Star.
London, England, 1806-10-08 00:00:00

PRANCE.

PARIS. SEPT. 19.
Tim operations relative to the Confcription were
terminated in the department of the Lys with great
difpatch. All the detachments defined for the aai.e
army have already marched to join their refpeeive
corps. The Confcripts teßify the tamoll williognefs
to ferve.

Sam 3o.—The firli detachment of the Confcripts
of 1806, of the department of Jemappe, marched
off on the 6th of September ; the other detachments
followed day by day, fo that on the t tth the contin•
gent was entirely furniThed.

In the department of the Etre. the fill detach.
ment fet off on the 6th of September ; or, the !I ft the
laft marched off : thus the totality of the contingent
for the aftive army is on its route for its deftination,
or is already arrived.

In the department of the Seine Inferieure, the levy
of the confeription is futiOwd : it was performed with
that facility which at once denotes a well cnnflituted
Government. and a people entirely devoted to their
Government. A numerous and brilliant youth con-
curred in this levy.

The Confcriets of the Department of et Vi.
laine, which is to form part of the 'Clive army, are
on their march to join the•corps for which they are
&Rifled. The sad September, the IsR detachment
fet off from Rennes. The operations performed with
as much difpatch as faccefs, have furnifhed a new at-
tenon of remarking the zeal and devotion of the
fandionaries and inhabitants of that country.
°CYO'S" J.—The Col. General of the Dragoons,
M. Baragnay d'Hilliets, has fet out fur Italy, where
be is to take the command of the army in Friuli.
OCYOIISt s.—Gen. Vaux, who fervcd with dißinc-
tion in Egypt.. and has (ince had the command in the
department de la Cote d'Or, has fa out from Dijon
to join the Grand Army.

The Prince of Ifemburg left Montpellier, where
ht► regiment fill lies, to proceed to Mentz, to join
his Majell; the Emperor. _

OCTOSIOIL ;.—lt was on the night between the tft
and sd of this month that his Excellency M. Von
Knobelfdorf, Miller from his Majetty the King of
PrufTra, left Paris. It is certain that he went to Mentz
—He had, previoufly to hi► departure, received a
Courier from his Court.

Then' M.ijellies arrived at Mentz nn Sunday the
allth. On pairing tkri tigh Mentz, his Majefly was
fix boors nn hurfeback infpening the Fortificatinns,
the Attica!, the Impeiial School for the Arti:iery
and Cusps of Engineers, and the other Military Eflab-
lifhments of that City, which is one of the firongell
places in the Empire.

Frum the zscl to the sash September, Prince Mu•
rat, Prince Borg Left, *arthala Kelletalao, Durcc,

'Augereau, &foam, &Sam and ether Generals,
base faceeffively palfid through the department of
ties Menfe, on their way to Manta. During the fame
(pace of time. ten thoufand troops, among which
were the firil and fecond regiments of the Guards,
took the fame route.

°cross! 4.—The Cnnfeription h going on With
the greateft aflivity in the Departments. In the De-
pa r t men t de l'Ain, flxteen young men offered them-
(elves above the number required, and aaually
marched off with the complement drawn by ballot.
_ .

AU the carpenters are in requifition, at Cologne,
Bonn, and other places in the environs, to throw
bridges nerds the Rhine at the &ft order.
A private letter from Olufswig, in Iceland, men-
tions. that there are, at prefent, in one of the gulphs
on the coaft of that ifland, two French frigates corn-
ing from Greenland, who have deftroyed a great
number of (hips belonging to the Engli(h engaged in
the Whale Fifhery. They have brougjtt with them
a number of Engli(h prifoners, all ill of the (curvy.
Two other frigates, crowded in like manner with'
prifoaers, were on the way to join them. The Grand
Bailiff, Commandant of the illand, ht the Count
Von Trampe, had proceeded to DyreSord to 'offer 1

every affillance both to the Freach and to their pri.
toners.

The Bert,, Grum, of the s3d tilt. Rates, that the'
Xing was not then preparing to quit that Capital.
On the preceding day, his Maidly made feveral pro.
motions in the army, received the refignation of ft-
veral Officers, granted them petitions and the right
of wearing the uniform.
The Envoy Extraordinary and Minifter Plenipo-
tentiary of Pruffia, General Knobelsdorff, fet off on
Tuefday morning taft, in order to join the Emperor
at Mentz. This is thought to be in confequence of
clifpatches he received from Berlin the day after the
departure of T. I. and R. M..--yerniel do l' Larpfre.
Extraft of a Letter from Verdun, Sept. s 7.—
" Their Majefties arrived in this town yefterday at
five o'clock in the morning, without being expefted.
They flopped here only the fhort time necefrary to
change hoi fel. Their Majellies pared thro' the town
amidft the cries of si Long live the Emperor !" a
thoufand times repeated by a numerous people,
whom their prefence filled with joy and fatisfaaion.
" This unanimous and unprepared homage ap•
pared to make a lively impreffion upon the Englifh
lin this town. They wei_ enabled to judge from it
with what fentiments the nation is animated towards
its aug oft Chief."

His Majefty the Emperor arrived at Mentz Oa
Sunday morning laft.Garkettr & Frays.

Fran the Atom, Saturday, Oadier
The capture of Buenos Ayres is an event which
was not to be expetted upon comparing the military
flrength and the population of that Colony with the
feeblenefs of the Englith fquadron : the conqueß of
French Colonies is a dearer achievement. But as to
the others, the fuccetres of this kind have fo amazingly
multiplied in this war and the laft, that it will loon
be fufficient for the Admiralty to fend notice to a
colony that it is in a Rate of capture, as they notify
that a port is in a Rate of blockade. It is not lets
lingular to obferve, that this conquett, to which they
attach lo mach importance at London, is hardly per-
ceived on the Continent. The invafion of a German
village makes more fen Cation here than the conquell
of a kingdom in Alla. England has reduced the Eu-
ropean Princes to behold her greatnefs with indiffe-
rence ; the has eternally occupied them with acceffory
interetts; fhe has conilantly kept up their quarrels;
the has carefully ruined their inclattry, their navy,
and their trade. In the Rate of indifference in which
the keeps them in this refpee, the completes at full
liberty her fyllem ; the extends on all fides her Em-
pire ; without the other Powers even thinking of dif.
poring it with her. She makes irnmenfe acquifitions
almoft without drawing her (word; and when the
judges proper to give the world a few moments of
peace, the keeps the ocelot conquefts, and returns only
ruined eflablifhments.

0 England relaxed the rigours of her maritimr laws
when the was apprehenfive that the Continental
Powers might fee too clearly into her pretenfions, and
might unite to cfcape her monopoly : the made folic
conceflions to Neutrals, when her warehoufes were
glutted with goods which the withed to get fpeedily
rid of, or when her colonies were in want of the neu-
trals to fupply them with fubliflence. At prefent the
theme to announce, that the /kit of Navigation is to be
again retorted to in all its vigour ; (he regrets the fa-
crifices made to neeeficty ; the thinks (he has ruff •
ciently embroiled the Powers of the Continent with
their own divifions to be any longer in need of (par-
ing them, and to confummate the ruin of their people. ,
The heedleffnef. with which they fee there enormous
ufurpations, hems wonderfully orange upon being
compared with the refllefs uneafinefs which they dif-
play in all the affairs of the Continent.
" The vulgar perceive nothing beyond the terri.
tory they inhabit ; they are apt to look upon univer.
fal trade and immenfe colonise as objeds foreign to
the power of nations ; but the enlightened man fees
that in the (late of civilization which Europe has art
rived to, trade and the navy have a powerful influence
over the firength and profperity of Empires. He
who difpnfes at his pleafure of the riches of India and
America, and who forces nations to receive the pro-
dufticns of his int:tut:try, really levies enormous tales
upon them ; be arbitrarily ezercifes what conllitutes

fovereignty, and this empire h not fo chimerical as
tome pedisig may fuppofe.
" No &Min the political exillence of France pre.
Cents a more folid and a more real power. Her means
are within herfelf, and their concentration gives her
an humenfe advantage ; but we fee in their develope-
ment, neither the fame extenfion, nor the fame in-
conveniences, for the profperity of other States.—
Before the Revolution, France was the rival of Eng-
land, as to her Navy and her Trade; the poffeffed
the colonies the richeß in cultivation. She 101 l both,
and would have defcended to the lowell rank of
Powers. if, by the Genius of her Prince, and the
Courage of her Armies, the bad no: acquired on the
Continent a compenfation for the Idles the had full
tained. The power of England, augmented by an
immcnfe Empire in India, by fevers! Colonies In
America, by the Cape, the improvement of thole are
bad before. and the deltruilion of their rival fettle-
ments, bring into the political balance of Europe
fuch a weight, that all the influence acquired by
France can hardly keep up the equilibrium. It is
with the riches of both Indies that the purchafes
European difcords. The fuperiority of her Navy
wpold be an irrefillible advantage, if her population'
lieNl at the rate of her ambitious defigns, or if only
Om, had completed the Colonial Conquees which
the fill meditates, and even over her antient allies.
She endeavours to turn afide the looks of other Powers
by Cowing among them apprehenfions upon the views
of France. But upon comparing the ufe they have
both made of their (trench, it will be found that the
is the molt to be dreaded and the molt ambitious. On
the one hand, we fee that France has conquered the
half of Europe, and has remained within her limits;
the States attached to her federate (Ohm might be
uni cd to her; they have remained feparate and will
be independent Powers. But all that England has
conquered is definitively annexed to her Empire--
His Britannic Majeßy commands in Indoftan as he
does in Ireland. He has not contented bimfelf with
organizing new States, nor with making Allies of
them. France has often teemed to fight for foreign
interells, but England has always made war for her
own account s and has direelly appropriated to her-
felf all the profits of it. In fine, in the Rate to which
fhe has reduced the navy and trade of other nations,
it is happy that the energy of a tingle one thould have
preferved the counterpoife which the bliadnef, of fe.
veral Sovereigns tended to deftrny."

Frill. /be PIISLICUT if 2 7th Seltssier.

!ATTAR flObl • •URITID •T 7•ANCICIPOILT

FROM ■IRLIN ON TNIt I7TN ear TIMIRR.

" The King of Pruffis is one of the honelleff men
of his Court ; he is well aware of the true intereas
of his country; he loves and defires Peace with
Frances but unfortunately, among thole who dire&
its affairs, it is not hinfolus poffcffes the moll weight.
M. de Haugwicz wifhes for Peace with France, but
he wants energy of mind to refill his adverfaries.—
M. Lombard alto willies for peace ; be is too enligh-
tened not to foe the dangers of a change of fyflem ;
but his credit is limited, becaufe his functions are only
exercifed direftly with the King. The Duke of
Brunfwick, General Mollendorff, and many other
Generals, are anxious for Peace, but they do not
urge their wifltes in a proportionate degree to their
inclinations. Thefe men, fueh as we have defcribed
them, have no weight whatfoever.
" We have been tempted in this view of things to
alk of our traveller, who then in PrufGa wants to go
to war ? We mull, replies he, in the fiat place, put at
the head of the War Fallon the Q2een, an amiable,
and even a beautiful woman, but light and ineonfide-
rate who thinks herfelf much more clever than be
hufband, and who is urged on in her °Nees, by her
relations, and, perhaps, by her attachment to Ruffin.
Almoft all the ladies of the Cowt are in a delirium at
the recollalion of the Emperor Alexander, and, ani-
mated by the example of their Queen, are ardent
upon the fubjea of war.

We mutt alfo take into the account the young
military men, who, wearied of their inGgnificarsce,
and difcontented whh their wretched pay, hope every
thing from the fortune of war. Let the patty of
England alfo not be forgotten, which the mifunder•
(landing between the two countries has not prevented
from flaking its way into the middling circler, and
almoft univc'fally throughout the country.
This information, if eorreB, gives room for
fume obfervations. What perfonage in France was
the firil caufe of the Revolution ? What other at
Naples has jun been the caufe of the min of her
Houle ? What other, in fine, at London, is the prin.
cipal caufe of the continuation of the war ?—This
inconflant and light fez, as capable of prepolTafions
and paffions as they are little fufeeptible of calcula•
lion, do not fee the abyrs before they be on tke brink
of it : then they weep, they high : but, in political
eontefts, tears are feeble arms. If, as our traveller
affirms, the QL:een of Pull:14 be at the head of the
War Party, we fear we may foretel that her fine eyes
will (portly melt into tears.
" Such then is the fpalacle which PrufGa exhi.
bit; ; a Queen young and handfome, who ought to
be an angel of conciliation and of peace, is an agent
of dircord and of war ; a King replete with wifdom
and probity, does not difplay the refolution of a Mo.
mach ; an enlightened Prime Minifter is a fervent
dellitute of courage. In fine, a powerful Monarchy
is itfelf digging the abyfs which is going to fwalliw
it up. rut a fubjed for relic/lion !"

SEPT. tg —The lAtell letters from Berlin continue
to announce preparations for war. It is even faid
►hat the Court of Pruflia has got its declaration
printed ; but nothing has yet appeared, or at leaf!
has reached us ; and fenfible people hill entertain
come hope, that the Continental Peace will not be
troubled. On the ►6th inflant the firll Pruffian troops
entered Eynach, in Saxony. The Saxon troops have
I begun to quit their quarters.—journal de Paris.