Star. — London, England, 1807-09-08 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. PARIS, AUGUST 26. At t t in the mot ning of the 34th, his Majefly the• Emperor being feared on his throne, received a folemn depnration from the Legiflative Body, and another from the Tribunate. Upon this occafion M. Fontaine, the Prefident of the former Affembly, delivered the following interefting addrefs : ".Srar—The Legiflative Body lays at the foot of your Majelly's Throne the Addrefs of Thanks, to which they have tmanimoufly agreed. It is offered not fo much to the Conqueror, as to the Pacificator of Europe. Let others. if poffible, defcribe the wonders of your lag campaign, the rapid fucceflions of triumphs by which a monarchy was overthrown, and the Rill more heroic firmnefa which patiently knew how to wait for and prepare the day of vic tory, in the midft of fo many impediments thrown in the way, by fortreffes, troops, and the inclemen cies of the (colon. Let them dire& our attention to thole foldiers, who, equally indefatigable as their Chief, lay encamped with him fix months together in the bleak fields of the North, braving alike the fro zen winters of Poland, and the glowing fummers of Syria. Finally, let them piaure that Rate of conti nually threatened repofe which was at length to ter minate in a dreadful explotion ; and, above all, that decifive moment, previonfly announced by yonrfelf, when thefe frozen climes having become fomewhat more temperate, favoured your genius with the op. pottunity of completing the viaory, and compelling the varopiffied to accept terms of peace. It is not our province to blazon forth fuck performances and military atchievements. Whatever claim they may have to our admiration, they have been porchafed with tears, and they have infpired the Conqueror himfelf with feelings of commiferation, which gave him an additional title to our affeaion and elleem. 66 We dire our views to much more cheering fccnes. We would rather follow yru to the banks of that river, where, divefled of the pomp of war, two boats received two Emperors, and with them the future deftiny of the world. A memorable day a day to k)e celebrated in all fucceeding ages ! The two armies, drawn up exaelyoppofire to each other, along the tefpeitive banks of the Niemen, contem plated with allonithment fo interetting a meeting, after fo many deftruaive engagements; and in one infant ac-0,000 foldiers. compofed of Italians, Dutchmen. Scythians, Sarmatians, Germans, and Frenchmen, laid afide their arms, and the two greateß Sovereigns on earth met each other on a raft in the middle of the river, to adjaft perfonally the affairs of their Dates, and mutually Ilretched forth their bands, as a pledge of their reconcilement. Alexan der and Napoleon are united ; the war is at an end, a , l a hundred millions of people again tafle the bleffings of peace. 6 . The interefts of futurity itfelf are pollibly eon neaed with this celebrated interview, which was fo worthy of the youthful fuccefflr r , f the Czars. From one tingle individual he may have been furnifhed with tome examples, and received more information refpeaing the art of government, than formerly could have been obtained by Peter the Great, when with• . the view of fell inftruaion, be undertook a long journey, and vifited all the Courts of his Royal Contemporaries. The Treaty of Tilfit has left be hind no further pretence for a Continental war. On that great day it was that kingdoms and nations, the old and the new Powers took their fixed Rations: it was then that every thing became folid and fecure. 66 The nation, Sire, may now flatter itfelf with the hope. that it will not henceforth be, for fo long a period, deprived of your pretence, and that its in ternal welfare and profperity will continue to in create under your paternal fopetintendence. The nation has well merited your care and affeetion. At every epoch of your government, and particularly the ptefent, they have been folely occupied in emu lating the greatnefs of your exploits, by the extent of their facrifices and their devotion. We have hence forth the affurance, that we thall gratify your Ma jelly, by intermingling the homage which we owe you, with the praifes of that great and good people, as you have fo jufily denominated them. "The hearts of all of us are warmed by the proofs you have given us of your attachment to the French. The benevolent expreffions which you uttered from the Throne have alteady filled the pooreft cottages with joy. In talking of you, it will one day be Paid, and it is the finea trait in fo wonderful a hi Rory—it will be raid, s He, who difpenfed the fate of fo many Kings, occupied himfelf with attending to the condi tion of the poor ;' and that. on the termination of a loflg war, you diminilhed the public barthens, Willi your triumphant hand fo glarioufly dealt forth crowns to thole officers of the firtt rank who fought by your fide. " It is our 6I ft duty to bring to your recolleetion that Imagnarimotts promife which will not have been made in vain. Whillt you are creating round you new digni ties, and thole intermediate ranks which are the ap pendages of monarchy and fery e to augment its luftre, it fhall be our care to draw clofer our ties with that people, of whole fentiments we are the interpreters. In this we thall find a fpecies of greatnefs, which, though not Co dazzling, is not left honourable. " We (wear, Sire, that we will never belie the fen timents which have been Ramped with your appro bation. We fwear it in the pretence of that throne which is eftablilbed on the hafts of Co many.trophies, tint which governs all Europe. "And how is it poffible that yon thouldnOt receive with a favourable ear expredions which Krebs remote from fl ivet y as from anarchy—you, Sire.'who Gave waited yottrfelf vf the right of conquell only to re- Rote peace to the varcoiffied, and who have rein- Bated the inhabitants of the Banks of the Viftula in all their former privileges ? The Legiflative Body wall zeal , oily and to the utmoft of its power, pro wove the grand plans of improvement which occupy • your mind. Under the eye of your genius, we fhall fpeedily fee our civil and political initimtions per!caed. You wig .iffiz to them that Ramp of greatnefs and Rahi ti,y o oli c h diiiinguifh all the other creations of your ruperior u nderftandiog—and, to crown your glory,. gCIIIIIIIC freedom, which cannot esifi but under a • pure monarchy, will become mote and more fecure, Oder the government of an o mnipotent P r ince." The addrefs of M. Fabre, Prefident or the Tribe'• flatc, was to the following circa— §irc—Whilft your Majefty wasson;ufting your armies through new triumphs, and OVMATOWitigr i creating, and re-ereiting throne', yvur faithful fuli-1 jells, ever animated with confidence in th e g enius! and fortune of your Majefly, calmly applied them. (elves to their refpeCtive occupations, accelerating the periods of the departure of their children for the armies, and feeling no other regret than that of not being able to Mare in their dangers and glory, and breathing no other with than for the prefervation and happy return of your facred perfon. " Grand and aftonifhing fpeEtacle, which has dif played to the view of the world all your energies, and all our affeeions ! You have, Sire, feen that extatic affation beam forth, in thole unanimous rejoicings, thofe heartfelt ejaculation', which neither fear nor flattery can ever diffemble. Ah, what monarch ever had a greater, a better claim upon the feelings of his people 46 In the midi, of camps, nay even in the field of battle, the minuteft particulars of internal govern. ment were prefent to the mind of the conqueror of Eylau and Friedland. Already, though the maritime war (till continues, owing to the blind obflinacy of our eternal enemy, the profperous Rate of our finan• ces, has permitted your Majefty to diminith con-1 fiderably the public burthens—and, at the fame time to give that reli,tf to the land holders, and to bellow thole embellifliments on our cities, which no other fovereign before you has been able to accomplith Thus [hall the promife of the matt beloved of your predeceffnrs, Henry IV. be performed, nay exceeded —the with of his heart is enhanced by the grand conceptions of your mind. " Your Majefty has created imperial titles, both with a view of decorating the throne, and of for ever defiroying all hopes of the reftoration of a feudal go vernment. Thnfe inflitutiuns, cnnneBed with that of the Legion of Honour, In fruitful in beneficial refults, will complete a grand Om of encourage ments and rewards. So much profperity and fo much glory. fo many efts of beneficence, renewed in per- 1 petual fucceftion. are duly and Itrongly felt ; but how can that gratitude which they call forth. ever exprefs itfelf in adequate language ? May you Sire. in the long career which you have to run, eftablifh on a firm foundation, the infiitutions which pith creative genius has conceived, for promoting the glory and happinefs of your States ! May they, on the other hand, daily give your Majefty new and fplendid proofs of their confidence, attachment, and devotion !" Both thefe deputations were moft gracioufly re ce:ved by the Emperor, and were condufted with the fame folemnities with which they were introduced. The hlinitter of the Interior, M. Crete, having, the day before yefterday, been introduced to the Le ' giflative Body, accompanied by the Counfellors of State, Jaubert and Bigot Promeneau, ;relented a re• port of the Bate of the Empire ; the principal pafrages of which are as follnw— " Fifteen months have elapfed fince the . Deputies feparated, in order to return to their homes. At that period, the Emperor fumed to have approxi mated the moment when he was to tafte the fruits of his glorious labours. 44 The German Princes were, for the mnft part, in alliance with France ; Pr uflia was in the number of her friends ; the differences with Ruffia were fermi nated by a treaty of peace—our tranquillity teemed to be equally fecured abroad as at home, and nume rous deputations flocked from all quarters of the Empire, to bring the Emperor the homage of their admiration and gratitude—the het oes of the army lad already arrived, to attend the fettivals to be given at Paris, in celebration of our viftoties Emperor directed all his attenti-n to the internal of fairs of government—when England, accultomed to leek Ler own fafety in the misfortunes of other na tions, induced Ituflia to depart from her pacific in clinations, In lately confitmed by a treaty, and pre-1 cipitated Praia into a war, without reefon or objeet,l contras o to the judgment of the Minitters, and very against the willies of the King. An army of 130.000 men, eager for the combat, commanded by the King and his veteran Generals, and formed in the fchool of she great Frederick, was almoft anni hilated in the firft battle, and the remains were melted down in the ranks cf the Ruffian army. " France, calm and tranquil, while the tempeft burl over the diftant regions where it was formed, faw the career of internal improvement, commenced during a period of peace, maintained and advanced. The confcription law was carried into effeft with more zeal than ever—the taxes were punflually paid —the National Guards gave proof of their a? dour; the public fpirit retained all its put ity ; the Govern- ment was, in the highell degree, latisfiscl with the concluft of the Mayors. " The gifts and donations to the various charitable foundations, in the year t 806, formed a capital of 2,300,000 francs, and have been further augmented by a fulls aft of bounty on the part of his Majelty, with a film of ry,600.000 francs. The Mittel, by the maritime war have been indemnified by his Ma jetty. The Government has begun to three its at tendon to the means of repelling mendicity. The Abbies of Contevtault and the Urlulinee of Mont pelier, are already prepared for the reception of the Mendicants belonging to the Departments; and that of Villars Carteret. wh'eh is nearly completed, will be fnfficient for thofe of the capital and the environs. 44 Thirteen thoufand four hundred miles of road have. been repaired and improved. Thefe labours have been beftowed on 6127 highways, leading from the capital to all the frontiers of the Empire. " The navigation of eight principal rivers or Breams, and among thefe the Loire and Charante, hive been improved. 46 Four bridges have been finifhed during the laft reeds, or will lhortly be finillod. The building of ten others is aftively going forward; among %filch are thofe of Bouantre and Tours. - 46 Ten canals, almoll all of them commenced un der the prefent Government, are worked at without intermiffion. Of that of the Ourq,..about three• fourths are completed. The two cuts from that of Saint ttintim, which unite tie Seine withahoScheldt, and P,irts with Holland, arc completed, and will be navigable in 18 miinthi: " The fea ports are. alfo ref:loud. Antwerp re covers its ancient celebrity, and will forth the centre of the marine' fervice. For the . firft . time, that part of the Scheldt, has fun upon its ftream veffels of 74 and eighty guns.,.roitrte i eu. (hips are on the Rocks at Antwerp. Fluthing, hiving been enlarged, is now ca• pable of containing a fquadron. At Dunkirk, theYief- ton Jetty has been rebuilt. At Cherbirgb, the two moles have been railed g and the battery Napoleon, placed in the lea, defends the harbour. both again s t the waves and the foe. At Rochefort, a fcientific apparatus has been eretled, by which vefrels of all rates may be taken in or out at any time of tide. Agriculture has alto conftantly occupied the attention of Government. The national Iheep folds preferve their breeds in the higheft purity. The fhep herds will be inflrufted in the art of managing their flocks. The refloration of the breed of horfes is in forwardnefs. Twelve depots of ftallions are already formed, confining of nine hundred of the firma ani mals. The breeding of black cattle is placed under regulation in a great number of the departments, and the veterinary Ichools are in a flourilhing date. " A commercial code is digeßing, with the view of combining what is good in the regulations of the old ordinances with exilling euftoms, of prorening credit, and preventing the difgrace of bankruptcy. " Our cotton fpinning eflablifhments have, within the lan twenty months, recovered from their inaai vity ; and the decree of the azd of February having reanimated them, they now farnifh our manu!.lstories with thofe materials which we procured from abroad. " It is the defire of the Emperor, that the capital, become the metropolis of the world, (hould corref pond with its deftination. The bridge of Annerlitz is completed ; that of Jena is begun. In the Place de Vendoms will be ereeted the column of the Grand Army ; in the Place de ViEtoires, the Monument of 1 Delftis ; and the Statue of Haultponit will decorate the Place des Volga. The Palace of the Legiflative Body will be adorned with a collonade ; oppofite will be crated the Temple of ViEtory ; and in the mid way will be reared the Sovereign's Palace ; fo that the Throne will occupy a central pontion be tween plaice and Glory. The works of Saint Ge. nevieve are going forward ; thofe of Saint Denis are nearly finifhed. " The tomb of DelTaix is ereeted on the Alps be tween France and Italy, where it deninn3rates to the two countries the honour conferred by their corn- m ,, n deliverer nn his comrade and friend, who died amicill thole vielories which determined the fate of both natinns. . - " The French School is occupied in reprefenting, in marble or on canvas, the moil renowned events of the prefent reign. " The war has retarded the infliturlin of a general School ; but the Emperor will Rill accumplith the prnjeCt. " Several colleges have been eflahlifhed in the courfe of the year, to the number of 35. They c•in lain 18,000 fcholars. Of thefe, 3700 owe their Mu cation, in whole er in part, to the national bounty. Twelve fchools of jurifprudence are opened, and 12,000 fludents occupy them at prefent. " The labours of the meridian circle of Barcel , na and of Baleares are renewed, and will be continued 1 this winter. The Obfervatnty of the Pantheon is reftored, and that ot Turin is again devoted to auto nomy. " The Emperor defires that the fciences may have a part in the amazing improvements which have been communicated, like an eleetric (hock, to every thing great and interefling. He defires that 11. e French language, now become that of Europe, (hail continue to nipport that high piivilege, II its beauty, its purity, and the interefl of its piodatinns. Ile defires that the public fentiments (hail encourage the developement of talents, and preferve the latter againli calumny and malignity ; and that in future there (hall be no fa:is among the learned ; that there (hall no longer be any political parties in the flare ; that learning and morality, and good tafle,fhall be in unifon, and that thefe only (hall form the balls of their profperity and improvement. He wifhes that criticifin timid maintain refpeet for decency, in order to be ufeftil ; and that men who are called to the fublime oflize of enlightening and improving the community, &mild delpife idle flattery. " The Government cannot but be contented with the members of the church in general. The fame ' purity of morals, toleration, difintereflednefs and `zeal, diUingui(h all ranks, and evince the devotion of all. " The Jews, who now bear the name of French men, in cenfequence of the gracious difpolitions ofl his Nlajelly in their favour, have become worthy of that name. " Such is the expofition of the improvements which have been brought to perfeetion in the interior, fince the laft fitting. Several other branches of the Go vernment have been advanced, and are now in a fitu anion the molt advantageous. France, among all the Elates of Europe, is the only one without paper money. Its commerce, interrupted by unavoidable circum fiances, prcferves the hope of renovation in the feed that remains. The arms of France have been car. lied to the farthell extremities of Europe ; its influ ence extended beyond the Borphorus, and into the centre of the Continent of Afia : the molt complete order prevail= in our interior, England alone remain ing overwhelmed with the burden of the war, and the hatred of nations: thefe are the effeets of one year, and the encouraging profpett of that which is to follow." M. Fontanes anfwered. " that the Ratentent which was laid before the Legillative Body was made up from the exploits of a Prince who was a lover of peace : that if the Emperor, Soo miles from his capital, had effeeted fo much in favour of his people, and the glory of the arts, what would he not have performed in the bofom of peace, and in the midil of his capital? The improvements that have been in troduced into the various branches of the internal Government, prove that the irrefitlible power which overturns empires and ettablifhes thrones, is Rill far inferior to that wifdom which has eilablithed morality upon the immoveable balls of the law." The Legiflative Body ordered the expofition of the (late of the empire to be printed, together with the fpeech of the Prefident, and that fix copies of them be dißributed to each Member. M. Preamenau and Real offered the projd of a law relative to the Napoleon code, which wab to be taken into consideration on the 3d of September. The objea of this law is to improve feveral articles I in the civil code, with a view of facilitating the exe cution of it among the different foreign nations who have accepted drib cude. AUGUST 27. The Monittur of to day contains a lift of the Pe. puties from the new kingdom of Wellphalia, at orefeat in this city. Magdeburg has feat two Dept*. r ties i Altmark, two ; the Principality of Halber. itadt, two; the Melly of Biunfwick, four • the Principality of Heldefheim. fi x ; the Principa lity of Minden, and the County of Scauenbo. g. two ; the Eleitorate of Hefre, nine ; and the Principality of Paderh on, four. Of thele, however, feveral ate no. minted from more than one r:f the ab , ve ; fo that the !loather of indiridital. actually delegvc4.l, is leis than the font total of the number ah-re giv a. On ele zgth intlant died in this city, in the 63d year of his age. the Minitler of Public Worfhip, John Stephen Mali& Portalis. AUGUST 30. The OfEcial Paper of to-day mentions the taking cf Stralfund, in the following article :••• " M. Delagrange, Aide•de•Camp to the Prince of Neurc l ;atel, left Stralfund. The King of Sweden, after having declared that he would bury himfelf under the ruins of the place, has fled, and left it without capitulating. The French troops have taken poffeflinn. Marfhal Brune has bad compaffion for the inhabitants, and though the place has fir:ender. ed at chfcretion, he has given orders to treat them with all pnflible kindnefs. " The charafter of the King of Sweden has been moll eminently difplayed during the liege. He caufed 1 propoials to be made every day, but each of them was more ridiculous than the former. He was an. fwered that we might be deceived once, but thofe who were deceived twice, could only have to thank themfelves for it ; that as he had violated the agree. ment which had been made in his name by General Dien, they could no longer confide in his word ; and that they would no more enter into a negotiation with him. This Prince then refolved to leave Stral fund, and troll the inhabitants to the clemency of the enemy ; and thus he has proved himfelf equally bad as a Prince, and ignorant as a General. It is perhaps the firft time that a King has left his fob. jells in this manner. However, the Continent is for ever loft' to him. The Kiog of Sweden !hall never fit font again in Pomerania. We found 400 pieces of cannon in the fortrefs." The fame paper contains frefh intelligence from Denmark. Bcfides the accounts of events at Copen hagen to the 18th, the following particulars from Kiel are mentioned : . According to the lall difporrion of the troops in Hothin, they form one continued line from Lubec. to the extremities of Jutland. Small encampment, are formed at regular difiances upon the coati, fo that upon occafion they can a fremble at a (host notice. All the molt important pofitions upon the c +nal are occupied. Freder:ckfort is put in a slate de. fence, and a battery of ten guns is thrown up on the other fide of the mouth of the port of Kiel. V.ffels are fitting out to proteet the entrance of the porch of HoUlan. The Militia is every whet e organifed, as are air() the guards upon the coati. " In Zealand, the Militia confift of T 9 battali..ns; Come of them have been thrown into Crouenbul g and Copenhagen. Thirteen fill remain for the Mecca of the ifland : they have been joined by the cavalry, and fame other corps. Volunteers arc every where forming, and in a veil , Mort time there will not be lets than 50,000 men under arms in Zealand trod the Duchy. Every one is infpired with tativity, zeal, and refentment, against the Eng lifb." KIEL, AUG. a 7. 1"' The poll from Zealand, and even Sweden, has (ailed for fome days pa:l. We learn that ch. Eng lifh do every thing in their pow-r to interrupt our communication by the telegraph, and they have de limped fome of them upon the ifland of Spro, be- tween Zealand and Fulinen. This anxiety to pre vent intelligence feems not to anger well for their affairs in the neighlweurhood of Openhagen. In the mean while all their Attempts to prevent any com munication between Zealand, which has fo many outlets, and the Continent, has been unavailing. Se veral of our Alen Officers have lucceeded in gene. trating through Zealand, and we are even allured that three whole regiments, viz. the firti and third of the Jutland infatiti: . and that of Horzeit's dun goons, have landed in Zealand without an% l ifs. The bib) , e of regular intelligence has hitherto pre vented us tr ,, tn receiving potitive intelligence of this even-. lir'Acver this may be, there is no want f men in Z e aland. Ardour in defence of the country thews itfelf every where ; both the citizen and the pealmt vie with each other in hanening to their enrollments, and in this they follow the example of their fuperiorn The Bailiff of Soroe al'.ne has armed 400 peafaats. Copenhagen deten& itfelf with unexampled courage, both by lea and land. Several Englifh frigates hate been fo roughly handled by the Daeilb gun-boats, that they have been obliged to cut their cables and r un. Oa the land fide, all the nee. have been felled which (.li. Jingled the view beyond the fortrefs, and prepars lions were making to burn the foburbs, &ild that meafure be necelrarv. Befides this, the Danes are making continual forties ; in one of which Captain Hommel took one of the Englifh redoubts by norm In fail, in'every affair that has hitherto taken place, the lets of the Englifh has been greater than ours ; the Lift confined, according to the lifts we have ro ceived, of 2 t killed and 51 wounded. For want of any thing better, the Englifh content themfelve with throwing bombs from time to time again* nor works of defence, but which do no hurt to any one; and this will continue to be the cafe till they css Twiner fufficient courage to approach nearer Os place; which can only be effected by the facrifice a very great number of men. By means of a blockade, the Englifh are likely' ti gain Rill lefs advantage, as we are certain that Co pcnhagen contains provifions fnr Come months. w ill find 01 the other hand, it is not likely the enemy 1; much tupply in Zealand. Within ,e miles rnuncl , the city, all the provifions, &c. have already been brought in. We learn that great diffatisfaBinn al' ready prevails amongll the Englifh army, efpeciallf the Germans ; and, of the latter, it is expelled that a number of them will defert over to us. Still more critical ma the enemy's fituation be, when the Rornay weather commences, when their !hips, Woe ( narrow (baits, will be driven upon each other, 0 well as upon our numerous banks and fhoals, or other wife be compelled to retire. And, Jan of all, if Ebel Oswald be able to weather there difficulties, in the feafon that follows, the ice that will be lormedb etwett the (mall islands and the tooth of Zealand, will 0 , 1 ; able us to oafs our whole army over; and, attack Inc enemy Ray, perhaps we malt b e able to !t with the bayonet fome of their TAW. Our Croce Prince, who know; the great imp ortance of tb'fe