Star. — London, England, 1816-08-27 00:00:00

, .. •e GER.ILIN PAPERS. . A e . . lilt OM THE FRONTIERS OF SWITZERLAND, AlNiv• The m'ilita . ry armaments in France still.centinee, and excite attention. We cannot assign the tone lea. ipa of them. 'Conjectures are not wanting. but thtty are too uncertain (or us tt• communicate them. What paittcularly.excites remark is, that the French Go , , ernment has given renewed orders fur prnvisioning those fortresses on the frontiers which are not in the possession of the allied troop I and for the executing) of this measure, a special commission is appointed in each fortress. Bides this, the gait-isms these places, which have been hitherto very weak, are to be strengthened, and the troops destined fur this pur pose must be put on their march without delay..:-- There is, however, no doubt but. that these fortresses will not receive more numerous garrisons than fixed . in the convention un this subject between the Allicd Powits and France. Bit if we add t i the maxi- mum of this force the active Nati, nal Guards, who nie every wfu:re Organized in the fortresses, it appears that they hay.s strength enough to maintain a respec table defensive attitude. li3 the .Esstein . trsintier tlipartm-pis, peopleure ulnae sat a loss to explain this, -11. the French Audio- T seles are upon the must friendly mints with this Aii stsiass. Bavarian, Wurts:mburgh, and Prussian Com manders' and no discussioni of any importance have 'adult° taken place. ...These Commauders, howev,r, donot allow-iv rued National Guards to be organis-d i s the districts which they occupy. Some attempts s f the kind could not be carried into eff..ct. What is in every respect remarkable, is the placing in active i t ivice ((Aids has no w actually taken place) of a considerable number of French Generals, mostly such us the Government has hitherto hot trusted, because they servo d under Napoleon in the Spring of 181 . 5. An nlliCsal list `Ot Oem is not yit published:: tn. •a!e !risers. mention the names of several iiiho..have distingaished ti emsehes daring the last ten year&-..‘ Of the Nhitsli:fls, Secheti, St. Cyr, and Monier, are put into activity. Macdonald is also 'said to be en. Whether tl eye app - Ointments indicate the Tual;ta king of the command of corps d'arnics, may be doubted, as till trove at leest no orders h tee been published respecting the formation et particular cores. It is said further,. that Marshal Soult, who is now with his family at Duesel.tortr, has received the as surance that lie shall soon to struck cot of the list of proscription,. and seinststed in his rank cf Marshal. France would undoubtedly recover in )sim one of its 'mint Coronvnders, whose political offences to wards floc: Bomilions 4T.0 SWOT les ciniderable than these for cram+ of M.trshal Sachet, who has been again received into f.voisr, and of whose Conduct, in March, 1815, an iutetesting account has. bten published. A cc/siding to the intended augmentation of the French as my, every regiment al infantry se ill be raised to - 1000 men, and - very regiment ei cavalry to 6'M) men. Great complaints have lately ben made again respecting the vexati.lus conduct of the French' Cus. tom-house Officer!, on 'the Swiss frontiers, and it is a fact, that they have not proceeded with such rig our at any period within these last twenty years. ' Yet still large consignments of foreign goods are smog gled into France. For some time past the roads leading to Beson"con i and Lyons are covered with convoys of artillery, sluch are removing from the French frontier for:, tresses into others, in the neighbourhood of which there are no allied troops. A great quantity of heavy artillery has arrived at Besarapn and Grerloble—it came chiefly from Metz and Strasburg!), from which places all the artillery that isnot absolutelf necessary is to be . brought away. The ammunition is to be removed in like manner. A central depot of artillery and ammunition is established at Orleans. which receives likewise a great quantity of artillery. coming front the Northern and Eastern Departments. The French cannon founderies and manufactories of arms ate busily employed in order to repair, as far as possible. the immense losses sustained in the campaign. of 1816. PALERMO. JUNE 24. .In the Coma k Politico of yesterday, k an article, of which the following ale extracts: We are now at the end of June, and the period ii elapsed in which, according to the 9th of the 12 Fundamental Articles, the Parliament ought to have been convoked. In two months more we are at the end of August, When the contributions that were granted cense, when the taxes.. fixed in the last Ses sion of the Parliament for the sea vice of the year, will expire,. We are therefore near to the fatal and dis. tressiug alternative of seeing. either the politicalVna• chine stand still for want, or the Conatitutinn in fact destroyed, if the levying of the taxes should then be proceeded on in an irregular and unconstitutional manner. That is not all. The public creditors are not paid; though there are so many families who subsist wholly, or in part, on the interest of the stock. l The civil officers are not paid, the troops are many. months* r a x . in , a r e* ! .; the notes which the Goirerit-, meta issue J for their payment with the most guicitm assurances, are ineffectual, dna have contributed on the contrary to ruin public credit. The writer men-, tioas the several circumstances that seem to render , the speedy summoning of the Parliament necessary. and ,et be adds, nothing is doing that indicates any intention of the kind, though- there is scarcely time for the legal formalities of election, &c. _lt is clear, therefore, continues he t that one of tire two alive, mentioned evils must take place, and it is easy to guess which will he chosen. The second will be chosen, and the first allvdged as the reason. :it Can• not but appear astonishing and inconceivable that 'bitnisters should.bring tipao themselves such a heavy responsibility. It the Constitution is not to be an empty farce. bucreally to tlx the tide of , the country, the stein Parliament must adopt energetic Measures to provide in future against the recurreuos of similar catastrophes." • • • Extract of a letter from Dieppe, Aig. 22 ••• 44 Sir Wu. ,Scorr hat keen indefatigable the investigatioo at the.criiel murder-of Captain Psitrstope, and to king the depredaiuri to justice, but all of no ayail. They are allowed tri continue at large. None of the crew belonging to die Nancy were permitted to WW I en.ehe day the deceased' was carried - to the grar*.—..l The corpse was, todowed by the Enslis,4 visite*, . . and residents in the,town." suoglr • eammompi.. • PRIVATE LETTER. - .44 Tv vaiinos Miniiters have already prepited ae aftistrio of She *ants of their respective administra• tows, .in CAW to inbmit.them to the consideration 01 the Chamber at the approaching Session. The amount it not less than eleven hundred millions of l•vres. The .extrarirdinary ek,Eat in the war .depart anent is attributed in part to the entire liquidation of 48 millions of arrears, of which it is affirmed a por tion .at least might have been deferred' to a mote distant period. The commission has not yet resnlved on any reasoned plan to provide for the exigencies of the State. M. Corectto is expected in Paris in the course of a few days ; and were any additional proof wanting of. the meeting of the Chamber, according to Royal Ordinance, on the Ist of October, it might be !mind in the irresolirtion and disagre:ment v:hich vre ail r:onceraing 14 finances, the state of which contintl , s to iisflict a fatal wound on public credit. A number of Derides have already reached Paris; a. d the Ses.inn h etreeted to be so stormy, that it is whispered there are vc•ry few questions to which the public will be admitted. The name of the street Jean Jacques Rousseau has been effaced within the last two days at Paris, to make roam for the more &sant appellation of '4 Rae Platriere." 41 The rump it is again revived, that the South Americans have offered the crown of their extensive country to Joseph Sirup irtc. 44 Persons rriving bum Nancy say, that the nu► merous apprehensions which took place lately in don city were excited by an agent of the, police. This man phi yed the part of t man disaffected to Govern. ment, became acquaito....(l with many hall pay Offi cers, distsibured among . tkete unsuspecting men sedi- tious pampltts or prohibited engravings, and then de. nounced to the authorities the rooms where they were concealed. What appears to confirm this rumour is, that the Prefect has indexed *number of these priso. was to be set as I.lnrty. . " A very. scandalous outrage was off:red to the Britist: army, in the person of one of the military or derlies, opposite to the church of the Assumption. yesterday at Paris. The English soldier, in the exe onion his duty, was passing along the rue St. Honore, when he was met by a fellow in the-uniform of a French officer, accompanied by two outer per sons : without the slightest provocation cr even a word passing h.tween them, the. Frenchman tittered a'o!rt'nt of the lowest abnse on the English nation, and struck the soldier with his horse%hip, who, front 7t sense uf discipline and the respect an epitukue ex. cites, instead of retaliating, endeavoured to pinion his adversall's hands. General d'Anican accidentally arrived, and it:gutting of the Officer wh::t was the motivo of his conduct, drew on himself several con temptuous appellations. and at length two or three blows. 'l'he Gtfender was instantly con:lneted to the corps de garde, and followed by a member of French lookers-on, ssho voluntarily came forward to give testimony as to the inoffensive conduct aid subsequent moderation of the British soldier. The whip was de. posited at the Etat-Major's, where the Of fi cer was conducted : on giving himself nut for an Aide-de- Camp of the Duke of Berri, General d'Aiiican re plied, it was impossible the Duc de Berri could have an Aide-de-Camp who could conduct himielf in so unofficer-like a manner: in fact, it was afterwards proved that he had entirely usurped this title. He is at present au secret in the prison of the Abbayi." AIMTHER LITTILIt.••3AI4II DATL s , •We begin to perceive here all the symptoms which necessarily accompany the period of the meet ing of the Chambers. It is certain that the Ministry, or a part of it, or at least one individual Minister, is very much afraid of this re•entrance on legislative duties. It is felt that all the Ambassadors of Trance at Foreign Courts, ( with the exception of the Am bassador at London,) hostile to the majority of the Chamber, must have inspired the different Sovereigns of Europe with great alarm at it ; which circumstance, during some months of diplomatic correspondence, must have been the means of_ conveying to the king of France an opinion which will have appeared una nimous as to this feelings of Europe against that ma jority. In tine, this party, or this individual of the Ministry above alluded to, fears nothing so much as the re.atatnibling of the Chamber, composed as it now is. "'The following is the singehr plan which, it would appear, has been adopted ; and with regard to which it is added, • that it is only postponed tor a short time, that the fetrof the King may not be dis , sorbed by its publication. A Royal Ordinance will appear, importing—That the King feels daily more and more convinced of the necessity of in no respect departing frOm the Constitution:—That the exhaing Chamber of Deputies is composed. in a manner pre cisely and literally contrary to that Constitution : The Constitution says, that the Chamber ought to consist of only 270 Members, and there are 400: It says that the Members should have reached the age of 40, and thire. MC many who are not 25 years old.—The King was led to assent 'to this by Counsels . not sufficiently entightiented.—He sets the s eumple ni .returning to that *red text from which he wiji never swerve. He regrets being unable to convoke a Chamber so devoted; but presume* that a great number of its Members will be re•elvsted. •" This Ordinance will. innoun.ce, that the new Chamber will be summoned for the Ist of November, and that a subseqUent Ordinance shall segalate tile convocation and formation of the Electoral Colleges. 64 As a con:music, of this plan, it is beliefed, that the Mod bloc be4ig once struck, Ministers will feel public opinion on the. subject of the adoption, in the course of September, °rancor other of the three fol lowing meet s 66 Ist. To aisestible for new elections the Electoral Colleges, such. as they exifted in 1813, taking care to tobstitute for the adjuncts of that period adjuncts of the liberal or ministerial way of thinking. " 21 To retain the existing Chamber, striking out all such as are under 40 years of age, and draw. ing lots fee the rest, in order to reduce the whole to 270 Members.. in the hope that, thus mutilated and menaced with dissolition,.say become and manageable. . • P. Or Sd.—and this is ,be boldest course of all: an actual appeal so eirwilationat7 power resnscjtated— .ro'editt'oke soar Deli electoral reiolotionary bodies, 'and to compose them cif all those to whim the Con stitution leaves she power of beaming electors.- PP I ing only SOO francs." " • . . 4.opettirreivit NAjeiterlirs or 71 kliflllt4loCi or AN Ak4hITION TO dAlfEll SYSilstord, 11110 AD CLoTifMISR, Ii AR I.II.IOOIIIISPIELD, The erconrageMents given by the King of France gn preternatural monitions, has produced its expected effect; a Ghnsc has appeared in Yorkshire, to an elderly broad cloth weaver, and every European country will, it is to be hoped, enjoy a similar vibita 'inn, for since their Rulers will not be Moved by what the living and the suffering urge upon theM, they may, perhaps, be influenced by the advice . 01 the dead. Ames Sympson lives at the distance of four miles mid three quarters from Huddersfield —he is ratter o f st melancholy temperament, fond of smoking, about five feet eight inches high, with a cast in his left eye—was twice married, but has no children by Molest wife, halts a little with the right leg, and lost one of his eye-brows, when a boy, by the ex,dasion at it sixpenny brass cannon. On the 2d of August, 1816. as he was stepping out cf bed at about halt past five in the morning, he felt something pulling him back by-the shirt; be thought it was his wife,, who sometimes does so, but upon turhing about he found that she was fast asleep ; this be has since acknowledged somewhat surprised him. When he attempted to put on his breethes they were Suddenly snatched from his hand, and carried with at cracking noise up the chimney, and in this state he was, as he states, irresistibly compelled to go into his kitcl.en, where he. discovered a tall thin Man. as he then supposed him, dressed in an olive coloured great coat, and nankeen trowsers, sitting in a bee-hive chair by the tire, who uttered, to the best of his recollection, the following words : " James Sympsim, I am going to alarm you—if you have any gin in the house take a glass of it—l am a s pi r i t —I am commissioned to inform you on several points .which your own natural reason is utterly incompetent to discover—List, list, oh, list I—l see James Symp. son that you mistake me--.yon conceive that I am ex hotting you to go into tile army, but our army is more than sufficiently numerous, and I am come not to increase bet to reduce it."—[Here the Ghost took a pinch of snuff, and perceiving that Sympson, between cold and terror, was.cxtremely uncomfortable, he Je sired him to step for his wife's floinel petticoat, and to put it on him during the rest of their conference]. Upon his return in the petticoat the apparition thus continued .-‘, Olanivis what I say to you, James, and register it upon your memory, for you must repeat it in high places, there are seventeen fleabites between your wrist and your elbow, and there are an equal number of spots on the face of the sun, and the bites and the spots have an equal effect on the state of Cie weather, but when the cold passes away we shall have warm weather, and when the rain ceases the weather will become dry. I appeared to Mr. C.,b bett on nay way here, and told him jocularly that the corn would not ripen, but I find he bas taken it seriously, and set down in his journal a long para graph cn the !Ante of the harvest. But what I say to you, James,•is in earnest, for you meet go on the outside of the coach, and repeat it to those high in authority ; ai:d as, perhaps, James (for ghosts have a privilege of speaking unintelligibly) in the course' of this ccnversation, I may make use of words not perfectly level to your understanding. I conjure you to write them or have them written down en a piece of paper, and apply for an explanation of them to the Rev. Dr. Dunderdosy, the rector of the parish —he is now at Cheltenham, getting rid of the bile, and will thane go to Bath to fix the gout in his feet, and will then proceed to Tunbridge to establish an appetite, &ad will finally return here to get in his tythes—call upon, him with a list of the hard words: I will in the interim warn him in a dream to purchase a second-hand copy of Johnson's Dic tionary, and thus will he be enabled to expound to you the obscure terms in my discourse. Jame Sympson, the taxation is enormous—it is gradually obliterating the middle dais, so that it it continues we shall have a society composed of sinectke place holders' and paupers, of men in carriages and men in rags,.of idleas and of beggars,..of parasites and slaves, the only remedy for this is rdreachntent, while the taxes continue so excessive, those who can will avoid them by emigrating, and it this be attempted to be prohibited by an impost. the persons interested will come back to be sure, but then it will be for the • purpose of selling their properties, taking away their capital, and quitting their country for ever, and this, James Sympson, will not mend the matter. . —Sinecure places and unmerited pensions arc an abo mination—a canker that is gradually sapping the vital principles of honour and independence —a pre mium to corruption.. the guilty fee in many eminent instances of the betrayers of their country's rights-,- a bait for rats, a cordial for borough-mongers. Get upon the outside of the coach, Jemmy Sympson-1 will warn the driver in a dream .to secure an outside place tor you, and never stop except upon urgent and necessary occasions till you get to London.— There is a large house in Pall Mall, on the right or the lett hand as yms happen to go up or down the street—knock at the door one knock, a middling dock, neither too strong nor too weak—l will warn the porter in a dream to admit you, for without such i a precaution you would nevir pass the gate, Jemmy Sympson. Proceed into the dwelling—you will be hold strange sights, bus be not dismayed. You will see green, red, and blue dragons, bat they will not bite you—you will also see mandarins shaking their heads at you, but do not take their noddilig to yourself, you are neither a foreign ambassador ner a page of the back stairs—turn - io the right and then to thelett, and then again to the right, and you will oome to a demur, which you Will open, and in the closet you u ill find a man putting on a wig, and say I to that man what I have no* said to you. and write •on a sheet of paper the word RETRENCHMENT in large characters, and get four wale, F. and paste it on the wall of the closet, and w hen you have performed all this retire, and return by the coach toyotir wife, 1 and work, if you can get any thteg to do, and if noi, apply to the Overseers. and if they cannot provide for you, you will-do your Utmost to starve with as much propriety as the most respectable among your neighbours." . . After having uttered theie mysterintis words, the apparition walked out of the itsroom;mounted hone, 'and 'beauty, totally invisibleat the end • of a quarter ,iif a mile, there being at that distance a torn in the ' (road. Mr. Simpson, atter retuvering 'a bole from .. . . leis as ' ttxtisb'nttlt, ran to his wife, who had jug wakened, and was nearly as much sntorisad adoption of her fllnnel petticoat, as he tad tine his interview with the spirit; he related to' that happened, but.she told hint that he wa s tool, and desired him to mind his bu s i ne , s, disturb himself or her with such trurnFery THE ',NrENING STALL N DO N. TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1816 . . PRICE OF STOCK THIS DAY Al* oNE O'CLOCIC Reduced 11211-.. Cons. 61i 63.—Cons. for see..cLi 62 4 per Cent. 76ii-mS per Cent. Nivi 921 i Bank Stock Stack -- —Zunda 60.7,. Exchequer 11111 s, 34.15 i. pre. Last night we receved some Germ an p : from which we have given a remarkable detail litary preparations in France, and respectin it the French Journals are wholly silent. Indeed, for light thrown upon the affairs of France. till other mediums than her public press, v.* know but little of what is passing in that country, They have as yet told us nothing of the disturbaa c4 ; at Nancy and Strasbungh ; hut one of the N it * has ventured to mention, the sending adLicnal to- the latter place. , We have received the Park Papers of Friday rl Saturday : they mention the arrival of the Duke,' Wra.morox at Paris. and his subsecibent audienred the KING, which lasted an hour. The-French Jon. nalists also inform us, with an air of triumph, th at 5000 English visited Versailles a leg days since. Tr i ate ashamed and sorry for the fact, and R e leak i s but too true.—More trials for treason are prcerind ; the parties are as usual absent : PARIS, AUGL - ST 24. The Duke of Kent, who travels under the tide of the Earl of Dublin, has proceeded from V.deLtienn.es to Br ussels. We hear from Alsace that they expect in thatptr. vince, and also in Lorrain e ; the D u k e o f ! about the end of September. He will review the allied troops cantoned in these departments. Thti. tro.-apz; will encamp immediately icitr the liaritzst got in until the en* of Autumn. The beautiful Polish Countess Valeska, so well known by her ir.timacy with a t'..llatn: us personage, has fOne to Brusstls to marry t.,;:neral O,nano. Generals Laborde and Clause! will speedily be tried for rchellicn : both are absent. COVIIJER EXTRAORDISIA2Y SATURD'IY His Royal Highness Monsieur, Oeles !Bother, hunted yesterday in the Pork e! Vincent:es with the Count Je Millie and several °Cheers: they killed 6(I partridges and lour bares. The hunting eneed at four o'clock.. The Duke of Argouleme in Lis recent tour, vis:ted the department of the Upper Slone, which has been so maltreated by four successive inundations aad hat experienced a dreadful fan.' le. His Royal Highness has evinced the most tender interest towards the rt. fortunate inhabitants of this country: he c.nefully informed himself of all the generous citizens whohtd the goodness to be useful to tile department s he is. sired them to dine with him. Intelligence from Brussels of the 18th, states, thit Messrs. Pommettuil and Garau have been arrested M. Arnault has Red ; General Harlin has also rue away. They are searching for General Diellinet. General Vandamme has received orders to set off Barrere will be arrested if lie is discovered. LAUSANNE, AUGUST 16.. • The nomber of English tesidents at Geneva im mense. Hundreds have—visited the Glaciers of Chamouni within these few days: We have received letters from Buenos Atret, dated the lit of June, which give an unfavourable account of oar trade in that quarter. There were then 25 Eng. lish ships lying in that port without a single sailor ft board, all the men having deserted, so great WAS the• temptation held out for the privatecring system i mat engaged in this country to go to Buenos Ayres re: ceived 555. per month wages; but to return they in. sisted upon being paid 22 dollars per month. The Americans had completely engrossed• the wl,:ole Of the trade, as th;:y took over implemeots of war t. far whiz,' they found a 'ready exchange for the gtods of the country ; the English cannot get bait few freight!, as the prices of goods were extravagantly h:gh, and the inhabitants were anxious for no other articles but those that would assist them *Agit- emaucipatipe. The PRINCE REGENT'S health contipues to improve: The Quern took an early dinner with his !Copt ?Ugliness yesterday at ihe Stud House. The Eal and Countess ot &man are on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness ot STAMFORD, at aitit sear, Duniolim Ctsrlo, Soilicrlandshire. _ _ _ The Marquis of eil'Aleynltll,fsom Y desire of giving employment to the industrious poor. has commenced upon draining and subdividing in extensive track of moor Lind, atlesitalh Salop. Mr. BROUGHAM is waiting to Switzerland to have an interview with the Princess of WsLes, who has some very important tiE.Lirs to consult him alpoo--r Sir SAMUE.I. ROAHLLY'i j dinky there is thone,ht to 'have a similar c•bj :cr. Sunday the Royal Rerse Guards' Officers gave.* grand dinner to the Officers of the Foot Guards, on their leaving Windtor ; the baud played in the Bar rack square till ten o'clock. .. Yesterday morning, the Font Guards marched from Windsor Bairacics for London ; the third Rs• giment niarthed in- at three o'clock,- with the Las ut . Lkutceilrett. jun g ri 111 at li t been it to he r * as on 4 4 . i attd oi t i rnitigi 12 ti ia I 5.* ail (( m i. , .. Iced, b it ' thro 2i k t• shotild country, ,urbascet .;" INltnais ; .. :a/ poop •