Star.
London, England, 1804-08-24 00:00:00

FRAsCE.

PARIS, AUG. so.
The privateer Minerva, from Bourdeaur, has car.
tied in there a very rich prize, called the Atalante,
from Jamaica. The confequence of this prize has 1
eenstbd at Bourdeauz a very lively fenfation. Its
cur is valued at one million eight hundred thou-
fend liens.
On the 3d, in the evening, the battery at Calais
bred on two flips that attempted to enter the har-
bour. The miitake was, however, form dilcovered ;
and the thips, one a Swede, and the other a Dane,
received pilots on board, and anchored fafely in the
Road. hefe Sips had fuffered a great deal in their
fails and gging, and bad three men killed and four

wounded.—
Workmen are now pulling down the Theatre Fey-
dean, becaufe the Emperor ordeted a new (beet
to
be made between the area Feydeau -and the fireet
Vivienne, where a new exchange, furpafliog in exteot
and beauty, both the exchanges of London and of
Amaerdam, will be conftru&ed. The-bankers and
merchants, in gratitude for the preteasen and swourage-
ow the Emperor has gracioully given to commetce,
have, by a deputation, demanded his Majetly's per-
miffton to creates ftatue in the middle of this new
exchange, to which neighbourhood the Imperial
Bank of France will be removed. The Emperor',
anfwer will be known at his Hajefty's return from
the coati.
The privateer Efperatiee, which fame time age
captured a cotter with difpatches for Lord Nazsoe,
has now again earned into Alicant two other Eng-
lifh kip., richly laden. which two days bef2re had
Ailed km? Gibraltar, and were deained for Malta.
The Captain's (hare of prize money in thefe three cap-
tures amounts to 6eo,ocro lines, 25,0001.
During the 6rft nine months, year eleven, 249, and
dying the fame period this year, 316 mad, or luna-
tic Pedant!. air 138 women and :77 men, have been
feet moor public hofpitals for the reception of mad
Potpie. It is curious that among the men is a young
Wroth aged 33. whok folly is to believe himfelf
Loon XVL and among she women. a young lady,
• aged 19, whole sada& is to think berfelf the wife
it Loots XVL the unfortunate Milli AiTOIIISTTI.
They see both children of returned emigrants.—
Le Genoa & Frame.
The Batavia national deM amounts to tOOO ma-
tons of bones (soo,ooopool. (eit The fel-
lowiag are the panscalars of this debt from the foun-
dation of the Republic t—ln :579 Holland owed
eel, ems =lam (flo,000l.). the other provinces
bad no debt ; by the peace of blunter, 1648, Hol-
land bad a debt of 114 millions. By the wars again'
Catnewass,, in 1651 ; againtt Portugal, in 16541
*gash Sweden, 1656; !rink Engind, :664 land
aain* the Balmy of /14011STIL, M 1665 1 and
ended with the
peace of Nimeguen, in 16711, the
debi amounted to ado esaboos. By the peace of
Ryfwick, 56911. the debt had augmented to at 4 ma-
tions ; and by the peace of Utrecht, 5711, to 343
Millions. During the Wit foe the Pragmatic Sanc-
tion. which began *743. and ended by tbe peace of
Isis-la-Chapelle. 1748, it WIN 404 Willlool6 To
this km were added so millions more dans& the war
with England, in 1780, and with France in 1793.
Bence the revolution 1795, and until the peace of
Amiens, which ended the lab war with Engird, 446
millions have been added, not counting patriotic do.
nations. requifitions, forced loans, etc. The interea
for Chafe 1000 millions amounts to 29,460,4911 Be-
gins. This debt is fine augmented during this pre.
fent war with feveral free and forced loans, the ease
fum of which is not known, but is fuppofed mina
to be Szty millions, which thews the immure riches
of that commonwealth. where no bank notes art ial
circulation, but all bills of exchange, control:whirs,
Ike. are paid with calls, molly olver.as gold has a dif-

"MOP-
tradefolan of the name of Devito was Ching
in the river Oife by St. Ma giant, stub his dog by his
fide. A child. playing oa board ooh of the Ibips, fell
unperceisredin the water : nobody obferved it but the
dog, which immediately jumped into the water, got
bold of the child, and carried bins by his gown to
his malkar's hole, a dillance of thirty yards. This
animal had the fagacity to bold the, child's bead above
water, fo that he had (wallowed but little water, and
loon recovered. The owner of the thipoffered Day.
Los kraal Louis Woes for the dog, but was anfwered
that the day before he would not have parted with it,
but that now no money will tempt him to feparate
hinsfelf from an animal which bad raved the life of
a human being. This dog is of a curious breed ;
its mother bad-fared a walberwoman from drowning.
and its grandmother fared a young girl, who, from
difapposnunent m love, threw heralf into the River
pile ; but who has line married Dausto's elder bro-
ther, by whom the has had fix children.
Ilse Counters of A a, one of the Ladies in
waiting to the Emprefs Joss, snot, is the widow of
the Autirian Ftelebblarthal, Lieutenant Count Amu.
also, and b: ~n a Princefs of Holberg-Gedern. The
Emperor and prefs are partkularly deflect's to
attach to them and have near their perfoos, Ladies
and Gebtlensen of the Nobility of Belgium and of
the French fide of the Rhine.
The Chemia. Cadet de Vac:, baling fent his
?ruffian bfaießy his Chemical Diairmary, received
in return from the Pruttan Ambatiador, Marquis
Ly cc 'tenni by the order of his Sovereign. the tifual
medallion of' the Academy of Sciences at Berlin.
Bior, Isiembcr of the National InOitute. intended
laR Wednefday, in company with a friend, to afcend
from the obfervatory in the air, and to make their
meteorological and phyfical experiments. Govern-
ment lent -him, upon this occalson' its larva bal.
Iwo, the fame that bed been in Egypt. But no
loaner was this halloos tilled, than a hidden guR of
wind carried It away, and it has hitherto not been
heard of or hand. According to calculation, if it
meets with no accident. it may amino at or approach
fume of the planets imeareit Cu our globe and as all
our belt mathematical, stironortf sal, 004;4 and
meteorological wilfulness, were cmbsiked. with (c-
-oeval bottles of wine, liqueurs. kc. thoold it strive
say where in univerfal (pace, where the inhabitants
have not reached die fame hate of sivilifatioes a.
upon our planet, it may produce information, which
chance bas fo often produced in our arts and fci-
owes. It is well known that it is to chance alone
we are indeb.ed for our greaull dikoveries. Odom
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