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• 11 • 1 1 , 4 I f. I. , ) • r . , I • t 1: 4 ) A • . t 4 k 4 ).. ‘ l+ ' t • AIX-LA-CLIAPELLE, OCTOBER 16. PRIVATE LETTER. ••• " In my letter of the I th instant, and in one or two former communications, I alluled to delibera tions going forward among the Ministers of the four Allied Powers, for the object of forming some pre cautionary arrangements with regard to Prince, if, in certain contingent circumstances, it should be found necessary to exercise any con:roul over her in creasing influence. If along with the recovery of the freedom of her territory and the consequent un controlled enjoyment of her vast resources, she should likewise recover her ambitious spirit and passion for conquest, they felt that some barrier should be fixed in their continued concert against her future encroach ments. These arrangements, had they been made, would probably have embraced a renewal and consolidation of the quadruple alliance. Such a measure, it is re ported, was urged by some of the Powers, which, having stitfere t most from the past domination of France, and profited most by its subsequent reduc tion, were the most exposed to her future aggres sions. The confers:aces on the subject were confi dential, but I have good reason for believing that they have led to no result, and can therefore com municate to you the important intelligence that no such project is any longer in contemplation. The majority of the Ministers are said to have been of opinion, after mature consideration, that suds pre cautionary arrangements would appear ungracious to France, as arguing too great a suspicion of her con duct and intentions, and would tend rather to irri tate her pride than to form any security against her attempts. They felt too that the formation of any new act of alliance wculd be unnecessary, so long as the spirit of the alliance continued ; and inefficacious, if it did not. They are now therefore employed in drawing up a declaration, addressed to the French people and Government, on the evacuation of their territory, which will probably appear about the end of the month. The object of this declaration is not yet distinctly stated. The delay that occurs in its formation is said to arise from the difficulty of ad justing its expressions so as to meet the views of all the Powers ; some of them wishing to have it stronger and more menacing ; others more temperate and confiding. The French Ratification of the Treaty arrived yesterday. The English has not yet arrived, but is expected to-day or to-morrow. The Sovereigns who are here will give it their official sanction imme diately afterwards, and the exchange of Ratifications will probably take place at a conference of Minis ters on Monday or Tuesday. It is now determined that the Sovereigns will leave Aix-la Chapelle, to proceed to the French frontiers, for the review of their troops, on Sunday evening. The Emperor of Austria, contrary to the original report on this sub ject, will accompany their Russian and Prussian Ma jesties to this briiliant scene. The two latter proceed afterwards to Paris, on a visit to the King of France, but will not remain in that capital snore than 24. hours. They go there merely to shew a mark of per sonal regard to the King, and having dined with him will immediately return. They are expected back to Aix-la-Chapelle in the course of ten days at the utmost. The Emperor of Austria will not visit Paris. Mean time the Allied Ministers will proceed with the other business of their mission, and will be ena bled to lay the result of their deliberations before the Sovereigns on their return. They have already com menced the consideration of an affair of great impor tance to the tranquillity of Germany, and the con sistency of their past proceedings at the Congress of Vienna and Paris. I allude to the differences be tween Bavaria and Baden, which was brought for mally before them on the conference of Wednesday, the 14th instant. Bavaria, as has been stated in all the Journals of Europe, claims the Palatinate of the Rhine from Baden, in the event of the demise of the present Grand Duke without heirs male, as guaran teed to her by the Congress of Vienna, in compensa tion for the cessions she made to Austria to round the territory of that Power, and thus secure the in dependence of Germany. The Grand Duke, it is known, is married to one of the Beaaharnois family, and has three daughters, but no son.— He has two surviving uncles by a legitimate mar riage, who have no children ; but he has declared in 1818, the children of his late grandfather, the Grand Duke Chal les Frederick, eligible to the succession. These children are the fruit of a marriage of Charles Frederick with a daughter of a Baron de Geyer, who in 1796, was created Countess of Hochberg, and by the laws of the Empire cannot succeed, as they are born cf the marriage of a Prince with a subject. The Grand Duke, however, is determined that no por tion of his dominions shall go out of his family, and strongly protests against the intended violation of his States ; while Bavaria, having transferred to Austria possess i o ns for which the Pidatinate was to be the equivalent, insists upon the fulfilment of the bond. This dif erence. as it arises out of the arrangements of the last Congress, must he settled by the present. It is said that both the Emperors of Russia and Aus tria are anxious for a speedy. adjustment ; the former as the brother it-law of the Grand Duke, and the latter as the son ir-law of the King of Bavaria, who is likewise a brother-in-law'of the Grand Duke, and possessor of the territory fur which the Palatinate was to be the compensation. 'This little family mis understanding will be rendered more intricate by a proposition on the part of Russia, which is said to be under consideration, to cede the territory of Bris gau to the son of the Ex• King of Sweden, who is both the nephew of the Empress of Russia, of the Queen of Bavaria, and of the Grand Duke. The Sovereign of Baden thus finds himself surrounded with relations, who, as he says in his remarkable letter to the King cf Bavaria, are endeavouring to 4 dispose of his succession before his death.' The singular • marriages of three of the sisters of this Prince to husbands professing the three different forms of Christianity (to Alexander of the Greek Church, to the King of Bavaria of the Roman Ca tholic, and to the King of Sweden of the Protest an t persuasion), gave occasion to a merry-andrew of his Court to say, that if he had another sister he would give her to the Graud Turk: but If they proceed is this way to despoil him of his possessions, he will be apt to think that they are of no religion at all, or at leas that the latter alliance would have been the most eligible. The other little German Princes are stirring as well as the Dukc of Laden; and probably from the same feeling of uneasiness and hopes of redress. The mediatized Prin..ecare going to make that ap peal to .Congress which they have in vain made to the Diet. Count Bentinck, the former Lord Paramount of Varel and Kniphausen, in the ancient circle of West phalia, is here to reclaim his dominions from the Grand Duke of Oldenburgh, and in his notice of ar rival style. himself Le Comte de Bentinck, Souverain de Kniphausen." To answer him; we have at Con gress M. de Beaulieu Minister of Oldenburgh. This agrees with the intelligence which I sent you on the 151, that the mediatized Princes are going to make a formal reclamation of their rights through theme dium of Prince Waldeck, whom they have deputed for the express purpose of representing their interests. If favour was to be shewn. to any one of them, it should be to the Souverain de Kniphausen, who was' among the first of the Western Germans who joined their cause to that of the Allies against Bonaparte, and who even exposed his life to danger in making a premature declaration of his resistance to the tyrant j of the Continent. " Leaving the mysteries of German politics, which are almo.,t as unfathomable as their metaphysics, I may mention, that the Ambassador of Spain at the Court of Petersburgh, le Chevalier Zea Bermudez, is arrived here, probably to try his influence in ob taining the interference of Congress in the quarrel between Spain and her Colonies. This Minister, who was high in the confidence of the late Administra tion, has had no communication with his own Court since the change, and probably will be the less lis tened to on that account. Nothing as yet indicates that Congress will at all interfere in the business. It is stated from authority, which I think unquestion -1 able, that Alexander I lumboldt, whose arri• al I an nounced yesterday, has come here merely on his own private afiairs. I dare say you have heard before this time, that the differences between Spain and Por tugal are considered as already adjusted by the Com mission which sat at Paris. More Russians are daily arriving here. Baron Nicolai, the Minister of Rus sia in Denmark, and Prince (ialitzin, attached to the Russian Legation in Spain, have within these few days an ived. The Emperor has now about him his Ministers from all the great Courts in Europe. To balance all these diplomatists, we have got here within these few days, Lord Stewart, the . brother of Lord Castlereagh, from Vienna. Ile has already as sisted at the killoon of Mademoiselle Garnerin, and at several concerts and dinners. The last of these was a grand soirée supper and concert, given by the Duke of Wellington, last night. The Emperor Alex ander, (who about four o'clock in the evening arrived frum Spa), the Emperor of Amu is, and the King of Prussia, honoured his Grace with their presence. The' company consisted of about one hundred persons of the hrst distinction in the place, all in full dress, and decorated with their orders. To an admirer of stars and orders it was a beautiful sight. The day being, the birth-day of the Crown Prince of Prussia, a few of the people in the neighbourhood of his Grace's hotel, thought it their duty to illuminate, where their loyalty would not be hid under a bushel. This illu mination, the rattle of the carriages, and the desire of seeing the distinguished company, attracted a great crowd to the street in which Lord Wellington's hotel is. The company, which consisted of all the Mi nisters, began to arrive at eight o'clock, and dispersed about 11. The arrival of the Burgo-master M. Guaita, whose house the Duke occupies, excited a laugh among the crowd : he is the most perfect represen tation of a City Magistrate that we have seen since leaving England, and seems a ready-made Alder man, without probably having ever seen turtle soup or feasted upon green fat in his life-time.— The Monarchs went away immediately after the con cert, and before supper. Madame Catalani was the attraction of the evening. She sung at the conchr sion of the concert GOD save the King, not only to the delight of the brilliant assembly within who ho noured her with their plaudits, but to the high satis faction of great crowds in the street who honoured her with their silent admiration. " The aeronautic experiment of Mademoiselle Gar nerin has not succeeded so well as that of her rival,, the German Professor's wife, though made in more, favourable circumstances, in a finer situation, on a' more profitable scale, and before a more brilliant as semblage of rank and fashion. Almost all the Mi • nisters and persons of distinction now in the town at • tended. Among the rev: I observed the Duke of Wellington, Prince Hardenherg, Prince Metternich, Lord and Lady Canlereagh, Alexander Humboldt, the Princess of Tour and Taxis, and the King of Prussia, who (in his quality of patron), arrived about half-past four o'clock, and after condescending to converse svith the aeronaut, spewed an impatience to hasten her ascent. An hour intervened—at last she made the attempt to disengage her nacelle from its moorings, and twice fell out of it as it was rising from the ground. On the third attempt, either by accident or design, the ropes that bound the balloon to the nacelle were loosened, and the former made its ascent v•ithout her, soon disappearing from the view in a clear unclouded sky. The shouti and laughter of some of the spectators were probabl}• more overpowering to her at this time than the effects of her fall, or the consciousness of her fear. She was carried from the field by Prussian soldiers in the large basket in which she was to ascend, like that used for carrying - poultry to market, and appeared completely overwhelmed by the feelings so natural to her situation. The King of Prussia, and several of the distinguished spectators, testified the utmost sympathy for her. " The last time this Lady failed in her experiment she was not so well tre.....ed. The people of Madrid had no sympathy for her fall, and wished to take vengeance fur their money. Here there was no de mand for a restitution, though the sum collected could not be less than 6,000 or 7,000 francs, nor was there displeasure exprc , sed towards the aeronaut by the multitude. The police have, however, laid their hands on the collection, and the Prussian Treasury will profit by the failure of Mademoiselle Garneriin She has, however, announced a fresh ascent as soon as she acquires courage. and has recovered her bal loon and her health. " The Police are here very strict in the affair of pass ports and casks de suretf. In two days the Correc tional Police has fined eighteen householders in 20, 10, and five francs each, for neglecting to announce the arrival and departure of strangers from their houses. or for receiving them witlicut perm:-,ion from the police-ofii~ e. a The Austrian Member of the Military Commis sion of the Diet at Frankfort, M. le General Baron de Steigentesch, and the Prussian Member of the same Commission, M. de Walzogen, Major-General, are arrived here. There is no doubt they have come to receive instructions on the execution of the difll - duty which they have undertaken. They have as yet done nothing." " TEN O'CLOCK AT NIGHT. " P. S. Since writing the above 1 have heard from good authority, that the departure of the Allied So vereigns for the grand review is postponed till Tues day morning. They will proceed first to Maubeuge, from Maubeuge to Sedan, and from Sedan to Paris. The Emperor of Russia will dine with the King, and on the same evening set off from I'aris, and sleep at Soissons. Thence, on the following day, he will go to Brussels, on a visit to his sister, who will by that time have arrived at that capital. The King of Prussia will remain two days in Paris, and then set out to meet the Emperor at Brussels. Thence they will proceed together to Aix-la-Chapelle, and arrive about the I st or 2d of November. " The routes by which the Russian troops are to retire, the order of their march, and the time at which each corps is to leave its cantonments, have been already arranged, and regulations sent on to head-qaarters accordingly. I mentioned in my corn- Tunication above, that the project of continuing the quadruple alliance in form has been abandoned, but that the spirit of the alliance was to continue. I have since heard from good authority, that at the confe rence to-day, the 'Ministers had made it the subject of deliberation, whether there should not be a Con gress even• th..-ce ye trs, to keep up that spirit of har mony which they have found their late meetings so well calculated to promote ; and that a proposition of this kind was likely to meet with general consent." TILE EVENING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1818. Tut•. FUNDS. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE o'c :I: Bank Stock shut-3 per Cent. Reduced 77. 3 per Cent. Consols 77I—for Acc. 77 2 , 78. 3i per Cent. per Cent. 96i 5 per Ct. Navy 108 I—India Bonds 89 90 pre. Onuaium dis.—• Exchequer Bills 19 20 preen. Stocks have had another considerable advance; this morning Consols began at 77k, went to 78, and at twelve o'clock the Commissioners were obliged to purchase part Reduced and the remainder in Consols, from the great scarcity of Stock ; they gave 77i for Consols, and 761 ( Reduced, and were served gene rally by the Jobbers. Since the last account day, Stocks have risen two and half per cent. and from the confidence expressed by the monied interest a further rise is fully anticipated. From the present state of the market, several Bears were yesterday induced to turn their accounts. The Paris Papers of Saturday arrived this morning: Friday, being the Anniversary of the Death of MARIE ANTOINETTE, the late Queen of France, the expiatory services, usual since the Restoration, were performed in the Chapel ulthe Thuilleries, the church I of St. Denis, and the other churches of the capital. A correspondent of the Quotidienne, adverting to the recollections which this event calls up, gives the following piquant anecdote, as one which has hitherto escaped all the historians of this disastrous petiod : When the Royal Family, arrested in their attempted flight from France, were on their return from Va rennes to Paris, the Dauphin having remarked on the buttons of M. Barna*, one of the Deputies ap pointed by the National Assembly to attend the Royal prisoners, the device To lice free or die, turned to his Mother, and said, " Mamma, what does that mean to live free'"—" My son, (replied the QUEEN) "itisto go where we please." " Ah, Mamma," re• joined the infant quickly, then we are not lice." —Her MAJFbry bade him be silent, but Burnare was much moved, and front this and other circum stances during the journey, returned full of gild' and repentance to Paris, where he soon afterwards paid with his head for his desertion from the colours of the revolution. The Emperor of Russ' A and K ing of Pit usst A arc stated to be expected in Piris on the2sth instant. In an article from Stnisburgh relating to the eva cuation, we meet with the following satisfactory and honourable testimony to the good conduct of the Allied Troops during their occupation of the French territory :—" For three years we have seen the se verest discipline preserved, and if some disorders have occurred such as are inseparable from all as semblages of men, punishment has always followed close upon the offence. The Generals and Officers have unformly acted towards the French Autho rities in a manner the most delicate. Every time when a happy anniversary or a bitter remem brance called for a Fete or Public Mourning, we have seen them identify themselves with the senti rnei:ts which animated the people among whom they sojourned. In shcrt, thanks to their solicitude, the weight of the occupation, so afflicting to Fiance, had ceased to be so to the places which might have been expected to feel it most. Conduct such as this cannot be misunderstood, and the troops so worthy of praise, in leaving us some remembrances, will not, we ale convinced, forget that their merits have been duly Appreciated amongrt as. The time is at last arrived molten all rations restored to themselves, disengaged from all inflomcf7t, can accord to occ into? ostad esteem." According to intelligence from the di partments, the Prefects have already tak, for ensuring du: execution (,f the Ordini 30th of September, which places ilia N az i under the administration, direction, ar,d inspection of the Administrative and Mtn thorities. 'Alarsl,l;rl n.111S.:0!:T has at length from his retirement at Chatii : * and notice in the Cazrlte de France, was 6:1 to relieve the Duke of ItEGGro in ti.f, the Royal Guard. It may be conclude that his term of disgrace is now at an en The Ordinance of eie Loral Colleges for the renewal cf one. Chamber of Deputies, has been rotted and on all the roads which lead to the Di who , : Representatives are to be chosen, lnir.tl , ? , is beginning to prevail. " GoD the G',-ette Je Trance, that in n:I may Le the only sufferers. If it be lic good which produces all this aziN t i„ , ports Candidates and Electio.werin z -- Age : enJ of France to the other, let us relo:ce t change row tal:ing plice la our p6i —" But love for the public good, six' :Jitherto known it, does rot ardour. It seldom takes tie pr,q enemies, but is most unfor.unatcl.: indolent disposition, which dread; a t; fatigue, and generally forgets that lit helps those who arc willing to help ti If it has really taken post to preside on tions, we shall be n' less astonished thar, it will then have made an extraordinary I inuct have thrown all its habits into disc hope that the authors of this sally are di both a astonished' and " edified." The for the public good which they talk of. which prevails in an abolute Monarchy fear of at bitrary vengeance is a check to like independent exertion—and not that which, under the alspices of a limited al tional monarcky, such as now exists la F couraged to the nobloot efforts of indivi and enterprize. But they talk, it is t, things as they La: e hitherto horn f:eni may, therefore, be excused lc.: jsqing about a new state of things, of vi.:ch know little or nothing. Disturbances of rather a serious nrum to have lately taken place between ti:e in' Marminiac and those of Cazals, in the De the Lot. They broke out on the clay of Campagne, which was the 14th Septembe at intervals, to the 29th of the same !nor.: pressed by the Authorities, at the head m force. It seems difficult to ascert:ti: , • quarrel, since each party, as usual, erimin,,, At one time the Mayor of Cazals lect the people of that village, and absc before the victorious men cf most powerful in point of numbers. TI :winded for several hours, and many act! ful Litharity committed on both Ades. We insert to-day a long and interes Letter from Aix-la-Chapelle, from which wilt be glad to observe two things--first, position for the renewal of the Quadrup which would infallibly have had the eiP.t. France again into hostilities against all the . Europe, has been prudently rejected; and It.e: a project for holding a General Con?te•s Powers every three years for a general conflicting interests, is on the carpet, v.! - .l:h z.r with much approbation, and :lands chance of being adopted. • Ye:terclay Viscount Si:•d7Aorritlia:. l . a long acirce of the Prae.7cc Hctir.Nr, Car!tcn 11c...7,.e. • The Duke of Tons came to town ; ycs:erd,:y etr- , inr, from Oatlands. Lord and Lady CALIV4Y are arrived ;A lit s :Al in Notinghamsliire, from Plymouth. 'Ex Duchess of R tcitAoso. and I,:uly JANr NON, at-lived, yesterday evening', Cncir Waterloo .place. from a visit to Mr. and is 1r5.1%..?m. at their scat, Wilton Park, Buck. The E:!rl aiikl l'ountess SPV:CE are arrive.lz::lt.t scat, Althorpe, Northamptonshire, (morn forks.;:e. • • -- The Earl and Countess ci ITARDmcxr aric day at their house, St—James's-square, from a The Ambassador from the NETHERLANDS tovn, on a tonr. 'f he (201111te:S of WESTMTATFI i 5 I:er house, Struford-placn. frnrn 11.,...!:,i.prerarP.:zrr to her accouchement. Ilis ter;:fil Tunbridge wells. The lion. Mr. GREY has left tot. er. 'err. Lord Li I.rottn has kft town for seat. house, Nio lamptonshire. Lord .uid Lady RENVI.LE are returned le seat, Drorna-rx Lodge, Bucks, front a ton:. and Lady l'or.KEsTe7 hare lett thei.• gat. in Bet ks, for Longford Cagle, Wilts, on r:` . l: the Earl and C4;:!tteSS of RAoxon. Lady II EN E.A ciE Osnonst is v.rrived at lieT hea,e..3 Charies-street, Be: keley-stiaare. from her se.l: Bedt; )idshirs.. The following are the departures from F.:_:i:1!` 117 0 dttliog the last week : The 31,trquis of queensberrv, ftn Men srulrt nra Alf 1 Marquis of Illanatr...l, ard Sr Wdlia7r. Mot. fo: tattle; Lord and 1.z17 Mtrray, for 1,-nd( : Lrrtllito than, for Lonclidu; !Lir Liam f.; I' :•t rrKh , • m trtts 1137,Ce • d , Ur.,Cy4 Tr.e;": •-• id. '".7. the r,, cf ap Depar zi the i sel . grzt," rogt ho se fcr C oe 1 . 4 eats frer.s 2 YC t!..e.nale i h a re: 2 ,, day so er.co.s...zeT iY of a 1.4 Ter fneie e . r. ediF.ed. .7 e fir` ixa FOret:-.74 tc b e ! scr. c: 1:1 . is thz are nflt o erer t:. at azd cezr:ts• France. r, 'Jul rise. cr,:7 and g Lay sera ItT a.e !t nhahit4cts kpartment f the Fair er, and lasted :h, sup of a military ,a r me.Ad ate, the ct.4:r. blige.!..oro;- ;111C.7 nava ac, sex rot Tocsia Ira !s of &grid. stiag r 1: se our Re;,.!ci t, that a Fts• ple .ct of df:5....; 1 the ::v. f.t:o;