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50 THE STAR OF FREEDOM. September 4,1852...
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50 The Star Of Freedom. September 4,1852...
50 THE STAR OF FREEDOM . September 4 , 1852 .
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FRANCE . . ¦ i Bonaparte and the English Press—Terrible Mortality amongst the Transports at Cayenne—The Condemned at Bedarieux—The Fete at Sk CloMr ^ I ' eWful Tragedy . FHOM 0 UJ ? b ' Wtf COlifjESPO ^ DEEIT . K . l \ # i AuCiUST , 3 JS * . A fierce paper warfare has been going on between' the Moniteur and the English journal the Times . The former , however , has got sore from the merciless whacks of its London
contemporary . The organ of the autocrat—may I not say tne autocrat himself?—got angry and disgusted at zhq naughtiness of the Times , whom not the the most absolute assertions could convince ^ T $ those . accustomed to be far above reasoning , who feel it the xd ' osi ii'brriBle of all indignities to condescend to dis eussion , it is gall and wormwood to have scorned and turned into ridiaule th & commiqus & , of the official prints . . To show the unreasonableness of the Times , it is enough id state that that journal dared actually to question the official number of killed and wounded in the December massacre , no ! withstanding the Monitwr iii recalling it . There were but eight or
tenaccideutly wounded says the Moniteur inlign-mtly . Why , in saying so , 0 mouth of despotism , you yourself exaggerate . There were hot eight or ten persons accidentally killed in the " disturbances" consequent upon the coup d ' etat , there were more accidental ^ killed , the whole affair was a premeditated slaughter . The Times , however , will not give credit to the organ of the Prince ( why should the English journalists remember that he is a convicted liar and perjurer ?) , and the Moniteur , standing aghast aud powerless , the ' Pays steps into the lists and launches against the thundery of Printing House-square the following volley of Bonaparte ' s hireling : —
There exists , then , a country in civilized limrope m which tuc liberty of the writer goes the length of defamation . There exists a press which , " in place of preaching up concord and piece , performs the office of offering insults . and . calumnieswhich , in place of appeasing expiring hatred , studies each day to-, irritate and envenom it . Yes , that country exisis , and is called England , and that press exists , and in London . A matter still more grave is , that it is a serious journal , the admitted organ of certain political parties , the Times , which has long
since adopted this system of abuse , perfidiously calculated , and audaciously written . It is only a few days back that the Moniteur considered it necessary to protest , in the name of France and of her government , against the malevolent imputations of the British print . And yesterday we find in the columns of the Times fresh insults , not onlv against the mm whom popular suffrage has proclaimed head of the state , out against the whole nation . The French magistracy , according to the English libeliist , is a collection of prevaricating judges , sold by perjury to every government . The army , which has
saved European civilisation from barnarism , a bony of disorderly praetorian ; th * senate , that irremovable guardian of the constitutional compact , a troop of mercenaries , without character and without power ; the Legislative Body , that direct emanation of the national sovereignly , a power without authority and without influence ; the people , in fine , the people , which is the soul of all these social forces , which has exercised its sovereign power on three different occasions , by the vote of tlie
constitution , the election of its legislators , and that of its local representatives , the French people is a living ruin , from which the breath of political life has departed , and which roils on to death down the fatal descent of decadence , is a degenerate nation which in its degradation only asks from the government amusements , reviews , and public fetes , jpanem et circenses . What , in truth , is the object of these reiterated insults ? Does the shade of Pitt agitate the nightly thoughts of the English pamphleteers , and cry to them , Hatred to France ? Is London about to become a second time the centre in which the most
insensate intrigues will bs concocted against our country ? Will the British press again distribute through the world these odious pamphlets which fifty years ago disseminated between France and England so much national indignation ? To see the persistence of these outrages and calumnies , one would imagine that a mot d ' ordre is acted on to excite against France the . arms of hatred and vengeance . The French government is so high placed , that it can despise these insults and calumnies , and content itself in the serenity of its dignity with re-establishing the truth which has been so impudently violated . And
besides , we comprehend that when one is supported by the suffrages of a whole nation , one may disdain the powerless blows which are given in a foreign country by a vulgar and anonymous hand . But , if there is not here the principle Of a diplomatic difficulty , there is at least for us , who see the majesty of our country insulted by a British libeliist , a sentiment of national susceptibility which arises and festers in our hearts . The French people has never suffered , and will never suffer , other nations to intervene in its internal affairs , either by their sovereigns , or ministers , or journals . It intends to be respected as a people merits which has always marched at the
head of civilization , and which now again has just saved the world from anarchy . It insults no one , and will not allow itself to be insulted . And when , by the calm of its pacific manifestations , it has just given go marked an example of its respect for authority—when , in dissipating in the " political horizon the revolutionary clouds which darkened it , it has ensured the repose and the future peace cf Europe , is it wise or proper or prudent to wound that national sentiment which for thirty years has had so much difficulty in restraining itself . What ! the French press has for the last thirty years been making unheard-of efforts to draw closer the bonds of union and
friendship which ought to unite France and England . It preaches up without ceasing the oblivion of the old hatred which existed j it praises the English people , and speaks of their affection for France ; it accomplishes , in a word , the mission of those well inclined men who desire to consolidate universal peace hy mutual sympathy , and by the fraternity of nations . And to that work of concord and magnanimity the English press responds by insults and calumnies , borrowed from the gazetteers of the times of the consulate and the empire . But we do not render the English people , and still less its government ,
responsible for the insults of a press devoted to coteries and directed by badly-disguised passions . This abusive language , we are certain , excites as much indignation on the other side of " he channel as amongst us . May there not be at the bottom incomprehensible attacks some personal ambition , to satisfy by throwing the germs of hos-France and England ? There are men whom power often urges to the most deplorable atwould not hesitate to trouble for that object . The wisdom of the French and British q interests which unite them , the sympathies cnannei as wS
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which exist between them , will know how to baffle these disloyal manoeuvres , and cause them , if they exist , to end in a ridiculous failure . . You will mark the Jesuitry and insolence of the scribe of the Ely see in daring to speak of the Decembrist bandits as " France . " No , it is not against France that is being excited the arms of hatred and vengeance ; every word of truth relating
to the despot and his crimes is an act of lore towards Franceof hatred and vengeance only towards her crudest enemy . Blind practical" men might say that this war of journals Is a trivial matter ; I do not believe it to be so , I believe that in spite of the confidence in the English government ( confidence shameful for the English people ) , boasted by the Boiiapartist scribe , this pen and ink strife is but the prelude to one of a more serious character . England would do well to be on
her guard . Private letters have reached here , escaping the lynx eves of the spring officials , from some of the iransporj . es at Cayenne . The mortality dindiigst them has been tmfy fearful . The government have tlionght" fit to deny this By saying . thai ; amongst them all only nine have died , and those wen ) ill before they quitted France , Think of . the horrible treatment they have endured , as described by Mageu , Crimen , and Victor "Hugo , added to all which is the deadly climate , and think what tale is likely to be true . « -y ^ * / I TT * .... tt- 1 (* / M ' IT of Victor number of ies of his
Speaking Hugo , a cop . Napoleon le Petit have been seized in the hands of one of our friend . * , who has just been cast into prison . The sentence on the men of Bedareaux has been set aside by the Court of Revision , at Toulouse ; they will be tried again . The President ' s late late fete at St . Cloud was a moat miserable failure ; no one came to see it from Paris but a few of the most miserable of sight-seers , and even they went away cursing the / fite and its projector , since the fireworks went out as obstinately as those thai ; constituted the imperialist emblems on the Champs-Elysecs .
A letter from Angers mentions a horriole event which took place at Bressac , a village in the Maine-et-Loire , four miles distant , on the 24 th inst . Thirty persons , of whom eleven were children , on quitting the communal school , were attacked by two butcher ' s dogs , and more or less bitten ; three of the children were horribly mutilated . The inhabitants of the village became so incensed that they procured fire-arms , and commenced an indiscriminate slaughter of all dogs , whether muzzled or not . They even fired at dogs in the interior of gardens , and , from the continuous . firing , many persons fancieel an insurrection had taken place . Many in this down-trodden land would not have been sorry had it been an insurrection airainst
the dogs of the Llyscc . BELGIUM . The president and secretary of the Central Committee of the Belgian printers , went on Saturday to the Ministry of the Interior , at Brussels , to obtain information respecting the literary treaty with France . The chef de division endeavoured , says the Emancipation , to convince them that the suppression of the power of reprinting works would not he injurious to the printing trade , but they declared it would cause its ruin , and that Of the trades depenednt on it .
GERMANY . India BuVber Bayonets — Progress of the Cholera — Accident to the Prince of Prussia—The Press in Frankfort . AusTiiiA . —A letter from Vienna states that the Austrian War Department has authorised experiments to he lhade to test the use of a bayonet made of india-rubber I It is to be used to instruct the infantry in the bayonet exercise , as thrusts can be made with it with perfect recklessness and safety . It will be to the musket what the glove is to the hand in sparring .
Prussia . —The cholera has reached Konigsberg , two fatal cases having occurred on the 26 th . The Committee of Health has therefore been reconstituted , and has commenced the necessary arrangements for the reception and attendance of the sick . It is expected that the autumn exercises of the 1 st Corps d'Armee will be countermanded . From Dantzic the accounts are to the 25 th . The cholera has
increased , and there were at that date from 40 to 50 new cases daily . Formerly the disease was exclusively confined to the Altstadt and the Niederstadt ; but it has now spread to other quarters of the town . From the first appearance of the disease to the 25 th there had been 308 cases , of which 145 were fatal . The troops of the garrison had suffered more in proportion to their number than the civilians .
In the town of Posen there were seventy new cases on the 27 th , of which 29 th were fatal j on the same date there were 428 persons under treatment . In Miloslau the epidemic had shown itself , and also at Lissa , in the immediate neighbourhood of Breslau . The Breslausev Zeitiung gives a gloomly description of the continued prevalence of the pest at Pleschen .
The Kreuz ZeUung states , that from . Marienburg on the 26 th that the disease was still spreading there , and increasing in severity , especially in Weichselwerder and Nogatwerder . In the village of Nojau , of 350 inhabitants , 95 had died of the epidemic ; in Tragheim , with 250 inhabitants , there had been 43 deaths ; in Tauseo , 80 ; in Gross-Montau , 39 ; in Liessau , 21 ; in Schadwalde , 20 ; in Kunzendorf , 12 .
The Prince of Prussia , who seems to have been born under a most unlucky star , has again met with an accident . At the manoeuvres , near Stettin , on the 26 th inst . his horse , while at full gallop , shied and fell , throwing the Prince with great violence . Frankfort . —Another journal has been extinguished at Frankfort . The Volhblatt was seized by the police on the 27 th , who also took possession of the manuscripts of the forthcoming number , and ordered the paragraphs already composed to be distributed . SWITZERLAND . The Friehurg Elections—Riots—The Camp at Thun—English in Switzerland . The final result of the elections in Freiburg confirm the anticipations of yesterday ' s letter . Of 10 , 222 votes polled , Charles had 6 , 946 , Folly 3 , 311 , Sclmller 1 , 797 , and Bonnier 1 , 787 . The Sonderbund party has thus an organ in the national council . Riots have taken > plaee at Cagy and Friehurg . The troops of the Federal camp at Thun have resumed their exercises , suspended by the recent desolating weather . The men numbered 4 , 300 , all ( except 10 in hospital ) in excellent spirits , and under exemplary discipline . The English are swarming here thicker than ever , and we hear of them from all parts of Switzerland . The Valais seems to be rejoicing in the presence of a far greater number of guests than was ever before known .
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ITALY . Bobbery in the Boman States—Inundations in Piedmont—If on ing Napoleon—Austrian Repudiation—Conspiracy in SirifT ' Rome . —The Diligence which performs the service bct \ v * „ the Eternal City and Civita Vecchia was stopped on thoViwn of the 19 th by a baud of eight men , aniied and masker ' ! . a ! the passengers were despoiled , and the bags of the govennae , { carried off . Two days afterwards a carriage was stopped * an-l robbed on the same route . J c '
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UNITED STATKS . OUR AMERICAN CORRESPONDENCE . The Fisheries Dispute—Free Soil National Convention—T ' - , Liquor Law—Movement in Mexico—Arrival of the Pati ^ . Fearful Steam-boat Catastrophe . ( From our owii Correspondent . ) New York , August 17 . . The fisheries fever is still keeping up a subdued raving amono those who are loathe to part with such an excellent . handle fi « agitation , but even with such , hope is dying out , and their ' )&•• sisfcance is rather the effect of pride and obstinacy that au <
real belief that the fisheries dispute will come to anything . An excellent speech on this " much vexed question" was delive r by Mr . Seward , in the Senate , lasfc Saturday . He regards the question much in the light in which I have always seen it . I do not doubt but that Mr . Seward's speech will hnve a very considerable effect , for his influence is great with all the best rnwi in the Union in allying the unlucky irritations , which interested parties have endeavoured to fan into a flame of war . % x
while justly blaming my own countrymen in tins matter of the fisheries , I cannot bo blind to the conduct , both selfish ami underhand , of the British colonists . I see that the St . Joim papers exult over the announcement that Lord Derby has taken the power from Mr . Crampton to interfere in the fishing ( paestion , and think that the English Premier will stand by the colonies in the matter . I find in the Gloucester Telegraph tho following information from the fishing grounds :
" There have been two or three arrivals from the Bay of 'St . Lawrence , and we gather the following information respecting affairs in that quarter . Captain Sogers , of the Schooner C . & £ Rogers , informs us that he was in the Bay of Chaleur , when lie was boarded by an officer from the " Devastation , " and ordered out of the Bay . It was Sunday , and there were about twenty vessels in company . Some of them had made a harbour for tJiu
purpose of passing the Sabbath at anchor , as many of the fishermen are in the habit of doing , bat they were all ordered to get under weigh , and proceed out of the Bay immediately . The officer who boarded " the C . & N . . Rogers , wa ? insulting to the crew . Tne first lie said on boarding their vessel was , " that they had no business in that place . " They were at the time about four or five miles distant from the * shore . The papers were called for , and the reason asked why there was no
clearance among them . After the officer had L . okcd at them a minute , he crumpled them in iris hand and threw them up on the deck , saying to Captain Rogers , " there ' s your papers . " Wo also learn from Captain Sogers that the crow of an eastern schooner was taking in water at one of the harbours in the Bay , when a cutter came , and ordered them off in fifteen minutes , not allowing them sufficient time to obtain their water . One of op Gloucester vessels went into Fort Hood for a harbour for the night . A cutter was there , and the officers cave the crew nermisjjiguL . *\ . v , uub < 3 i > vci & iuuio , iiiill Luuuuiuuis guvexue crew
permission to remain , but the people on shore made so much disturbance about it that the captain of the cutter was obliged to order the vessel to get under weigh in the night ; and other Gloucester vessels were served in the same way . This is on the Cane Breton shore , and shows the feeling of the people of that place . The people of the Gut and at Prince Edward ' s Island arc more friendly to the Americans . It was reported at East Point , that an American , while running off from a cutter was fired into , and the man at the helm had several fingers shot oil ' . The name of the vessel was not known .
In my last I announced the nominations of the Free Soil National Convention , John P . Hale for the Presidency , and Geo . W . Julian for the Vice-Presidency . In Convention some noble and eloquent speeches were delivered by Mr . biddings , of Ohio , and several others . One , at least , of the resolutions contained in the report of the minority will , I am sure , meet your hearty approbation :
^ " That we should rejoice to have democratic leagues organized in every part of the world , to co-operate with our ow « democratic league , in hastening the blessed day when tfarc shall no longer be any tyranny to be execrated , nor anv victims of tyranny to be pitied . " The first liquor case , under the new law , in Boston , came nji in the Police-court on Saturday , against an Irishman , for selling one pint of gin . The case was postponed to this afternoon , tuu \ bail required in the sum of one thousand dollars . The complaint was made by an Irishman .
I have received the Mexican papers up to the 31 st ult . I learn by them that the Rebelledos movement was very formidable . The disaffected , at last accounts , were marching ' against Jalapa . Theirobject seems to bethe separation of the State of Orlyaba from the State of Vera Cruz . ARRIVAL OF THE PACIFIC . By the United States mail steamship Pacific , Nye commander , we have advices from New York to the 21 st ult .
A telegraph despatch , dated Baltimore , August 20 , communicates the particulars of a shocking steamboat catastra . r ^ , which occurred on Lake Erie , near Buffalo , on tho moriii « g' ol that day . It appears that at about two o'clock the steamer Atlantic , belonging to Messrs . Ward , came into col'feiou mt ' u the propeller Ogdensburg . A dense fog prevail *! at the time , and , as the numerous passengers on board the Atlantic , composed chiefly of Norwegian emigrants , were unable to sea the exact nature of their danger , they were greatly alarmed , and several leaped overboard . The captain endeavoured to
restore confidence , and the steamer kept on her course , the officers * hoping to be able to reach port , although the boat was leaking badly ; the water , however , gained rapidly on them , despite the effects of the crew , and by the time they had proceeded about two miles from the spot where the collision took place , it was found that the vessel was rapidly sinking , the fires in the engine-room being extinguished by the water . The emigrants , who could not understand a word ' spoken to them , by their ai
and terror added to the horror , of the scene . The cabin passengers , and all who could be made to understand , were exhorted by the captain and officers to remain in the cabin , and provide themselves with chairs , setttees , beds , & c , all of which were patent life-preservers , and would buoy them « P in tho water . Numbers , however , unheeding or not understanding the advice given them , rushed overboard to certain death . At halt-past
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 4, 1852, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_04091852/page/2/
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