Star.
London, England, 1809-12-29 00:00:00

STARGARD, NOV. 20.

His Majesty the King of Prussia having ordered
the confiscation of all the goods and effects of the
famous Major Schill, an Ordnance has this day been
Published in this city, on the pat t of the Governor-
General of Prussian Pomerania, summoning all per-
sons who may be in possession of such goods and
effects to declare the same, and pay in the value be-
fore the 10th of January, 1310, under pain of severe
punishment.

FRENCH EXPOSE.

(C,:nc!ad-d fo,)7n. yesterday's
PUULIC WORKS.

6' The stay which his Majesty then made at Paris
was distinguished by the care which he took to rega-
late all the parts of the vast Administration of his
Empire. He gave a new activity to the immense la-
bours which no period of peace ever saw undertaken
in such great numbers, nor followed with so much
ardour. Prisoners of war, from different nations,
sent by victory, have finished the canal of St. Quon-
tin ; two leagues of an imposing subterraneous pas-
sage, open a communication between the rivers and
seas of the South. Seven thousand workmen have
not ceased to labour on the canal of the North, and
nearly eight leagues of this new way opened to
the Rhine and the Meuse, to bring their conjoined
waters to Antwerp without quitting for a moment the
soil of France, have been executed. This canal, so
important to commerce, will not be a less benefit to
agriculture. Lanu*.s equal in suoerficies to several de-
partments will be peopled and fertilized. The peace-
able conquest of agriculture will soon augment both
our riches and our prosperity.
'‘ Two millions have been usefully expended in
1809, on the canal of Napoleon, which will unite the
Rhone to the Rhine. Marseilles, Cologn, and Ant-
werp,
will soon be bathed by the same waters—this
canal will be made to communicate wth the Seine'
by that of Burgundy, the worts,of which, abandoned
by the old Ocrenithent, • have received anew the
greatest impulse—already the navigation is complete
from Dole to Dijon ; they are at present working
between Dijon and the bridge of Papy, between the
Yonne and St. Florentin--several imputtant locks
upon the Seine, the Aube, and the Somme, have
been finished in 1809. Every where the plans which
tended to improve former navigations, to extend them
or to create new ones, have been undertaken, or con-
tinued with activity., ' • I

• u The maritime works have made the greatest pro-
gress--those of Cherburgh already present to the
astonished eye an immense port, hollowed Ont of the
rock. Its depth has been this year carried to thirty-
feet below the level of high water. It is defended by
a pier, the execution of which has been as perfect as
the idea ha& been bold. Facings •of granite, give
quays the most imposing chaeac-
to the port and its

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ter of grandeur and duration; the eanavathan will de-
scend l 6 feet lower' ;0 that there Will rennin in the
port of Cherburgh 26 feet water at low water.
44 The sluice of • Havre is nary finished i it will
secure, from the middle of the next campaign), the
constant entrance of vessels into the channel. At Dpn-
kirk, art octagon sluice, which will drain y4luable
lands, and secure an easy navigation, his been fur-
nished this year-

" The basin at Antwerp, is excavated in all the
anterior parr and the sluicef of the sea is raised above
its foundation.
The port of Alto has been deepened,
The part of Marseilles offers a more easy anchor-
age than ever.
The roads of Mount Cenis, of the Simplon, those
which traverse the Alps, the Appenines, in every di-
rection, and thg Pyrenees, have received a new degree
of advancement, or are completed. Roads, equally
beautiful and easy, lead from Alexandria to Savona,
from the banks of the Tanaro and the Po to the
nearest shore 'of the Mediterranean.

The grand drainings of Bourgain, of Cotentin,
of Rochefort, have already changed sterile marshes
into fertile lands, and their results, draw upon the
government the blessings of the people, astonished at
not having suffered any of the evils, however transi-
tory, which they had been made tp dread,