Star.
London, England, 1814-04-11 00:00:00

POL ICE.

MM stow haat: erns, on Saturday,
charged with receiving apw.ards of 000 worth 01
silks and sarsenets, stolen from the premises of Messrs.
Stevenson and Co. of iSow.lane. Silks of the value
of JE9 *ha d been stolen, of which about one-third wai
found in the prisoner's house. He said he had pur-
chased them of a casual customer. He was remand: d.
BOW-STREET.-- Saturday J. Smith, 13 years of ages
was re-munined and fully committed, charged with
having uttered a forged dealt on the banking-house
of Messrs. Brooks and Co. in Chancery-lane, with in-
tent to defraud Mr. J. Frazer, of Gray's Inn.

Sturman, who was executed on Saturday sennight
for setting fire to hi, house in Half-moon.street, made
a full confession of liZs hotrid crime, and the justness
of his punishment, a few days previous to his execu
tion, and acknowledged that he was in his house at
the time the servant girl returned [ionic, and if she
bad staid till the time allowed her by her mistress,
which was about an hour later than she came home.
the house would have been completely in flames. He
conceale,l himself behind the window•curtains from
the servant girl. It will be rectlected, that none of
the witnesses could recollect letting him into the house,
but several first saw him in the passage leading from
the stret.t door. • He was dressed in his wife's clothes;
and this explains the mystery of Mr. Dean's evidence
at Bow•street Office, but who was wit called on the
trial, which was, that h saw tl.e back of a female
igure twice in the parlour, with clothes On resembling
those whlch Mrs. Sturman wore, and spoke to the
person, but received no answer ; the reason was,
Sturman was afraid of speaking, lest his voice should
be recognised as a man's.

A letoun EllA.—Never could Great Britain boast
so gl irious an epoch as the present—the Tyrant and
Desolator of Europe conquered, and his Capital
taken—Trade and Commerce rendered more fi )urish-
ing than at any period of time for many years past;
and among numerous articles for home consumption
and exportation, ROWLAND'S MACASSAR Ole has a
pre-eminence which at once proves the superior ex
cellence of that invaluable article for the Growth of
Hair, patronized by their Reyal Highnesses the Prin-
cess of `VALET and Duke of Sussex, his Serene
Highness the Duke of BRUNSWICK, and most of the
Nobility and Gentry throughout the World.
The following particulars respecting the chief
places named in the dispatches concerning the conflict
that gave the Allies possession of the French capital,
will not be unacceptable to our Readers :—The Canal
of the °tiro!, which was one of the scenes of the late
battle before Paris, is somewhat like the New River,
near London, furnishing the principal supply of
water for the use of the capital. It separates froth
the Ourcq at Sf.Queirin, in the department of the
Aisne, about eighty. miles from Patis ; it is but just
finished ; for although begun under the Bennis:in
dynasty, the undertaking was discontinued, and given
up as almost impracticable, till the reign of BONA-
PARTE, when it way resumed, and prosecuted to its
comi.letion with great ardour. The excavation, and
the'rnore coarse and laborious part of tke work in
general, were performed by the prisoners of war
taken in the Prussian and Spanish campaigns, oho
were witlarit ceremony compelled to this toil by
NaeoezoN. The canal is navigable, and a consider.
able part of the supplies for the consumption of the
capital are conveyed by it. There is a beautiful and
exteasive basin,. which serves at once for a harbour
for Cre boats and a reservoir for the waters behind
the Fauxbourg St. Martin. The canal is to be con-
tinued to another great basin formed on the site where
the Beet& formerly stood, and principally constitute
ed by the great ditch that surrounded the building.
This basin at the Bastile completes the communica-
tion from St. Quentin to the Seine : it is to be deco-
rated with a grand collossal figure of an elephant,
thirteen times the size ()Elbe living animal, placed on
a pedestal towards the interior extremity of the basin,
spouting an immense volume of water from its enor-
mous trunk, and constituting one of the grandest or-
naments of Paris, which is certainly now the most
brilliantly decorated capital in the world. Belle Ville
stands about a mile outside Paris to the northward,
and is one of the principal places of resort for the re-
creation of the citizens. It is filled with pleasure houses
and taverns ; and being the principal place for deposit-
ing the wines intended for the consumption of the city,
while the ownets arc waiting for a market, and unwil-
ling to incur the expense of the heavyduties that attach
as soon as it is brought within the barriers, the bon:
viva,,!: are in the habit of making excursions to dine
at this viliagea in order to regale themselves with the
produce of the hest vintages at a cheap rate. Music
and dancing afford additional attractions and enter-
tainments to a people passionately fond of gay
amusements ; and this village on a Senday in sum-
mer, and even en ordinary evenings, in a less degree.
presents a multitude of little Vauxhalls, with alleys
of trees and ball-iooms lighted with coloured
lamps, where numerous trains of young persons
of both s, ars, neatly dressed, are footing it away
to merry strains, forgetting their own fate and the
fate of the world in the happiness of the moment!
—Montmartre stands still further to the northward.
It is on a vety elevated ground completely command-
ing Paris, and is the principal situation for the tele-
graphs for the service of the Government. The AC-
clivity of the heights from Paris is v6-st steep ; but
Bonaparte has improved the communication by con-
structing a fine road u ith a circular ascent. There
are ginguettel and pleasure-houses at Montmartre
a'sn ; but the place altogether is shabby, and the dif-
ficulty of the road makes it nut a favourite resort,
although the elevatien commands a magnificent view
of Paris and of the adjoining country for a vast ex-
tent. A few mortars on these heights would reduce
the capital to a heap of ruins, and render perfectly
useless any attempt to defend it against an army hav-
ing the superiority beyond the banters.