Star.
London, England, 1831-04-02 00:00:00

PRI VATIC LETTER.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

PARIS, RUE ST. Hoagies, MARCH 30.
We are all alive owing to Government having signified
a determination to repel the aggressions of the Austrians.
It appears that the legitimates have been hoping that France
would have become the aggressor, but in spite of the wishes
of every body, this Government provoked nothing, while it
firmly prepared for war, if the legitimates would have it so.
Thanks to Marshal Soult, we now have half a million of
men of all arms, anxious to take the field against the op-
pressors of France in 1815, with all the tnateriel calculated
to assure success. Under the Bourbons, every thing had
been studiously neglected ; and however impatient the
people were, the Government could not second them till now.
It was necessary to levy men, to train them, and equip
them ; and it should be remembered, that it is yet but eight
months since the new Government has been organized.
Several months were necessarily wasted in discussions,
and in an internal war of parties ; and whatever might be
the disposition of the Government, it was not in a condition
to assist either the Belgians or the Italians, or the Spaniards,
till the present moment. Besides, a war without palpable
cause would have have been an aggression, and would have
borne the ill name of revolutionary ; and now it has been
provoked by the conduct of the Austrians in Italy. If the
Emperor chose to sustain his daughter, our late Empress, in
Parma, he had neither right nur ,easou for entering
Bologna.

As far as the French people are parties in the war, the
confederates in the last war are alone to blame. They de-
graded France at the Congress, and the pride of every
Frenchman takes fire whenever the years 1814 and 1815
are referred to. If the allies bad been more just and mode-
rate, France would not feel as one man in the determination
to recover its wounded honour. At present they are so
unanimous on this subject, that the declaration of war against
Austria, which is hourly expected to appear, will be received
with transports ; and no one would dare, especially a fo-
reigner, to doubt of our complete success.
Clause), Girard, Imnarque, Drouet, &c. &c. all Napo-
leon's Generals, inspire the greatest confidence , and the
songs and dramatic pieces which celebrate the achievements
of the Emperor, and of these men, are universally popular.

The affair in Poland is considered as a God-send, for it
appears by undoubted documents, that if the Poles had not
risen just at that time, we should have bad the Cossacks
in Belgium and France before we were prepared to receive
them. The Polish army, directed and assisted by Excel-
mans, is now considered as the van-guard of the French
army ; and its successes are as much felt in France as
though its battalions were all Frenchmen.
While England is under a liberal administration, and the
war is not a war of conquest, no interference of England is
apprehended, because none will be provoked ; and without
English subsidies to her enemies, France is qualified to re-
store both Italy and Poland. The idea here is to drive the
Austrians beyond the mountains of Friuli, and the Russians
beyond the Niemen ; and then to protect the Italians and
Poles in establishing free Governments to their own taste.
There are some anxieties about the finances, the Bour-
bons having left a debt of seven millions sterling; and the
confusion of last year, and the preparations having caused
deficits of four millions, and expenses of other four millions;
but this is little regarded by people who reckon that the
expenses of foreign war will be borne by the foreigners
among whom they march as friends.
The politics of the STAR are much relished in all our
reading rooms ; and Frenchmen employ so much time in
translating, that it is no easy matter for an Englishman to
obtain sight of one.
P.S. We have just learnt that the brave Belgians have
succeeded in destroying a new Orange plot origanized in
London !