Star.
London, England, 1815-11-04 00:00:00

EDMAN AND SWISS PAPERS.

NAPLES, SEPTEMBER 4,.
The military force of this kingdom is to consist in
future of 60,000 men, but many years will pass over
before this number can be completed. There are
Officers, but where shall soldiers be found ? The
conscription is abolished, and it is very seldom that
a Neapolitan becomes a soldier by choice. When a
couple of hundred men are collected, they are imme-
diately confined, and five or si: Oflicets stand con-
stantly before the barracks wit:a a cannon, as a guard,
that the men may not all run away, which infallibly
happens whenever there is an opportunity 14 Gne to
escape. The 011icers are divided into txo classes,
strongly contrasted with c.;ch other ; those whom
Murat has left, and those who are come from tijcily.
The hardest duty the guards have consist in :!ccom-
panying the King to church—his Maje:ty frequently
visiting one or other of the numerous churche4.
Last week the fete of St. Januarlus was celebrated,
and the usual miracle announced by a salute of art&
lery. However, it did not wholly succeed this time,
at which the populace were high.ly incensed.

LOWER RHINE, OCTOBER 13.
It is generally supposed that the Foreign Ministers
will all leave Paris about the end of this month.—
The following Generals in Chief are named for the
five military Jiv►sions of the Prussian Monarchy :
Prussia, Count Bulow, of Dennewitz : Brandenburg
and Pomerania, Count Tauenzien, of Wittenberg :
Silesia and the Grand Duchy of Posen, Count York,
of Wartenburg ; the Old March and Lower Saxony,
Count Kleist, of Nollendorf ; the Rhine Provinces,
Count Gneisenao, who will at the same time have
the chkf command of the Prussian troops remaining
in Fri ncx ; it is, however, believed that this General
will first go to the baths at Pisa, for the recovery of
his health.

HAMBURGH, OCTOIiEIt. 13.
The Senate has received, on the part of his Ma,
jesty the King of Prussia, the very joyful news, that
the Allied Powers will stipulate in the Treaty of
Peace, not only the restoration of the sums taken
from the Bank. by Davoust, but also considerable in-
demnifications for the wanton destruction committed
by the French, in and about Hamburgh. In this
manner many of our fam,lies, reduced to poverty by
the French, vii be able to recover themselves.—
News is likewise come, that is two months at the
latest a beginning %sill be made to bresk up the great
wooden bridge, which was built by the French, be-
tweets this place and Harburg,. in the summer of
1813. It is well known, that the materials foe this
bridge were forcibly taken from the Merchants, and
that the House of Peter Godefroy, stn. Esq. lost to
the value of 900,000 marks Banco (5e75,000) in
wood. The whole bridge cost the City several mil-
lions. It is certainly remarkable, that such an im-
mense work was accomplished in so short a time,
upcn a marshy ground, brut our surprise is lessened
when we reflect how man hands mnd what meansl
the French had at their command, and with what
rigour they employed them.
It is a remarkable circumstance, in respect to this
bridge, that the materials of which it is built belong
to ikamhurgh, and the ground on which it :rands, to
Hanover. As Harburgh, and still more Luneburg,
have been great sufferers, on account of the conside-
rable quantities of goods conveyed to and from Ham-
burgh, HanoVer has no particular interest in its being
ki-et up. On the other hand, our merchants claim
their e ood back, particularly the'many thousands of
trees that are rammed in, which being mostly entire,
are still saleable. It would therefore be difficult,
ever. if the bridge should remain, to make a fixed ar-
rangement between Hanover and Hamburgh. How-
ever, it cannot be kept, as it would be ton expensive;
for it seers that it does not bring in clear above
31000 marks per annum, and it would cost much
more to keep it is repair. It is, besides, only 16 feet
high, and we some times have spring tides as high as
seventeen or eighteen feet, and the still mare dange-
rous breaking up of the ice, so that it is in danger of
being carried away, or so damaged that the repairing
of it would be an enormous expense. .
In a military point of view, it is injurious to Ham.
burgh. It lies upon foreign territory, and Harbutg
no more belongs to the works of Hamburgh as it did
under the French. Whoever is in possession of this
bridge may therefore do great injury to the city,
whereas it is otherwise protected on this side by the
marshy ground. Thus the arbitrary Marshal Da-
voust, who, in his vanity, used to boast, even in the
presence of the Municipal Council, that in.this bridge
he had erected a monument tieit would fill a distin-
guished place among the curiosities of tie great Em-
pire (wlech fell to piei:es soon after) will have the
mortification olseeing.his pretended masterpiece dis-
appear in a short time.