Star.
London, England, 1815-04-03 00:00:00

VENICE, MARCH It.

We are assured that the Austrian Government has
sent 15,000 men as a reinforcement to Italy. Gene-
ral B anclii is expected at Venice, to succeed the
Prince of Reuss, who is ill, in the command of that

Masai 15.—They speak of the arrival of 6000
Ycapolitans at Ancona, and it is added, that the
lin of Naples is there at their head.

TRIESTE, MARCH 12.

Ca the first news of the departure of Napoleon
from the Isle of Elba, a great agitation prevailed
amongst every class of people. All commercial
rperations were suspended ; and every body was
ccupied with political intelligence.
The few Italian regiments which were in Italy
have been sent to Hungary, and arc to be replaced
by 40,000 men, the advanced guard of which are

Own interiml concerns, without foreign interference;'
and have, in spite of every excitement employed by
their adversaries, kept that question entirely distinct
from every one of•the grounds of war : nor can we
belie,' that the present Administration will allow
itself to be provoked to adopt a different line of con.
duct. Ministers will jealously guard the interests and
the honour of the country, but they will be slow to
commit the country in the present circumstances of
Europe. What is practicable and attainable, not
what may be desirable, will ever regulate the aim of
a wise and prudent Administration.-
We are led to this subject from the spirit which
we see manifested in some of the Morning Papers.
None but fools substitUte fiarsivn fur cfslikrati.m. Were
Ministers to listen to the voice of some men, we
should have interminable war—interminable as to
any thing admitted into their calculation. What !
urge the Administration to commehee a war never
to be terminated but with the restoration of dr: Boon-
BONS to the throne of France I We think this to the
full as reprehensible as the conduct of those aho are
for viewing the Usurper of die French Throne as not
merely a harmless but a meritorious Prince, who
aims only at ameliorating the condition of his own
people and of the surroundhg nations ; and who con-
sequently would have this country—(the country
which alone possessed independence sufficient to make
her persevere in her efforts to compel the French to
confine their pretensionswit hin more moderate bounds)
tamely and passively to look upon the passing scene,
without even preparing to vindicate, in case of ne-
cessity, the honour, the independence, the glee', of
Great Britain. Yes !44 the glory of Great Britain ;"
for greatly as the term glory has been abused by our
enemy, we have a lustre of character to maintain,
which France has yet to acquire.
We have not at all changed our opinion of the
man who has so long been the scourge of Europe,
nor do we believe that his antipathy to this country
is at all lessened ; but, for the mesons stated in the
STAR of Saturday, we are convinced that others now
divide the power with him in France, and that this cir-
cumsiance ought not to be lost sight of in the deli-
berations rendered necessary by the events which now
occupy the attention of Government.
There can be no doubt that the Nation will sup-
port Ministers if they be forced into a war; and we
think it equally certain that our adversaty will pin
them in the wrong if he possibly can. Hence one
strong reason, iu addition to the fresh load of debt
which a new war will occasion, why they wilt put it
out of the p .cer of BONAPARTE to say, that they
would not t . o listen to any proposition calculated
to avert hostilities.

Even the official documents published in the French
Journals, which we have no.v received to 1 hursday
last inclusive, shew that it Is now a part of their po-
litical tactics to run before others in some of the topics
calculated to produce a popular feeling in favour of
the new order of things. The Decree anarastimo
MIL SLAVE TRADE, and declaring that henceforth it
shall not be lawful IQ; Frenchmen (excepting to finish
the voyage entered on under the floultamts) to buy
or sell. Slaves, we consider as a measure of this kind :
but no matter, the measure itself, whatever the mo-
tive may have been that dictated it, is good, and
therefore deserving of praise.
The very adoption of such a system makes it more
than ever necessary that Ministers should be exceed-
ingly cautious : but let them, knowing the man they
have vi deal with, be fully prepared for the alterna-
tive of war. To be found off their guard would be
to reader the restoration, or rather the maintenance,
of peace (for hostilities have not yet commenced)
absolutely impossible.
We have given in the preceding columns extracts of
every thing worthy of notice in the FrencbJournals.
According to the Moniteur, the Duke of BOURBON
has failed in his efforts to excite a movement in La
Vendee in favour of his family, and an agreement
was at length entered into by which the Duke and
his followers were to receive passports to quit France.
In an official Prater Vaal in the same Paper, it is
stated, that of the Crown Jewels, valued at 14,441,646
francs, there only remain to the • due of 603,598
francs. The rest (including the diamond called the
Regent, estimated at six millions of francs) valued
at 13,838,046 francs (more than half a million sta.
ling) are stated to have been taken away by the
Knco and his friends.

Our private accounts from France state, that a
great degree of gloom is obsei %fable, not only in
Paris, but throughout France ; the expression of ex-
ultation, at the late change, being chiefly confined to
the military, and the lower orders. In the sea ports,
as here, the people scera to think that a renewal of
the war will be unavoidable. At Havre they are
even preparing for the event, we mean the people,
who are making great exertions in re.equipping their
privateers for sea. Three of them are expected to be
ready for sea in a few days.
We need hardly add, that out Admiralty should
be on the alert to he prepared for the event. Indeed,
we know that in that department the exertions at this
moment are great to procure seamen and get ships
ready for sea. During the last three days, the press-
gangs on the River have taken every seaman out of
the vessels that have been ready to sail since the Ist
of February ; even apprentices that have served five
years of their time are taken without discrimination.
We understand, however, that the Transport Board
lon Saturday declined receiving any more tenders for
transports for the present.