Star.
London, England, 1814-11-04 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

7.1 r THIRD OCTOBER OR HOUGHTON
MEETING, 1814.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3.

Mr. Payne's Onyx, Bst. 21b. beat Lord Foley's &ApeWeil, Ira
T. Y. C. 90088.-7 to 4 on Onyx.
Mr. Bouverie's Scbeherazade, 7st. 716. beat Ld C. H. Caven-
dish's Alcohol, 7st. 121 b. Ab. M. 500g5.-6 to 6 against Schehe..
made.
Forced &fondles+ Stakes of logs. each, for S-yr-olds and upward:
T. M. M.
Mr. Stonebewer's Hamlet, 6 yrs old, let. 111 b.
Duke of Rutland's Kutusoff, 3 yrs old, ist. 91b.
Mr. Villiers's Don Cossack, 4 yrs old, est. 21b.
Mr. Crockford's Marplot, 3 yrs old, Est. 51b.
Even on Hamlet.
Mr. Prince's Young Eagle, Bst. 21b. beat Lord Jersey's Canno::
Ball, Bst. 41b. T. Y.C. SOogs.-6 to 4 agst Young Eagle.
A Subscription Handicap Plate of X5O, for 3-yr-olds and up.
wards. D.l.
Mr. Stonehewer's Hamlet, 6 yrs old, Sst. 31b.
Mr. Villiers's br. b. Merryfield, I yrs old, Bst. 10Ib.
7_to 2 agst Hamlet.

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Eight other. started, but the Judge could place only tw2.

TEE ARMT.

An order has been issued by his Royal Highness
the COMMANDER•IN•CHIII/ for the whole of the Bat.
talions of the 60th Regiment being clothed in Green,
as Rifle Battalions.

The 2d Battalion of the 7th Foot are ordered to
Winchester, from Portsmouth.

The Buckingham Militia are now on their route
from Liverpool to Portsmouth.
The Depot of the 19th Foot at Hull is under or.
ders to embark for Jersey.

The Depot of the Ist Foot (or Royal Scots) re.
mains u yet at Berwick.

NAV.efL INTELLICINCE.

The Emulation, BOTrLEY, from Spain to New.
foundland, is taken by the Syren privateer.

A large ship belonging to St. Thomas's, laden
with rum and sugar, sailed from Bermuda on the
24th of September, with a fleet, under convoy of the
MORGIANA sloop of war, bound to Halifax, and foun-
dered on the passage—crew saved.

The Industry, LITTLE,• from Liverpool to Petei s•
burgh, with salt, was totally lost 7th ultimo, on the
Revel Stone.

PLYMOUTH, NOVEMBER I.

Came in the Echo, WRITE, from London, for thr.
Coast of Africa ; City of gourdeaux, from London,
for Bourdeaux ; and the Fortuna, ELWIN, from St.
Yetersburgh.—Wind E.

J9URN.4I. ej as JEXCURSiON to FRANCE,

IN A SERIES OF LE I TERS ;

fiNTAINiNG REMARKS IkIORAI., HISTORICAL, TOPIXHIA•

pincAL, ETC.

(Celtinued from the Sr Al of Yesterday.)

I.rTTFR VT.

PARIS, 1811.
D 7.111 Sai—ln my last letter I gave you a short
descs prim of the-brazen column raised by Bonaparte,
to perpetuate the splendour of his victories. As the
Emperor always betrayed, or affected a high vene-
ration for the helves of antiquity, and, no doubt,.
emulated same of them in their military glory, it is
probable that he first borrowed the hint of rearing
this column from the precedent of a similar pillar
having been erected, though from different motives,
to the civil and military character of the Emperor
Trajan. No two persons, however, could be more
different than these, when weighed in the balance of
true greatness. The apotheosis of Trajan, you know,
was the free and spontaneous tribute of love and ve-
neration bestowed on him by the Roman senate and.
the Roman people, for his virtues, when he was no
more; and posterity has never questioned the justice
of that award a while, on the other band, it cannot
be denied that the erection of the column of Bona-
parte, a man notorious for his vices, WAS nothing but
a compliment paid to his pride and military vanity,
the idea of which criginated with nobody but himself.
Trajan's pillar was erected in the forum which he
himself had built, and it covered the golden urn
which contained his venerated ashes. Bonaparte's
pillar stands also in the middle of a square, within a
few yards of the entrance Of the two fine broad streets
opened by himself, to afford a view, and to form a

communication between the gardens of the Thaiile.

ries, the Place Vendome, and the Boulevarde de
.• , Catmint : so far there may be some shade of resem-
blance in the circumstance of the position of the pa-
' lays of these Emperors.
It was feared that the ebullition of popular fury
would have got to such a height on the resignation
or abdicatiOn of Bonaparte, as to endanger the ex-
istence of the column. This monument, however,
.will now be preserved : and, indeed, why should we
• deny to this extraordinary man, though blackened
With crimes, the mad of valour, and of many splen-
did victories ? FrOm this you may see that I am of
opinion this elegant pillar should pot be thrown down.
04 Palo' am qui soursit,.ferat."
As there is no man, howsoever virtuous, but has
his enemies, so, it may be also said, ths:re is no man,
however.vicious, who has not his friends and abettors.
Thus it is with Bonaparte. Notwithstanding the
enormities of his crimes, I observed that there are
many persons here who regret his downfal. These
persons mostly consist of men of desperate fortune,
and disappointed hopes and expectations ; produced
by the sudden and eventful changes which have lately'
taken place in the government of France. But, hide.
pendently of other considerations, Bonaparte is re-
gretted as a man of genius, by many other persons
who are not so particularly affected by the change--
'Two ofhis principal faults are acknowledged to have
ban his boundless ambition, and disregard of advice.
• j am informed that Talleyrand, dreading the temerity
of his master's resolves, endeavoured to dissuade him
from carrying into effect his invasions of Spain and
• ilusaia ; and it is said, that his northern campaign
/was the sole and unadvised result of his own deter-
mination; planned and digested in his own closet at
St..-Cloucl, his favourite place of residence. In a.
word, the reckless and fatal schemes and projects of•
this usurper, had plunged France into such a critical
state of danger, that it became imperiously necessary
for those who had uniformly condemned his policy,
• toltep forward at last with all their patriotism and
;:}energies, to save the military character and existence
POtthetr,dear and sinking country from utter annihi-
"%Witt% bF every sacrifice that was in their power ;
tfausjavoluntarily, as it were, making common cause
'. 'ay-40U ty-ranacrus usurper of their throne, the du-
' itroyer a( mankiad, and the murderer of their fellow-
citizens. This will alone, I think, account for France
' hiving been enabled to carry on the struggle so long,
with such an host of foes.
Iltnernft home by the Rue.de-la-Paix, my e) es
were attracted by seeing the words' PucesTravaill,raes'
painted over a shop door : 4 Working Fleas.' 1 think
I hear you exclaim--' What can this mean ?' Yes,
try friend, it is absolutely the case. The asamishing
genius of the French people has been such as to ex-
tract pre.fitabis labour even from the physical powsis
of a nasty flea. I had heard of this surprising effort
of French ingenuity before, and was determined, now
that I had an opportunity, to ascertain whether it was
a cheat or not, by ocular demonstration. I hasten.
ed into the shop,for fear of being observed going into
such a paltry exhibition, and was immediately con-
vinced, by the evidence of my own senses, that there
• was no deception in the case. The flea-driver pro-
dined a small box, from whence he took several of
these insects, one by one, with the help of small pliers,
as watchmakers do the minute parts of a watch, and
laid them upon a sheet of paper on the table for ex-
hibition. The animals were connected by a small but
very visible chain, an inch or more in length, to a
.little; chariot, or piece of mounted artillery, in minia-
„lmre, only one to each carriage, which they contrived
reo drag slowly, and to a very short distance, skipping
1111)0Ut occasionally to the length of their chain. The
.aize and appearance of these minute carriages greatly
.surpassed, you would think, the strength of the in-
seem; and though they seemed to labour with great
effort, it is wonderful that they could do so much as
iloatethern t'all." I saw a magnified figure of one
.nt.thcanhatahl, yoked to, his golden chain, which is
511ame440084 ganef its thighs, if I may so call it.—
sliwasagiienito:learnahata person employs himself in
yoking these light-footed ininialculcs, and I was di-
, recteditosthe:iai-litiretrOt /lf OW niOrt art, but I had
already Oa/ugh of tga'hight. rntieed I shall neither
deny to Frenchmen tern erseritatite important disco-
very that fleas tae work, nor wili•• I envy the nation
all the advastaget to be clai'ved front it.
Jar& des Ptanteiv4;.:Phis is, as you well know, the
great national 'botanic' Garden, and is situated un the

left bank of the Seine, not far from the new iron
:)titrge, built by Bonaparte, and called Pont Austtr/dz.
A toll of one sol for each foot passenger, and five
soh for every carriage, is collected for passing this

The Jardin des Plantes is pretty spacious, and con-
tains many fine specimens of indigenous and exotic
trees and plants; besides wild boasts, rare quadru-
peds, and birds. Of this garden, you will recollect;
the great naturalist Buffon, the French Pliny, had
the charge. He was appointed Intendant of the gar-
den and cabinet in 1739. Under his direction they
contained one of the finest collection of natural curio-
sities in the world, taken from the three kingdoms of
nature. We have nothing of the sort in England,
that is, of a public kind. The garden was first planned
out in the reign of Louis XIII. that is nearly two
centuries ago. It should be more properly called the
Garden of Natural History. Indeed there is so much
to be semen here, that you must excuse me for giving
you but a cursory description of it.
The first thing shewn to us were the wild and other
animals, some of which genera I had never seen be-
fore, although I have visited many menageries in dif-
ferent countries. Of quadrupeds are to be seen the
elephant, buffalo, leopard, lions, tigers, hyenas, pan-
then, bears, wild-boars, wolves, otters, goats, camels,
dromedaries, dogs, a porcupine, baboons, monkies,
eagles, owls, parrots, cockatoos, &c. in great variety.
Two of the dromedaries, we were told, were brought
from Egypt by Bonaparte, so that they are now
pretty well stricken in years. A dog has been shut up
with one lion for twelve years, and they appear to be
very fond of each other. Some of the animals have
a large court, or parterre, to move in. The bears are
Not the worst off in this respect, for they have large
parterres to roam in, and dens to sleep in.
The following story may, I think, be relied on :
one night last winter, a French soldier, posted as a
sentinel near the den of two bears, in these gardens,
thought he saw, with the moon-light, a piece of money
glisten in the bottom of the large fosse, or parterre,
about eight feet deep. Regardless, or unsuspicious
of danger, the bears appearing to be quietly asleep
in their retreats, and not in sight, the avaricious
wretch descended ; but scarcely had he invaded their
territory, when the ferocious animals darted forth and
devoured him, before he could escape. These very
hears were walling about the ditch, when I saw them,
catching crusts of bread from the passengers, and
standing on their hind legs to reach them, like a dog.
Poles are placed upright in the ditch for them to
climb up.—Adieu, for the present.

LAW 11V7'ELLIGENCE.

,COURT OF CHANCERY, NOV. 1.

TAE ATTORNEY•GENERAL OF THE PRINCE OF WWII, V.

STEVENS.

Mr. HART stated that he had a motion to make in
this case, but which he was requested to postpone, on
account of the absence of Sir Arthur Pigott. The
motion he was instructed to make was, that an in-
junction obtained by the Attorney-General of the
Prince of Wales, as Dnke of Cornwall, restraining
the tenants of his Royal Highness from working cer-
tain quarries, and from carrying off stones from the
lands situated within the said Duchy, occupied
by them,. should be dissolved. It was material to
his (Mr. Hart's) clients, that the matter should be
disposed of; but he had no objection to postpone the
motion, tor the accommodation of his learned friend,
Sir Arthur Pigott, who was leading Counsel for his
Royal Highness.

2:4WEAIBER 3.

EV.PARTE GRAY IN Tug MATTER OP WHYTE.

!Or LEACH stated this to be an application on the
part of the Petitioner, who was the assignee of a per-
son 'of the name of John Raine, a creditor of the
bankrupt's, but who had himselrbeen lately discharg-
ed under the Insolvent Debtors' Act, to have the
bankrupt's certificate stayed, and that time might be
allowed to the Petitioner, as assignee of ltaine's
estate, to come in and prove a debt of £BOO, due to
Raine by the bankrupt. This debt would he suffi-
cient to turn the certificate, and there had been no
improper delay in offering proof of the debt, Raine
himself having been in prison at the time of the bank-
ruptcy, and there having been -no meeting under
tiie commission since the assignment by Raine to the
Petitioner.

Mr. HART was satisfied, when his Lordship should
!ha: the affidavit in answer, he would be of opinion
that the Petitioner was entitled to no farther time in
this case ; still more when he was told that the Peti-
tion; r, since the date of the assignment in his favour,
had hell the bankrupt to hail for this sum in an ac-
tion at law, that he would think it wrong that this
Petition should have been presented. The affidavit
stated, that xt the two first meetings under the com-
mission, Raine and Gray both attended, but neither
of them offered to prove any debt ; and that when
Raine was asked by a person named Thomas if he
meant to prove any debt under the commission ? he
said he did nor. At the third meeting no person at-
tended on the part of Raine, and though the assign-
ment in favour of the Petitioner was dated so tar
back as the 3d of May, the present Petition was not
presented till the 20,h of August, the bankrupt hav-
ing been arrested for the debt in question at the suit
of the Petitioner in the month of July.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said that was an answer
to the Petition. The assignment in. favour of the
Petitioner was executed in May ; the Petitioner nr-
rested the bankrupt in July, and instead of coming
to the Court immediately with his Petition, lay by
till the 2Uth of August, trusting that in the mean
time the bail might be fixed. It these facts were so,
the certificate could not be stayed. The assignment
having been executed in May, and the Petition not
having been presented till now, it was obvious that
the dal' must have been with the view of fixing
the

Mr. I.cncrt was not aware of the fa( ts which had
just been mentioned. He wished to lx indulged till
to-morrow mornirg, that he might have an opportu-
nity of eapiiring into the truth of them. If he should
find them to be as represented, his Lordship should
hear no more of this Petition.
The Loan Croarcettou ordered, that if not men-
tioned again to-morrow, the Petition should stand
dismissed with costs, and desired that, in.the mean
time, no step should be taken to fix the bail.