Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1815-05-15
Foreign Articles.
PARIS. FEBRUARY I8


Every arrival from the Wet Indies an
nounces the continuation of unexampled
horrors and acts of cruelty in Spanifh
America; and every account concurs in
fating, that the civil discord RACES with
undated fury. The retaking of town
by the Spaniards. is now Ggnal for the
indifcriminate murder of its inhabitants !;
and thus We fee tina, Doves, the oppref
FOR of Caracas, on lately entering Cuma-
ma, pat the men, women and children,
TO the iword. What will be the end of
thetc repeated maflacres, and what will
be the Rate of the country when they are
over We have often fhed the tear of
fenGbility over the conqueit of South
Columbia, what will our children fay,
when they read what is now paning in
the 10Th century and in the face of
England, who, in fome meafure, tfands
as he worthy umpire ofthe world This
is war of brigandage, the ftagcs of
which, eye uitntdcs fay. pofterity will
fuppofe as fabulous. Ihefe horrors are
evenIincrea(ed by their repetition in the
Spanifl1 prints Of Mexico, Cadiz, sc bur
the misfortune is they feldom meet the
eye Of the public yet from what is 60
ing on ia Spain, we may infer what they
are on the Other fide the water.
In Mexico. Venegas by public decree
enacted that, "all infurgents were to be
fiitantly fhot, and allowed only time TO
fay one fhort prayer and even 1t
commanding Is men, was authorized to
execute this decree. The confequence
has been that thoufands of indians and
Creoles have been put to the fword in
cold blood, in exactly the fame manner
as the Cortes did. General Callcia in
formed the Viceroy of Mexico, that in
the affair of Acalo, in which he loft ore
man and two wounded, he put 70 the
fword sooo feduced Indians, and that
their total l3fs was ten thoufand. The
mott of thofs Indians. kneeling for aeTs
CIV The fame Gen in Guannaxoato
puf fourteen th0ufand old men. women
and children TO the fword. and deitroyed
the city, becaufe the iniurgent army had
there taken up its quarters, but by re-
treat had efcaped his fury. Gen Cruz,
by public decree, impoied death on
whomieever /" fhail have in his pohefllon
an axe or fmall knife. and adds, {" that
every town fhaI be decimated and every
tenth perfon ihot, where any intercourfe
has been had with infurgents, even
though it has been between father and
fon." -
The Prince of Orange has ahumed the
title of . the king of Netherlands )" and
ii is faid has commenced his march TO-
wards the frontier of France.
The population of Amfterdam declined
during the time Of Bonaparte from 22o,
ooo TO 100, 900 inhabitants, of whom
one quarter lived upon charity.
Louis XVIII has conferred the efate
(Which formerly belonged to him when
Couut dc Provence) of Gros Bots on
Martial Berthier, Prince de Wagram
On prefepting the title deeds he faid
/" But an hour ago | was proprietor of
eros Bois. have fnce divefted my
ielf and it is on you M. le Martial that
| have fettled it.
Abe Bordeaux papers mention tina,
feveral failures had taken place in Ham
burg, London, &c. on account of fpecu
lations made in American and other pro-
duce among Others, the Houfe of Levy
* Co and Mallet, Ibbns & Co in Lon
don Lehman & Son, in Hamburg !;
w NJ. Lehman s. Co. and V ] Valen.'
nne, in Gouenburg. 4 he amount Of
the failuresis eitimated at Q or TX mil
hons marcs+banco.
The erection of the Netherlands into
Kingdom, by the deciiion of the Con
greis of Vienna was proclaimed at
Bruilels the I7lh of March, amidf the
houts of Vive lie Roy, meaning the new
King Of Holland
BoNApARTE has fent his friend CAuLiN.
ccuRT Duke of Vizenca az prefenr
French Minifter of Foreign AfF,irs, to
negotiate for him with the Congrefs of
Sovereigns- and particularly with the
Emperor Of Auftria,
Ii is faid Napoleon has abolihed the
Slave Trade Perhaps this is done to
propitiate rhe Engifh, who are particu
larly itTenuons for the humiliation of this
traffic, and have made il fctjeet in all
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