Star. — 1818-09-02 (London, England)

LONDON.  WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1818. Lenox BuseT.—lleliday at the Bank, Lachequer, and  South-fmta House.  Private accounts from India contain several interesting statements which have not appeared in the printed Journals or public dispatches. The accounts relating to the conduct of the Dutch since their possessions in the Last were so impoliticly restored to them, demand, and probably will obtain, the serious attention of our Government.. In .he Lndian Archi pelago they have revived, unmitigated, those principles of exclusion by which their commercial policy has ever been distinguished. They have closed all the Eastern ports, obliged all the native vessels to carry Dutch flags and Dutch papers. They ate taking possession of all the ports, as Borneo, Sumatra, &c. &c. so as to form the same system of arbitrary exclusion they did before the last century, the barbarities of which, particularly those practised at Arnboyna, can never be forgotten. It was he4that, in 1621, they first tortured and then murdered the English, thereby engrossing the whole trade of the island and also that of 'Banda. The same hostility and de: termination to destroy all British trade in that quarter is now open and avowed. They do all in their power to lower and degrade the British name, to arrest British merchants residing at Batavia, and, in short, to harass and oppress them wherever they present themselves.  Acting ;n such a manner to the subjects of that Government to whose persevering labours, and, perhaps, blameable liberality, they are indebted not merely for their restoration to a participation in the commerce of the East, but for their very existence, as an independent people—acting thus towards a country which possesses the means to vindicate its own rights and redress its own wrongs, what can be expected from tha Dutch in respect to the unhappy, natives who are cursed with the presence of their arms and their cupidity ? Such have already been their oppression and injustice, that the natives in the Moluccas, and in some parts of-Java, have risen in arms against them ; and the mercileis tyrants, as the speediest way to silence their complaints, are now butchering them by thousands ! We have not the arrogance to dictate what should be the conduct of England on an occalion like this, To our assignment of these natives to " the tender mercies of the wicked" are they indebted for their present misery ; and without some restraint upon this system of encroachment and aggression, the whole of the Eastern trade will be lost. The Dutch are gradually monopolizing and raising the price of all articles the produce of the Archipelago, and are sending ships on their own account to Bengal to sell copper and tin, from Japan and Banca, to the nuin of the British mining interest. The impolicy of giving up these places to them requires no farther illustration. Bat this is not all that we have to complain of: in order to debar us from all intercourse with the natives, they keep in commission three line-of-battle ships, five frigates, several sloops of war, and innumerable armed vessels; in short, there is every thing but peace in that quarter. The prices of Coloni4 produce at Java, in consequence of these rest:Affirm% arias follow :—Coffee, from 18 to 20 dollars; Pepper, 13 dollars; Sugar, from nine to ten; which is three times the price they were when that fine island was sunder the wise and paternal government of Sir