Star.
London, England, 1807-08-28 00:00:00

the fpellacle of the mat beautiful triumph of which
m -der" E.trope can hoan. N t helm, able to enter
into all the details of this memor ahl: Fete, we fhall
content our fetves with marking the iv circum-
lances. The molt rematkable perhaps i. the fu 'den
change of the weather. 'llse evening before, there
had been a heavy fall J rain ; and in the morning of
that very day, the Ikv, es,sered with thick clouds,
c,snfirmed the menace. of the barometer, which indi•
cated wet weather. All theft difagreeables vanished
—nor ..as the Fete of the hero troubled by any awk-
ward eiscomilance. Never, perhaps, wasthe public
ioy Miniftlied in France in a manner more general
or more ingenious.
At every llep, emblems and infcriptions exprefed
in a marner the molt happy, the fentiments of love
and admiration with which all France is penetrated.
for the great man who honours and governs it. Only
to cite one example, a merchant of the greet of St.
Honore bad painted the Emperor Rending upon a
globe—he touched the earth with the point of his
(word—from whence an olive tree was fpritsgini up,
whole branches darted around the bade. This al.
legory, as fipple as ingenious, was expread in the
following words
Ms Pacificareur du Monde."
The games which were etetuted its the ware., be.
tween the Bridge of the Thuilleries and that of Con-
corde, offered a fpedrcle truly enchanting. The
little fqn tdroos of veffels deltined for the fight ad-
vanced td the found of mufic and trumpets ; inname.
rable fpeetators, diltributed on the quays and fl )acing
baths, ami on the velfels belonging to the fwimming
fchool, mingled their loud acclamations with thofe of
the conquerors; After the fight, it was ezpetited that
Foriofo wont,' exhibit himfellwalking on a rope, the
whole (pace which feparates the two bridges; but
an ob(lacle oppofeti that expetiment, upon the pa&
bility of which, the mathematicians, douhtlefs, had
not been confulted.
The artificial firework executed on the Bridge of
Concorde, terminated this fuperb Fete, in a manner
the molt brilliant. The crowd then vifited the, illu•
mina ions e—thofe of the Thuilleries, of the Luxem-
bourg, of the Palace of Jolliet, of the Hotel of the
Miniller of Police, fuccefivzly attratted the attention
of the curious ; b st it was to the illuminations of the •
Palais Itayal, that the general preference was given.
Yefierday, at nine in the morning, Marlhal Bet.
thief was relented by his Serene Highnefs the Prince
Arch-chancellor of the Empire, in order to take the
oath, which he fwore to his Majefly.
His Maje(ly, in the Council of Adminiftration
' which he held on Thurfday, has iffeed an arret that
the works of the canal of Burgundy fhould be reruns-
lied this year ; that the workmen on the road from
Mayence to Paris fhould be tripled, in order to finial
that road in the twat of the nczt year that the
workmen on the road from Lyons to Mount Ceni-,
and on that from Savona to Alexandria, and thole
at the port cf Savona, thould be doubled ; that a
bridge thould be built on the Scrivia. between Tor
tuna and Alexandria ; that a roai frem Wefel to
Paris Os suld be opened, the works to commence this
year toward Wefel ; that the two arches of the bridge
of Sr. Cloud, which are of wood, lhould be replaced
by two atches none ; that the works fr a (tone
bridge at Scores, on the road from Paris to Verlaine'.
fhould be begun this year ; that public granaries, ca-
pable of containing nuroy millions of quintals of corn,
Itnuld be built on the fide of the As fenal and of La
Garre ; and that, laltly, the water-conduit of the
Ourcq in Paris, thould be difpoftd in foal a manner
that the waters of the Beuvronne, which fhall be
difcharged into the Bafon of La Vilette, fhonld be
hereafter &reeled into the nrects of St. Dennis and
St. Martin, upon the B-ttlevards, and thould fupply
water to the Fountain of Innocents ; that the works
neceffary to dintibute this great quantity of water
into all the streets of Pads lhaold be continued.—
Four hunslrei thouland francs are to be referved, in
order to conitrua a bridge upon the Garonne, before
Bourdeaol, as loon as the plans (hall be received.—

ill'oniteur.

♦UGUIT 17.

On the isth, the day of the Fete, his Majefty
having received fuccalively her MAjeity the Emprefs,
and the homage of the Princes and Psincelfes of his
family, of the Princes of the Empire, of the Ladies
and Officers of his houfehold, as well as thofe of her
Majefiy, and others of the Princes, Miniiters, and
great Officers of the Empire, the Diplomatic Body,
and the Members of the Sift Corps of the State; pro.
ceeded to the Metropolitan Church, where the Em.
prefs had arrived before him, with the foreign
Princes and the principal authorities. The houfes
in all the areets through which their Majeflies paired,
were decorated with colours, flowers, devices, &c.
while a confiderable confliience of citizens exprefred
their joy and affeEtion by loud acclamations.
The Metropolitan Church was ornamented with
tapettry—the choir and the principal feats in the nave
were occupied by the public bodies invited to the ce

lemony.
Her Majefty the Emprefs, the Princedes, the
reign Princes, the Diplomatic Corps, the Ladies and
Officers of their Majetlies' honfehold, occupied the
tribunes, which were richly decorated ; a great num-
ber of perfons of diflinetion filled the other parts of
the choir and the nave, while the body of the church
below was filled by the Unmet& crowd tit,* affem-
-1 bled 91A the 9.ct.aqoa.