Star.
London, England, 1827-11-19 00:00:00

for the service of the King and the goal of the country,
is he who knows how to prevent the crimes into which
the multitude are commonly turned by a general frenzy,
and which are followed by the tenors and talamities
which her Highness desires to avoid, •aluing, above
all things, the happiness of the people which she go-
verns, for these reasons, you should now more than
ever redouble your •igilance and activity, shewing
yourself not a follower of any party, but an upright
and impartial judge, an enemy to the excesses of all,
and ready to punish them according to the laws. But
if, in spite of your care and iirecatitiong there should be
any tumultuous assemblaget with clamours and cries
of whatever nature they may be, yod will immediately,
and on your strictest responsibility, proceed against the
rioters, aausis►g those who may be caught' in the fact
to be immediately atrested and brought to trial, that
all the accomplices may be punished with the just se.
verity of the laws. As sows as the proceedings are
finished, you will send them, with the criminals who
have been arrested, to the tribunal of the district to which
the necessary orders have been sent for the Judges to
pass sentence in these causes in preference to all others,
so that the punishment may immediately follow the
crime, and serve as a check to prevent the fatal imita•
tion of it.

(Signed) JOSE MERE DE ANDRADE.
Palace of Adiuda, Nov. 2, ISM

To the Corregedors and Mayors in the Kingdom.

Another Decree, of the same date, enjoins the Cala
do Supplicaciao of Lisbon and that of Oporto to try,
in preference to all other causes, those relative to the
crime of sedition and rioting, referred to them by the
district tribunals, and which have been committed since
the Decree of Amnesty of 13th April this year, and
especially since the publication.of his Majesty's Decree
of 31st July last.

A Dutch Mail has also arrived,:with St. Pctersburgh
and German Papers ; they possess but little interest.
We extract the following :
ST. PSTSBOAURGH, Nov. 3.

As the Neva has begun to bring down ice, the Isaacs
Bridge was taken up in the night of the 31st October.
On the 31st, in the evening, his Majesty, accompanied
by General Count Diebitsch, set out on a tour to inspect
the frontier fortresses. He is gone in the first instance
by way of Dranaburg, to Bobruisk.
A ship of the line of 74 guns, called the Grand Duke
Michael, was launched very lately, and on the 31st one
of 84 guns, called the Empress Alexandria ; Captain
Schismareio is appointed Commander. This makes.
three ships of the line launched within a very short time
The gold mines in Siberia yielded in the first half of,
this year 140 pood 28 lbs. 6 ox. of gold, of which only
48 pood 3 lbs. were from the Government mines of
Platina, 15 poods have been obtained.

STOCKHOLM, Nov. 6.

On the Ist of this month the Josephine steam boat
caught fire in the Malar Lake ; there were 140 passen-
gers on board, who were seized with dismay. The
Captain did not lose his presence of mind, but all
attempts to extinguish the fin having failed, he ran
the vessel oft shore. All the passengers and crew
escaped, and the vessel burnt to the water's edge.

specs to a large portion of the coast particularly *mantis
log is Negroes, Fernando Po does certainly promise to
become a more favourable site for a colony of the de.
scription of that settled at Sierra Leone than any of
which we are aware. The settlement at the latter was
instituted not merely as a receptacle for negroes released
from stave vessels, but more particularly as the head-
quarters or rendeivous of lot ces employed inpreveafiati
of the Slave Trade.

Now the climate of Sierra Leone has been sufficiently
proved pestilential and unhealthy to the last degree-z-.. 11
ergo, for the first purpose it is ill-suited,
Sierra Leone is also ill-chosen for the latter purpose.
Not to mention its long distance from the principal
mart of the traffic, there is a strong and powerful cur-
rent, which, flowing continually southward; greatly
impedes and protracts the duration of she voyage cf the
ships on their return with rescued slaves to the cruising
station I a delay which often costs the lives of many of
the unhappy sufferers on board—in oae instance, to the
amount of eighty-two slaves !
There cannot be a better criterion of the expediency
and utility of the means employed to further an object
than the success or failure of such undertaking; and
has, we ask, the colony of Sierra Leone tended in any
considerable degree to repress that traffic, so foul and
damnatory to the character of Christian Europe? We
think not. No ; the slave trade still flourishes, and that
with rather crescent than decreasing vigour, fostered as
it is by Powers sworn to promote its extinction, and but
weakly impeded by the well-meant efforts of the British
Flag..—.We do not say that the ill-chosen situation or
unhealthiness of the cruising station is alone the cause
of this, or that the remedy of that blundering policy
would at once defeat the evil. These are many other
steps to be taken: England herself should come with
dean hands to the denunciation of a traffic whose fruits
she continues, in her own dominions, still to profit by
But this is a step which will do much, and one which
consideration for the lives of our fellow-subjects loudly
calls on us to take with all convenient speed.

laws and the Orders of the Government, the inhabitants African Corps to Fernando Po: a spot not onlypf sa.
of your governmenstor jurisdiction, preventing as adich labrity, bat one sarts.:h better sit ~..ted v4cr the ll'tadable •
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is possible* the, breaking out I f pripular tumults ;in purpose of our establishastitt on the coast-of Aides,
short, yotf will probably ssreceed, if you make a prudent Placed in the Bight of Biafra,M the mouth` of taririverg • mat' h
use of the Mean, which you possess: and al, especially down whir& the traders in Oren expose thkir human "(find
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in time o(public dilemma, the magistrate most zealous cargo, and likewise in a commanding gittratfon adds re.
' • . . . . . . OTANDIS