Star.
London, England, 1814-09-27 00:00:00

HAGUE, SEPTEMBER 20.

It is said that Prince Frederick of Orange, as soon
as he returns from England, -will study at Leyden,
where a house is already taken for him.

CARMAN P 4 PER S.

BERLIN, SEPTEMBER Is.

The following Ordinance has been published here:

7 " We, FAU/ERICK WILLIAM," &e.
The efforts made by all classes of our people,
without eiception,. have had for their result the de-
reference of the country in the war which has so hap-
pily terminated : it is only by similar means that
that liberty can be preserved, and Prussia be main-
tained in the honourable situation where her arms
have placed her.
" The measures, therefore, which produced these
happy effects, and of which the whole nation desires
the continuance, must form the fundamental laws
of the military constitution of the State, and serve as
the basis of its organization ; fur wisely-combined
regulations for the arming of the nation are the surest
puarau'ee of a durable peace. In consequence, the
old laws for the coMpletement of the army Are hereby
-abolished, and we ordain on that subject, as follows:
1. Every individual born a Prussian subject, and having
completed his twentieth year, is bound to defend Lay country.
In order that this general castigation may be so fulfilled, especially
in time of peace, that the progress of industry and the sciences
stay not safer, the following gradations will be observed in re-
gard to the service and its duration:
" 9. The armed forte shall consist of a permanent army, of
a landwehr et the first and second requisition, and the bedvitriu.
" 3. be amount of the permanent army ocelot the landw..•.r
shall be regidated ace.orditig to the cir.:umerances and rte. —G.: in
Which the State may find itseit at etiferent times.
" 4. The permanent army shall be always ready to take the
(kid; It shall serve as a great sehoel for forming-the whole na-
don to war, and with that view, shall embrace all the branches
of the military art. • •
" 5. Tht permanent arnty shall be eemposed--first, of three
who shall present themselves for service and for promotion in
that career, by uutsinitung to certain trials prescribed with that
view; setocd, of %emitters who devote themselves to the mill.
try serviee, but. ale unable to undergo the above-mentioned
trials; third, of a portion of the Prussian youth, from twenty
till they ate twenty-five years of age. •
" 6. During the three first years, all the men who form this
portion of the regu'iw army shall be always under their colours;
:pr the two.following years, they shall be seat to their homes,
and in case of war they shad verve to complete the regular army.
" 7. The young men of giami familiestwito eau clothe ziul arm
themselves at their own expense, shall be pernteted to enter the
Caps of chasfeurs and other light trooes. After a year's service,
they shall receive, on deneaed, furloughs to resume .their midi
eery occupations. Atter three y art service, they Ala Inner the
landwehr of thefinit reviettion, Where, according to their know-
ledgeand capacity, they-will have the first claim to the rank of,
°dicers. • s
to I. The landwehr of the first requisition Is destined. .in awe
of war, to support the perniinent army ; it will perfuens the
same services as the army, whether within or without the ceen-
tty but In time of .peace the landwehr shall remain at their
homes, except during the periods destined for nitkraiy.eirvice.,
It shall be composed of young men from twenty to twenty-eve
years of age, who de not serve in the permanent army.
The exercises of the landwehr of the first requisition are of
two sorts. It shall be exercised, at a certain fixed period, by
small detachments in their respective districts. Once a-year nu-
memos divisions shah join the regular army for the purpose of
grand manceuvres.
" 9. In order to dame as little as possible the program of
education, both physical and moral, the age of twenty years com-
plete shall be fixed for entering the military service; but youths
of 17 will be accepted, if qualified by their physical powers.
" 10. The landwehr of the second requisition is destined, in
time of war, to ref. force or even to form garrisons, according to
the wants of the moment, and to reinforce the arm* . It shall be
formed of the men who quit the permanent army, or the land-
velar of the first revisition, and, to short, of all who are able to
bear aro. s, up to the age of thirty-nine complete.
I he landwehr of the second requisition being for the
most part composed of men who have already served, it shalt
only be asiembled la time of peace by small detachments. ti
y. Mks men from seventeen to twenty choose to join the exercise•
of this landwehr, they will he permitted so to do.
" 11.- The Ltrids: arm shall only be salted into active service
et t're mom ot of an invasion of the counter. In time of pea.
they,may in some cases be employed in nsaintsaiuing publit &des..
Is shall be composed of all men trader-sn, *hi are not Jut 0
',mild with the permanent army or hwelwelir ; in Aeon, of
• ;pbust yothig men who have reached 17.
46 13. t he Ludas.= shall be divided into civic companies

the Urge elijes; and In the cent" We ampules ptitiedeseil
to the 'Maps, and districts.
k`,t' 14. Those who shall volunteer Into the :tyke alloy, shall
be allowed to choose the reenlist, and the branch el Nevin
which they prefer; but those whom the authorities 8111114114111 to
military service, stud' be distributed in such corps as may be
thought proper.
" IS. hose who, after three years' service may wish tieeo-
tinue in the army, hall engsge for six years, and shall have a
badge of destiectien. If, after the second period of melee ex-
pires, they wish to contract a third engagiment, they will have
an increase of pay, and the promise of a pension, if they become
incapable of service.
" 16. In time of peace, the periods of entering and leaving the
service shall be regulated as above ; but in time of war the whole
shall be regulated by the wants of the moment, and all the do.
tachments called into service shall be replaced, hi proportion to
their 'owes, by those which remain."