Star.
London, England, 1813-03-06 00:00:00

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Under this head are enumerated the sums expen•
ded since the accession of his Imperial Majesty on
the Throne, on Imperial Palaces, Fortifications, Ma-
ritime Por:s, Roads, Bridges, Canals, anti Public
Works ; the whole amounting to 14105,000,000.
This is followed by a prolix enumeration of these
works and their several improvements. A great
part of which accounts are already before the Public.

INTWOR ADMINISTRATION.

The Concordat of Fontainbleau has put an end is ,
the dissensions of the Church. The Government has
been constantly satisfied with the attachment shewn
to it by the Bishops and Clergy. The ancient prin-
ciples of the Church of France, known by the name
of the Liberties of the Gallican Church, perfectly re-
concile the rights of the throne and those of the Pon-
tifs. They ought to be constantly the basis of in-
struction in all the schools of the empire.

MAIMS. .
France has snifereclby the events of Toulon, tie
civil war of the South, of La Vendee, of the West.

by the affairs of Quiber on, very great losses—the
best officers of her marine—the elite of the masters,
mates, and crews perished there.
Our squadrons, since that epoch, have beeen man-
ned by crews but little disciplined. The insufficiency
of the maritime inscription has been acknowledged,
and every year the means which it offered have befit
decreasing, the inevitable result of the enemy's con-
stant superiority, and of the almost entire destruction
of our maritime commerce.

Jt is no linger possible to dissemble, that we must
either despair of the restoration of our marine in time
of war, or have recourse to new measures. In adop-
ting the first part, we should act as the administra•
lion under Louis XIV. and Louis XV. did, discou-
raged by the defeat of La Hogue, and the cause- t
quences of the war of 1758.
At both epochs the marine was renounced; they
discontinued constructing. The resources of the
finances were directed to the land army and other
departments ; but the results of this abandonment .
were very fatal to the glory and prosperity of France..
England gave the law to us ; she imposed treaties .
upon us which we must be able to tear from our an-
nals. We were ourselves obliged to demolish our
ports, and receive Englo.!) Commissioners to super-
intend the demolition of them.. By a consequence'
too natural of the superiority of her forces, England
imposed newt us commercial treaties, destiuctive
to our industry and when she judged proper to !
make war, to Fillage our commerce, or seize upon
our establishments in the different pins of the world,
she found us without naval force, and without any •I
means of defending our flag: from hence that con. 1.
tempt which the peoplz of England expressed on
every occasion for us. The Administration under
Louis the Fourteenth and Louis the Fifteenth seat
obliged to adopt the fatal part of renouncing the ma.
rine ; this the derangement of our finances, or through ,
the real impossibility in which France in her ancient
limits was, of constructing and organizing great
fleets in time of war.
Almost nothing is possible is to be done at Brest,
or at least every thing is very difficult there, when
that port is blockaded by a superior sqUadron ;—but
it is possible that financial re..sons, the wants which
continental wars occasioned, and the difficulty of re-
creating the marine, concurred, with the little energy
of the administration, *occasioned the desperate reso-
lution of allowing our marine to perish. The losses
which our squadrons have since experienced. the iss4