Star. — London, England, 1808-11-16 00:00:00

EXPOSE OF THE SITUATION OP THE , FRLNCIF IMPTRIB, CONCLUDED FROM THE STAR OF TATERDAY. ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE. This is the first head of the Expod, after the Pre amble, as given yesterday, and contains a panegyric, upon the Code Napoleon. It afterwards states, that the Trial by Jury has been adopted in France. Under the head of SCIENCE and LITERATURE, a pompons detail is given of the various robberies com mitted upon the antiquities of Euse to enrich the Napoleon Museum. PUftIC INSTRCCTION. After a few observations with respect to education, the Expo si goes on to describe some projected public establishments, and ameng others a new University. Eight new Lyceums have been established, and 1200 new Scholars are invited to participate in the advantages of education gratuitously. Several Theatres have been suppressed in the me tropolis, on account of their pernicious effects on public morals. Schools for the theory and practice of medicine have been opened in the hospitals in Angers, Caen, Marseilles, Nantes, Bourdeaux, Rheims, and Dijon. CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS. The funds and establishments belonging to the Seeurs de la Ciarite have been restored. Grand and important measures have been taken for the repression of mendicity. Each department shall have in its centre a depot, where the indigent will find an asylum, subsistence, and work : a pa. ternal establishment, where beneficence will temper restraint with mildness, maintain discipline by affec tion, and encourage labour by awakening senti ments of salutary shame. MANUFACTURES. Among the arts of industry which have made progress in the course of this year, we must enume rate the manufactory of tin. In two of our manufac tories they have attained a degree of perfection no ways yielding to that of the English. A premium of encouragement has been given accordingly ; and another is also destined to ulterior efforts in the same branch. The mechanics, in their endeavours to simplify their looms, and introduce economy in their labours, have often also improved the quality of their stuffs. Those that are used in the weaving of cottons, have, for several years, been much multiplied ; the spirit of invention has brought them to perfection. There is nothing now which we cannot make, and very well. The weaving of the cotton has made as marked a pro gress as the spinning. These two kinds of industry . are already adequate to the consumption of the em pire, which is for ever liberated from the grievous taxation it has hitherto been under to the Indian ma= aufacturers, and to their oppressors. The machines best calculated for the manufacture of cloths are al ready in wide circulation ; they have latelrbeen much • encouraged by advances made to different manufac turers in the departments. The Conservatory of Arts and Handicraft is daily enriching by the requis ition of new patterns, and is entitled to comm endation for the information which the pupils receive, who frequent its school of drawing and descriptive try. Reforms have been made in the school atbabas-sus-Marne. The Consultation Chambers of the Manufactures are hastening to present useful views, which will be taken advantage of. The Institution of Arbitra tors for the purpose of deciding with celerity variances that may arise between the workmen and their em ployers, render to industry services which have been set forth. Since your last Session, Gentlemen, seve ral towns have demanded them, and there are already some established at Nimes, Aix-la-Chapelle, Avig non, Troia, Mulhausen, Sedan, and niers. cOMMZRCL ----- The political events have been imfavourable to. commerce. It still was kept alive in the midst of the contentions that have deluged the Continent in blood, because those nations that were involved in the war preferred their neutrality—that right deemed even in our times inviolable. But .the English Legislation, 'already misled by the ambition of - universal mono poly, has overthrown the ancient barrier of the law of nations, and trampled their independence under foot, substituting in the room of them a new maritime code. The ordinances of his Britannic Majesty have realized these innovations : that of the 11th of No vember, 1807, is particularly remarkable ; it pro nounces, by an universal blockade, the interdiction of all our ports, in subjecting the ships of neutral Powers, friendly and even allied to Great'Britain, to the visi tation of its cruizers, to be conducted to British ports, land there to be taxed by an arbitrary inquisition. The Emperor, oblijed to oppose just reprisals to this strange legislation , gave out the decree of the ittd of November, ordaining the seizure and confiscation of the ships which, after having touched in England, should enter the ports of France. From these mea sures, provoked by the British the almost ab solute cessation of the maritime relations, and many privations for the French merchants, manufacturers, and consumers, must have necessarily ensued. We all know with what resignation these privations were endured: we know that they are already become ha bitual, that they have awakened the genius of inven tion, and produced a thousand resources in substitu tion of the objects which we are in want of; we }now, finally, that a Great Nation, essentially agri cultural, can, by possessing in abundance all articles of utility, easily forego those which only form cer tain luxuries or conveniences of life, particularly when its independence and glory should be put at stake. These circumstances have favoured one of. the greatest scourges of commerce, smuggling. But it has been strongly repressed. The Government is pre-, paring s neW means against this foe to the public reve nue, and national industry : the great emoluments it procures excites the most ardent cupidity. These, who ought not to be honoured with the approbation of sr.erchants, lest we should degrade commerce, are st;11 devoting themselves to criminal peculation:; they think they are only braving the shame of an ordinary transgression : but the ptiblic indignation and ven geance will overtake them, and teach them, that under circumstances where thenation employs for its defence, in an unexampled war, the interdiction of all corn. verci_il relations with the enemy, . the violation of thee dispositions is an hostile declaration, a true alli slue with din same enemy 0 that consequently every smuggler tent:42oes the benefit of the municipal laws 1 to be subjected solely to those of war, and that ite ought to dread the terrible and rapid application of those laws which authorise the invasion of his fortune and personal castigation. The Government, penetrated with the situation of she French commerce, has strove to mitigite the evils, to provide for its wants. - Abroad, a treaty with the kingdom of Italy secures to France all the advantages which are compatible with reciprocal justice. In the interior, various sums have been advanced to manufacturers and proprietors of produce, which public events had accumulated or cramped in their stores. The Caisse d'Amortissement has interfered in the outfittings of adventures. A law has limited the bounds of the interest on money • o ffi ces established at Lyons and at Rouen are preliminary to a grand system of facility in the circulation of specie and merchandize. The Exchange and the Commercial Tribunal of Paris see rising for their accommodation a stately Palace, on the scite of the nunnery of St. Thomas. Conformably to the new code, an organization of the Tribunals of Commerce of the Empire is prepar ing. The Prefects, the Courts of Appeal, have been consulted on the most eligible scites for these Tribu nals, as well as on the subject of their number, the Judges, and their Surrogates. A general project has been submitted to the discussion of the Council of State, and to the sanction of his Majesty. AGRICULTURE._ The Prefects, the Courts of Appeal, and of the Members of the General Councils of Department, formed in Commission, are also called upon to give their advice on a project of the greatest utility, that of a rural code, so important to the prosperity of agriculture, and so closely interwoven with national prosperity. In the mean time, one of the principal im provements of which agriculture is capable, is daily effected by the re-organization of our repositories for the breed of horses. Eight new repositories of stallions have been formed this year. Premiums held out to the owners of the best horses brought to the fairs, rewards decreed at the departmental races, are so many additional means of favouring the produc ' tion of the most eligible species of this animal. Two new sheep farms have been introduced. Six hundred Merinos, of the best breed, have been ordered from Spain ; and they are already arrived in France, notwithstanding the variety of "obstacles that have occurred on their passage. They will be divided in two new establishments, as yet in embryo. The multiplication of the flocks increases rapidly, and we may consider the happy revolution introduced in this branch as completed. May it one day be so also with the culture of cotton. In spite of the contrarieties of a hard spring, and a tolerably cold autumn, the attempts made still give room to hope for ultimate success. We are justified to augur well also of the attempts made on the grape. The rich culture of tobacco is daily extending ; that which is gathered in the vicinity of St. Malo equals in quality that of America. France will one day, to judge by appearances, not only supply its own wants with that production, but also export it to her neigh bours. (After the Article on the present War, give* in Setter- Szci, the Expose conclucles) In the interior the greatest order in all parts of the administration, important ameliorations, a great num ber of new institutions, have excited the gratitude of the people. The creation of titles of nobility have environed the throne with a new splendor. This system creates in all hearts a laudable emulation. It perpetuates the recollection of the most illustrious services paid by the most honourable reward. The Clergy have distinguished themselves by their patriotism, and by their attachment to their Sovereign and their duties. Respect to the Ministers of the Altar, who honour religion by a devotion so pure, and virtues so disinterested 1 The Magistrates of all classes every where aid, and without their efforts, the views of the Sovereign and the people by their zeal facilitate the operation of their authority, and by the manifestation of the most affecting sentiments, exalt the courage and' ardour of the troops. Soldiers, Magistrates, Citizens, all have but one object, the service of the State ; but one sentiment, that of admiration for the Sovereign ; but one desire, that of seeing Heaven watch over his days, too just a recompence for a Monarch who has no other thought —no other ambition, than those of the happiness and the glory of the French nation. [The Orator descended from the Tribune amidst the applauses of the Assembly.] Tua Parsumsr—Monsieur the Minister of the In terior, and - Gentlemen Counsellors of State— You have painted the true greatness of the Prince, in retracing all the good he has done. The annual pictures of his internal administration will one day be the finest monuments of his reign. Unhappy the So vereign who is great only at the head of his, armies; happy the one who knows how to govern as well as to conquer, who occupies himself incessantly with useful works, in order to rest himself from the fatigues of war, and whose provident hand sows in the midst of so many ravages, the fruitful seeds of public feli city. One single man has fulfilled these two great destinies. He has subdued powerful States—he has traversed Europe, assa conqueror under triumphal arches, erected to his glory, from the bounds of Italy to the farthest extremities of Poland. It was enough for the first of heroes, but not enough for the first of Kings. In the fields of Marengo and of Jena, that indefatigable genius meditated the happi ness of nations. All the ideas of public order--all these safe counsels which protect societies and empires have always accompanied him in his warlike tent.-- It was be that re-opened the temples of desolated re ligion, and who saved morality and the laws from a ruin filch was almost inevitable. In one word, he has founded more than others had destroyed—behold that which recommends his memory to eternity. In the midst of the most magnificent of our squares a column, worthy of the age of the Antonines or the Trojans, has beenadevated in opposition to the voice of the hero that is above such things. Our exploits will be-engraved on the glorious bronzes with which it is to be covered. Victory erect on this triumphal column will point to Italy twice subdued, to Vienna, to Berlin, to Warsaw, opining their gates—our stan dards floating tsn the Pyramids, the Po, the Danube, the Rhine, the Spree, the Vistula, stooping beneath our laws.—Frenchmen will stop with pride at the foot of this monument. The day is perhaps not far distant, when we may be able to erect, to the pacification of Europe, a mom ' rent still more worthy of him. Let all the arts decorate him with the emblems of agriculture and industry—let the images of peace and abundance preside above—let there be represent ed with them, not cities destroyed, but cities rebuilt : not captive rivers, but rivers mixing their streams for the benefit of commerce—not fields of slaughter, but fields fertilized—n% the war which shatters thrones, I but the wisdom which re-establishes them. Let them I engrave on them, in fine, as a substitute for all other inscriptions, these memorable words—l have felt that in order to be happy it was necessary for me first to be assured of the happiness of France. This triumphal arch of a new description will never be beholden without emotions of respect and love. It is there that every heart will send forth without effort the most exalted eulogy of the great man, who has been the author of so much good. We cannot render him our homage in a better mode than by putting up vows, that his talents as a warrior may soon become useless. Secure is he of finding within himself other sources of greatness. Let us not doubt it. Thanks to all that he shall undertake for the happiness of the nation. His renown as a conqueror will henceforth be but the most feeble part of his glory. The Assembly renewed its applauses. The Legislative Bodies gave a formal deed of ac knowledgment to the Orators of the Expor?, which they had presented in the name of his Majesty, which they ordered to be entered on the Journals, and.also to be printed and distributed to each of the Members. NAPLES, OCTOBER 21. Mount Vesuvius has for several days thrown out thick smoke and flames, and an irruption is shortly expected. The inhabitants of Torre del Greco are employed night and day in removing their most wa lealle effects. OCTOBER 21.—1 t appears from a report of the Under-Intendant of Castellamare, that three English ships; armed with howitzers, have been thrown upon the coast of Sorento. Besides the sailors who manned them, there was found on board the vessels eight offi cers and a lady, who has been placed in a private house at Sorento. They have been treated with all the attention due to the unfortunate. The vessels have been drawn on shore, and the sailors detained. BOURDEAUX, NOVEMBER Z. His Majesty the Emperor and King was expected here, and the Guard of Honour set out on the 31st ult.to meet him. His Majesty, who had travelled with uncommon rapidity, arrived yesterday morning, at aine o'clock, on the banks of the Dordogne. He got out of his carriage, and, in order to pass the river more promptly, he got into a boat, which carried him quickly to the other side. His Majesty , not being willing to lose time by waiting for his equipage, mounted an artillery horse which happened to be ready, and, notwithstanding the deep mud which thirty consecutive days of rain had formed on the I I road, his Majesty rode eighteen mils.; in an hour and a quarter. He crossed the Garonne in the yacht, and entered the city amidst the roar of cannon.— Having landed on the Quay of Napoleon, he :Went immediately to the Imperial Palace, where he took an hour's rests► after which he condescended to have an hour's conversation with the Prefect ; his Majesty then took a hearty breakfast, got into his carriage, and set ou. for Castris. FRANKFORT, NOVEMBER S. General Ondinot's corps is still cantoned in the Margraviate of Bayreuth, and it appears that the or der which he had received to march towards the Rhine has been countermanded. The contingents of the Princes of the House of Saxe, which were in motion, will, we are assured, re- main at home. " It is continued to be asserted that Erfurth will be declared a free town, and will join the Confederation of the Hanseatic towns. We learn from Berlin, that all the principal mer chants and bankers of the six superior mercantile Prussian towns, viz. of Berlin, Koningsberg, Breslau, Stettin, Frankf ort sur l'Oder, and Elbing, will fur nish bills of exchange upon Paris for the payment of the contributions due to France. That which the bankers of Berlin was to subscribe was ready on the 22d, and was remitted on the 27th or 28th ult. to In tendant-General Daru. COPENHAGEN, OCTOBER 25. We learn from Tonningen, that the English have before Heligoland a frigate, three brigs and two gun. boats. Forty vessels are stationed near that island, to receive cargoes. A brig and two sloops have been sent into the Weser. An Ordonance of the I6th enjoins persons who let post-horses, &c. to specify with great exactitude the stature, and every thing that may tend to describe travellers. HAMBURGH, OCTOBER 31. The Prince of Ponte Corvo's head-quarters have been here ever since he left Flotbeck, but prepara tions are making at Ottensen for his reception. It appears that the French troops are about to eva cuate Holstein. The King of Denmark has run a very considerable risk in passing from Copenhagen to the Continent : the vessel on board which he was, was chaced by four English vessels, and was twice obliged to put back. Nevertheless, his Majesty at length accomplished his dangerous voyage. BERLIN, NOVEMBER I. The following order has been published here The General of Division, Count of the Empire, commanding in Berlin and the middle marches, agree ably to the orders of his Excellency Marshal the Duke d'Auerstadt, informs the Prussian Officers, that they arc at liberty to wear the uniform of the regiment to which they are attached ; and that, con sequently, all anterior orders on the subject are re voked. The Marshal hopes, that the good under standing which subsists between the Prussian soldiers, the French, and the inhabitants, will not be inter rupted, and that in no case it may be necessary to use severity towards any military man. (Signed) " SAINT =AIRS." FRENCH MESSENGER. At a late hour last night a Messeng er arr i ved the Foreign Office with dispatches from the F ree Minister for Foreign Affairs, in answer to the di patches lately sent to Paris with Mr. Slum. 11 contents of these dispatches have not transpired, the general opinion is, that the correspondence whi was lately commenced is very near a close. NAVAL ACTION. The Thetis, a French frigate of 50 guns, and of the largest in their service, has been captured his Majesty's ship AMETHYST, after one of the spirited actions that has been fought during the co sent war. The particulars are detailed in the foils ing letters 4, PLYMOUTH, NOVEMBER it 4 4 There is now towing in the French frigate'llie of 44 guns, a prize to his Majesty's frigate Aurratt of 36 guns, Captain SEvmoun. • She is from L'Ori; bound to Martinique, laden with 1000 barrel:. of Ett Captain SEYMOUR fell in with her in the night IA and engaged her yard-arm and yard-arm, for tEx _hours and twenty minutes.—The Thetis had on born 100 soldiers, besides her full complement—Her in killed and wounded amounts to 220; and the on board the AMETHYST nineteen killed and fifty. wounded.—Captain SEYWUR speaks in the terms of his Officers and gallant crew." ANOTHER LETTER, SAME DATE. LO The SHANNON frigate is now off the R.ind:ea;, with la Thetis French frigate, of 50 gun , , in tow,. Thursday, the 10th instant, at five o'clock in Li evening, she left L'Orient, bound to hlartiniqns she had 100 soldiers on board, and 2000 birrelid. flour. In less than three hours from her 1e L'Orient, she fell in with our frigate the AXENTSZ of 36 guns, commanded by Captain MICH.kELSEt• MOLTR, who brought her to close action, which co menced at ten o'clock, and lasted for three hours ad twenty minutes, with almost the muzzles of the guns touching, when she struck. Our men fang': nobly, as did the enemy. In the action, the Ai TRYST'S mizen-mast was shot away : during its vial over the side, our men gave three cheers. The Theti also lost her inizen.mast. This, I believe, is thi most severe action fought between two frigates &rill this war. The enemy lost in killed and wound° 250 men ; among the former were her Captain za two Lieutenants, and out of 100 soldiers she hada board, only 14 remained alive; they were lying m the quarter-deck like a flock of dead sheep —Ourks; consisted of 19 killed and 50 wounded; among tix former, I am sorry to say, was Lieutenant KLNDO of the Royal Marines ; and, among the latter, Lis, tenant PAYNE, of the same corps, badly." ANOTHER LETTER, SAME DATE. a Arrived this morning his Majesty's ship A* TRYST, Captain SETMOUR, from a cruize, and la brought in with her the French frigate Thetis, of guns, with a crew of 400 men, and 100 soldiers, hir ing on board 1000 barrels of flour and a batta4 train, from L'Orient for Martinique, which shear cured on the 10th instant, after a desperate acizeaa three hours and twenty minutes, in which the Theis was totally dismasted, had her Captain killed, :A 280 men killed and wounded : the AMETHYST 10 1 her mizen-mast, had 19 men killed, and 51 wounded! past watching an op] ted in a former let; sold that soon after, watching their move of the 10th inst.) or be immediately gav; action, which contin for three hours and which, it is stated, tl tbe anchors of the Thetis's fore-chains val attempts to carr, that they were as re] by the marines and above period, the T 1 complete wreck, ] d the crew killed ; loss, we ate sorry t( ng 19 men killed a P Lieutenant KENI Snd Lieutenant P. wounded badly. a The Thetis hs barrels of flour at lery, for the use an al crew of 400 me bique, but it is saic ter are living. a Soon after the *by the TRIt MPH, 36 gnus, which sh berry cannonadin, Iwe understand the Captain fiensioute teateidat a Cat office. The foil( Of PbITLAND, M d E "LTha°Thirty A e r o:tr b Liverpo o l o cAlt kd tr cr e .:f i dk i s o °th e ayl e p r c morn f : l It h C s a r hi n o o Ei n teen already sent Patriots ; but of s 'This morning passed through th waterside, for emi In Sir DAVID only one tent is a pant, and only of Asa mark of colonel, Lord D Dragoons, in Can ing on Sunday la Colonel BURN, Uarines, is appc Woolwich, vice ] teed Colonel BUR promoted to be I. 3Division, vire Li to be Major of th to Chatham. The division 0 at Falmouth on of Lieutenant 'W _Scilly, sailed froi in all about fifty cept seven, whit; to France '7OOO i Of the second di, sail, very few and apprehensioi ships. The Masti that the amount these vessels wa a soldier but hi Portugal gold el of all description of fifty tons, pla the whole estim The Master of c eetved a present eery he carried I The followim one of these shi the evacuation i met a lady in tl her finger. T 1 the ring, Comm If the miscrean his sabre, and a hand, which, Pocket, and co • under! Yesterday th ' to be cor and Il • ' LONDON. nod vrhom dm THE EVENINC; sTArt. ilea. 1— -th wiped wi c 0 e mwtHER L ---- it it is with great WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16. 1.....ftr of another PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE o'cLoct r-T- foug ht by 2 Consols for money 6614—f0r account Get—o n a k u , l ' OS wit an ar in Excheq. Ms, Gs. Bs. pm. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. lost happy too ON we are Bank Stock 238 2371 238 India Bonds , 6,, - SS per rr C. Cons . n it r e . d. 66 .r 6 n 7 . 66 6 }11 61 Icmopris..3foper r ac C . en 67 .: ' .; 6 7 rd unhurt' • ar Ex. Bile, 93. ss. pre. • This morning oi 4 per Cent. 82 821 811 Ontniuns 1 die, Akt A.MiTintST, of .." 5 per Cent. Navy stgif . State Lottery Ticket: 211. 1- orr Long Ann. 18{ ' .Ipgt Offi ni T en C in ap a t s a t, in an d i We have this day continued our Extracts from , 6 , o 4 l r .fher Coning in, tots French Papers. The parts which we have f r y, ''Z at , of 50 guns , from the Exposi, with those which we yesterday m — ons; but it is so yer before the Public, make up the most important „ ~,,' C an get into the of that document—a document of singul ar andta Ir ":, i t a pears that paralelled effrontery, and unblushing imp u d ence, At cat _ of th p ree frigates the present moment we cannot afford rooni at LA w atching an Op columns for the strictures which it demands, bta. q L A i n a former let shall take an early opportunity to expose a feyza sn ' d that so on after, most prominent feitures. _.t.ine. their move ANOTHER LETTER, SAME DATE. 46 The-AMETHYST, I am happy to say, is noss coming in with a French frigate, la Thetis, captured after a most severe action. She had sailed fro L'Orient a few hours before, with, I am told, a deter• mination to fight ; and hard, indeed, the struggle ap pears to have been. The prize mounts 50 guns, and is one of the largest frigates of France. Eighty no were killed and wounded on board the Amcrtnit and 280 on board the Thetis, among whom is the C 4 tain, who was shot in endeavouring to board with 0 troops he had on board. The Lieutenant of M trio is killed en board the AMETHYST ; Messrs. Goso o and MYLES, midshipmen, wounded, the former se verely. The Thetis has a cargo on board, consistisil of 1000 barrels of flour and other articles, for nique. The TRIUMPH and SHANNON came down s quarter of an hour after the action—the latter hod* prize in tow, as the AMETHYST has lost her mizen.nust, " I am told that the prize is •otally dismasted.-• The boat which brought the account left the Fici outside the Eddystone. The Thetis had 4SO men ca _