 'and Master
et the schooner Wellington, was barbarously mur-
dered by the Mate and crew of said schooner, and his
body thrown overboard, in the harbour of Rio Ja-
neiro, and had not been found at the time Captain
Fosdick sailed. The above schooner traded under
English colours from Rio Janeiro to the river Plate.
The crew were principally Englishmen the Mate,
who was supposed to be the murderer, 'is a Portu-
guese r they were all in prison. The English mer-
chants at Rio Janeiro had subscribed 600 milreas foe
the prosecution of the Mate and crew.

font THE BOSTON oilmen or WEDNESDAY LAST.
SPAIN V. UNITED STATEILEItETS from the Me-
diterranean say expiessly, in the opOtion of Mr.
the American Secretary of Legation from Spain.
that the Spanish Government will go to war with the
United States if West Florida is not restored, and
that they have a large disposable land force. They
hove (we think in vain) to induce Great Bridle to
furnish them with ships and money for the enterprise.

RAM THItLtIVISIANA GAZITTZ.
New OaLeawa, Juan 10.—The. terrific crevasse is
so mbre— egLa drop of water runs tbrough it: and
the COMMUllieltiON by land for carriages will beton:.
ipleted today. Mr. Waearty's large field in front of
die breach, that was two weeki ago covered four feet
deep with water, is now dry and fit for cultivation.
Letters from . Havana, of the 20th Juni, state,
that the new Governor, appointed to that province,
had arrived at Banco! with 2000 troops from COIL
PROM THIt NATIONAL isorsuJorcsa O MILT 10.
The books of subscription toile Bank of the Uni.
ted States were opened, according to law, on the lst
instant, at various places directed in the Act for in.
corporaing the Bank. From what we have heard,
there can be no doubt but the required amount of
capital•srill be subscribed, and that the Bank will go
into operation within the time which the Act pre-
scribes We feel much gratified at the ascertain-
spent of this fact to oar satisfaction, as we *could
suppose every class of the community must feel at
any prospect, hOweveinniese, of a remedy adios evils
of the diseased, state of the page: currancy.
The pressbjection of *camas of
and tradesmen to the impositions of moarr"b2:l
end speculators is as deleterious to the integrity. as it
is oppressive to the industry of the eommunsty. Let
us hope that the establishment of a Bank en sedoemd
principles will have a teadencr to palliate the die-,

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Thellilitinsore papers annessnikohe arritiet 141 An-
napolis knadst'or. the. Milted Stares frigate, Walk—
CartrialVarritielle, frOGlVAiala geom. hivilg
on boa Ms. Hughes. who went out is Committal/oat
to demand thp release of the American yawners et:l
that place. Mr. Hughes has succeeded in theobjeei
of his mission. and has brought home in the frigate'
the Americans who. remained in prison at the timeet
his arrival at Certhagena and St. Melilla. They wave
immediately delivered from prison oo his demand.—
, They, were six Or eight in member. the others haying
been released soma timosince I and among them is
Mel Smith; Mate of the schooner Adeline; who Was
severely wounded in an attempt to force the guard I
Imam months-since, at St. Martha. and was repotledl

to have been killed by the prisoners who @smiled.—
Mr. Morris Stanley, of Hartford, Connecticut, Is'
also among those released: Mr. Hughes has arrived
in Baltimore. •
OF SPANISH Mesanu...The last aeconn6 tom
this quarter are from Leguira to the '24th Imes.—
' Though this place is not far distient from Margarine*
or Comets% the people appeared entirely ignorant of
the operations of either tlie Patriotic expedition, or
the koyalists. General- Bolivar was said to be only
in possession of the north part of the Island of Mar.
garette I and that a Spanish vessel had arrived there
three days before from Omens, at which time it still
remained in the hands of the Royalists.
Amor:JCR ACCOUNT.—Captain Carr, from Jamaica,
who has arrived at Norfolk, in a British vessel, was
bp,,ken on his passage by a Carthagenian privateer,
commanded by an American—treated with great
civility, and informed, that Bolivar had not only
captured Santa Margaretta: but had• landed on the
Maine and. taken CUMAMI. Sec. the same as reported
from Porvau-Prince.

No dates are mentioned above. It would appear
that the privateer's accounts could not be so late as
those from Laguira : but both parties appear adepts
in extenuation and exaggeration. The last official
account from the Patriotic expedition was dated the
Bth May, at Margaretta: at, that time Bolivar had
not taken possession of the south part of that Island's
where (at Pampatu) there are strong and molar
fortifications. and a 503.111 garrison left there by Ge.
netal Moral°. when.on bit way to Cartbagena. All
the accounts since received are reports; and may be
true or otherwise. It will be recollected that the
Port-au-Prince news was dated al early as the 611 s
June, and stated, among other things, that *will'
was cooped up in Carthagena, which has since been
found to be untrue.

HAMBUZIGH

MAGDEBURG, AUGUST &

Lag leans us tomorrow. His Majesty's
birtb.day has been celebrated with demonstradons of
joy. 'This-evening the city is to be illuminated ; all
the streets are already adorned with festoons and
gisrbusds.
HANOVER, AUGUST a. •
On the 12th instant, as the Prince Rezent's
day, and the foundation day of the Order of the
Guelphs, a regular Chem of the Order will be held,
at which his Ezcelkncy the Minister of State, Baron
Veasen Dicken, Mill preside.
It is said that a duty will probably be raised ir
future in the lianoverian dominions upon•beer and
brandy distilleries, to the *ouat of 450,000. dollars
per MAIM,

CHRISTIANA; JULY 24.
It is intended to erect a handsome building for a
University Library. M. Harslion, Professor of
Astronomy. is gone to. London to buy books and
astronomical instrunsents. The University has al.
ready a hundred students. It is thought that the
building for the University will be erected in the city.
though it was at first 'intended to be on the estate of
Tocien.

St'ILDENHEIM, JULY
General Amid, who wall arrested some months
AO at Lunenburg, is still here, and is kept close
prisoner in one of the towers of the former convent
of St. Gethard, which has been changed into a.pri.
too. Though many persons affirm that he is only
provisionally detained here till the decision of the
Prince Regent concerning him is known, it may be
considered as certain that this decision has already
been pronounced, and that the option has been left
him of being delivered up to France, or kept prisoner
Jar life, and this be has chosen the latter, observing,
it is said, that he made this choice as a husband and
father, but for himself would prefer death, as be.
comes a soldier ! His wife. has permission to visit
•him daily, with his three children. In the same
prison is the Hanoverian Major Van Schenck, who,
however, is not confined. so strictly, and has given up
to the General the room that has been built for him.
He has daily 96 groschs for his support, but the Gs,
ACM receives two ris dollars.

BERLU4, AUGUST s.
The King's birth-day. will be celebrated with Ith
pomp, because he is not here, and his Majesty is ab
friend to useless = and ostentation. Divine
Service will be in some of the Chapelti
and altenvirde for the military, in the aquae of
the Cathedral.

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Ammar S.—The revert of the whole garrison;
And .111 imams*. crowds/ spectators, was very so.
lens. The whole day has ended so far well for this.
city, hi which the cordialtleuinp of so many taith:
ful Objects rise to Heaven. What. inCresses our joy
is the favourable news received yesterday fromg.
debars, respecting the King's healtb. The eatarrhel•
fever is gone, :add ols fdajesay has resented his sleep;
appetite, and activity.. '
We juit hear. govt his Majesty sets out to4norrow.
for Carlsbasl.. • •
The ci.devant Kingi Swedenk who, as is koown.
has taken dse.nmisi GustavusAdolphiasGustaeson. •
bind a house in this city. • where be paled lb* sum-
ass of lfl4 i le is dogma* on bonsisdr,- but )-
espy's:ally almer.• • • •-• '
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plutkachous.
fesltedsr. attet, lofts; tie grits Men of Ole
Crown, the Marshal% *Mayon of Parii, the cOrpsk•f
fAcersof the Dancers, and thaV of the ibird legimeat
of infantry of the Royal Guard, bed the herons of
being admitted yo: an attdienca.,Fitk the Atultpsyof.
Angooleme. " • •
•• M. de Marmidet, Plenipotentlary Minister of Fiance
allambargh, has presented b;s credentials to tba\
Senate, winch .complimented him in return.
They state frona,Dantxlc, that the Emperor Alex-
ander bas confessed the Government of Finland on
the.successor of the Doke of Hulstein-Eulin, the dei-
poled King of Sweden. The fact is. that the last I
klambergh and Petersburgh Papers make-no mention
of the Domination of the young Prince to the skim-
tiOn of Goes:see of a-Proiince conquered by Alexan-
der from the ci•devent King of Sweden, whose son is
still In Switterland.

• Yesterday evening, as the bitches: of Anguuleme
,was getting .00t of her carriage, she *as saluted with
unanimous cries of " Vive le Rol," " Vive Madame."
Tbg two brothers Lallemand, mentioned upon the
first list of the Ordonnance of the 24th of June, 1815,
will be tried for contumacy before the first permanent
.Council-of War of the Pint' Military Division.

• FRANKFORT, AUGUST R
We received yesterday, by a courier, the news that
the Archduchess Charles had been delivered of a
Princess on the 91st of July: It is looked upon as
certain at Vienna, that a marriage will take place
between the Archduchess Caroline, the youngest
daughter of the Emperor and her consist, the heredi-
tary Pi ioce of Tuscany.
The Archduke Reynier, brother of the Emperor
of Austria, has been named President of the Council
of Ministers, and will hold under this title the In,
Ferns direction of the administration. The people
of Austria must congratulate themselves on this ac-
count, . for they cannot forget the wisdom and mild.
nessaif the government of this Prince daring the
Emperor's absence.
According to news from Stutgard, which appears
deserving of credit, they have yet hopes of seeing she
King and States reconciled. But there are two points
upon which the parties cannot agree—one concerning
the Bank of the Provincial States, and the cther the
creation of
_two Chambers. The provincial States
categorically reline this last demand of the King,
and insist more than ever upon the right of having
a special Bank and particular Fund at their own
disposal.
Letters from Ratisbon announce, that since the Ist
of August many Austrian troops have passed through
that city, returning either from Alsace or Mom-
Tonnerre. These troops consist of a battilion of the
regiment of Ignan Ginlay, of a division of the regi.
ment of Hussars of Frederic William, of a regiment
of Infantry of the Archduke Rodolphe, of a squadron
of Hussars of the regiment of the Prince Royal- ot
Wurtemburg, of a battalion of Kerpen Infantry, of
a battalion of Lindenan, of a battalion of the regi-
ment of Hohenlohe-Bartenstein, and of a battalion
ill the regiment of the Archduke Reynier. The
p3ssoge of the troops at Ratisbon, which was quite
unexpected, will continue without interruption till
the Vtith of August.

METHODIOINo.

TO THVMEMBERS OF THE OLD METHODI
CONNEXION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.

(tn Coatiovatfon frost *t STA* of AWN 1.)

To the point then : se Observer" ventured a sup.
position, that the Preachers' Fund amounted to
one hundred thousand pounds; 'this was not only
deemed.“ notoriously incorrect ;" by the " Lover of
•Old Methodism," but it was also asserted, over and
over again. and that by nearly all the Preachers who
attended the Manchester Conference in 1815; that
this fund did not then exceed eleven thousand pounds :
" Observer" was of course deemed a novice in this
branch of the Methodist economy, yet complimented
Oa his knowledge of the Matisensaticr -and Astronomy.
Whether be was an adept in two such abstrube
sciences, I di; not pretend to give an opinion ; bat
ibis Mach I may say, vrithont -fear of 'contradiction,
that, be would find it far more difficult to reconcile
, die primed statements of the Preachers* Fund with
' the egad declarations of the Preachers, than he would
.so square a circle ! Bat in justice we must allow
urn to possess a tolerable knowledge of the doctrine
,of eforeisisathw, as will be shewn .by the following
'ftwinent. . ,
It will be necessary, before we proceed to give a
detail of receipt; and disbursements of the fund in
,171:, give ,a kind of brief, outline or history
4:1 to
c 1 of the MerCiful Fund also : the Preachers'
'Fond then, was established in 1767, and the first
=nail subscriptiOns thereto,amounted to ‘54 14,. 6d;
and in foe: or five years after that time, a resolution
was passed in the Conference, One no distribution
lift= it should take Place till it amounted to £5OO.
It was however deemed prudent, on **went of some
aatraordinary cases of distress, to deviate therefrom,
aid that when it only atiountedlo 4379 Bs. 3d. ;
WWI is 1772, £3B was•paid; and from that time,
1111110811tilbods of receipts and disbursements to and
this Fund, have regularly appeared in 'the mi-
t:Wes until the year 1800, at which lime *dive WAS a
find in hand, at least unaccountedfor, to theamount
of it 7,041 8i.19d:; notwithstanding which,* result'.
.trons
tics Was passed in the Conference this year, to .the
following 'act : Es That the subicriPtions of the
Preachers shall in future be considered . as separate
:Man the subscriptions of the people; and the sub-
seriptiens of the people shall be considered akferming.
a fund of tharity ; which is to be applied only to the
assistance of real objects of mercy *mans the i'uper..,
massetary and, superaninited Preachers, and. the
widows of Preachers;. nevertheless, those who bare
Lhitheeto itceiyod allowances 'from the flied, shall
leoSieue to remits them tftom the Preachers' Fund
Mitt be meant, and not titan the Fusel they were
then goal rub establish' notwithstanding this regal).
don, as a retrospective law, would be unjust.". •
• Irons' 1800 this, them two feeds have existed,
146 the Pritadiere -Fund • and the Merciful Fund.'
illewrier, no accountshavibeen published from that.
al the Paschen'. rend, aew•sizteen years ago;;
some, thialami It the bidden treasure (which toe

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tlie, t atlS:nnaions to • etplor 0., and which Appeati
n'ht onlyfrecticable, dist compiratively easy. p
only difficult, which presents itself in shit
is, to mtaceLY ascertain the • annual am,:unc , . ,:.„
Preacher.' subscriptions, and which I have aft
to de by the foltowing anetho4 have tait:i
number of Poachers in 1800, which were 4.5 u ;
1807740# and in 1815, 950, which .will Eire ti.e
average nutpher of 7.15; but for the sake ei
numbers we will call them 709; mid which,- at
guinea -eae.ll,- per. annum, will amount in the 144:
sixteen years, with interest thereon, to 418,846 165.9,t
and the amount of the annual surplus. balances :ram.
timed from the Merciful. Fund to the Preachers'
Fond, since 1800, with interest thereon, amounts to
418,480; and the fund of £t7,021 whica' the
Preachers had in hand in 1800, with interest thereon,
amoudts to 4`15,481 ; to which sums must be added,
£2,500, and which sum' has been produced by the
increased subscriptions of the Preaches s, loc
the last three years, has been /el I Is. 6d. etch ; to
say nothing of admission money, which, for the
mune time, has been ten guineas each ; and yet if
anyone presumes to touch this ark with only pried
his fingers, though perhaps he has subscrilaed to this
fund for twenty or thirty years, he is instantly poiniej
out as one not only inimical to Methodisni, but a%
dengetous to both Church and Stite As it a stile,
merit of their fund had any connection with the poli.
tics of the day 1 What nonsense! but what slift,
will not some men make to evade what all primal
Men ought to be imbitious to explain !
I shall now point out to you tlse method wh;ch I
have purstied to at rive at this hidden mystery ; 1 have
Ara doted down the amount of subkriptious ler oot
year; then deducted the sum paid that year; lter
warts added the interest upon the balance, sshch
remained until the next Conference, and which semi.
fOrm the sum in hand at the,opening of the clisuint:
Conference. This plan, I . conceive, will be in:cl:-
gible to all who are acquainted with the 10‘‘t t
branches of arithmetic ; and urobjectionable, beca se
all, who will be at the expense to purchase the Mi.
mites, as well as beat the trouble to examine them,
may be satisfied, that the following uatetnetu is a
corteefrine and from which no appeal can be matte,
unless we call in question the abilities of those who
compose the executive part of the Conference ;—or
impute to them motives, to which I shall not much
a name. Presuming that no one will dispute that the
Preachers' Fund amounted in 1800 to £7,021, 1 shall
proceed to detail the receipts and di:basements Irons
that time to the present,

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Anionntd Preachers' Fund in IWO 7,021 6 9
Prearbas' Subscript:Ellis, 1800 - - 735 0 0
Traneured from the Merciful Fund In 1800 475 19 6

8,232 I 3
Interest for II months 411 12 i
Amount of had, 1801 - • 5,644 0 a
Subscriptions, 1001 • - 7SS 0 0
'Transferred, &e. sBOl - - 44 1S I

lutenist, acc. •
Amours; of Fund In 1804
Subeerigiuw, 1804
Traiuierred, &c. ISOM

9,42 S LS II
471 S I

9,491 S
73S U 0
SIR 17 19

10,961; t 3 3
• 848 8 2
• 11,517 S
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- 238.15 9

19,490 Jo
• 424 16 :1
19,115 9 9
• - 735 0 V
• • 154 1.5' 0.

14,4817 4 8
791 7 AI
14,7.67 11-17
71;.5 0 .
745 1
16.187 Vs 7
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