Star.
London, England, 1814-07-13 00:00:00

PIiENCH PiIPLR.T.

PARVI; /MN 9. •
The King has appoilteJ M. de Chateaubriand
Ambw sador of France to the Court of Stockittilm.
The ilionitfur of t:iis date contains an order from
the Minister at War, stating, that the King having
observed that a great number of ''General and other
Officers, who had been prisoners of war, had Arrived
in Francei and were many of them in a state of great
destitution, his Majesty therefore orderid, that, dat-
ing from their arrival, they should be immediately
placed on kill pay, awl that in the formation of the
slew regiments a certain number of corhmissions
should be reserved for them.

One hundred horses of the greatest beaut)-, com-
ing both England, and destined for the Emperor of
Austria, passcd through Basle on the 27th of June.
It is not certainly known whether they were pur-
chased by that monarch ; but some people say they
are a present sent to him by the Prince Regent of
England and the Emperor of Russia.
We read in the Genoa Gazette of the 28th ult. that
the old King of Spain, Charles IV. has demanded of
the Allied Sovereigns to be re,seated on the throne.
The same journal contains the following paragraph :
ki Whatever the French Gazettes may say, the ru-
inour prevails very much throughout all Switzerland,
that the Crown Prince of Sweden will abdicate his
rights in favour of the son df Gustavus IV."
We yesterday extracted from the Strasburg Courier
an article which talks of a pretended revolt of Russian
sbldiers against their officers, in the vicinity Qf Hague-
nati. More autheotk information assures us, that the
details, which we only repeated, are to be classed
among the groundless fable:, sometimes in circulation.
Russian soldiers never mutiny against their officers,
nor pillage the chests of their sovereign,for whom they
are so justly penetrated both with love and admira-
tion. The Strasburg article is therefore entitled to
no credit.

Count Ruppin departed early this morning with all
his family. The illustrious traveller took the route
Of Burgundy and "Franche Comte, on his way to
Ne•.ufchatel.
Major Leslie Walker, of the British service; bas
been presented to his Majesty, who, in consideration
of the services rendered by that officer to trench pri-
soners, during the war in Spain, presented bifn with
the decoratioU of the Lily.

CHAMBEEt OF DEPUTIES.
BITTING OF Tilt BTII OF IVR.Y•

M. RINOUD this day submitted his Inotion for the
purpose of 41 ascertaining and detertnining the in-
demnities which justice and the interest of the State,
recruited, in favour of the departments which had
been the theatre of war, and either in whole or in
part occupied by the enemy.'; He declared that
he felt no disposition to lay open those wounds,
which it was rather his bbject to cicatrise ; but he
must contend, that to relieve those departments which
bad suffered from the presence cf the enemy, and
where the cultivators especially had been so mal-
treated in their persons, their produce, and their
means of agriculture, was not merely a favour but a
sacred duty, where public cotild not be separated from
private interest. Was it net an act of rigorous
justice, that, where some departments were the vic,.
tims of hostilities directed against all France, those
districts which had been spared, and had even mo-
mentarily gained from the common calamity, should
be called upon to indemnify those on which fell all
the losses, all the violences, and all the sacrifices ?
The orator then took a view of the means which
*night be adopted for verifying the losses, ascertain-
ing the sum total, and distributing the indemnities.
An increase calculated on the additional centimes of
the contributions appeared to him the most reasonable
course of relieving the sufferers.
The motion of Zvi. Riboud was, however, negatived
by the previous question having been shoved and
Carried.
M. CAZENOVZ submitted a motion for annulling or
preventing in future the raising of sums of money by
the administrative bodies of districts, under the natne
of municipal assessments, taxes, requisitions, or loans.
Of these arbitrary acts, which excited general discon-
tent and inspired distrust, the commune of Paris had
recently afforded a signal instance. The municipal
Conned of that city, towards the end of April last,
exacted a contribution of some millions, under the

name of municipal assessment. By this order the
landlords and inhabitants of this great capital were
at once taxed to the amount Of one fourth at least
of the land-tax, and to five or six times the amount
of the tax on moveables and on persons. The distri:
bution of these taxes was founded on the vague basis
of 'presumed easy circumstances ; and the payment
of the enormous sum was exacted within the space
of 45 days, under the most rigorous prosecution ;
although the repayment of the sums thus levied by
way of loan was not to take place but in the tourse
of several sears. He thought that the Chamber of
Deputits owed it to its own dignity, to the exercise
of its rights, and to the public interest, to arrest the
progress of abuses so destructive to property, and of
such'clangerous example. It was only by compelling
the constituted Authorities to confine themselves
within the circle of their powers ; it was by never
suffering the attributes of the legislative power to be
usurped ; it was by placing the property of the chi-
zees in security from every attack, that the chamber
-would best second the equitable views which the
King had manifested, and best fulfil the wishes of the
French people. He concluded by proposing several
resolutions to the above effect, which were unani-
mously ordered to be taken into consideration.
PO RTU-FER RAJ 0, JUNE 10.
Napoleon has taken possession of several inhabited
Isles, dependencies of ours, and has concluded trea-
ties of commerce with other Isles in the neighbour-
hood, and with the Barbary powers. Tt:e new
money put in circulation bears on one side the head
of Bonaparte, and on the other the following inscrip-
tion, which appears ridiculous :—No/toleo G Imperator
ague Rex sebe,umgue fekx Kola d'Elbet, 1811.—(Journat
Paris, from the Corriere Milanese).

• LON DON.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 1814.
PRICE OF S roots THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Reduced 684{—Cons. 68{}—for aro. 70i 70 of 70
4 per Ct. 84f1-5 per Ct. Navy 97-otuniunt, S $ pre.
Bank Long Anas. 10—India Bonds, 15s. 16s. pre.
Exchequer Bills, Ss. ss. pre.

As usual we have to notice Paris Papers a day
later in date than those of yesterday. They contain
a conciliatory decree of the Sovereign, providing
.for
moot if not all the French Officers who have been
prisoners of war : they are to take rank in the re-
formed regiments. Officers and privates are also to
.
receive their arrears of pay from the day of their
capture: this is a noble and generous act, and can-
not fail to endear the King to every class of his sub.
Jects. All our Readers may not be aware, perhaps,
that by the infernal policy of BONAPARTE, every
Officer and Private who was born a Frenchman
ceased to receive any allowance whatever from his
native country the instant he became a prisoner of
war : this was one of the Tyrant's fallacious incite.
ments to desperate acts of bravery, while it threw
the burthen of supporting his prisoners entirely
upon his enemy : to the Bavarian, Dutch, Wur.
temburgh, and, in short, to all the Confederation
troops, when taken prisoners, he made a handsome al-
lowance :,this generosity, as he supposed, secured their
allegiance—upon the fidelity of a Frenchman to the
Great NAPOLEON* he thought he could always rely.
Indeed, it would appear, from the turbulent con-
duct of those who have returned from England, and
which has been long a subject of regret with all the
peaceable inhabitants of France, that he was not quite
out in his calculations. To conciliate this restless de-
scription of men, therefore, Louis XVIII. his issued
the above Decree ; and unless the materials upon
which he is thus working are totally unmanageable,
the ferment will, we have no doubt, be allayed.

FERDINAND, King of Spain, continues to issue mis-
chievous foolish Decrees daily ; with the same manil
for old institutions which he has already displayed, he
now directs that every applicant for a commission in
the Spanish army, shall exhibit proofs of nobility :
the descendants of those honest plebeians who have
died for him at Saragossa and Tarragona, cannot of
course plead the services of their loyal parents in the
Herald's College of Spain. •
But it is evident, notwithstanding the silence of the
French and Spanish Journals, that an explosion of
some kind or other is preparing in Spain. Private I
letters from Madrid assert, that the return of Peace
and the restoration of the Sovereign, far from pro.
ducing a renovation of commerce, have been followed
by a total stagnation of business in all parts of Spain;
and that travelling is so dangerous, that, contrary to I
the usual custom, it is necessary to avoid taking ad-
vantage of the coolness of the night, and rather to
incur the fatigue of journeying in the heat of the
day. The cause of these distressing inconveniencies
is the state of political agitation into which the cottn+
try has been thiown. Besides the parties of the King
and the Corks, there is a third party, which one
would scarcely have thought it possible should exist,
namely—that of the old traitorous adherents to Bo-
PAIITE.

During the late great conflict, a hich has been con-
tinued for more than twenty years, the mind was na-
turally fixed on passing events, or employed in con-
jectures and anticipations of what was future. The
return of peace is accompanied with a disposition to
reflect on what has past.

The French made an effort to extricate themselves
from a state of bondage and intolerable oppression ;
but a people without morals, goaded on to insurrec-
tion, soon passes from servitude to licentiousness,
and anarchy infallibly and uniformly restores the
reign of despotism. Hence their tame submission to
BONAPAIITE.

The monarchy restored to France has been quali-
fied by limitations' favourable to the rights of men,
or freedom. Whether even these may not be abused
where the general spirit of the nation is rather refined
and intriguing, than simple and sincere, virtuous and
religious, is a matter yet to be determined. The
doors of liberty have not been so widely opened as
we could have wished, and as might have been done
with satety here, in England.
Much of arbitrary power is yet vested in the King
of France: not more, however, than the French cha-
racter renders absolutely necessary. A large portion
of liberty is infused into the new Constitution. This
new freedom and those remains of arbitrary power
are contrary the one to the other. Dissensions and
contests must ensue. The tranquillity and preser-
vation of the State will depend on moderation and
virtue exercised on both sides. When BONAPARTE
became Dictator, under the name of First Consul,
the first acts of his government seemed to indicate a
disposition to establish his authority on a moral basis,
and by the philanthropy, wisdom, and justice of his
measures, to conciliate the attachment and confidence
both of the French and foreign nations. There were
only two ways of establishing his power, and this
was one of them. The other was that of force—the
vulgar resource of upstart Tyrants; and this, it soon
appeared, was the ground chosen by BONAPARTE.-.
This min is still cried up by many, particularly by
many females—not only as a great hero, but a great

-;enitts. He his shun hints& to t a great Gene-1
Al—not a great hero. In the charidet of heroism,
virtue is an ingredient. We call GUSTAVUS ADOL-I
PHU% HENRY IV. of Nance, King WILLIAM 111. of
England, hTroes.not GENcinsLumi, tAmtaLANE,
or HYDEIi-ALI.

Neither can BONAPAItTIi be called a great genius.
He may be called a singular genius—% matt of an
activt and ardent mind, and an original cast of think.
ing. A great genius is a sublime and solid genius—
sublime conceptions of views are very different from
wild and extravagant chimeras. It is, comparatively,
easy to overran and subdue, very difficult to re-
tain conquered countries. in-subjection. It was nest
to madness in BONAPARTIC to suppose that, in the
present period of knowledge and an easy intercourse
of minds, he could long hold in chains the whole of
the European nations.

The troubles of Europe have ceased, but there has
not yet been a complete restoration of order. The
new demarcations are to be agreed on at the Congress
of Vienna. There will be something very anomalous
in the Confederation or Republic of Europe, re-esta-
blished on a moral basis, if JOACHIM Mortar be re-
cognised as King of Naples, BONAPARTE as Emperor
of Elba, and the Infant BONAPARTE, Duke of Parma.

What it to become of the French emigrants here ?
This becomes every day a More and more common
question. At first it was supposed, without doubt,
that on the restoration of the Bounaorrs, their adhe-
rents, who had emigrated, would not only be permit-
ted, but in some measure or way invited and enabled
to return—they are all of them permitted, but all are
not able to return, nor has their case been at all
taken into the consideration of the new Legislators.
I—There are in London and the vicinity not fewer
than 300 persons, male and female, all of them
verging, and some of them above 80 years of age,
who have not the means, if they could endure the
fatigue of returning to their respectiie native pro-
vinces. This class of people, if the gratuity afforded
by our Government were withdrawn, must perish of
cold and hunger. The venerable and good Bishop
of URES (half an Englishman, being a grandson of
the famous General OGLETHORPE), struck with the
piteous case of those poor helpless people, set out
last week from Kensington Gravel Pits, to plead their
cause at Paris—not with the Parliament, as we would
say, nor the Ministers, but with the King in person.
He is to implore his Majesty's merciful relief. He
proposes that a kind of mess shall be kept for them
at Somers-town, where lodging is cheap, and that a
pension for their support shall be paid by the French
Government, by instalments. He doubts not of suc-
cess ; and, though himself now far advanced in the
vale of years, is to mum for the establishment of
this temporary hospital.

The Grand National Fete, for which the immense
preparations are making in the Parks, is to take place
on or about the Ist of August.

Yesterday the PRINCE REGENT held a Court at Carl-
ton•hnuse, which was Attended by

1 he Lord President. the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Prtvy Seal.
the First Lord of the Treaqtry, the Matter General of the Ord-
nance, the Secretaries of State for the Home and Foreign Depart-
mews. the Archbishop of Canterburf, the Bishops of Salisbury
and Fatter, the Rwssian Ambassador, &c.

Soon atter three o'clock' his RoYAt thattNEsq, be-
ing seated on Ins throne, received the Address of the
University of Cambridge, which was presented by the
VICECHANCELLOR, accompanied by the Earl of HAND.
incite as High Steward ; the Delegates ; Viscount
PaLstattstost and Mr. Smarm, the Members I Earl
PflEt.sosr, Earl PERCY, the Rev. Mr. &wawa% the
Rev. I. S. CLARKE, And other gentlemen, making in
the whole about 80. They came in procession from
the Royal Hotel, Pall-mall, and were joined at Carl-
ton house by the Archbishop of Cara-caraway, the Bi-
shops of EXETER and SALISBURY, the JUDGE ADVO-
CATE, &C.
Admiral TsCHITCHAOOPF, General NARLSHILIN, and
Captain Kimsaws-mot, of the Russian Navy, were
introduced to his Royal Highness on their•arrival in
England, by Count Eyre, the Russian Ambassador,
and were most graciously received.
Prince Czaitrortisay was also introduced by his
Excelleficy, and took leave of his Royal Highness.
General LUMLEY kissed hands on his being ap-
pointed to the command of Isis regiment.
His Royal Highness gave audiences to the LORD
CHANCELLOR, the Earl of LIVERPOOL, Lord CASTLE,.
REAUH, the Earls of CATHCART and DELAWAR.
A little after nine, yesterday evening, a good deal
of bustle about the doors and in the lobby of the
House of Commons was excited by her Royal High-
ness the Princess of WALES, accompanied by another
Lady drawing up at the door, in Old Palace Yard, in
an open harouche, and sending into the House to
speak to Mr. WHITBREAD, who not being there, her
Royal Highness enquired for Mr. PONSONBY or Lord
GREY. Neither' were at hand. The servant came
to the lobby, and the Deputy Serjeant at Arms went
to the PRINCESS at the door, to acquaint her that the
Members her Royal Highness enquired for were not
present. The PRINCESS then drove off amid consi-
derable expressions of applause from the populace,
who had assembled with great alacrity. Their shouts
were heard in the House, and it was at first imagined
that some new communication was coming to the
SPFA KER.

'Vile moment before Field Marshal Prince BLU-
CHER left London, last Sunday, he was presented
with a gun by his Royal Highness the PRINCE Rs-
our. 'ihe gallant veteran, x great sportsman, was
highly delighted.-6, It is a most acceptable present
indeed," said he ; “ and henceforth this shall be my
favi.urite gun, and the only one of which I shall
make use."

Extract of a letter, dated Dover, July 11, 5 11. M.
" The Prince of WA iii.sretrir ( Blucher) is just arrived.
The Prince of MECKLICNBERO and suite arrived here
yesterday evening, and embarked this morning, at
three o'clock, in the Lady Frances packet, for Os-
tend."

ArAPAL tAtt#,LicEmcle.

The Princess Elizabeth Packet, from Kilt I. was
taken the 2d instant, by the Harpy American priva.
teer, of 10 guns and 110 men, after an seti as of thme
hours and a half—she was given up to the passrnge►,.
and is arrived at Falmouth.—The Mail was sunk.

The Pike American privateer has taken 2U ♦ecael•.
off the Banks of Newfoundland.

A ♦essel arrived at Peterhead, brings the following
account of the fishery' —Letitia, GRAT, of Aber.
deen, 14 fish ; Princess of Wales, of ditto, ; Don,
of ditto, 7; Hercule, of ditto, 10; Middleton, of
ditto, 1 ; and St. Andrew, of ditto, 10 ; Bellona, of
London, 19 fish ; Dundee, of ditto, 8 ; and Ipswich,
of ditto, 12. The fishing was good in general, all
the Peterhead vessels were well fished. the last ac•
count from the Fishery is the 12th June.
The whole of the Jamaica fleet are known to have
arrived, except the following t—Samuel, GRAVItS.
masters bound to Falmouth ; D)lphin, Bzosoft,
master, bound to Guernsey ; Condede Sarties,
and the Alice, SILKEAK, bound to Liverpool ;
.1 AMES, bound to Greenock and the Swallow, Batt,
bound to Whitehaven.

FALUOUTII, Juvl 9.—Arrived his Majesty's sloop
HELICON, of 10 guns, Captain HOPKINS, for Bour-
deauz; Osborn packet, iron• Halifax, with a Mail,
in 17 days.—Wind S.W. light breezes, and frequent
showers.

PLYMOUTH, JULY 11.—Came in the i'MblY schooner
from Port Mahon and Gibraltar ; and the Sum&
suootatt and Escoat gun-brigs from Portimouth.—
Sailed the EGMONT man of war, apd o.n.torixcu
sloop of war, for Bourdeaux.—Wind S.W.

PORTSMOUTH, JULY l2.—Arrived the Fsevnt
sloop of war from the coast of France. Sailed from
St. Helen's Roads his Majesty's ships Acsmt, H**e
RI ER, and PLOVER, with a fleet for North America
and Newfoundland; the STIRLING CAsys, Scerrazo
and BELLS Pains., for the coast of France ; and the
BITTERN and GROWLER for Plymouth. The only
convoys appointed are, his Majesty's ships Maoxtn.
CENT for the West Indies, and Srasnow for the Me•
diterranean.—Wind W.

DEAL, JULY 12.—Arrived the Lady Flora extra
East Indiaman from Bengal. last ftom Portsmouth,
and sailed for the River. Sailed his Majesty's ships
FORRESTER, hscnen, and Renaasuorr, for Ports-
mouth. Came down from the River the Marmion,
THONIAS, master, for Quebec.—Wind S.W.
HA RWICH. JULY 1 2.—Arri ved the Prince of Orange 9-
Packet, with a Mail, from Holland.
DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY.
Ripon, for the Sc. Juan Baptista ant Weser, on I hursday, at
22, Arundel street, and here recaUt.l.

Fancy, for the Neptune, on Wednesday neat, at 9, New Broad-
street, and there recalled.

Tartar, Alaart, and Monkey, for the Charlotte, on Friday, at
22, Esscx•street, Strand; recalled Tuesdays and Fridays.

SPORT LW? 11VTE L LICENCE.
NEWMARKET JULY MEE TING, 1814.
TUriDAT, JULY 12. •
Sweep..akes of 21gs. cach. T. Y. C.
Sir C. Banbury'. Skipjack, &if. • • • 1
Mr. AVyndham'. Quack, list. 2lts. - . - S
Sir J. Sbelley's Vittoria, /tat. . - - - 3
2to I are okipieek—itn I apt Quack-i-5 •o 4 ag.• Vittoria.
Renewal of tar sweepstakes of My. rods, tnt 3-yr-aids .:sr, I
4-Tr-olds Rat. i lb. 5-yr-olds lat..lolb. 411,014 lost. and aged
PM. 21b. T. M. M.
I.ord Backvilb.'. Eby Alerstuter, 4 years old - . I
Mr. Wynilkam's Wasp. 3 yr. old - - • . S
6 to 4 agat 14 -sekville's (-4 to 2 apt Wasp. .
Five other. mated, bid the hadre pared hut :wn.
Mr Payhe's Eby lirtley, MO. 41b. beat ir J. 14e1...-Y.Victerrie
7st. Sib T. Y. C. lONS. Sto 2 suet Mr Payne's E
£5O, for 3.yr-old., carrying 6.1. 21b 1-yr.011., via S-yr.oids,
nat. Alb. G-yrolth, dst. 121 a. and ati-d.94 I). I.
Mr. Vanditares gr. e atorlier ns Burleigh, 3 yrs old
Lord Rous's gr. a. Quiazer, 4 yrs old - -
Lord Darlington's br. k. Ctorw, 5 yrs old.
Dube of Rutland's *Retry, 6 yrs old.
Lord Grotvenor's cla. r. Pheoplow, 4 yr. old.
7 to 1 ag.t Mr. Vansittart's gr. c —4 to i aver T.d Ro,ts's Quid"'
—5 to 5 apt Sure, ry-3 to I apt JThoephor.
The Judge plated but two.

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A considerable sensation has, during the whole of
this day, prevailed in the City, occasioned by a re•
port, to which we will not give currency by repeat-
ing it. It is altogether unfounded.
On the 6th instant his Majesty's ship LIGHTNING
arrived at Cork, having under c.,nvoy II transports
with the 2d, or Queen's, 20th, 48th, and 2d battalion
of the 53d regiment, from Bourdeaux.
Friday afternoon, the Ist division of the West Nor-
folk regiment of Militia, under the command of Lieu-
tenant-Col. NIILTHORP, marched from Edinburgh Cas-
tle to Leith, where they embarked for Yarmouth, and
are afterwards to march to Norwich to he disembo-
died.

We are happy to learn that the Lords of the Ad-
miralty have promoted Dr. BURNItY'S second son to
the rank of Lieutenant in the Navy ; and we are
glad to see that his eldest son was also lately Gazetted
for a company in the 44th Regiment. We believe
the Doctor has the credit of having educated more
Naval and Military Officers during the last twenty
years, than almost any other man in the kingdom.
A dreadful Fire broke out yesterday evening, about
four o'clock, at an oil-shop in Lambeth-walk, the
cotter of Paradise-row. The owner of the house was
making varnish, which took ire, and communicated
with such rapidity that all efforts to get it under were
fruitless, and the house, with that adiiining, were
burned to the ground. The owner of the house was
so much burned in the hands in endeavouring to
rescue his little all, which consisted of a sum of mo-
ney deposited in the upper part of the house, that he
is since dead, leaving a widow and seven helpless
children to lament his untimely end.
An Inquisition was taken on Monday evening, at
the Red Lion, Grosvenor Mews, on the body of Eli-
zabeth Filcher, who was shot by W. H. Hollins.—
The only part of the evidence which in net already
before the public was that of Surgeon Heaviside, .0)
there was a large quantity
stated, that or: opening the body he timid YOU smallg
swan shot ; of wadding
wounaib. A verdict of
and extravasated blood in the th“r.tx .
-
was between the eighth and ninth r
Pit/id Murder was returned.
.
MARK LANE, JULY S
at this mercies 's market, which
MARKET'. MARK
Oats are is. per quarter dearer.
.°4lB„,.WieyreesAibCfaduni:RaaNitssipporsitMri.M°fAnrdesßsahlC:i.t W 6.
price, hawing but link here. Pets,
leans, and other snicks, malaise the same as en Monday.