Star.
London, England, 1815-01-18 00:00:00

ANCONA, DECEMBER es.

Two 0-ty-: sauce a ship arrived here :rom the island
of Cyprus ; it had on board Monseigneur albertini,
Bishop of Gondar, a ccompanied by six priests. This
mission is on its way to the Pope, to compliment him
on his return to the capital of the Christian world.,
The following is some account of the origin of this
embassy :
_

" At the time of theexpedition to Egypt, all the
Christians of 'Dirket, in Europe, and chiefly those of
Constantinople, experienced great persecutions, when
about 800 (50 of whom were Priests) retired to the
Island of Cyprus. Those persecuted had the vane-
sable Albertini at their head, and established them-
selves in the environs of Nicotia. The Governor of
the Island, who is of a mild and tolerant spirit, f.rci-
lamed thvir establishment. The Priests, that they
plight not interfere with the prejudices of the country,
cloistered thems.:,ves in the strictest manner, and the
colony prospered. These peaceable Christians lived
for fifreen years in die most petfixt tranquillity",
having kren but rarely informed of the evils which
afflicted Europe. On hearing of the restoration of
tire 1-'pe to his dominions, they sent the present de.
putati to felicitate his Holiness thereoh. The pious
Albertini, although 85 years of age, has twrne all the
fatigues of a tedious
.sea voyage with great cheer-
fulness."

PARIS, JANUARY Is-
Yesterday the King reviewed, in the Court of the
inuilleries, the fine corps of Royal lierse Grenadiers,
commanded hi Count Laroche Jacquelin, and which
now forms part of the garrison of Paris.
Various private letters, received from Belgium►
coincide in stating, that for those provinces 50 mil-
lions are to be paid by way of indemnity to Austria
by the Prince Sovereign of the Low Countries. The
burden, it is said, will be very much mitigated, by
the mode of levying inis istraordinaty contribation•
Hitherto the Government his c rafined itself to aug-
menting, by a fourth, or at must by a third, the ca-
rious taxes established under the French domination,
and which then amounted to a sum total of 72 ma.

lions. The Belgians appear, in general, to be satis-
fied with the commercial regulations introduced by
their new Government. The interests of the Excite.
quer have been wisely combined with those of corn.
merce and manufactures. Care has also been taken
to' confine exclusively to natives all the advantages
attached to public officc, even in the most insignifi-
cant places under Government. The number
. • .4 • 49. t.

of foreigners who remained in cam have btan
missed. They would Mem to hive written' as sU the
gata—ssova and ,
The German journals contain the fallowitig
sketsh of the joss of men owing to.the 'wars of Bona-
parte, since 1802 :-.First, The war of St. Doltingo,
from 1801 to 18e6; tarried off 60,000 French soldiers
and sailors, at least .50,000 of the white inhabitants
of the island, and 50.000 negroe. s. Secondly, The
maritime Mr with England, from 1802 to 1814,
cost the two parties and their allies at least 900,000
men. Thirdly, The: winter campaign of 1803
1806, which was short, but very bloody, robbed
the belligerent powers of 150,000 men. Foarthly,
The war in Calabria, from 1805 to 1807, destroyed'
100,000 men. Fifthly, The war in the North, from
1806 to 1807, cost. 300,000 men. The war in Spain,
the most murderous of all, from 1807 to 1813. car-
ried off 2,400,000 men. ft will not be rating too high
the annual loss which this last war occasional, as'
well to the French and their Allies, as to the English,
the Spaniards, and the Portuguese, whether in battles
or sieges, or by contagious diseases, or assassination's,'
or other disasters, to estimate it at 200,000 men.
Seventhly, The campaign in Germany and Poland,
in 1809, swept away 300,0001m1. Eighthly, The'
campaign of 1812 cost France and her Al4s 500,000
men, and. Russia 300,000, in_ battles, in hospitals,
and in towns and villages which were burned, besides
200,001 Poles, Germans, and French, who were
victims of the contagions diseases resulting from fa-
mine or bad nourishment. Ninthly, The campaign
of 1818 -destroyed 450,000 men. Total, 5,800,900
men in ten years, which is half a million annually:—
This calculation does not include a great number of
premature deaths, caused by the accidents of war,
by fright, despair, &c.

We have 4-mired a supply of Brussels Papers this
morning. They contain nothing definitive from
Vienna ; but the intelligence which they convey from
other parts, confirms us in our belief that the fati of
Poland and Saxony'is decided de pcto, if not et, jure.
The latter kine,dorn is nut only c.ecupied by Prussian
but by Rt. sian troops : the latter, it is tune, are in
the ray of Prussia, but there is an evident under-
standing between the two Courts on th, subjecr, and
perhaps it would save much discu.:sion at Vienna,
and Lring matters to a rur: speedy, it not to a more
satin actory- conclusion, ;t Prussia and Russia were
mo.fuly to declare their intention. The enlightened
part of Europe, and more particularly the inhabi-
tants of Poland and Saxony, have a right to coo.
plain that this state of suspense is at least injurious
to'their national praperiti, and detracts from their
individual happiness-.

V!ZNNA, JANUARY 3,
The King of Wurtemberg lett not only very %Tain-
t able pres:nts behind him, but also a very interesting
letter to his Majesty the gener.,ll Emperor Francis,
in which he thanks him for the many proofs of frie.-,d-
ship which he has rectivtd, and declares that nothin;
but the advice of his ph)sicians, who think it dan-
gerous to prolong his stay, aka so many attacks,
could have induced him to resolve on his departure ;
that he left the Crown Piince to manag: the affairs
still to be settled ; and that he will, for the future,
chew to the House of Austria, in whose greatness and
prosperity he sees that (if Wurtemberg, the same at-
tachment which he thought himself bound to evince
to the present system as soon as it became the pre.
vailing one.

or a,
has teeeilred from the.sovereign 4f feriae
!UM flhah, the insignia, sis in'irsatiends, 9f the
•
:Order of the Supt. and. of that of the Liort.soo- oc-
casion of the peace concluded with Persia. His Ma-
jesty the Emperor has given him leave. to wear these
two orders. The Pehian Ambassador to this Court,
jwho ii on his journey hither, is not expected before
'the return of the Emperor.
BRUSSXI.3, JANUARY Is.

Baron Hoogbvbrst, the Mayor of this City, gave,
the day before yesterday, a magnificent tete, at which
were assimbled all the distinguished personages, and
foreigners of a certain rank now ar Brussels. His
Royal Highness the Hereditary Prince of Orange,
the Minister, and among the English of distinction,
the Decks of Richmond were present. The number
of persons admitted was three hundred. The most
perfect order and agreeable dignity, which reminds
ns thatt'Bruisels was formerly the sekt'of a Court, and
that exquisite politeness, the memory of which WAS
beginning to be lost, embellished this fete, which is
:the finest and most elegint that has taken 'place here
for along time. Theban lasted till five in the morning.
Other fetes are preparing for the carnival, and the
pleasures which bad Red from the noise of arms, ;red
from a gloomy tyranny, return with the hopes of
approaching happiness.
Trieste letters fram Vienna, of the €2d, say, 14 The
!dads and connections of the malcontents at Milln,
%ehieb have been discovered by the arrest of General
Sicchl and two other Generals w!•as had conspired,
were very dangerous, not only for Italy, hut for all
Eurowe, by the extent of their ramificatioas. It is
said that eight persons, chiefs of the conspiracy, are
condemned to death. On the other baud, General
Koller is going to Elba. There Is a talk of convey-
ing Bonaparte to Scotland, where an estate will be
assigned for his residence, and the same annual sum
be paid him as is fixed by the treaty of Fuutainblea a."

Yesterday, a Chapter of tho Order of the Bath
held at two o'clock, at the PniKe's C. a tber, West-
minster. The object of the meeting was merely a
communication to the Chapter of the measures widen
had teen adopted fur
,the degradation of Lotd Coc;0-
14. ANT:, and the expulsicn of his Banner and Achieve-
ments from King Hc.nry the Seventh's Chapel : the
Chapter :Id:l:mined soon after three o'clock.

Nits. PrixLvaL, by her marriage with Colonel
CARR, has at-ually become a &Night's eensioani.m of
the niw Order of the: Bath.
The Earl of PORT:NO(ITH is the Noble Peer alluded
to in our paragraph of yesterday, as having a petition
preferred against him by his own brother for mental
incompetency. His Lordship is now 47 years of age,
and had been married to his late Countess, who was
advanced in years at the time of her marriage, 1,5
years previously to her Ladyship's decease. His
Lordship, about a tsvalvementh ago, married his
preens young Countess., His brother and prestimp-
lin heir has now, for the first time, preferred his pe-
tition to the Lord Chancellor, against the compe-
tency of the Earl's mind.
Tuesday se'nnight. the infant son of the Marquis
and Marchioness of DONEGALL was christened at
Orme-tu. His Lordship's names are Breenau AL-
GERNON.

A letter from Lisbon, which reached us yesterday,
of the 30th of Dr cember, mentions, that on the pre-
ceding Monday, the Consul had invited all the Brje
tisir merchants in that city to proceed in a body fin
the purpose of waiting on Mr. CANNING, to congratu-
late him on his appointment as Ambassador at the
Portuguese Court.-
General RIALI, who was severely -wounded an 1
taken prisoner by the Americans, arrived las week in
a carrel at Rochelle. Having been sent 300 miles up
the ceuatry ; he applied for permission to ratun to
Croada on parole, which was refused, but was imme.
diately allowed to return to Europe.
The following anecdo:e is chrrracteristic of the
good nature of the King of Bavaria :—His Majesty
had purchased a picture of V..ndyke's, for which he
paid 600 ducats. Some days after, the picture dealer
said, that if the other Sovereigns had s:ren they
would certainly have given him more. The King of
Bavaria, informed of this, strewed .he picture to the
Emperor Alexander when he was one d iy visited by
that Monarch, and asked him what he valued it at,
and what he would give for it. • The Emperor having
offered 1,000 ducats, the King accepted the mor.ey,
and gave him the picture, but he sent. 409 ducats to
the dealer.
The young Lady announced fn. Juliet, at Drury-
LaneTheatre, un SatUrclay, is a sister of Miss Kneel'.
.night, after the comic
Opera of La Dania Soldota,
in which Mad. FERLEN-
ms made her first appearance this season, the Ballet
'of the Cat of Bagdad was .brought out. Ous
Readers will recollect that this tam was originally
composed by M. A. Wirers, for his benefit, two years
ago. It is ROW revived by him as Ballet-Master; and
his celebrated Father, who has been so renowned in
France for the last 30 years, and who made such a
sensation when here, 22 years ago, made his 'appear-
ance. To all the veteran spectators who remem-
bered this unparalleled dancer to the vigour of his age.
his re-appearance was a matter of lively interest.—
Hie first approach wee truly elegant. He ip.,s244lted
with an enthusiastic burst of welci.me, and his rest.
rence of thanks was polished_ and courtly. His po-
sitions were taken and preserved with sotidiiy i—ino
trembling of age, no symptom of decayed powers ;
he performed the most difficult and graduated changes
of posture seemingly without effort, and with con-
summate art, the result of which was the ortiversal
approbation of the Theatre. It was interesting to
see the father, son, and nephrew, (Vesrars) present
themselves all at once to the spectators ; all these a -
•Thtrable dancers, for the youngest promises to have
the legitimate talents of the family. Madame DE
CARo also made her first appearance. She is of the
Italian school, and consequently more of the Buffs;
the* of the more tastefa-style of Paris, in which Ma-
ileriloilene, MILANI is an adept. Madame DR CARn'S
positions are fine, however, and sustained with energy.
The Ballet wont of with grcg applAu,