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

NUREMBERG, MARCH QS.

The declaration of the Allied Powers of the 13th
instant reached Strasburg on .the 18th. it is inserted
in the Strafing Gazette, with tke following reMarks:
4. This official news is just come from Vienna. Could
we expect any other ? What Power could allot.
after.so many sacrifices, that Ehropeshould be aria
involved in flames ? And yon, Frenchmen, ra
people of Alsace, you citizens of Strasburg, who
have always been distinguished for your integre.'
your fidelity to your oaths, your attachment to your.
Sovereigns, you who wishfor nothing but repose end
peace. Your fate is in your hands; join the forces
which oppose the irreconcileable enemy of your bor.
piness ; let him be conquered by the French. Yea
honour, your reputation depend on it. Do not OF'
pose indolence to tr;ason. Energy and firmn.ii
must be displayed, your own happiness, that of y,
children is at stake ; your country is in danger, it
calls on you. Perseverance alone gives victory. LIL
the same spirit animate you—let the justice of rut
I:cruse inspire you, and GOD wilL be your support.'

13itUSSELs. MARCH so.
•
General Masson passel through Louvain on :0-
2si h. It is sa;d he is going to Ala-la-Chapelle,
many think he is gone to Vienna.
Ostend and the Sas de Slylt are crowded with
English troops, who landed on the 17th ; the Fest
division of this corps marched the next day for Bruges.
• From Frankfort we learn, ..that the march of the
troops of Wurteniberg And Bavaria through that ciqr
to Mentz and the neighbourhood, lasted. tliree dais'
Their number is 22,u00 men. t'he Duke de Ricnc•
lieu, and Count de Montnestfard, both Generals in
the Russian service, ate arrived it Ghent, where
r,Louis XVIIL was expected yesterday.

LON DON.

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Nl4s IN GOLD, AS SOON AS DRAWN.

TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1815.
no of STOCKS THIS DAY Al' WHINY. O'CLOCK.
Muted !hut-4 per Cent. abut-5 per Cent. Navy 87
com,o, 5n.. I—for act. 55i a7—tacheapter sa.
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The French Messenger, whose arrival at Dover
we announced yesterday, was not permitted to. pro-
ved to London with his dispatches. These dispatches
wae, it now appears, addressed to the Comte de
CII, me, the French Ambassador. He had also with
him dispatches for some of the French Consuls in
Scothold and Ireland. The Messenger sailed again
yesordav from Dover for Calais.
EA of HARItOwiIY and Mr. WELLIBLIT
POLE, also sailed yesterday evening from Dover.
Tilt), go to Ostend, whence they are to proceed to
Brussels. mute a Council is now assembling, which
will be compr,,ed of Ministers not only from the
States, tl:at fortmd the Congress at Vienna, but from
most of those which contributed to the success of the
last campaign against France. At this Council the
pol;tical and military measures, to be adopted for
supporting the DECLARATION Of the Amucci POWRIIS,
at Vienna, will be taken into consideration; and the
expectation of the best-informed circles is, that their
first act, should all the circumstances which may
come under discussion be found to demand it, will
be to address a ?reclamation to the people of France,
reminding them of the circumstances in which they
stood towards the Allies, at the time of the treaty at
foutainbleau; of the full power of the latter to have
ctitorced the military penalties to which that termini
suljected itself, after losing its army in making
vars ucoa al. others ; of the effect Of BONAPARTE'S
abdication, in bar of those penalties; and of the
duty of abiding by it, which the French acknow-
ledgi.d, when they accepted the full release, that AC-
.ompanied it, and when their Senate, their Army.
tr.d their Magistrates declared him unworthy of
reigning. The Proclamation will call upon the
French Nation to spare the effusion of blood by ful-
fling this duty, and surrendering, or expelling, the
Usurper.
Should that call be found necessary, and should it
e made in vain, the Allied armies will immediately
titer into France and carry on the war with the ut-
lrist energy. In the mean time, the different Powers
tre preparing their means; ail their armed forces will
be got in readiness fur action upon the French fron-
tier, and thus there is some probability that the soil of
France will be made the theatre of the war.
If war shall be found inevitable, it is certainly good
rolicy to be well prepared for it, and it is equally de-
irable that the evils which are inseparable from the
scene of conflict, should, if possible, be confined to the
territory of that people which has provoked the con-
test. The French have suffsred many revolutionary
horrors, but hitherto (except during the campaign
vihicb made the Allies wooer: of Pori') they have
hardy suffered at all in the lung wars which have
nc.oly desolated some of the °that States ut Europe.
Hue must have war, knowing, as the world does,
not only by declarations but by exper:ence, that
it has MT been the Maxim of ,he enemy to make

coal mainiais war," it is highly deirAble that the
effects of such a maxim should be turned against the
common enemy, and the people who support him.
_ From every circumstance that transpires we are

led to believe,' not that those who have the, direction
14 our public affairs lure resolved to go to war with
i.iaace as a tueoisurc That i$ desirable, but that, horn
v',ew of the tutisactiiiun which have ocete: red,
and the state in which Europe is placed, by the

movements of a tiotibl, ,orne individual acid the
:.:Irport he 11.“ met •with from men bred up amid
:et:es of war, tumult and robbery, they are led to

,:orbitler war as the only alternative left for the public
eety. At all events it is proper that they should
prepired fir the event. At such a crisis as the
przsent t:-.7 would be highly erirninal were they
*ri c:pose welfare and safety of the ciltuniu-.
ni:y to druier by ail kind of negligence : and, it
war Cit11:10t be averted, it is unquestionably sound
policy tl..it it should be earned on with rapidity and
tnergy, she better to baffle the enemy in the arrange-
sheets which it Cllllllot be doubted he is now making
Nor the conflict.

From what passed in the House of Commons last
eight, it seems apparent that Ministers consider them-
elves and the country placed in circumstances
vihich seem to render war unavoidable. Hence
hesitation about proceeding in the further discus.
of the proposed Assessed Taxes and the Votes
:!!e Committee of Supply. Indeed, if we are to
rave $ state of warfare such half measures would be
iilarectual fur the exigency.—lt is obvious
'.at much must depend on circumstances that can
t Aly be known to men in official situations'. The pub-
' " therefore do well not to shape their opinions
1.1 those of the jourealisu which either advocate or op.
vise the idea of a MAL To tell Ministers that the

Vlembt Declarationtm shut the door against all over-
fists from the enemy, and that they cannot entertain
4117 overture from him without N i.Jdiblr infamr."
to say the least of it, highly indecorous. Indeed it de.
.crvrs a snore were epitbet. That Daiwa=

Was issued on the 13th of Maith.a week before
BONAPARTX arrived in Parisi did not • even
know that he had 'reached Lyons. They could
never contemplate the possibility of the Govern-
ment of Loma being found so weak as not to be
able to crush an adventhrer aiming at the sore-
reignty, supported by only siz hundred men I If the
BOURDONV failed in the duty they owed to them-
selves. to France, to Europe ! —and we hold it im-
possible to justify a Government which could thus
allow itself to be surprised and overthrown :
We say, if they failed in so essential a duty, by such
failure they virtually released the other Sovereigns
from eve' y obligation they might be supposed to have
come under to support them. The circumstances of
the Allies, by the very fact which we have stated,
, have been completely altered from what they were At
the time that Declaration was issued, and so altered
by no act of the Allies : is it reasonable then to tell
our own Ministers and the Allies, that they will incur
iadtlible isffainy if they shall not follow up that decla-
ration by a war, whatever circumstances may have
intervened, or may inlet vene, to shew the imprudence
of such a measure ?

We think it a duty imposed epos as. to do the best
ia our power to enable the public to form as opinion
for themselves at this important crisis, respecting all
the topics which ocenpy general attention; and to
prevent, as fur as may be in our power, the substitu-
tion of passion fur argument. Were the Govern-
ments of Europe to allow themselves to be influenced
merely by questions of feeling, incalculable evils
would be entailed on their subjects.
It is just as improper to threaten Ministers with
infamy if they shall maintain peace, as to endeavour
to deter them from preparing with energy for the• de•
fence of the Empire, in the event of the continuance
of Peace being rendered impossible by some gross
insult or act of aggression on the part of the enemy.
Is a nation to be exposed to danger because the means
of defence cannot be prepared without incurring a
great expense t The Ministers who could be guilty of
such negligence, would deserve from the Nation
something more than disgrace.
In one word, Ministers are responsible for the line
of conduct which they pursue, and acting under
this responsibility their hands should in no way
be fettered, nor their deliberations influenced by
clamour on either one side or other. We mean

not by this to be understood as maintaining that Mi.
nisters should never attend to any thing but the
suggestions of their own minds; for Ministers are but
men and may, and, oftener than perhaps it would be
proper to acknowledge it, do receive and act upon
kiwi ill suggestions conveyed to them through the press:
but we maintain that they should be "'written at" in
the language of reason and argument, not in that of
threat and insult.

We have received Patis Papers of Friday. B 0144•,
PART& was still in the French Capital, but Marshal
Nay has proceeded towards Belgium to inspect the
military force in that direction. The Neapolitan
troops, under Muaar, ate said to be in motion to
support BM:APART&
Two thousand cavalry, finely mounted and equip-
ped, voluntarily accompanied the &mason PRINCES
to Flanders. Marshal MARMONT, General LAURI-
sToN, twenty General Officers, and about five hundred
interior Officers, were of the party.

The equipage of the Ex-Empress MARIA LOUISA
is said to have been sent off on the 27th ultimo from
Versailles to convey her to Paris from Vienna.

The French Funds are at 69.

Yesterday the Duke of ORLEANS, the Russian
Ambassador, &c. had audiences of the PRINCE Rs-
GENT at Carlton House.
On Sunday, three officers arrived at the French
Ambassador's. His Excellency was attending mass
%viten he received the communication, and went to
the Foreign Office with a dispatch, and laid it before
Lord CASTLERF.AOIt, previous to the Noble Secretary
of State attending the Cabinet Council which was
held on that day.
An Officer indeed at midnight en Sunday with
dispeehes to Lord CASTLEREAGH from the Prince of
ORANGE.
Yesterday, at two o'clock, the whole of the Cabi.
net Ministers assembled again at the Foreign Office,
and separated at about ball-past three, when the Earl
of Ilatinowav and the Right Honourable W. Wm,
Lenin, PULE set off in their carriages from Downing..
street, with their suites, for Brussels. They are ae.
•eninpanied by Mr. MILLS and Mr. SfixerrEtt, the
King's Messengers. After the departure of the Ca.
billet Ministers, the Earl of LIVERPOOL aed Viscount
CASTLEREAGH waked upon the PRINCE REGENT at
Carlton House.
It is said that the suppression of the llfoxiteur of
the 19th arose from its containing the Declaration of
the Allies. This document was, of course, expunged
in the second sheet, issued in the afternoon.
The Declaration of the Allied Sovereigns against
BONAPARTE appears in the Austrian Ojicial anat.
and Observer, both in German and French.
Bitawn.—This day the LORD MAYOR, having in-
spected the meal-weighers' returns, ordered the price
of bread to be raised halt an assize, or one farthing
in the quarteru loaf—to take place on Thursday—
the price will then be One Shilling.
Last night, about eleven o'clock, the house of Mr.
Rosa, cheesemonger, Pickett.street, was entered by
two or three men, and property to a great amount
packed up ready to be taken away, when they wen
disturbed by the servant maid going up stairs, whom
they seized by the throat and attempted to murder ;
a thick cloth she had round her neck for a cold was,
cut through, and ter hand badly lacerated is ber at.
tempt to prevent them, when she fortunately sue.
needed in get ng from them into an adjoining room,
and tinned the In Upon them, and upon her making
an alarm the villeins escaped; takias ctiik WM
of the property.