Star.
London, England, 1802-08-04 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, ix THERMIDOR, JULY 30.

Yellers:ay the FIRST Cowsue was prefent at a
meeting of the firft dais of the National Inftitute,
where he heard a long difcuffion of the advantages
of the Canal of Laurent and that of Vic; After a
fitting of three hours, a ballot took place, and the
decifion of the dafs was, that the Canal of Vic
would be moll advantageous.
According to a letter from Brefcia, the Vaccine
Inoculation makes aflonithing ptogrcfs in the Ita-
lian Republic. It has the effea of flopping the ra-
vages of a moll malignant fpecies;of fmall pox. In
the lad three months more that 12,ocis have been
inoculated in the department of Melia alone.
Some Engliin Officers on their pafrage from
Malta to the ports of Italy, have had to fight their
way through feveral Barbary cruizers watch at-
tacked them. They have deputed that feveral
merchant veiLls have fallen into the hands of thofe
pirates.
The di aember called Pellegra, after committing
its ravages in Lombardy, has fpread itfeif into va-
rious parts ache 27th military divifion. The Board
of Health at Turin has taken the neceffary ma-
tures to oppofe its farther progrefs.
Letters from the frontiers of Weftphalia nate
that fcveral corps of Pritffians, intended to occupy
the ind:mnities devolved to their Sovereign, have
the Wefer. The regiments of every
defcription ithin the infpeOing ddiriets of Fran-
conia arid Weitphalia have received frcfh orders to
hold themfelves in readiaefs to march. When thefe
accounts came away a general movement was ex-
peeled every moment, and the hutfars of Blacker,
with feveral companies of foot chaffeurs, had al.
ready begun to march.
A great number of proclamations have been
printed at Berlin, addreffed to the people of the
petty States which are to be united to the kingdom
of Pruffia. Several packets of there proclamations
have already arrived at Minden. The fame letters
acid, that the Pruffian army is to receive an aug-
mentation of from twelve to fifteen thoufand men,
to coed! of a regiment of haus, a regiment °of
hulans, fix battalions of fufileers, and a battalion
of cha icor&

ACTS OF GOVIRNMENT.

The Confuls of the Republic, having hoard the
Council of State, decree as follows :

Apr. I, All military men, of whatever rank, belonging either
to thb land or the lea fervice, who for fplendid adtions during
the late war have obtained arms of honour, are diftributed in
the Lateen cohorts of the Legion of Honour, agreeably to the
tables annexed to the prefent Decree.

IL The firft operation of the Grand Council of Adminittra-
tion (hall be the nomination of the Grand ChaueAlorandTrea-
furer General.

111. The militaty men, indicated in the rft article, as well
as the individuals whom the Grand Council of Adminiftration
(ball judge worthy of forming a part of the Legion of Honour,
!hall be comprehended at first merely as legionary foldh rs.
IV. They Shall take tie.: oath prefcribed by the lith Article of
the rlt Title of the Law of }lorcal 29, at the epoch,andbefore
the perfon appointed by the Grand Council of Adminiltration.
V. The proccs.verbaux, rcfpeiling the legionary foldiers
taking the oath, hail be tranfmitted, wi.hout delay, to the
Grand Chancellor. Immediately after the reception of thefe

procts-verbaux, the Grand CoUm!! of Adtninli
proceed to grant protr.otion to the different ranks.

The Firft Confut, (Signed) BONAPARTE.
By the Flea Cor.ful,
The Secretary of State (Signed) H. B. MARE'''.

FROM TILE PARIS PAPERS.

HAS:BURGH, JULY t7.—The Ottoman Empire
is falling afunder on all tides with more rapidity
than could havebcen prefumed. The SuLr..N has
no children. Shut up in his Seraglio, he only goes ,
out to the Mofgae every Friday. The military
hopes conceived of him in his youth, and which oc-
cafioned his being proclaimed with enthufiafm
by the Janiffaries, have vaniffied. The SULTANA
VALIDE has long appeared to have fume influence;
and at Conftantinople, as in France, Naples, and
in many other places, the influence of women has
produced great miferies.
When one part of the Ottoman army affembled
to march to Egypt, a tingle movement of the Sul-
tan's, e ven the pitching his tent for one week within
cannon fhot of his Seraglio, would have given en-
thufiafm to the whole army, and elatrified a part
of the Empire. Yet, in the very capital, com-
plaints are loud and public ; and a Prince who is
overwhelmed with the weight of the Empire, is in
fecret the object of the national contempt. PASS-
WAN OGLOU, for ten years, has lighted up the
flame of civil war in the heart of the Empire. The
Court of Vienna has evidently fupported and en-
couraged that rebel. It would have been fuffieient
for the GRAND SIGNIOR to have gone for a week
to Adrianople, and PASSWAN OGLOU would have
been defeated and annihilated.
The GRAND SIGNiot did not quit his Seraglio,
and PASSWAN °CLOTS, ftronger now than ever,adds
to his means of intelligence, and increafes his own
credit, at the expenee of the credit of the Divan.—
Yet we know not whether there rumours are well-
founded ; the underflanding between PASSWAN and
the Houfe of Aultria appears to be more apparent,
and Auflrian and Ruffian troops are approaching
the frontiers of the Grand Turk. Have thole
Princes really conceived the plan ofmakingtheEu-
ropcan Oates (.I*Tin key undergo the fate of Poland
Thesince of WALLACHIA has by extortion
alienated the hearts of all his fubjeas. He pro-
duced an infurreeion, fet of for Ruflia, and Bu-
chareft fell into the hands of PASSWAN OGLOU.
The ton cf the Prince received the news of his fa-
ther's flight ; he went to the Porte, inveighed
againll the condo,3 and treafun of his father, and
declared that he would remain a faithful fubjeet.
The treaqtres which his father carried off are
eflimated at twenty-five millions. The Pacha of
PAUSAL has been driven from the City by a
revolt of the inhabitants, and has taken telage at
Jaffa. Pe. lia is at war with the Ruffian army.
'DRAWN Bey, OSMAN Bey, and the Tambotirgiie,
are mailers of Favoum, after having routed the
troops of the Pacha of CAIRO. Thus, on all tides,
and in all countiies, is the Muffulman power tot-
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becaufe the Paehas are more eruel and more tyran-
nical than at any other period.—Gold t The
treafures of the Seraglio are con fiderable—Armies
All the provinces are full of foldiers—there wants
but one man. If the turban of Sotymaw the
Second, or of Se Lim the Second, were to appear
in the midft of the empire, we fhould fee in an in-
Rant innumerable and courageous armies—the
Ruffians repreffed—the Crimea reconquered—all
the Pachas defeated, the Mamelakes return to
their duty, and the EMPEROR of GERMANY em-
ploying his armies iu the defence of Hungary.—
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