Star.
London, England, 1814-02-18 00:00:00

GENEVA, JANUARY 26.

Count Bubna has left Monthiel, and come hither.
He has .detachments at Bourg and Pont-d'Ain.—
Marshal Augereau is at Lyons, where he lan some
troops ; and, it is said, expects reinforcements.
It is reported that General Zachmeister has taken
Fort Bureau. into which the French had retired, who
had left Chamberi. Tills fort, which is on the road of
Grenoble, commands the entrance to Dauphiny.

TherZUPERATURE OF MK HUMAN FRAME.—It is
a well-authenticated fact, that the teml erature of the
human body is the same in all climates —irregularities'
being found to be its greatest ba:ie : if its functions
:ire regular, gond health is its natural st i.e. Nothing
tends more to render them irregular than sudden •
transitions from heat to cold ; yet uur necessary avo-
cations—and evett our amusements, as men as re-
moving from on: climate to another, naturally render
us liable to this evil; to counteract this (aud which
appears to be drpe effectually) Mr. MiLLAan, the
Proprietor of the Znst India Warehouses, Cheapside,
has invented his Patent 7 wipe Cloth, to regulate the
perspiration ; and, from the reports of the first expe-
rience, it is found to answer tLe most sangiune eapec.
tation ; and will, no doubt, prove moat hreaeiai to
mankind in every part of the globs where it is ilauo7
ductd.

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(Continued from yesterday's STAR.)
M. DE SERM ET (COMMISSARY) ORDONNADRUR OF THE DIS-
TRICT OF CASSEL, TO HIS lIXCEI4.ENCY COUNT DARU,
DIRECTING AUNISTER OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF
THE ARMY.

REPORT.
" Wei!bones, Sept. 30, 1813.

Ste—As I have constantly followedehe motions
of the King since the day before yesterday,. I have
been unable to transmit to Y. E. a report of what'
has happened, until this moment.
Tneesuity.—y. E. has no doubt been informed,
by the accounts of the King to H. M. of the unex-
pected arrival of the enemy before Cassel, on the
‘2Sth, in the morning. Although I had taken care,
snore than a week ago, to write to the French Mini-'
ster, that the. Paymaster of the army had funds in
the specie of the country, without having any certain
means of transporting his cash, and although I hid
proposed divers ways of pleeing that cash in safety,
in case of need, his Excellency contented himself
wide assuring. US, that he would give us timely notice.
However, we had no other notice than the firing of
carmen and small arms upon the city itself,
4. I immediately hastened with the Paymaster to
M. de Reinhard, and we handed him anew written
petition, to facilitate, by his interference, the means
of saving the cash, either by causing it to be received
into the Westpletlian Exchequer, or by procuring us
if caisson (a covered chest carried on a waggon), and
the requisite escort. • • -
The latter alternative was impracticable, since
the King himself left his money behind. With re-1
yard ,to- the former, we went with a message from
the French Minister to M. I)upleix, the Treasury
Director, who was on the point of setting off, and
who positively refused to take charge of it.
" After having acquainted the French Minister
with this refusal, we agreed with him that there was
no other way left bur to try to deposit the money
with a merchant, and M. Pottier was commissioned
by the Minister to endeavour to transact this business,•
which became so much the more difficult as all the
counting-houses were shut.
66 I do nut know whether he succeeded, because
the King having immediately after effected his re-
treat at the head of his troops. along with all his Mi-
r.isters and M. de Reinhard, I thought it my duty
not to remove from his head-quarters, which I have
followed ever eince.
66 I had taken the precaution to keep ten sick
horses of the third company of the 10th battalion, and
four soldiers ; and I relied upon them, in case of
need, to remove thy cash ; but they were mimed
a league off, and it was impossible to give them any
notice.
.4 I am not able to afford Y. E. any statement of
this money, because the Peymaster.never would ren-
der me any account of it
.; and Y. E. whom I had
consulted concerning the :niperintendance, and the
degree of authority which my functions, gave me-
ill\ this respect, has not' honoured toe with an an;
ewer. Eieeit on this occasion, M. Pottier thought it
his duty to apply directly to the Frentb Minister the
never recurred to me, as he supposed he had no or-
ders or instructions to receive from me ; what I have
done to assist.liim was never done at his request.
66 I have-not seen him since our departure frotell
Casssl, and I have reason to think that he followed
the Miniiter of the Westphalian treasury, who went
through Paderborn, having been unable to join the
King.
Hospitals.—No convalescents had left the hos-1
pitals for twenty-four hours, but a great 'number
had left them the day before. There remained about
400 men, half of whom, were Westphahuns, taken
prisoners in the hospital, situate half a league from
the city, on the road by which the enemy approached
The cavalry having followed very rapidly as far as
Merbourg, it has been impossible to effect the remo-
'val of the sick and bedding from the night goat tersl
on that line, particularly as the peaseate are rather!
disinclined to perform that service.
... Y. E. knows that I had. at that time no other 'I
. administrative employment at Cassel.
Personal. Concerns ot' the Commissaries at War.
I shall -continue to .follow the motions of the King,
am] of the French Minister, as long as he has any
thought of retnrnin to Cassel'; and I shall wait the
orders of Y. E. hear his person.
4, Should the King, however, pass the Rhine,
which Ido not suppose, I should then go either to
_ft!• ntz or to Frankfort, to be better enabled to reach
vie head-quarters.
" I left Celfsel-bn my saddle horse, taking nothing
with me. but the coat on my back; Ido not know
erhether my servant has been able to escape with my
two other-horses and my effects.
" As the few Frenchmen in official situations at
• Cassel and in the district had neither horses nor
't
-coney, they most have been extremely distressed,
• and I know not whether they will come back.
• 66 lam myself without a farthing..(Y. E. knows
;hat there are three months pay due to me, and five
xuonths extraordinary expences) ; fortunately H. M.
has provided me with a room in his house.
" I entuat Y. E. to consider the repeated and con,
tidal-able losses which I have experienced within the
list twelve months, and to grant me the extraordi-
cery expenses due to me since the Ist of May.
A om, with profound respect, my Lord, your
Excellency's very humble and very obedient servant,
(Signed) 66 DE SERUM"
ITO THE GEN tRALor DIVIPSION COUNT DULOLOY, COLONEL,'
OF TILE ARTILLERY OF THE IMPERIAL GUARD.
" Paris, Sept. 2s, 1813.
46 GENERAL—I have again-solicited the Minister
to obtain son* artillerymen from Spain. He an-
•owered me 'on the ISth instant, that the artillerf corn'.
: panics of that army were too weak to spare a single
• m.ii--that prior to this they had been finable to nrp-
•pli the men demanded of theM, and that they could
less do so at present.
• "Of the twenty-nine conscripts at Lafere, who
are well acquainted with the service of -ield-piecese
• rive or sixerre unfit for•seritice ; the °thesis may be
Ant to the army; yet I shall wait forytutc ders.
%. to
`ieri them off. • •
' Itave the honour to be, with respect and friend-
• -4'4W LSigned) `•//Aiwa; D'ABOVILLE,
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The General of Artillery."

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'PEAItILATION-7,..et.THE QF POLICE TO HIS ASA-
JEST'T Tali EMPEROR AND KING.
"'Paris, Sept. 9, 1813.
4d- T have the honour to address to your Majesty
the Bulletin of General Police, and American Jotir-
pals to the 31st of July; which came by way of
Bayonne. • ,
. "We received to-day dispatches from the army
to the.24th of September. They have done us great
service, and have produced a seasonable altera-
tion in the language of the people. la
.this place,
a mere nothing has Kisser both to excite alarm and
to restore confidence.
44 We have no news from any part of France, or
from Italy or Holland, that is at all unpleasant, or,
indeed, in any degree extraordinary. The report of
the last events that have taken place in the Viceroy's
army !s not yet published at Paris. The talk more
generally of the political indisposition towards us,
which is supposed to exist in the Bavarian Govern.
ment, because we Lave more frequent communica-
tions- with that country than with Illyria. All this
does not a little contribute to excite unpleasant re-
flections; but the true national character is, to rip
strongly against ingratitude ; and I have not yet
seen any symptom of its displaying itself in a diffe-
rent manner. I am even very well satisfied with
the language held by persons of weight with respect
to the general state of affairs at present. The man-
ner in which they express their opinions is very com-
mendable, and very satisfactory. is not, how-
ever, a time to occupy your Majesty with all these
particulars at the present juncture; they will,find
their fit place on another occasion.
" This day-, ai the Council of Ministers, those of
your Majesty's Ministers whose departments are con-
nected with the objects of public expenditure, gave
information that the Contractors have threatened
them with discontinuing the service, without.an aug-
mentation in that portion of their payment which is
made in specie.' The reason they assign is that their
loss is too consiOerable in the negociation of the an-
nuities which are remitted to them for the comple-
ment of their pay.
" The Minister Director of the War Department,
whose expenses are the heaviest, is placed in a pecu-
liar predicament. Most of his contracts.must be re-
newed this year ; and if he does not adopt sone
expedients to induce the present Contractors, who
have derived considerable profits from their engage-
ments, to continue them, he will find great difficulty
in procuring others.
He seemed to me to be fully aware of the dif-
ficulty of his situation, and disposed to make every
'effort to retain them in his service.
46 The Contractors fur the public works in Paris,
in like manner, complain of being paid by annuities,
instead of the specie which is poured into the Trea.
-sury out of the public chests of the capital. The
works have hitherto gone on well notwithstanding ;
and as yet there have been but slight apprehensions
among the Workmen of their discontinuance.
I do not speak to your Majesty of all the ap-
prehensions which prevail in the South, nor of all the
itomplaints caused by the requiNons with which the
country is burdened for she-support of the army of
Spain. These are evils inseparable from the reverses
lwe have experienced in that quarter, and we must
have courage to support them. Your Majesty, be.
sides, is incapable of affording any remedy to them,
from your Majesty's present situation.
" I have received to-day a very bad account of
the state of health of M. le Senateur Laplace, of
whom there seems reason to opprehend that he will
hardly have strength to resist the winter season.—
Three weeks ago, at his Excellency the Arch Chan-
cellor's, he frightened every body by the alteration
in his appearance. • It seemed as if we were all raking
leave of him. He looks as if he had received the
stroke of death already.
" Morftmtaine-
-46,4738, 910, 633, 364, 624, 417,
46, 682, 459 337. 118, 621, 100(3, 290, 877, 470,
323, 450, 1177, 356,. &c. &c.
46 1 am, with the most profound respect, &c.
(Signed) • ", The Duke of Roviuo."
GENERAL POLICE.