Star.
London, England, 1811-10-26 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

Sia—l entreat of your philanthropy and patriotism to cinn-
municate the following important fact to the British Public, and
to all other nations the year eighty-three of the last cen-
tury, I purchased an annuity on my life in the French funds,
which property has been treated with respect throughout all the
dangerous convulsions and factions of revolutionary anarchy, and
has now lately been seized ;,y the imperial ruffian and robber
NAPOLEON, it. cosequence of my political writings, and my
loyalty to my own country, which dark and silent theft was
committed by a whisper to the Minister of Finance, (without
any public decree) to take no notice of my certificate. This un-
paralleled outrage on property, the great hinge of civil society,
will prove a more instructive comment on the code Brigand: or
Nate:one, than all the pompous criticisms of Reviews re to com-
pare and prefer it to British jurisprudenee, and will hold out a
useful admonition to those jacobin fouls who give credit to the
French Government, in either commerce or policy, and teach
them that if the laws of private property are treated with such
contempt, how little confidence can be placed in treaties with
such revolutionary ruffianism, to maintain the relations of civi-
lized policy among nations, or the peace of the world.

If the sacrifice of my property should alarm and unite the
friends of mankind, to effect the salvation of England and the
protection of the world, I shall regard my loss as an inestimable
gain, though it was all I had to live upon:
J. STIWART, the Traveller.
•,e The Writer hopes that the Editors of every Aar Paper
in the metropolis, will copy this statement of facts, which ought
to be made known to every man in Europe.

HIE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER ?A.
11Ctua't PROCLAmATIoN.—HoIiday at all the Public °Men.

The Gleaner packet has arrived at Portsmouth
from Philadelphia ; and Mr. PROUD \IAN, the Mes-
senger, arrived yesterday in Downing-street, with
dispatches fur Government, from Mr. Foftsrit, our
Minister in America.

No Council was held upon these dispatches, as
most of Cle CaLinet Ministers were in the country ;
but Mr. PERCEVAL came to town in the course of die
evening, and :,ad a conference with the Marquis
WELLEsLEY on the subject.

The :deices are said to contain the British Mini-
ster's decided opinion that an embargo will be resorted
to at the meeting of Congress on the 4th of November:
It is likewise stated that they comprehend some par-
ticulars relative the Court of Inquiry which conti-
nued sitting at New-York.
The Messenger who brought the above dispatches
left Piiil.-idelphia on the 21st ult. to which date we
have received Americsn Newspapers. They are fii!ed
as usual with declamatory matter against this coun-
try, and our Government k now charged with secretly
stirring up the Indians to hostilities ?gaunt the linked
States. Some ac,:ount of these charges will be found
in another part of our Paper.

. .
The latest accounts from Sicily state, that Lord
WILLIAM BENTINCK 114.1 demanded of the (_)peen of
SICILY, that British troops should be admitted into
Palermo. Letters from Malta, dated the 29th of
august, state, that not only this concession was re-
quired by his Lordship, but that the proposal WAS
actually put into execution, and that an English gar-
rison conntiued to occupy the city. Alter this pre-
caution was adapted, the British Minister proceeded
to Messina, and set at liberty a number of persons
who had been unjustly imprisoned under the mandate
of the Court.

The inhabit rats of Malta have presented a remon-
strance to the Governor, in which they asserted, that
they have been deprived of the benefit of their ancient
laws, and insisted that they ought to be restored. It
seems that in consequence of the protection afforded
by the sanctuary, numerous robberies had been com-
mitted with impunity, among which is that of a naval
officer, who had been pillaged of 53,000 scudcs in
paper, and 700 in specie. 'lke payment of the former
being stepped they were returned by a priest, but the
specie WAS Tet:llllCd.

• A letter from Messina, dated Ai!gust 1, says,
We are in daily expectation here of a revolution ;
things seem instantly coining to a ci isis ; the hatred
towards the English discovers itself more and more,
and a peace with France 'is almost assured, but by no
means doubted ; the people are gathejng in crowds,
and exclaiming for want of bread ; almost all ow
friends of consequence in the island are sent in exile
to Parigano ; and this day the Gazetteer Britannica
was suppressed, and Giovanni de Bobold, the printer,
put in confinement. The French do not come down
this summer, nor do we of course expect them.
In the course of four days, this city experienced
13 shocks of earthquakes, and one more severe than
has been known fora long time ; and alarmed the
whole i:eighbt.urhood to so great a Degree, that many
of the inhabitants quitted their beds, and escaped into
the streets, without their clothes."
Friday se'nnight sixteen gun-boats, or praams,
came out of Boulogne ; and, keeping closely tobether
and creeping along the shore, eluded the vigilance or
our cruisers, and got safe into Dunkirk.
A fellow being ordered to be publicly whipped, ad-
dressed the Judge—" My Lord, I'll submit to the
pnnishroent if you insist upon it, but I don't life it;
I might be a good scholar now, if I had been fond of
ULU amusement at school."
There was lately found, in a field on Mr. David-
son's farm, Mains of Caithbrogie, in the pari.li of
Tarves, a gi eat number of the gold and silver coins of
James VI. of Scotland ; several of them of the dates
from 1.5E9, two years after this Prince was crowned at
Sliding, to 1601, after he had assumed the English
eroen. They are in a high state of preservation.

_--:--s

ZING.
•
The express from Windsor yesterday, in the early
part of the day, stated, " that his MAJESTY was not
considered better, although he had three hours sleep
in the course of the night."—At a late hour in the
evening, an express arrived at York-house, stating,
that his MAJESTY was not so well as when the ex-
press was sent off in the morning ; and had not taken
the exercise of walking."